 Good evening, viewers, and we thank you again for joining us tonight. We would like to begin this session with a word of prayer. Let's believe and pray. Our eternal Father, we come to you with thanksgiving tonight. And Lord, in places that we do not know, may you help us to be wise. May you teach us, Lord, all that we ought to be. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We will have our song service beginning with song number 112, and brother Charles Muridi will start us off with song number 112. Let us with glad some mind. Sons and daughters of the Most High, let us worship the Lord together with this song. Let us with a glad some mind song number 112. Let us with a glad some mind. Praise the Lord for He is kind. For His mercy shall endure. Ever faithful, ever shoo. Praise Him, praise Him. For He the commanding might fill the new made world. For His mercy shall endure. Ever faithful, ever shoo. He does feed. His full hand supplies. Then His mercy shall endure. Ever faithful, ever shoo. Let us then with a glad some mind. Praise the Lord for He is kind. For His mercy shall endure. Ever faithful. Amen. Thank you, brother Charles. As we continue with the worship service, the song service, we will go to song number 291. We have not known thee. We have not known thee. Have not known thee as we ought. Norland, thy wisdom, grace, and power. The things of earth have filled our thought and travels of the passing. Our Lord give us light, thy truth to see and make us wise in it the as we ought. Nor about beneath thine awful or God that did and thought reaming that God was nigh. Lord give us through and through with thee to fill the nose out thee as we ought. The battles lost us costly one. Lord give the zeal and give them for thee too tall, for thee too far. When shall we know thee all brought? Be perfect team of light. Lord may we day by day prepare to see thy face and serve thee there. Give us and good evening church on behalf of the leadership of Narebi Central SDE church. I would like to welcome each and every one of you to this program this evening. Today is the fifth day of the Stewardship Revival Week. Indeed we have been blessed for the days that have passed and will continue to be blessed even today by the words and the messages that God has sent His servant to come and share with us. We'd like to invite you that you all be part of this program from wherever you are, whether you are in Kenya, whether you are in East Africa countries or in Africa, whether you are in the US, in Australia, in the Europe, indeed you are equally a child of God who is entitled to benefit and to learn more about him each day. Indeed the program is there tomorrow as well until the Sabbath and the man servant that God has sent to be able to share His word during this service is none other than Pastor William Bagambe. Indeed the man servant has been given the words to come and deliver for our sake. Indeed God Himself knows that we need to be saved and that's why He keeps sending His messengers to come and remind us that He's soon sending His son to come and take us home. Be blessed as you continue to enjoy and to participate in this program today and we trust and do believe that you'll have a change and a reflection in your life so that you can be a child of God and more so become a son or a daughter of God Himself. Welcome. Good evening brethren. Our scripture reading this evening comes from the book of Luke 19 and verse 4 and I read Let's pray. We thank you many father for being good to us. Indeed we are grateful because you've been there for us. You've been with us. You've led us this far. We come before these your children knowing very well that we are not worthy of anything unless we are with you. Unless we allow you into our lives unless we let you be the guide and the leader of our lives we are not counted as anything but in your presence and with your love that you keep sharing with us and showering us with each day you bring a difference of who will become as your children are going to listen to the word this evening we ask that you send thy spirit to help them understand help them be able to appreciate the words that you want to share with them through your servants guide them so that they can be able to know you know what you desire of them each day continue to help them and to support them for they can only be who you want them to be with your help. We come before our heavenly father knowing that indeed you mean well for us despite the challenges of this world that we experience you are always ready to support us as your man servant is going to share the word for the bread of life this evening we ask that you use him we use him in a much way so that he can be able to reach many that may be knowing you already and also those may not be knowing you so that they can have a different experience of who you are to them support us each day even those who are sick those who have challenges in their lives wherever they are please reach them and make them know you as you prepare each and every one of us for thy kingdom that you prepared enable us to journey together with one another and with you too so that we can be able to reach that destiny together be with us now and forever more for we ask all this believing and trusting in Jesus name praise the Lord brother and sisters wherever you are you are welcome once again to this program where we