We'll move on. Welcome back off the break. We'll move on to chapter 2. During the break, did any doubt arise? Did you have any questions? Anyone would like to ask? That in chapter 1. Okay, then we'll move on to chapter 2. Basically, we're going to continue looking at the divinity of Christ that He is God. And in the first chapter, we established this fact that He is God because He is pre-existent. Now, in chapter 2, we look at that He is God because of His equality with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. So, in the earlier chapter, we discussed about the pre-existence of Christ. Now, we turn our attention to His equality with God the Father, God the Holy Spirit. We'll be referring to a few scripture passages that present to us this fact. Now, this truth is very important for us to realize that Christ was indeed God that He was divine in His nature and not an intermediary being between God and man. That is of lesser importance to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. But He is fully God and He was fully man when He became man. So, let's look at a few scripture references that show us His equality between God the Father and God the Holy Spirit and will also establish to us the fact that Jesus Christ is indeed God. So, before looking into His equality with God the Father and God the Son, we will first review a few scripture passages that we have considered so far. We looked at John chapter 1 verses 1-3. Can somebody read it again please for us? John chapter 1 verses 1-3.  He was in the beginning with God. All things were met through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. Thank you. So, we see how John is presenting Jesus Christ the Logos as the word who was in the beginning. That means in the dateless past and He was with God and was also God. That means He is co-equal with the Father because He is God. He has the same nature, the same essence, the same substance that makes God God. And we also read this verse in Philippians chapter 2 verses 5-7. Can somebody else read it please? Somebody who has not read so far? Can somebody read Philippians chapter 2 verses 5-7? Philippians chapter 2 verses 5-7. That this might be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider its robbery to be equal with God but made in same of no repetition, taking the form of a born servant and coming in the lightness of man. Thank you. We looked at this verse. We talked about the form of God. Just talking about the very nature of God, the essence, the attributes of God. And we saw here also Paul stating that Jesus Christ was equal with God. And Jesus was equal with God but yet He did not think it as something to be held on to. But He gave up His very nature of being God and took on the nature of being man. Now this scripture portion is very, very important for us and we look at it in detail in another chapter where we're talking about the humanity of Jesus Christ. But for now we'll just see that, you know, Him being equal with God means that He also shared in the glory of the deity. That means He also shared in the glory of the divinity, which means or proves that Jesus is God. Can somebody else read John chapter 8 verse 58? So on your screen, John chapter 8 verse 58. Jesus said in Moses shortly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. Okay. Thank you. And then you can also read, Ruben, can you also read Exodus chapter 3 verses 13 to 14, please. Then Moses said to God, indeed when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you and they say to me, what is His name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I am who I am. And he said, you shall say to the children of Israel, I am a saint to you. Thank you, Ruben. So here we already, you know, saw these, referred to these two scripture passages in lesson one or in chapter one. But here we'll just look at it in a little more detail. The word I am means in Hebrew means to be. Okay.  And, you know, Jesus also uses this word I am when he refers himself to as the I am in John chapter 8, verse 58, and thus Jesus is making himself co-equal with God of the Old Testament, the God of Israel, that is Yahweh or Jehovah or Lord. Okay. And why does Jesus use this word I am? Because we know that in Jewish heritage or Jewish culture or Jewish tradition, this word I am was basically attributed or completely attributed to God alone, the God of the Old Testament Yahweh. Okay. And so by Jesus calling himself or attributing himself to this name I am, he's telling the Jews, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, the priests, all people around him that, you know, that he is God, that he is equal to God the Father or he is equal to Yahweh or Jehovah or the Lord. Okay. The next reference we see is Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6, where we look at Jesus as the mighty God. So can somebody read Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6? Somebody else can. Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Thank you. So here we see that Jesus is ascribed the titles, mighty God, everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. Okay. So here are the two important titles that we'll be looking at. Of course there are more titles, wonderful counselor. But here the two important titles that we will be looking at is mighty God and everlasting Father. So by attributing these two titles to Jesus Christ, we see that as mighty God, he is the omnipotent one. Omni, potent means all powerful. Omni is translated all, potent is powerful, that he's the all powerful one. And everlasting Father, which is ascribed to Jesus because just referring Jesus as a mighty God and everlasting Father that he himself is God. That the child that was born is therefore God incarnate. Okay. So here Isaiah is revealing these titles through divine revelation and referring to this incarnate one as the mighty God and as the everlasting Father. Isaiah is revealing that this child that was to be born or that will be born is therefore God incarnate. Okay. So if you look at this word everlasting Father, we might think that it is something that is in conflict with God the Father. It's a title that is ascribed to Jesus, but it's in conflict with God the Father. It's not in conflict with God the Father. It just basically reveals Jesus' eternal nature and his character as the Father. Just as the Father is eternal, just as the Father has the essence and the substance that makes him God, Jesus is also having the same nature, the same attributes, the same essence, the same substance that makes him God. Okay. Any doubts so far? No. Okay. We look at another title of Jesus and that is the Alpha and Omega. So can somebody read that on the screen? Revelation chapter 21 verses 6 and 7 please. Revelation chapter 21 verses 7. And it said to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and Omega. It is with me on the hand. I will give you the content of the work of life. Pray to him, you will taste. He who will come shall eat all things. And I will be his God and shall be my son. Thank you. So here Jesus is referring himself to, calling himself as the Alpha and Omega and he's revealing this to John who's writing the book of Revelation. Okay. We also see that, you know, that the Alpha and the Omega, the Greek word is first and last. Okay. We also see this word first and last as titles attributed to the God of the Old Testament. Okay. We read this in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 6 and Isaiah chapter 48 verse 12. So can somebody read Isaiah chapter 44 verse 6 please. Thus says the Lord. Thus says the Lord, the king of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first and I am the last. Besides me, there is no God. Please read Isaiah 48 verse 12 as well Rosalind. Listen to me. O Jacob and Israel, my called, I am he. I am the first, I am also the last. Okay. Thank you. So here we see Yahweh or Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament, referring to himself with the title, the first and the last. We also see that Jesus refers himself to as the first and the last, that is Alpha and Omega. And he uses this title for himself. You know, Alpha and Omega is the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet. So if you translate Alpha and Omega, the Old Testament, the same words first and the last. So we see Yahweh or Jehovah is referred to himself with this title, the first and the last. And we see that Jesus also using this title for him self. We also read about this in Revelation chapter 1 verse 8 and Revelation chapter 22 verse 13 where Jesus is referred to or is calling himself as the Alpha and Omega. So can somebody read Revelation chapter 1 verse 8 please. Revelation 1 verses 8. I am the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end says the Lord. Who is and who was and who is to come the Almighty. Thank you. Somebody else can read Revelation chapter 22 verse 13. I am the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. The first and the last. Thank you. Okay. So Jesus uses God's title for himself. God's title of first and last Alpha and Omega. He uses it for himself. So he's therefore no less in power or divinity than the Father. And everything, you know, God is everything from the beginning to the end. So this word Alpha and Omega basically declares that God is everything from the beginning to the end. All history originates in him. All history culminates or ends in him. He is the origin and he is the destination. Yes, Lyndon. Do you want to say something? You've unmuted your mind. Okay. So what does it mean when Jesus attributes himself as the Alpha and the Omega, he's basically giving himself the title of God that God is referred to as the first and the last. And he's therefore mentioning that he is no less in power and in divinity. Okay. And it's also declaring that, you know, God is everything from beginning and to the end. All of history originates in him and culminates in him. And he's the origin and the destination. Okay. So that is the title, the Alpha and the Omega. Before we move on to the next title, does anyone have any questions, please? Any questions? Any doubts? No? Okay. We move on to the next title, Our Great God. Romans chapter nine versus four and five. So can I just put that on the screen? Can somebody read Romans chapter nine versus four and five, please? Romans chapter nine versus four and five. Who are Israelites to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is overall the eternally blessed God. Amen. Yeah. So here we see two important facts about Christ that are contained in Romans chapter nine, verse five, that Christ is overall. Okay. In the last phrase you see who's overall the eternally God, eternally blessed God. So we see that he's overall, which means he's supreme. He's the master. He's sovereign and he's Lord. And we also see here that he's eternally blessed God. That Christ is the eternally blessed God, that he is the one who is from eternity to eternity. That means eternity past to eternity future. He's the one who is to receive all honor and blessing and glory and hence he is God and hence he is co-equal with the Father and the Spirit. Okay. We've got the Father and got the Holy Spirit. We look at Titus chapter two verse 13. Can somebody read that please? Titus chapter two verse 13. Looking for the blessed of and glorious Appianus of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Yeah. So here Paul is writing to Titus and he's saying that you know he's looking forward to the hope that they have in the glorious reappearing of our Lord and Savior our God Jesus Christ. So Jesus is our great God and there can be no denying to the fact that Jesus is God, that he is deity, that he is divine. Yes, many people question the divinity of Jesus Christ but from scripture it's clear that Jesus is God. Okay. So through from all these titles that Jesus attributes to himself, which is titles that are attributed to God the Father to the God of the Old Testament.  