air umpire on Sunday. We're going to get the full version of the Royal Garosemi. Yeah. I'm not going to say Alkrest won't cramp, but I hope he doesn't. Because I don't want to have that. I want to see a full match. And then we can see where Alkrest is really at. You can see where Djokovic is really at. We can actually get it. The cramping screws everyone. Because then there's an excuse, either way, or there's a rule or whatever. I want to see a full match that there's no doubt. There's no doubt. Whoever wins on Sunday is the best in the world. There's no doubt. And we can go to the US Open and be like, well, this guy's the best because he beat this guy, who's the second best. There'll be no doubt. If there's cramp, it's doubt and it's annoying. And I'm so glad we can hopefully figure it out. If Alkrest cramps again, then it's an Alkrest order. Well, that's it. If Alkrest does cramp, then we can kind of put it down. Okay, well, he's got to figure that out before he's going to be able to play Djokovic. But I just hope he doesn't cramp. So then we do have a match we can look at and go, that match, this guy is the best. And I mean, they're playing for the world number one. So it's like, you know, the literally the best person in the world is going to win Wimbledon by the rankings. Whoever wins Wimbledon is the best player by the rankings. Winner takes number one and Wimbledon, exactly. He only cramped once. Yeah, well, he cramped in like Miami because of the heat, but he cramped because of emotion or because of... He said his whole body cramped because of the stress. I just hope it's a one-time thing, one and done. And he learned from that. Or at least he can manage the stress better this time around. That would be really fun. Like really good. For him. The last time I was extremely confident on Djokovic, I put $5,000 on him beating Zarev. He had just beat Zarev six to one in the first set during the Olympics for the Golden Slam. Unreal loss. Yeah, that one hurts. And then even two years later, that... I mean, that hurts me and I didn't even... That was... And it was your money. So that... Yeah, that's brutal. I'll tell you what, if you are like... You can do whatever you want with your money, I don't care. But I'm not touching that match because I don't want to be... That's why I'm like... I don't even want to predict that match because I don't want to... I don't want to have... I want to be so... I want to sit on the fence so much that I've got splinters all over the place. Like I want to just sit on the fence on that match. I don't want to make a pick.  I'm definitely not going to bet on it because, you know... Why would I bet on the matches? Why would I start betting on matches now that we watch, right? But I'm just going to sit. I'm just going to be central. I'm just going to sit right in the middle and just enjoy it. I'm going to be the chair umpire, like I said. But if you want to bet on it, I'm not going to tell you what to do because I don't... I'm not going to pick either. I'm not picking anyone. It's a draw. Got to go with Djokovic still. Well, I picked Djokovic to the start of the week, so I'm just going to say that I'm probably going to pick Djokovic in the final. But I'm really not... ...attached to my prediction. Like I really don't. Like if I get it wrong, so be it. Just hopped in. That's five subs. What do you mean? Don't predict this match in the preview. No, no, I'm going to make a prediction, but I'm not going to like... Like spoiler alert, it's Djokovic. Because I picked Djokovic to win the tournament, so I'm going to stick to that. But again, unlike the semi-final, the French, where I said, watch out Elkhorst fans. Djokovic hasn't played properly yet. And I was a little bit more combative with Djokovic. My pick, and you know, the chat was a little bit more Elkhoraz and we had that back and forth. I'm just going to let the chat fight each other, you know. You guys can just fight each other and I'm just going to watch. All right. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Todd. Don't forget Novak's motivation to dismiss thoughts that Elkhoraz is better to preserve goat status. Thank you, Todd, for the five. Yeah, look, Djokovic has a lot of motivations.  I mean, he, Djokovic has, it's really funny because Djokovic has way more to play for, not just the Wimbledon record, right? He has so much more to play for. And part of it is not goat status, but part of it is to prove that he is still the best. Because if Elkhoraz beats him on Sunday, there's a new king in town and no amount of, I mean, yeah, people are going to be like, but he didn't get to play in D&W or the U.S. Yeah, but if you beat, I mean, the excuse for a while was, ah, you know, the Wimbledon didn't count with points, right? Elkhoraz is number one in the world on Monday, if he wins Wimbledon, and there is no doubt. And, you know, and people are going to make up the excuse of the U.S. Open, he didn't play, Djokovic could have played the U.S. Open, he didn't want to because he decided against it because it was morals. And that's, that's his choice. He chose not to play, right? He chose not to do the right thing to play, whatever. Or chose not to do the thing that he wanted to do, or sorry, the thing that had to be done to play. That make sense? The Wimbledon points thing? Yes, there was always that confusion. Like, yeah, you know, 2000 points disappeared from Djokovic's ranking. On Monday, whoever's number one is number one, because they played for those points and they won those points fair and square. Whatever that happened with the government stuff, that's all, that's, doesn't have any, that doesn't matter to me, because Djokovic chose not to play, that's fine. He chose to play Wimbledon and still got robbed. I agree with that. But on Monday, we have no doubt. Number one on the world is on Monday, whoever it is, is number one on, is number one by points. No excuses. And then in the U.S., we'll see if it comes back to Djokovic. We've been doing this back and forth, back and forth all year with the ranking, so I don't think it's the last time. Yeah, look, the U.S. Open ban, I'm not, like, I can be on board with the Wimbledon points, because Djokovic didn't choose for that to happen. It was out of his hands. It wasn't his fault. He chose not to play, he chose not to get vaccinated, which meant he chose not to play the U.S. Open. And that's good on him, because, you know, he kept to his guns, but he made the choice. The points weren't, were still there. He could have chose to do things to play, you know. So I'm not, as, I'm not going to take, oh, Wimbledon, you know, U.S. Open didn't count. But they count, Elkras. But I am going to, it's going to dismiss all the Wimbledon, you know, no points at Wimbledon, you know, okay, well, now it's points. So that's what we're going to find out, the true number one on Monday. And if you beat the Elkras, if Djokovic is the number one, and Elkras beats him on Monday, or sorry, on Sunday, then, then he just beat up the best player on the planet, if you're going to keep on making that, you know, saying that, oh, well, no, Djokovic hasn't done this yet. And he didn't get to play this though. And the points over here, he didn't get these, okay, if we're going to keep playing that, then what if Elkras keeps beating him, then it's worse. Noley is getting 2,000 points on Sunday. Well, yeah, if he wins, but if Elkras wins, he gets the 2,000. So again, the world number one will be decided on Sunday. Well, and truly who's number one?  Will Djokovic play the U.S. Open this year? Yes. I want to see the change of the guard like Sampris versus Federer 22 years ago. That is a possibility. Well, that is, I mean, that is going to what Sunday is going to be called if Elkras wins. It's going to be called changing the guard. Did having the matches on the roof change the outcome? No, I don't think it mattered that much. I don't think it mattered that much. How is Elkras this good on all services at 20? Ridiculous. Exactly.  I mean, he's not supposed to be good on grass. He's supposed to be a clay court slash hard court guy. Grass was supposed to be the worst part.  