Dewey kakam barem Atama Shvatari Module Kashed believe anbu Duaім Maite tut입 UK ni wal kabbars God when called upon to. So I just want to take this chance before we start or save anything father. We all rise for those present in church. Even for you our online viewer so that we pray and I'll invite my sister Joy to lead us in prayer. Let's all rise for the opening prayer. Okay let's pray. Our heavenly father we thank you for this day. We thank you for this Sabbath day. A day to remember.  Thank you for the privilege to be here early in the morning to catch the morning blessings. Father I thank you for everybody present in this sanctuary. I thank you for everybody present virtually in this moment and I ask that Lord you may give us your blessing. Those who are still waiting for to come those on their way to church physically and virtually we ask that you hasten their steps and even as you hasten their steps give them your Holy Spirit to be in the joy of the Sabbath to be in the presence of the Lord and to glory in your sacrifice. Lord we ask that you forgive us our sins cleanse us from all unrighteousness. There are bad things that we have done in the week things that we've done consciously and other subconsciously just because we didn't take hold of your word because we were not in the spirit of obedience but Lord we claim forgiveness we claim cleansing of the blood this morning because the cleansing stream I see I plunge and oh it cleanses me as we serve you today and as we commune with you today we ask that you stay with us give us your Holy Spirit give us your anointing and grant us your blessing this and much more I pray believing and trusting in Jesus name amen. We may be seated thank you very much allow me just to introduce those who are serving you in this ministry of song my name is Steve B. Konyaga next to me is Joy please say hi hello happy Sabbath happy day happy day happy Sabbath maranatha yesu yuwaja yesu yuwaja maranatha all right thank you Achi or Achieng or Rero happy Sabbath everybody happy day please smile happy Sabbath everybody happy day happy day happy Sabbath thank you our brother Joseph God is good all the time and all the time God is good and that is his nature wow wow amen amen God bless you all and have a wonderful Sabbath amen last but not least at the piano we have our sister Mabel serving us thank you thank you very much so let's all sing songs of praise in gladness happiness because God has done good things to us not just the past six days since the year began even since you were born and with that we'll sing a song of thanksfulness song number five six five for the beauty of the earth five hundred and sixty five from our SDA hymnal beauty Mr. parent child yesu yuwaja raise a song of gratitude because we know a crown is promised when this life is past amen five hundred and twelve just when i need him most he's ever present five one two just when i need him jesus is near just when i fall just when i'm ready to help to cheer just when and cheer just when i need you for say just when i need is near to comfort and cheer just when jesus is strong and cheer just when i need just when i should fall is near to comfort and cheer just just when i need him most he's ever near song that we're going to sing is in suahili our look and live i know it's not in our hymnals maybe for those who can access the lyrics online please look and live utaishi wuki tazama let's turn our focus our attention to christ and christ alone look and live benata ishi wuki tazama ishi wuki tazama from the second to the ninth of camp meeting theme for this camp meeting is i will go and proclaim the three angels messages and our speaker will be pastor jen donaldsod from the us and we'll have the heralds choir as a guest choir for this point we just want to introduce the theme song which is we have a story to tell to the nations and i want us to learn you'll sing along with us today we're going to do it at least price and mati 24 14 says the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for our witness and to all nations and then the command is given in the same book chapter 28 go ye therefore and teach all nations so this is the song you can check online and for online viewers i believe the words will be on your screen with a story to tell to the nations here the most high god you have had a blessed week and if you didn't you're still blessed you're alive and god saw you through the week this week we have been studying a beautiful story so did episodes but god being present even in all those situations dysfunctional family to really affirm his covenant that he will redeem man from sin so this week we concentrated on the story of joseph i don't know whether there is anyone online or in church who has suffered just because you're a christian there's good news for you this week that we serve a god who in his time in his way makes all things beautiful so we welcome everyone present in the church to fellowship in the bible study know the people that you will be interacting with in your study so that we can grow into a discipleship church for those of you online we are happy that you continue to join us church services i pray that you will be you will be blessed together with us as we worship god in this day that women will be prominently serving god in various aspects so be blessed and continue to disciple others in your home at your place of work wherever you are for god's kingdom may you be blessed good morning and happy sabbath once again it's a pleasure to be with you this sabbath we glorify of heavily father for the tender kia is taken upon each and every one of us we are once again back this sabbath to look through the word of god again we are going through the book of genesis at least you are almost winding up and with me here this morning are my panelists uh on my left i have my sister Dorita kindly greet the audience happy sabbath saint uh we are glad to worship the lord with you this morning and we thank god that we are here together to dig into the word of god and be blessed may you all have a delighted and a blessed sabbath day amen thank you i hope your week has been fine yes it has thank you curry wasana on my right i have my brother sullivan please greet the viewers happy sabbath uh wherever you are cheering in from you're welcome to this morning sabbath lesson study and i pray that it may be a blessing to you and i hope even as you are reading it throughout the week indeed you are blessed and are happy to be here to share the insights that we also had so may god bless you as we share together thank you brother sullivan my name is alfred nganga i welcome you as you delvin today we'll be looking at the book of joseph uh the book of genesis through the story of joseph uh i invite my sister dorita to offer the opening prayer the holy spirit to make each lesson clear to each one of us in the mighty name of jesus i pray amen uh the last sabbath we looked through the story of jekub and we found him going through difficulties here and there and we ended up him being told by god to go back to bethlehim where he you know bethelsori where he would construct an altar and worship god and uh he moves on and today we turn the pages to the book of genesis chapter 37 which starts by saying and jekub settled in the land right and absolutely from there it says joseph was 17 years old so it automatically into this is our character which brings us to our memory versus which is genesis chapter 37 verse 19 and i read it says like this then they said to one another look this dreamer is coming and the title our lesson which you've been looking through this week is joseph master of dreams now the text that you've read the memory verse comes in between the chapter whereby the brothers behold their brother coming uh the point hands telling this is the man who's been dreaming a small brother whom they happen to hate with a passion but through this story we're going to see how god turns things around what was meant for evil god will mean it for good and that brings us to a discussion and when i was reading this through i i saw what paulo saying in the book of romans chapter 8 that everything works for the good of those who love him those who've been called according to his good purpose let's look through let's open our scripture we read through and we see what god has in store for us this sabat and i will go directly in my sister the return that is the introduction and now joseph is here he is the father's favorite he's been looked through really yeah we're going to look at this young man who's 17 years old turns out to to take their last whole chapters of genesis now we look it starts with jacob here wants to settle and live in peace he's gone through a lot he lost the wife he's beloved wife recho then his first moon ruben does the despicable then here he is having a son who's been left and another one that he loves dearly we expect him now at least now go to give him peace he's going to better lower his worshiping and unfortunately the story turns family troubles yeah it's a happy sabato again it's interesting how things turn uh in this story of jacob his troubles seem to never end and here again we see another twist in the story um we've just seen that uh his dear wife recho has died and as a result uh his two sons that is jacob and uh and sorry joseph and benjamin have no mother because of course they had step mothers that is lair and all and and the other uh concubines of jacob but yeah but the the the relationship is never the same right and uh this is something that we see in in polygamas homes you never really uh get that that harmony that should be there in our home because it was not the original plan of man of god really when it came to uh companionship of man and uh of course we we we see that it it was as a result of sin and the that's why we see such such a setup uh coming into play so here we see joseph um having spent a lot of time with the dad and i believe uh this really made the other brothers feel a bit envious like ah why is our dad really uh showing preferential treatment to joseph uh uh joseph their younger brother and uh jacob also did not hide the fact that he favored him and he even went ahead to make him a priest a princely garment that is the court of many colors and uh this really made his brothers feel like um why are you showing him that kind of treatment and it created some form of resentment uh towards him and uh he was a young man 17 years of age and uh in his innocence he would go about uh helping his brothers here and there and whenever they did anything wrong he would admonish them for it when they didn't listen he came and reported to the dad his intentions most likely were very pure because maybe he thought because i'm young they wouldn't listen to me i believe we feel this we we see this even playing out in our normal uh late day life uh when i when someone younger than you tries to correct you feel like who are you to tell me this you know yeah you don't know anything you are barely you know you're half my age or something like that you tend to despise yeah we despise and you are based on that factor but that's not really the case and maybe joseph felt that if i tell my father he will probably maybe they will listen to him if he tries and corrects them but uh his intentions were misconstrued to be more of a snitch that ah this guy only he wants to is paint us in a bad picture so that our father will see him as as a good child and favor him more so already we are seeing here something very critical and something that as christians we need to watch out for his brothers started hating their joseph and we see that even when um when joseph got a dream that is in that genesis 35 that 7 verse 5 the first dream about the sheaves and he related it to his brothers what happened it says they hated him the more it's actually it actually says there in um in uh in in verse 10 thy brethren indeed you know they say it says that they hated him more if you read from verse 8 downwards and again he has another dream and he recounts it to his father and his brethren and their hatred continues even more so it just shows us that they are you know when we when we there is there is room for hate and we think it's gradual it so it's like what yeah it grows so the devil is always you know whenever we we take one step towards the devil he will make sure we take two three four and even more and more we go down down into into sin so it is actually a warning to us do we hate our brethren if we