 God is ever faithful. We are grateful to be in the house of prayer today that we may conclude our week in Sabbath worship as we begin and utter the Sabbath, thanking God for guiding us through this entire week. We have had the ammo week of prayer and we are just about to end it and I'd like us to begin with the word of prayer as we start our program. Let us pray. Our Father God in heaven, we know that you are God and you are great and most of all you are the Lord of Sabbath. We thank you for giving us a week that we were able to work and now as we enter into your presence may your Holy Spirit descend, may the words that we speak and that we utter may give glory and honor to your name and most of all may our worship be acceptable in your sight. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and visit with us today in Jesus' mighty name that we have prayed. Amen. All right, so happy Sabbath once more. We shall sing the song 5-6-0 in the SDA hymnal. Let all things now living. 5-6-0. At all things now living a song of thanksgiving to God the Creator triumphantly raise who fashioned and made us protect us who guide us on to the end of our days his path till shadow as forward we travel from light into the says the orbit, obedient ocean pro to God. Welcome to this service. Happy Sabbath brethren. The service today I will be leading you in the opening prayer. So let's pray. Father, I come before you. We want to thank you and give on in glory to your mighty name. You've been with us throughout the week doing various activities. Lord, your father, traveling here and there. You've taken care of our families. You provided us with males roofs of our heads, father. And we are still under your wings, Lord. We thank you so much for your care and concern. We ask you Lord, may you be with us today as you enter into Sabbath as you also want to start the service Lord for today. May you be with us. May you be with our speaker. May you touch his mouth. I impress upon him Lord of Father to share what you've blessed with him to share today. We are asking Lord that may you be with all the members in our congregations, those who are here and even those who will be joining us in various platforms. We ask Lord that may you open their hearts, open their minds to hear your word for Lord of Father, not only to hear, but to hear and to act accordingly Lord. We thank you so much for your word. We thank you for bringing us here. We give honor and glory unto your name. May this word and the service today Lord reach out to as many people as you have desired and planned for today that we may hear you. We thank you and we praise you and I commit all those who will be standing here on this pulpit to speak and share that which you've granted and planned for us to share today that we may do it in a manner that is pleasing before you. We thank you Father and ask that you be with us as we begin and even later on, even as you will depart to our various homes and places of rest, we still ask that may you continue working with us. We thank you and we praise you. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Praise the Lord and happy Sabbath. I would like to take this opportunity to invite each and every one of you across the board in Africa, in Kenya, every part of this country. We want to thank you for joining us in the social media and also for those who have joined us here physically. Maybe you might be looking for this online page. Just go to the Nairobi Central SDA YouTube page or in the Facebook page, you'll find it as Nairobi Central SDA Facebook page. Welcome and be with us. May you feel free and blessed at the feet of Jesus. I'm going to take you through the welcome and the introduction and the sister who opened with the one who was in charge of Coristor is Sister Zawadi Obiero and the gentleman who has just prayed for us so that you can be able to begin is Brother Richard Obiero. We shall get our scripture reading from Brother Clarkstone, Kathiani and the one who is going to break the bread for the last six days and I hope you have been blessed so far. I have been blessed. It's my prayer that even today we are going to be blessed. Continue praying for our pastor. His name is Pastor LaVan Moyo. So viewers, I want to welcome you and may you be blessed even as we are going to continue with this session. Thank you so much and let me invite Brother Clarkstone so that you can go to read for us the scripture reading. Be blessed. Our scripture reading is going to come from the book of Exodus chapter 10 verse eight. Exodus 10 verse eight and it says, And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh. And he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God. But who are they that shall go? May the Almighty God add blessings to his scripture reading. Thank you very much. Happy Sabbath, everyone. It is such a blessing to be in God's house one more time. And what a week it has been where we have unpacked the concept, let us make man. And God has blessed us in a special way. In this week of prayer organized by Nairobi Central Church Ammo, a week of revival, a week of prayer, a week of listening to the messages which have come from the throne of God. It has been my privilege and it has been my joy to share from the word of God in this week of prayer. And my prayer for us as we are about to close this week of prayer is that may God continue to bless us and to minister to us in a special way through these messages. I have been blessed in a particular way and in a special way because these messages speak to me first