to get together all these people and all the idea around this project. The other important reason I think is that we are holding, doing the premiere, the world premiere, of a cantata piece that has been written for this ensemble, for this occasion here. We are very pleased to have this cantata with the presence of the compu how to celebrate the sixth anniversary of this department. I must confess that I was quite confused how we celebrate a department that stands war and sometimes sounds strange and weird that working in this department we constantly are debating with ourselves the ethical aspect of doing what we do as scholars. In my side life I write poetry and I have written a series of poems that in some way reflect I think is part of my job here as well as a scholar and how we look and how we study human relations with other humans that normally are sometimes driving to conflicts. What is the reality of our world even today as I speak to you, we are living such a strong issue very close to us, a strong war, an invasion of our country. So it's difficult actually to talk about statics even when we are doing that. So I wrote a series of poems that are deliberative for this concert. I was honored to have this deliberative part of the music by my partner, as I said, who made poems much better than they are indeed. And then David Triss, my good colleague and friend from the department of Spanish poetry he translated into English and made poems much better even than the original ones. But as you see and you get the debrief there with you, what we have here is two sets of poems. One is the creation and another one is recreation. The first part of this cantata is, it's a more dramatic in a sense of reflecting upon destruction. We are with 15 poems that are talking about the 15 days before the end of the world basically. So we end the first part with the destruction of the world in which we live. But then we recreate it. And this recreation is exactly the opportunity of making things different. The opportunity that we have to reconstruct, the opportunity that we have to rebuild. It's not so much stress. You see that our recreation takes two weeks and not only one, as the original Bible creation says. So we talk two weeks to recreate this world. And the creator of this world is a female character. It's not a male one. And we start creating the women and we start creating the world in different manners and different ways. Probably as a hope that we can also recreate in our own world some differentiation, some distinction and some peace, I would say, as well. So you have the texts there. They are not descriptive. They are not telling a story. They are much more provoking in our senses, as well as the music will be. We'll provoke our senses in different ways as well. Quite related to Brazilian musical expressions. Well, myself and the composer, we are Brazilians. Inevitably, we'll do that. We are joined today for this concert by two Brazilians that some of you know already. By the group of Horado, a celebration, a dream. So you can forget that. But if you like it, we can go there and celebrate the music together as well. But I hope that will be the second option that we have here. So I would just invite you to join us in this adventuring through this cantata. Imagine these last days before we end week on world and how we can recreate this world in different manners and different ways. I hope you will like it. Thank you. And I just would like to tell you as well that on the 7th of April, on the 7th of April, at 7.30, where Gabriela and Katarina on the 7th and 7.30. Gabriela is here in Green. You can ask her details after. It's her premiere. Thank you so much. Thanks again.


Hi and welcome to the session. I'm Shashi and I'm going to help you with the following question Question says for the following differential equations find a particular solution Satisfying the given condition. This is the given differential equation and this is the given condition Let us now start with the solution Now given differential equation is x cube plus x square plus x plus 1 multiplied by dy upon dx is equal to 2x square plus x Now separating the variables in this equation. We get dy is equal to 2x square plus x upon x cube plus x square plus x plus 1 dx Now integrating both the sides of this equation. We get Integral of dy is equal to integral of 2x square plus x upon x cube plus x square plus x plus 1 dx Now we can find this integral by using this formula of integration So this integral is equal to y Now we will write y is equal to integral of 2x square plus x Now in the denominator clearly we can see these two terms have x square common So we can write these two terms as x square multiplied by x plus 1 and These two terms have one common So we can write these two terms as 1 multiplied by x plus 1 Now we will write dx as it is here Now here we will write plus c where c is the constant of integration Now this further implies y is equal to Integral of 2x square plus x upon x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 Taking x plus 1 common in these two terms we get this expression Clearly we can see here. We have factorized this expression and factors of this expression are x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 Now let us assume that this integral is equal to i so we can write Y is equal to i plus c let us name this expression as 1 now we know integral i is equal to integral of 2x square plus x upon x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 dx Now let us consider 2x square plus x upon x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 It can be written as sum of a upon x plus 1 plus bx plus c upon x square plus 1 We know to find this integral we will use integration by partial fractions here So we have considered this integral and it can be written as sum of these two fractions Now adding these two fractions by taking their LCM we get 2x square plus x is equal to a multiplied by x square plus 1 plus bx plus c multiplied by x plus 1 Now let us name this equation as equation 2 now putting x is equal to minus 1 in equation 2 We get 2 minus 1 is equal to 2a Clearly we can see if we put x is equal to minus 1 then this term will become 0 and we get this equation Now this further implies 1 is equal to 2a 2 minus 1 is 1 only Now dividing both the sides by 2 we get 1 upon 2 is equal to a Or we can simply write a is equal to 1 upon 2 Now if we put x is equal to 0 in equation 2 then we get 0 is equal to a plus c Now we will substitute this value of a in this equation and we get 0 is equal to 1 upon 2 plus c Now subtracting 1 upon 2 from both the sides of this equation We get minus 1 upon 2 is equal to c or we can simply write c is equal to minus 1 upon 2 Now if we put x is equal to 1 in equation 2 then we get 3 is equal to 2a plus 2b plus 2c Now we know value of a is 1 upon 2 and value of c is minus 1 upon 2 So we will substitute corresponding values of a and c in this equation and we get 3 is equal to 2 multiplied by 1 upon 2 plus 2v Plus 2 multiplied by minus 1 upon 2 Now simplifying this equation further we get 3 is equal to 1 plus 2b minus 1 Here 2 and 2 will get cancelled here. Also this 2 will get cancelled by this 2 Now plus 1 minus 1 is equal to 0 So Here we will cancel 1 by minus 1 and we