do so then the warning here is that that hatred will continue to grow because the devil is active is actively seeking to bring about discord and variance between brethren and you see that playing out very clearly here but one thing that also we note here is as much as jacob was favoring his son josef when he rebuked him after he had delayed this dream about the sun the moon and the stars he it's it it goes further to say uh what what what what does he do what does jacob do when when he's when he's told this this uh this this uh dream in verse 10 and he told it to his father and the brethren and his father rebuked him and said unto him what is this dream that thou hast dreamed shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to to the earth and his brethren envid him but his father observed the same you see when we are told when he says observe what does that word mean it it is it's like kept the matter in mind right he put it in his mind because now he realized as much as he was favoring josef something was happening something special something special him having received communication from god through dreams as well he probably took note that this child is special and god has a special work for him so he kept those things in mind thank you we see here josef starting to unfold the dream starts coming it's not the only time that he's going to see dreams or he's going to interpret dreams he will look as we're going to embark and see he will encounter different people who dreams and thus his name is named the dreamer now we turn the chapters we're looking through here and now this boy has started dreaming he started explaining his future of course to his brothers as you say they don't like him they don't love him and this is compounded by the fact that their father has a bias for him he has made him a special coat above each and every son he has now josef when he wore that he showed his he's a prince among his brethren and now he dreams all of them are going to bow down on him it excited envy actual the Bible says they hated him even more the writer yes attack on josef yes actually you know i was just thinking about it and we realize that the Bible says that he who hates a brother is as good as a murderer so we can tell that these brothers were already singing before God's eyes and it's unfortunate that the hate was growing and kept going on like it couldn't be stopped that means that it's only God who can replace hate with love thank you let me introduce something view was as you as you go ahead to to listen kindly send your questions send your comments we'll be looking through them and we'll try to engage on another and respond to your questions or your comments thank you continue all right so again in chapter 37 still from verse 12 we see that jackob invites josef he's sending josef now to go and just check out his brothers because they had left they had taken the animals out and they were out grazing and it had taken a bit of time so josef's father asks josef you know he's young agile and ready to go ask him please go out i want to send you go check out on your brothers find out how they're doing find out how the animals are doing and come and let me know what exactly is going on josef is excited as usual he runs out is you know up and about he's going out so that he goes and checks on his brothers now the first instance i see god's hand is by god sending i refer to him and as an angel he meets somebody just a stranger and i believe that god had purposely put him there to assist josef yeah so he goes out the bible says he is going out and he meets this man and this man asks him who are you looking for then he says i'm looking for my brothers then he says oh i had them say that they were going to dotham in fact verse 15 16 says 17 says they have left they have departed from here for i have them i had them say let us go to dotham now when josef realizes that he's gone he takes off he's moving he's going then what do the brothers see they see him from afar i'm sure they're seeing in their hearts now what has brought this guy here he's coming to look for more information to go and tell daddy so they see him from afar of course they are not happy and they are hatching a plot and the plan is to kill him thank god for ruben ruben says oh let not kill this guy what will we do what we do there's a pit right here let's have him put in there so he is put in the pit and they are of course still referring to him as the dreamer and verse 21 says but ruben had it and he delivered him out of their hands and so ruben warned his brothers guys do not kill him let us just have him put in the pit and we will see what next let me interject a little bit he was not put he was thrown actually yes they were wrapping him up putting is carefully placing yes they wrapped him up and they threw him down there thank you now an unfortunate thing happens again this guy is after they have put their brother they have dumped josef in the pit they sit out there and eat celebrate actually eating you know your brother is right there in a pit but they are seated they are fine they are eating then suddenly i don't know if it was by god's design i believe so there are these ishma lights who are passing by then they decide okay let us sell this guy they are selling their brother meanwhile ruben had planned in his heart that he would come back later and get josef out of the pit so as the ishma lights pass they decide oh let's sell him dude actually says yes let's get rid of this young man yes let's sell him and they sold him for how much 20 shekels i don't know what that would be converted to today but i believe it's not any amount worth selling a brother so uh they sell him he goes and uh when the ruben comes back he realizes his brother is not there he is truly worried so they planned that they would take this coat of his and put it in the blood of the animal that they had slaughtered then they carried this home they took it back to his father and uh when they reached home they actually they uh they are full of themselves i would say that because they reach home then they ask their father uh that uh where this is vast 33 vast 32 he says that um they we have found this that is the coat yeah do you know whether it is your son's tunic or not can you imagine they're not asking would you know if this is our brothers they already know this so much evil going on in their hearts then jackob i mean yeah jackob was very disappointed he was mourning and mourned for his beloved son and for sure it became something that you know for us we understand that he wasn't dead but his father believed that he has lost his most beloved son now viewers and the rest of us there's so many lessons to glean from here the first one is that the devil uses family members for his own cause these were brothers you wouldn't imagine that they would plan to kill him if not kill him then sell him let him go wherever he was going so i would just like to encourage us that let us keep our gods high so that we are not suede or we are not used of the devil for his own purpose to do evil in families and thinking about it i don't think jackob had i mean josef had a problem because he was just this innocent guy who is trying to be close to his father i believe the father had also been giving him lessons to be a good boy as much as he was hated by his brothers but you see josef has no control over what's happening but even amid this terrible story we can still see the hand of god god's favor was still upon josef he meets this man who directs him and still he is sold and where he's going i think god had already made things and plans for him not to perish but for him to be seen in the life of josef may god help us that we may not be used as part of our family unit we may not be used by the devil to do his work or cause hate and strife in our families thank you thank you we just go on to what dorita has said and talked about in terms of the lessons that we pick another thing is that when you know when sin is conceived in us in in and we continue cultivating it in time it will bear fruits in the head trade that his brothers had for him as much as it was it was in their hearts it got to a point where but it now manifested in actions and that's why they said let us kill our brother let's get rid of him so if we have a sin if we have a hatred in our hearts christ fellow brethren and believers we are warned here that one day we shall act upon our hatred we shall act and you know we shall do the things that will become despicable in the sight of god just because we did not allow him to remove those whatever thing whatever sin lies in our hearts so let us always be careful for that is the same thing what god told kain that sin life at your door and he warned him but kain refused and see the path that he took and it led to his destruction all right so let us be careful brethren let us not have a sin in our hearts because it will lead to our destruction right and you know righteousness prevails in the end we get to see that truth will win and we'll see how the story goes you come in has reminded me when jesus was having this conversation with the Pharisees and the teachers of the loo and they were saying how do you do disciples eat without washing their hands and he told them whatever gets into the mouth does not pollute someone but what comes from the heart is what makes someone unrighteous yeah because out of the heart comes thoughts of killing someone lying covessiousness it starts from the heart it starts from in coming out thank you i am i am looking at the story deeply and seeing why did jack up have to send joseph why did he had a lot of sabat but this is very particular because the sons had gone back to shekem and shekem last sabatu looked at there was these two sons Irova usk doesn't talk about the story of Joseph. He introduces him in the fourth month of Jakub. That is Judah. He leaves to the brothers. He goes away from them. He goes and gets a cannonite woman. And marries. She conceived again and be a son and she called his name Onan.  She was at Chebel Chezib when she be a him. Now these sons grew very fast and their father, as a responsible father, goes find a wife called Tamar and gives Tamar his first born. Things happen, these children become very wicked and God kills the first born. The second born goes again Onan and commits wickedness before the eyes of the Lord and God kills him. That's what the scripture tells us. And then Judah is worried. He hesitates to give the third born to Tamar and tells her, you go wait until my son is grown up and I will give him unto you on due time. The lady's patient goes back home, we has her widowhood, clothing and waits patiently. And the son of Judah becomes of age and he completely hesitates to give him or to give Tamar for a wife. And this lady seeing the hesitation of the father in law, he has one day that the father in law is going to share his sheep and he will lay him on the way.   Meanwhile, the lady says, no, no, no, you can just leave like that. You give me some what you call nowadays collateral in case you disappear, what will I have on hand? So Judah says, what do you want? He requests for his signet and everything and his stuff.  There is absolutely no one who knows and they say, ah, there's no prostitute here. So the guy comes back and said, ah, okay, fine. It's okay, nothing. But as time goes, a word is sent to Judah and his soul, behold your daughter in law, has played harlot and she has conceived it.  