are looking at our series God is Washed by the Wise tonight we are moving ahead and I want to thank our elder who has welcomed us so much our sister who read the scriptures our pianist and all crew that is making sure that everything moves as scheduled we want to look at something very interesting this evening and I want us to read the text that was read by our sister as we get into our study Luke chapter 19 verse 4 has this to say and so he ran ahead and climbed a sikamo fig tree to see him since Jesus was coming that way it is very interesting already by this text as I read again you may pick something for you and so he ran who is running of course the kias so he ran ahead climbed a sikamo tree to see him see who Jesus since he was coming that way he did not climb any tree he climbed the right tree and so the topic of our study is climb the right tree those of us who are writing climb the right tree tonight we are calling upon to one of us to climb the right tree so that is our topic since we started last Sunday we have been looking at wise people until yesterday we looked at the three wise men from the east that gave to Christ frankinsis, maa and gold we looked at Abraham who gave his son Isaac to God we looked at Hannah who gave Samuel to the Lord and until yesterday when we looked at a very sad story of the rich man who started intelligently but finished foolishly he lost position to eternal life and headed for his wealth we don't want to take that route brothers and sisters he walked out of eternal life and so tonight let us look at another rich man by the name of Zaccheus and let us determine his intelligence let's see how he behaved let's also ask ourselves do all rich men behave the same before the Lord? let's see as you know we find a story in Luke chapter 19 Luke chapter 19 writes this story we know brothers and sisters those of you who are listening and watching from everywhere you know the story that for sure I know but one thing I can promise you is that you don't know what the Lord is going to speak to you tonight so please sit back relax and listen to what the Lord has for you in this talk tonight the Bible says Luke chapter 19 verse 1 starts in a very interesting way the Bible says Jesus entered Jericho and he was passing away he was just passing no no not passing away but passing through Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through when you read that statement alone Jesus has no intention of staying in Jericho but follow this story properly you see what is going to happen please notice Jesus had no itinerary of staying at Jericho he was just passing through his passing through was a blessing enough for those who care to see this week he is passing through the Jericho of your heart grab the chance please yes he passed Jericho at that time but this week he is passing through the Jericho of your heart can you grab the chance verse 19 starts in a very interesting way Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through verse 2 a man was there by the name of Zaccheus he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy this man we are talking about is a rich man this man we are talking about wanted to see Jesus at least verse 3 he wanted to see who Jesus was but because he was short he could not see over the crowd and so as for he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree to see him since Jesus was coming that way in other words he looked at Jesus and determined the direction Jesus was taking and he climbed that tree that was on the direction of Jesus is not a question of climbing any tree brothers it must be on the way of Jesus like we said Jesus was passing through a man was there by the name of Zaccheus he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy this man is wealthy and you know when the bible says the man was short be sure the man was short indeed when the bible says the man was handsome you can be sure he was handsome and so when the bible says Zaccheus was wealthy he must have been wealthy rich man he was he wanted to see who Jesus was but because he was short he could not see over the crowd Zaccheus came with his mind on Jesus when you observe and check the intention of Zaccheus for sure Zaccheus wanted this man called Jesus yes he was rich yes he was exposed but this time he was looking for Jesus Christ Zaccheus was a chief tax collector he was an officer he had an office and staff many people worked under him he had power to hire and fire when he arrived in a place people knew who had arrived he knew money and money knew him he knew property and property knew him I am talking about who Zaccheus was Zaccheus was financially independent financial independence was all around him and he did understand it and the world understood it he shook financial territories he was no longer looking for money but money was looking for him he had the financial networks and there are items one could not get without Zaccheus signature we are not talking of a street boy here brothers and sisters we are not talking of a simple man here we are talking of a man who when he stood in spite of his height he lived his height alone man is not measured by height man is measured by what is capable of doing and so all that not withstanding this day this time Zaccheus took a decision to look for Jesus hallelujah at least he took a decision yes he had an office yes he had subjects yes he