get 3 is equal to 2v Now dividing both the sides by 2 we get 3 upon 2 is equal to b Or we can simply write b is equal to 3 upon 2 Now we will substitute corresponding values of a, b and c in this equation and we get 2x square plus x upon x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 is equal to 1 upon 2 multiplied by x plus 1 plus 3 upon 2 multiplied by x plus minus 1 upon 2 upon x square plus 1 Now it can be further written as 1 upon 2 multiplied by x plus 1 plus 1 upon 2 multiplied by 3x minus 1 upon x square plus 1 Now we know integral i is equal to integral of 2x square plus x dx upon x plus 1 multiplied by x square plus 1 Now using this expression we can write this integrand as sum of these two fractions so we can write i is equal to integral of 1 upon 2 multiplied by x plus 1 plus 1 upon 2 multiplied by 3x minus 1 upon x square plus 1 dx Now this integral can be further written as integral of 1 upon x plus 1 dx multiplied by 1 upon 2 plus 1 upon 2 multiplied by integral of 3x minus 1 dx upon x square plus 1 Now first of all we will find out this integral We will use substitution method to find this integral So we can write put x plus 1 is equal to t now differentiating both the sides with respect to x we get dx is equal to dt now integral of 1 upon x plus 1 dx is equal to integral of 1 upon t dt now This integral is further equal to log t plus c1 We know formula of integration that integral of 1 upon x dx is equal to log x Plus c so here we have used this formula of integration Now substituting the value of t here we get log of x plus 1 plus c1 So we can write this integral is equal to first of all We will write this 1 upon 2 as it is now here. We will write log of x plus 1 Now we will find out this integral Now this integral can be written as Integral of 3x dx upon x square plus 1 minus integral of dx upon x square plus 1 Now this integral is equal to tan inverse x So here we will write minus sign as it is and this integral is equal to tan inverse x Now we will evaluate this integral Now multiplying and dividing by 2 we get this integral is equal to 3 upon 2 multiplied by integral of 2x upon x square plus 1 dx Now we can find this integral by using substitution method So here we can write put x square plus 1 is equal to z Now differentiating both the sides with respect to x we get 2x dx is equal to dz Now this further implies dx is equal to dz upon 2x Now substituting z for x square plus 1 and dz upon 2x for dx in this integral we get 3 upon 2 multiplied by integral of dz upon z minus tan inverse x Now this integral is equal to log of z So here we will write 3 upon 2 as it is and We get 3 upon 2 multiplied by log z minus tan inverse x Now substituting the value of z here we get 3 upon 2 multiplied by log of x square plus 1 minus tan inverse x Plus c2 where c2 is the constant of integration Now we will write this plus 1 upon 2 as it is and we know this integral is equal to 3 upon 2 multiplied by log of x square plus 1 minus tan inverse x Now simplifying this expression further we get 1 upon 2 multiplied by log of x plus 1 plus 3 upon 4 multiplied by log of x square plus 1 minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x Now taking 1 upon 4 common in these two terms we get 1 upon 4 multiplied by 2 log of x plus 1 plus 3 log of x square plus 1 minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x Now using this law of logarithms We can write 2 log x plus 1 is equal to log of x plus 1 whole square So here we will write 1 upon 4 as it is and We can write this term as log of x plus 1 whole square plus Now again Applying this law of logarithms in this term we can write this term as log of x square plus 1 whole cube minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x Now using this law of logarithms We can write these two terms as log of x plus 1 whole square multiplied by x square plus 1 whole cube minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x So this is the required value of i Now we will substitute value of i in equation 1 Now equation 1 becomes y is equal to 1 upon 4 multiplied by log of x plus 1 whole square multiplied by x square plus 1 whole cube minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x plus c Now the given condition in the question is y is equal to 1 when x is equal to 0 So we will substitute y is equal to 1 and x is equal to 0 in this equation To find the value of c Let us name this equation as 3 Now we can write Substituting y is equal to 1 and x is equal to 0 in equation 3 We get 1 is equal to 1 upon 4 multiplied by log of 1 minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse 0 plus c Now we know log 1 is equal to 0 So we get 1 is equal to 0 minus tan inverse 0 is also 0 So 1 upon 2 multiplied by 0 is equal to 0 only Now we get 0 minus 0 plus c Now this further implies 1 is equal to c Or we can simply write c is equal to 1 Now we will substitute this value of c in equation 3 Now equation 3 becomes y is equal to 1 upon 4 multiplied by log of x plus 1 whole square multiplied by x square plus 1 whole cube minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x plus 1 Or we can simply write y is equal to 1 upon 4 multiplied by log of x plus 1 whole square multiplied by x square plus 1 whole cube minus 1 upon 2 tan inverse x plus 1 So this is our required particular solution This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day


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Let us turn our attention now to the banks. Now, I don't know who you bank with and how long you have banked with them, but a new YouGov poll has revealed that the British public still don't trust banks ten years after the financial crisis. Now, the research comes after their behaviour caused the global financial crisis. The poll commissioned by Positive Money questioned over 2,000 adults from across Britain. It shows a strong majority have a negative view of the banks and how they work. Well, let's find out more. Let's speak to Fran Boat, Executive Director from Positive Money, who carried out the research. Hello, Fran. Hi, thanks for having me on the evening. And thank you for talking to us. Sorry, Fran Boid. Did I get that right? That's correct. Yeah, absolutely. So, Fran, why don't people trust the banks? What was coming out as the biggest reason? So, I mean, we're ten years on since the last crisis, and people are aware that the banks still aren't working in the public's interest. They know that we have nothing to do with the crash, but we've suffered a decade of misery from the bank's actions. You know, we've seen how failure to reform banking turned a dexterity, and we've had massive cuts. You know, hearts have been ripped out of communities, cuts to schools, hospitals. We've seen massive increases in food banks. And people do get that this is connected to the crash we happened ten years ago. We've got the 10th anniversary of Lehman coming up on the 15th of September. And so the polling that we've done shows that two thirds of Brits do not trust that banks work in the best interest of UK society. And actually only one in five actually do think they work in the best interest. We've found that nearly three-quarters say that banks should have faced more severe penalties for their part in the financial crash ten years ago. And only around 10% said that they faced the right amount of penalties. And only 1% believe they should have faced the best of their penalties. So, you know, generally people think that banks have got away with it. And 63% are worried that banks may cause another crash, which our work and research of positive money shows is very likely. That's interesting that that many people, I think once you've lived something and lived through something and seen it, the fear of it happening again is obviously quite high. Definitely. And I think the other thing is, you know, life's got harder for most people in this country over the last 10 years. And they can, you know, they are still aware that that was rooted in the financial crash and how, you know, that turned into a story about austerity when really we should have been focusing on reforming the UK banking and money sector. And that hasn't been done.  