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Welcome to the prolific teaching ministry of Pastor Emmanuel Irene, lead pastor of Celebration Church International. It is his vision to partner with you for your progress and joy in the faith. Ready, set, grow. What we're going to be doing throughout this month, the teaching series will be a mashup of two things, per se. All right, On Sundays, we'll be talking about the integrity aspect of being salt and how our convictions as Christians influence our character and help us shape society and bring every thought around us to the obedience of Christ. And for midweek services, we are going to be doing a bit of apologetics because that's the balance of what it means to be salt. And that's why we came up with the acronym sorrow. All right? Or sorrow, however you want to call it, Standing out and reaching out. Can you say standing out and then say reaching out? So Sundays will be for standing out and midweek services. For reaching out. Essentially. You see, one thing to know about salt is that it has a sharp taste. You can't lick it with a straight face. Come on. I get what I'm saying. And that metaphorically represents the fact that you must not be neutral. You must not be neutral. Any salt that is so neutral, that does not challenge any taste board has lost its saltiness. Are you getting what I'm saying? And so do not be afraid to challenge culture. Do not be afraid to say what you believe. Do not be afraid to stand for the truth. Don't come to a point of conformity where you become too agreeable. Look at First Peter, chapter three, verse 15. First Peter, chapter three, verse fifteen. Are you there? It says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Everybody read that together. Want to go. You know what that means? It means give him his sacred space. Don't treat him like common. Don't treat his knowledge like his knowledge is common. Come on. Are you getting what I'm saying? The way I treat God is not the way I treat the president. As respectful as I want to be. The way I treat God is not the way I treat my parents. As respectful as I am of them. The way I treat God's word is not the way I treat common issues. He has his space. He's enthroned in my heart. I don't joke with his knowledge. I can fail mathematics. I hope you didn't. But I'm going to give his word my very best. Come on. Are you listening to me? Sanctify the Lord God. So listen, when I look at how you act in a service like this, I must see that Character, for instance, why would you come to a point where you would confidently listen to the word of God without your pain, without your notes, part. What are you doing? You see, in your demeanor, in the way you act during worship, the way you act during prayer, Everything must reflect this. It must show honor. It must show. Listen. To sanctify is to make holy, and holiness is excellence. So, for instance, in the typical African home, there are some plates you only use for special occasions. Come on, I get what I'm saying. So now those plates are holy. They are sanctified. Even where they keep them, they're usually up. I go live for you. You get the point now? So that's God in your heart. He should be up there. Are you listening to me? And one of the ways you do that, he says to be always ready to give a defense, a reply. That's what. If you've heard of apologetics, it means to reply, all right, a response. Be always ready to give a response to everyone who asks for what? The reason of the hope that is in you. And he says to do that with meekness and with fear, just to be sure you're following everybody. First Peter, chapter three, verse 15. Read together. One, two, go. You see? Let me just quickly say this. This is one of the texts that really challenges you. This is one of the texts where you were forced to be at. You'll be forced to be at variance with psychology. Psychology. All right, so, for instance, Machiavelli will tell you that when somebody criticizes you and you respond to the person, even if your response was right, the person has won because you have belittled yourself. You have shown the person that you have the capability of being affected by what they have to say about you. Come on. Are you listening to me? Oh, I was praying for you today. How are you doing? Good to see you. You know. So when the Lord says, be ready to give a response, there's an extent to which that's counterproductive. Because we have a culture that does not value accountability. We see accountability as weakness. If you say something about a notable person and the person responds, you feel flattered. It seems like the person has come to your level, and now it's aura for aura. And now you're arguing for engagement. Some of you know what I'm saying, don't you? So now, whether you like it or not, and that's why sometimes the most sanctimonious thing. There's a reason I'm telling you this. The most sanctimonious thing for an average Christian is to just be comfortable in your stained glasses and don't confront culture at all. So now you just come and your prayer is primarily, God bless me, bless me, give me, give me, you know, take, then you go home. People are not used to pastors being pastors. People are not used to Christians being Christians. And I want to say respectfully, a lot of Christians have been in church all their lives and they have not really practiced Christianity. For instance, this text to be ready to give a defense. When you become that person. It comes with a lot of pressure, a lot of criticism. It's uncomfortable. It looks like you're always tearing the waters. Do you understand what I'm saying? But that is how to get people saved. You don't claim to love people and just leave them in their own funny belief systems. To be