It seems it's a practice of those time. If someone has committed or has been implicated of being a prostitute, they are being banned to eliminate. I shall explain why they say there are no prostitutes here. Yes, yes, yes, thank you. And before they act on her or they execute her, she says, okay, wait a minute. Can you send this to my father in law and tell him this and this, whoever they belong to, that man is the one who is responsible for this pregnancy. Then when this reaches Judah, he is astonished. He is shocked. He is dismayed. What did I exactly do with my daughter in law? And out of there he says, she is more righteous than I am. Let her alone. I am guilty. Please leave her. That reminds me of what Jesus taught. He says, we are too quick to see our brother's weakness falls. But Jesus says, remove the log that is in your eye. Then shall you be able to see the speck in your brother's eye. Right. It's a rebuke to us as we live. Actually it goes ahead and Jesus showed it in practice. There is this woman who was brought before Jesus early in the morning by the elders and the teachers of the law. They came dragging her out in the temple, outside. And they told Jesus, Jesus actually said, We found this woman in the very act. We caught him. Unfortunately these men were biased. There was no man. How was the woman alone? Why didn't they bring the man? They brought the woman and said, we caught her in the very act. And this is what Moses said in the law. For such as this, they should be stoned to death. And they asked him, what do you say? Jesus did not respond to them. He just bent down and started writing. And they kept on pissing. And they wanted to say, what is this man ignoring? Why is he ignoring us? Let's see what he's writing. And when they saw, the Bible says, they started living from the eldest to the youngest. And finally Jesus was left alone with the woman. And Jesus asked the woman, where are your accusers? And he says, go your way and sin no more. I also do not accuse you. That is how gracious our Jesus is. Yes, maybe just to add also to this point. Yes. The mistake that Judah did here, it started by him going down. He says he went down to the Canaanites. Where else do we see such a story? We look at him in the Book of Judges chapter 14 verse 1. He went down to Timnath. And so a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. It begins with small compromises. He went down. He left his brethren. And remember God was trying to make them a holy nation. But now starting to mingle with all the other nations brings about such issues. So he went down. And what happened there? He saw a Canaanite lady by the name Shua. She took her as a wife. And he did the same to his sons. He got them a Canaanite wife. And you see it all. So the moment you go down into sin, you start that path. It is a path that goes down and it goes down and down and under. So we need to be careful that we do not go down the path of sin because it will lead us to more sin and destruction. And even it will cause us problems, sorrow and heartache. We thank God for the amazing grace that reaches out this grace that saved Tama. At least we get to see that God gets to show up and some points and transforms. And that is the good news that we have for you right now that God will save his people through and using the evil. He turns it into good. There is a son that is born and the son is named Perez or Breakthrough. And we see the Canaanite. Let's take us back in the book of Genesis 5.6.7.  Castes be Kenan. In spite of the castes but Sheba coming into play. All these are lying. There are people who had been castes but God as our theme is how God can turn castes or evil into good. They are also included in the blessing. And in that lineage Jesus is born. Now we close our chapter 38 and turn over to chapter 39. We meet our own the boy with a coat of many colors once again. He has been sold by his brothers and down he goes to Egypt and he is sold to someone by the name Potipha and the Potipha buys this young man takes his home. The reader. That was a good break. A good break but we still see God's grace and love manifested and we are now back to Joseph one more time. As a slave now. Not as a loved son but as a prince expected prince. Exactly. And again now we are not dealing with the 17 year old Joseph. Joseph has grown and we are going to see that the things that he was taught by his father never departed from him. Amen. That is something to really think about as well. So he is in Egypt. He was already given a very good position. But in all of this he is the captain of the God and he was in charge of the prison for royal officials. That wasn't just a normal prison for that matter. So we see here Joseph again he is up and about doing his things but God's favor is still upon him. Whatever he touches the last of God and we can still see God's favor. Whatever he is doing he is doing it as unto the Lord. He is serving as a slave but giving it his best.   So Joseph's success does not get into his head. I mean thank God it's not me I mean the rest of us it's very easy for us to see well you're successful you want to share it out and now it doesn't get into his head and it doesn't corrupt his thinking and he is just a good person. So potifa's wife thoughts this and makes a move looks at him last fully and goes ahead but then Joseph what his father taught him what the word of God says and says no I shall not be engaged in any of this and in fact Joseph's wife potifa's wife feels very humiliated and he acts like Joseph has been in trouble and so he is accused and he is asked and he is thrown into prison why? because potifa's wife was screaming and crying that Joseph had tried to rape him and look at what Joseph says in Genesis 39 verse 9 he says that there is no one greater in this house than I nor has he kept back anything but you because you are his wife then he says I like this how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God he was not just about he is faced with a temptation but he decides in the moment quick he says he is not going to be involved in this actually he is thrown in but the Lord does not leave Joseph he still walks with him and carries him around so because of him being gifted he carries himself so well at the prison and the prison God again gets to notice notice him and notices that God is truly with him so it is important that we stand for God and are able to make choices for God regardless of the circumstances and consequences because God will always come through brothers and sisters if you are dealing with temptation it is important that you remember that it is only God who can get you out of this so as much as the devil tried to work through Joseph and he was able to stand for God regardless of the situation and regardless of what he was going through so may we be encouraged that when you stand for God you will show up at the right time I would like to re-emphasize I want to take up and we look through verse 11 because we always think Joseph was tempted once but the scripture is very categorical in verse 11 and it came to pass to pass about this time no sorry verse 10 11 okay sorry 10 and it came to pass she spoke to Joseph day by day the temptation to sin was not just once it was daily and it says Joseph did not accept did not taken unto her to lie by her or to be with her the New Testament teaches young people to flee from all sexual immorality this isn't just running or walking away to flee is to run for your life run because your life depends on it yes you need to take pre-question you are in danger and Joseph shows it even at the expense of him being thrown into the prison and now this guy goes into prison he is thrown into prison he goes there now he is going to meet other people chief maker we are still looking at how Joseph's life is turning out misfotun after misfotun and here we see despite all that he is going through Joseph is still faithful and he still remains consistent in his faith with God he passavias through it all and having been given the leadership or given charge over all the other prisoners in the prison he goes about his duty with diligence like a faithful servant and in his rounds he meets these two prisoners that have come from the king's palace who are looking down looking down troden and they are troubled and just as a good christian would do he goes and finds out what is the issue that's another lesson for us as christians that whenever we see people going through difficult moments let us be those people who give them a shoulder to lean on let us try and meet them at their points of need let us try and understand what troubles them actually the spirit prophecy is Jesus mingled with people as one who desired their good and after meeting them at their points of need then he beat them come follow me mingled with people of the people we intend to minister to so Joseph befriends these people he shows concern for their problems and they open up to him and the battler tells him he has this dream of three vines of grapes which he plucks and he is holding the cup of fero squeezes the grapes the grape juice into the cup and hands it over to fero so he is troubled by this dream and what does Joseph tell him he tells him that the interpretation of dreams is belongs to God that's also another lesson for us whenever we are gifted in any sphere of life it is because God is intending for us to glorify his name through those gifts we shouldn't take credit for anything we do with the gifts that God has given unto us because that is an opportunity for us to elevate God and to decrease ourselves so that we allow him to take precedence that's the only way he can bring more people to his fold so Joseph does that he recognizes that this gift is not his but is of God and he interprets the dream or the battler same thing happens with the baker after he sees this he tells I also had a dream of bread on my head and then what happens birds of the air came and devoured all the bread and Joseph tells the baker that what this dream means is that after three days you shall be beheaded and your body shall be feasted on by birds so it was a very disheartening interpretation for this baker and after three days indeed the word came to pass and the baker was beheaded and one thing he told the battler is that when you go please remember this Hebrew man you have made in prison who was put here through no fault of his own so remember me when you go however that was not the case another lesson for us to learn sometimes when we experience trouble and God delivers us out of our trouble we go our way and forget God had done how many times do we pray when we are in trouble we ask God please deliver us but the moment the deliverance comes we are quick to forget that oh God came through for us another lesson for us to take home that every time let us always be thankful to God in good times and in bad times let us always keep in heart the things that God has done in our lives this battler forgets this instance and we see Fero having two dreams in the same night and it troubles him to the point whereby he calls for his magicians and none of them is able to interpret these dreams and there is you know there is terror and you know there is that defending silence in the palace because people are worried you don't know what the Fero will do to us and he is deeply troubled by this and at that point in time what happens this battler remembers this story he remembers and he approaches the Fero and tells him you know what there is a guy I met in the prison he is a Hebrew but he can interpret your dream at this point in time this is another lesson Fero has been deeply troubled to the point whereby he does not care who has the gift to interpret his dream is the same thing God will put we may be experiencing trouble but God is trying to humble us to the point whereby we are now ready to listen to him and we see now the call for Joseph he reiterates the fact that the interpretation of dreams is not from him but from God and he tells the Fero what the dream means and he gives him the suggestion of what he needs to do in order to avoid the trouble that is coming with the 7 years of drought is the Fero Elevates Joseph opposition of authority that none other was equal to him other than the Fero himself look at God that is an amazing redemption from all the troubles he faced from the time he was sold by his brothers he did this you know how they despised him God was just preparing him for this role that he was coming to take and you see it's a lesson for us to learn that you know for God when God is preparing us to put us in positions of authority he takes us through a path of servanthood through this path Joseph learned how to be a servant when he got that position he never allowed the power to get into his head and he remained faithful to God amen we come to the end of our lesson discussion from chapter 37 to chapter 41 and what is your parting shots? for me it is the book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 16 which says let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven through and through we see that Joseph is representing God in a way that is pleasing to him and God shows up God always was with him when he is faced with temptation God is right there may we take and borrow this from the Word of God this day that we know that when you are going through a rough patch please never forget that God will always show up on your behalf may God bless you what is your last? my last parting shot comes from