and foremost before they speak to you. I want to welcome those who are watching us from our Facebook page and those who are watching us live from our YouTube channel. May God bless us in a special way. And I want to wish you a happy Sabbath. Shabbat shalom. May God bless you in these holy hours. Our message for tonight is in the form of a question. And the question is found in Exodus, chapter 10 and verse eight. I want to thank my brother who gave us the scripture reading. I read to you from the new King James version of the Bible. Exodus chapter 10 and verse eight. Listen to what the Bible says to us. So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh and he said to them, Go, serve the Lord your God. Who are the ones that are going? Verse nine. And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old with our sons and our daughters with our flocks and our herds. We will go for we must hold a feast to the Lord. May God bless the reading of his word. Let's bow our heads as we pray this evening. Father in heaven, we are so grateful for yet another privilege that you have bestowed upon us that we can come and listen to you speaking to us in a special way. Father, I want to thank you for the strength that you have blessed me with to stand in this pulpit and to share your word with your people. Father, it has been a privilege and it has been a joy. Now as we have our last evening service before the last service which will be tomorrow, we pray that may you help us to answer the question, who will go with you? Thank you, Father, for hearing this prayer for we have prayed in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen. The book of Exodus gives us what many scholars and academics and preachers want to speak of as a symbolism while it is a historical book, but it has many symbolic lessons that we can learn from the book of Exodus that speak to the great controversy. The Bible reveals to us in Revelation chapter 12 that there was war in heaven and the two sides that were contesting were one, God and Christ and the holy angels versus Lucifer and the angels that he had deceived. The Bible tells us in the book of Ezekiel as well as in the book of Isaiah that Lucifer was an angel that was created as an extremely highly ranking angel, but he became discontented or discontent with the position that God had given to him. He wanted to be the like the most high. He wanted to be greater. He wanted to set his throne above the throne of God. And so we find that as Lucifer, who is also mentioned as the devil and the old serpent, as he comes to planet Earth, he begins to infuse and to influence mankind to rebel against God. And so when we find Adam and Eve eating of the fruit, we find that they have fallen into to sin and have become partakers of the rebellion that took place in heaven. Genesis chapter four then reveals to us the reproduction of the procreation of mankind through Cain and Abel. And in the life of Cain and Abel, we see the great controversy in practice. We see the great controversy in action for Cain fights against Abel, his brother, because Cain has brought an offering that God has rejected. Genesis chapter four is not only a revelation of two opposite sides, but it is also a revelation of the attitude that the wicked will have towards those who fear God. May I suggest to you that the wicked by virtue of their condition signed that the righteousness of the righteous is a rebuke to them and it creates in them animosity and a desire to destroy the people of God. The book of Genesis then traces us through the history of mankind and not only the history of mankind, but it traces us through the history of the house of promise from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob and finally to the 12 sons of Israel who become the 12 nations or the 12 tribes of Israel. And the Bible tells us that in the book of Exodus, we find that a pharaoh arises who does not know Joseph and he begins to persecute the people of God. For in his mind he says, because they have multiplied, because they have become fruitful, if an enemy attacks us, they will stand with the enemy and totally obliterate and destroy us. So we see the perpetuation and the continuity of the great controversy and we see the fight that takes place between the wicked and the righteous. And when you understand the story of the book of Exodus, you begin to appreciate the great controversy in a deeper sense. Many people who have written about the symbolism of pharaoh, speak of pharaoh and Egypt as representing the oppression that the wicked will execute against the people of God and greater than that the story of the Exodus or the story of the book of Exodus and the oppression of the people of God becomes symbolic or a symbolic expression of the bondage that sin brings. Finally, God looks down from heaven. And in Exodus chapter three, God visits a man called Moses and he says to Moses, I have seen the affliction of my people Israel and I have come down to redeem them. I have come down to save them and I'm going to use you as an instrument. And so we see in the life of Moses, what we call in theological circles, the type of Christ. Christ being the anti-type, meaning that there is a symbolism that Moses stands for. And as Moses stands as the one who is to redeem the people of God out of Egyptian bondage, Moses stands as a symbol of Christ for Jesus would come and save his people from their sins. Moses in the book of Deuteronomy, as he is finishing his work on earth, he says a prophet shall arise among you and him you must