And we'll just look at two scripture verses here you know that talks about his equality with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Okay. So can somebody read John chapter 14 verse 7? Can somebody read John chapter 14 verse 7 please? If you had known me, you would have known my Father also and from now on you know him and have seen him. He was now returning to God. Sorry. Okay. Thank you. So here we see that you know Jesus is making a bold statement about when he's revealing his Father. He says if you had known me, you would have known my Father also from now on you know him and have seen him. And so how can people say that they know the Father and they have seen the Father? Jesus is basically saying because you have seen me and you have known me by seeing me and knowing me you also see the Father and know about the Father and thus he is attributing or he is showing himself equal to the Father. John chapter 14 verse 28. Can somebody read that please? John chapter 14 verse 28.  If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father for the Father is greater than I. Yes. So here you know Jesus is again saying you know I am going away and I'm coming back to you. You know he says I'm going to the Father for my Father is greater than I. Okay. So he's talking about his you know where he belongs. He's talking about his the place that he came from that he came from the Father that he's going back to the Father and thus he's revealing himself as you know equal with the Father or intimate with the Father or close to the Father and also belonging to the Father. Okay. And in John chapter 15 verse 26. Can somebody read John chapter 15 verse 26 please. But when the helper comes whom I shall send to you from the Father the spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father he will testify of me. Okay. So here we see that the spirit of God that is the Holy Spirit you know will come from the Father and will reveal Jesus Christ to us. Okay. How can the Holy Spirit reveal Jesus Christ unless the Holy Spirit knows about Jesus Christ. So Jesus is here saying that you know that God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit are all three God and you know and you know they know each other they are intimate with each other they are close with each other and Jesus is saying that whatever I have taught you whatever I said told you you know the Holy Spirit will come from the Father will reveal and help you to understand these truths will help you to know these truths and thus you know will testify about Jesus Christ.  Okay. So we look at not only just the origin but we also see the unity of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit in the way they operate. Okay. So even as they operate each of them doing their own specific tasks but we see that they work in perfect unity and they work in perfect oneness and we also see their origin. Okay. Jesus is saying I came from the Father and I'm going back to the Father. Okay. And saying that the Holy Spirit is he's attributing that the Holy Spirit is also God because the Holy Spirit is going to come from the Father and is also going to testify about Jesus Christ. So here we see the equality in origin and equality in their unity in the way they work in the operation of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit. Okay. So in this chapter we just briefly looked at a few references that we already saw in chapter one and we looked at a few more references and we saw the equality with the Father and the Holy Spirit. So anyone has any doubts? Yes. No. Okay. I'm not moving to chapter three because it will be too much.  I'm just going to give you some time to read through your notes and if you have any doubts then questions we can take it on. Okay. We won't move into chapter three because that will be quite a lot. We'll do this chapter three and chapter four in the next class. But I'm just doing a few chapters so that you all will have time to go through it. These are very basic important foundational truths that are important for you to be established in so that you will be able to teach, you will be able to correct, you will be able to guide and help others. Okay.  Now we just have at least 15 minutes or more for the next class. So please take some time to just go through your notes and if you have any doubts you could ask the questions maybe in the next class or just before we end this class. We'll end it now but I'll still be in the class. I won't exit from the class but you all can come back and ask any questions if you all have. Is that fine? Is that okay? Yes. Okay. Please go through your notes. It's all there in the content page. I put it up in the teaching notes. You can look through your notes if you have any doubts. Please feel free to ask. Okay.