had money yes he had fame yes he had everything you can mention in fact when Zaccheus passed in the road you even tell who was passing he knew what life was all about but in spite of all this in fact all that not withstanding this day this time he took a decision to look for Jesus am interested in that statement he took a decision that day to look for Jesus Christ brothers and sisters we need to get to a level like this where in spite of what we have and in spite of what we are we must learn to focus on Jesus Christ brothers and sisters when you look at this very important state is this not spiritual intelligence we have been talking about the whole week oh yes it is God is worshiped by the wise at this time Zaccheus is not thinking as a tax collector at this time Zaccheus is not thinking like anyone else at this time he has changed the focus he is not even thinking about his wealth at this time Zaccheus is thinking about Jesus Christ he took time for Jesus it takes wisdom to do this my friends how I wish we pick a leaf from this tax collector in the names of Zaccheus you will be a true steward of the Lord only when you set time aside for Jesus Christ if you can do this like Zaccheus did then all other stewardship obligations will follow through Zaccheus was not in office when you check this story properly when you critically audit it you will discover Zaccheus was not in his office at this time actually his office was closed because at that time no one would be in two places at the same time is not like today but even if you are on zoom or on YouTube you are there online so it is difficult to be in two places at the same time physically so Zaccheus right here he is looking for Jesus Christ Zaccheus has changed his schedule instead of going to collect taxes he is now busy looking for Jesus Christ he has joined the crowd and he is right there in the crowd things have changed I like the thinking of Zaccheus at this time I don't know how about you actually his office was closed because at that time he was looking for Jesus Christ and I want to tell you if the tax collection in Jericho solely depended on the presence of Zaccheus that day there was no tax collection because the guy was not there tax payers must have enjoyed at least a one day tax holiday we begin to look for Jesus Christ there are some people who will benefit this time Zaccheus's office is not open how I wish we could close some offices for Jesus Christ when focus is put on Jesus there are some people who will benefit like I told you he wanted to see who Jesus was but because you are short he could not see over the crowd this is what the Bible tells us he could not see Jesus because he was short this is what the Bible says but when this verse is subjected to deeper scrutiny and analysis you will arrive at a deeper discovery that while it was true the man was short that must not have been the reason for not seeing Jesus I see among us here we have short people if we had chance we would have at least ask them is it true that short people don't see do you begin blaming your height because you have not seen Jesus are you going to blame the crowd because you have not seen Jesus Christ please tell us short people don't you see can you say you have not seen what you are supposed to see spiritually because of your height let's say if he was 2 feet on the ground if Zacchaeus was 2 feet on the ground what was his height in the tree does it change I mean measure Zacchaeus on the ground and the man is 2 feet follow the same Zacchaeus in the tree what is his height he will still be 2 feet he cannot see on the ground when he is 2 feet but he can see in the tree when he is still 2 feet do you still continue blaming his height no the problem doesn't seem to be that he was short please don't blame your height for not seeing Jesus Christ don't blame your spouse for not seeing Jesus Christ don't blame your pastor for not seeing Jesus Christ you can see Jesus Christ when you are short you can see Jesus Christ when you are tall you see Jesus Christ when you are white you can see Jesus Christ as long as your intelligence is right that's all you need the real challenge Zacchaeus was facing was where he was standing and you can see how Zacchaeus handled it beloved of God we stop blaming our height stop blaming the environment stop blaming your pastor stop blaming your members stop blaming everybody around you for your spiritual condition when it comes to spirituality the matter is personal don't be unfaithful and then begin blaming the people around you check where you are standing when you look at Zacchaeus for sure Zacchaeus was short that is true but when you are short you must know where to stand where are you standing I mean where you are standing will determine what you will see you can't be in the valley and expect to see things on top of the mountain that doesn't happen many of us are still in the valley of unfaithfulness that's why we cannot see the secrets of God even picking spiritual messages is hard why they come from above and we are deep down in the valleys of sin so brothers and sisters as you listen to this message check where you are standing don't blame your height check where you are standing don't blame your fellow human beings check where you are standing don't blame the crowd check where you are standing where are you standing beloved of God you cannot stand anywhere