Matthew 24 verse 13 which says but he that shall endure in the end the same shall be saved Joseph endured the tribulations he remained consistent throughout let us be consistent and hold on to the promise that in the end we shall be saved we shall get the reward that has been promised to us amen my last shot is Psalms 121 which says we lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence my help coming from the Lord which may the heaven and earth he will not suffer thy foot to be moved he will keepeth thee will not slumber behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep the Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shield upon thy right hand the sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night the Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soul the Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in in front of thee this time forth and forever that is our last parting shot God will take care of us as he did take care of Joseph Sulevan I request you to pray for us to end this session we'll be looking through Joseph as now as a prince in Egypt the coming week pray heavenly father we thank you for these important lessons that we have learnt through the story of Joseph up to this point Lord we have indeed learnt a lot and we pray that may we have these lessons in our hearts may they give us hope as Christians and as your disciples in this world that Lord despite all the challenges we may face may we always remain faithful and endure because we know the promise is sure that at the end your reward of new earth and new heaven will come to pass and we will inherit that kingdom together with you I pray of God that you may be with us as we transition on to the other programs for the day leaders of God it is my humble prayer in Jesus name Amen Thank you, have a lovely Sabbath and goodbye Bye bye The evidence was made manifest in and out of his life and the same can happen to you only if you believe thanking you all for tuning in and for the members in church as you wind up I want us to consider the him sweet by and by him number 428 from our SDA himnul 428 I invite everyone to be up on their feet as we sing a song from our Njimboza Christo Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Njimboza Please you may be seated Sorry I'll still request if you don't mind let's all rise so that we pray to end the Sabbath school session kindly let's all rise so that we pray I'll invite my sister Achen to pray with us Let's pray Our heaven you father we thank you once again because you're good, you're great you're mighty, you're the beginning and the end we thank you for the lessons that we have studied this morning about Joseph the master of dreams we thank you because you reminded us that no matter the situation we find ourselves in you're always with us we thank you because you have reminded us that there is nothing too big for you to handle there is nothing too small in our daily lives that doesn't add up to our salvation Lord I pray that even as we go through the rest of the Sabbath day your message may continue to impress upon our hearts convict us that we may love you more that we may serve you more and that at the end of the day when you come back for us we may be ready for you be with us now and forever more for if prayed in Jesus name Amen Happy Sabbath Saints of the Most High We want to welcome you in a special way and before we begin I've been requested to ask all the ladies that are 65 years and above kindly find your way gracefully and take the front seats there's a special program for you kindly do that and we are going to start with the announcement but I'll give you just half a minute to kindly do that all the ladies 65 and above we know that you are gracefully aging and you can walk very fast still by the grace of God Thank you Thank you Can we have a very brief prayer before we begin the announcements We will pray We will pray as soon as our mums take their seats Thank you very much We are praying Mighty Father in Heaven You are a God of order and we want to make announcements to bring order into your church Kindly let your people listen and let us go according to this for the glory of your name for all this we ask in the holy name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Amen I'll invite my sister Dr. Grace Akech to come and do the camp meeting emphasis as we go on grace Thank you very much Happy Sabbath Once again we are going to have our camp meeting for this year and we are very very happy so from the health division health sector I would just like to welcome all of us that during the camp meeting we come and listen to the health messages we will have the health messages as usual on Saturday the first day in the afternoon and we'll be followed with a medical camp that we'll have on Sunday that is the third of July and I'm requesting you that for the medical camp we'll mainly look at the blood pressures and the blood sugars and we'll also try and do a bit of exercise during the medical camp it will be a very short duration for a maximum of three hours we'll start from nine up to around 12.30 on the Sunday and then after that we'll continue the program so I believe that we'll really have to be very strict in terms of the time that we have been given to us for the health talks and even the medical camp that we'll have on Sunday so I welcome all of you that we open our minds and let us all join this camp meeting that we'll be starting from the second to the ninth of July that is just next month and let us all take leave and try to at least attend the camp meeting so I welcome all of you and I bless you I ask the Lord to bless all of us so that as we plan to attend the camp meeting we also remember the medical sessions and these are very useful for us so that is what I would like to say and then I would also like to ask all of us that as we continue we also remember that we need to continue giving for the camp meeting offerings and even the camp meeting expense so I think we will be doing very well and I hope all of us will continue the same way thank you very much be blessed thank you sister Grace we anticipate in both the morning and afternoon program as we will be expounding more on this topic now the whole church is invited to come back in the afternoon because we are going to have leadership seminar that is going to involve literally both ladies and gentlemen and the speaker will be Dr. Hatta Von Stigl whom you know very well and you are therefore invited to come in relation to the women ministers again all ladies that are 16 years and above are cordially invited to come for a prayer breakfast meeting tomorrow morning that is the 12th of June 2022 beginning 8 45 am in the basement kindly you are asked to bring a friend I want to assume a lady friend not indicated but kindly bring a friend and the topic that will be discussed tomorrow is it is red and the speaker will be Dr. Millicent Masinde all ladies are welcome for that then we have the youth school lesson discussion youth school lesson discussion shall be held every Sabbath morning at the balcony beginning 8 30 am and all young members of the church are invited to attend the youth have themselves planned an outreach to the motherly care children's home on the 18th of June 2022 beginning 8 30 am all young members are invited to please join this group and you are requested to kindly channel your contributions to sister Betty B whose phone numbers are 0 7 triple 0 7 6 7 1 9 announcement number 3 baptismal school classes the church runs both virtual and in person baptismal and post baptismal classes every Sabbath morning running from 8 am to 9 am the baptismal classes are facilitated by elders whose phone number is 0 7 7 8 9 1 6 0 elders whose phone number is 0 7 0 7 3 4 1 5 4 and brother whose phone number is 0 7 3 9 6 1 9 3 7 while the baptismal classes are facilitated by elders whose phone number is 0 7 2 2 8 4 9 1 9 1 and elders whose phone number is 0 7 2 0 2 3 5 4 7 9 2 3 4 7 9 1 2 8 5 2 those desiring to attend these classes are welcome to get in touch with the announced persons or to go to the places where the classes are held every Sabbath and finally on evangelism we have an appeal for funds for local evangelism there has been a renewed interest in the evangelistic work in the unentered areas particularly in north whore, my corner and Sololo a mission which we had started much earlier about three years back the field while appreciating our past contribution in this area has requested us to continue supporting this mission by sponsoring at least an evangelist in my corner for a period of one year the church board is now appealing to the church members to contribute towards evangelism the evangelism fund so that we can be able to invigorate our outreach programs in this area please contribute in the normal envelopes in the church and use the pay bill of the church and clearly market local evangelism may the lord bless us as we continue in worship thank you thank you elder for the announcements we continue praising our lord and today we are going to consider three or four hymns as an expression of praise and faith and our king the lord whom we love hallelujah so kindly just turn to your neighbor and offer him or her a smile a warm smile even as we get to celebrate the women in church and the active role that they play so we'll start off by making use of him number three to one my Jesus three hundred and twenty one my Jesus wonderful I mean the lord ought to be praised two hundred and forty fairest lord Jesus ruler of all nature that's the hymn that we are going to sing and then when we come to the fourth stanza we'll do it a capella meaning no piano we just want to hear the congregation also lower voices as you increase yours two hundred and forty let me tell you one thing these also goes out to the online viewers central church is a blessed church hallelujah amen amen just love the passion in which you sing let's never tire to praise god five six one we plow the fields after all good things are sent from heaven above therefore let's praise the lord for all his love five six one after the third stanza as we are teaching so let's watch out for that we plow the fields and culture the good sea and salt refreshing three four pauses the question how uncle hold in the storms of life this is the order in which you are going to do the first stanza and the chorus then we'll have the ladies do the second stanza but we won't do the chorus so immediately after the second stanza the men join in singing the third stanza immediately after the third stanza the choristers will do the fourth stanza and the chorus then we'll finish the fifth stanza so just note between stanzas two and three we are not going to do the chorus five three four will your uncle hold in the rock which cannot move rounded thumb and deep in the saviour's long ladies until come we hold in the streets of Pih though the tempest rave and the wild wings glow not enough i to surely hold in the floods in the waters cold We can never fail while our hope is in the grave. Together let's sing the chorus. We did farm and deem in the bus and shore. So let's arise for the doxology and we'll make use of him number 390. 390 stands for 1 and 2. 390. 390 stands for 1 and 2. We don't have the wisdom to see. We don't have the knowledge. This can only come from you. We pray for your presence now and forever more. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Praise God. Ah, that's not enough. Praise God. Are you happy to be before the presence of the Lord? Thank you and I'll take this privilege and opportunity. First of all to thank God for allowing us to be here today. You are not here by chance. You are here by design. It's God Himself who made it possible that we be here to worship Him. And we thank Him because some could have wished to be here but they could not make it.  But for you who is here and any other person who is listening, we praise God that He has allowed you to worship today. Before we proceed I wish to bring to you a very strong team that is making sure that these messages are relayed live on our KBC and our church platforms. And those who are here that you can hear well and listen well because of this particular team that is working under our flow manager Brother Paul Odira. Our choristers, you can see their names, especially if you are watching KBC. We thank you very much for the good work that you are doing. We are with you until 4.30 today. May God be with you.  