Elkras' sliced backhand is lethal. Yeah, he chops it up for sure. Kids played four tournaments. If Djokovic loses, he should cry. No, I mean, no, Djokovic loses. He'll come back at the U.S. even stronger. Weak generation. Did you watch the match today? Did you watch Elkras play? Have you seen Elkras? Have you? Hello? Maybe it's a weaker generation than what? Gaskay and Dimitrov? Or... Which is not really true. What? This is a weaker generation than what? Weak generation than Rayonich and Burdick and Ferrer? I mean, it's pretty similar. We've got a lot of the same characters. You know, you've got Casparudis, David Ferrer. You've got Steph can be, I don't know, Burdick. If you want to chuck him in there. Mebedev's got a slam. Maybe he's Chilich.  Weak generation, how? It seems pretty similar to me is what we've seen in the last decade. Also, have you seen Elkras? I mean, he's pretty strong. But this weak generation thing is just like... Is it just the people that were like... Everyone who called Federer's generation weak? Is it the people that are coming back saying weak generation now? Because they're hurt by what happened. There's no weak generation. There's just better players in every... Players, I mean, is the 90s weak? Because Samper's won? It's like, what are we doing? Jay! Cam, meant to say, how can people not root for Al-Kharaz? I know your neutral, great commentary. Thanks. No, Jay, that's all right. Thank you for the fight. Thank you for the two. No, no, I was saying... I was just clarifying that like... I know you weren't saying that about me. I was just saying like... I was saying that like...  But then I'm like using my head and my logic gets in the way of me just blindly selecting Elkras to win everything because he's so crazy. Karen! Thanks, Cam. I'm impressed that Novak has been improving to all court game and how he's improved his serve. He keeps growing despite all odds. I like them both. I mean, they both got all court games, don't they? Thank you for the five. My head is just spinning. I'm trying to think like... I'll give you an insight into my brain and then we'll keep talking about. And I talked about this the other day. I go through every single scenario. If this happens, what happens here and here and here? I've gotten like... I don't know even where to start with Jokovic Elkras. You know, like... Like my brain is always like, well, if Mehvedev serves really well, then Elkras will do this. And if he does that, then what does Mehvedev do? And like break it down like that. I don't even know where to start. I don't even know where to start. Very fitting final. It is. Maybe it's because it's way too early and I need to have a sleep and then I'll wake up and be like, oh, here. This is my thought. Elkras on fire, I'm sure is. Lots of players say that 1994 to 2004 is a 1998 to... 2004 is a week era, but 2017 to now. Again, it's weak. Like, what are we comparing it to? Why don't we just say that the guys that are really good right now, or the guys that were really good in the 2010s are better than... or are better than now? Why do we have to make the players that are playing were worse? Because I don't think the players were worse. I think the players might be better than they were overall. But the depth of competition is much stronger now than it was 10 years ago. It's just that the best, like the three greatest players of all time were in the last, with 10 years ago, were at the peak, for the most part, and then now they're not there. I mean, if we're basing it off three players, it's kind of silly because tennis is bigger than three players. Oh, God, this is new blood. It's gonna be exciting. So, so much fun. 11 consecutive grass court matches for Elkras to Winstreek. I know Elkras and Djokovic are both on a Winstreek on grass, which I didn't. Elkras is on a Winstreek on grass? How is that a thing? W tastes so strong right now. Yeah. Tennis is so good right now. I'm so pumped. It feels like 2005 when I got into tennis. Like, this is how it felt like. Like, there was a guy kicking ass, and then there was, like, a lot of the ladies were doing really well. Serena wasn't a goat yet. Ah, it feels like we are... It, like, overall, it's just awesome. Tennis is so good. Like, getting into tennis right now is the perfect time. Perfect time to get into tennis. Yeah, it's amazing for tennis. For sure. This matchup is amazing. To see, like, a guy seriously... Like, this is what Zverev was supposed to be doing. This is what Medvedev was probably supposed to be doing. Sidney Pass, Fritz, T-R-Foe, all those next-gen guys were supposed to be doing this. And then Elkras comes along and says, Fine, I'll do it. You know? Why less aces in this match? Because Medvedev stood here, where this lady is. And Elkras is just a great returner and Medvedev could nace him. If Djokovic retires, will Wimbledon be opened for anyone to win? It depends. It depends on how Elkras does on Sunday. Because if Elkras beats... Like, if Elkras contends against Djokovic, then we would say Elkras... Sinner? Maybe her catch? Wimbledon... Like, future Wimbledon champions. Because anyone who lost to Djokovic this week, even Roublet, you would say, okay, those guys who lost to Djokovic, if he's not here, they'll probably win, or do better. I think her catch is a Wimbledon champion if Djokovic isn't around. He's already proven that. He beat Federer here, right? And he always... It took Djokovic still the hardest match so far. Elkras has got to be up there. I mean, beating Roublet and Medvedev back-to-back. And if they're contenders, it slams and Wimbledon... Again, it depends on Sunday. And when Djokovic retires, who's going to be next? It's going to be open season for maybe a bit, unless Elkras wins on Sunday. And then we're like, well, it's Elkras who's going to win everything. Bloody, you know, everything. He's going to be the youngest player to win the Korea slam. Her catch has really improved his forehand. Yeah, her catch is a great game for grass. Like, he has got an all-round game. He's already won Masters 2. He's got a Miami, so he's already won the big one there. So, I reckon her catch has got a Wimbledon in him.  You know, look back in the 2000s, even the early 2000s, even like the 90s, like the early 90s before Cerberus kicked on. Guys like her catch have won Wimbledon. The only thing, or at least made a finals.  The only thing we know for sure is that Elkras wins it all in five. I don't know, I don't know that. You might know that. I don't know that. Prasanna. What did Korda smoke that day, said he was the favorite to win the Wimby? I don't know, but as soon as he said that, he lost. So that was the worst thing he could have done. As soon as he said that, he started losing. So, yeah. It might be open now exactly, Cam. Let's wait till Sunday. Yeah, we got to wait till Sunday before we start saying who's going to be the next Wimbledon champion. It's like, well, Monday morning, we'll talk about it. You know, we'll get, we'll figure it out from there. I'm worried no next-gen guys have been consistent with Wimbledon for the last couple of years. Yeah, but it's because Wimbledon hasn't been like that. It's almost like 2019 was the end of the goat era at Wimbledon, or at least the, you know, the big three era. And then 2020 screwed everything over at Wimbledon. And then 21 people, it's almost like Wimbledon reset in 2021 for everybody else except for Djokovic and Nadal. Like 2021 was when, like, you know, before 2021, you know, Mehvedev, Djokovic, sorry, Mehvedev, Sissypass, all those guys hadn't proven themselves on grass enough because we didn't have, they didn't play well in 2019, 2018. They were just getting started. 2020, they got robbed because no one played there. 