and expect to work with God you have to stand in the right place to get righteousness because righteousness is never obtained from any other part of your position except in the right place raise your spiritual body this time my brothers and sisters and learn to stand in the right place how Zakias handled it was quite different see how he handled it look at his intelligence the bible says chapter 19 of the book of Luke verse 4 like our sister read then tells us this so this is how Zakias handled the situation some of us may think he was very very short yes he was short yes he was short the bible says but look at the way he did verse 4 the bible says he ran ahead and climbed a sikamo fig tree to see him since Jesus was coming that way he did not notice here he climbed the tree on the way of Jesus I want us to take that point very seriously he did not climb a tree brothers and sisters if Jesus is taking this direction and you are busy climbing trees this side it does not matter how high the tree may be definitely you will miss Jesus Christ yes you will have climbed a tree but you have climbed a tree of no consequence Christ is taking this direction and you are busy climbing trees this side Jesus determines his ways and then move according to his movement that's when you get Jesus at least this man called Zakias was intelligent that much I'm calling upon you brothers and sisters to be intelligent to pick this intelligence that Zakias picked for sure this was not the only tree that was there and you can check he must have determined the second time to choose which tree to climb not every tree in the forest is for you to climb the rich young man came running you remember Zakias is also running to the same Jesus the rich young man we looked at yesterday also came running Zakias also is running now ahead notice Zakias did not blame his height no he did not blame the crowd he knew the real problem was that he was on a lower level he needed to get to a higher ground all of us need this spiritual higher ground we need to climb the right tree hallelujah we definitely need to climb the right tree we have been down for a long time we have been down for a long time spiritually check something here brothers and sisters as we get into this story there were many people right here looking at Jesus as a matter of fact the Bible talks of a crowd it was a crowd a crowd is not few people a crowd is quite a number of people but check there were many people right here looking at Jesus they were looking at Jesus and the book says there was a crowd but check only Zakias is recorded to have come to see Jesus there is a big difference between looking at Jesus and seeing Jesus there is a big difference between looking at someone and then seeing someone Jesus here was in the crowd people are crowding around him Zakias did not come to crowd around Jesus Zakias came to see Jesus he had something deeper than just looking at Jesus Christ his point was bigger other people who were present in this place are clamped in one word crowd can you imagine other people are called crowd only the name of Zakias is singled out here the rest are crowd brothers and sisters always avoid to be called crowd let your name be mentioned you are not a crowd but it will be distinguished from the crowd by what you do by the steps you take by the way you work with Jesus and now you can see this man called Zakias is singled out only the name of Zakias is mentioned names are not mentioned for no good reason names are always mentioned for good reason he was the only one spiritual substance to warrant the mentioning of his name he was the only one who ran ahead of the crowd when you check what is here there is nobody else who was running ahead everybody was in the crowd brothers and sisters tonight I call upon you to run ahead of the crowd learn to run ahead of your spiritual challenges yes Zakias had some challenges but he was moving and so he ran ahead and climbed a sycamofig tree to see him that was Jesus since Jesus was going that way God is worshipped by the wise for sure I want you to see wisdom here when Zakias checked determined and saw the direction and the route the master was taking and climbed the tree on his way beloved of God he requires wisdom it takes wisdom to determine the direction of Jesus it takes wisdom to know that Jesus wants us to be faithful he did not climb in a tree he climbed the right tree tonight we need to climb the right tree a tree he knew he would get his objective achieved don't think every tree is for you to climb no don't think every mountain because not all mountains are Calvary don't call every mountain Calvary because Calvary is one don't think every big congregation is a church there is only one right church don't think every song is for you to sing no sing the right song don't think every day is Sabbath no there is only one right Sabbath don't think every tree is to be worshiped no only man Jesus is to be worshiped don't think an amount is tithe to the Lord no only 10% of your increase is the right amount to return don't think an amount is offering to the Lord no but only the amount that your heart faithfully gives is the right amount beloved climb the right tree that tree is on the way of Jesus and that tree I want to mention the name of that tree and that tree is called faithfulness the tree of faithfulness when you climb the tree of faithfulness