 Happy sabbath, happy day, happy afternoon sabbath to you all or wherever you're watching us from online. We have gathered here again at Nairobi Central SDA Church for our afternoon session and we'll begin this session by our word of prayer followed by a song service. So I'd like Paul to kindly lead us in our word of prayer. Happy sabbath, all of us who are in the sanctuary, may we all rise as we seek the Lord in prayer. Let us pray. Our dear kind loving Father in heaven, we pose a little longer to say thank you. Your love for us has indeed been amazing. We just want to say we are real, we are overwhelmed and we are grateful. Thank you for the morning session that we had. And Lord, even as we get into the afternoon, we pray that you may be amongst us, you may send your spirit to speak to our hearts that whatever may come from this pulpit may be edifying and useful for our lives even as we trudge on in this journey as we await you, soon return. Bind us all together in love. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. I'd like us all to join us as we glorify God through music at this session and our first song will be from our SDA Himnall song number 604, we know not the R. Nimbosaki Christo, number Happy sabbath. Happy sabbath once more. Before we pray, I'd like to thank the the music team, Faith, Felix and Paul. Let's stand so that we pray. Let us pray. Our gracious Father who art in heaven, it is another opportunity you've given us to come and fellowship and worship you and to learn from you. Thank you Lord because you are with us in the morning and you gave us a break to go and get physical food to give us physical strength. Now Lord we pray for spiritual strength and the clarity of our thoughts so that Lord the message you have for us may sink in and that you may keep us to serve you better as we come towards the end of this world. Lord I pray in a special way for our speaker who is continuing to share with us. You have enabled him to to come since morning up to now and Lord I pray that you may give him strength, give him clarity of thought. Lord give him a message in his mind and speak to him, speak through him and give us receptive hearts in Jesus name we pray. Amen. It is another opportunity God has given us to come and hear about the voice of prophecy. The voice of prophecy is a tool which God has given us to share the gospel and you know it the aim of BOP is actually to fulfill the mission of the church which is to lead people to accept Jesus and to nurture them in preparation for Jesus soon return. So what all of us need is to be willing and to be equipped so that we are ready to go out. I think as a church we've taken a long time or a lot of time in church but we've not gone out to share the gospel and to bring people and once we've brought them we've not nurtured them. So this is part of that and I want to thank God for this program. Now without wasting time I want to welcome our speaker Pastor Nathan Oirere. How many with me are praying that God empowers him and are welcoming him for God to use him at this time. Thank you so much, Pastor. May you come and may God continue speaking through you this afternoon. So we'll begin and we'll end just before four and then we will go to various classes. I know some people have meetings. Some councils are also there. The choir will also meet at four. So let's take this time God has given us. Pastor, welcome. Good afternoon, saints. These are the gracious moments that our gracious fathers given us to gather this afternoon. And we continue to praise him because he is a loving God. I thank you so much, Choristers, for the good job you are doing. I love music but I don't know how to sing. If I sing, you will run away from church and never want to come back again. So I don't want to do that. But within within the talk there are, we shall have some singing intervals. Song number 427 428 626 and the 633. We will sing in Waimba and we will sing in Koras. 427 428 626 and the 633 will be the last one. So those will be our interludes as we move along this afternoon program. So we continue where we left in the morning. We were talking about basically whom shall I send and we discovered that one of the avenues that God is using to reach the entire world is the voice of prophecy. Now at this Chiankyamea I say something very brief. There is a big difference a 100% difference between voice of prophecy and the spirit of prophecy. Those are two different animals. Voice of prophecy is reaching the people with the word of God using voice, using radio, using television, using satellites and then using literature at some point. So it was called voice because the word of God declaring the second coming of Jesus Christ which is actually a prophetic message was given through voice, through radio that is how voice of prophecy came about. Of course what we have in our current church manuals we call those leaders in the state of voice of prophecy that are called Bible school coordinators because the correspondence Bible school was now given that name or that title Bible school. Therefore those who are coordinating that work in the local church are called Bible school coordinators. Now why Bible schools? Because in our union here in the year 2000 there was an action that was taken. Instead of operating only from the voice of prophecy headquarters at Kaurura it is good that we decentralize this work of voice of prophecy do the local churches. That is when an action was first and then from that time on churches now were allowed to start