listen to. The apostle Paul when he writes in the book of Romans when he compares the faithfulness of Moses versus the faithfulness of Christ, Paul says for Moses was faithful as a servant in the house of God, but Christ was faithful as a son over the house of God. And so we find that in the book of Exodus, God declares to Moses that my controversy, my war, my conflict is not with the Egyptians, but my war and my conflict is against the gods of the Egyptians. When you read your Bible clearly, God is not a God who fights with persons. God's intention is to redeem mankind. Actually, when you read in the book of Ezekiel, the Bible says to us for God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked, but God's desire is that everyone repents. Romans chapter two verse four reminds us that the goodness of God leads us towards repentance. God's desire is that each and every individual, each and every family in this country on this planet must be saved, but God would never force us to obey his will. God loves us. God has shown us the full extent of his love, but within the power of the gospel, God has given us free will, the power to choose to serve God out of love, not out of obligation, to serve God as a response to the love of God. First John chapter four says to us, we love because he first loved us. First John four verse eight, the Bible tells us that God is love. We in and of ourselves do not have the capacity to love God. We do not have the capacity to respond to the love of God, but God has placed it in us that those who believe and those who respond to God in loving obedience, he will call them, that is John one, as many as believed, even to those that received him, to them he gave the power to be called the children of God. First John then tells us, behold what manner of love the Father has lavished upon us that we should be called the children of God. The world does not know it because the world did not know him. So we find that in the life of Moses is symbolized in typology on, or yes, or in typology is symbolized, the redemptive power that Jesus was to bring to earth. So God says to Moses, Moses I've seen the affliction of my people. Now I want you to go into Egypt and I want you to confront Pharaoh and the Trump card or the message that I want you to give Pharaoh is let my people go. Now I want you to appreciate the social construct and this is where the men come into play. Feminists have generally thrown the Bible out because they say it's highly perpetristic. When I say that it's highly perpetristic, they say that it is a book that was written by men for men and it's a message for men. But I may not necessarily agree with that and I'll not deal with that detail but the evidence in scripture reveals to us that within the Israelite community, God gave the responsibility of leadership in the things of God. God gave responsibility of the priesthood to the men. Now even before I speak of the community of Israel, Abraham, even before we had the 12 tribes of Israel, it was God who called Abraham. Same thing with Isaac, same thing with Jacob. Noah was not an Israelite but God called Noah and told him that you and your family must enter into the ark and so the responsibility of spiritual leadership in the home from the biblical context has been bestowed on the men. So men, I appeal to you tonight that there is a God ordained and God appointed responsibility that we cannot neglect because if we neglect that responsibility, then we fail to fulfill the mandate that God has given me mankind. And I extend this invitation not just to the men in the Christian community, I extend this invitation to all men on planet earth. If ever there was a time that God required spiritual leadership that speaks to the righteousness of God, it is now when God calls upon the men on this planet to stand in their place and to stand and be the priests of their home. A study was done not too long ago and this study was dealing or was trying to solve the problem in the African-American community. Did you know that in the African-American community in the United States, there is a high level of crime, there is a high level of crime, especially among the young African-American young men and it was discovered in this study that the problem needed to be solved by one simple thing. The men and the husbands and the fathers in the African-American community needed to stand as mentors for their children. The greatest tragedy that any household, it doesn't matter what race you come from, it doesn't matter what country you come from, the greatest tragedy of any household is when men neglect their position to be models and mentors for the boy child. One of our preachers in Zimbabwe related, one of our challenges even in Zimbabwe, you will discover that it is the women who wake up and train the girl child to be responsible. It is the women who wake up and they train their daughters to sweep the house, to be responsible, to take care of things, but the fathers do not train their young men to be men and to be good husbands. Instead they leave their sons to watch TV, no rules, no form of governance in the home and the young men as they grow older have a sense of entitlement. Let me tell you something, I grew up in a tough home. Those who are watching and those who know me will know what I'm talking about. My parents were no nonsense people. My father sometimes would make us wake up early in the morning. Even up to now, as I have my own family, I cannot sleep, I find it difficult to sleep beyond six AM. My father would wake