We've had, you know, 10 years you could call a lost decade. We don't want 10 years of the same. We want to think about a banking system that actually serves the interest of the UK. So it shows how concerned most people are with the fact that, you know, their living standards have dropped, wages stagnating and declining over the last 10 years. And that always connected to the financial crash, which, you know, the 10 year anniversary is coming up in a few weeks. Fran, if you were sitting there in charge of one of the banks, what would you do? Because I wonder whether if you look at the marketing and the advertising that they do, it's mostly about customer service and what this, you know, you can do on the high street in a branch if they've still got them open.  Things were terrible. And we had a part in that. So what would you advise them to do? Of course. I mean, what we're keen to do is get more of the public engaged. We've got a grassroots movement. We're going to be marching outside the Bank of England on the 15th of September. So maybe some listeners could join. And the thing about the UK banking system is we have a very, we have a monopoly, essentially, we have five big banks that occupy 85% of the market share. And they aren't interested in serving the UK's economy needs. So of course, they're going to be saying that they have the best service, etc. But there are some fundamentals we need to change in order to get banks that do put customers and businesses and citizens first, that we do need to restructure the system and not enough has been done, we'd say in terms of regulating the bank since the crash. So if I was, you know, if I was in charge of a big bank, say RBS, which has is actually owned by us, by the people who've got 70% of the market share the government does, I'd be thinking, you know, my business model doesn't work anymore. And I want to serve the UK. So why don't I look at how I could be, you know, changing my business model to serve the productive economy of the UK rather than global financial markets.  And that's why we need a grassroots movement for change. And that's why we're going to be campaigning on the 15th. And this poll is so important. We've talked about what the bank should do. But what about us as consumers? Is there anything we can do? Because I wonder whether the one thing that came out of the financial crisis that people started to understand the banking system a bit more? Yeah, I mean, obviously, positive money is one of the few organizations that were set up in response to the crash. And that's why, you know, we're keen to mark this 10th anniversary with a conversation around not enough has been done. But we've also seen other campaigns and other organizations coming out and move your money to have looked at how you can shift your money out of the big banks that did cause the crash and into more socially or environmentally useful banking or financial institutions.  So if you do have a bank, if you do bank with one of the big ones, then you can ask them, you know, some significant questions around, you know, around the continuing scandals we hear coming out, whether it's the one that came out early in the year about Barclays and Qatar or HSBC, you know, there is a kind of unending level of stories that come out about how poorly these banks have been run. There's a lot of, you know, wrongdoing.  And that's a big issue.  We know it's a challenge.  It just seems like such a headache, doesn't it? Well, that's why they made it a lot easier a few years ago. But the problem is that we don't have enough choice in the UK. We have this stranglehold by these five big, globally systemic, too big to fail banks. And that just isn't going to produce. Well, that's interesting because it works for people. What that says to me is there's room in the market for a new a new style or certainly a new brand of bank to come along market themselves completely differently. However, that may be whether it's in a very open and honest, different manner. And that consumers might be interested in that. Exactly. And I think it's just going to ape what's already on the market. What's the point? Yeah, I think we need both. So we need to change the old because older causing problems. We have another financial crash. It'll probably come from one of the big banks, but we need to grow the new. We need new types of banks for the small credit unions, regional banks, stakeholder banks, things that work for different people. You know, some people need a branch. That's how they do their banking. Others happy to do it all online and with new apps. But the key is that we want to think about banking and financial services that start with with the consumer and with small businesses and not with global financial market and just kind of your short term profits. So it's not something that can be done overnight, but we're hopeful that things are moving in this poll shows that the public do want change. Fran, thank you for talking to us. Fran Boit there, who is from Positive Money, who carried out that research that we've been talking about.


The IAEA has detected natural uranium particles at a location in Iran not declared to the agency. We have continued our interactions with Iran since then, but have not received any additional information and the matter remains unresolved. A meeting between the agency and Iran is scheduled next week in Tehran to discuss it further. During his opening speech, the acting director general also said the IAEA is ready to play an essential role in verifying the DPRK's nuclear program. I again call upon the DPRK to comply fully with its obligations under Security Council resolutions to cooperate promptly with the agency and to resolve all our sending issues including those that have arisen during the absence of agency inspectors from the country. Mr. Furutsa laid out the focus areas of the agency's technical cooperation program for the next two years. The top three priority areas for member states in the coming cycle are health and nutrition, food and agriculture and nuclear safety and security. In food and agriculture, the acting director general gave the example of Hau Namibia, working with the IAEA and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has enhanced existing seed varieties and improved irrigation practices. This is helping farmers to reduce the use of irrigation water by an estimated 30% to 40%.


Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Gin. I'm Shannon and today on pop reviews We're gonna be going over the pop heroes DC super heroes number 68 hot topic exclusive Black lantern reverse flash from the blackest night. Stay tuned So hey guys welcome to Comic-Gin if you're new make sure you hit a subscribe button and a little bell Comment below hit the like button. I'm gonna be even share with your friends Good job So as I said before this is the pop heroes DC comic superheroes number 68 hot topic exclusive black lantern reverse flash vinyl figure See you got the black lantern reverse flash sticking up there nice window box like most Funko pops On the back.  I'm not sure because It looks like they just painted the bracelets on that's not sculpted on like some of the figures Got the wing silver wings silver boots the head can turn all the way around But yeah, it I believe this is just a repaint of Of probably flash since there's more flash than reverse flash Nice black I'm not really feeling this fuzzy silver though on the abdomen All right, so sorry guys. I can fully forget my microphone was on the floor. I got one of those lapel mics I did check the audio didn't seem too bad because I have such a loud voice anyway so, yeah So yeah, I'm not really liking the fuzziness This it looks like it was just kind of sprayed on there and really quick maybe has a lot of a Don't know. I'm not really liking it at all The back is very plain you got the lightning bolts around the thighs there Not really much else to say about this figure again, I don't really care for that paint job right there It looks very rushed This they probably could have made taking a little bit more time on that you got the little teeth spots on the Decade flesh there You got some decay spots on the cheeks Other than that not really a whole lot to say once again, this was the hot topic Exclusive figure so if you like what you saw here head out to hot topic and pick up your exclusive Pop heroes DC Comics superheroes number 68 black lantern reverse flash final figure until next time guys


Coming to you from our GIS Studios, I am Anithia Antoine and this is your media news brief. St. Lucia now has a resident representative to the Organization of American States, OAS. Lily Ching Soto presented her letters of credence to the Minister responsible for External Affairs, Honourable Sarah Flood-Bober on Friday, September 6th, 2019. The Costa Rica native has been working with the OAS since 1999. She has worked extensively on human rights issues with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the OAS. Her most recent position was the Principal Human Rights Specialist on that commission. Outstanding youth of Grozile had their moments in the spotlight as they were recognised for their achievements in the common entrance examination, the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and Junior Carnival 2019. The Grozile constituency top achievers awards is an annual event sponsored by the Taiwanese government. Ambassador of the Republic of China Taiwan to St. Lucia, His Excellency Douglas Shen, encouraged the students to continue giving of their best. He expressed hope that one day the top achievers will be recipients of the Taiwanese scholarships as well. Minister for Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment and Parliamentary Representative for Grozile, Honourable Leonard Montout, motivated the recipients to keep working towards their goals despite the odds they may face. The eighth annual Grozile constituency top achievers awards ceremony was held on Friday, September 6th, 2019. A delegation of European Union representatives has given a nod of approval to a number of climate-resilient initiatives being undertaken in St. Lucia by the Disaster of Unability Reduction Project, DVRP. The EU delegation taught the Schroeser Secondary School and the Abandoned PI Community Centre, as well as the construction site of the PI Bridge and rehabilitation of the Ancelary Venus Link Road. The EU representatives lauded the projects given their significance in lessening the potential negative impacts of weather-related events by ensuring that communities remain accessible and social and economic activities are minimally disrupted. This has been your midday news brief. Thank you for watching.


Yeah, we'll get started. So just before we went for the break, we were looking at how Aaron kind of provided a covering for those sacrifices which were brought. So they were not always perfect, but he kind of provided a covering for them in his role as priest. And so because of him, because of his presence, standing over there with that wording on the turban which says holy to the Lord, because he was acceptable to the Lord. Whatever he accepted on behalf of the people was also regarded as being acceptable to the Lord. And so in that sense, he kind of was providing a covering for these people who maybe could not afford very perfect sacrificial animals. Now, in the New Testament, we who are priests, we believers who are priests, we also kind of provide a covering for those who are maybe related to us or who are placed under us as part of our responsibility. So to an extent, we kind of provide a covering for them. We'll take the actual example given here in the scriptures and then we'll also see how we can apply that principle to other aspects as well. So to look at how this whole sanctification process works in a family setup. So if someone could read out for us, 1 Corinthians chapter seven versus 12 to 14, 1 Corinthians chapter seven versus 12 to 14. 2 Corinthians chapter seven versus 12 to 14. To the rest, I say this. I not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she's willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he's willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean but as it is, they are holy. Okay, so now over here in this passage where it talks about how the believer sanctifies the rest of their family members even if they're unbelievers. It's of course not saying that they get salvation. Okay, so just because a person is a believer and that believer is related to the rest of the family members, the rest of the family members do not get salvation just because of the believer. It does not work that way because we know that salvation is based completely on faith. And it clearly says here that these other members of the family are unbelieving. They have not placed their faith in Jesus. So obviously it's not talking about salvation. You know, John 1, 12 to 13, it says, yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Okay, so only those who believe in his name and place their faith in him and submit to him, they are the ones who are considered children of God. The rest of the people are not children of God. So over here in the first Corinthians seven passage, it is not saying that the unbelieving spouse and the unbelieving children will automatically become believers. No, it's not saying that. But they are kind of under the covering of this believer in the sense, now they will begin to enjoy all the covenant benefits, you know, which this believer is enjoying. For instance, if it's just the wife who has placed her faith in the Lord, because she has become a believer, God protects and shields her entire family. When it comes to matters of job and workplace, now because she is a believer, God will bless her work, God will promote her in a workplace. So she would earn a higher salary, she would bring more money into the home. So she is beginning to enjoy all the covenant blessings that are part of being a believer because she has chosen to come under God's covenant. The rest of the family members are indirectly enjoying the benefits of the covenant, but they themselves are not really members of the covenant as yet, okay? So in that indirect sense, they are enjoying the benefits. And what about the spiritual covering that the person is providing? So that lady, because she is a believer, she starts talking about what she's learning from the scriptures. So through her, her family members start hearing the word of God, okay? She may not quote the scriptures word to word, but you know, she just talks about the things that