All right. Good morning, everyone. Good to be back. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer and we will start our session. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this time. We thank you Lord for once again giving us the opportunity to study your word and Lord, even as we study together, we pray for your wisdom, for your revelation and our heart and our spirit. God, that everything that we study Lord, we will we will look God learn it, walk in it and Lord, just help us Lord to enable us to be obedient to the word of God. Lord, we thank you for this time. We commit each one of us into your hands. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay, so we got into the ministry of the pastor. So last week, last class, we talked about Jesus as our example. We saw aspects of the shepherd, right? We talked so much about the shepherd and we looked at a lot of verses where even in the Old Testament, the shepherd, the chief shepherd being a person who cares, who knows, who speaks, who leads and you and I as his sheep are called to hear him and even as we shepherd people, we must be able to walk in these attributes, right? So let's get into chapter 10. Do you have your notes with you in chapter 10? Right? Is there anything on the notes? There's nothing, right? Okay, so as I say, responsibilities and rewards of a pastor from the three episodes, right? Only references. Okay, so what we'll do is in chapter 10, chapter 10 is the pastor in the early church, right? Sorry, because I'm using the older, the pastor. Jesus as an example. Okay, yeah, that's what we completed last class. Okay, the next chapter is in the early church. Yes, so in the early church, are there notes in your... No, notes. Okay, so what we'll do is actually these are the notes that we are still updating. And so I'm going to send the details and we'll update this notes for the next semester. But what I'll do is I'll share the document for chapter 10, a Word document. So I'll also post it here on the classroom so you can go through it, right? So let's look at the responsibilities and rewards of a pastor, right? Now we know that every role comes with responsibilities, right? And the Apostle Paul is talking... He puts a lot of emphasis on these responsibilities. In these three epistles, first and second Timothy and the letter of Titus, right? So these three epistles, first, second Timothy and the letter of Titus. Now these three are called the pastoral epistles. Why? Because Timothy was in Ephesus, he's pastoring the church and Titus also was pastoring the church. So in all of these three epistles, we're going to pick up a few responsibilities and also the rewards of being a good steward of God, right? Just settle down. So what happens to me when there's too much of distractions, I lose my train of thought. You got what you needed? You got what you needed? Okay, roles and responsibilities. So let's just break it down. We'll read first Timothy chapter three was one, two, maybe 13. Yes, one to 13. And even as we read this, we'll just read it one time and then we'll break it down, right? We'll see each role and each responsibility. So this is just a background. Now Paul is writing to Timothy who's already in the church and there are already overseers, there are already deacons, there are already leaders. And now Timothy is young, he's gone into the church and he's like leading over them, right? So he's like the senior leader in the church and there are already bishops, deacons, overseers. So Paul is writing to Timothy and saying, you walk by these responsibilities that I give you, right? So very important. Let's read. First Timothy chapter three was one, two, 13. Go ahead. This is a faithful saying, if a man desires a position of a bishop, he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless. The husband of one wife, tempered, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach. Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous.  For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? Not a novice, less being toughed up with pride, he fall into the same condemnation as a devil. Moreover, he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest they fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. Likewise, deacons must be reverent, not devil-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money. Holding the mystery of the faith with the pure conscience, but let these also first be tested, then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless. Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own house as well. For those who have served well as deacons, obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Right, okay, so we're going to break down this whole portion that we've read, okay. Now, the central task or the central responsibility of a pastor is to minister the Gospel, right, to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ. That's the central, right, so that is number one. Now, as we are doing that, there are other things involved, right, as we are proclaiming the Gospel. Let's look at the first, just I'm just going to, I'll share the document with you, right. So, even if you, you know, even if you miss out on anything, you can always go back and read it, right. First Timothy chapter four, in verse 14, let's read that. Do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying one, laying on of the hands of the eldership. Do not neglect the gift that has been given to you by the laying on of hands. Now, we've established the first responsibility is to present the Gospel of the message of Jesus Christ, wherever they are going as pastors, they must be able to teach. The second responsibility is not to neglect the gift that God has given, right. What is the meaning of neglect? When we say the word neglect, it only means to put a side, right. Okay, this is something that I don't need for now, right. There's a saying, right. What we take for granted, people are praying for, right. We take for granted food, but people in other countries are praying for it. Lord, when will I get my next meal, right. So neglect is something that is very easily, it can very easily happen to us, right. We can just neglect situations, people, we can neglect things in our life, right. Spiritual disciplines can be neglected very easily. So Paul is saying, Timothy, don't neglect the gift. What was the gift? The gift of being a minister of God, of being a pastor, don't neglect that gift which God has given you, because that gift is given to you by the laying on of hands, right. So each one of us have gifts in us, right. And when we look at it, we say, hey, I must not neglect the gift that God has given me, right. So number one responsibility of a pastor, not to neglect the gift, right. Yes. No, so we're talking about don't neglect the gift of God that is given to each one of us by the laying on of hands. So for example, somebody has called you for a pastoral role, right. And you feel that, okay, that's what I want to do, right. So you've got, you know, in Bangalore, what we do is we have something called as a commissioning service, we talked about that, right. So we all stand, we commission you. So now you know, you are on the role of a pastor. So don't neglect that gift, right. Meaning what? As a pastor, what must you do? That's what we're going to talk about all of that. You have to read the word. You have to pray. You have to seek God. You have to live a good life, a holy life, all of that. We'll see that. But the gift is there inside you. Now, if I neglect that gift, I will not be fulfilling the roles and the responsibilities of a pastor. You get what I'm saying, right.  You'll know sometimes, even when you're 15 years old, you may know it. You may know you're calling at a very young age. It's not like you have to wait for somebody to do it, right, pray over you. But there's a gift that God has given. So don't neglect that gift, right. Then let's look at the next one, right. The spiritual leader is entrusted with the standard of sound teaching, which the leader is to God with the help of the Holy Spirit. So the third aspect is sound teaching. Now, let's read 2 Timothy, chapter one, verse 13 to 14. I'm going to take verses from all three episodes, okay. 2 Timothy, chapter one, verse 13 and 14. 2 Timothy, chapter one, verse 13 and 14. What you heard from me keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Third responsibility as a pastor is to, we saw the first one, right. First one is to present the gospel, right. That's the central task. Two is to not neglect the gift. Three is to make sure that you're preaching and teaching sound doctrine. Now, why is Paul writing this? It's interesting. During this time in FSS, there were different kinds of doctrines that were coming up. People who came up with their own ideologies, own thoughts, own reasonings. I remember Corinth, Athens, Ephesus. These are all places where it's part of Asia Minor, right. So there was a lot of new ideologies, new theologies coming up. So Paul is saying to Timothy, as a pastor, make sure you do preach sound teaching, right. And we talked about the different kinds of teachings that are happening around that are affecting the body of Christ. There are many, many, many false doctrines, own ideologies that have come up, right. Now it's very easy, especially people who are eloquent in speech, right. You just have that way of talking to people, right. Or they're very good at talking. The command over English is very good, right. It's very easy for these people to come up with their own, you know, ideas, own strategies, own thoughts. It's very easy. People who know how to twist the word, right, deceive through their speaking, right. And it's an ability that people have. Have you seen people? They know how to speak. They can speak for one hour. You give them a topic, they'll speak for one hour, right. Give them half an hour to prepare, one hour they can speak. Why? Because they have that gift in them. But Paul is saying, Hey, make sure that your preaching and teaching is sound doctrine. It is not made up. It is not ideologies. It is not something that you prefer to speak or you don't like to speak, speak sound doctrine. That's why Paul goes on later and he says, preach the word in season and out of season. He says that in second Timothy. Preach the word in season, out of season, whether you like it, you don't like it, whether you are feeling like it, or you're not in the mood, preach the word in season and out of season, right. So this is very important, right, that we omit ourselves to sound doctrine. Next one is First Timothy chapter one and verse 11. Another very important responsibility. One verse 11. First Timothy chapter one was 11. That conformed to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me. Which God has entrusted to you. Now being in the pastoral role as a minister of God, remember that we have been committed to his trust to minister the gospel. So God is trusting us with the responsibility that he's giving us. God is trusting us. Can you think of that? God trusts us with the ministry. So for example, if you're called to be a pastor, right, God is trusting you. He's trusting me with the responsibility of being a pastor. And we looked at it, even when you look at the life of Jesus, did he trust his disciples? Yes. When Peter denied Jesus, he still trusted him. He trusted in all the disciples, even in Judas, right. Jesus trusts us in the ministry that he has given to us. So as a pastor, I must be committed to that trust. Yes or no? Now the first thing that comes to our mind when we say pastor is sometimes we feel it's such a good thing, right? Oh wow, everyone is calling me pastor. It feels nice. Initially it feels nice. Oh wow, pastor. Finally, people have recognized the calling that I have. That's good. I always say this, when I first joined, nobody called me pastor. I didn't care about it also. It didn't matter. The gift is recognized by people. You don't have to tell people, hey, call me pastor. You don't have to say that. The gift is recognized by people. Now Paul here, he's saying, the gospel of our blessed Lord, which is entrusted to you, right? It's like children.  