us up and he would say, go to the garden, go to the field and he would teach us tools of the trade. He would teach us that you are going to be men one day. This is what you must do as men. My mother would train me to wash my own clothes. My mother trained me to clean my own bedroom. My mother trained me to do things, to bake cakes. My father trained me by the time I was 16, my father said you must have a driver's license for you to take the vegetables to the market. But alas, today we find that our young men and our young women, particularly our young men, the boy child has no sense of responsibility. In fact, they have a sense of entitlement that I grew up in a setting where work was valued in this day and age. Work is called abuse. Moving from the tenets of scripture because God said, man shall eat the sweat of his brow. And yet the devil has come in through social movements and pressure groups and human rights activists to say that the core fundamentals in scripture must be obliterated now. Let me be clear. I believe in human rights. I believe that people must have human dignity only as long as it aligns with scripture. Anything that is contrary to the word of God, I am totally opposed to. So when you read in the book of Exodus, when Moses comes, he comes to the leaders of the Israelite community and he comes and he says, God is saying, let my people go. God has come to us and we have come to Pharaoh. And as God sends Moses and Aaron almost on a daily basis to go and confront Pharaoh, there becomes a contention or a contention takes place between Pharaoh and Moses and Aaron. And as we move through the plagues as God in each and every plague reveals his power and shows the Egyptians that he is still God who is in control. We come to Exodus chapter 10 and here's a question that Pharaoh asks. Pharaoh asked a question. So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh and he said unto to them, go serve the Lord your God. But who are those that are going? He has a question that all men, I am posing to all men in my household, we are four, five including our helper. In your household, you may be three. In your household, you may be 12 or 20. I don't know how many you are in your household but this is God asking you a question. In your household, who is going? Now you'll appreciate that this message of the book of Exodus is also to me, it is also a reflection of the greater message that one day mankind will be emancipated from the power of sin. One day Jesus will come and take those who have done his will. And by the way, the advent of Christ is not a denominational concept. The advent of Christ must be preached by every believer in the word of God, in the old adventism and Christian setting that I grew up in. We used to say Maranatha, Jesus is coming again. It doesn't matter which church you come from. It doesn't matter whether you are atheist. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic. It doesn't matter if you're Buddhist. The fact of the matter is Jesus is coming again and the question that is being posed to you tonight is who is going to the promised land? Many times we come to church but we leave our families at home. We come to church but we leave our loved ones at home. Some of us have taken the message that that Paul says, work out your own salvation with trembling and fear and we've taken it to extremes, to the extent that we're no longer concerned about those who are around us. I'm reminded of Rahab. Rahab is a typical example of someone who answered the question, even according to the way that Moses answered the question because the Bible says to us that when she saw the spies coming for once she did not see potential customers because the Bible tells us that Rahab was a harlot. Rahab was a prostitute but when she saw the Israelite men, something about them, something about their deportment, something about their speech, something about their mission, they did not ignite in her the desire to have potential clients but it ignited in her a desire to be saved. And when she converses with those spies, she says, behold, these men in the city are weak because they have heard about what God did for you when he parted the Red Sea and the men then responded to her and said, when we come, this is what we want you to do. When we come to destroy this city, we want you to put a scarlet robe in your house and when you have put a scarlet robe in your house, we want you to call your friends, to call your neighbors and she called her friends, she called her neighbors, she called anyone she could call and anyone was willing to come in and I want to imagine that her message was this that there is destruction coming to this city, come into the home because the men of Israel have promised that when they see the scarlet robe or the scarlet cloth, they will not destroy. Theologians have done so well with this for they have said that when God wants to save mankind, he does not look at the character of the persons in the house. When the blood is applied, the blood does not look for the character, all that the blood looks for is faith, but faith then translates to transformation which takes place through the process of daily growth and I want to imagine that when she called everyone, by the time the Israelites marched around the city of Jericho, Rahab and the family were safe simply because she moved by faith and Moses answers their question. He says those who are going with us in verse nine, those who are going with us, he says we will go with our young, we will go with our old, we will