brothers and sisters since Christ is faithful he will always be walking on the way of the faithful and when he comes he will definitely meet you there because you are trading the same direction climb the right tree trust me if you climb that tree of faithfulness soon and very soon the Lord is coming and he will say to you well done good and faithful servant come and enter the joy of your father we are all waiting for that moment when that statement will be spoken but let me say please be there for that statement climb the right tree the kias was now in the tree I want to see I want you to see the kias in the tree first of all the kias is not a street boy the kias is a rich man the kias is someone who had power to fire and high the kias was wealthy the kias had everything it takes to be rich he actually had stopped looking for money and the man was looking for him but I want you to see a man of this caliber a man of this stature a man of this status in society he is in the tree climbing trees is not a practice of old people I don't know how many times you see rich people in the trees but brothers and sisters tonight I want to call upon you it requires climbing a tree to see Jesus climb it very quickly hallelujah climb it very very quickly if that is the way you will see Jesus better climb that tree now something happened here brothers and sisters now that he was in the tree with all his riches in the tree with all his fame in the tree I mean check everything he had he went with it in the tree because where you are is where all your property is when Jesus now Jesus was walking walking coming to where towards that man because exactly that was the route he was taking the Bible says when Jesus reached the spot where this rich man was in the tree Jesus stopped he stopped he looked up and said to him zakias calm down immediately yesterday I told you spiritual matters require speed I don't know how many of us took that very seriously but whenever it is about spirituality brothers and sisters let us be quick to pick let us be quick to repent let us be quick to do good let us be quick to be faithful when Jesus reached the spot he looked up and said to him zakias calm down immediately calm down I must stay at your house today remember the Bible says in verse 1 he was passing through now he has changed he is going to stay at zakias' house so he came down at once and welcomed him gradually I want to tell you the speed that took zakias up you can imagine is not the speed that brought him down those of you who do remember I told yesterday that matters of spirituality need speed Jesus is saying zakias be fast calm down immediately and I want to call upon each one of us listening watching from everywhere if you are still hanging up in your sins if you are still hanging up in your unfaithfulness please calm down immediately but check friends what is happening the Bible says when he reached that spot that is Jesus up and said to him zakias calm down immediately I must stay at your house so he came down immediately the question is what made Jesus stop at this point what is it that made him stop at this point listen to this the faithfulness there are two people I want us to look at there is Jesus and zakias zakias is in the tree Jesus is working on the ground Jesus is faithful zakias came from home looking for Jesus by faith zakias joined the group joined the crowd by faith zakias ran ahead of the crowd by faith zakias climbed the tree by faith zakias is waiting to say Jesus Christ by faith when you check around the tree you could find the faith of zakias right there now when Christ came with his faithfulness and the faithfulness of Jesus connected with the faith of zakias there was a spark that couldn't allow Jesus to move on you know when his faithfulness connects with your faith Jesus will stop in your life and he will stay there for all the time as long as your faith doesn't fade friends the day your faith will meet with the faithfulness of Jesus that spark will make Christ stay in your life forever it all takes his faithfulness and your faith to connect the moment his faithfulness and your faith meet will never move out of your life and so he had to stop nobody told him to stop it is the faith that zakias had nobody told him to look up it is the faith that zakias had in Jesus Jesus stopped and looked up and called zakias the question is who told Jesus the one in the tree was called zakias this was the first time Jesus is looking at this man called zakias who told the one Jesus the one in the tree is zakias that's not necessary why because he knows each one of us by name each one of us Jesus knows by name those of us who are looking at us those of us who are watching from anywhere please Jesus knows you by name in fact he knew your name before you got it he knew your name before you knew it he knows your name even better than you know your name yourself so it was not necessary when Jesus stopped and looked up he called zakias by name he knows each one of us by name he knows when we are and he knows when we lose he knows when we are faithful and he knows when we are not I mean he knows friends of mine Jesus called zakias by name Jesus called zakias by name how would you feel if Christ called you by name how do you feel and that time is coming when the roll is called up yonder what does it say when the roll is called up yonder you'll be there I'm