2021 was when we kind of reset the grass seasons. And now we're starting to see, like, over the next, probably give it two more years and we'll be able to, we'll be able to figure out who is next on grass. Give it two more years. Five years, like, you know, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 2025, we'll have a bit more of a snapshot of like, okay, well, Hercatch did this or Mehvedev did that, or Elkaraz did this. We'll have a little bit more of a sample size. It's just, I think three years is two, not enough. No, I mean, Kyrus didn't get to play this year, so it was Kyrus going to be, you know, a guy at Wimbledon every year. Or is it just that one time he went to final? Like, you know what I mean? We just don't have enough, because all the guys that played well at Wimbledon in 2018, 2019, 2017, most of them are gone. Or at least most of them are old, you know? Like RBA and Kevin Anderson and John Isner and, you know, Chillich, these guys are, you know, gone or they're old, right? Old, like old in tennis. We don't have enough sample size. So, yeah, I think give it two more years and then we'll be able to go, in the last five years, that guy made three quarter finals or that guy made two semis or this guy made a final in a quarter final. Yeah, we'll get a better snapshot. And we didn't get Kyrus this year, so it kind of screwed everything. Is Alkara's better than Matteo 2021 or Nick 2022? Oh, that is, I don't know. I don't know. He's better than Baratini 21. But there's so many unknowns, because we didn't get to see Kyrus play Nadal to make the final. Remember the last year we only had one semi-final? And he didn't play, who did he play before? He beat Steph before that, but Steph on grass is not really, I mean, yeah, it's a big win, but also we saw you banks beat Steph, right?  Maybe. And then Baratini in 21, he didn't play anyone until Jokovic in the final. Nadal had lost, no, Nadal didn't play. Federer lost to Hercatch. Baratini beat Hercatch. Like, again, I don't know. We'll find out on Sunday. We'll find out on Sunday. I mean, that's a question for Monday. Thank you for the donation though, Jim. It's not too bad, not too bad. Anonymous. Cam, how lucky is Spain? Rafa is on the way out, and now they have Carlos. Amazing. It is amazing. I'll tell you this, Spanish tennis was in trouble, big trouble, because there was a gap between Nadal and his Spanish generation. We're talking Vadasco, we're talking Lopez, and I think like Karina Busta was the youngest of that. Ferrer, right Ferrer. And then there's like a huge gap of like nobody from like 30 to like early 20s. Now you've got Fakina, they've got obviously Alcaraz, right, there was a big gap. And I think, and I've got to, I've got to do more research on this. But I think it was because they started, they stopped giving money to tennis in Spain, like grassroots tennis. So they didn't develop many players coming through. So that's why there was a gap of like Nadal and then nobody and then Alcaraz and Karina Busta kind of sprinkled in the middle. Robredo, yeah. And I think like, again, I'm going to do my research why Spanish tennis had like a gap of 10 years. But now they've got Alcaraz and they've got all these young guys coming through because you know, they've, they've reinvested into tennis. There's a Rafa Nadal Academy, that helps. So like, I feel, I think, and I get, maybe it was because of financial crisis or something, but I've got to do more research on that. But there was a reason why. There was a reason why there wasn't anyone besides Nadal. I mean, Nadal was the number one player and then like everyone was his age and there was no one like younger than him during the 2010s. And then Alcaraz has now come up and we've got like the Kina, you know, okay, I've got to do some research. But I think it had something to do with it was grassroots tennis in Spain was just not it. Not too bad. Not too bad. Masana. Cam, can you tell how did Medi manage to out-rally Jokovic at the US Open and made Noel to use serve and volley even on the second serves? Noel just didn't want to rally with him after first set. Good question. I would, first of all, the occasion. I think that got to Jokovic a little bit, also the tiredness because he had to play the Olympics as well, which was an extra tournament that he probably didn't, well, he wouldn't have had to play if it wasn't an Olympic year. He doesn't have to do that this year, but Medvedev served really well that day. Massive first and second serves, he served flat. And he also was very aggressive, Medvedev. He didn't stand back the whole time. He was aggressive, which forced Jokovic to do other things that he wasn't expecting. So those two things were the main thing from Medvedev's side and then Jokovic tried everything else and maybe the occasion of having the calendar slam just right there and played a part two. But yeah, that is probably, again, I'm going to watch it again to make a better summary, but that's what it felt like at the time when we're watching. Like, Medvedev was hitting so big. Between Shriontek and Sabalenko, who do you think is mentally tougher and why? Shriontek. Because she doesn't lose from five, two, four, two up in a final or second set. She doesn't lose matches she's winning. That's, I mean, that's mentally straight.  Like, Shriontek doesn't lose when she's, like, she loses matches but she doesn't lose when she's in a very good position. Yeah, she was up five, three against Vettelina in the first set, lost it in a tie break or lost it, what was it? Seven, five, tie break? She lost the first set, but she's not up like set and four, two, and then loses. Well, she's not up a set and five, two, and the third and loses. That's the biggest difference and that's all mental. That's Sabalenko has got to figure that out. Shriontek doesn't do that. So that's, yes, Shriontek all day. Do you think Medvedev will win another slam? If he doesn't play Elkera's, if he avoids Elkera's, she just was off against Svettelina?  It was in a less scary way than what Jabur overcoming and Jabur had a great fight, but I mean, Sabalenko was 4-2, deuce, double faults, loses the game, then loses the match in her third grand slam out of the last four where she's been in a lead and lost. So, I mean, Shriontek hasn't lost a match from being in a winning position. She's either being beaten by players easily or she's lost a close match against Svettelina and maybe just wasn't playing great on the grass that day. Sabalenko goes back to the double fault way.  I had a four hour meeting and worked. Nice. What does Elkera's deuce do against Svettelina? Oh God, seven volley. Drop shots aren't going to be as effective because Djokovic won't stand as far back. So, the drop shots won't work. He can't play. So, Elkera's can't play the same way as he did against Medvedo against Djokovic because Djokovic is faster. Djokovic is going to better caught coverage on grass. But he does need to be serve and volley aggressive. He needs, like what Sinner didn't do is be aggressive and come to the net. Elkera's can do that. So, that's what I want to see. Like it's funny because Medvedev, Djokovic won't play like Medvedev because Medvedev is terrible. But Elkera's won't play like Sinner. He'll do everything wrong, a right that Sinner did wrong. And Djokovic is not going to play like Medvedev today. So, that's why I'm like I'm going to have to nut it out and figure it out because I don't know. Like I've got to think it out. Medvedev broke Carlos twice in the third.  Like he double folded for one of them and then he kind of just fell but it never felt I meant he was back. Carlos does that. He goes up two sets of love and he's winning easily and then he just kind of puts the feet up too early but Really? Crazy people are betting thousands on one game. It's going to be a crazy game.  Thank you for the donation. We're going to sign off in a minute because I'm knackered. But it's being good to kind of chill. I mean, the matches didn't really live up to the score hype. But I'm just going to enjoy the final. I don't even know. I don't want to say it's going to be a five setter. I don't want to say it's going to be a straight setter. I don't want to say he's going to win. I'm just going to be I'm just going to be here to watch it. Cam always picks Nole and I'm okay with that. Don't change now. Yeah. That's like, I'm going to pick Djokovic because I picked him at the start of the week. But I really don't care if I get it wrong. I've been wrong against Elcors pretty much every time I've picked against him except for the Baratini match, which I don't think I get enough credit for. But that's all right. That's why I'm here to pat my own back. I'll pat my own back with that one. Everyone said Baratini is going to make it interesting and I'm like, come on. Then I thought Runa would do something imevative. So I'm one out of two. So I'm losing anyway. It will be a great match. That's all I hope for. That's all I want is a great match. Do you think Onstubur is the best grass quarter amongst the females?  