go with our sons, we will go with our daughters, we will go with our flocks and our herds, we will go for we must hold a feast unto God. I am talking to someone tonight and I am saying what is your response to the question who will go? Lot left, the Bible tells us that the angels had to hold his hand and the angels had to hold the hand even of his wife and of his daughters, they had to hurry them out but even though they were out physically, his wife looked back because though she was out of Sodom and Gomorrah physically, her heart was still in Sodom and Gomorrah and the Bible tells us that the moment that she turned back, she turned into a pillar of salt but Lot was steadfast and he looked forward and he said, I will not look back because I want to go out. He has a question, how many of us are going to leave our wives in Egypt? When I speak of Egypt, I speak in a metaphorical sense. You may apply it to sin, you may apply it to this earth, you may apply it to anything that is opposed to God and my question to you is that when Jesus comes, who of your family members will go? Moses stands on this assurance that when we are leaving Egypt, when we are leaving the symbolism of sin, when we are leaving the symbolism of captivity to sin, we will not leave a single trace of Israel in Egypt. Listen to what he says in verse 25. Let me begin with verse 22 and 24. We're still on Exodus chapter 10. We're still on Exodus chapter 10 verse 24. Listen to what the Bible says. Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, go serve the Lord, only let your flocks and your herds be kept back, let your little ones also go with you. Verse 22 and 25, but Moses said, you must also give us sacrifices and bent offerings that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. Verse 26, our livestock also shall go with us and not a hoof shall be left behind. But when you follow the conversation from verse eight between Pharaoh and Moses, I want you to understand this thing. Pharaoh or the devil is very happy if you go and leave your family. Pharaoh is very happy if you go and you leave your child. He is very happy if you go and leave your livestock. Even as I speak to you now, many of us parents in these homes that we call Christian or Adventist or whatever denomination you come from and you believe in the principles of the word of God, you believe in the power of God, you are struggling with teenagers who are still Egypt-minded. You are struggling with teenagers who are still in Egypt. You are struggling with spouses who are still in Egypt. You are struggling with extended family members who are present in your life, but who are still in Egypt. I want to assure you one thing. The devil does not need all of you to remain in Egypt. All he wants is for your spouse to remain in Egypt. He just wants your child to remain in Egypt. Let me tell you something in this Christian walk. If the devil cannot attack you directly, he will attack you through your spouse. If he cannot attack you through your spouse, he will attack you through your children. If he cannot attack you through your children, he will even attack you through your parents. He will use every instrument at his disposal to make sure that your Christianity is invalid. Sister White tells us in the book, The Desire of Ages, she says that when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the devil concentrated all his energies and all his powers to make sure that Jesus falls into sin, but Jesus was victorious. Jesus was glorious. In fact, in the gospels, we see Jesus crucified and resurrected, but in Revelation, we see Jesus as glorious and walking in the midst of the 12 golden candlesticks, which are the 12 churches, and holding the 12 stars in his hand, which are representation of the 12 ministers of the seven churches, of the seven churches, he's walking in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, which are the seven churches, and he's holding the seven stars, which are the seven of the ministers to those churches. We see in Revelation, Jesus as victorious, but I want to tell you something, friends, if there's one thing that you must know is that the devil wants you to leave a trace of Israel in Egypt. So Moses comes and says to Tufero, we're going to go with our young ones, we're going to go with our old ones, we're going to go with our flocks, we're going to go with our herds, we're going, everything that is Israelite, everything that belongs to Israel will come out of Egypt. We will not leave a trace of Israel, but what do these represent? Friends, I want to suggest to you that first and foremost, while this is a literal story, while this is a literal historical account, but there are spiritual lessons that we can learn and follow me closely as I close this message. When he speaks of the old ones, he is speaking of our past, he is speaking of the generations which have gone before us. He is saying we will go with our old ones. If you are coming from a family that does not worship God, get down on your knees and ask God to give you the power to become an evangelist to the older generation for even the older generation of your tribe must go. And he says we will go with our young ones. What would the young ones represent? The young ones represent our future. Who do the old ones represent? The old ones represent our past. The young ones represent our future. And who is we? We represent us today, our present. And who is the livestock? The livestock and the herds are a representation of our wealth, of the things that we have worked