Is God looking after our children? Yes, but he's entrusted the children to me. If I say, hey, God is looking after my children and I don't give them food, what happens? I'm a bad parent. But God said, the children are his. Let him feed them. God will say, hey, I've entrusted them to you. You have to look after. So when God is saying, Paul is saying here, I've entrusted the message, the gospel to you. So you be faithful in what you're doing. Yes, right? So what is it that we must do as pastors? Keep preparing for sermons? It's not the only thing like our life, our personal life, when nobody is watching, when the doors are closed, what is our life? That is entrusting.  God is trusting you when you are alone. God is trusting you with the people in your church. Sometimes, when we talk to at ABC East, when we talk to the church folks, there's a fear. They are asking things like, how can I improve my life? What should I do? How can I grow spiritually? They're asking things, when will I receive my healing? I've been praying for the past five years. I've been looking out for a job for the past five years. My family is in this situation and it feels so suddenly all that, you feel, oh, man, pastor. It's good to, when people call, do you see the responsibility? God has entrusted the work to us. And of course, God gives us the grace. I'm not saying it's a fearful thing over, pastor. I don't want to become a pastor. No, there's a responsibility involved. We need the Lord to minister to us. If I have to minister to people, I must be able to spend time in God's presence. I must be able to heal from God. It is the anointing of God that can bless people, can minister to people.  He's entrusted it to you and me. We must be faithful in doing what is right. Let me talk about the other things, the practical aspects. This is very important. Every time you stand right now, I know now you're in Bible college, but even in the small things, remember that God has entrusted it to you. Every morning, I'm sure you have a roster to preach. And so, when you prepare, you know you're going to preach. Remember that God has entrusted something to you. The roster is made by the pastors here. But God has entrusted you to preach the gospel for that 10-15 minutes. So, how much we must be prepared, how well we must go back to God's word and be faithful to the teaching of this word, right? Everyone with me? That sound doctrine is very important and the entrusting of what he has given you. Now, that could also be the other gifts. Now, that we're talking about pastors, we're just looking at that. But there are other gifts as well. He's entrusted you as a worship leader, evangelist. He's entrusting you with, you know, it could be a settle group being faithful in that, right? Okay, let's go to the next one. Now, let's read 2 Timothy chapter 1 was, I don't know, there's 3 to 14. Okay, hold on a second. Okay, read 12 to 14, 12 to 14. 2 Timothy chapter 1, reading from verse 12, that is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame because I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day. What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Jesus Christ. Right, let's go ahead. God, the good deposit that was entrusted to you, God, it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. Right. The next point I would like to talk about is, now Paul is setting an example. He's saying, this is what I have gone through. The next point is that as pastors and ministers of God, another important responsibility is to know that we must not be novices. The meaning of the word novices is somebody who's inexperienced, right, or somebody who's, you know, not looking to grow, laziness, right? Just being a novice, right? If you're doing something for five years, you better be good at it, right? So for example, if you're playing an instrument for five years, you have to improve. If you've not improved, something is wrong. You're not learning it the right way, right? You're still inexperienced, right? So Paul is saying here, he's saying the person who's chosen to be in a role of the pastor should not be novices, but they must be in a place of experience, they must grow in their experience, grow in the things of God. So what I'd like to share here is this growth, this spiritual growth that has to happen, how does it come? How can spiritual growth come for us? Spending time in God's presence, yes, reading the word, what else? Praying in tongues, okay, receiving the help from the Holy Spirit, learning from your mistakes, right? We all make a lot of mistakes, learning from mistakes and Paul is saying to Timothy, don't be a novice.   He's a young man, right? So he's saying, don't look at that, grow to your level of spiritual maturity.  It is the responsibility of a pastor to grow in the things of God. None of us can say, hey, I've done it all. If the church is becoming 100, 200, 500,000, 5,000, 10,000, still you have to go back to God's word. We can never say, okay, church has grown, now I know everything. No, we have to go back to God's word.  We got to grow from strength to strength. Remember what apostle Paul says in his in his letter, he says that I may know Christ Jesus. That was his vision. Can you think of it? Apostle Paul, towards the end of his life, that I may know Christ Jesus. You don't know Jesus? All you don't know Jesus for what you have done? You know him more than anybody else. More than all the disciples, you know him better. Even though they walked with Jesus, the revelations that he has written, you know Jesus the most. But he's saying, but I may know the Father and grow in the things of God. So as pastors, we must never, ever take ministry as the center and then look at all of these other practical aspects as secondary. And what we do in our private shows in public. So don't be novices. That's another responsibility. In preaching and teaching, pastors must give themselves wholly through the scriptures. Their attention is focused on the gospel that is entrusted to them. Some of the verses you can read it later on is 1st Timothy chapter 4, 15, 16, Titus chapter 1 and verse 9. Now the reason even Titus is involved in this is because Titus again was pastoring the church in Crete. And he was again a young person who was leading this church. Okay, let's go down now. Pastors are not to be ascetics. Now the word ascetics means people who discipline themselves severely. You know, these Buddhists and these people who are monks and all of that, they go to a certain level of discipline. They don't eat. They don't talk to anybody. They don't communicate with anyone. They don't want to see anyone. Paul is saying, don't be ascetics.  Let's read 1st Timothy chapter 4, 3 to 7. 1st Timothy chapter 4 was 3 to 7. Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from fruits. Let's just start with 2 so that you get a context there. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron. Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God in prayer. If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine, which you have carefully followed. But reject profane and old wives' fables and excise yourself towards godliness. So here again, you see verse 3, they forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know of the truth. So basically Paul is saying, now these new ideologies, these new teachings will come which will say you should not eat this, you should not do this, you should not do that, you should not get married, you should not have children and all of these things.  Now remember, ministry is about people. If there's no people, what ministry can we do? Can we do ministry? We'll be ministering to ourselves. If there is, there is no people, there's no ministry. There'll come a time when ministry is going to end, right? Ministry will end, all these five-fold functions, all of that will end. But ministry is about people.  That's why in the initial chapter and chapter 4 verse 1, he says, I instruct you Timothy, don't follow the doctrines of this, being ascetics. So very important, he goes on there. If you point these things out to brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus. So we don't be like that. We teach others as well, right? Again, this comes under the whole aspect of sound teaching, but it's more of a practical thing. Now, for example, if I am a pastor and I say to my congregation, you know what, I don't believe in eating every day. I should fast. Every month I should fast 21 days. Now, that's good. That's good if you're able to do it, but don't impose it on people, right? Don't say now, you've heard of some people and I've heard this happening around where there are, you know, congregation believers who are unwell and then the pastors say, you're unwell because you're not fasting and praying. Now, the poor person is unwell. He has to eat, have the medicines, right? There's nothing wrong in having medicines. You say you're not fasting enough. You're not praying enough. So that's why you haven't received your healing. You don't have faith, right? Now, what is that going overboard? Are doctors important? Did Paul suggest doctors? What did he say to Luke? Luke is the doctor, right? And he says to the others, he says, have some of those, during those days, wine was a way of healing the stomach, right? Have some of it so that you can be healed of your stomach pains. So there's nothing wrong. But when we go overboard and then there's another group of people who say, go medicines at all. If we have medicines, we don't have faith in God, right? And then that's the teaching, right? Because now healing has been, there's no more healing now. So no medicines. When God is ready to take us, He will take us. Now, all of these may not sound ascetic, but they are wrong. God has placed