Welcome to tonight's livestream. We are doing another series of questions and answers, looking at questions that you guys have sent in and as usual, many of them are right on time for what a lot of people are going through and going to be facing either now or very soon. Tonight we have some questions regarding the season of Christmas. We are entering. We are about to enter. And you know, Christmas is a very controversial time because it's become a controversial feast. Many people are very excited about celebrating Christmas. And then there are also people who have conviction in their heart regarding origins of Christmas that they believe is pagan. Right. And then when these two ideas come together and you mix it in with a family gathering, there are fights that erupt, there's this unity. And what the world sees as a family gathering becomes a time of quarrel. And so the question is, what do we do when we are faced with these various ideas? How do we reconcile them with one another? How do we love and how do we stand for our convictions all at the same time? Time, brothers and sisters, it's easy to get knowledge. This world is full of knowledge. The hard part is walking in humility and love. For that's the only way that we can walk knowledge out as Christ did, in humility and love, sacrificially. That's going to be the theme for tonight, I believe you will see. So getting right into some of the questions we're going to be talking about, we have questions sent in regarding relaxing the law. What is the difference between Yeshua's words in Matthew 5 and 7? We spoke about both those who will be least in the kingdom. And then he said to others, depart from me, workers of lawlessness. What's the difference there? We also have a question regarding evangelism. How should evangelism be done? What should be our focus? We have a question on navigating family disagreements and the celebration of Christmas, and then a question on navigating theological disagreements in marriage, as well as a question on the Sabbath, how to operate an online store on the Sabbath, a question on anointing oil. Can we use it? Can we make it? And a question on abortion, do aborted babies go to heaven? Guys, thank you guys so much for sending these in. As usual, we're going to try our best to move quickly, get to as much. If not. I'll save that question for next time. But without further ado, let's jump in. I am just a human being, just like you. I am going to be relying on the Holy Spirit here tonight. And thank you for joining me as we wrestle together. I certainly do not have all of the answers, but I do believe the Holy Spirit can convict and share with us in the midst of our discussion. So please join me in in the live chat of the video and let me know what some of your thoughts are as we dive in. Okay, so the first question that we're going to be looking at here tonight is regarding the least in the Kingdom. Tyrell from Unionville, Iowa asks the following. Matthew 5 says, those who don't keep the law and teach others not to will make heaven, but be least in the kingdom. However, Yeshua says, and Matthew 7 says, Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. So will they not be in the kingdom or least? All right, Tyrell, thank you for the question. It's a good question and, you know, fair. I think a lot of people may have seen this before and wondered, what's the difference? So let's dive in first. In Matthew 5:19, we see that Yeshua goes and speaks to those who relax one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same. They will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Alright, so there's definitely hierarchy speech here. Greatest, least. He's not saying you will not be in the kingdom or you will be in the kingdom, but you will be either greatest or least in the kingdom, dependent upon whether you relax even the least of the commandments of God. But then, as Tyrell rightly pointed out in Matthew 7:22, we read Yeshua says here two chapters later on that day, many will say to me, lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, cause of demons in your name, do many mighty works in your name. And I will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye worker of lawlessness. Okay, this is different now. Now he's saying not just great least, but depart, worker of lawlessness. And I want to submit that the key to understanding the difference is going to be in this word, the workers of lawlessness. Worker is in Greek the word ergazomai. And it's the word to toil. It's to minister, it's to trade, it's to labor for. It's to commit your life to. So you know, when you get up in the morning and you go to work all day, you get home at night. That day was a day of work and labor and toil. This is something we devote our life to, work. And so this is the same work word, right? That's being used here, this, this, this to minister it. So you become a minute. Yeshua speaking are the ministers of lawlessness, the workers, the laborers, those who toil in lawlessness. So we are not talking about. See, in Matthew 5 he was saying, if you relax one of the least of the commandments, you'll be called least in the kingdom of heaven. This is now contrasted with if you work and toil and practice and minister lawless behavior in your life, then depart from me. And so I hope you could see there there's a difference in someone who has been taught something about God's word, about the law of God. Oh, that's abolished. Forget about that. And then, so then we relax it, because that's what we've been taught and we teach what we've been taught. And we are in ignorance. We think we're doing the right thing. And there's many people like that. They love God, they love Yeshua, they'll feed the poor, they'll do many of the things Yeshua told them to do, right? Good disciples, except for there's maybe this area of their life, this big misunderstanding, but it's just an area which they are in ignorance of because they were lied to about it. And so then that, that's more Matthew 5 and Matthew 7 with the workers of lawlessness. Now we're talking about rebellious people. We're talking about people who, they know it's wrong and they don't care. And they even cover up their wrong with other good works, like the Pharisees did. Remember what the Pharisees did with Yeshua? Yeshua pointed it out all the time with them. He's like, you guys, you tithe. Mintandil and cumin, I wish you did this, but without neglecting the weighter matters of the law. So they were doing certain things. Look how much we tithe, look how much we fast while using that as a cover up for the evil that was in their hearts. And so in the same way, that's what's happening here in Matthew 7. Because if you noticed, these people were saying, lord, do we not prophesy? Cause all demons do many mighty works. So they're trying to use the works of the Holy Spirit, casting out demons and prophecy, in this case as a cover for their work, their lawless behavior. Not just lawless behavior, but their lifestyles of lawlessness that they just love to exercise and walk out and toil and labor in. These are the ones Yeshua will say, depart from me, worker of lawlessness. Yeshua said, we will know a Tree by the fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. And the tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. That's again, the same thing. We're talking about Matthew 7. This is all in Matthew 7. He's speaking about the whole tree is bad. This tree is bad. Not just that. There's something this tree has a misunderstanding about, but the tree is bad. They are not of faith. See, we're not talking about saved by works. Neither is Yeshua. Jesus is speaking always about being saved by faith because believing in him brings salvation. But true faith means that we will no longer continue. Our tree changes. Our tree is transformed. You don't continue in lawlessness. You repent. You turn to him and walk in righteousness, even though you'll make mistakes along the way. The trajectory of your life is sanctification and righteousness. All right, Tyrell, thank you for sending in that question from ioi. I hope that that helped you out. All right, let's move into the next one. We're gonna try and keep a good pace because we have some big questions tonight that we need to work through. Next one is from Jude from