So she has to be the best based on that results. She's beaten all the players that would be her competition. You know, she'll be Rebecca, and she'll be Sabalenka, who I think are up there in top five grass court players. So it's got to be Jabur. Yeah, I would say Jabur is the best grass court player going around right now.  She's got the she moves well on on grass. Does it play grass? She's got to be the best grass court player by two women of one or no one else has done that. Yeah, her game suits the grass. She's got the slice. She's got the she's got the shots for it. So yeah, but does she have the I'm worried about Jabur tomorrow because I think that if she played for Yontek, it would have been better. Playing von Drussever, she's the favorite. It's kind of like last year. She's the favorite. She's supposed to win. It's a third chance. Redemption. Well, Drussever's got nothing to lose. I'm a little worried about Jabur tomorrow. Can she be the favorite and win? And I would have, I think she would have had a better time as she played like Sabalenka or whatever in the final because that way, mentally, she wouldn't feel like she has like expectation wouldn't be there. We're all expecting Jabur to win. And that's what Undiddo last year at the final, you know? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. No. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Miggs. Cam, do you think the easier route to the final cost center today? Yes. Or is it just a mental thing with him no matter what? Um, thank you for the donation. Yeah, I think that had something to do with it. I think having an easy road to the final, and it wasn't easy, but he did lose sets along the way, but then you're losing sets to the 90th 90th play in the world. That's not great.  I think he needed a match like that to get prepared for Djokovic because he went from like challenger level to like the best player of all time. But I also think him winning a quarter final for the first time was his biggest, well, that was a big deal. Making his first semi, right? He's never made a semi final of a slam. I think that made a difference too. He played his final by making the semi, like that was his win. Like, oh, he made the semis. Maybe that played a part mentally as well that he was like, oh, I'm happy to be in the semis, right? For the first time ever. Like that, you know, I've done the best result I've ever done in a slam. That might have also been something, but he just did not play.  I think Medvedev and I think Medvedev and Sinner was very disappointed there. Both of them was terrible. Medvedev more so because he just couldn't, he just couldn't change things when it went wrong. Sinner didn't really have a choice. He was trying to play aggressive. Jokovic is too good. I mean, I was, I was pretty disappointed in both. But I think Sinner, mentally, I mean, you're playing Jokovic or Wimbledon. No one's beaten him. Like, you got to give him a, I guess, a bit of a slack for that, right? Medvedev was stunningly bad. Yeah. Like Medvedev didn't change. He was too stubborn to change his game. Hey, thank you Prasanna for coming back for another month. Appreciate that. Whereas Sinner was trying to be aggressive, but then it didn't work. And then he tried to do other things. He couldn't come to the net because it's not really his thing. And whereas Medvedev is like, as soon as he started getting losing, he just stayed where he didn't change. He stood back and he didn't do anything. You know, Medvedev didn't do what? More yelling at him going move forward, move forward, he didn't move. Play aggressive, didn't move. All right, Margot, thank you for joining us. Medi and Steph better create a how-to-beat Elker's club. I mean, they're both in the same boat now. Like I thought it was like, like that's what I learned. That's the biggest lesson today. It's like Medvedev has an Elker's problem. Him and Sidney pass through in the same, you know, are definitely in the same boat.  Like, how does Medvedev turn that around? You know? Joker is just smarter than anyone. Carlos is faced on tour? Of course. I mean, Joker is the greatest of all time. That's why Sinnoh gives Elker his issues. What do you mean? Someone please keep all stuff away from Count on Sunday. Arrest him. No, what? What are you talking about? I knew Elker was going to figure it out. It figured him out early. Well, yeah. The first half of the first set was like, oh, here we go. And then Elker has made a move and Medvedev didn't counter. He didn't know how to counter. He just lost his mind and said, roof open or closed on Sunday. Probably, I mean, what's the weather? We're going to get out of here after this because I'm tired. I need to get some sleep after that. Even though the weather, even though it wasn't really that, I mean, it hasn't been that taxing.  It's going to be probably open. Looks like it's not going to be, it's going to be okay on Sunday. Saturday, tomorrow might rain, but on Sunday, it's going to be good, I think. But thank you for joining. I just appreciate everyone being here again. Tomorrow. Let me tell you what time we're going, we're coming back tomorrow. We've got, the final is tomorrow. Oh, it's actually at the same time as today. Great. So this time, same time tomorrow. I'll see you then to watch. Once Jabir take on Marquette of Andrusova, what the hell is that going to look like? I'm interested to find out. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've probably made a prediction in my preview. So you can go watch that when it comes out in the next hours. But man, I'll tell you what, Elkarez is better than everybody else. Is he better than Djokovic? We'll find out Sunday.  We just watched the original. We saw the trailer. That was in Madrid last year. That was the trailer. The first movie came out. We watched that. It was a little bit, you know, the end of it kind of like faded away. And now we get the sequel. Elkarez Djokovic 2, Grand Slam Edition. And this is going to be a match that I think the world will watch, because it's not only just Wimbledon, but in terms of tennis, this is a huge match. Is the changing of the guard now? Is the new generation now? Or is Djokovic still the king of tennis? We'll find out. We'll find out who the number one is going to be. That's up for grabs for like the, what, the second or third time this year? The world number one rankings up for grabs in a final. Just let that soak in for a bit. The world number one rankings up for grabs in a final of the Grand Slam. Goat versus, what's Elkarez? Goat versus, I don't know. Goat versus Prodigy, Master Apprentice, all of those analogies, all of them. Every one of them. Thromb, baby goat, whatever. Whatever you want to call him. Djokovic, Elkarez on Sunday. I'll see you then. Elkarez destroys Mevvedev. Mevvedev didn't look a lot. He lost, he looked lost out there. He didn't know what was going on. He was looking for his mom. He couldn't find it. Where's mom? Where's, I don't know where she is. She left to get the shops on, I don't know why. I don't know where she went, man. We'll see you then. Tomorrow, actually, we'll see you tomorrow. Not Sunday, we'll see you tomorrow. Saturday. Tomorrow. Jabirv, Andrusava. Watch that. Then we're going to watch the match of the decade. We'll see you guys then. Elkarez wins 3-3-3. Bye.