doctors. God has given doctors wisdom to come up with medicines. They are important. But we know that God is the healer. We can always pray. Now, for example, you know, we all get fever. We all get my kids. Everyone go through, right? Cold, cough, fever, all of that. What do we do first? Don't run to the medicine first. One prayer. Father, I thank you for healing. I thank you that you are the healer. While you're giving the medicine, you pray, God, this medicine be a catalyst to bring healing. Done. Now, you've done both. It's not like, oh, sorry, what actually worked? No, God can work in anything, right? Whether it is His own or through the medicine. He can do it. That's all. When it comes to these kind of understandings, Paul is saying to Timothy, don't be that way. It don't say, it says, for everything God created is good. It could be even food. Remember for food, what he says, food sacrifice to idols, right? And he talks about certain foods that you don't have, foods that you can have, right? So it's very important that we follow these things, right? When we're teaching it, when we're preaching it, we don't go overboard. Stick to the word of God, right? Let's get to the next one. And then we'll come back to chapter three and we'll pick up points from there, right? So self-discipline is important as pastors, but we are to discipline ourselves, discipline people within our congregation as well, right? Sound doctrine is what we heard. Okay, now we'll get into some of the practical aspects. Let's get to chapter three. I just wanted to share those points. Chapter three, if anyone sets his heart to be an overseer, to be a pastor, he desires a noble task. Now, the overseer must be above reproach the husband of one wife, okay?  It's good. That's the principle here, right? To temperate, temperate, being able to control your thoughts and your emotions, able to control yourself, especially, you know, there are times when people will come and share with you so much, emotionally you'll be like, oh man, what is happening? Why is this happening? And in this pastoral role, you have people who will share all their feelings, all their emotions, right, to be temperate, to be self-discipline, self-controlled, respectable. Now to be self-controlled, how do we be self-controlled? How can we be self-controlled as ministers of God?  Is he saying that?  So how do we be self-controlled? Again, go back to the word, go back to praying, spending time in God's presence, asking the Holy Spirit to minister, to cover us, to anoint us, right? All of this enables us to be self-controlled, right? There will be times when the enemy can come in in any way, right? It could be through media, through technology, through people, through images, any way the devil can come, right? Sometimes we wake up and we feel tired, hey, I don't want to do this. It's not a give up. But then you say, no, I need to control my emotions. I need to know that, yes, God is with me, doesn't matter what I'm going through, being self-controlled, right? And these are abilities that we must gain over time. We pray, we ask God, respectable. We've heard of that saying, no, give respect, take respect. No, even if you don't get respect, you give respect. That's what Jesus did, being respectable, respecting people. Now, we must understand that ministry is about people. We know that, but we're called to respect everyone, no matter what their occupation is, their gender, what is this, standing in culture and society, respect everyone, right? Hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness. Now, able to teach all of that is, we've talked about it even in the part of a pastor, of a teacher evangelist. Same thing goes with the pastor, not given to drunkenness. Have you ever wondered why this has come here? These are the responsibilities of a pastor and Paul is writing, not given to drunkenness. Now, we understand that he's talking to a group of people who have come out of this whole gentile way of living. Maybe some of the leaders have already become believers there. They're already leaders. And so Paul is saying, not be given to drunkenness. It's very important that we understand that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. And the most hurtful thing for God would be for a minister of God to continue in sin, to continue in whatever they're doing in sin and not have conviction. That's the most dangerous place for a pastor to be in. Yes, imagine a pastor, and I know of certain pastors, I don't know, name, but there are certain, there are pastors who drink, they feel it's okay to drink, right? And they come on Sunday, they preach, they preach very well, right? 10 point sermon with DPT, everything.  Now, sometimes the congregation knows, sometimes the congregation doesn't know. It doesn't matter to them. Now, what's wrong in that? Is it glorifying God? Is it something that God is pleased in? Remember, God has entrusted the gospel to us. He's entrusted the ministry to us. And he's saying here, avoid drunkenness, not given to drunkenness, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not starting a fight every time. And not, last one here, not a lover of money. This list is quite a list, right? Not a lover of money. Money is something that can take us away from God's call. Yes, imagine when you start small, it's okay. But as you grow, money can really change and alter the course of our life. Not only in ministry, but anything else. You can alter the course of our life. Is money good? Yes. Is money needed? But not a lover of money. We're not doing ministry for money. And I remember, I think one of the frames here said, if God's given the vision, God will also make the providence, right? God will also give the supply. If you do God's work, God's way, God will provide for it. We don't have to follow money. Money is not the leader of ministry. God is the leader of ministry. God knows how to provide. He knows how to do it, right? So as pastors, we must be careful. Now we may say, we may say, hey, no, I'm not a lover of money. We never know how the enemy can bring those thoughts into us. So we must be able to control ourselves. We must be able to guard our hearts, guard our minds against the things of the enemy, right? Now we'll go on. He must be able to manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. Imagine a pastor, he's able to manage the church, but not able to manage his family.  But his own house, he's not able to manage. The children are jumping all over the place. Children are not obeying him. When he says something, the children are saying, no, I don't want to listen to you. Or he's not able to manage the things at home. What does he use? So Paul is saying here, he should be able to manage his household. Right? So he goes on, if anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's judge? Right? Six, verse six, he must not be a recent convert that is a novice, or he may be conceited and fall under judgment. He must also have a good reputation with the outsiders so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil's trap. Now, a reputation is something that is built over time. Yes, it doesn't come overnight. It comes through hard work, comes through dedication, it comes through self-discipline and going through many ups and downs. When you look at all these organizations around us, these multi-million dollar companies, what are they? They were all small companies, but over time they gained the reputation. Look at companies like Amazon, and they all started wet in a small room like this with three, four people. They didn't say, oh, Amazon, three people, wonderful company. No, after maybe five, six years, 10 years, oh, there's something called Amazon where you can go on. This is just an example. I'm not promoting Amazon, but you can go online, purchase things. Oh, reputation came over time. Here, Paul is saying, have a good reputation as a pastor, meaning even if your neighbors see you, they say, hey, this guy, this person, he goes to church and he's very different. He's not going to follow the things of this world or he's not going to come with us and do all the things that we are doing. There's something different about him. They may not call you pastor, but they know if you're going to church, somebody who's a believer, have a good reputation in front of them. Reputation is built over time. Deacons likewise are to be men worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in wine, not pursuing dishonest gain. Verse seven, verse nine, they must keep hold of deep fruits of the faith with a clear conscience. Conscience is something that hurts. What is conscience? Why did Judas kill himself? His conscience can tell him you betrayed the Son of God. Jesus is on the cross because of you. Conscience.  I stole five rupees. That thought is still there. It's lingering. How much ever you buy with that five rupees, you've already finished eating it. I'm talking from experience. You've finished eating it, but I hope nothing happens to me. Conscience. It's there for all of us. And so he's saying here, keep your conscience clear. A deacon must be a husband of one. Again, he repeats the same thing. Those who were 13, those who have served well, gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Jesus Christ. And so these are some of the responsibilities as a pastor. And even when you look at 2 Timothy, he talks about running the race. There would be an eternal crown for you. To Timothy, he says, you must be blameless. You must be obedient. You must be willing to take correction. So all of those practical aspects also are there, willing to mentor one another. Do not have a good testimony. Do not lie. Do not cheat. It goes on. There's a huge list there. And we all know of all of these attributes, and we must walk in these attributes. But I want to close by saying this. If God is called any one of us as pastors and pastor of ministry, do not try to do it on your own strength. If you're doing it on your own strength, you can only go so far. After that, you cannot. You just cannot. It's not possible. It is only through the grace and the strength of God that we can be fruitful in what we are doing. So I want to encourage you. What God has entrusted to each one of you. It may not be the pastor on the road. Whatever he has entrusted to you, be faithful in that. Be faithful in doing what God has entrusted with these attributes in mind. And God will take each one of you to places. He will use you. He will anoint you. And you will see that the anointing of God will begin to make a difference. People will recognize. People will notice. You will see the fruit in your life. You'll see the fruit in your ministry as well. Amen. And it's such a joy. We're not coming by works. We're coming by the grace of God. All right. So we'll stop here. Next class, we'll look at some of the rewards that we have as obedient, faithful servants of God. Right? Okay. Right. Thank you, everyone. Have a great day ahead. See you all.