Albany, California. Jude asks the following regarding evangelism and outreach. And Jude says, I notice many Torah observant Christians focus on evangelizing to other Christians friends and family members, trying to get them to see that Torah is still for us today. I've also done this lately. I am reminded that Yeshua gave us the Great Commission to spread the Gospel, disciple and baptized, etc. How do we go about this as Torah observant Christians? What does that look like? How do we approach new believers without confusing them since the mainstream church teaches that certain things were done away with. All right, thank you, Jude. It's a good question. I really appreciate the fact that you are seeing this great commission to spread the Gospel. And it seems to me that you are noticing that there is a difference between the Great Commission or spreading the Gospel and teaching the Torah. Because there is. You know, one of the primary mistakes that I have seen people make who call themselves Torah observant, right, Is that they make a certain law in the Torah which they are passionate about, which is fine, but they make that passion law their gospel. So it's like, I need to go and tell everyone about a biblical feast day. I need to tell everyone about the Sabbath. I need to tell everyone about Tzitzit. I need to tell everyone about this thing that I found, this knowledge that I discovered. But that's not what the gospel is. Because the Sabbath, the feast day, or how you eat, none of that is going to save you. Yeshua will. Yeshua is your only hope of salvation, and he's the only hope of salvation for the world, for your family, for your friends. That's the gospel. That whosoever would believe in him would inherit eternal life. They would be saved. For he died for the sins of the world. He is the perfect Lamb of God. Hallelujah. That's the gospel. And so Yeshua sending out his disciples with the Great Commission, he says, go into the world and proclaim the gospel to all of creation, right? Baptizing them, making disciples, teaching them all that I have commanded you. Now, yes, teaching them all that I have commanded you is a part of the Great Commission. But notice that in order to get people into salvation, it's to proclaim the message that grants them salvation, the message that is the truth of how they are saved by faith in Christ. And so what we've sometimes fallen into, Christians in general have done this, by the way, is there's whatever your. What's on your radar right now theologically, that's the thing you want to tell everyone, okay? But that should never become our primary message of evangelism. For evangelism, the main reason we tell people about Jesus is so they may be saved. And that must be always the primary message we have when we make something else our gospel message. Because the message of Jesus has died for us, has become too boring for us, then we are in trouble, and we are proclaiming another gospel. The gospel has always been the gospel, will always be the gospel, and is the singular most important message, because that's what's going to save people. Now then, once you've proclaimed Yeshua his sacrifice, they have accepted him, they want to follow him, Hallelujah. They come and they join in the fellowship. And now there's deeper discipleship that needs to happen. Of course, the first step is come in, get rid of the biggest sins, and then we are going to dive deeper. And over time, even over months and over years, you're going to discover and learn things as a believer, and you're going to grow. And it takes about three years for someone to really get to a point where they're pretty well rounded if they've had good discipleship. So this is what happened in Acts 15, right? In Acts 15. This is the model. I'm not just taking this out of nowhere. This is the model that was given to us by the apostles where people came in of course, the Pharisees saying, if these men, they must be circumcised according to the law of Moses, and if they're not, they cannot be saved. Right? That's Acts 15. 1. And then what do they do? They say, look, let us not, let us not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God, but let's write to them to abstain from the things polluted by oral sexual morality which has been strangled and blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him. For he has read every Sabbath in the synagogue. Right. This is the model that my judgment is we're not going to trouble people with the whole law of God. We're going to come to them in compassion. Because we all were where they were once. We were all sinners, pagans of this world loaded down with issues. We're still addicted to pornography. We're still, which is by the way, a low ranking issue that first needs to be sorted out. We're still dealing with our filthy mouths, we're still gossiping, we're still doing a whole bunch of stuff like these certain Gentiles had been doing in their case, even drinking blood because of their paganism. And the solution is let's deal with those big issues first because we don't want to overwhelm these people. We give them the big things to overcome because these are basics that you need to do so that you can enter the fold. You can't stay in the fold and keep on doing sexual immorality. And then we're going to, as you come in and you attend fellowship, you're going to learn the rest. For from ancient generations, Moses has been proclaimed and will be proclaimed in the Sabbath in the synagogues. So that's, that's the thing. So let's be careful of the, the mindset that so easily creeps into denominational thinking of, well, you don't do what we do, you don't keep the Sabbath the way we do on the day we do in the ways we do. So you're not one of us or because you don't keep the feast we do the way we do on the calendar we do. You're not one of us. Or unless you eat the way we do, you're not one of us. So we have these things that we set up that are things that people would so easily learn if we had compassion on them and welcome them in with the gospel first. Instead, what we do is we make these things our gospel, go to people who need the Gospel, but we don't give them the gospel because we're giving them the Sabbath. But they need Yeshua. They need to transform the. They need a Holy Spirit baptism. They need a new life. And yes, the Sabbath is holy and righteous and good and God has given it, but they need Christ. And then when they find him, they start walking more like him. They learn more about him and all of the things of Christ come with. But they need him. They need that relationship and that change. That's. That's step one. So just last thing, quick story on this. I, years ago, I entered the workplace. I was my first job, right? And I remember I was sitting in a boardroom. There was a lady there, she had a toothache. I ended up praying for her. And she ends up getting healed in the middle of the boardroom meeting. And she is so rocked, amazed. And she's a Christian, but she would say, you know, she was not understanding something. She would still lukewarm in her life in that moment. But then she really caught the fire of God. She got so passionate. She couldn't believe that people could still get healed by Yeshua like that right there, even in my own boardroom at work. And she started realizing there's so much more even than, you know, what she may have been taught before. And so, you know, we had a journey of discipleship. You know, we had Bible studies together. She joined and we baptized her. And very exciting time for her. She was just transformed. And, you know, I remember, you know, I never pushed anything like this. And I don't believe in that. I never have. I believe that the compassion of God, the love of God, that I share that with someone, he transforms their hearts, he sets them free. And then in the discipleship process, things just come in. It just comes like then she just one day asked me, pd, why are you so blessed at work? Why are you promoted by? Why are you. Why is it so well with you here? Kind of like, what's your secret, right? And I just told her my. My secret is my Messiah and what he's given, right? The Sabbath in that case, because I get to rest when everyone may still be working. I'm resting because that's a stand I took. And so she saw the blessing in my life that that brought