this program in their local churches by registering with the voice of prophecy or the Bible school so that they be getting lessons to use in their local churches all over the entity. So that is a little bit the difference voice of prophecy and the spirit of prophecy. Spirit of prophecy will get a few minutes to talk as we are going to finish that it is the prophetic word of God which God gave to his people using the prophets as they are in the Bible and they were being inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was guiding them was leading them on what to do. As the Seventh Day Adventist Church we recognize spiritual spiritual gifts and one of these is prophecy which has been manifested in Ellen G. White the question is does Ellen G. White meet the four test of a true prophet? Yes, she does. What are they? Stay on and we'll be there. Karibu, 427 Umlilala At least one stance first stance last stance and chorus. Now the messages in the songs we are using are what is voice of prophecy was created before. We are going home. It's a whole purpose. Yes. One stance last and the chorus 427 So much. The church was not called to be just a physical witness. It was called to be a witness by portraying the characteristics of Jesus Christ convincing men and women to accept Christ into their lives. Christ had come to the world to give life and give it abundantly. In John 1010 the Bible says I have come that they may have life and have it to the full and they have it more abundantly. Being witnesses of Christ means to bring life to the people are people who are not alive. The apostle Paul writing to the evasion church said that is in Ephesians 2 verses 1 to 3 as for you you were dead in your trespasses in your transgressions and your sins in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the rule of the kingdom of the air the spirit who is now to work in those who are the disobedient all of us also leaving among them at one time gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest we were by nature objects of wrath remember that time you were separated from Christ that is now verse 12 that time you were separated from Christ you were separated excluded from the citizens in Israel and the foreigners to the covenants of the promise without hope and without God in the world. The purpose of the voice of prophecy through the messages given through voice through the media channels it is to give people hope and to give people life because we had no life we had no hope we had no God it is to give people hope to give people God this was the condition before the first advent the act of Jesus Christ on the cross changed this condition that is vision chapter 2 verse 4 to 5 the Bible says but because of the great love for us God who is rich in mercy you know the the Bible is saying God who is rich in mercy now there is no single human being who has ever gone into the Guinness book of records because of having plenty of mercy not a single one the one I began to hear the rich fellows in the world there was a nazis of Greece some years back both some highland and the people were there but at one moment his wife became sick of breast cancer and they put an advert the entire globe saying if there is any woman who can offer to give my wife her breast then I will give him that's a millions of dollars not a single woman came up even to death why were they fearing for money this is telling us what God is so rich in mercy the mercy of God reaches us and welcomes us to him irrespective of the status that we are in and that is why they are saying at some point some people look at Christianity to be something hopeless something useless because Christ said whosoever believe it shall not perish but have everlasting life because when we shall be assured in that eternal home you will not be there with your escorts you will not be there with your car escorts you will not be there with your security you will not be there with anything you will be there alone you will not drive your V-80 there you will not in that fearless land there is no night there so because of that to some people Christianity does not make sense because they tend to think that Christianity is to bring divisions and you know allow me say this we are elder over lunch hour when I opened my Kamulikamizi then there was a missed call from one of my family members so I called back and they said oh it was passed I was looking for you of central judge how can you look for me and I am seated here in the church because I was here before 8 so that means he was not here right and the thing is because we are so much used to Pombasi that you know Wendomadwong those who come from that place Mugeni maalumu akay mugeni maalumu anaka ambele apa viti hi ina swing na jwa sinna mugongia kuswingimim sasa na tagikana apa mugongia mugu ina penda benji niz Pere da kutoxika lyingava mugeni niz dawa delvewa kwa kwa mongilidze nzi um Xbox na kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa suwefele. So kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa. He make us alive with Jesus Christ when we were dead in our trespasses for by grace you are received. The one which I did n't tell you... that was improvisated in Luckini Njani... is a person by the name Isaac Newton. He was a slave dealer. One time he made the decision in his life that for me I would survey that devil forever. The newologies. But there is God, and they mentioned God. So when he mentioned God, the Lord settled that ship. And then he wondered what an amazing God is this. And he came up with the song. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. That saved the rich like me. Sin mungesimama kitambu. Haiaa. You know, sasa niafta noon, atubiri sa manisahidimafundishokidogo. Waende jumbani kuchapa siyasa. Some 108 days to sing the grace of God is the purpose of the voice of prophecy to prepare the people so that we be at this place where we will sing God's praise throughout the eternal ages. The church board should permit no other business to interview with planning for evangelism. Should the other business be two-time consuming, the board may appoint committees to care for specific areas of the church business such as finance or church building projects. Such committees would then make recommendations to the church board. In this way, the resources of the board are resolved for its primary task evangelism. You can take your charge manual on the job description of the charge board. The primary function of the charge board is evangelism. But do you know the primary task today? Majina Yawatu. People's names to be discussed. I saw that young lady. She was at the market standing with a very tall man. That was not a good behavior, Pasita. She needs to be discussed. You know that is an appearance of evil. And yet you have no data. Those who have gone to school here, they collected data. You have no data whether that was a father-in-law, whether that was an uncle, you have no data. Whether that was the elder brother, you have no data. But you are discussing in the charge board. The primary task of the charge board is to discuss matters evangelism. Witnessing should be in the hands of every church member in every village, in every market, every town, every working place, in every school, college, university, all over, even when you are working, even when riding in a matatu. Matatus at times the fellows who work there are very rough, but you don't need to be the same as they are. Because the moment you are the same as they are, no one will make a difference. And some of us, God forgive, God forbid, we go to say, do you know who I am? So we were discussing something and the one person was asking me, do you know who I am? I said yes, I know who you are. You are a soul. The Bible says the lost is sheep. Until every church has become an evangelic center. So from Nairobi the work cannot be done. You know, next to the language you do. This is the whole purpose of establishing the voice of prophecy so that the work can reach everywhere from our local churches because kutoka heidi kota spekiyake, it will not work. It has to go down to the churches. Now the whole purpose of this voice of prophecy is to encourage the members to study the word of God. Why must we study the word of God? Jesus said in Matthew chapter 24 and verses 15 when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken by the prophet Daniel stand in the holy place whoever reads let him understand. The reading of the Bible is the only most powerful weapon that can be used to destroy spiritual ignorance, no any other. Why? It is true reading that we will understand where we have come from. It is true reading the word of God that we will understand where we are. It is true reading that we will understand where we are going. It is true reading that the nations are kept informed. It is true reading that Israel was kept informed even in the wilderness when Moses read the Ten Commandments. It was true reading that Josh Josiah brought great reforms in Israel. It was true reading that Daniel understood their seven years in the Babylonian captivity because Daniel chapter 9 verse 2 the Bible says I Daniel by reading the books concerning the seven years which was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah meaning Daniel was reading the word of God. The voice of prophecy is taking us to the reading of the word of God that is when we will understand where we are, where we have come from and where we are going. The prophet Isaiah challenged Judah to seek from the book that is from the Bible and read. It was true reading the Bible that Israel established in Jerusalem. It was true reading the book of Revelation says chapter 1 verse 3 blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and he did the things which are written in it. So as we have already seen God's commission is to go to every nation is to go to every person. His work is to go forward in the cities that is our work as a church, towns and villages. So we have to be responsible we have a responsibility to reach every individual in our territory. The Lord has given to every man his work and this is to carry the word of God to every man to every man's door. During the time of Pentecost as we saw in the morning there was experience a spiritual evolution and the servant of the Lord says a spirit of intercession was seen even as was manifested before the great day of Pentecost hundreds and thousands were seen visiting families opening before them the word of God. Hearts were convicted by the power of the Holy Spirit and the spirit of genuine conversion was manifested on every side doors were thrown open to the proclamation of the truth. The world seemed to be lighted with the heavenly influence. Then she continues to say in a book entitled Welfare Ministry go to your neighbors one by one and come close to them till their hearts are warmed by your unselfish interest and love. Symbodize with them pray with them watch for opportunities to do them good and as you can gather a few together and open the word of God to their darkened