Our elders, our pastorates, we thank you for the good work that you've done and you continue to do. And for you also to attend to this worship today. I also wish to invite and welcome those who are watching us on our electronic platform starting with the National Corp. Cooperation KBC, our church platform YouTube and Facebook. Feel at home, feel welcome and feel at the feet of Jesus. We praise the Lord for everything as we welcome the next speaker to this program. May God bless you and God be with you. Thank you. Happy day. Happy Sabbath. Today is a very special day. Today is a prayer emphasis day for women world over. We were here last in March and today 11 June 2022. We are so delighted that there are so many of you here to support us in this program. And today the topic being heroines of faith. I want to read first Peter chapter three and verse four. We want to see these heroines of faith. What is one or two of the attributes? It says, but let your adorning be the hidden person in the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. I'd like to invite sister Susan Mwachi to help us conduct this appreciation session for our heroines of faith. God bless you. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. Today is a really really good day for us as women of Nairobi Central Church because it's a day that we are studying upon the heroines of faith in the Bible. And Phoebe has clearly read the heroines of faith in the Bible. And if I just ask, who are the heroines of faith? Faithfulness, you will tell me, Hannah. You will tell me all those. But we thank God that because of God's goodness even in this church we have heroines of faithfulness. God has blessed us so much and what we are going to do now is to say thank you to our heroines of faithfulness in this church. And our Akinche, Eunis Nyamanche, Yukabeth Maraga, it's okay, you can just walk. Yukabeth Maraga. Grace Mosi, Grace Okaio, Grace Onyango, Hata Von Stegen, that is our speaker. She's influenced the church worldwide. Isabella Tinga, Jen Odiambo, it's okay, you can just come. Jen Odiambo, Jen Ombengi. Jen Ombengi, Jennifer Oyeke, Jen Odiambo. Jerusha Muga is not here with us but she assured us she'll be watching. We love you Jerusha. Jessica Odira, Karina Agare, Lineta Kedi is also not here with us, she's watching. Thank you Lineta. Lineta Goom, Lineta Uma, Luisa Oluwach, Margaret Awor, Margaret Awor. Margaret Awor is actually the eldest and she's here today. It's okay Fibi, we can just put on any sash and then we will specifically. Then Margaret Aiemba, Margaret Kaia, Mare Nojode, Mary Masinde, Mary Obure, Mami, ya just come. Mary Kerubo Ongeri, Peris Oburu, Peris Oburu is not here with us also. She's in the U.S. Peris we also love you and say thank you for being a hero in our faithfulness in this church. Petronila Runga, Rispa Obure, Rispa Gogo, Ruth Mora, Susan Odongo, Winnie Ondieki, Zipora Abila and the ones we have not mentioned, I know you in the congregation. Please welcome. We are going to go into a prayer session. We know that our mami's at this time need our prayers. They pray for us but they need our prayers now. I'll welcome our sister Flora to come and pray for the mami's. And Steve is going to lead us in a song to God be the glory. Great things he has done. Steve and the choristers, you can lead us in that. As we celebrate and honor the heroines of faith amongst us, let's all rise as we do the first stanzan, the chorus of the song to God be the glory 341. Let's all rise. To God be the glory. Great things he has done. Sold out to the flex redemption, the purchase to every business of God, the valest offender who truly billions from Jesus are pardoned. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the Lord praise the Lord. To the Father through jinx he hath done. He hath taught us great rejoicing. Through Jesus the Son transports. When Jesus the Father. Through Jesus the... We want to humble ourselves as we pray for the heroine.  Let us pray. Father in the name of Jesus, we come this morning to thank you for who you are. All the women assembled before the congregation today are your children. You knew them before they were born. You know the journeys that they have travelled individually. We know for sure as a church that they've journeyed with you. And through the narrow and wide parts of life you have led them to the extent that women who are younger than them have confessed that they are here, some of them, because you spoke through them and kept them in the church. So thank you for all these women. Father, we know that in the journey of life there will be tribulations for them to stand as a testimony that they are still standing with you. We know you have stood with them. So we thank you. Father, for the privilege of learning from them because you exhort older women to teach younger women we thank you for the deposits that you gave them, each one of them, because they have impacted our lives. And so, Father, we pray for each one of them standing before the congregation wherever they are in the whole wide world, you know them. Father, we pray a special blessing upon their lives that as they have blessed others that in their years of resting not from this life but from hard labour that you may stay close to each one of them that as their children will have left their homes and they have remained some single, some still with their spouses that you may be God in their lives even in those years that when loneliness comes your spirit will be the safe companion, the sure companion, the comforter, the sure friend that you will bless their children because they have blessed other people's children and that you are the blesser beyond anyone else on earth that their children will impact the world for your kingdom and as they do that you will do for them what you did for Joseph and Daniel that in their mother's service in their grandmother's service they may find favour with you, oh Lord that they may not be a laughing stock but they may be pillars of faith to the honour and glory of your name Father we pray that those who may be unwell that you may touch them with your healing hand that those who may have pain both physical and emotional that Father you may stretch out you balm of Gilead may you be sufficient for each one of them that those who strength are waning for one reason or another that you may strengthen them not just physically but spiritually too and Father we pray more than these things that when the role is called upon and none of them may be missing those here and those who are resting in their graves waiting for the soon return of Jesus may all be in that lineup of Jude 24 that we may be presented faultless by your son Jesus because he is a keeper keep them keep us until that great day is a prayer in Jesus name Amen The women ministry department had organised a special gifting for our heroines of faith but because of time so please don't leave until you gift your gift but more than this there's a reward waiting for each one of us in heaven so stay on course be a heroine of faith Amen Happy Sabbath Happy Sabbath it's now time for tides and offerings the word of God tells us in Psalm 24 verse 1 that the earth is the Lord's and everything in it including the people who dwell on the earth the word of God also tells us that a tenth of what God gives us is holy unto the Lord and it is called a tithe the Bible also tells us in 2 Corinthians 9 verse 7 that God loves a cheerful giver I want to welcome the deacons and the deacons to stand so that they may do the collections of tides and offerings if you are following us virtually and you have access to M-Pesa you can use pay bill business number 320100 and then for the account number as we go on with the tides and offerings I want to call pastor or senior pastor to do some promotion of tides of stewardship and as he comes I was just mentioning that the M-Pesa pay bill is 320100 account number is either tithe offerings if you are giving for the come meeting offerings you indicate come meeting offerings thank you so much and I want to welcome pastor one two one two that all is good that all is good all the time as our sisters much forward here for a piece of music I am here just to mention briefly about the come meeting pastor want to thank you most of you have been so far for giving your offerings once the come meetings a goal that is one that we submit to the conference and the come expense and I want to just encourage us that come meeting is one of the means through which God keeps our experience of faith and this is a all through from the Old Testament coming all the way to the New Testament and our days God has sustained our faith through the experience of the come meeting and as you know for Narabia Central Church it's a big event I want to report to you as your pastor that so far we have all the speakers we are now booking the travel means those who are flying in those who are coming by the road working to one start every day and we just requesting you as you give your offering today remember it is you that support the come meeting not any other person you as a member the one seated here those online those watching us from KBC it is you who support our come meeting and I want to thank you because over the years we have done it so well through you the help of God we shall make it this morning as you give I humbly request you give to once the come meeting if you want to give for the offering just indicate offering those are giving for expense in total we are looking for about 6 million and I am sure that we are going to attain that because God has blessed us and he shall continue blessing us even as we give I want to say a very brief prayer before you give our graces for the heaven thank you so much for this precious privilege to worship you through giving the come meetings is a unique experience when you come down to Tabanako with us for all 80 days Lord I know that expenses and we are here today one more time to contribute to one of those expenses the come offering and all because you have blessed us feeling that you may move your children this morning Lord as they give they may offer their heart to you you may see the genuineness in the offering we may be get committed and in the next few sabats kami we will all have attained our goals and we shall wait for our speakers to come and we shall experience your moving of the power of the Holy Spirit in our meetings we thank you Lord for what you are doing for this church we thank you for what you shall continue doing continue your power and your presence this morning even as we give and as we continue worshiping we pray in Jesus name amen let's pray our kind and loving father we thank you for this day we thank you for the gift of life as we start our children please be with us protect us please help us to do well and please help us to learn about locusts very well and we can even ask questions about locusts please pray amen amen thank you so much happy sabat church happy sabat primary B happy and happy sabat to our online audience welcome to our children sabat and this month as you can see our primary B will be taking us through the children and our topic will be lessons from locusts we will look together and we will look at different books of the Bible we will look at exodas we will look at judges we will look at proverbs and we will look at Matthew so in all these books we will see verses that talk about locusts then we will see what lessons we can pick from them so before we go into what we learned today who has ever seen a locust and if you've seen a locust which color of locust did you see okay Lusinda so green brown yellow black so we've seen black we've seen green we've seen yellow that's correct so those are some of the colors that locusts take so if you've never seen a locust for the children in the congregation we have a big picture here of a locust so that's the animal we'll be learning from this whole month and before we go into the lesson for today we want to learn a few things about locusts so the first thing we learn about locust is how they grow okay so locust is a type of insects a type of insect and most insects have four stages in their life they have how many but locusts have three stages locusts have how many okay so when a locust is very small they are an egg they are what an egg okay then the second stage they are called a host can eat the same amount of food as its weight who can tell me how much they weigh here someone who knows their weight who can guess their weight 20 kilos no no no I want you as you as your