of the fourth commandment, obeying God in that way. And that's why she started doing it. And she did it out of her own free will, not because I forced her, but by nature. She would encounter the revelations by just being around the life that is in me and in Other believers. That's what we are supposed to be. That life of God walking around, that bread of God walking around, which people partake in, see the blessing of and want. But it starts always with the Gospel. Go into the world, cause our demons, heal the sick, freely receive, freely give. And from there where they encounter the Lord, give them the Lord, give them the gospel and the rest comes. Alright, Hope that answers your question, Jude. That's how evangelism should always be. And I really call on the, if I may say, Torah movement to get back on track with what the Gospel is and back and focused back on what evangelism is because it has been neglected and it is unacceptable. We cannot say we are followers of Christ yet not do the Great Commission. It is a part of walking as he walked and it is a non negotiable part of our lives. It's going to look different for us depending on where we are in our stages of life, but we should make it a priority. Amen. Okay, cool guys, next question. I'm going to move into question number three. And this is the one that some of you have been waiting for, for me to get into. I received a few questions on this. On this one. I picked this one from Michelle. She framed it well. She says, from La Marinda, California, my husband and I both agree to no longer celebrate Christmas. How should we approach our teenage and adult children who are 16, 19, 27, 31 and older parents who are in their 80s regarding this new change and is it okay to attend their holiday gatherings on these days? All right, good question. A very timely question, of course, considering the time we're in. So let's first keep in mind a few things. Let's just set this up. Well, this is a sensitive situation, right, because we're dealing with, I mean, in Michelle's case, she mentioned she has parents who are in their 80s and they're celebrating Christmas. Right. They've been doing it for practically 80 years, perhaps, who knows, right? Michelle would know better than me. But this is a strong tradition in this family, right? As it is in many. And there are many. She has teenagers, she has adult children. And so how we approach this must be strategic. You know, I think a lot of people go in guns blazing and it just leaves a lot of blood on the ground and no progress. Nothing good has come from it. So the way we go about things must be calculated. Full of humility, full of love. And I'm, I'm going to be, by the way, here tonight speaking to both the Christian who believes celebrating Christmas is all good and well, and you desire to do that. I'm going to speak to those who are convicted in their hearts that they don't want to do that, because we're talking about two convictions, or at least a preference and a conviction. So another thing we should keep in mind is that Christmas is celebrated very differently between people. Right. There are people who celebrate Christmas with all of the traditions that we know. Some have also continued to celebrate Christmas, but have done away with some of the. More some of the traditions, let's just say that way. And then there are others who've just. They've just taken a stand back, step away from Christmas completely. So the unique tension is that you have the people celebrating it who are expecting a time of joy, of family reunification and fellowship. And then when they are met with rejection, that's hurtful, that's emotional. And then on the other hand, you have people who are the critics, if you will, of Christmas who do not want to celebrate it. And they have this knowledge that they found. They believe it has pagan origins. They want to share that knowledge. And then that when. That. When there's pushback and when they're rejected in that way, people aren't seeing it that way. They feel that rejection. There's an emotion there. And this has ripped families apart. Right? So, you know, what I love about Michel's question is it's very specific. It's not about who's right. It's not about whether Christmas is pagan or not. But rather, she's asking how God expects us to reconcile our differences with family who does not see things the way we're seeing it yet. And I love that. I love that. I wish we asked these questions more. Okay? So whether you're a celebrator of Christmas or a critic of Christmas, here's what we do agree on. We all agree that Christmas is not in the Bible, okay? Christmas by name. It's not in the Bible. The Bible is often used for our own positions, perhaps. Right? I believe we should celebrate because of these reasons. Biblically. I have my verses, and maybe the other person says, I believe we shouldn't celebrate it because of these verses. Okay? But I think that it's important to recognize that this debate mostly revolves around extra biblical sources. People look to history, and they have their historical sources, and they say, look in history, this is what it is, or this is what it is not. And it is the battle of the sources. It's my sources versus your sources. And look, I'm not saying it's okay to discuss These things, okay, that's fine. But to start a debate regarding whose sources are right in the middle of December is perhaps not the most helpful way to go about it. What we can do instead is unite under what is biblically stated and what we can agree on. And so you may ask, well, what am I talking about? What is biblical? Now, I'm going to open up in 1 Corinthians 8, and I welcome you to jump in there with me. We're going to spend some time on this chapter, because in 1 Corinthians 8, Paul is dealing with an issue in his day that is a very unique and difficult issue to navigate. And it has some things in common with the issue of Christmas today. It is the issue of food sacrificed to idols. Now, you may ask, how does that connect? We'll get to that. But think about this. Paul, in his day, he has. There's this thing, right? We don't have it today as much in the Western world, but people would go to the supermarkets, their marketplaces, right? And they would want to buy meat, as we would. And the problem is they don't know the meat that's in front of them where it came from. Because in that day, it was very common to offer food to idols. And so now you have people of different backgrounds, you have people with different knowledge, you know, who are all believers, but they have different knowledge basis. They have different backgrounds, they come from different places of the world. And the one has a former association of idols. So this is the person who says, I feel really uncomfortable in this marketplace. There's a bunch of meat right here, and some of it is likely offered to my pagan God that I worshiped two months ago, before I came to Christ. And honestly, my conscience doesn't feel good about buying any of this. Okay? And then you have another person who's a believer. They don't have any form of association of idols. They're just like they've been. Perhaps they grew up as a Jewish person, the first century. So they always believe there's one God. They didn't believe in their idol, and there are idols. And they don't have a problem per se, with buying meat because they know there's only one God. It's only one God. It's just meat. And so these are the ideas that are clashing in front of Paul. How do you reconcile this? What do you tell these people? Do you start a debate? Do you say, okay, guys, you in the left corner, you in the right corner, let's hear it. Who's right? Let's start it out. And that's actually not what Paul did. Not that we can't talk about things, of course, Paul does talk about some things, but he actually gives a strategy for reconciliation even in the midst of these tensions. So let's dive in. I'm going to read from verse 1, 1 Corinthians 8:1. Now, concerning food offered to idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he's known by God. Paul gives us some very wise words. We need to start out with this whole conversation. And those words are that all of us possess knowledge which is true, and we need to be careful of that, because the natural inclination is that knowledge puffs us up