she's learning. And so indirectly in a way, they are hearing through her, they get into hear the words of God, they get into hear what God has to say about different things in the Bible. And even as they start hearing those things, there's a chance that the word of God will start working in their hearts. Also on a practical day-to-day level, they will literally see her changing into a different person. They can see the power of God working in her, making her a more patient person, a more wise and thoughtful person. They begin to see changes in her and they see the power there is in the word of God, how the word of God can literally change a person into someone else. So they get to see all of this and so they have the privilege of kind of being under the covering of a believer. And so who knows, that may draw them into God's presence. It may make them want to have God in the same way. And so that family is blessed because of the believer who is there amongst them. Now, what about a family where all our believers in such a family set up where all our believers, if the head of the family, the father, the husband, if he chooses to really be serious about his walk with the Lord and he's cooperating with the Lord so that the Lord is able to set him apart, make him more and more holy, really sanctifying him on a daily basis. If he is really serious about that, imagine what a great covering he would provide for his entire family because the more he becomes joined to the Lord, in sync with God and in all the different aspects of his life, the way he manages his money, the way he manages all the relationships within the family and with all the other relatives and friends and all of that, the decisions that he takes, the long-term plans that he takes on behalf of the family. He starts doing all of this with that one thought of honoring God in everything that he does and being very responsible as a husband and as a father. And he starts taking all of that very seriously. Imagine what an amazing covering that he's offering to his family members because the covenant blessings of God are going to start working in that home without any hindrance or obstacle because this man is allowing the clean, clear flow of God into his home. He's not blocking of God by having his own attitudes. He's not blocking of God by refusing to listen to God's guidance. All those blockages are going away one by one. He's allowing himself to be sanctified more and more. And so God's presence is able to flow through him into his family to a great extent. And that is the sad thing. A lot of men who are the spiritual heads of their home, they don't take their responsibility seriously. They assume that if they are earning enough, then they're doing enough for the family. So that money part is like such a minor thing because God's presence is so much more important. It can change every aspect of the family's life. And if this person, all his contribution to his family is that he's bringing in money, what a sad thing. On the other hand, if he's bringing in God's presence into that home, that God's presence can change everything for his, you know, for his wife, for his children. So rather than just bringing people who carry money into the home, if the heads of the family can be people who are literally carrying God's presence into the home, they can enrich the life of their family. So in that sense, you know, the fathers and the husbands especially are able to sanctify their family and any believer in fact, absolutely any believer is able to act as an agent of sanctification in that sense, where they are able to carry God's presence into that home set up. And because of them, things start changing in that home. So in that sense, we all have a role, a priestly role where not only are we getting sanctified, we are able to do something for our immediate family members. We are able to cause God's presence to flow into their lives through us. Now, there's a greater significance for those who are in leadership roles in the church. And by that, I don't mean that you need to be a full-time employee who's being paid by the church. Any volunteer, you know, any church volunteer who has dedicated themselves for a leadership role, you know, where they are running a cell group or where they have made a commitment that they're going to follow up with a few people and pray with them and disciple them and be there for them when they have questions and all of that. So these people who have committed themselves to different leadership roles in the church, whether or not they're full-time, it doesn't matter. So such people, they would have a great priestly role in what they are doing. And maybe we can look at a couple of verses which talk about that. Acts chapter 20 verse 28, if someone could read out. Acts 20 verse 28. Acts chapter 20 verse 28. Keep watch over yourself and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made the overseas. These shepherds of the church of God which he bought with his own blood. Now see these people are keeping watch over the flock. Okay, so they're going to be caring about the spiritual growth of these people who are in under their care. And when they are going through difficulties, just ordinary everyday issues regarding work, regarding health, regarding decisions that they need to make. So these people who are there to kind of guide them, pray for them, help them in reaching the right decisions, all of that. So they are watching out for the flock. And so in that sense, they have a priestly role where they are using their maturity in God. They are using that to be a blessing to the people for whom they have taken responsibility. So you could be just the leader of a Bible study and let us say maybe you have about five or six people in your group. You can be a great blessing to them because you're going to be praying for them, interceding for them.   They're under your covering, your care.  And so all of us, in respect of whether we are full-time employees of a church or not, we can all be ministers in that sense. Even just a youngster, a youth who has kind of gone to God in prayer and said, Lord, this year I want to be a spiritual influence for five youngsters, just peers of his own age group. So he has made a commitment that he's going to be a godly influence on five persons. So the way he relates with them, the way he's there for them, when they are going through tough times, the way he reaches out and tries to help them in different things, all of those things that he's doing, God, you will start using him to influence their lives and change them. So in that sense, even though he's not even a leader in the church and it's not been recognized by the pastoral team as a leader, that guy just at his own level is providing a covering for the people whom he has taken under his care. So it can be something as informal as that, but you can start being a sanctifier as in even as God is sanctifying you, you start reaching out to others and start helping them to be set apart to God. You help them to start growing in those things. So this is a great influence that we can have over other people's lives. And Hebrews 13, 17, if we could read out. Hebrews 13, 17. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 17, obey your leaders and submit to your authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden for that would be no advantage to you. So here are these leaders. This of course is applying more to people who have been officially appointed by the leadership as having to take care of maybe different portions of the congregation. Again, they may be full time or they may just be doing it as volunteers in their free time, but they have been kind of given the responsibility of being there for a set of believers. So they have to kind of take care of the spiritual growth of those believers and all of that. And it says over here, they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. So one day when they stand before the judgment seat of God, it's gonna say these people were placed under your care. How did you shepherd them? How were you there for them? How did you guide them? How did you cause them to know me better? Were you there for them when they were going through the normal hardships of life? Did you reach out a helping hand? Did you say a prayer for them at that time? Were you physically present and helping them out in different things? All of these very scary questions that are going to be asked of us on Judgment Day. So if you are responsible at all for anyone in your church, if the leadership has placed you in a position of responsibility, it's not something that you can take lightly. It's not enough if you can prepare on Bible lesson and go and teach it to them. That's very nice. That's an excellent thing, but it goes beyond that you are in a way responsible for them because you are a priest. Okay, so all of us are priests. And once we have been given some kind of a position of authority where we are now responsible for certain people, we are kind of responsible for all aspects of their life. We can't just say, I'm giving them a Bible lesson that's more than enough. No, that's just one small component. We are expected to reach out and help. We are expected to keep them in prayer. Kind of, to an extent, are responsible for them. And we will have to give an account of it one day. Okay, so all this is part of being priest. All this is part of being set apart and, you know, kadoshan to the Lord. Okay, let's look at another aspect of this whole concept of us having to live in holiness. Romans chapter one verse seven. If someone could read out, Romans one verse seven. Romans chapter one verse seven, to all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. So these people and the believers, it says who are loved by God and called to be his saints. Okay, that word saints is kind of, kind of has lost its original, you know, meaning. So actually literally it's that word hagios, okay, that Greek word. So all it's saying is they have been called to be holy people one seven. All of us have a calling. We all have ministerial callings, you know, in the sense we are supposed to minister to one another. We have a calling to fulfill the purposes for which God, you know, has created us. We have all of those callings. But there's one really important calling. We are called to be holy people. There is no option. I mean, we cannot say, oh, I, if I want to, I will be holy. No, we all have this calling which we have, which is to be holy people, to be saints. And, you know, like we saw in the very initial lesson that just basically means even as we cooperate with the Lord and even as we respond to him, you know, each time he gives us a revelation of his holiness, each time he explains new things to us about his holiness, we choose to respond positively and say, yes, Lord, I want to learn this and I want to apply it and practice it. So even as we are doing that, his nature gets reproduced in us and then people are able to start seeing it because his nature is revealed through us, his holiness is revealed through us. So this is a responsibility that we all have. And this is something very important in God's eyes. If we can look at Deuteronomy chapter seven verse six, if someone could read out, Deuteronomy chapter seven verse six.  Okay, so here the Israelites have been, are being called treasured possession. God considered them his treasure. Treasure is something valuable.  It's something that you keep very carefully and you watch over it because you value it, you actually treasure it. It's something precious to you. And of course in first Peter 2 9, we saw the same terminology being used for even God's believers today, where we are called a holy nation and we are called God's special possession. So God treasures us. If we are living in an honorable way and we are allowing ourselves to be made holy by him on a daily basis, then we are really like a treasure. On the other hand, imagine if he considers us his treasure and we are living in a very rotten way, what kind of a treasure would that be? It would be such a value less, such a low grade thing. And so what God considers his treasure, we would in fact be desecrating. So it becomes very, very important that not only should we positionally be holy because he has made us righteous and he has declared us holy, but at a practical level in daily practice, we are supposed to continue walking into greater holiness so that we will continue to remain a treasure. If we live however we want, then we are in fact desecrating what he considers as something valuable by lowering it. And that is something that God, he says, you're profaning me. So because of the seriousness of that, we already have a positional holiness, but on a daily basis, we also begin to develop holiness in different aspects of our lives. So for us to do that, we have to first of all understand what has been done for us positionally and believe that it is the truth. Once we start believing that this is my position in Christ, then we will be able to start living it out in our everyday practice. If we have not got that concept into our minds at the basic understanding of what we are, we'll continue to behave like sinners. So for us, the first step is to accept, believe, understand what we are, what God has made us into position-wise. Once we have a clear understanding of that, and we in humble faith choose to believe what he is saying about us regarding our position, then on a day-to-day basis, we will start acting it out because now we really believe that about ourselves. So let's first look at that about how the power of sin has been broken. We are no longer under the power of sin. We need to understand that because once we catch that, once we understand who we are, then we will start living it out, okay? So Romans chapter six verse six, of course, we will not go through the entire chapter of Romans in the entire Romans six because that would take time, but we are looking at specific verses from Romans chapter six. This is all very, very important because we've talked about the importance of holiness. We've talked about how God sees it as a very serious thing. We've talked about all of that, but at the end of the day, if we are not becoming holy, then where's the point in having gone through all of that lecture? So Roman six six is now telling us, inviting us to actually start being holy, to catch these things, to understand these concepts. So this is all very serious stuff. So let's look at Romans chapter six verse six if someone could read out for us. Romans chapter six verse six, for we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. Now, if we do not catch this, if we do not believe it, then the whole sanctification process becomes difficult because here God is making a statement.  See, it literally comes down to that because here in Romans six is very, very plainly, he says our old self was crucified with him. That old person that we were who loved to sin, who had no control where we had to sin, even though we wanted to be holy, we're unable to be holy. We're kind of enslaved by sin. We have no control over ourselves. The sin who is our master is controlling us and making us do sin even when we don't want to. We were in that kind of a pathetic desperate state but at that point of salvation, where we said, Lord, I believe that you are going to impart your righteousness to me.  You're going to be doing all this. I believe this in simple faith and I choose to submit to you and I choose to walk with you. That moment when you made that decision and at that moment when the Holy Spirit came inside and created something brand new, a new creation was created inside this physical body. The physical body continued to be what it was. The thoughts of your mind, the feelings, emotions that continued to be the same but the dead spirit inside that was taken out and a brand new person was placed inside. We got to understand this, believe it as the truth and accept it and once we do that, then we start saying, oh, now because I am a new creation, I don't need to be living the way I used to live before because that person died, that person was crucified, that person, God, Jesus got rid of. In the place of that person, God has placed a new creation and so now because I am a new creation, I can start training my old thoughts, my old feelings and bringing them in line with the person that I have been made into now. So we first of all recognize what has been done to us, what has been done for us and after recognizing that, we start living it out. So when my mind again says, oh, let's go back into those sins, let's do that once again, we explain to our mind and say, you know what, that person that was living earlier was crucified, that person died. Now there is a new creation and now you mind are the mind of a new creation.  