mind. We have come to a point dear people of God where really we are living in an environment where we are so much enclosed. For those of you all over the city here in Nairobi Karen, Ronda Rungai all those places many of the homes that we have put up we have put the perimeter walls it is very expensive today to put up a home because of sin. You put up a home then there is a perimeter wall then there is a gate this main gate then there is above the wire of electricity and this gate there is a CCTV there are ten of them I don't know how much each one costs not only CCTV there is a watchman Yurewa Rungu and there is another watchman police Wabunduki then there is the chairman Shepard ten of them because of sin we are now trying to run away from sin that's why you here ladies were here our men who travel a lot when he is in England or in UK and he calls back home the first question Umerisha Umbua have you fed the dogs how is the first question he asks the wife now you wonder he can't ask even how are you today how are the children is interested in dogs why because of sin he thinks dogs are are saviors and protect us that's where we are so the purpose of reading the word of God is to guide us to know we are not home desalang that is fairer than day niki saima because you are young still you begin singing from down there desalang that is fairer than day there will be no chairman Shepard there will be no AK47 there will be no katoels there will be no whatever there will be no thieves there will be nothing hey desalang that is fairer than day and by faith we can see it afa truth or not truth right we shall meet on that beautiful show we shall meet we shall meet we shall meet we shall meet almost chapter 8 verses 11 to 13 almost chapter 8 verses 11 to 13 almost chapter 8 verses 11 to 13 we will call you later again the word of God says behold the days are coming says the Lord God that I will send a famine on the land not a famine of bread not a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the Lord verses 12 they shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east they shall run to and fro seeking the word of the Lord but shall not find it in that day the fair virgins and the strong young men shall faint from thirst not thirst of water not thirst of bread but thirst of getting the word of God because propasion has closed and that word is nowhere it is no more and therefore people will be running up and down looking for it but it will not be there these are the moments God has called upon us to use the available vessels he has given and other equipment to rally our people with the word of God the same not only the word of God but in the book of Osaya chapter 5 and the book of Osaya chapter 5 or 6 is not only the word of God that will no longer be there but there is what we have held on to which became a stumbling block and that time is coming people of God Osaya chapter 5 or 6 the Bible says with their flocks and hearts they shall go to seek the Lord but they will not find him he has withdrawn himself from them at time is coming we have cherished so much at time is coming we have cherished this thing so much to an extent that we can't allow we can't use them for the purpose of ensuring the word of God is spread here and there we are worshiping them instead of worshiping God so God is saying when probation closes then it will be announced it is normal that is when people will begin running to the church here they will come root me for pastor because Amos says pastor you will never find him he will not be there we will come with our cows we will come with whatever we have we will come with our billions we will be driving here with billions the Bible is saying with their flocks and hearts they shall go to seek the Lord but they will not find him why he has withdrawn himself from them it is now to do the work of God dear people Ezekiel chapter 7 says of the same thing we need to wake up dear people of God and be on our toes if I can't go on my own I can't make it God has given means give out the means like in the first church it is an anas and safaira who tried to do what never intended but they ended in graves so if you have what God has given you and you can't go give it and it will be used Ezekiel chapter 7 verses 19 what God says they will throw their silver into the streets and their gold will be like refuse kiswa iliki nasema ita kwa kama mavi they will throw their silver into the streets their gold will be like refuse their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord they will not satisfy their souls nor feel their stomachs because it became their stumbling block of inequity dear people of God we are called upon the Lord is saying whom shall I send that is the call coming down to us you know dear saints allow me to see this some of us in our families have gone to an extent where your spouse does not know a pin number I am a person I will go to the church and I will go to the bathroom and I will ask the people who are in the bathroom Hey hey hey I will go to the bathroom Hey hey So she wonders what is going on I was not doing anything He goes with the phone in the bathroom if we can worship gadgets how far we from worshiping our living God how far we the Bible is saying a time is coming so we are challenged to go and using the material that has been given the discover Bible schools which are produced by the voice of prophets we use them where we are not able to reach give other people to read we may not know how to talk some of us we may not know how to