and that love will build us up. See, the moment that we receive knowledge about an idea, whether it's, in this case, Christmas, the thing that is our natural inclination is to take that and be like, whoa, I know something that my brother, my sister doesn't know. And there's the superiority that easily sneaks in that we need to be careful about. That's why Paul is saying, if you imagine that you know something you don't yet know, how you ought to know. He's saying, you think you know something, well, then slow down, take a stance of humility, and then make sure that you have love, because love builds up. And he reminds us all that if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Our brothers and sisters who have different knowledge than we do, perhaps if they love God, they're known by God. Let us always remember that and how we treat them and how we speak to them in moments of disagreement and tension. Now, if someone goes and they say, well, look, I realized that Christmas has pagan origins. I don't do that stuff anymore. I don't do that pagan worship anymore. And if we start letting pride creep in, then all of our abstaining from Christmas is all in vain because we're acting like a pagan. Because pagans act in pride. They walk in pride. If we walk in pride towards a brother, we're just acting like a pagan, even if we don't show up on the 21st, okay? And on the other hand, if we are someone who say, well, I have the knowledge that Christmas is fine, that it's Christian, and that I'm right about that, and if I start walking in pride towards my brother and sister about that, then I'm walking like a pagan, even While I'm doing all the Christmas stuff. Right, so that's what we have to be careful about. Now, let's. Let's move on. He then goes on and he says, therefore, now, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no God but one. For though there may be so called gods in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. Therefore, not all possess this knowledge, but some, through formal association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol and their conscience is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better off if we do. But take care that this rod of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your conscience, this weak person is destroyed. The brother from Christ died, thus sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience. When it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. I'm going to take a moment first to speak to my brothers and sisters who do believe that celebrating Christmas is a Christian thing to do. And as we discussed, you know, we're not getting into the source material tonight. We're getting into just the. We're just getting into the. How do we deal with one another if we have disagreement? Right? And so look at what Paul does. Look at how he deals with this situation in his day. As Paul is faced with this confusing situation that led to disunity among believers, likely he doesn't resolve the conflict by encouraging more debate between them, but instead he encourages compromising preferences to protect convictions. Okay, so what do I mean by what I just said? See, Paul is talking to those who have this knowledge that there is no other God. And he is saying, but your brother, who has a former association of idols, if he sees you eating, is he not going to feel like, are you worshiping a pagan God? Are you doing pagan practices? Are you doing something with pagan origins? And Paul says to resolve this, even if he believes there's nothing wrong with eating meat, because just meat, he says his solution is, if food will make my brother stumble, I will Never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. Paul is all I want to let you see here is that Paul is taking on a humble stance. He responds sacrificially, even relinquishing that which, you know, he personally like, there's nothing wrong with eating meat, but for the sake of my brother, I will never eat meat again if necessary. Now, dear Christian brother and sister who loves to celebrate Christmas, if our celebrations of Christmas involves traditions which a lot of people at this point now sees as having they believe in their conscience that it has pagan origins, then should we not be alarmed by that right? Should we not say, even if we believe there's nothing wrong with it, let's just grant that for a moment. There's nothing. Even if we believe that, should we not be like, wow, my brother, my sister, they think if I set up a Christmas tree that that's got pagan origins. Or if I have a Santa Claus thing going on in my, that's just not healthy. That's on kingdom minded. Or if I'm lying to my children about Santa, that's not healthy either. And they see that as, and these are worldly, these are traditions. We know they're not in the Bible. We agree on that. So is it worth, and this is the big question, is it worth it? Do we value this man made tradition more than our friends and family and our witness to Christ? That's the big question because Paul also tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:24, Let no one seek his own good but the good of his neighbor. He also says in Romans 14:19, so then let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding. Guys, there are things that is now being done during Christmas that a lot of Christians are uncomfortable with. And by the way, this is tradition. That's old. And the contention has been old since the founding of America. The Puritans had issue of Christmas. Okay, so this is a debate that's been going on for much longer than we've been alive and it will continue to go on. The question is how will we navigate it? That's the big question. So the biblical answer from Paul is direct and clear as day for us that no matter what you believe regarding your sources is if someone thinks that you are celebrating things that have pagan origins, then for the sake of your brother, Paul said, I will never eat meat again. And for the sake of your brother, you should say, I will never celebrate. I will never have Santa again. I will never have the tree again. I will never have this. Lying to our children about this Santa figure again, because I value my witness. I value our unity in Christ. I value Christ as being the one that binds us together and his gospel more. For if they actually see that about me, that I'm doing these things that have pagan origins, that hurts my witness. So when I want to share with them the deeper, utter, deeper things of Christ, they're not going to be able to hear me out because they have all this stuff in the back of their minds. Whether they're right or not, it doesn't matter. It's a man made tradition that we now actually die on and it's not worth it. That's something that I want to share with my brothers and sisters who believe celebrating Christmas is okay and Christian. On the other side, I want to speak to those who. Guys, we're having a balanced discussion here tonight, right? Hear me out. We're going to speak to all sides here now, on the other side, to those who are believers who are not celebrating Christmas and you do not want to. A few things I want to share with you. Also from what Paul wrote. When you walk into the places of this world, the grocery stores and you know, as you know how it happens, the world becomes very different during the December month. All of the decorations go up. The world, it starts right. These things are everywhere. There's Christmas trees everywhere, there's Santa Claus is everywhere. Things like that do not fear these things. I just want to put that out there because some people, they get spiritually fearful about these things. They think that there is a demon in that tree that's going to get me when I walk past it. Okay, I just want to say something on that. There is, as Paul said. Let me read that again. Let me see if I can find that. Romans 8 Here he says, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no God but one. So if you think that, you know, this is an idol, there's not truly something as another God. There are demons and they exist. But you know, I can walk past a Christmas tree and if I, if I so to were so to believe that there's a demon in the tree or a demon in Santa Claus. Okay, I'm just, I'm just speaking about these things because some people have