calling upon you brothers and sisters to have your name written down to have your name recorded to have your name mentioned to have your name known by Jesus like it was with zakias he said zakias come down immediately and when I look at this zakias has already scored hallelujah he has already scored he had already achieved his objective he has seen Jesus and yes he has seen Jesus now they walked together because Jesus told him come down immediately because today I must stay at your house they are eternally changed faith has changed the itinerary of Jesus Christ brothers and sisters I see zakias coming from home in the morning alone he came from home alone but he went back home with Jesus Christ praise God brothers and sisters I know when we are joining this program when we are joining this live streaming you must have been alone but I don't want you to stay alone please go back home with Jesus Christ that day zakias came from home alone in the morning and went back home with Jesus Christ what a joy this man had you must have seen zakias when he was running with Jesus Christ now he is moving alongside with Jesus Christ no matter what was happening with other people some people must have been grumbling you know people can grumble some people are complaining about Jesus that is common with human beings but zakias was still clinging on Jesus Christ why they were going home we came to this meeting alone can we go back with Jesus Christ my brothers and sisters at this time Jesus itinerary has changed he is no longer passing through Jericho he has gone to stay at zakias's home how I wish he would come to stay at your home tonight how I wish he would come into our hearts tonight so that we can move with him when we are going home we can move with him when we are going to work we can move with him when we are going to visit we can move with him when we are going to church we can move with him wherever we are brothers and sisters let's pick a leaf from zakias how I wish he would come hiki wakini tsutini. Haike ni dem�리 hiti, kwa ni tani raki wa tehikiruhu. Ten10 bakiti hiki wakini bkikini. Tifuza, nahti nukia. Ten10 bakiti hiki wakini. Ten10 bakiti hiki wakini. Ten10 bakiti hiki wakini. Ten10 bakiti hikirihu. 8, but Zakias stood up at home and said to the Lord. Now, this is a very important statement we don't need to miss. Zakias stood up when they were in the house and said this, Look, Lord, here and now I give half of my possession to the poor. And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount. You wonder what Zakias is giving. Is he giving tithe and offering when you check this is beyond? You know, when someone allows Christ to get into his life, he will always give beyond percentages. I mean, the motivation is not by himself. The motivation is Jesus Christ. Sometimes I wonder, in verse 8 is where the stewardship rubber meets the spiritual road. And I will explain that. Now, with Jesus in the house, now with Jesus in his life, Zakias addressed Jesus as the Lord for the very, very first time in his life. Brothers and sisters, once someone begins addressing Jesus as Lord, that is no longer tax collector. Tax collectors don't call Jesus Lord. That one is no longer trader. Traders don't call Jesus Christ Lord. That one has ceased to be anything else except a true steward of the Lord. It is a true steward of the Lord that addresses Christ as the Lord because he knows Christ as the Lord of his life. He knows Christ as the source of every blessing. He knows Christ as everything that moves his life. At this time, check, this man called Zakias is addressing Jesus as Lord. Now, that is a true steward of the Lord. At this time, he is no longer a tax collector as a matter of fact. And when you check, he has become a steward and immediately he started giving. He said here and now, I give half of my possession to the poor. The poor must have enjoyed the wealth of Zakias. I may ask, Zakias is giving at this time, but which stewardship seminar did Zakias attend to begin giving like this? None. But the presence of Jesus in his life now has motivated him to give. Giving is a clear evidence of Jesus' presence in one's life. Yes, it is. If you are still struggling with giving and returning to God, then doubt the presence of the Lord in your life. Because Zakias did not attend any stewardship seminar. Zakias did not listen to any sermon, but the presence of Jesus in his life, the presence of Jesus in his home is a motivating factor for giving. Nobody even told Zakias to give, but what do you do when you accept Christ? You can't help giving. It will come because Christ, the one in your life, is the principal giver. He is the provider. I mean he is the one who is faithful and whoever connects with him gets that faithfulness from him. If we are still struggling for sure with giving and returning to God, then we can doubt the presence of the Lord in our lives. Zakias has full measure. He has Jesus in his life. He has Jesus in his home. And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times, Zakias says. Here the presence of Jesus in his life is now displacing all the wrongs Zakias had done. This is because he climbed the right tree. Zakias said, if I have cheated anybody out of anything, for sure he must have cheated. This was a tax collector. This was a man whose corruption rate must have been very high. But now Jesus Christ has come in. You