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go ahead. J. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day and for the beautiful class we are about to have. God, I just place Pastor Deepika in your hands and to all my students, to all our all my friends and students who are about to join. God, I bless them in the name of Jesus. I pray that this whole course will be a blessing to each one of us that we will get more closer to you, more deeper in our relationship with you. And this course will help us to preach your gospel much more boldly to others and to develop ourselves in you Jesus. Be with us and guide us, help us to have good Wi-Fi connections throughout this session. And you take the lead and you lead us Lord. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Jeffina. So welcome to this course that we are having on Holiness and I hope that it will be a help and a blessing to every one of you. So I will be posting the material, you know, which Pastor Ashish has developed on Holiness. I would be posting that later on, you know, in the day, both in the Google Classroom and for e-platform students also it would be posted. So you can go through that. We would be covering it chapter by chapter. A couple of chapters have rearranged a little bit, but you know, we would be following the material mainly. So there are three main sections that this subject has been divided into just to make it very practical and very helpful to all of us. So the first section is kind of an introduction to Holiness, where we would be looking at different aspects of Holiness, including the Holiness of the Lord. Then the second section would be how do we, you know, which would be dealing with how would do we become Holy. I keep getting these notifications and I'm trying to figure out what is what. Okay, I think it's fine. Yeah, so the second section, we would look at repentance, the whole process of repentance and restoration, because repentance is the first step towards Holiness. So we would look into how we need to repent of anything at all that is still there in our lives that is not pleasing to the Lord and how that will lead us into greater Holiness. So we will have a couple of sessions on that in section 2. And then we would go on to the third section, which will be talking about overcoming the flesh, the world and the devil. How do we do that? So what Pastor Ashish has put together is a very practical course. So we're not really looking so much at the theory of Holiness, but rather at a very practical course, which, you know, which if we were to apply and practice would actually lead us into a greater Holiness into lives that are more pleasing to the Lord. So I hope, you know, that this course will be most helpful to all of us. And as for the assignments, we would just have a couple of, you know, midterm and the final assessments. And they are multiple choice. So, yeah, so I mean, it's not really something that you need to be very concerned about. Just make sure that you, you know, take the correct option when you get those multiple choice, you know, questions. And that should be all right. So there would be two of them. Maybe after we have finished sections one and two, we could have the first assessment. So that would be 50 questions, 50 objective type multiple choice questions. And then the final assessment, of course, would be at the end, which would be another 50 multiple choice questions. So the, the assessment will not really be a challenge. The challenge will mainly be putting into practice all these things that we are going to be studying. Having a head knowledge of holiness will realize, you know, even as we are doing the courses of absolutely no use, we would have to actually apply this to ourselves to our lives. All right. So we'll just, you know, get into the flow of that, of practically applying all that is being taught. All right. So, so under the first section of holiness, we'll be dealing with four different things, you know, over the next few weeks. So first we will look at at least today's sessions and the next couple of sessions will be on the holiness of God, because after all, holiness is all about who he is, and we imitating who he is, and stepping into that holiness, which he, you know, wishes to share with us. So we will first look at what the scriptures have to say about the holiness of God. So that would be sessions, you know, today's session, session one, and also session two, which would be the next times, you know, next Monday. So these two sessions would be looking at the holiness of God and getting to know who he is in the scriptures. And then we will look at why do we need to be holy? Why are we required to be holy? So we will look at the why of holiness for us pertaining to us. And then the third thing is once we understand the importance of holiness for us, we will look at how does God make us holy? We will discover that holiness is not something that we can do on our own. We can perform rituals, outward rituals, and try to appear holy on the outside. Oh, but a genuine work of the Holy Spirit would be needed for us to become like Jesus Christ. So that is something that we will discover. So the third portion in this section one, we would look at how does God make us holy? And we will conclude this section by talking about the importance of displaying holiness in our everyday lives. So these are the four main things that we would be looking at under the first section. So today we will begin with the introduction to a holy God. What do the scriptures have to say about this? Now, if you have any questions or you just want to clarify something, you can just raise your hand. It shows over there, right? I mean, you have this option to raise the hand. So you can do that. If you would prefer to just type in the chat, I will try to keep an eye on the chat so I can address whatever questions you raise. So anytime during the class, you can go ahead and post that raising a hand thing or you can put it in the chat and we can deal with it. So it's not like you need to wait until the end of the session to raise up doubts and questions. So please feel free to do that. Now there would be questions which you will raise for which I do not have answers, at least not satisfactory answers. So in that case, I will try to learn more about that and cover that in the next session. If I do not have an answer immediately, I will see to it that I get the needed information and I will convey that to you. Now there are some questions which people raise and it may need a lot of detail. So sometimes I may post the answer in the stream page. So just keep an eye on that in case some major question has been raised during the session and I have not been able to think up the scripture references off the top of my head. Then I would go later into the scriptures, find out all the relevant scriptures and then post the answer in the stream page so that you can go to those scriptures, look at them and really understand what has been discussed. So sometimes some of the answers may get posted in the stream page as well. So I think that's enough of an introduction regarding the course. So let's get into the holiness of God. Now the holiness of God is one facet of the nature of God. There are many, many facets to the nature of God in the sense we know that God is love, we see him as a God who is good, we see him as the almighty and all powerful God. So these are all different aspects of his nature and we observe that all of these aspects of God's nature have some kind of application directly to us personally and also in our relationship with other people. What do I mean by that? For instance if I were to focus on the love of God, now because I know that God is love, it makes me secure in my relationship with him. So I feel safe and secure with him but it also goes further in the sense because I am experiencing the love of God, I will try to walk in love towards other people as well. So every aspect of God's nature has a direct implication for me and my personal relationship with the Lord but it also has a wider implication because once I understand that aspect of his nature and begin to enjoy that, if I'm truly a believer and I know I am being led by the Holy Spirit, that aspect of God's nature not only is something that's enjoyed by me but I begin to share it with others around me. So that could be one way of us trying to assess whether we are growing or not in holiness because if we have understood the holiness of God, it will affect the way we prioritize our thoughts, our speech, our choices, our actions. It will also affect the way we relate with other people. So in the same way, other aspects of God's nature have a personal direct implication for us and a wider implication for others. In the same way, even holiness also has a role in our personal lives and on a wider level. If when I post your notes later on in the day, you will see there are some examples given, God is good, that is one aspect of his nature and because he is good, we know that he will always be faithful in whatever he does with us in our lives, whatever he permits to happen in our