So mind, what you are asking for and thinking about are old things, that person is gone. So you have to now come in alignment with who I am today, I am now a new creation. So you tell your mind and you teach your mind who you are now because that thing still has got outdated information, it still doesn't know the facts.  Oh, so now I need to start living in a different way, is it? It's not gonna catch it at first, because you are a new creation, you're gonna teach it and train it and point out Bible verses to try and say, see, this is how you are supposed to be now because I am a new creation.  But you yourself, if you're thinking, oh, am I really a new creation? Did I really get crucified on the cross? So this is something very fundamental. Your first step is to, in your mind, accept the fact that now you have been made into a new creation, the person that you were earlier, that helpless person who could not control themselves and keep themselves from sin, that person got kicked out, that person died, got buried somewhere. That person is gone, finished. You are a new creation created literally by the Holy Spirit, you've been birthed by the Holy Spirit, which is why we call ourselves born again. You literally are a new person now.  Brain, of course, is the physical component. Your mind, your mind has not yet been taught that.   You've got to renew it constantly day after day by teaching it these facts, which is why in Romans 6, 11 to 14, it says these things, you know? So these are the things that we would start practicing. So if someone could read out Romans chapter six versus 11 to 14. Six is 11 to 14. In the same way, count yourself dead to sin, the love to God and Jesus. Therefore, do not sin, drink in your mortal body so that you obey, if he will desire. Offer the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourself to God as those who have been brought from death to life and offer the parts of the human as instruments, righteousness, for sin shall not be a master because under law, but under grace. Okay, so there is still something called sin. It's there out in the world and it's also there in our physical body. I'm not exactly sure how that works out. I mean, God has not given us all of the details, but sin is still around, okay? Sin did not die, sin is very much around. And so it continues to tempt us. It continues to say, okay, you are a new creation, but you can always try to do the old things.  Now you are a new creation that the Holy Spirit literally created. And so you are no longer under the control of sin. And so it says over here in Romans chapter six, verse 11, count yourself dead to sin, accept the fact.  He is saying this very plainly that old person has been crucified. I did the crucifying. I crucified that old you and I have created a brand new person. So count this as the fact, accept this as a fact is what it says over here in Romans 6, 11, count yourselves dead to sin and alive to God. So sin is going to come along and say, why don't you give your hands to sinful deeds? Why don't you give your mind to sinful deeds? So sin is going to come along and say, like the way earlier you used to give out your various various body parts to, it's to sin. Why don't you continue doing that? So sin will come to you and say, give your eyes to the wrong things, to watch the wrong things. But then you have to now say, no, I am now a new creation. And so now I choose to use my eyes for godly things.  So that's what it says. So in Romans chapter six verse 11, it says, now start counting yourself as dead to sin, accept the fact that you are a new creation.  It says in verse 13, do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather now because you have finally understood that you're a new creation, what do you do? You start saying, I'm going to offer my eyes as instruments of righteousness. I'm going to offer my ears rather than listening to the wrong kinds of music. You know, I'm going to offer my ears for godly music. So you know, you make these choices and you start offering every part of you as instruments of righteousness. And you're doing this now because you have understood that you're no longer that helpless person, you know, who was giving in to sin, that person got crucified and died and got kicked out. You are now a brand new creation, literally created by the Holy Spirit Himself. So you have the authority to give your eyes for godly things. You really have the spiritual authority, you know, to use your tongue for godly speech. So you no longer need to be the person that you were before because that person died and that person doesn't even exist anymore. And so you ask, you wait on God and say, Lord, let this truth become more and more real to me. And the more and more real this truth becomes to you, it becomes easier for you to recognize that you now have the authority and the freedom to offer yourself for godly things. So you start saying, sure, because I am now who I am, I have the freedom now to offer myself for godly things and God will back you up in doing that because he's gonna see that you really believe what he is saying about you and you're actually cooperating with him and doing, applying these things, practicing it in your life. And God will say, wow, this person believes me, this person trusts me, even though the unrenewed mind is still sending off all the wrong signals, even though sin is coming and tempting, this person is choosing to believe what I am saying about them that they are a new creation and God will honor you for your faith, for your trust, for your belief, and he will help you, he will give you the authority you need to offer your eyes to the right things, to offer your tongue for the correct things, to offer your mind, your thoughts for the correct things. He will really back you up and help you in doing that. And even as you start doing it more and more, you kind of get a hang of how to do it. It's a learning thing. The same way that little baby starts learning to walk and it's a slow process in the sense, day by day, he learns how to balance himself and how to place his feet. So at a spiritual level, we who are the new creation, on day one, we may not really know how to give our eyes for righteousness, and slowly we begin to learn this new way of living, this new way of walking, this new way of thinking.  So it's an exciting journey of discovery.  So the simple thing will be, don't allow your eyes to go to the darkness because, and start thinking about those things, rather stay focused on him, stay focused on his word, stay focused on other godly people who can be an encouragement to you. If you're with the wrong company, there was the wrong people, you'll get pulled back. Even though you're a new creation, which is so foolish, a new creation going and doing all things so unnecessary. So avoid the old company, the old people who used to pull you into wrong things. So you give up those things. You give up the old habits, which used to always drag you down into sin. So you give up those old habits. So you start getting rid of all the old baggages, which can pull you back and you start accepting this new things where you can flourish as a new creation. Because in that old set of friends, this new creation is gonna have a real struggle. I mean, how are you going to live out your new life among them? Because they're gonna be constantly asking you to be doing the other, the wrong stuff. So the stuff that you've been watching, the stuff you've been listening to, if you're still holding onto those old things, this new creation struggles to function in that atmosphere because the entire pull and the message and the thing of that old stuff is do the wrongs. So if you can just get rid of those things and push them aside and start accepting new friends and the new kind of literature which you read, the new kind of stuff that you listen to, the new kind of hobbies that you take up, all these new things, it becomes easier for your new creation to just breathe and be itself. So don't allow yourself to continue being in that old atmosphere.  