evangelical is to constantly poke at those beliefs, test them, try them, invite people to conversations. Are you getting what I'm saying? So not many Christians have been deliberately and systematically taught doctrine. Not many Christians have been truly trained to evangelize culture. And not many Christians have been encouraged to engage culture. Just imagine a pastor in 2026 who is bored about the biblical views on sex, on gender roles, and on different cultural issues. I mean, he's teaching the word of God. You know what people are going to think. He's always talking. You know what they're going to think about you if you choose to be this kind of person. You're always talking. And because we have a church that has trained people not to talk, they will hate your gods. Are you getting what I'm saying? If you start talking about the biblical views on what it means to be a man or femininity, it will come to with a lot of attacks, but you will not keep quiet. I didn't hear your response. And then it even becomes even more scary when you go to the public space. I hope you know that there are some people who tried to make it systematically different for professing Christians. You know, scientists. Christian Scientist John Lennox was talking about his experience as a student at Cambridge University. And so they had this dinner to celebrate a Nobel laureate winner. And so he, I mean, it was a casual, informal meeting. So just said he was asking questions about what he was awarded, you know, the noble laureate for. And he, he now said he asked a question that caused problem. He now said, I wonder if in your scientific exploration you got so deep that you came to a conclusion that there must be God. And that simple statement got the man very riled up and angry. And he said, No, I just looked away. I won't talk to him. He was talking over him, talking to other people, obviously, trying to exactly deflect and make him feel bad. But that was just the beginning of the challenges, because that night he sent for him. And as he entered the room, he saw this Nobel laureate winner in science with several other senior scientists. And he called him to the center of the room and he said, you must renounce your Christian faith, otherwise you will not go far as a scientist. I mean, when you were studying and you had the ambition to be a scientist, these were the people you looked up to. Now all of them have formed a quorum. They've centered you in their midst and said, denounce this naive ideology that you call Christianity. And he said, in that moment, strength came from above. And he asked them, if I was to entertain this idea, what option do you have if the very fabric of my ideology, my worldview, what fuels my morality, you know, and every integrity that I have, you want to remove that carpet off my feet? What alternative do you have as a worldview? I said, there are many alternatives. Is it like Evolution by Henry Begginsen? You know, and he laughed, he said, because he had been reading C.S. lewis's work, he knew about the philosophy, and the man himself said he wishes he could be a Christian. So he just laughed about it. And he thought, I mean, of all things, you gave a wrong example. And he said, I will stick with what I have, thank you very much, and walked out. But, you know, it just. Makes you think about what's at stake. You have to hold to your conviction with boldness. Say loud, amen. You know, but for all that I want to talk about today, that question that John Lennox asked, I think it's a very important question because it challenges the intellectual dishonesty of many of these people professing to be wise, Because in the bid to be very scientific, they challenge you. And they say, show me unequivocal evidence for the existence of God, that the Bible is the word of God and all of that. Now, there are some of them, no matter the answer you give, it will never be enough. But flip the switch, turn it back at them and say, for your worldview, show me unequivocal evidence for the things that you believe. What is the evidence for whatever it is that you are living for today? Because don't let anyone lie to you. We all live for something. There's a reason you have a moral fabric and a moral frame of mind. So it becomes double standard that the evidence of Christ, you say is not enough. Well, what evidence did you, what empirical process did you go through before you held to your worldview? Do you understand what I'm saying? Why is it that you value people more than animals? Why? And whatever your why is, how did you arrive at that? Why is it that you have an ethical system? You believe that one good thorn deserves another? Why? Why would it not be right to just go to your neighbor's house, point a gun at him and take all his money? Why will it be wrong? Why is it that Christians and atheists alike agree that that's wrong? Are you getting what I'm saying? It is also dishonest when they try to convince you that you are being a fool for following something you have not hundred percent proven. They convince themselves that that's a very logical standpoint, you know, to have. But nobody really lives like that. How many of you have eaten in a restaurant before? How do you know that that food was not poisoned? Can you prove it empirically. That the food was not poisoned? God forbid if the food was poisoned, will you be the first to be poisoned? So why is it that you went to a canteen, ordered food, sat down confidently and ate it. When everybody is approaching him? For Junction Road that has traffic lights and cars are coming and your own traffic light says to stop. If you stop, it is because you are trusting that every other person is also obeying the traffic lights. So whether you like it or not, you make decisions