weight you as not the locust who knows your own weight 39 kilos yes I'll tell you about 39 so all of us here are about from 30 to 30 to 40 kilos so when you say locusts can eat the same amount of food as their weight we mean that if you are 40 kilos or 30 kilos you can eat 30 kilos of food in a day can you eat 30 kilos of food in a day no because it's a lot of food so locusts even though they are very small animals they eat a lot of food another thing about locusts is they behave in two different ways they behave in two different ways so when a locust is alone when they are in small groups they like to stay alone but when they come and become so many they become like little monsters and they travel in big groups in the millions okay so a group of locusts can have over 80 million locusts okay so if locusts were to come to this church right now 80 million of them we would not have anywhere to stay they would cover everywhere so that's why when locusts move as a big group and they go and eat the crops in the farm they can finish the food and what happens when there's no food who can tell you what happens when you don't have food to eat you will die so in the coming weeks you will see what happens when locusts attack the farm and then they come in big groups so our memory for today is from Proverbs chapter 30 verse 27 and it says locusts they have no king but they match information can we read it together locusts they have no king but they match information so we've seen that locusts are very tiny creatures they eat a lot of food and they move in big groups so when locusts move in big groups they move in order so when they see that the weather in North and Kenya is good they all move together so they move in order so you want to see where else in the Bible can we see where people maintained order the book of Joshua chapter 6 and this is the story of the children of Israel and the children of Israel they had left Egypt a long time ago they were heading to the promised land Moses had died and now Joshua was leading the children of Israel so they had crossed the Jordan River and they had now come to Jericho okay they had come to yes and they were in Jericho and Jericho had very high walls and they wondered how they were going to defeat Jericho but God told Joshua what to do so God gave Joshua specific instructions okay God gave Joshua specific instruction meaning they had to do what God was saying so Joshua went and picked the soldiers from the camp and chose the people who would do what God had said so the people were to match the city around Jericho once every single day for six days and then on the seventh day they were to match seven times then after matching seven times they were to shout then after that the walls of Jericho would come down so they did exactly that and what happened the walls of Jericho came down and they won and they defeated the people of Jericho okay so we can see that the children of Israel worked together and they did what God had told them they did exactly what God had told them so even them they worked in order did we say that they were shouting every single day no okay because the order was you shout at the end at the seventh day after going seven times okay so we've learned that the little creatures they lock us they move in order that God loves order because God told the children of Israel what to do in order to defeat Jericho so you want to see what can we learn from this so I want to ask a question how can we be orderly at home how can we be orderly at home by washing the dishes and helping your mum in chores yes by washing the dishes and helping with the chores yes by cleaning your room okay how can we be orderly in church how can we be orderly in church by praying by listening to our teachers yes by listening to our teachers and being reverent in church how can we be orderly in school by finishing the work by finishing our work by being attentive by being attentive respecting the teachers keeping your books well keeping your books well and obeying amen so our main lesson for today was on order and we've learned it's there and they will say it together every time you hear about lockers remember God loves order can we say it together every time you hear about lockers remember God loves order amen so thank you so much for joining us thank you children and we welcome you next sabat as we learn something else about trusting God from the lockers for now we will have a prayer then we will move to the next session let us pray our kind and everlasting father we thank you for this day we thank you for the gift of life now as you are finished learning about lockers guide us protect us and I personally pray amen that's all from primary B next sabat bye good morning church happy sabat let's say to as we read let's be quiet our reading today is Isaiah chapter 58 verse 9 but before I read may we pray father in heaven this is your word not ours so we ask you to bring it down to us and bless the preacher as she will expound in it thank you so much for being our God always I pray in Jesus name let's read Isaiah 58 verse 9 then you shall call and the Lord will answer you shall cry and he will say here I am if you take away the yoke from your mids the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness I'll repeat then you shall call and the Lord will answer you shall cry and he will say here I am if you take away the yoke from your mids the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness may the Lord bless his word amen let's arise for the opening song song number 73 holy holy holy song number 73 let's arise may be seated very much kora sisters for that beautiful beautiful song holy holy holy it's a privilege to be with you I'm Dr. Herta von Stiegel I feel it's a tremendous tremendous privilege to be here at Nairobi Central Church last time I spoke here the place was empty and I just feel so blessed to be able to look at your faces some with masks, some without masks but feel welcome in the house of the Lord and those of you who are watching us through KBC and through other social media I welcome you into this time of worship this time where we are lifting our gaze toward heaven let me just ask how many here are Hebrew scholars do you know what Hineni means and if you do, don't say it it's our secret for the moment but by the time we finish I hope everyone will know what it means so let us bow for a word of prayer heavenly father it's me again and I just thank you so much for the privilege of being here made awards of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your side my Lord my strength and my redeemer those of you who know me and have heard me preach before you know I'm a theologian at heart I trained as a lawyer and worked as a banker and I am operating in the marketplace but I love I love the beauty of God's character and I love the beauty of God in the Bible and so I will stay close to two passages in scripture this morning I will stay close to Isaiah chapter 6 which is the main passage that we will be covering but we will also look at second chronicles 26 because to make sense out of Isaiah chapter 6 we actually need to look at chronicles so are we together are we ready to go fantastic fantastic so let's revel in the beauty of God this morning so Isaiah chapter 6 and I will be working from the new international version and the contemporary English version Isaiah chapter 6 verse 1 in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord high and exalted seating on a throne this is Isaiah speaking in the year that King Uzziah died you know one thing that you learn when you are a student of scripture that is not a wasted word right everything in the Bible counts every single word counts and when Isaiah says this happened in the year that King Uzziah died there is a reason for that so let's explore very very quickly who was Uzziah and why was his death significant so let's go now keep your finger in Isaiah 6 but let's go to second chronicles 26 and I will go through this quickly but there are so many gems here and I want to make sure that we don't miss them so you need to stay alert so Isaiah chronicles 26 after the death of King Amaziah the people of Judah crowned his son Uzziah king even though he was only 16 years old he was only 16 Uzziah ruled 52 years from Jerusalem the hometown of his mother Jackalaya during his rule he captured and rebuilt the town of Elat verse 4 he obeyed the Lord by doing right as his father Amaziah had done Zachariah was Uzziah's advisor and taught him to obey God and so as long as Zachariah was alive Uzziah was faithful to God and God made him successful who made him successful God made him successful so there are three people mentioned in this in these few verses who are the three people Amaziah the father yes Jackalaya the mother and Zachariah the advisor okay so three people are mentioned Amaziah the father Jackalaya the mother and Zachariah his advisor let me call out to the parents father you are important to your child you are important to your sons you are important to your daughters mothers and remember this is a male dominated society right and who is mentioned every time when it makes a difference the mother let's not forget the mother the mothers you are the most important the most influential person in your son's life if your son grows up to respect women it is largely because of you treat that position with care it is a sacred calling and at this time I just want to give credit to my mother this is the last picture that I took of my mother and I hope the camera can zoom in because she and I had just gone to get to the hairdresser and my mother was an incredible incredible woman of faith she had amazing experiences with the Lord and my sister and I took this picture just after we had gone to the hairdressers together and this was really the last picture that we took before she had a stroke I am so grateful to this day I listened to my mother she kept repeating that's a whole other story and maybe we can cover those some other time but incredible incredible experiences with the Lord she was a woman of deep faith as was her mother so my grandmother and my mother influenced my life in ways that I cannot possibly give them credit for both my parents rest in Jesus where grave we have in granite we have emblazoned Jesus words I am the resurrection and the life and I look forward to the day when I will see my parents in glory and that will be a day to behold and I'm sure many of you look forward to that day as well so mother incredibly important and then there is Zachariah so let me talk to the youth how old was Uzaya when he was called to serve as king he was only 16 years old did he reign well he reigned well as long as he listened to Zachariah so young people let me remind you you can lead and you can lead well but it depends to whom you listen who has your ear who is influencing you the story of Uzaya tells us even though he was a very young man he led so well as long as he listened to Zachariah so choose very carefully to whom you listen this was during the time of the divided kingdom so you had Israel in the north and you had Judah in the south and for the most part the kings in the south did what was right in the eyes of the Lord but then this is almost like a Shakespearean tragedy it says God helped Uzaya become more and more powerful and he was famous all over the world so Uzaya did everything right and then there is a twist there is a twist in here because Uzaya became proud of his power what does the wise man tell us pride comes what before the fall Uzaya became proud of his power and this led to his downfall if you need to read the story in the interest of time I can't cover all this but Uzaya basically marches in the temple and basically he is what Uzaya remember he is what he is king and he marches in the temple and all of a sudden he wants to become priest is that his job that's not his job and the story tells us there are 80 priests 80 courageous priests plus the high priest and they do what they stand in front of Uzaya and say no Uzaya you cannot go there that's not your job that's not your job and the minute this happens the bible tells us Uzaya basically the minute the priest stood before him Uzaya became a leper and the lepersi started at his forehead it's such a sad story because Uzaya's thinking was wrong and God was telling everyone when you're thinking is wrong it affects what you do right and so he starts he becomes a leper and it starts on his forehead so my question is this where are