for. In other words, Moses was saying, everything that has to do with us from our past to our present to our future to our possessions will not be left in Egypt. And here's a question that I have for you. Who will go? Many of us have come to church, but we have left our fortunes at home. Who will go? Many of us have come to church, but we have left our future at home. And I want to assure you that the moment you leave your future, you've killed your potential to worship God in the future. For when we leave our children at home, and I mean this not only in a literal sense, I mean this in a symbolic sense that even though we may be at church physically, but our hearts are back there. The book of Hebrews 11 tells us that if they had been thinking about the country that they came out of, they would have had opportunity to go back. But now they look forward to a country which is better, whose builder and founder is God. And when God's looks at that, God then says that he is not ashamed to call them their God. I want to say to you, Nairobi Central Church, and I want to ask you this question that you must answer for yourselves tonight as you have a devotion with your family. Tonight, as you pray with your family, answer this question, but who will go to worship God? The devil is content in you living your family. I want to pray with someone. I want to pray with someone. I want to pray with someone tonight who's saying, Lord, I've never thought about this question. I've never thought that you want my past to enter into the kingdom of heaven. You want my present to enter into the kingdom of heaven. You want my future to enter into the kingdom of heaven. And last, but not least, you want my wealth. You want my possessions. You want those things which I love the most. You want me to use them to worship you. For Moses says we will offer sacrifices in the wilderness. I want to prepare with someone tonight that God in a special way may help us to enter the promised land, to leave Egypt, and to enter the promised land with all that we are. Moses declares we will not leave a trace of Israel. Our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed. Father in heaven, tonight we stand on the shoulders and on the platform of truth that you have put in place. Father, I want to thank you that you have established this truth, that if we stand on the principles of God, though we may be bound and in bondage to the Egypt of this world, but we know that Jesus came to save us from the power of sin. And one day he will come to save us from the presence of sin by taking us into the heavenly kingdom. But before he can take us into the heavenly kingdom, Father, may you establish the kingdom in our hearts. That dear Lord, when we look at ourselves on this earth, we may look up to you and say when the question is asked by the devil and by Lucifer, but who will go? We will answer our young ones, our old ones. We will go with our young ones. We will go with our old ones. We will go with our livestock and not a hoof shall be left behind. May you make it our goal to never leave a trace of Israel in Egypt so that Heavenly Father, we may burn the bridges of sin. Thank you so much for these holy hours. Bless your children as they continue to worship you in these holy hours. Blessed be your name. May you bless the men in this church, the men who are watching on this live broadcast when all has been said and done. May glory on a majesty and dominion be given to your name. In Jesus' name we have prayed. Let everyone say amen. May God bless you, may God be with you and happy Sabbath, amen. He, think about heaven. I'd like us to sing song 359 in SCA hymnal. Hark the voice of Jesus calling. Hark the voice of Jesus calling. Who will go and work today? Feels all white. The harvest waits in whore, the sheaves away. Loud and long, the master's glad. Thank you so much, Sister Zawadi and Pastor for also the wonderful message that you've given us. I would like to make a number of announcements just before we wind up. Number one, AMO budget for the program needs your support. Kindly send your contribution to the church pay bill number 320100 and the account is AMO. I repeat, AMO budget for the program needs your support. Send your contribution to church pay bill number 320100 and the account number is AMO. Or if you have the AMO treasurer's number, kindly send it there. Announcement number two, we still encourage members to enroll to the bereavement plan so that we may be able to help, this bereavement plan may be able to help during unfortunate times of mourning. The details are on the website and also on the AMO wall. Kindly subscribe to it. Our deadline of registration is on Sunday. Announcement number three, tomorrow being our climax, Sabbath, we would like to invite each and every one of you to this service so that you may be able to fellowship together. You are all welcome. Number four, we also want to thank the pastors and the elders who have shown their support and we have been privileged to work with them during this AMO week of revival prayer. We want to thank you so much and may the Lord bless you for that. Lastly, remember the AMO monthly contribution, which is 250 per month. Kindly make or do the needful. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 9 verse 7 that the Lord loves a cheerful giver. May the Lord bless you all and may you have a blessed Sabbath. Shall we close with the grace? May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of our God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. God bless you.