lives, it will be out of his goodness that he allows it. So we will have that assurance at a personal level but we will also learn to walk in kindness and goodness towards others. God is almighty and all-powerful, that is another aspect of his nature and because he is almighty and all-powerful, it causes us to trust him knowing that even when there are impossibilities in our lives, he will be there for us and will be able to deliver us because he is all-knowing and all-powerful. And at the same time, how is that expressed at a wider level? Because we know that he is all-powerful, when we have to reach out to someone and help them, we know that he will release his power and make it available to us so that we will be able to bless that other person who is in need. So we can expect his power to be revealed in our situations so that we will be able to help someone else who wants, who needs to experience his power. So in the same way, all of these aspects of God's nature affect our lives and the lives of others in the same way, even the holiness of God, once we begin to understand it, it will begin to change us personally and it will very much change our little circle of influence. Our holiness, which we are now developing because of our contact with the Lord, will begin to spread. And we will begin to discover that when we say we are the salt and the light in the city of Bangalore, which is the vision statement that we make in our APC church, you will begin to see that you being the light, that you being the salt, it is a light which is tinged with holiness of God. It's a salt that is flavored with the holiness of God. So you're not just simply salt and light. You are salt and light that is carrying the holiness of God into people's lives. So it's a different level of saltiness. It's a totally different level of light that you are carrying into people's lives. So when we understand holiness and begin to operate in it, we become that kind of a salt and that kind of a light. So holiness is not just the simple idea of me keeping a set of rules and regulations and trying to abide by them. No, it's much, much more. The very nature of God begins to permeate me, my thinking, my speech. I begin to become like him. So it's no more just me keeping a set of rules and regulations because I must as a kind of discipline, no, it goes beyond that. I start sharing in the nature of God. I start becoming like him and that affects the way I relate with everyone else. So if some, yeah, I will be asking us to read a few scriptures now and then. So if one of you could volunteer and read out the scripture that I request. Oh, wow, there's some stuff posted here. Are the notes already uploaded? No. So I would be doing that today. I will definitely upload the notes today. And yeah, yeah, that was the one question. So, you know, these are just very short verses that I would ask you to read out and I can quite easily read it out myself. The only reason that I ask someone else to read it out is so that it kind of gives others a chance to maybe at least participate in this whole thing, you know, in some way. And also it will give me an idea of whether people are awake and at least, you know, attending and listening. Others have no clue what's going on at the other end. So Psalm 995, if you know, if we could have someone read out, what does Psalm 995 have to say about the holiness of God? If we could have one person read out, please. Psalm 995, exalt the Lord our God and worship at his footstool. He is holy. Yes. It says here, what should be our response to the holiness of God? First, it says, exalt the Lord our God. So if the Lord is holy, then I must exalt him in my life, which means his interest would have to come before my personal interests. So the first response of mine towards God's holiness would be that I must exalt him. And second, it says, worship at his footstool. So worship is not just something that we do when someone is playing Christian songs and we lift up our hands. That is just one tiny aspect of worship, because we only do that maybe on a Sunday or during our private devotions when we play a few songs and we worship the Lord. Most of our worship happens during the other 90% of our day, how we interact with people, how we treat them, what are the choices that we make? How do we use our free time? When we are entertaining ourselves, what modes of entertainment are we using? All of those things are acts of worship. So in all of those aspects, we would need to exalt the Lord, place his interests above our own limited interests and worship him in the sense that we honor him in all of these other 90% of the things that we do throughout the day. Now that would be worship, that would be worshiping at his footstool. So yes, it does bring pleasure to the Lord when we lift up our hands during the worship time. But it's also equally important to him what we are doing with the other 90% of our personal lives, because he needs to be exalted even in those aspects of our personal lives. Just to look at another scripture, Efficiency 117. Now this is a very key passage because most of what we are going to be talking about will hinge on this particular verse, Efficiency 117 please. Efficiency 117, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Yes, before we get into this verse, sometimes I forget to switch on the recording and sometimes I don't unmute and I do all these technical mistakes. So if someone could just keep an eye on me and see what I'm doing, because it really helps so that I don't mess up the recording in any way. So just make sure that I have clicked on the recording, done the right things with the sound and all of that. And also sometimes it escapes my attention that it's 10.50 and I need to give a break. So if I go way over the 10.50 break and just kind of, if someone could just speak up and say, you know, ma'am, it's break time, because otherwise I would just go on and on without even realizing that I'm doing that. Yeah. Okay. Efficiency 117, we saw that it says here, you know, where Paul is saying, may the Lord give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better. Okay. So someone seems to be drilling.  No drilling at your end. I'm so glad. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Okay. So yeah, there's some drilling work going on. Hopefully they will just stop it. All right. So the Lord is the one who will give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation, and then we will be able to know him better. So without the Holy Spirit and without him giving us the revelation and the wisdom, we will never really know God in a personal experiential way. So this entire process of holiness, this whole process of us becoming more, you know, into the nature of God, it's only going to happen through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. So even as we are going through the course, we would constantly have to go back to the Lord and say, Lord, it is through your spirit that this work is going to take place in my life. So Lord, you reveal to me more of God so that you'll not just know about God, but you will know him in a personal, you will experience his holiness in very personal ways. The Holy Spirit will do that in you and because you can go and sit in the church and there could be a 40-minute sermon on the awesomeness of God about how majestic he is and how sovereign he is. Someone could take the Isaiah 6 passage and talk about his greatness and his bigness and you can sit over there and get to know all about it. But when the Holy Spirit reveals that to you in your heart and you literally feel the intensity of his holiness without even thinking twice, you'll just drop down on your knees and then you will know what holiness is because the Holy Spirit has literally revealed that to you in your spirit and caused you to experience that. So you see, head knowledge is good to an extent but it is not everything. You need a revelation of the Holy Spirit which is revealed to you in your spirit and that leads into your nature being changed into his nature. So even as we are going through this course, keep this verse in mind. How will you know him better? You will only know him better when the Father, when the glorious Father, gives you the spirit of wisdom and revelation. So