on a daily basis based on faith. Have you entered an airplane without knowing the personal history of the pilot? And you just sat down and allowed someone to whisk you off the ground for literally depending on if it's local or international, for about one hour off the ground, thousands of miles off the ground, and you sat there confidently? You walk by faith every day. Come on, are you getting what I'm saying? You know, I watched something some time ago. An atheist was debating a Christian. And you know, and he was, the Christian was arguing for the validity of the Bible based on eyewitness accounts and, you know, the testimony of the apostles and all of that. And he was explaining, and I don't want to go into the nitty gritties of the explanation. He was explaining how that even in science to some degree testimony is important. He said, no, testimony is not important in science. You must test everything. So he now asked him, you believe in evolution? He said, yes. Have you tested every single claim for evolution by yourself or you read what other people did not make anybody gaslight you? And if you're not careful, you will buy the assumption that just because you are a believer, you are inferior intellectually. That's what I'm trying to prove to you. I'm going to end with that. I'm going to do a lot of other things. In the middle is when it comes to Christ, you argue everything. No proper historian would do this, but some clowns even say, how do you know Jesus ever existed? How do you know Aristotle existed? How do you know? Meanwhile, Jesus is by far by a mile, the most documented person in the history of humanity. By a mile. Both friends and enemies wrote about him. And so it's not just the Bible. As important and as sufficient as the Bible is, when you're talking about Jesus as a historical figure, all the scientific measures for historicity, they come into play here. So how is it that you can verify any document of antiquity? I'm now I'm using theological terms, okay, I'm going to try to use simpler language. When there is an old document, what is the standard way of knowing that the document has not been changed or corrupted? That's what I'm trying to say. Because they will say the Bible was corrupted. And with due respect, it makes me very, very curious when, for instance, Muslims want us to believe their opinion of the Bible over people who actually lived with Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. You see, those Gospels were written just within the generation of Jesus existence compared to a religion that existed several centuries after, 300 to 600 years after. So you now come back and look back and say, everyone before you was wrong. Okay, the Bible is corrupted. Find one evidence of a Bible that is not corrupted. Some have even boasted that, I mean, it's just a matter of time that archaeologists will prove the Bible false. That if we find older manuscripts, we discover that the Bible has been doctored, Then we come across the Dead Sea Scrolls. By the chaos of God, one man was just playing, you know, in a cave and throwing some pebbles. And next thing he heard something shattered. He ran away thinking he has destroyed someone's property. And when no one came looking now for him, he went back there and he discovered some clay pots that had been concealed, all right? And when he brought it out, amongst other things, the book of Isaiah and other parchments of the Bible dating several thousands of years, you know, even earlier than the oldest manuscripts that were existing at that time. And they put them side by side, the same. Are you getting what I'm saying? So now the real question is, why can't people find God? The people who want to find God Some other means apart from just reading the Bible and believing it? Because this seems like a valid intellectual argument now. Why can't God just show Himself. Number one, If God created time and created space, he will exist out of it. So maybe the problem is you are trying to look for the creator of the computer. In the computer. You are checking the apps. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint. Is God here? Is God? Is Bill Gates here? You are looking for Bill Gates in the different font styles of Microsoft Word, looking for the creator in the creation. Even logically, it should follow that what you will find will be the evidence of his work and not he himself. Imagine one of the PCs in a monopoly game had consciousness and they're looking for the creator of the game in the game. They're not going to find him there. Come on, are you getting what I'm saying? And he has much higher science, much higher intelligence, much. Stop trying to look for him in a test tube. You won't be successful. What you're going to look for is the evidence that someone was here. You know, that will bring me to the argument for intelligent design. Just imagine, just imagine that when we first found this place and wanted to purchase it for church. I tell all of you, we found a place never been used for church or any special program or any events. And I bring you in here, well cleaned up, rugged, with the LED screen, with all the lights already air conditioned. And I said, no one has ever used this before. No one built this. Even from a logical standpoint, it's not going to make any sense. Are you getting what I'm saying? And that's how important the argument for intelligent design is. But I'm coming to that. The second reason some people have struggled to find God is pain is pain. You know, There's a saying in our local parlance, an adage that says you cannot wake up somebody who is pretending to sleep. Understand this. Sometimes you are trying to prove God, God's existence to people who are angry at God. It won't work. So when secretly. The real issue is this. Maybe there is a secret habit that they know that if God exists, they will be held accountable for that habit. They are doing something that God doesn't approve of. Or they lost someone and they don't understand why God, though he's in his existence, will allow that happen. Why would he allow that to happen? Why would he allow that happen? And every other intellectual argument you give to them? Oh, well, men have free will. Mankind is falling. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes they are nursing a wound and that's why apologetics must still be with compassion. Are you listening to me? You'll be surprised. Some people don't need an argument, they just need a hug. You'll be surprised. I'm telling you what I've seen many times. You know, someone came on my page, this was some four years ago and said something derogatory. No, much longer. Four years in my aura. Aura for aura era, You know, forgive me, is. You know, I'm not going to say that. I think it's the people who are easy to abuse that usually find trouble. Just an observation from today. Check it. You see, like, if I wanted to be petty, where do I start from? You know? And I was about to respond and the Lord said, I had the word of knowledge. He's going through this, this, this, this, this. So I went into his dm. I said, I know you're struggling with this. You need money for something, something, something. Send your account number. I want to send. He said, you are God sent. You are God sent. See, I ain't gonna be petty. I won't show you the dm, say you are God sense. I didn't know that God will use you like this. Thank you, sir. Now, you know the part that touched me. He said, all my life, nobody has looked at me, taking interest and supported me like this. All my life. All my life. You see, Let me tell you something. When you understand things from this standpoint, sometimes you just have more grace. You know, there was a month where God was tormenting me in a particular way like this. This is what I'm saying. When God wants to prepare me for something, sometimes he will say the same thing repeatedly. You know, I'll just be praying. He will say, I've blessed you too much to be petty. I'm praying the next week I've blessed you too much. And that's the only thing he will say. Because sometimes you can get so blessed, somebody attacks you, it's like a pinch. If you reply, it's like you use hammer to kill an axe, an ant. There are some things I can't tell you. Some things I can't tell you. I know there are some people who like to play God. Are you getting what I'm saying? And they take these things to the extreme. But believe me sincerely, it is not everybody that should get angry and say some things in anger. It's not everybody. It's not everybody. You know, I don't know if I have a permission to say this. I'll say this. My wife told me something she said, She said, I noticed something that if I want to take on any project or anything, that it matters that you are in support. He said that it matters. He said, I've noticed that it just makes things easy. I know it's a spiritual principle and it works vice versa. The marriage covenant is important. Do things in agreement. There are spiritual implications for those things. Are you listening to what I'm saying? Someone's like, I thought you've escaped February. Anyway, let's move on. Anyway, I said all of that to say pain is a real issue, it affects people. Another reason some people find it hard to find God is bad examples. And I cannot begin to tell you, you know, we're dealing with this one on Sundays, so. But bad examples, it's a real thing. I told you about a rapper who said he grew up, I think it was his uncle or something who was a clergyman. This was the first picture of Christianity that he saw. And that clergyman, I think abused his two sisters sexually. So as you can imagine, he just hated Christianity, thought everybody is a hypocrite and thought the whole religion is flawed. Come on, are you listening to me? And I'll be honest enough to tell you that the truth is there are a couple of bad examples. It's unfortunate, It's unfortunate. But doesn't that prove. The Bible's position on the existence of God, the existence of free will and the fact that, listen, even the best of us are still men. Men of God are still men. Are you listening to me? It's a fact. It's a hard reality, you know. However, some people try to take it to an extreme in their so called war against the church, all Christianity does is cause problems. The opium of the masses. This, this, this, this, this. A lot of people have killed in the name of God. Do I have your permission to reply to that intellectually? Now this is data I'm giving you. There is a book called the Encyclopedia of Wars. All right, Encyclopedia of Wars by Charles Phillips. So all the world wars, I mean all the wars, known wars in human existence, 1763 of them were documented in that book. The book is written by Charles Philip and Alex Axelrod. All right, so of 1763 wars, 123 of them were motivated by religious concerns. Now 123 is a lot, but in comparison to the total number is not a lot. But guess what? This is all religions. So let's deduct Islam and see. Let's move on. Well, if you deduct Islam, what is left of all the other religions is 3%. 