Bonjour et bienvenue, this is Lamotte Elise and welcome back again to my channel. In today's tutorial, we are about to embark on a style adventure as we recreate the patterns for a chic little black dress inspired by the latest ready-to-wear collection from the prestigious house of Schiapparelli. So grab your materials and let's get started. Before diving into the pattern making process, let's take a moment to dissect the intricate details of this dress. Extended Shoulder Slope The shoulder slope is extended to create a broad look, drawing heavy inspiration from the 80s silhouette and style, measuring between 6.5 inches to 7 inches. Large Arm Hole Extending the shoulder slope results in a larger arm hole. This adjustment also allows for the incorporation of shoulder pads contributing to a stiff and sharp look. V-neckline design, folded or pleated bust dart. Instead of sewing, the darts are folded or pleated in place. Empire or Empire Waist We will heavily use the Empire Waist Technique for the dress which result to under-bust and waist seam lines. Princess Seamline for the skirt? Well, pockets with flap at mid-hip level. Miniskirt The miniskirt is measured from the waist ranging between 13.5 inches to 14 inches. Longer Sleeve Length Extending the slopes also result to a longer sleeve length. And lastly, Jacket Zipper Closure For this dress, a jacket zipper is used for the closure. To start off, I will use my basic torso block or sloper. And if you have noticed, I'm using a torso block with two darts on the back and front waist. By the way, guys, comment down below if you want me to demonstrate this torso pattern block on a separate tutorial. And if ever you don't have a basic torso block, I have separate tutorials for the basic torso foundation on my channel. First, I am going to trace the front torso block on my paper. And don't forget to establish these important lines. Next, let's transfer the value of the second dart to our first dart. Firstly, take the measurement of the second dart to determine how much value we will transfer. And I will mark out half centimeter each side on my first dart. And redraw the first dart until the bust point and until the dart at the hip. And erase or disregard the second dart. Next, from the side seam, I will mark in 0.6 centimeter or twits of an inch to decrease the waist. From this mark, I will redraw the side seam like so. Next, let's work on the mini skirt. First, extend the center front line going down. And from the waist mark down 13.5 inches or 34.2 centimeters. And square a line like so. And square in the one fourth width of the hip like so. From the end of the dart at hip, square down a line for the princess seam.  And don't forget to establish these important lines. Same with the front block, I will transfer the value of the second dart. But this time, I will transfer only half of the second dart value on the back side seam. And redraw the back side seam like so. And disregard the second dart. Next, extend the center back line going down. And from the waist mark down the skirt length. And square a line like so. And square in the one fourth width of the hip like so. And from the end of the dart at hip, square down a line for the princess seam. Next, from the bus point, I will use my compass to draw in the bus radius minus two eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And square a line like so for the under-bus line. From the previous first dart at under-bus or radius, mark out two eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And from these marks, square in lines towards the bus point. And square in lines blending towards the waist. And cut off the mid-riff at the waist and under-bus lines. Next, combine the patterns making one whole pattern for the front mid-riff. And mark to notch the mid-riff pattern for sewing references. And label the pattern. From the back bust line, mark down the under-bus seam as front. And square in a line like so. From the back dart at under-bus line, mark out 0.3 centimeter or one eighths of an inch each side. From these marks, draw in lines blending toward the waist. And toward the end of the back dart. And cut off the mid-riff at the waist and under-bus lines. Next, combine the patterns making one whole pattern for the back mid-riff. And label the pattern. And these are the back and front mid-riff patterns. By the way, if you're not familiar with embarking toward waist, I have a separate tutorial available on my channel and please check it out. And for the skirt, I'm going to cut through the princess seam lines, making two pieces for the front skirt. And label the front skirt panels. And do the same thing for the back skirt. And these are the back and front skirt panels. Next, from center front at under-bus, mark in 0.3 centimeter or one eighths of an inch. From neck tip, mark in 4 eighths of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. And connect these two marks creating a V neckline design. From neck point at center front, square in a slant line towards bust point. Mark in or mark out 2 eighths of an inch or 0.3 centimeter from this line. And from this mark, square in a line towards the bust point. From the bust line, mark in and mark out 0.3 centimeter or one eighths of an inch. From these marks, square in slant lines toward the bust point. And slash the bust dart until the bust point to open. Next, close the contour lines by slashing and taping each contour lines in place. Next, mend and blend the neckline by using a curved ruler. And cut off the pattern from the paper. By the way, I also have a separate tutorial for basic contouring principles and if you're not familiar with it, better check it out on my channel. And this is initially how the front patterns appear on my dress form. Next, for the back, mark in 4 eighths of an inch or 1.27 centimeter from the neck tip. And mark down 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter from center back at neck point. And redraw the back neckline. And cut off the pattern from the paper. Just to be sure, match the shoulder slope of back and front patterns and check if they are correct in measurement. Next, cut through the front and back patterns making 2 pieces. And label each panels. Next, get another piece of paper. And square in a horizontal line at the bottom part of your paper. Get the first front panel and place right exactly at the line. And tape the panel in place. From panel 1 at princess line, mark out 3 inches or 7.6 centimeters. And place panel 2 right exactly at the line and at the mark. And tape panel 2 in place. From the neck tip, square out a line like so. Best to use an angle ruler for this one. And from the neck tip, measure out the new shoulder slope measurement. From the side seam at under arm, mark down 2 inches or 5 centimeters. And mark in for 8.7 inch or 1.27 centimeters. And redraw the new front arm hole using a ruler. And from panel 2, fold the princess line towards panel 1. And now you have this triangular shape at the under bust. So this is how the front pattern appears on my transform showcasing the folded bust start. As you can see, the arm hole is larger, reflecting the extended shoulder slope. For the back, get panel 1 and place right exactly on the line. And tape panel 1 in place. From panel 1 at princess line at under bust, mark out 3.48 inches or 8.8 centimeters. And place panel 2 right exactly at the mark and at the line. From the neck tip, square out a line like so. And from the neck tip, measure out the new shoulder slope measurement. From the side seam at under arm, mark down 2 inches or 5 centimeters. And mark in for 8.7 inch or 1.27 centimeters. And redraw the new back arm hole using a ruler. And from panel 2, fold at the princess line towards panel 1. Cut at the under bust while panel 2 is still folded. And now you have this triangular shape at the under bust. And here is how the back patterns look on my dress form. Because I think the slope is too wide, I will decrease this by 4.8 of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. And because the arm hole is big for my liking, I will add 5.8 of an inch or 1.5 centimeters from the under arm at side seam.  So here's a tip. When getting the arm hole measurement, start from the shoulder tip and pause at the chestline and record the upper arm hole. And continue getting the lower arm home from chestline until under arm at side seam and record.  Next, face the side seam of both back and front patterns together. And from the under arm, measure out the arm hole depth until the tip of the shoulders. And record the arm hole depth. To start off the frame for the sleeve, drop perpendicular lines on your paper. On the top line, mark down the sleeve length and square a line. And mark out the bicep weave for the sleeve and square a line to complete the frame. This is the sleeve length and this is the bicep weave. From the top line, mark down your arm hole depth from your own calculations. For me, I'm using 7 for 8 inches or 19 centimeters. And square in a line to complete the arm hole depth line. Next, divide the sleeve length and mark in the half from the top line. This is the elbow line. And next, divide the bicep weave by four. This is the elbow crown line, center or grain line, and the armband line. From the arm hole depth line at side seam, mark in 3-1 inch or 1 centimeter each side. Next, divide the armband line at the arm hole depth by 2 and mark. And get the upper one-third of the elbow crown line at the arm hole depth and mark. Next, connect the marks at side seam to elbow crown and armband marks. And square in slant lines. Next, connect the elbow crown and armband marks to the center line and square in slant lines. And divide each slant lines by 2 and mark. For the lower front arm hole, mark down 6-8-7 inch or 2 centimeters.  For the lower back arm hole, mark down 3-8-7 inch or 1 centimeter. And for the upper back arm hole or cap, mark up 3-8-7 inch or 1 centimeter. And next, I'm going to connect all marks using my curved ruler as demonstrated. And now the sleeve cap is complete. For the hem, mark in the half of the wrist measurement from the center line and do this on each side. And connect the wrist marks to the side seam with a slant line. And now the basic sleeve for the dress is complete. And this is how the sleeve looks like on my dress form together with the back and front patterns. Anyway guys, I hope this pattern making tutorial gave you enough tips on how to recreate this Gabrielle little black dress. And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to comment down below and I will reply as soon as possible. And if you're not subscribed yet to my YouTube channel Lama Del East, make it sure to hit that subscribe button. And if you like this video, give it a huge thumbs up. And I will see you guys again on the next tutorial. Abiento!