trying to be morally good. Let's say you're children, you're good to them as far as you know how to be. Are you good to them because of morality?  Is that the reason why you're not killing them?  Because somebody has told you that you must be good to your children, that is, good models. Is it so? So why are you so good to them? Why do you love them? Why not somebody else? Why are they your children? Because in some way you see them as a part of yourself, isn't it? In some way you see them as a part of yourself. So open turn your enemies sometimes, still somewhere, as soon as you are concerned, you see them as a part of yourself that you're able to look beyond all their nonsense, all their problems, all their everything and still reach out to them, isn't it? Simply because you see them as a part of yourself. Yes, that's all the thing is, isn't it? So anything that you experience as a part of yourself, with that you don't need morality, obviously. Isn't it so? Yes? Are you understanding what I'm saying? Because you just leave out one step and when we go there again you go back to the number one step. So anything that you experience as a part of yourself, with that you do not need any morality, is it so? You don't have to try to be good. Morality means you're trying to be good, isn't it? So yoga means to experience everything as a part of yourself. Right now, let's say you gave birth to a child. It could have happened to many of you, you don't know. And in the hospital they interchange your children with somebody else. You bring this child, this was born biologically to somebody else, but you believe this is yours. And you love this child any less? You're involved with the child any less? You're the any and not there, but still you love it. So it is just your willingness to include somebody who you're capable. It is not that it has to come from your body. It is just that if you're willing it's possible, isn't it?  Why you did not bear your wife or your husband, do you? They were born by somebody else. And generally your husbands were born by that horrible woman called mother-in-law. But you love that man, isn't it? Isn't it so? So it is just a question of your willingness. If you're willing, you can experience everything as a part of yourself. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you do not need morality. When you know the vulgarity of what is you and what is not you, only then you need morality. Otherwise no morality. When there's a person who experience everybody as himself, need morality. With morals you're only trying to be good, you will never become good. Please see this. You can hold back your hands, but you can't hold back your mind, isn't it? Can you? You can hold back your physical body, can you hold back your mind? It goes everywhere, it does everything, isn't it?


So what are some of the reasons I think that it's a really bad idea to be a part of this hookup culture that's going on out there right now? So the number one reason I think that this is a really really bad idea is that most women fall in love with their casual hookup that they're hanging out with and a lot of women have they have kind of this idea where when they fall in love they're like oh well that's all that matters and so they like get kind of single focused on this guy and they're unable to really separate their physical intimacy from their feelings of falling in love and wanting something more and so it can get really really messy really quickly because they might have an agreement that it's just going to be something casual but there she's falling in love and she wants something more our our community that we have is filled to the brim with women who are in it in friend with benefit situations trying to get something more out of a guy and what they find and what the studies have found is that that usually only happens when people try when people are actually trying to do it it only happens one out of nine times that is a very low number for people that are trying to do this and so a lot of the women in our community will end up finding that they don't end up getting into good relationships with these guys because they the guy's not interested in that because he's better at separating his emotions from physical intimacy and so he's like hey I'm not interested you know we had this agreement and she's like well maybe you know if I if I keep doing he he shows me that he loves me and he he acts like he wants to be in a relationship and he has me meet his friends and his family and he buys me things and he takes me on vacations and stuff like that and what we've found is that guys will do all of that stuff and still not feel like he wants a relationship or that he thinks of her as anything more than a friend with benefits and that's why you shouldn't do it because if you get those feelings which most women tend to do then you will end up having this situation where you're just going to be really really heartbroken and so if you do end up getting into a friend with benefits casual situation my suggestion is as soon as you start feeling anything anything really deep that you leave which can be really really hard to do because it feels so good right and so I mean I just I can't tell you how much I suggest that you don't do this it's just such a bad idea in so many different ways just from that one standpoint the second one number two the second reason is because of something called sunken cost theory and what sunken cost theory is is this idea that when you invest in something you don't want to let go of it and what ends up happening when you get into friend with benefits situations with guys is that a guy ends up getting all of his needs met and so he doesn't necessarily feel like he needs to exert a lot of effort into the situation anymore because he's already getting a lot of his needs met and so women that are in these situations where it's just kind of a fling and it's just kind of a hookup and the guy isn't doing a lot of investing what she'll end up doing because one of the things we talk about is like okay well you're gonna have to walk away from this and if he wants to stay with you then he'll end up coming over and being like no no no you know what I do want a real relationship with you like let's do this but if he hasn't been investing at all he's definitely not going to do that right and even if he has been investing a lot if he's really emotionally broken he still probably won't do it and so it's just it's a bad idea from that standpoint right he needs to