convey to someone some of us but if we get that tool and give someone to read and that is it how it can be one day one young man in this world was hired to take care of animals of one rich man so one day as he was taking these animals to the water point he stumbled piece of paper somewhere on the road and out of curiosity he picked it and they began to read you could not understand so going home with a piece of paper he asked the owner of the animals what is this what are they talking about it was a paper that someone had thrown there but was inviting people to enroll so the owner of the home explained it to him and then he said can you do for me so that I can also read the owner did it for him and they began reading at the end of it he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior at the end of it he became a pastor of this church he is now very old retired at his home rejoicing awaiting for the Lord to come dear saints in a little while we are going home are we ready to go home we are called upon to witness to the others many ways we have seen what is going to serve as our stumbling blocks in a little while we go we shall meet at last when the stormy winds are power in a little while we go in the strength renew in a little while we shall cry we shall meet at last when the stormy shall we the voice of prophecy the personal ministry department which works in a little while we go we shall meet at last but we shall meet in a little while will about what this department which work hand in hand with the voice of prophecy I'm going to say something a little about that one because our time is caching up with us what is the mission of the personal ministry's department in the church the mission of personal ministries is to provide resources The department has to unite with the voice of prophecy because the voice of prophecy provides the materials to be used by this department in order to train charge members with the ministry in the final proclamation of the gospel salvation in Christ. The aim of the department is to enlist every member in active soul winning service for God in many ways. The personal ministry was established as a major setting for soul winning activities in the church. It exists to teach and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in response to the command of Jesus in the context of the three angels messages as given in Revelation chapter 14 and verses 6 to 12. To honor this original purpose, the personal ministry's department continues to communicate the good news with the objective to win, to hold and to train for Jesus Christ in men, women, youth, boys and girls in all the world and to design programs and resources to help those areas of world where charging of the world, where charging growth is limited. The local charge personal ministry department like the Nairobi central charge has historically specialized in certain soul winning methods. Some of this, like door to door evangelism, it is the assumption of the purpose of the department that this is what the department has to specialize in and with that assumption, the church has specialized in it and is using it together with the material produced by the spiritual professor of Bible Discover School which are the study guides Amma Ugunruzi in helping to reach others. So, some of this, like door to door evangelism, distribution of literature, giving personal Bible studies, can be in the office, can be in the workplace, any other place, also lay preaching, organizing and running the community service program of the church including, for example, like the Dalka society. Rarely do we do these things today because we are so busy and you hear people say to fungulia what is up and then we put whatever we want there and those who could manage to take, they take on our behalf. Organizing the running annual gathering program is no longer existence today. Managing local charge correspondent schools that discover Bible schools where we have the Bible school coordinate in the local charge as the leader or the voice of professor leader. Corporating with the service school department in organizing and running service school action units. This one is there, but we are not talking about service school so much today, but out of observations today dear saints, we are very far from reading the word of God and the more so our service school quarterlies. We only open them service morning when mualimu stands and says let's open here. And so that is when we open it so we don't know what it was talking about. You hear I've been to places, I was in a class sometimes somewhere and the mualimu, a very respected personality in the society. He was teaching what I've never had since I was born. It was not in the service school quarterly, but he was saying you know on Monday, he opens on Monday, he begins talking about the shift when Monday is talking about the hours. So you wonder what is the problem here? Dear service school leaders, attend these classes, find out what is going on there, gather information, gather data, come together, analyze it, get away forward for making our service schools more active. Why do people come at 11 in charge? Because there is nothing interesting in the service school. So they stay wherever they are, they come on it for advice service. Once it is done, they go on a lecture in each other, wuko inje going to other things and other activities and that's the end of it. But dear people of God, we have our work to do. Ellen White says every true disciple is born into the kingdom of