Awesome one-two punch by the pitcher on Cal to get out of this at bat 3-1. She's gonna go fastball that just keeps elevating Maybe that's a rise ball. I don't know softball pitches names that well But this one drop ball change up freezes her and they work off each other beautifully.  It didn't keep going up. It went down and Dropped in there for strike three cool pitching


فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي أكثر من العلم ومثال العلمي والعلم يبدو أن في القلب في الهارت كنور المصباحي يبدو أنه يبدو كنول العلم في الهارت يبدو كنول إن صفى زجاجه وزجاجه شاعة أنواره إذا كانت عظيمي يبدو كنول شاعة أنواره ويبدو كنول أخذ لامب اليوم أخذ لامب أخذ لامب يبدو كنول لا تفعل أي شيء أخذ لامب لامب ترى؟ تأخذ لامب ترى ما يحدث لامب تعتقد أنك تجد جديد ترى كل شيء تعتقد أن... تبدو أن تعتقد أن... ما يسمى لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب تعتقد أخذ لامب تعتقد أن... إذا كانت قدره إن قدره الى يبدو كنول فالقد إظهر لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب أخذ لامب ما أصدقه و أرقصه. المساعدين يرون بكcusouf و ندك. وهيتما يدعوهم. Against محرك? هذا ما يحدث، المعطة يضعي تلك المكتب. بسهل قسفة الوروء. مناهي هذه نورة ملطة. مما أراد حيازة العلمة؟ أيended who wants to understand knowledge؟ أي hand who wants to attain knowledge؟ أي hand who wants to keep knowledge؟ فالْيزي باطنه و يُطحر قلبه؟ يجب أن تفعله ودعه دائماً وعنده بكامله من جاسةه من ذلك ومالك فالعلم جوهر المعرفة هي جوهر جوهر is a valuable stone it's any stone that's valuable Gold, silver, pearls, roubles all of them are what? they are johar لطيف means light لا يصلح إلا للقلب النظيف سرى فضل يعالي some other using words في باطن وهم قولة حاسن الله ومأق部 صحيح يأوث رحمه اللهة محفظه الله he says وطاهارة القلبي ترجع إلى أصلين عظيمين the purity and cleaning your heart goes back to 3 sorry 2 foundations do you wanna clean your heart there are two things it goes back to that you have to clean from your heart is called نجاسة القلب يكون نجاسة القلب هؤلاء الاران كلا بالران على قلوبه ما كان يكسبون المنطقة و المنطقة أن يكتب من المنطقة أن لا يجعلهم لا يعرفوا معروفا ولا ينكروا منكرا لا يستطيع أن نعرف الحقيقة لا يستطيع أن ينهي المنطقة المنطقة التي يجعل هذا يحدث معه هو أحدهم أحدهم هو طهاراته من نجاسة الشبوهاتي المنطقة و كما نقوله الشبوهات is what برزخ بين الحقي والباطل it's a station like the cover is what is a barzakhun bayna داري الدنيا و داري الأخل alright شبوهات is a barzakhun بين الحقي والباطل it's a station in between the hack and the batil and we said the reason why we say it's a station in between is because the shubuwat the clothing it's wearing is the hack and the body and the skin is falsehood هذا is why Allah said in the Qur'an ولا تلبسوا الحق ولا تلبسوا الحق بالباطل وتكتموا الحق وانتم تعلمون so this person what is he wearing his truth from the parent he looks like Haq but when he's investigated more it's found that it's that it's falsehood and Shibu Haq my brothers and sisters is one thing that makes a person believe in what he's doing because of the conviction that he comes with and because it can fool a person as you all know عبد الرحمن من الملجب was the man who killed who علي ابنة بيطالب he's the one who killed who علي ابنة بيطالب he was getting close to Allah by killing علي ابنة بيطالب this man is getting closer to who يتقربوا إلى الله بقتلي ابن عمي رسول الله getting close to enter Jannah he's looking for a station in Jannah to kill who the cousin of the messenger علي صلى الله عليه وسلم عمراني بالحطان is the correct way of saying it many people say حطان is not it's بكسر الحائي عمراني بالحطان who came after عبد الرحمن من الملجب was a Khabith in red lines of poetry this is what Shibu Haq does to you he's no problem you can always pray if you want عمراني بالحطان what did he say يا ضربة من تقي ما أراد بها إلا ليبلغ من ذي العرش رضوانا إني لأذكره يوما فأحسبه أو فالبرية عند الله ميزانا what did he say يا ضربة من تقي إلا ليبلغ ذي العرش رضوانا he says a smack عبد الرحمن بالحطان يا ضربة من تقي من تقي from a person who has takwa he's saying this to عبد الرحمن بالحطان praising him يا ضربة من تقي the hitting of a Taqi ما أراد بها I did not intend from this hitting except Allah SWT this is the Shubha and this is the Hudja too من ضل على سواء السبيل the ones who become misguided from the straight path all they say to you is he intended good he wanted good from this ما أراد إلا وجه الله he didn't intend except the face of Allah is that enough وكم من مريد للخير للميصفه how many people wanted good but never got it صح he's saying to you that عبد الرحمن the hitting of عليبنا بالطالب he intended the face of Allah إني لأذكره he said I remember him إلا ليبلغ من العرش رقوانه he only did that so he could gain the high ranks of Allah that he set for him and to get Allah to be pleased with him إني لأذكره يوما he says I remember him sometimes عمران الحطان I remember my friend يوما فأحسبه and then I consider him I consider him the most the most obedient creation from the most obedient creations in the Allah in the scales of Allah how did he come to this conclusion شبهه he's going against in this belief of his that he believes that and he intended the face of Allah one day the prophet said أتدري من أشق الأولين the prophet said ألي do you know the most destroyed people from the early generations ألي رضي الله تعالى عنه he said the prophet SAW he said is the one who cut the what's this part called the killis a killis hill and killed it from there that's the first destroyed person what does Allah say in Surah 2 Surah 2 فعاقروا الناقة لا before that وأشقاها إذن بعتها أشقاها فقال لها رسول الله ناقة الله و سقياها so the prophet I clearly say that they're sheqi so that's what the prophet said عاليبنا بطالب عاقر الناقة some narrations he said then the prophet said to him أتدري من أشق الأعقرين do you know the latest one who is destroyed عاليبنا بطالب he said the prophet said to him من يضربك على رأسك the one who smacks on your head حتى تختب اللي حيتك بدمن until your bed because poured with blood another narration says they come poured with blood الباني authenticated this عاديت الصحيحة the prophet referred to it as what أشق الأخيرين عمران المحطاني say what يا ضربة متقيب ما أراد بها إلا ليبلغا دي العرشي رضوانا صح ولذلك these lines of poetry reached أبوطيب أبطبري رحم الله and he responded and he said the following I saw in what you have said على ابن ملجم المنعوني بهتانا on عبد رحمان ابن ملجم the liar إني لأذكره يوما فألعنه I remember him sometimes and I curse him دينا as a religion وألعنه عمرانا وحطانا and I curse you عمرانا بالحطان عليك ثم عليه الدهر متصلة may curse be upon him and you forever لاعين الله إصرارا وإعلانا maybe upon you privately and publicly فأنتم من كلاب النار جاء به you guys are from the dogs of the hellfire as the textual evidence has come نص الشريعة تبيانا وبرانا as the textual evidences came to prove and to state so this illness is serious brothers which is نجاسة الشبوهات the person gets closer to Allah يتقرب إلى الله so one has to be very concerned and two things fall under الشبوهات what are they? نجاسة الشرك ونجاسة البدع نجاسة الشرك the illness of shirk and the illness of innovation are the two things which are referred to as الشبوهات كفر and بدع they are shبوهات does the christian believe he is getting closer to Allah if you go to christian i remember one brother he said he was giving a da'a to christian for so long i don't know he is dead but he said to the christian but of course he called you by his name but he said to the christian take islam you are only the last moments in this world if you say he is the last chance take islam he said to him in response i am a short paradise already jesus has taken the sins for me i am going to go to paradise it's nothing that i need to worry about take your misguidance away from me he believes in this if he didn't he would die upon islam شبوه is a problem that's what it is what he is doing he believes is the truth he believes it's the truth the second one is شوهات cure yourselves from the illness of شوهات these eyes شوهات is معاصي which is the third type of illness there are two types i already mentioned نجاسة الشرك نجاسة البدعة which are both known as نجاسة الشبوهات the third one is نجاسة المعاصية illness of sins which is known as شوهات ابن القيي mentions it all