each of these things that we are going to be talking about, it is good for us to know it at the head level but all of these things need to become revelations, reama words that are literally coming directly from the Holy Spirit into our spirit and when we catch what he is saying in our spirit, it leads to a change, it leads to a transformation. It's no longer just knowledge that we are holding in our head but automatically it changes something in our very nature because in our spirit we have caught what the Holy Spirit is revealing. So the Holy Spirit does his work of making us holy in three stages. First, there is a revelation of his nature right inside our hearts and then we respond to that revelation and so we respond in reverence and respect. We respond by making the right choices. So the revelation is followed by a response and thirdly, when we respond in the right way, then his nature gets reproduced in us and once his nature is reproduced in us, it gets revealed. People around us see that there is a change in us and that we are actually carrying his presence and that we are honouring him in all that we do and then they think, oh my, the God that this person worships must be someone very special because of the way this person walks with such careful reverence, wanting to always please and honour this God. When people looked at Daniel, they could all automatically see how much he reveres his God. When people looked at Joseph, they knew whom he worships and whom he looks up to and adores. So this is so clear about these people and so in the same way people will see his holiness revealed in us. So we see it's like a process in three stages. First, you have the revelation which comes from the Holy Spirit. We respond to that and when we respond in the right way, the third step takes place which is his nature gets reproduced in us and people are able to see that it gets revealed through us. His holiness gets revealed through us. Let's look at an example, Luke chapter 5 and we have a little story there of Peter and his response to the revelation that comes. So Luke chapter 5 verse 6 to 11, if we could have someone read out please. Luke chapter 5 verse 6 to 11 and this time their nets were so full of fish, they began to tear. A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking. And Simon Peter realized what had happened. He fell to his knees before Jesus and said, Oh Lord, please leave me and such a sinful man. For he was obstructed by the number of fish they had caught as were the others with him. His partners James and John the son of Zebedee were also amazed.  Thank you. So here this is a very normal everyday kind of event taking place. These people are catching fish but then there's a miracle that takes place and so the amount of fish they catch is extraordinary, not something that could have happened naturally. And once Peter sees that he understands the awesomeness of this Jesus whom he was probably just regarding as a human messiah and now suddenly he sees that this is more than just a human messiah, this divinity in front of him and his immediate response is that he falls down on his knees and he says, go away from me Lord, I am a sinful man because once we stand in the presence of that awesome holiness, we immediately recognize how short we fall in comparison to that great holiness. So that is his response and then Jesus very comfortingly says, you don't need to be afraid of me because I am going to train you. I am going to change your nature into something else where you will become a person who can fish people out of the sea, rescue them and cause them to have eternal life. So God gives him that assurance and then the second response is that immediately he and his companions, they leave everything else because now that they have caught a glimpse of the holiness of Jesus, nothing else compares to this and they are willing to leave all of that and they are willing to follow him. So here you see a revelation coming to them in a very ordinary event, something in their day to day lives is going on and suddenly there's a revelation from the Holy Spirit and immediately there is a response and when that response is right, it leads to God beginning his work in that person's life. So here in this particular case Jesus says, don't worry, I am going to be working on you, your nature is going to change and you will become a person who will fish people, bring them out of that pit and be able to rescue them. And then they agree to this invitation, they leave everything and they follow him. On the other hand in the very same chapter, you see another kind of response, that would be versus 19 to 22 if someone could read out versus 19 to 22 please. It's in the same chapter ma'am? Yeah. Luke chapter 5 was 19 to 22 but they couldn't reach him because of the crowd, so they went up to the roof and took off some tiles then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd right in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, young man, your sins are forgiven. 21 and 22. But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, who does he think he is? That's blaspheme. Only God can forgive sins. Jesus knew what they were thinking so he asked them, why do you question this in your hearts? Okay, so two persons see two miracles in the very same chapter. When one person sees a miracle, he is immediately struck by the nature of who Jesus is, that he is divine, that he is holy and that amazes him and shocks him into getting down on his knees and recognizing his own sinfulness. On the other hand, you have another miracle taking place and here the people who are seeing this miracle, their response is so different. Rather than being overcome with awe at what they have seen, they begin to criticize and say, who is this person? He seems to be calling himself God. He seems to be saying that he has the power to forgive. Why these two very different responses? Why did one person respond to the revelation being brought by the Holy Spirit in such a positive manner and the other person, when the other people, when they receive a revelation from the Holy Spirit, their response is so wrong. Let's look at another passage which maybe can throw a little bit of light on this. John chapter 8 verses 43 to 47. John 8 43 to 47. John chapter 8 verse 43 to 47. Why can't you understand what I'm saying? It's because you can't even hear me.  He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth because there is no truth in him.  So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don't believe me. Which of you can truthfully accuse me of sin? And since I'm telling you the truth, why don't you believe me? Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God, but you don't listen because you don't belong to God. So this one thing that we need to watch out for when there is a revelation of the Holy Spirit being given to us, have we become people who have hardened our hearts and no longer wish to know the truth? There are people who do not want to know the truth because it will create a lot of problems for them. They will have to change their lifestyle. They'll have to give up things. They'll have to reprioritize. So it's more comfortable for them to not know the truth. People who really do not wish to know the truth will react in a very negative manner when they receive a revelation from the Holy Spirit of the truth. So this is something that we need to watch out for. When something regarding God, when something from the word of God is being told to us and we feel a very negative reaction from our side, we need to maybe ask ourselves and think, why am I reacting in such a negative manner to this thing which is being told to me from the scriptures? Is it because I am not comfortable with what is being shared? Is it because I sense somewhere deep down that I'll have to make changes now? So there are people who will not respond positively to the revelation that the Holy Spirit is giving simply because it would be more convenient for them to not know the truth. So we must be people who are careful not to allow this kind of a hardness to creep in. When we love our life, the way it is right now, the state is cool. We don't want to change it. We want things to stay the way they are. So if we are very deeply in