worried about this greater see that's in me than he who's in the world. And anything that I that seems dark in this world, I do not have to fear. That doesn't mean that I'm gonna put myself on those. I'm not gonna like go and watch horror movies. I'M not gonna. But when these things are in my grocery stores or my marketplaces, as the meat was in Paul's day, which was offered to an idol. Think about that. Offered to an idol, to a different God. This meat. Paul's like, don't worry about, like, the meat. It's meat. Okay, so that's the first thing I want to share. And then the next thing is that the question which I would like to now fully answer, right? Which was, is it okay to attend the holidays of our friends and our family who are gathering on these days? Now, the question that we should immediately ask first is how. What does Christmas mean to them? How are they celebrating it? Because there are different. That can mean very different things to different families. But what I would. If you feel strongly convicted, that man, Santa, I really don't like it. I don't like the Christmas tree. I don't like the idea of having to like, to lying to kids about, you know, Santa is coming to visit us, even though it's grandpa dressed up as Santa or whatever. Then you can have that conversation with your family and have it before the time. Like now. We've got some time before then do this on December 25th. But it's okay to speak to them and do it strategically. Here's what I'll do is let me say one. Like, let's. Let's lay one strategy down. This is not how you need to do it, but it's. It's an. It's an idea. Okay, so Michelle asked this question. Let's think about her situation for a second. She has parents who are in their 80s. She has adult children, teenage children. There's a big range. How do we approach them with this? Since we are Christians, we're believers, right? We believe in Yeshua. We believe in Jesus. Make Christmas more. We're going to start here. Let's make it more about him and lass not less. Let's not make it about Santa. Let's not make it about the Christmas tree. Let's not make it about all these traditions because they distract us from Christ. So let's make this about Christ. See, what does this do? Why am I saying we should do this? Hear me out here for a second. Because the first thing that some people do is they say, I don't want anything to do with Christmas 25th December, and your family gathering. I'm not going to show up to your house by. That's what a lot of people do. So what the message that the family gets is you have, I mean, Christmas is a Christian thing to do. So you have a problem with Jesus now, right? This is the message they're getting, even if you're not saying it. And the other thing that happens is when we're encouraging Christ more with our family gatherings, which by the way, is not a Christmas idea, this should be always, whether it's on the visiting On the 25th of December, the 1st of December, or the 1st of July, we should, on the 4th of July, let Christ be at the center of all of our meetings and our feasts and our gatherings or whatever, whatever the nature of that gathering is, right? That's what we do. We start there, we remove the concern thereby that we're abandoning Christ or whatever. And then when we have their attention with our passion for Christ, from there on, we can have deeper discussions about the biblical feast days. See, if I just take. If a child is eating candy all day long, and this is a bad habit, and I go to this child and I take away all the candy and I say, you sit on the corner, you're not going to get anything. And that child's stomach starts rumbling and gets. And then a day passes and two days pass and it's like, well, we'll say, what are we talking about? We're going to give the child real food now. We're going to feed the child healthy food now. We're not just going to take away the candy, we're going to feed. We're going to give the child a new diet. And so in the same way, when we approach other people who have been diet, they've been eating candy, and we want to remove the candy, we want to replace the candy slowly but surely in a healthy way so that they can move on to healthy food in a way that they can digest. So when, so what we do is we. What we're doing is we have found a ground with them and now we're going and we're sharing with them the biblical feast. And this is what I would say, right? I would share with them about the amazing. Testify about the amazing joy that you have found in Christ in following the feasts that are in the Bible, actually, because everyone knows Christ is not in the Bible. Everyone knows, you know, most people by now, they're like, yeah, it's probably not when Jesus was born, but we're doing it just anyway. Well, what if there are these beautiful biblical feasts that celebrate his death, burial, resurrection, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, his second Coming, his atonement, and the marriage we will have with him? What if there were feasts that he gave us that we can find great value in and testify how it's changed. You testify how you've been keeping Sukkot or pastor of your family and the things you've been learning, not as a way to put it on them and force them into something, but as a testimony. And then invite them over to a Passover. Next Passover, invite them to camp with you guys. When you go to tabernacles, they may not know what it's all about, but just let them come and have a family camping. And then in the midst of it, Jesus is going to be there, right? Yeshua is in it. We're speaking about Yeshua as we always have. Remember, we're making Christ the center of everything, the center of all of our meetings. And so from there we find the things of Christ. I found that the Christmas traditions become more centered when we are less focused on Christ. Right? That's where it's come in. We get all these worldly traditions to fill the void. Because there is a void. There is a desire to have a feast. Guys, remember that in the Exodus, God came to Israel and said to them when they were in Egypt, go into the wilderness and let Israel have a feast. To me, the first thing that God does when he gets them out of slavery is tell them to have a feast. So there is something in our DNA and in our hearts where we want to have a feast. People do Christmas because they want a feast. They see Christmas and Christmas is what they've been given. That's all they have. That's all they know. So can we blame them? But instead of just taking that away and leaving them feeling like, what now we're actually giving them something that's life giving and fills the hole in their hearts. And we do it in a strategic way where they actually love us for it and not hate us for just ruining another family gathering. Okay, now, every family is different. Not everything I say is going to apply to every family the same way. This strategy may not work for your family in the ways that I presented it, but the heart of the matter is still relevant. Okay, so there's a theme here tonight, right? We spoke about the evangelism start of the gospel. Start simple. People need simple. They need Yeshua. They need to focus on him. And from there, all of the other things come along. Seek first the kingdom of God, which is Yeshua. He is the kingdom. In him is the kingdom. And the rest of Yeshua, the rest of his kingdom, the rest of the things he's given us. It comes, it changes, and we get hungry for those things. Right? So, yeah, to be clear, I'm saying that just to be clear so no one misunderstands me. If you feel convicted about the pagan elements of Christmas, get rid of that. Don't do it. You don't have to do it. Explain. Your conscience is seared around those things and your family members biblically should understand these are man made traditions and that it's not worth it. And let's remember that it is. Okay. By the way, for anyone who is wondering about this, there's no sin, there's no sin in celebrating, commemorating the life of Christ any time of the year, any day of the year. It is always a good time to do that. And so it is not sinful to gather with people on 25th December and talk about Christmas. If I happen to have a gathering on 25th December, and I have some family members who do that because it's just, they always get together on the 25th