in his كتاب الفوائد and that's where he got it from originally رحم الله he got this from the book of ابن القييم الجوزية رحمه الله تعالى so sorry ولمع لطهارة القلبي من شأن عظيم since but pay attention and since there is a great affairs pertaining to the heart أمر بها النبي و the prophet who commanded it since there is a powerful affairs and how the heart and its affairs is very serious the message was commanded في أول ما أمدبي from the early things that he was commanded وزوات في قوله تعالى in the statement of Allah قم فأنذر وربك فكبر وثيابك فطهر this was the second sura that came down in the Quran right وثيابك فطهر purify your what purify your purify your heart purify your heart some people say purify your clothes this ayah there is ثلاثة أقوال three opinions what the word ثياب means there is ثلاثة أقوال the first call is العمل that it's actions the second is that it's ثياب meaning your clothing and the third one which is your internal إبنو جلير الطبري you chose the opinion which is that it's your action ورجح هذا القول إبنو جلير الطبري and he said that يقوي the context proves that because the prophet was commanded actions which was what قم فأنذر standing up and command and warn so it was actions so it makes more sense for the word ثياب to be used as action and there are evidences that show that the word ثياب can actually be used for actions the evidence for that is the حديث that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم has said يبعثوا كل عبد على ثيابه the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم has said every slave is going to be resurrected the day of judgment with his clothing على ثيابه here doesn't mean clothes it means upon the action which he used to do because we all know the day of judgment no one is wearing clothes the prophet said the people will come naked no clothes so this statement of إبنو جلير الطبري as the word coming as ثياب coming as عمل the حديث supports and he authenticated it as for it coming in the Arabic language the word ثياب as قلب it's found in the the Arabs the pre-islamic the شعراء الجهرية as it's in the معلقات العشرة the poet said وإنتك قد ساءتك بمني خليقة فسلي ثياب مي ثيابك تنسلي there was a woman he used to love or sometimes the woman is not true is an imaginary figure they make just so they can bring the people into the into the point that they want to get to so they do what is known as الغزل they took a woman for a little bit بانت سعاد فقلب اليوم بانت قلبي بانت سعاد فقلب اليوم متبول متية من إثرها لم يفتمك بوله وما سعاد غدات البيض إذا رحلوا إلا أغن غضيض الظرف مقحوله هيفاء مقبلة عجزاء مدبرة لا يشتك باله قصر ولا طوله زهر من أبي صلما maybe this woman didn't exist he just does it to get into the poetry بيت القصيد but the people will listen when a woman is spoken about and the issue of women are brought up we realized talk about marriage the message is full people don't know it's done talk about أحكام maybe we don't want time to come صح so this individual was talking to a woman he said to her وَإِنتكُ قَدْسَاءَ كِي مِنْي خَلِقَتُونَ if my etiquettes and the way I carried myself basically it's something you disliked and it was harmful the way I dealt with you فَسُلِّ ثِيَابِ مِنْتِيَابِكِ تَنْسُلِ then strip my clothing from your clothing here he means let's go our separate ways then take yourself I mean take me from your heart detach me from your heart and I'll detach myself from your heart and we'll go our separate ways فَسُلِّ ثِيَابِ مِنْتِيَابِكِ تَنْسُلِ here ثياب means your heart means you don't have no love for me he's trying to say to me you're still going to love me even if you go away from me so let's just stay together okay if you're the old day thinking about me shaking in bed just thinking about me we might as well spend the rest of our lives together right and a who that's what the a call is and sheikh صالحمده عبدالحمده العصيم he wants to take this view which is that because that's what he's proving here so he's taking that third view في قولي بَنْ يُفَسِّلُ ثِيابَ بِالْبَاطِلِ وهو قول إن حسنون and he said this is a call which is Hassan very good له مأخد صحيح and I brought the مأخد for it he didn't even bring it in his shalah I'm not relying on his shalah by the way I'm not using his shalah he says this is his shalah I have with me I looked at it but it's more of a تعليخ than it's a shalah I'm explaining the method word for word then the author says وَإِلَا كُنْتَ تَسْتَحِي مِنَّظْرِ مَقْلُوْقِ مَثْلِكَ إِلَا وَسَخِي فَوْبِكِ فَا اِسْتَحِي مِنَّظْرِ اللَّهِ لَا قَلْبِكَ وَفِلْهِ إِحَانُ وَبَلَا يَا وَالْنُوبٌ وَخَطَيَا وَالْنُوبٌ وَخَطَيَا the author Allah says وَإِلَا كُنْتَ تَسْتَحِيْ if you are shy the word تَسْتَحِي فيه لغتان there's two the word تَسْتَحِي the word تَسْتَحِي it has two languages two usages the first one is it comes from the word and if it comes from then when you bring it into the مضارع you say and you bring two yes but if it comes from the word it only comes with one yes when you bring it as the مضارع it becomes not you with me ولي داركة that's why the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ you say if it's if you say then you have brought it from the word and if you say and you cut the yeah off it comes from the word إستحا ولي داركة I think if I'm not wrong in the قراءات إن الله لا يستحي you can say it with two yes and you can say it with one yeah both of them are قراءات سبعية متواترات صح يا أهل قراء إن الله لا يستحي you can say but إن الله لا يستحي أن يضرب مثل ما بعضة فما فوقها وإذا كنت تستحي من نظر من نظر مخلوق إذا كنت تستحي من نظر تنظر لك when you have dirty clothes and you don't want them to see that dirty clothes of yours إلا وسخ ثوبكة you don't want somebody to see your dirty garment فاستحي من نظر الله إلا قلبك then be shy of Allah looking at the dirty heart that you have وفي إحن and in your heart is the إحن إحن is ill heartiness you have a ill heart وبلعية means problems وذنوبن means sins وخضاية means shortcomings so when you are shy you say no, no, I can't do khutba with this garment why? because it's dirty I want a clean thob a white clean iron thob because I don't want people seeing me with a dirty thob then you should be more shy of Allah seeing you with a heart إحن and it is what you're ill hearted وبلعية and it has problems وذنوبن and there are sins filled with that heart وخضاية and shortcomings نعم the word إحن is إحنا it's the jama'a of إحنا so that's how you say إحن قال وفقه الله قال مسلم الحجاج حدثنا عمرنا قط قال حدثنا كثير ابنه إشام قال حدثنا جعفر ابن برقان عن يزيد العصم عن بغرارة رضي الله عنه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال إن الله لا ينظر إلى صولكم وأموالكم ولكن ينظر إلى قلوبكم وأعمالكم وحذر كما إن النفس وحذر كما إن نفسك اللات متى خرجت عليك كسرتك سر مهان منطح رقلبه في العلم الحل ومن لم يرفع منه نجاسته نجاسته ودعه العلم وارت حل the author رحمه الله هي برينزي حديث from ألمان ومسلم من الحجاج أني سابوري رحمه الله the author of the second most authentic حديث بك آفت الصحيح البخاري أن يسأل حدثنا عمره عمره الناقد عمره الناقد is his sheikh he narrates from his sheikh and then narrates from كثير ابنه إشام جعفر ابنه برقان عن يزيد العصم who said أبو هريل عبد رحمان ابنه صخر رضي الله تعالى عنه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول إن الله لا ينظر الله doesn't look at إلا صواريكم doesn't look at your forms some people they spend time in the gym right يا إخوة it's like they do اعتكاف in the gym يا they got six packs even on their ears صاحب زا well those people but when you are when you is good to be healthy you see I shouldn't hate on that person now now it's good but what is also needed is to know that الله doesn't look at that doesn't that doesn't concern الله الله does not look at the person's heart sorry his physique how big his is his skinny is he short is he tall الله doesn't look at that و أموالكم الله doesn't look at your wealth و لكن ينظر إلا قلوبكم و عمالكم رضا الله looks at your hearts and your actions there's something a benefit that I need to mention a very powerful benefit in the old copies of رياض الصالحين the old old copies الحمد لله now many beautiful copies have come out but in the old copies of رياض الصالحين there fell a mistake here which is that it said إن الله لا ينظر إلا أجسامكم إن الله لا