the faithful priests today and pastors of this church leaders globally church leaders globally I'm asking you are you courageous like the priests in Uzaya stays are you willing to speak truth to power or are you mingling with those who you think are powerful I do not remember who said this but I have never forgotten the quote and the quote is this when the church goes to bed with the state so when we commingle church and state when the church goes to bed with state it's the church that gets pregnant and her children never look like our heavenly father did you get that that's what happens we need people of integrity we need priests today who are willing to speak truth to power amen so I'm looking for the courageous priests and I believe there are some here so the Uzaya had done everything and he had everything and yet it was not enough and the lesson I want us to take away from this is when Uzaya became powerful and he thought he had achieved it all by himself he wanted more he wanted what did not belong to him and so he ended up with a lot less than he started with and that's the lesson for today dear people if we reach for something not want us to have we end up with less than we had before we started that's the lesson from Uzaya he ended up not even being buried with the other kings because he had leprosy and this is a warning for us all because Rockefeller who was incredibly wealthy one of the few men building America one of the wealthiest men in the nation he was asked how much money is enough and you know what wealthy Rockefeller said just a little more than a man has temporal things will never satisfy us they will never fill the void in our hearts and we can grab and we can try but they will not fill the void the void that is in our hearts that can only be filled by God the eternal and so the verse in chronicles 26 says everything else Uzaya did while he was king is in the records written by the prophet Isaiah so let's go back to Isaiah chapter 6 and let's now you understand the scene this is the year king Uzaya died it's a year of devastation for Isaiah for many reasons it's probably around the year 740 739 BC and there is a crisis in the land because the great Assyrian king Tiglat Pileser is on the borders he has basically attacked everyone coming from Assyria the Assyrians were known for their brutality and they are marching across and while Uzaya was alive he had marshaled the resistance against the Assyrians and here he stands now Isaiah in the year king Uzaya dies he is going into the temple because he is really worried one of the commentators put it this way it was in the midst of Tiglat Pileser's campaigns against the west that Uzaya died the man who had taken a strong stand against Assyria was gone what would now be the fate of Judah must all the world fall prey to Assyrian arms Assyrian might appeared invincible and it seemed to be only a question of time before Judah would be overwhelmed and Assyria would conquer the world so this is the crisis and for Isaiah it's a crisis of sovereignty but it's also a personal crisis because Isaiah unlike some of the other prophets in the Old Testament Isaiah is a member of the royal family he is an aristocrat he goes in and out of the royal courts and Uzaya was probably a relative some stated crisis we don't have enough grain here we don't have enough sunflower oil because Russia decided to attack Ukraine we have crisis wherever we look we see people being shot in Nigeria everywhere we look we seem to have issues so at a time of devastation like that my dear friends we have a choice we can look at what's around us or we can choose to move the camera lens and move it to another place and that's what Isaiah does he comes at a time of personal devastation he comes to the temple and he says I saw the Lord now you need to get this I saw the Lord how is it spelled in your bibles it's in capital letters so this means adonai this means the sovereign one it's the title of God it's like president Kenyatta his title is president chancellor Schultz president Biden chairman so here adonai is the title of God and it means the sovereign one so what is Isaiah experiencing Isaiah is experiencing a crisis of sovereignty the king has just died his friend has died and yet the Lord appears to Isaiah as what the sovereign of the universe the Lord is basically saying to Isaiah there is no crisis in sovereignty I am in control I am the sovereign one adonai sovereign title of the God in the Old Testament and this is the message that God is basically saying to Isaiah I am the sovereign one in education a wonderful quote by Ellen White one of my absolute favorite authors says this when perils encompass God's people and the powers of darkness seem about to prevail God calls them to look to him seated upon his throne and directing in the affairs of heaven and earth take hope and courage so this morning their viewers their people who are here take courage in spite of what is happening around us God is in control he is adonai he is the sovereign one and as Isaiah sees God in all his sovereignty he sees the seraphims and in front of the throne and they are calling holy holy holy is the Lord now here the word that Isaiah uses is Yahweh the Lord Yahweh this is the name of God and Isaiah is saying now I see my God I see the Lord almighty and the whole earth is full of his glory this is the only characteristic of God that is mentioned three times holy holy holy we never hear God is love love love or mercy mercy mercy as important as those things are let's never forget that the God of the universe whom we serve he is holy he is not our best friend even though he is there too but let's not forget that God is holy holy holy holy and when God appears in his holiness there is nothing boring sometimes I hear people say oh I'm not going to church because it's so boring well let me tell you why church is boring the church is boring if we don't allow God to show up when God shows up everything shakes and that's what Isaiah is experiencing he says at the sound of their voices the doorpost and the threshold shook and the temple was filled with smoke when God appears everything is shaking so Isaiah approaches the temple approaches God in a state of devastation but God is revealing himself to Isaiah in all his glory in all his might as the sovereign one and as Yahweh but God is also revealing himself to Isaiah and Isaiah at this point is saying woe to me I am ruined for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among the people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the Lord God Almighty the King you know what Isaiah is doing here this is so significant Isaiah is pronouncing judgment on himself dear brothers and sisters, dear saints read the previous chapters of Isaiah up to this point at least 7 times Isaiah is pronouncing judgment on everybody else woe is to so and so and so and that's what we do as well it's so easy to criticize people around us but when we stand in front of the Holy God all of a sudden we need to say woe is me and here is the statesman here is the aristocrat who is basically all of a sudden he is saying I am undone what is going to happen to me I am undone and he is pronouncing judgment on himself and then the transformation happens and you read the chapter for yourself the transformation happens because an angel comes touches his lips with fire and the beautiful thing that the angel says is see this has touched your lips your guilt is taken away and your sin is atoned for we don't have time to unpack this but the symbol of the fire is what that is what it's the Holy Spirit isn't it it's the Holy Spirit that is what is happening here the Holy Spirit is coming and it symbolize through the angel here and is cleaning Isaiah so this morning I want you to remember when you come to God he never leaves you where you are your guilt is taken away and you can move forward everything is atoned for so you don't have to come and think about what happened 10 years ago or 50 years ago or whatever because God is saying when I touch you when I fill you with the cleansing of the blood of Jesus when the Holy Spirit floods through you your guilt is taken away and it is at this point then the commission happens so we have devastation we have a revelation of God we have a revelation of self to Isaiah we have a transformation of Isaiah and now we have the commission and basically then I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us whom shall I send and who will go for us this is what the Lord is asking Isaiah and Isaiah is then sitting there and he is basically wringing his hands and saying Lord I'm not sure if I want to go can you tell me a bit more will I like when you are sending me is that what Isaiah does no Isaiah is basically saying here am I send me and what here am I Hebrew scholars are telling us this is the word Hineni so I want you to all say Hineni Hineni so when Isaiah is basically saying Hineni he's basically saying not I'm here I'm standing at the pulpit or I'm here in the temple he's saying here am I God I am Isaiah and I want to unpack this a bit because from this point forward Isaiah is one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament and he's serving 64 years 64 years as prophet Abraham said Hineni when he was over 100 years old Moses said Hineni when he was 80 years old Samuel said Hineni when he was a small child and Isaiah says Hineni probably in his 20s so what does that tell us is anybody excluded from this no this includes everyone there are no excuses and the beauty of Hineni is that God redeems the self Isaiah could still speak in terms of I here am I he still had an identity he still had a personality far from God seeking to destroy the self God redeems the self and young people in particular I want you to grasp this God redeems the self he doesn't want to destroy you he wants to bring out the best in you he wants to develop you to your fullest potential my husband and I will remind me that we have been married for 16,615,634 days now he is my soulmate my husband is my soulmate he is my best friend we are intertwined like this but he still hunts and I'm still herta but I am a better herta because I married to hunts and this is what God is conveying here Hineni I will and when Isaiah says Hineni God is basically saying I'm redeeming yourself Hineni also means I am willing available and ready I am here I am willing I'm available I'm ready Hineni also means I take my stand we kind of think that Luther the great reformer Martin Luther said when he stood at the diet of worms I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe here I stand I can do no other so help me God amen so this is what Hineni means and in the next minute and 45 seconds plaa maa nt wa ntwa apiki na waju, na waju na waju na waju, na nyipi tofka mimbawa ya na wana. Godi nmumesu pisha, Nmumesu pisha safutu mtokini, karo nmuitu, na waju na skripta ya na waju, Godi nmiaisha iaa Iseya 58-9 jaa, wa waju kenya. Mwujiruwe moja You will cry for help, and he will say, Hineni, here I am. This is what God is saying. Here I am. So God, God is calling each one of us, and I will do this during the benediction. So I will close the sermon here, but I would like you to think. Are you willing because God is asking each one of us this morning, who will go for us, whom can we send? Are you prepared to say Hineni? Thank you very much. Happy Sabbath, happy day. Before you is Sisters in Greece and we say Hineni today. That song and I love the way you interpreted it. Let's bow our heads for the benediction. Let's all stand though, let's all stand. It's hard to sit with so much excitement. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. Amen.  