God as a missionary. Every one deserves wages page 195. So we need to cooperate with the service school department in organizing these units. We need to cooperate that department personal ministries is to cooperate with the local church pastor in the organization and the management of smaller group ministries. Let us remember that the personal ministry department and it is a ministry within the church and therefore the department and the pastor they work to get a hand in hand in reaching the community with the word of God. A brief historical background of the personal ministries. The personal ministries is a facet of the church whose beginning can be traced to a women's group that was established in 1869 in South Lancaster, Massachusetts such as called the Vigilant Missionary Society. The work of the Vigilant Missionary Society there was a missionary by the name S.N. Haskell. This group gave him the idea of establishing a paper that was called Tract and Emission in Societies in various New England conferences in 1870. So either directly or through the local societies this paper was circulated to the 70 day Adventist and the 70 day members to circulate these pamphlets to all people. They also conducted personal evangelism through vests, correspondents and helping the needy. In 1874 the general conference established a general tract and emission in society. They later renamed that tract, the international tract and emission in society when the general conference publishing department was established around 1901 it absorbed the international tract and the mission in society. In 1913 the fostering of lay evangelism was assigned to a separate subdivision called the home missionary. Some of you are older here you remember what used to be called home missionary or lay activity as we are going to look here. It was introduced in the department. After functioning for five years the home missionary branch was made a separate department in 1918. In 1915 the general conference recommended the appointment of home missionary secretaries to the levels of the general conference that divisions the unions and such like. And then that time in 1915 the general conference president's name was H.E. Daniels. He said the home missionary department is not a campaign it is a religious movement it is a revival of people religion in the church and the going forth to bear it to others. This department is to train men and women all over the world to go out about their homes to win souls to Christ. Bottom line calling people into accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior. As time went by five areas of department of evangelical activities were developed. This is the Bible correspondence course with the voice of prophecy the community service which men on occasion will rarely do and then there was the lay Bible evangelism the literature distribution. Now the lay activities department came about in the year 1966. In a general conference session the home missionary now became the lay activities department and this is where I said for those who can remember those days after sabah school lessons you could get stewardship and development the youth and home and the family life families and all of them were put together. So the purpose of this was not intended to change the organization of that department but then as it was explained it was the purpose to make sure that we go all over the world to preach the word of God. In 1995 the church ministry department was dissolved again and the sabah school and personal ministers were combined into one department. This organization pattern at the conference mission at all levels. At the local church level sabah school and personal ministries continue to function as two separate entities although at the conference level at the union and going upwards sabah school and personal ministries is as one department but at the local church is as different entities. What is the personal ministry statement of purpose? It is equipping and mobilizing the membership to accomplish the world mission of the church. So when this work together then the question whom shall I send like I said here my Lord send me when the local church members are equipped they can answer that call anywhere wherever they are because God does not say that you must be at a certain place that is the only time you can do that. Dear members dear leaders let us move away from these things we are brought in the church where if someone does not address you by your title then it is not that it is not working meaning we have left the primary call of going and doing the work of God we are now taking care of our titles one day one time I mean I was taken to a place to work in this world and as I was new so the musees came the elders came and so I was greeting them you know innocently good morning elder greeting them all along before we ever meeting reaching at one of them he said excuse me pastor oh yes you must have respect to call people by their titles you know it is very nice let me help you this one is professor Suansu this is engineer Suansu this is doctor Suansu I didn't know they have those titles so I said it's okay fine so I was asking what is your title so that I may greet him with the title you can imagine the situation I found myself so I said it's okay but the powers of our pastor are also here Aba Pegiake nowhere else so using here I said as we come to worship in this church when you are coming here you make sure that you remove all your titles leave them at the gate with the watchmen