It makes it easier for you. So don't make it hard on yourself by holding onto old things. So these are all things that we choose to do. And so maybe we can also read Romans 619. Before we move on to the next thing, if someone could read out Romans 619, please. Romans chapter 6 verse 19. I put this in human terms because you're weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing wickedness. So now offer them in slavery to righteousness, leading to holiness.   Even though you were ashamed of what you were, you had no control. But now you are a slave under God and God wants only the very best for you.  You are his property. You have been purchased by him and he's backing you up and he wants to help you.  So which is why once you have, it's like, let's just think of it as no two houses. So you were living in that other house where your sin was your master and you had this entire lifestyle over there.  Now usually if you bring all the old baggage from that other house over here to this new house, kind of makes it tough, right? Because you're still surrounded by all the old fittings.  So which is why they say, it's a complete overhaul. Not only do you just simply start bringing in some new practices of reading the Bible and praying and mixing with the believers, you start getting rid of the entire baggage, all that is there in that old house, let it sit there in the old house. Now you're in a new house. So start developing new habits, have new friends, watch a new set of things. God will help you, God will lead you to find things which you can now enjoy as a new creation. So this is all just a walk with him.  You can maybe take the help of people who have been longer in the Lord and then they can give you advice on what you can do. So it's all just a journey of discovery because now you are in a new house. In this new house, the master is God and God has got only good things for you. So just in the last few minutes that we have, this is the last portion of your chapter three. So where it talks about sanctification in different areas of your life. So like we already looked at, there's a positional sanctification at the moment of salvation.  So yes, positionally you are righteous, but there is a practical progressive daily sanctification that continues on a daily basis. And so positionally, 1 Corinthians chapter six verse 11 is what happened to you. So if someone can read out 1 Corinthians chapter six verse 11, please. Verse Corinthians chapter six verse 11. And that is what some of you were, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God. So at that moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit, when he was creating this new creation, at that time he completely washed you, he sanctified you, set you apart for himself, he declared you as justified and righteous. So positionally you already arrived, which is why in the next moment, in case, I mean, you're not gonna die, but in the next moment you were to drop down dead, you would immediately enter into heaven because positionally you're already completely righteous and accepted by God. But on a day-to-day basis, because you have been given this privilege of being his child, you choose on a daily basis to start acting like a new creation. And so it says in Hebrews 10, 14, a very important verse, where it brings out the two aspects, the positional sanctification and the progressive everyday sanctification that needs to be done. So because in Hebrews 10, 14, it says, for by one sacrifice, he has made perfect forever. Okay, so you have already been made perfect forever, those who are being made holy. So you have been made perfect forever, but when it comes to day-to-day thing, you start being made holy in every aspect in your thinking, in your speech, in your actions, in your choices, in all of that, you make a choice. And so in our notes, it just talks about different areas where you can start training yourself to be holy. So it talks about sanctification of mind and body and one good scripture for that would be Philippines 4-8, where it says earlier you used to think about all kinds of worldly things, but now think about things which are right, which are pure, which are lovely, think about such things. So when you start thinking more about good things, then it'll be easier for you to live a holy life. On the other hand, if you're still thinking all those old selfish, self-centered, sinful things, how it makes it more difficult for you to be a new creation. So rather develop on things which are noble, which are right is what it says in Philippines 4-8. It also in Ephesians 5-4, not sure whether all these scriptures are there in your notes, but anyway, these are just things which I jotted down. So I think some of them may be there, some of them may not be there in your notes, but no, these are all very practical, useful verses.  So the way you speak, so change your speaking style. Let there be no more foolish or course speech, but rather let there be speech which honors God.  So and over here, I think the scripture verse that was given in the notes is 1 Thessalonians 4-3-8, where it says, each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable.  Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God. So if you are refusing to control your body and keep it holy, you're not just simply breaking a rule, you're literally rejecting God himself, something very, very serious. So you need to be sanctified in your desires, in your affections and your passions. It also talks about in your notes, the next point would be sanctification of your dreams and hopes. Okay, so we have only one minute left, but if I can just squeeze something useful into that one minute, Matthew 633, which says, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.   Let it be something which is righteous. Let righteousness be your priority when you're exercising your hobby. Everyday normal relationships, let your relationships be righteousness focused, let them be kingdom focused. So that's basically what it means Matthew 633, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, in all the practical aspects of your life and then God will take care of your needs, he will provide for all your needs that will be taken care of by him automatically. So in that way talks about sanctification of time and talents, sanctification of your home and family, all of those. So maybe you could kind of go through those points later when you have the time. So we'll quickly close with a word of prayer. Yeah, because we are out of time. Lord, we just thank you so much for the things that we could learn from your word today. We have a clearer understanding of what it means to be set apart. You take it very seriously and you have declared us, each of us as set apart. And so we should not be desecrating ourselves because when we do that, we are not just desecrating ourselves, we're literally desecrating you.  And so you take that very seriously. So I pray, oh Lord, that you would help us to recognize that you have set us free from those things. We are no longer that old helpless person, that person was killed by you. Now we are a brand new creation with the full freedom and authority to offer our bodies for righteous things. So help us to live in that way, oh Lord, recognizing this truth which you have done for us. I pray that you would guide each of us, oh Lord, into greater holiness on a daily basis. Show us how to do it, oh Lord. Be very clear to us, oh Lord, in your guidance. Help us to hear from you, oh Lord. And I pray that by the end of this course, we really would have changed into greater holiness. Baby, we will be more pleasing in your eyes.  You will make us holy. You will kadoshas. Thank you for that promise, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you so much for holding on to the end. Yes, so we'll meet again next week. Thank you.


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