of December. But if we do it in a way that glorifies Christ, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem has come in when conscience gets seared because of traditions that we do not feel comfortable around anymore. And yeah. So I hope that this is a way that is more easy on the ears for family members while also still taking a stand on that which we should take a stand on and while not compromising the truth, but while walking in humility and while making sacrifices in the ways that we can without any biblical compromise. Cool. And yeah, at the end of the day, you have to let the Holy Spirit lead you in your family and in your family situations. Let me see here. Some of you guys have been saying Jesus not born at Christmas at all. Yes. Okay. Some people, some people, I think most people believe that he isn't, hasn't been born there on Christmas. Some people still think that from tradition. Donna says, such wonderful advice. Well, Donna, thank you for seeing my heart behind this. Appreciate that. Torah girl says, very healthy, balanced, y', all centered. Brittany says, very good. Okay, well, I'm, I'm glad that you guys are, are seeing my heart here. I'll be honest. I was a little like, you know, obviously I don't know where everyone is at who's listening to me right now. But, you know, I know that this is such a, like, people are, they're just, there's so much emotional, a lot of emotional investment on both positions. And that's why I'm really trying to. I was really praying about this. Lord, how can I. How can I. What can I tell people? Like, what could be a way that we can do something different this year to try and bring resolution to some of the things. Because, you know, it gets me emotional because there are so many family members and families who've had so much distraught and pain over this. All sides of the equation. And we can point fingers. I understand. And sometimes it's because some party hasn't done it right. I get it. But I really hope that we could try and bring restoration and get our eyes back on Christ and our families and that there can be healing also from things. So if. If you've. Maybe you've done things wrong, maybe someone else in your family's done things wrong. Either way, always pursue peace, pursue restoration, and pursue a way that you guys can have, you know, good family, good family relationships as far as it is possible. Okay. Of course there are going to be times when things come in the way of. End of that, and that's. That's very tragic, but we should definitely try our best. Okay, we have a few more minutes left, so I want to. You know, there are. There's. There's definitely some questions I have to do tonight, so I'm gonna do about at least two more. I'm gonna go a little overtime tonight, but it's gonna be good. The next question is going to be regarding marriage, and we see this from an anonymous person. Some say that a wife should do what her husband wants, even if that involves things such as shopping or eating out on Sabbath, for example, in the name of submission. But I also hear that a wife should not follow her husband into sin. This seems as though some sins are okay, like breaking the Sabbath, while others are recognized as objectively wrong, like sexual immorality. Looking at scripture, I see Abraham and Sarah, then Ananias and Sapphira. Both had an instance of lying, but the first wife was protected while the second died. I'm not sure what to make of this. How does one determine when to obey the Lord and when to relax convictions to put a husband's wishes first. Thank you so much for sending this in. It's a question I think people ask a lot. First of all, the question asks basically, if there is sin involved, should I submit to my husband in going along, even if it causes me to sin? Right. And the answer is, absolutely not. We do not sin. Even if our husband, who we. If you're. If you're a woman, you're submitted to your husband. That does not mean that you follow him into Sin, okay? That comes to sexual morality and that comes to keeping the Sabbath. It comes to all of the commandments of God. We do not follow a husband into sin. This is the same thing with honoring parents, by the way, the commandment to honor our parents. That doesn't mean that we follow them into sin. Right? Like honor. We can honor our husband, we can submit to our husband, we can honor our parents. But there's a difference between that and following them into sin. Now, the lady asked the difference between Abraham and Sarah, Ananias and Sapphira. Well, look, Abraham and Sarah, there's. There's a bunch of sins that Abraham and Sarah did. Abraham and Sarah. Abraham lied about his wife Sarah not being his wife. And Abraham and Sarah also had hagar and that whole thing happening there. And that was against God's will. At least it was not what God instructed them. God has a sovereign, but it's not what God told him to do. So there are these sins and then we have an Isis pharaoh which they lied about giving how much they gave to the early church and the ministry of the apostles, and they died right there, right now. I can't tell you why God dealt with people differently. I think there is a higher degree of responsibility in the New Covenant in terms of what Christ has revealed to us in righteousness. We have to walk in righteousness. We have a revelation of righteousness even into a higher degree as. Which is simply revealed in the Torah. As Yeshua said in Matthew 5, you've heard it said, you know, do not commit adultery. I say to you, do not look at a woman of lust. Heart issues are very important to our Messiah. And that was a big heart issue in Ananias and Sapphira. But I digress. I do not know exactly why God decided to punish them that way. I have theories, of course, but what I'm trying to say is it. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day how severe the punishment was for an is if you're Abraham and Sarah, we still need to do what is right. And so the question that she's asking right is how does one determine when to obey the Lord and when to relax convictions to put a husband's wishes first? And this is the big question. So if we are, this is the same as the last issue of Christmas, really. Because if one spouse believes something is a sin, and for another, this is a preference issue. Like for example, in this case, the lady believes that breaking the Sabbath is a sin her husband doesn't really care right about. He doesn't he's kind of like it's his preference to just continue working on the Sabbath day because he does not see that law as important or for today or for him. And so he has a preference, but she has a conviction. And so that conviction is always going to be more important to take precedence over someone's preferences in a marital relationship. We should never let our preferences violate the conscience of our spouse. Their conscience is always prioritized over our preferences. Just the same as what Paul said, let no one seek his own good but the good of his neighbor. Let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual a building. So, you know, I would say to this couple, specifically to the husband, that, you know, he can. He has to decide how he's going to live his life. He has to decide, and that's on him. But his wife has a conviction. His wife, her heart is to obey God in keeping the Fourth commandment, and she should obey that conviction. And the husband should honor that conviction, even if he's not fully on board. Because for him, it's just a preference for him, he doesn't really care. Right. And by the way, this is a very natural thing to have to navigate in marriage on all kinds of levels, even if it's not over biblical issues. Right. If my wife feels very strongly about anything and I feel kind of. I'm kind of on the fence about it, but she feels convicted. She feels like if she tells me today, pd, I feel like tomorrow we need to fast. And if I'm like, whoa, I never even thought about that. But you know what? You feel convicted about that. Let's do that right now, like tomorrow we're fasting. Because I'm not going to let my preference to eat conquer the day. I'm going to let her conviction to fast be the thing that leads me to make that decision, to say, absolutely, I love you. I want you to be clear in your conscience. If you feel the Lord has put