see, brothers and sisters, when you have water in a glass and put a stone there, there is a amount of water that will be displaced. There is that scientific principle. Now Christ has entered into the life of Zakias. All the wrongs Zakias had done no longer count in his life. They have no space in his life. He has now replaced everything with Christ. Now he's correcting his mistake. He's saying, please, if there is someone I have cheated, please I'm here. I'm paying four times the amount. I wish I was there to have been cheated by Zakias. If he cheated me by four million, how many millions did he pay me? Hallelujah. You know, sometimes when Christ gets into someone's life, things begin to get better. Light begins to shine. Mistakes are corrected. I mean, nobody wants to get into the former mistakes, the former blanders, the former sinful life when Christ has entered into our lives. You know, it is the evidence that Christ is in our lives when we begin to speak out, when we shun evil, when we begin to give. Here, the presence of Christ is in his life. Now displacing all the wrongs out of Zakias' life, this is because Zakias climbed the right tree. Tonight, I want to call upon you to climb the right tree. V. 9, Jesus said to him, after Zakias has declared the correction of his mistakes, he wants to pay back all those people he cheated. He is now giving to the poor. Half of his possession was not a simple mount. This is a rich man. I can see poor people now living in houses. I can see people who did not have land, owning land, although they were poor. I can see probably some poor people driving Zakias' cars. I can see even the poor enjoying why Jesus had entered into the life of Zakias. Now, after Zakias said this, Jesus spoke something. I want us to listen to what Jesus said. V. 9, Jesus said to him, today salvation has come to this house. Hallelujah. Today salvation has done what? Salvation has come to this house because this man too is a son of Abraham. After, you see, when you look at Zakias before and at this time you see a serious change. By the way, Zakias right now has even forgotten that he is supposed to be collecting taxes. His focus is on Jesus Christ alone. He is thinking about Christ. He is talking to Christ. He is correcting his mistakes. He is giving to the poor. The whole life spectrum of Zakias has changed because of Jesus. Now Jesus saw that for sure salvation had come to the house of Zakias. We need salvation in our hands. We need salvation in our homes. We need salvation in our lives. We need salvation in our church. We need salvation in our countries. We need salvation in this world. But we only get salvation when we climb the right trip. But the son of man came to seek and to save the lost. For sure Jesus had found this man. Jesus had worked with this man. After Zakias announced giving and correcting his mistakes Jesus announced salvation. How I wish tonight Jesus can announce salvation in your house? How I wish tonight Jesus can pronounce salvation in your heart? Because giving is a response to salvation. Brothers and sisters, the giving we are talking about here is not the giving that you give so that Christ can give you. You don't give because Christ, you want Christ to give you. You give because Christ has given. It is a response to this salvation. It is not that you want more. No, you give because Christ has given you even more. We respond to this salvation. It is those who acknowledge that they are saved by the Lord that give and return to the Lord. It is those who acknowledge that they are saved by the Lord that will climb the right trip. Giving and returning to the Lord is only possible after climbing the right tree. The tree of faithfulness, the tree on the way of Jesus Christ. Unlike the rich young ruler who ran away from Christ, Zakias ended with Jesus, giving which the young rich man refused to do. You remember when Christ told him, go sell all and give to the poor, this man ran away. But now here is another intelligent rich man called Zakias. He is giving even without being told to give. What a difference it makes, my brothers and sisters. And so we can conclude that not all rich people are the same. Some rich people are intelligent more than others. Some rich people are just willing and ready to work with Jesus. In fact, some rich people are already connected with Jesus Christ because they can now give to the poor. They can now correct their mistakes. They are connected with Jesus Christ. And so brothers and sisters, climb the right tree. Praise the Lord. Let us climb the right tree. The tree of faithfulness like Zakias did. We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. This marks the end, but our appeal is that you climb the right tree. It is wisdom to climb the right tree. It is intelligence when you climb the right tree because God is worshiped by the wise. God bless you, brother and sister. God bless you, my elder. God bless you, my pastor. God bless us all. Let us pray together as we close. Father in heaven, we raise our hearts to you. We raise our voices to you. We raise our faith to you because you are our God. We are seeking one thing, Lord. Give us the intelligence to do the right thing. Tonight we looked at Zakias. Zakias did not climb any tree. Zakias climb the tree on your way. Please help us, Lord, to climb the tree on the way. And we have seen that that tree is the tree