3%. It's data is the book. That's just data. And someone has made an argument that atheism has caused more atrocities. Many of the people who carried out some of the greatest massacres in China, in Germany and all of that were motivated by atheistic ideas. In the book Three Body Problem, that is a documentation of the Chinese revolution, the first chapter of the book tells you how a mob of atheists and you'll find this interesting for a reason. I'm coming to this. A mob of atheists brought a physicist on stage and killed him because he was teaching the Big Bang theory. You know why they had the problem with the Big Bang theory? Because they believed that anyone thinking properly about the Big Bang theory will eventually end up believing in God. Anyways, let's move on. So how, how can I help people apart from, you know, teaching the Bible, how can I help them find God? And you know, a lot of people just say just preach the Bible and you're correct, but it doesn't mean it is wrong to help thinkers believe and help believers think. This was the approach that Paul used in Athens. Acts 17. She saw them with their inscription to the unknown God. And it says, whom you ignorantly worship him, declare I unto you. I said, you are bringing a calabash with food in it for God. God who created the whole world. You think he depends on you for sustenance. So it just tells you that with logic you can at least point people to the Foley of their ways and their convictions. Are you getting what I'm saying? You're building cute temples for him now. Instead of Paul quoting the scriptures, he even quoted their poets. So just means that the pastor was hiding to listen to whiskey. I'm just saying. So he quoted, he said your poets. Is there. He said your poets say we are his offspring. So if we are his offspring, why are you creating idols of gold and silver? If we are his offsprings, it means that he looks like us. Are you getting what I'm saying? He was just using logic. He used logic and pointed them to the God of the Bible. So this is the ideology here. So it says, for in him we live and move and have our being. And also some of your own poets, are you listening to me? And this will bring me back to the argument of ungodly music vis a vision, secular music. Not every song that has Jesus is a gospel song. You know that, don't you? Not every song that does not have Jesus or Bible or church is a bad song. There are some that you should stay away from because of the person singing it. Yes, facts. There are some people, no matter what they sing, even if they mention Jesus, don't listen. But it also doesn't mean there aren't songs. If you're going to write a birthday song, God will not be offended that you know, say happy birthday in Jesus name. You won't be offended. You'll be offended. Do you understand? So they are clean, clean songs. Are you getting what I'm saying? If you want to dance with your wife on. On your wedding. Thank you for not giving me. Yeah, you know, now it will surprise you that as simple as what I'm saying is some people still don't get it. So there are just some things. I mean, so that's not even what I'm talking about. Paul with this deep revelation. She knew enough about their society. Just in case it's only Bible you read and you think that you are doing the Lord's work. You are closer to God than the rest of us failing exams. I'm just letting you know that Paul at least read poetry. Do with that information what you want. Don't stress me. Permission to proceed. So. So I just said all of that to say this, that it is very okay to use logic to point people to God. And so now the first thing I'm even going to say is it's not even logic, it's right there in the Bible. Show me Romans 1, verse 20 as quickly as possible. Romans chapter 1, verse 20. Now if you are conversant with the argument of Paul to the church at Rome, this was the way he progressed. He first started in the first chapter by addressing people who belong to other tribes. Now some people ask questions like what about those who never heard the Gospel? And all of that. That one is hundred days of discipleship question, you know, and all of that. Someone sends him a DM when he's on the DoD starting again. I'm saying it's not your fault because. Because no bu day. Did we not just finish last week? It's not just last week we finished that thing. I beg, I beg. So where was I? So you know, even my media team is traumatized when they hear 100 duty. Because. It's a lot of work. That's what I'm saying. Anyways, Look at it. I've lost my train of thoughts. But anyway, yeah, in Romans 1, if you never had any religious exposure, what are the things you should know? It says verse 20 for since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood. How so? It means that even if I don't see the Maker, if I see the things that are made, I will know that the Maker exists. Since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes. It is true that you can't see him, but you can see the things that he has done, clearly seen and. And being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and godhead. So that they are without excuse. You're without excuse. You've never been in Sunday school, but you are without excuse. When you look at. If you go just a little deep in science, study the human anatomy, the way babies are formed and grow up and they are born, you know, or even birds sometimes, you know, hey, I was using these birds to teach on marriage. I've forgotten their name. So maybe you can do your research. The moment the female bird gets pregnant, the male bird will just find a hollow in one of the trees, put her there, then seal up the hollow and leave only a small space for his beak. So now he will go, hustle, hustle, hustle, Bring food, pass the food. So as long until you give birth, you are not permitted to stress yourself. You see that? Let me tell you something. If beds have a better marriage than you, you are finished. You see, even bird know, they angle argue gender role. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, till you give birth, don't walk. Just be passing the food like this, passing the food. But listen, have you ever seen animals or something? They are designed and the components that make them capable of doing the exact things that they are able to do. And they're just like, there's a God. For me, it's the simple things. I'll never forget. Flying from Tanzania, and we were flying past Kilimanjaro, and then the pilot said, now we were 33,000ft. We were above the clouds. It was a very cloudy area above the clouds. We're seeing the clouds beneath. And then the pilot said, if you look to your right, you will see the tip of the Mount Kilimanjaro. And I looked and just imagine cloud everywhere. And somewhere in the distance, just peeping above the clouds. It was the most heavenly thing. See, it's those kind of things that the Bible writers observe. Say only a fool, say, he use anger right now. Say, you be idiots. You know, get sense. The principal explanation for intelligent design is this. Nature abhors vacuum. And so if you leave anything unattended, it will become. It will fall to ruins. And so just the same way, your room will not be arranged if you don't arrange it. So if you see patterns of order in creation, the brilliant conclusion is behind every design is a designer. Simple. Richard Dawkins opposes that, and he says there are some loopholes in design. Not every design is perfect. Therefore it is not God who created them. You know someone who is a professor of design, I think, in mechanical engineering. In mechanical engineering. I've forgotten his name. I wrote it somewhere. He said, this bro doesn't know what he's talking about. And I like it when professionals are the ones. He said, how does that even make sense? That because a design by your own estimation is not excellence, therefore it was not created. It's just like looking at this speaker and saying, ah, the Andrew is supposed to be here. Nobody made this speaker. And you think you have said something profound? Oh yeah. In general, the existence of intelligent design is proof for the existence of an intelligent designer. Amen, somebody. Now, I want to also give what scientists call oh my God, you won't believe. I'm just about halfway through my notes. Okay, no problem. I'll just end here. Have you learned anything? So I want to give what is called the argument for desire. The argument for desire, and this is a brilliant one. I think it really blessed me when I heard it. And it just asks the question, what if every desire that you have is pointing to the existence of a creator? And this is how they. They go with that flow of thought. Every natural or innate desire has a corresponding object. You can take that down. Every natural or innate desire has a corresponding object. So when you are hungry, what do you want? Say it loud, please. And when you're tired, what do you want? Sleep or rest. When you're lonely, what do you want? See, I know February has gone, but I will say sprinkle, sprinkle. You must marry. Let's go again. When you're hungry, what do you want? When you're tired, what do you want? And when you're lonely, I know you want to escape. You won't say God. It's not God we're talking about. So listen. It therefore follows. Why is it that in every human civilization there seems to be an insatiable distinction? Desire for something divine. Someone divine. Listen, even if you. Some people say you're only a Christian because you were born into a Christian home. Go to any civilization that nobody has been to. They are worshiping something in Acts 17. Listen. They had different other gods, but they didn't want to be wrong in case there is one that exists that they've not acknowledged. So they don't get into trouble. So they labeled him the unknown God. That, sir, we didn't know your name. Just fill in the blanks. Most religions are actually trying to fill in the blanks. They're trying to fill in the blanks. That's what they are doing. And that's why everywhere you go. See, that was what Paul was saying in Acts 17. He says, I see your zeal, I see your sincerity, whom you ignorantly worship. Him, declare I unto you. You are trying in your way, the way you understand it, but you are wrong. God, you can't serve him in your calabash, he can't stay in your temples, because if he made the whole world, you can't build him a. Come on, I get what I'm saying. So now he now points them to the true God. And that's what we should do with every other religion. Are you getting what I'm saying? So some people think that the existence of different religions discredits Christianity. No, it proves Christianity. It just proves that at the end of the of the day, everybody is quietly, secretly looking for something. Something in different ways. Not just in religion, but in vices. This is why Jesus will look at the woman at the well and you say, ah. And he will say, the water that you drink, you've been drinking this water every day and you are still thirsty. And what was he metaphorically referring to? Amongst other things, he said, call your husband. Because the fact that you're jumping from relationship to relationship is proof that you're just looking for satisfaction from somewhere. Come on, are you getting what I'm saying? So at the end of the day. Oh, relationship. Listen, listen. It's like God is saying something anyway. Come on, are you listening to me? So at the end of the day, he has planted eternity in the hearts of everyone. If you see someone who comes to a point where they don't believe in God, it's either situation or they themselves aborted that seed of faith. They did something to themselves. They've made their hearts hard. They've darkened their understanding. And in seeking wisdom, they've become fools. A fool says in his heart there's no God. We'll continue next time. Are you blessed? Thank you for listening. We are sure that you have been blessed. For inquiries, reach us on our helpline. 080-999-6000 Blessings.