that on your heart for tomorrow, we're going to do that. Right? Just a simple example, but that's the heart behind this, is convictions are important. And the wife should absolutely not. So I would say to this lady that she should speak to her husband about this. He should honor that. And if he doesn't see it, I would bring in elders. I would bring in someone who's a spiritual, who can speak spiritually into your lives and to encourage in this manner and continue to shine a light. If you just go along with your husband, how will you shine your light differently? How will he see the blessings of God on your life as you obey God in this particular way. It's sometimes very difficult, especially a marriage, but it's worth it. And I believe that through time, all these challenges can be conquered in our marriages through love that is mutual. Okay, and we are at our. Probably our last question. Let's see, this one is regarding E. Commerce on the Sabbath. See if I can open this one up. Okay. From Bert. Bert is asking from taxes, should I prevent my E. Commerce site from taking orders on the Sabbath or should I take it offline entirely? No. Order fulfillment should take place on the Sabbath. It would wait at least until the next day. Only automated processes would take place on the Sabbath. Okay. All right, Bert, thank you for the question. Good question. And really, I think this is one of those questions where people could jump and just say, yes, no one way or the other. Obvious. Actually, I think this is a very nuanced situation, much more than people may realize. And we're going to discuss some of those nuances right now. First of all, let's think about what that sub. What the Sabbath is. The Sabbath is given to us in Exodus 20. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath to the Lord your guard on it, you shall not do any work, not you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, nor anyone who is within your gates. It says, it even goes on to say livestock and so on. And I want us to think about especially where it says, let me even pull this up. Especially those. Especially where it says, nor those who. Who are within your gates. Because this is a. In the commandment itself, God is actually telling us that you need to make provision for this instruction to be followed as far as your influence reaches, as far as you have control. Basically, you do not have control over other people, right? To a degree you have control over the people in your gates. You have control over your sons and your daughters and family and servants, but you don't have control over the people in the world who are doing their own things right? And so basically, what you can control, you control. What you can't control, you can't control. And God is saying he understands that. However, I want us to Also read Nehemiah 13, verse 15, where it's a. One of the closest places we can get to marketplaces and the Sabbath in those days I saw in Judah people treading wine prices on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain, loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all Kinds of loads which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. So basically, we're reading here about how people were breaking the Sabbath by basically bringing in all their loads into the marketplace to sell. And this is the challenge that is there with this question that Bert sent in, because things have changed a lot. See, in the ancient world, if you wanted to sell something, you would have to carry, take a load of grain, put a donkey carrier, take it all the way into the marketplace, and then labor and sell. And that's where people come to buy, and you do the transaction there. But now we have websites. We can be sleeping at night, not knowing a thing, and someone can buy something on our website, Right. And we're not there to take it. The money. It's all just happening on the Internet. And it's also something that I want to submit is actually very. You know, Bert's situation is unique because he has a website selling things. But we all have a mailbox that's open, and we have mailman who come to our mailbox and they put things in our mailbox, and we can't really tell them, hey, just don't deliver my mail on the Shabbat, please. You know, you can't. So it's a difficult thing. Are you going to take your mailbox out of the ground when it comes to the Sabbath day and then put it back in when the Sabbath is over? I mean, sure. See, we are faced with our world, a world that does not honor the Sabbath. And there are gonna be these things, like, if I mail something to someone, is there gonna be a mail courier who's going to be carrying that mail? And is it going to be processed on the Sabbath day? Somewhere along the line, very likely. I can't really help that. Right. So that's why I said, within our gates, we have control. We can control what happens, but we don't have control outside of our gates. And so now let's. Let's move a bit further on. So I would then also ask Bert, what kind of a business is this? Now, I'm saying this for everyone's sake. We should always ask this, what kind of a business is this? A business that is applying to hospitals, medical supplies. It's life giving, important, urgent. Yes, you need to stay open, because that's a way that is going to bring life, save lives. That's just the principle Yeshua taught. Helping a cough out of the pit on the Sabbath is a good thing. That's honoring the Sabbath. There are certain occupations that are honoring of the Sabbath doctors is one of them. For example, you can't have all the doctors taking off on the Shabbat because everyone who's getting on a car accident on that day is just going to die and there's going to be no one in the operating theater to, to open to surgeries or whatever. And we hope that all the farmers, right, they keep working on the Shabbat because if everyone goes and takes a Sabbath on who's a farmer, then houses are going to be burning down and people are going to be losing lives and possessions left and right. And so we're missing the point at that point. Right. By the way, I have a teaching how to keep the Sabbath, which goes in detail through the scriptures with all of this. But for now, we're just moving quick here. So. Yeah, another thing to consider is I know that some websites, when you're selling things on them like ebay or Amazon as a fulfillment hub for you, you can't control their website. You can't tell Amazon, like if you have a book, right, and a publisher published it and that book is now in Barnes and Noble. You can't call up Barnes and Noble and say, Barnes and Noble, I keep the Sabbath, you're selling my book. You need to close up shop on Shabbat because you can't control them. Okay, but you can perhaps control your own website, right? And this is the nature of Bert's question. And you know, I've been expanding on a lot of things just because I think there's a lot to consider. But now zooming in on that, when you think about that, what would it mean to close your website on the Sabbath? Well, one thing that comes to mind, a challenge is time zones. I know, you know, There are sometimes 8, 9 hours plus time zone differences if you're selling to the world worldwide audience. And so that means that it may be Sabbath here, but it's not Sabbath there, or it is Sabbath there on the other side of the world, but it's not Sabbath here. And so what happens when we start when we try and close down our website on the Sabbath, but it's actually not the Sabbath and someone else's house on the other side of the world, and so then they're confused and they can't buy, and then when, when it, when it is not the Sabbath in our location anymore and it is the Sabbath there, now they can buy from your website even though it's Sabbath where they're at. Okay, I know this may break some of Our brains. But I'm just saying that there are, there are all these challenges that we don't always think about that. So this question of bird, it started out kind of simple sounding, and now it suddenly got really complicated. Because there are some real challenges with this, however, and I'm not going to give a law here. I'm just giving considerations. Bert, if you're convicted and if you have a way to do this, if you have a way that solves what I just said, because I'm just here thinking