Those of you ladies, young girls who are under 30, can you raise your hand? I just want to leave you with this message. You are never too young to lead. And if you follow the steps that I have just described, that we glean from Isaiah 6, no one can stop you. God is asking whom shall we send? Don't wait for positions. Don't wait for someone to give you a fancy title. Just serve. Mary decided to pour perfume on Jesus. Nobody asked her to do it. She did it and it was one of the few sense of comfort that Jesus had during those dark hours of the crucifixion. I am sure that perfume could still be smelled when the garments were basically bargained for and were at the foot of the cross. Don't ask for someone to give you a position. Just go. Young men, 30 and under. And this is for the girls as well, for the women as well. We always say, you are the future of the church. I disagree. You are the church. And go forth and lead. Isaiah was so old, 16 years old, and he led well while he listened to the right people. So listen to the right people and lead well. And all of us who are older than 30, we carry the shoulders, the world on our shoulders. We really do. And I want to talk to the women who are over 30. We carry an incredible load. Childrearing, careers, ailing parents. We are the sandwich generation. Everything is on our shoulders. But take heart. I always say it takes enlightened men and brave women to change the world. Women step forward. This world is not going to survive if we don't do our part. We step forward and lead in the power and the grace of God. And men, men, enlightened men, we will be talking about this this afternoon. We need men who are enlightened by the power of the Holy Spirit. And I want to challenge you. If you are neglecting your families, please don't come to church. Go and look after your families first. The nations are devastated by fathers who are not carrying their load, who are not taking responsibility for their families. As Christian men, show the world what needs to be done. Be an example. Be a comfort to those around us. So may we all, with the grace of God, say Hineni, send me, let me make a difference for the kingdom. So this afternoon we will continue. I am so honored to be the guest of the women's ministry department today. They have done so much work. There is another program this afternoon that will enrich you, that will enlighten you, so please do come. And I understand there's also a prayer breakfast tomorrow morning. So the best is yet to come. So do continue at the feet of Jesus. Do continue in the presence of God. And let's all encourage one another as we see the day approaching. Thank you very much. While still standing, 203 as the postlude. This is the threefold truth, 203. We will get seated. Thank you so much. Happy Sabbath. We have come to the end of our program this morning. And what a powerful message. Sister be blessed. God bless you. That's not the end of everything as he or she has told you. We are continuing this afternoon. Kindly attend to it. You can come here physically or follow on our platform. But before we do that, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the teams that have been working behind the scenes, those that are working on the floor and even our KBC partners for making this a reality. We thank God for everything because it's God that has given us the power and the glory to do that. Now before we wind up, they will lead us in a few songs and they will say the crest. But before that, I would like to make a few announcements. A request, a kind request that if you are a lady and you are more than 65 years, kindly see the leader of women ministry after this. And the floor managers and the communication team kindly let's meet my far right immediately after this. We will say the grace after we have sang the songs that are heard of us through the choristers. May God bless you. Let's meet again at 14 hours this African time.  Thank you. Proceed. Thank you Eldamuachi for the announcement. We are going to do three hymns. Then finish with a song which will be our camp meeting theme song. We don't have the benefits of screen right now but to our online audience, the words will be on the screen. But before we come to that song maybe for those who are the gadgets, you can check the song with a story to tell to the nation. Just right somewhere we have but we have a story to tell to the nation. But we'll start with a Swahili hymn from our nimboza Christo Mfalme yuum Langoni 157. The coming king is at the door. That song, at least you get the tune as we prepare for the camp meeting. So the song is titled Weave a Story to Tell to the Nations. Let me see how many have ever heard that song. Just raise your hand. Ever come across that song, yes. I see our guest here. Quite a number, great. So let's try the second stanza and the fifth stanza, second and fourth. An easy song but so I believe by the time we come for the camp meeting, screens will be there. But in the meantime, check online, check on YouTube, Weave a story to tell to the nations. Let's arise for the last song that is a song to Asha as out. We go forth and teach all nations because this gospel of the kingdom ought to be preached to all the world as a witness. That is song number 366. O where are the rippas? Are you a ripper? 366. Thank you. That is a powerful singing. I thought we already in the camp meetings. Before we pray, we just want to invite our sisters, the heroines of this church, quite a number of them, our elderly mothers who want to have a special prayers for you. If you consider yourself as part of one of our elder mothers in church, kindly we invite you to come. We cognize your service in this church for many years and elsewhere.  We recognize your general faith and we want to commit to... I'm talking just come. Just come. Our elder sisters, if you're able to walk up front here, we want to pray for you. I mean, without you, without you this church could not stand. We indeed recognize you and want to have a very special prayer. I want to invite the head elders to come. Pastas, pastas, Ogeta, please come. If you're over 65, let me give that cut line so that you know where you fall. If you're over 65, do you know what it means to be in faith and work? Jan or faith, you are over 65 years. And some of these ladies began when they were very young, they were born in church. They are believed in church and are still in church. And some of us who are young, we are struggling to come to church even earlier. Some of these ladies, I see them very early here in church. We want to thank you so much. We want to thank you so much for this. And also I've seen, I'm recognizing the presence of Eldan Binda. He has been away for a while. Since COVID came, we haven't seen him. Elda, I can see you today, you're here. I'm so happy, I'm so happy to see you Elda having come. But God bless you, we recognize your presence today with us. But because it's a women's day, let's pray for our sisters. My mother's made the Lord bless you so much. You remind me of my mother. Whenever I go home, she has to pray for me. And I can tell you for sure, the fact of come is because of her prayers for me. She has always reminded me, God is taking care of me. And when I see you, I feel encouraged. And I think for us as pastors, you are our strength. Together with the Eldas we have in each church. So we want to pray for you and please may you allow in faith gone to visit you in this moment of prayer as we pray together. Thank you, my Eldas. I would invite one of the head Eldas to pray with us. Just before that, I request that we pray with this text. And please don't be tired. Remember we are all coming here. Please beg that. Sam 71 verse 17 and 18. Oh God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do now that I am old and gray. Do not abandon me, oh God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation.  May this be your experience. Amen. Let's pray. Our loving Father in heaven. Creator of the universe and of us all. We thank you this Sabbath day for the wonderful opportunity we have had to hear from your people, from your children and especially our mothers. Your servant, Dr. Funtico, has really put through the Holy Spirit the message that encourages and reawakens us. And now on this pulpit, we are standing with our sisters who have served you. We know each and every one of them from the time they were born up to now. And we are putting them in particular at this moment before you. In thankfulness for the life you have given them and in particular for the salvation that you have offered to them and to us that when Jesus comes again, they may also be able to meet him in the crowds of heaven. Lord be with them. At this age, the body might not be willing although the spirit is willing and we know that each and every one of them is committed to you. Bless their children, their grandchildren, their spouses and the church where we are standing, where they serve you because we ask all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Lord together with what your man servant has brought before you concerning our mothers who stand up front here, we are seen to behold the beauty of your family. These mothers who have worked with you did if today the Bible was being written and assembled, some of these mothers would appear in the scriptures just for the commitment and the faith they have demonstrated in so many days they have lived and worked with you. Lord, time may not allow us to speak of each one of them. Some began their journey in faith while they were in their mother's womb born and brought to church and praying for and they have never departed from you.  They have a reason every single Sabbath in struggles, their bones are failing, their flesh is failing yet they are so warm inside of their hearts. Lord we just came to pose a little longer to say thank you for our mothers. Lord I know they are in a crisis because of age. Most of them have retired even from their careers they have been left alone their children have gone away into their own homes some of them even have lost their spouses they are just lonely in this life but we thank you for the timely message today that there is no crisis in sovereignty. So Lord we trust that you are with them and we want to commit them in a special way this morning to you father you who began this good work in them that you shall bring it to compression even to the glory of your name. Lord I pray for each one of them yonda when the trumpet will sound these mothers they will be found in our kingdom. I also pray oh my God that you shall give them long give it to of life that they will be here because we like we have hand today from the message as young people today young leaders youthful in the shipping church we need such young ladies and men who can give us advice as we are in the church Lord just for the sake of your church and for the sake of generations that are coming up we pray that we shall add many days into their life and take away their pain may they age gracefully because they trusted in you Lord now I want to commit all their children wherever they are even though they may have left and from their own families they still remain their children Lord I pray for every single fruit of their umbo my father reach out to them and bless them I pray I pray for their grandchildren Lord because of the faith of these women even those who are the crossroads and struggling to keep this faith bring them back to the fold and prepare them together with their grandmothers and mothers as we come the second time Lord these ladies their hearts will be full of joy to see that their labor was not in vain they will finally hear the names and the names of their spouses and the names of their children and the names of their grandchildren and the many children of faith they have brought to the fold we bless them in the name of Jesus we pray for grace to be enough in their lives bless their food bless their water bless their dwelling bless all that they do and give them peace Lord I pray even those who are struggling even to come every Sabbath give them strength we need them here in this church even when they can't do anything just by sitting and we see them we have hope give them strength every Sabbath morning to come and worship with us and as their children Lord help us to remember they were there for us with their whole hearts that we may be there for them with our whole hearts in times they need we shall be there for them unite us long together with the cause of love that can never be broken teach us that we need each other teach us that once we go to heaven we will never see who was old or who was young for even in their old age they shall be renewed, transformed and we shall be young one more time because we trusted in you thank you Lord for this church for blessing us bless every single member we pray all these things in Jesus name and may the grace for Lord Jesus Christ Lord God the fellowship of the Holy Spirit beg us now and forevermore amen amen thank you so much our mothers we love you so much we pray for you pray for us too thank you thank you we will be free now to go for lunch don't forget that women have great program in the afternoon as you step out the head elders the communication team the platform managers to remain behind here shortly for a brief thank you