love with the way things are right now, there is a chance that we will harden our hearts and not want to know the truth. We will not want to know greater revelations of His Holiness because if we begin to understand how holy He is, it will require a lot of changes and we may not want that. And so we may shun what the Holy Spirit is revealing in the same way these people so foolishly did. And the words that Jesus speaks regarding these people is so serious. They have chosen to have a different father. You see, they were not discriminated against in any way. God was willing to be the father of even these Pharisees because after all there were many Pharisees who did turn to Jesus. I mean, they became part of the family of God. But then there was this one set of people who had made up their minds that it's very inconvenient for them to accept the truth as the truth. So they were making up excuses and coming up with arguments to defy what is being revealed to them by the Holy Spirit again and again. And we must be so careful that we don't fall into that category. So when the revelation of the Holy Spirit comes to us again and again through these scriptures that we are reading, that we are meditating on, reflecting on, when we feel the Holy Spirit kind of speaking these things to us, we could either have the response of Peter and his companions or there's a risk that we would begin to intellectually argue about what is being said and say, is this the right way? We should be interpreting this passage. It is good of course, never accept any teachers teaching just for the say at the surface level. Always go back to the scriptures. Look at the references which have been given. Make sure that what that person is saying about those scriptures is genuinely the right interpretation. Look at commentaries or go to people who know the scriptures well and ask them whether what is being taught is correct or wrong. Do all of that. But do not be like the Pharisees who automatically go into argument mode because they feel threatened. They don't want to know the truth. So that's just something that I wanted to touch upon because we are talking about step one, which is the revelation which is going to be given by the Holy Spirit, which is going to be immediately followed by our correct response. So we need to be having hearts which are open, which are receptive, which are willing to change. So right now at the very beginning on day one of this course, because this is a course on holiness, it's not on any other topic. It's a course on holiness. So right now today itself all of us including me have to anticipate and get ready that there are going to be a lot of changes and sacrifices which are going to be required over the next four months. I mean, this is something that we need to get used to. This is an idea that we would have to get used to. It's going to be painful, but we cannot do a course like this without anticipating and accepting it as a given, that this is going to be a painful course which is going to lead to actual sacrifices and life changes. If Romans 12-1 has to happen to us and we need to become living sacrifices, it's not going to be easy. The sacrifices will be demanding because we are choosing to cooperate with the Lord and take on His nature. It's very convenient to live with our nature. We've adjusted it over the years. We have got the right balance of spirituality and holding on to our own things and we're comfortable with this balance. We have reached a point where we are not really like the people of the world. We're not evil and our priorities are not worldly and we're not stinking messy messed up people. So we're very comfortable at where we are at. But the holiness of God is infinite. So whatever level you and I may be at, he's going to be wanting to lead us into higher levels because there is no limit to what level of holiness you can enter into because he's infinitely holy. He's going to be leading us into higher levels of it and we will all feel the pinch of it. So let us not be people who are the Pharisees who are very comfortable with their level of holiness. I mean they would stand there on the roadside and start saying a long prayer suddenly like I say, you know, God has come upon them and they can't control themselves and such. Why are they doing that? Just so everyone will buy them and say, oh my, what a holy man is walking down the road and suddenly he stops and starts praying. So they were so comfortable with their level of holiness and people praised them and appreciated them for who they were. But God wanted something which is at a much higher level and so I even as I'm, you know, teaching this course, you know, like it says so clearly in the scripture that teachers will always be held more accountable than the students. So I understand that this is going to be a very painful course for me personally and it will be for all of us as students but who are the end of it, you know, we will have the nature of Christ. We will be more like him and we will bring such joy to his heart. We can never repay him for what he did on the cross for us but at least we will, you know, we would have, we will be in a position where we will be bringing greater joy to his heart. Every time he looks at us, he'll say, ah there, see look, there is one person who is trying to really please me. It will, it's the least that we can do, right? Because we can never repay him for all that he has done for us and also the amount of impact that we can have in our, you know, everyday lives. We may or may not be in full-time ministry but we all come in touch with people on a day-to-day basis. We will be able to make an impact on them because the Lord will just flow out through us and flow into their situations and be able to help them because there are no blockages here, you know, in this vessel. So he will be able to flow out through me into their lives and do something for them. And in fact, at the end of the day, that's what we all want, right? To be more effective, to be used by him, to be fruitful trees, not trees, you know, which have a lot of leaves but no fruit. So all these desires will be fulfilled and this is one beautiful course which will help us to get there. So at the outset, let us know that this is a painful course, not an easy course, but if we approach it with the right attitude and we, before each session, if we say, oh Lord, Holy Spirit, you know, it's not enough to listen to Mamm's words, we need a revelation from you. You impart something into my spirit, oh Lord, even as I'm listening to the lecture today, if we can approach each session with that attitude, then the Holy Spirit will do his work and the rest of the day, he will help us to really practice, you know, what we are learning. Okay, so let us be like Peter and his friends and not like the Pharisees even as we approach this entire topic. Now, coming to Proverbs 1-7, okay, we have a couple of minutes, so we can still squeeze in this little bit. So Proverbs 1-7, if you could have someone read out please. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Okay, so that's what happened in the case of the Pharisees. The fear of the Lord having a reverence for his holiness, that is the beginning of knowledge, that's the beginning of wisdom, but fools don't want that, they don't want instruction, they don't want this wisdom, they reject it. You have another verse which talks about, you know, the same concept with slightly different wording. So if someone could read out Proverbs chapter 9 verse 10. Proverbs chapter 9 verse 10, fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom, knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. Okay, so here it says that the first portion, you know, is almost the same. Proverbs 1-7 and Proverbs 9-10 are almost saying the same thing. In Proverbs 1-7, it's saying the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Here it says fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And then it goes on to say that knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. So we will expand on this after the break. You know, we'll take our 10 minute break. So at 11 o'clock, if we could have everyone, you know, unmute themselves and get back once again into the class. So at 11 o'clock, we'll restart.