be investing a lot he needs to be spending time emotion energy into investing in you so that he feels like this is a real relationship he feels like it's something that he doesn't want to let go of he feels like he's he's committed to it and that's that's what it takes for him to feel like he's committed is for him to invest in you number three third reason I know we're not even on the third reason yet I think you already have enough but let's move on to the third reason the third reason is that you skip the entire dating process which is a problem I know a lot of people obviously they're like hey I don't want to go through the dating process I just want to go to meeting a guy and being in a relationship which makes a lot of sense right because it can be really frustrating going on all these dates with guys and and it's like oh I gotta figure this out and he's got these red flags and all this stuff right however if you skip the dating process what do you miss you can end up missing a giant red flags that are waving in front of your face we're just talking about it yesterday in the livestream you can end up losing out on this place where he's trying to impress you because he sees you as this valuable woman that he he wants to impress and he wants to make you feel good and he wants to do all these things because he's trying to get into this relationship but you skip all that out because you're just like oh yeah let's hook up right and he never ends up investing in you and trying to impress you and emotionally engaging with you in those ways the next one is you can get slotted into the friend with benefits category permanently with a guy who might have wanted something more with you it's true right some guys they put you into different categories and if you're just like hey let's just hook up even if it's the first time even if you're a virgin when you got to this right guys are gonna look at you when you do that and they're gonna think in their minds she does this all the time and you're gonna say I never do this and he's gonna think yeah right and this happens all the time I hear from guys I hear from women I hear from everybody and he if he slots you into that category if he's like oh well she you know isn't she's not the kind of girl that I'd be looking for in a relationship because guys look for certain things in the relationship and one of those things is not she hooks up with every dude right and if he feels like you're that kind of a girl then he there's a much higher probability chance that he's gonna think that you're gonna do that in a relationship or that you're not faithful or that you're not loyal or that you do you just do it a lot and it might end up happening to him if you guys are end up in a relationship and he might end up slotting you into this not relationship material category which can be a big problem if you end up wanting to get into a relationship with him later on and you can also end up feeling really used by this right like you could be in this situation and he's not taking care of your needs he doesn't really care about your needs he doesn't all these different things right because you're just hooking up and that's that's how he feels about it he's like hey this is just physical and so a lot of women end up coming back and they're like well now I just feel like I've been used for the last three weeks three months three years you know 10 years we have women in our community that have been in friend with benefits situations for up to 17 years where the guy still doesn't want anything more and they're still chasing after it hoping that at all one day because there they've got that sunken cost theory going in where they've spent so much time and energy and effort with this guy that they're like I don't want to let him go right but they're stuck in it because the guy's like I've never seen her that way and I still don't see her that way and it's just really really sad and then number four is actually this is going to be a really a really controversial thing that I'm about to say but I'm going to say it anyway and I don't really care that it's controversial because there's a lot of evidence that backs it up and it's that the more partners that you have the less likely that you are to be faithful and there's a few different studies that were done one was done by the twin research and genetic epidemiology you're not totally butchering words over here st st. Thomas hospital in London they tested the genetic versus environmental factors of having certain numbers of partners and it's it's connection to infidelity and what they found is that the more partners that you've had the more likely that you are to cheat and they found that the journal the there's another journal that that did some studies on this was the Journal of Family Psychology reported a study where they found that there's a 7% increase in the probability of infidelity per additional partner that a woman has and what I've actually talked to a few different dating coaches about this I talked to some dating coaches on the men's side and one of the things that they were telling me is that what they've experienced with women is that they see that a lot of women when they have less partners they look at they look at physical intimacy more as like a sacred act right and the more partners that they have the less they look at it as a sacred act and the more they look at it as just some kind of hedonistic like pleasurable experience in and of itself that you can just have with anybody and it's not really that big of a deal and it doesn't really matter that much and so they've pair bonded so many times and it's kind of broken they've broken up so many times and had that heartbreak that they've actually somehow like actually mentally kind of separated the two almost like how a lot of guys are when it comes to physical intimacy versus emotional intimacy and so a lot of women end up getting into this space where they're more likely to cheat there was actually another study I don't have it here with me right now where they found that there there's always been these kind of studies about like men and women cheating out there and men have always been leading women in the cheating category right by a few percentage points always and what they're finding now because of this hookup culture is that women are almost at the same level of cheating as men are in relationships and so and and I'm not surprised by it at all just because there's so many people just hooking up with each other all the time