of faithfulness. We want to be faithful to you, Lord. We want to remain righteous to you, Lord. We want to stand guiltless before you, Lord, so that when you come, we'll be ready to shout in unison and say, yes, hallelujah, Lord. We have been waiting for you. Bless every person who has watched, blessed every person who have attended and may their lives change from today onwards because we have prayed in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. God bless you. Amen. Vewas and church members, we thank God for what He has done for us for five days now. We have received relevant messages from the servant of God and we have been made to understand that once you are made to understand the goodness of God, what God has done for you and once you accept Him as your personal savior, you become His possession. Giving is an automatic thing. It's an act of worship. We want to thank the servant of the Lord for the message that He has delivered this evening. Jesus did not declare, salvation has come to this house until circuits started doing or giving. That's when Jesus Christ said, today salvation has come to this house. So once you become a son, a daughter of God, you have to do something, you have to act and that act of worship is what we call giving. Now brothers and sisters, abat from the regular tides and other church offerings we give weekly, this year and that thing is done once every year, we have a special project to do, to work together with God. The special project requires two things. One, this function that is going to take place from 17th of July to 24th, requires some activities to be done and these activities will require expenses. So as a child of God, sit down, ask yourself, this is a godly activity that is going to take place. It requires expense. Can you give towards that expense? And father, you need to sit down and account for the last 12 months. The Lord has been so gracious to you. He has done very many good things. He has saved your life. You have gone through difficulties but here you are. You need to ask yourself, what can I do to the Lord? What can I give to the Lord? And if you are attached, you are required to give an offering for the Lord's cause. We call it thanks offering. Sometimes we call it can be offering. So there are two things that you are required to do and very soon our come meeting is coming. Please give something to cater for the expenses or to cater for the activities that will be run during the come meeting. Secondly, never should you forget to give thanks to the Lord. We want to appreciate what has been taking place and we also want to believe that you will continue watching, feeling, meditating upon the messages as they are delivered to us from God through His servant until the end of this week. I want to call all of you not to miss the remaining lessons that God has prepared for us. Finally, the pastorate is with us. Pastor Nyaga, who has a program with the Hope Channel at ECD since Monday, he is still with us. He watches. When this time comes, he has to sit, watch and listen to the messages of the Lord. Pastor Guido went home because there are several, I mean, there are funeral services down there. He is still watching and he told me as I come here, I bring greetings to you all. Thank you the communication team. Thank you the servant of the Lord. Thank you everybody. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. God willing, we shall meet tomorrow evening as we welcome the Sabbath and listen to the message that has been prepared for us. God bless you. Thank you viewers for taking your time to be at the feet of Jesus and we thank God for pastor for making this all clear. And once we position ourselves on the right tree, then we will know the owner of that very tree. And when we ask of him, he will lead us to that very on tree, he is very on tree and he will call us out by our name. We will close this session with the song number 468. 468 and looking at Vastri going I once was an outcast, a stranger on earth, a sinner by choice and an alien by birth. But I've been adopted, my name is written down and here to a mansion and a robe and a crown may this be our prayer tonight. Our child of the king. My father is rich in houses and lands He holdeth thee up with the world in his hands Of rubies and demons of silver and gold His coffers are full He has reaches and told I'm a child of the king Our child of the king With Jesus my savior I'm a child of the king My father's own son The savior of man Once wandered on earth as the poor rest of them But now he is pleading for seen us on high and will give me a home when he comes by and by I'm a child of the king Our child of the king With Jesus my savior I'm a child of the king I once was an outcast, a stranger on earth, a sinner by choice and an alien by birth. But I've been adopted, my name's written down unheard to mention a robe and a crown I'm a child of the king Our child of the king With Jesus my savior I'm a child of the king A tent or a cottage Oh, why should I care? They're building a palace for me over there No ezel from home yet still may sing All glory to God I'm a child of the king I'm a child of the king Our child of the king With Jesus my savior I'm a child of the king May we say the words of grace May the grace of our Lord and Father May the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore In Jesus' name we pray Amen