ينظر إلا صوركم و أموالكم و لا إلا عمالكم و لا إلا عمالكم some of the نصق of رياض الصالحين this mistake fell into it and سبحان الله some of the شرح of رياض الصالحين because of the خطأ in the نصق because of the mistake in the copy they explained it wrongly if you go to the شرح دليل الفالحين if you go to it written by his شرح of رياض الصالحين if you look at it he acts he explains it with that mistake الشيخة للبانية رحم الله نبها على ذلك he pointed that out رياض الصالحين مكتبة الإسلامي published it صحيح رحمه الله he pointed that out so one has to be very careful that this narration is wrong it doesn't exist and even though we didn't bring it like that it fell in a mistake of one of the نصق copy did that wrong and نصق is basically brothers الحمد لله now there's publishing companies shop publishing houses like دا لبن جوزي دا لبن هج and others back in the days if I wanted to read فتح الباري I would go to a ناسخ a writer who's a good writer he's a good writer and his speed is good I go to that individual and I'll say to him brother can you all can you write فتح الباري for me and he'll be like brother listen right now I'm writing it for فولان and فولان when I finish for them too I'll come for you شاء الله so people would wait for that one individual or those couple of people and they'll get paid for it and that person can he fall into a mistake yeah he can fall into a mistake so sometimes he's writing he's trying to get if that person hasn't got hasn't got water hasn't got fear of Allah hasn't got cause he might do many mistakes how would you be able to overcome it is to get many copies even many copies of his copies different times he wrote it bring them together the more copies that you get the more accurate the more accurate it's going to be and that's why it's important that when you're buying a book the copy that you buy is good don't buy these cheap Egyptian copies businessmen they bring it out 50 copies at the same time 7 pages are the same when you turn it on it's the same page again same page again if you take it to shop it's like I sold it to you I'm not going to sell it I'm not going to take it back from you some books I have like the the kitab written by العلق الكيكل رحمه الله it's kitab قواعد المدهب قواعد المدهب 7 or 8 pages are the same you turn it over the same page all day some pages are blank white and it is haram and it is not permissible to even buy some shops they won't let you open it there's a plastic bag over it yeah or you say can I see the book before I buy it they won't let you شلعاني is not permissible they have to let you see it they can't let you see another copy no they have to show me this one itself because I'm buying this one that copy might be good it might be the same but this one might be different might have a mistake in there that this one doesn't have صح so I need to see each one it's like somebody say to you you want to buy Reebok shoes or Adidas I'm going to show you just the same as the other one I'm not going to let you open this one I'm going to show you another one no I want to see this I'm buying this one the other one is somebody else's نعم the author then brings إن الله لا ينظر إلى جسامكم إن الله لا ينظر إلى صوركم وأموالكم الله doesn't look at your forms and your wealth ولكن ينظر إلى قلوبكم وأموالكم so what is it that Allah looks at الله looks at your heart and your actions because عقيدة المرجع comes out from here which is that the actions are not part of إيمان and the actions are part of إيمان because it has to have actions so Allah looks at your actions that's what Allah is observing your actions where is the manifestation of disbelief in the heart has to come then the author says المنطقة رقبه anyone who purifies his heart فالعلمي in knowledge حلّى the knowledge will settle in if you purify your heart and you cleanse it then knowledge will settle into your heart وما لم يرفع منه نجاصته and anyone who does not remove the filth in the heart and the dead ودعه العلم علمه will greet you by farewell okay and it will leave you وارتح لك and it will depart you from you knowledge and you are not going to be together نعم وإذا تصفحت عحوال طالفة من طلاب العلم في هذا المعقد رأيت خلالا بينا فإن تعظيم العلم من المرئ تغضو الشهوات والشبهات في قلبه وتروح وإذا تصفحت وإذا تصفحت إذا تصفح if you turn over if you turn over the pages من طلاب the students of knowledge in other words if you observe the situations pertaining to the students of knowledge في هذا المعقد in all these chapters to come if you really look at people's situation and you observe them رأيت خلالا البينا you are going to see a great deficiency a clear deficiency فأين تعظيم العلم how is one honoring knowledge how is one respecting and glorifying knowledge how is one venerating knowledge تغضو الشهوات والشبهات في قلبه وتروح that doubts and desires are entering his heart morning and day how can you be one who honors knowledge respects knowledge venerates knowledge but all day you are swimming inside شهوات and desires and شبهات you just come from a lesson you just came from a Quran class you just came from a circle of knowledge and on the way home you are listening to music كيف have you respected knowledge have you honored knowledge or you come to the masjid and you do your Quran مدرسة and then you go back and you hang around with bad friends have you honored the Quran have you honored the Prophet as the statements have you honored knowledge have you glorified knowledge لا or whenever it becomes dark you go on sites that are haram have you glorified knowledge you haven't honored knowledge nor have you venerated knowledge not in any way what it means to honor knowledge number one is تطير وععل the place that you want to put knowledge in if I bring you to my house and I say I can wait for me in the toilet would you accept that and I say to you stay here and wait for me here and then I come to the toilet with you and then we start eating food in the toilet is that respect for you it's respect how is it that you want to take knowledge and you haven't cleaned the place where you are going to put it in and you're not observing the place that you want to put in the knowledge and you don't really respect knowledge because if I do that and I put you in the toilet that means I don't have no respect for you صح and you're going to feel disrespected disrespected هدهو that's all it is that's what knowledge is دعا سهبون سهل ابن عبدالله حرام على قلبي اين يدخلوه النور و فيه شيء منما يكره الله عزيما جل المصر then says تدعوه و الضمير عائده إلى القلبي الضمير the pronoun here goes back to knowledge و تدعوه knowledge cause so the heart calls him so the heart is cold تدعوه the heart is being cold صورة محرمة an image that's haram and another example أن تستهويله مقالة المجرمة وادوثة كتابة وادوثة قبسية وادوثة مقالة المجرمة وادوثة قبسية وادوثة مخالبات المحفظة التجميل فيها خشوه المقرات بشكل جيد في المحرمات ، ويجب أن تجد سوء في المحرمات هذا الشخص ، كيف تبقى المعرفة؟ كيف تبقى المعرفة؟ عندما يتبقى كل يوم ، يتبقى المعرفة وكيف تبقى المعرفة؟ كيف تبقى المعرفة؟ADURA وكيف تبقى المعرفة؟ هذا الشخص بثبتك سيدي في scene وكيف تبقى المعرفة؟ يتبقى المعرفة؟ وهم الشيطان و إلا وورورا هذا المعلم الذي ترى من الموسيقى كان مانيس طاعتا منهم بصوتك صوت يدعى موسيقى كما فصيرين مانشل تخزينك و تحرينك و ترغبك و إلى كل أضحة حرام بسهل الموسيقى هذا هو رابع يأتي و يقول أردت أنه في ذلك الوقت عندما يأتي من الموسيقى الموسيقى التي تسمعها لا يوجد شيء مثل هذه الموسيقى اليوم صح؟ الموسيقى اليوم أننا يسمعونها و أنهم يسمعونها و يدعونهم لا يجب أن أقول مورورا أنه يوجد سكتورات تقرأات و كل شيء that has been said يأتي من الموسيقى و يتحدث عن موسيقى موسيقى هل انتظر على المعلم؟ هل انتظر على المعلم؟ عندما يسمعون كل الموسيقى والحديث و يأتي من الموسيقى هذا مرحب يبدو أن يشاهد في يومه يمتلك من يومه يأتي من الموسيقى يحوزونكم يجب عليكم تبقى في يومه تأتي من الموسيقى مشاهدونها و يسمعون مراهد و يتأتي من الموسيقى و يستخدمون أضافة عن الشهابات الشبوهات و أنت استمتع و يجب على تبلغ يجب أن تجد تلاد ذذ يجب أن تحب one or two يجب أن تحب المعرفة أو يجب أن تحب حرام والذي يجب أن تحب تلاد ذذ is only for one of the two so here this person is finding تلاد ذذ بالمحرمات في غل وفساد this person's heart is ill corruptions in his heart حسد جلسي جلسي is another issue that you don't want anybody else to lift their head up except you that's the only person you want to be the appreciated one you discredit the person حسد وانفاقن hypocrisy you deal with the people in one way and the reality behind closed doors is something totally and utterly different وشقاقن شقاقن means opposing the truth in your heart you want to oppose the truth you upset yourself stones of how to oppose the truth the sheikh says how can these people there is knowledge for them it's no knowledge one valley a knowledge is on another valley صارت مشارقة وصرت مغربي فشتانة بين مشارقة ومغربي that's the east and you're in the west close to each other ماهم من who they are nothing to do with knowledge ولا هو إليهم and nothing knowledge has nothing to do with them they have no relationship with each other then the author brings the statements of سهل ابن عبدالله تستري سهل ابن عبدالله تستري is from the zuhad one of the well known aesthetic scholars and it was said that one day he came to ألمام أبو داود رحمة الله and he told abu-dawood I'm going to ask you for something promise me you're not going to say no to me أبو داود رحمة الله he said I promise I won't I promise I will do for you what you ask for me so he sought to him bring out your tongue أبو داود and he kissed his tongue أبو داود said why did you do that for and he said I wanted to kiss a tongue that narrates the hadith of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم now that's not something you should do that's not something I'm encouraging you to do I just wanted to mention it since it's something and things like that remind you of a person's name that's why when you hear a strange thing you will never forget the name of that person سهل ابن عبدالله تستري وزمن الزهاد from the most aesthetic a boy caught in his dunya and turned towards the hereafter he said حرام على قلب it is haram and it's haram as we said الحرمة تأتي على لوعيني حرام comes in two meanings right حرام which is qadari and حرام which is shari حرام which is qadari is what وحرمنا عليه المراضعة من قبله وحرام على قرية اهلكنا وحرام على قرية اهلكنا صح those تحريم are تحريم قدري because when Allah says وحرمنا عليه المراضعة and him Allah prohibited Musa from suckling the breast of any other woman Allah says وحرمناه من المراضعة when they came and tried to breastfeed Musa he wouldn't take it Allah prevented him from it what it is his mother look how when you rely on Allah are you with me brothers ونريد ان منا على الذين استضعفوا في الارض ونجع عليهم اهمة ونجع عليهم الوارثين ونمكن لهم في الارض ونرية فرعون وهامان وجنودهم ونمكن لهم في الارض ونمكن لهم في الارض ونرية فرعون وهامان وجنودهم منهم ما كانوا يحضرون ووحينا إلى أم موسى الارض فإذا خفت علي فالقيه في اليم ولا تقافي ولا تحزني إنا رادوه إليك وجعلوه من المرسلين فالتقطه أالف أالف فرعون اللي يكون لهم عدوة وحزنة هي الله مكتب لنا وحينا إلى أم موسى الارض عيب اهتموا لهم وهي نبي الله موسى's مضى ربي الله موسى's مضى الله كماندها to throw her child into the sea and the correctest opinion regarding this verse it means that whenever فرعون and his army would come موسى and she would put him in a basket it is not correct to say that she took him and she put him on the basket and she let him go into the water and she didn't do that that's not what she did no mother can do that and Allah will not request a mother to do that but the قول الصحيح is that she tied her son موسى to the house because she lived on a bank a river flow right next to her house so she would tie him on the basket a rope on the basket and she would tie the rope at the top of the door window and so when they come they would look if she has any children and they would leave and she would bring him up again one day she didn't tie it properly so Allah كماندها to place it in the basket to put it in the water but he didn't sell it till it fell out so then the mousa went to فرعون like that look what happened she relied on Allah سبحانه و تعالى and she gave in to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and she just come to her first of all Allah took to show you the ability and the strength of Allah if موسى grew up in the house which his mother feared for him فرعون raised him his own enemy not only that Allah brought موسى back to his mom not only that Allah made موس فرعون pay for the breastfeeding of the mother he was getting paid for breastfeeding her own child so she had better second is that she is getting paid for her seeing her son she is getting money for it that's the result and the fruit of a person who fully gives his affairs to Allah and has to walk in Allah إن الله لا يضع من أجراء إن الله لا يضعوا أجراء من أحسن عمله الله does not forsake the righteous deed of a good person so what happened was سهل ابن عبدالله استيقمن is حرام حرمة القدرية حرمة شرعية we are not talking about it which is ما يعاقب على تاركه ويثاب على فعليه that's not what he means حرام على قلب means حرمة القدرية it won't happen على قلب قلب أحات أن يدخله النور that light will enter his heart وفي شيء من ما يكره الله عز وجل and in it is something which Allah dislikes knowledge will not enter a heart above person the light of knowledge will not enter a heart of a person in that heart there is something Allah dislikes clean it first and this is in agreement with سأصرف عن آياتي الذين تكبرون في الأرض بغير الحق الله says I will divert my verses from those who are arrogant on this earth بغير الحق without the truth I said in the description of this ayah أحريمهم فهم القرآن I will prevent them from understanding the Qur'an because previously they didn't clean their hearts there was arrogance in their hearts rejection of the truth so what's happening here because they didn't clean their hearts so أصرف عن آياتي الذين تكبرون في الأرض so he says the understanding of the Qur'an will be prohibited from them he says أمنع قلوبهم من التدبر في أمر I am going to prevent them their hearts from pondering in my commands also ابن الحاج in his كتاب المدخل he says it is known that many of these people they memorize the Qur'an they are able to pronounce it articulated every مخرج is correct every مخرج he will read it like حصري he will read it properly but what is it that they are prevented from ولكنهمونعوا فائدة but they are prevented from benefiting فائدة وفي الفهم والعمل in understanding what they are reading والعمل and the implementation and the ultimate reason of the Qur'an is what كتاب أنزلناه إليك مبارك ليتدبر آياتي أفلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها أفلا يتدبرون القرآن ولو كان من عند غير الله لو وجدوا فيه اختلافا كثيرا the whole gaya of the inzal of the Qur'an was what implementation and to understand what is in it that is the ultimate goal of the Qur'an they are unable to attain that the reason is because they became ones who did not purify their vessels so before the Haq came to them their hearts was already filled with misguidance and corruption إن شاء الله تعالى they will stop there بإذن الله الكريم this Kitab we've done one Ma'qid and tomorrow we'll carry on and we'll finish this book العلمي every day we're going to do it because some people are not going to come today they want to come tomorrow other people are going to come the next day after so we're going to do now إن شاء الله تعالى the next Kitab


Vice President Professor Yamio Shibajo says the African Development Bank has agreed to support micro, small, and medium-enterprise MSMEs, especially technology-based ones, with $500 million in Nigeria. Shibajo disclosed this on Sunday at the 34th inaugural lecture of the Babcock University, Elisha Remo, Oregon State. The institution's 33rd inaugural lecture was delivered by Oduyoye, Professor of Business Administration. The title of the lecture is, From Small Business to Big Business, A Future Was Little Hope. The vice president said that one of the things the federal government did with small business during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards was the introduction of the MSME's survival fund. According to him, support for small businesses must continue as they are the future of the country. He said that the support given to MSMEs had brought hope, jobs, and opportunities. Shibajo also commended the 7th day Adventist Church for the investment it had made in education.