enter here as a worshiper of God I have seen badges in some churches it is written chief head elder what I read in the Bible is chief of sinners so where do they get this chief head elder where is it written we are so much into nursing and the nurturing titles in the state of nurturing the word of God to help other people to accept Christ as their personal savior dear people of God let us move away for all those things our time is coming they will not help us in any way here is what Ellen White says the last statement as you come on stage song 633 she says I had somebody say we knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth but we did not know that they could come so soon others with agonized voices said you knew why then did you not tell us we did not know on every side I had similar words of reproach spoken a time is coming when proportion closes people when we are crying here and there when the word is closed it is no more there then we will be coming up crying and others will be asking so you knew this time was coming and we were working together we were selling cows together we were selling vegetables together we were working in the same school we were working in the same university we went to the same school we were working in the same organization you knew this and you never told us why did you not tell us and then we will say we did not know it was coming so soon and yet we have the word of God here my challenge to all of us is let's go back into the word of God let us read the word of God so that when we are equipped we are able to help others whom shall I send is what goes through the voice of prophecy the personal ministries because they have been called upon in the local church may God help us as we sing the wondrous love of Jesus so that we share this wondrous love as we prepare for home in Jesus name shall we stand as we sing that song 633 634 Gracious father in heaven we thank you for the privilege you have given us in reminding us Lord to participate in reminding us many we are going to lose what we have looked at this afternoon as challenged as Lord to awaken and redirect our thinking, our aspirations towards the heaven to be gained. There will be rejoicing when we get there. There will be no rejoicing in hell because it will be destruction forever. And finally this world to be cleansed for the saints who are rejoicing forever to dwell throughout the eternal ages. How painful it will be that those who had this opportunity misused the opportunity. And it will be a thousand years too late when saints had left for heaven and stayed a thousand years coming back to this world to witness the destruction of the world forever. That will be woken up to be destroyed realizing we are a thousand years too late. Gracious Father forgive us our shortcomings hold our people hands open our minds to come back to you through the reading of the world. And give us the energy and the capacity Lord to share it with the others in preparation for your soon return. We thank you Lord to this end. Continually bless us for we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Say for the nice presentation by Elpasta Airere. Amen. Thank you pastor. We will invite you another time to continue sharing with us. So that I let the music team continue. We will have the choir at four and I believe they'll be in the main sanctuary. Elda's voice. I know we have a big Sabbath coming. Elda's voice will go to the music room at the back so that they get ready for their council and their music choir practice. And I would like to say that after this we'll be at Liberty too. If you have any departmental meetings or councils you can go ahead with them. Otherwise we have our midweek prayers on Wednesday please. If you're able to come physically to church at five please don't miss. If you will be busy please join online because we'll be having it on WhatsApp. I mean Facebook and YouTube. We would like us to pray so that the music team can continue. Let's pray. Gracious Father who art in heaven. We want to thank you in a special way because of the word we've got through your servant pastor Nata Noirere. Lord you've strengthened him and you've given him the message. Thank you because it has reached us. Lord speak to us and continue touching us so that we may spread out this voice of hope. The voice which talks about the end time, the present truth so that your children who are still out there may get to hear the truth and may choose to follow you. So that Lord all of us may enter that kingdom you prepared for us. As we leave this sanctuary Lord be with us. Protect us, guide us. As we walk on the byways, the walkways using various means Lord I pray that you may work with us and protect us until we get back to worship again next time. And even for the midweek prayers Lord I pray that you may help us to find time to hear your voice. As we get to various meetings and practices Lord I pray that you may be with us until the end of the Sabbath because I'm praying in Jesus name. Amen. So we'll do two last songs for this Sabbath. We have just sung that when we all get to heaven or to joy that would be. But really we speak of this place what must it be to be there. And so our next song will be from our SDA hymnal song number 434. We speak of the realms. It's to heaven and we are going to do our last song and it'd like us all to raise for this song. It's in Kiswahili from Nimbosaki Christo. Number 8 is Sinina Tisa. The grace of our Lord Jesus and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now.