out loud, if there's a way that, and if you're not a business, that's an emergency business, a life giving kind of business, like I said, a supplier to a hospital would be, then, yeah, if the Father convicts you and it's possible, yeah, do something. And what that is, it can look different. Right. But I can tell you that the Father will. I mean, I see the Father's joy right now already. The Father is just even in joy with your question. You want to know, you want to honor him and how you go about doing that. You know, there's ways. But Israel, one thing is for certain is that when Israel were in the wilderness and they needed to have manna, and the Lord told him to not gather manna on the Sabbath day, the Lord provided a double portion on the sixth day for the seventh. And it didn't rot, it didn't go bad, it preserved them, it sustained them, and it was enough. And so whenever we make provision for the Sabbath in our life, the lord's blessing follows 100%. And you know, you've already said that you do not work on the Sabbath, you do not fulfill orders on the Sabbath. And that's glorious. That's wonderful. And I just want to encourage you to keep doing that. It's amazing. And the Father's hand of blessing is on that. And your business will not suffer for that. The Lord will bless it. So how do you do it if you want to do it? If you feel convicted, maybe you just put up a store notice to avoid any technicality, like technical challenges. Make it simple. Maybe put up a store notice. You say, hey, by the way, we don't work on the Sabbath. We don't process orders on the Sabbath. You know, just so, you know, kind of thing to the visitors. So then you're proclaiming your store's policy to everyone. That's a testimony. And it's just being honest, right. With customers. Maybe you decide, hey, Petey, I want to just. I found a way to close my site off and it Takes in consideration time zones and any other technicality that there may be, then, yeah, cool. Maybe you're like, pd, this is all very overwhelming. I don't know what to do. Don't let this become a burden. And that's the other thing that's so important, you know, when we're talking about these things. The error that's in Orthodox Judaism is that they have taken this desire to keep the law of God at times so far that it becomes illogically burdensome. And that's what we don't want. So make sure that how you do this, it honors, firstly, the most basic principle of you don't work and you don't let anyone work to fulfill these orders. And I think in that the Lord is greatly pleased. Any additional steps that you take to be a witness to others. Great, Wonderful. Okay, but why did I go and say all of the stuff I did? Because I want everyone who's hearing this to not pass judgment on our brothers and sisters too quickly on these issues. These areas that are quite difficult to navigate depending on where people are at, what they're doing, the technical challenges and other challenges that they may be facing. I think if we honor the basic principle of the commandment, the Lord's pleased, and let us not go further than that. And in terms of, you know, starting to pass judgment on others, let us not condemn others because they didn't do it the way that we think they should. We can have these conversations in love and honor, humility, respect. But while acknowledging the nuanced and the difficulties many people need to work through with their situations. All right. Difficult questions, I'll be honest. But I hope that. I hope that helps you have some things to think about, Bert, to pray through this, because my. I'm not giving answers, really. I'm just giving you everything you need to pray through and everything you need to think about. And I pray that as I speak, the Holy Spirit highlights this or that, and, like, that's the way to go. That's what I want that. That's what I'm asking the Holy Spirit to do in everyone's hearts who are listening. All right, 8, 13, let's see. I. Let's do one more. There's one more I want to do, and that's on anointing oil. So regarding anointing oil and Exodus 30, can we make holy oils to anoint others, our homes and our place of worship? Well, good question, Emily from Dayton. Thank you for asking it. And the. So the. The use of anointing oil in Scripture is very well documented in James 5:14. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, Let them pray over him, Anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. Right? We have this, this New Testament reference to the anointing of oil, right? And this is in the first century. We also have Mark 6:13. They will cast out demons and. Sorry. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil, many who were sick and healed them. So we have people who are not Levitical priests, these are apostles. And we have in the previous example, the elders and they're encouraged to anoint with oil. The apostles anointed with oil. The anointing with oil was very commonly done in ministering healing to the sick. Okay. And so absolutely we have a New Testament precedence for it. And I think it's wonderful. There's a lot we can talk about with it. But the question is, can we. And I think it's regarding Exodus 30 and because in Exodus 30, 33 we have a forbidden anointing oil. It says, whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people. Right? So when we read this, we're like, wow, this sounds very serious. What is this? Now? This is an anointing oil that was specifically for the priests and for the tabernacle, the temple. And this oil and its ingredients are given as liquid myrrh, sweet smelling cinnamon, aromatic cane, cassia and olive oil. These things are not allowed to be mixed together. Literally. There's a biblical commandment, you are not allowed to mix these things together as anointing oil and solid because it is to be set apart for the purpose that the Lord has given it alone. Okay? For the Levitical priesthood, so this is forbidden for us, but you can still have anointing oil that's just not using this list of ingredients. And that's fine. And when I say this list of ingredients, I'm saying mixing all these things together, right? That's the, this is the recipe. And this recipe we do not make anointing oil of today. And at the same time though, we can make anointing oil and use anointing oil using other ingredients, then using another recipe, let me say that way, another recipe. Because of course, some of the ingredients you can use olive oil, you know, even though olive oil is part of the recipe, you can use olive oil as anointing oil, but you're not going to use this recipe that's given in the Torah. Okay. Hope I'm being clear here. So yeah guys, I hope that this has been a blessing to you. We've gone through a lot. There were some more things I wanted to get to. One or two questions but Thomas has caught up to us yet again tonight. But maybe we can make some room next time. I'm just gonna. Just us just a regular mom says thanks for sharing your view about Christmas. Someone Richard is saying I'm developing a skill in building websites. I'm almost done with my first website. I need. I then need to market with little to no funds. I really need prayer. Father we just pray over that business. Lord, I pray that you would bless Richard and his business and everyone else who is represented here tonight who has businesses. I pray Lord that you would open the floodgates of heaven of opportunity for them as they seek to honor your with their businesses. Father I pray Lord that you would give all discernment on how to conduct business righteously. Help us to be a people who are known for our purity. Lord I thank you Lord for all that you have given us in your word and help us Lord to walk in humility and compassion towards other people at all times. Reveal to us by your spirit how we should speak in the moments. Give us the reasonings for the hope that is within us and help us Lord to Lord when we are distraught in our hearts to find peace in you. Father, I ask for all who are in difficult trials and tribulations that you would give them strength and peace. Lord for you provide every day and you are enough for us indeed and that there is no lack when we have you. In the name of Yeshua, I pray. Amen. Thank you guys so much for joining. I love you guys. 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