 Good evening our viewers and those in the sanctuary. We take this opportunity to welcome each and everyone of you to our service this evening as we continue with the stewardship week of prayer. I believe we've been blessed so far and we are all eager to learn today from what God has prepared for us through our speaker for the week. Before we begin I'd like us to start with the word of prayer. Let us pray. Heavenly Father we come before your presence this evening. We are grateful Lord for all that you have done for us. We thank you Lord for keeping us safe throughout the day and giving us another opportunity to come and learn from your man servant. Lord we pray that you speak to us and Father may we have a listening ear, may we be keen to take to heart all that we are going to learn this day. This is my humble prayer in Jesus' name. Man we'll start this afternoon session with song number 572. Song number 572. Give of your best to the Master. Give of your best to the Master 572. Give of your best to the Master. Give of the strength of your youth. Throw your souls fresh glowing ardor into the battle for truth. Jesus has set the example. Dauntless was he young and brave. Old devotion. Give him the best that you have. Give of your best to the Master. Give of the strength of your youth. Cloud in salvation's full armor. Join in the battle for truth. Give of your best to the Master. Give him first place in your heart. Give him first place in your service. Concentrate every part. Given to you shall be given. God his beloved son gave. Please seeking to serve him. Give him the best that you have. Give of your best to the Master. Give of the strength of your youth. Cloud in salvation's full armor. Join in the battle for truth. Give of your best to the Master. Not else is worthy his law. Give himself for your ransom. Gave up his glow. Forms you from sin's ruin to sin. Give him your heart's adoration. Give him the best that you have. Best to the Master. Give of the strength of your blood in salvation's full armor for truth. We'll turn to song number 452 what heavenly music. 452 what heavenly music. Why what heavenly music steals over the sea. Entrancing the senses like sweet melody. Tis the voice of the angels born so up to banks of old joys. Stretch forth, send a call to angels. Dear Jesus, may we join that sweet music. Come, take it. Good evening for those who are following us virtually and also those of us who managed to come to church. We'd like to welcome all of you to this week's stewardship of prayer. God has been so kind to us that he's given us a very powerful speaker Pastor Elijah Makhanu and the theme that he's been taking us through is living in view of eternity. And today he'll be taking us through the topic, the principle of responsibility. How we pray that God will use him mightily and also request those of us who are both virtually and here in church please remember our speaker in prayer. As we welcome the evening program I'd also like to introduce those who will be serving with us today. We have sister Dorita Abura who will be doing the scripture reading. We also have Sulevan who has been taking us through the song service God bless you brother Sulevan and then also at a pianist you're supposed to have Daniel Muroki but see James is there. Thank you James for standing in and please feel welcome even as we all serve. Thank you and I'd like to pray that this evening will be a key difference in our lives as we hear some of the stewardship topics for today. Thank you. Greetings saints of the living God. It's time to reach out for your Bible for our scripture reading. This evening we are going to read from the book of Luke Luke chapter 12 verse 48. Luke chapter 12 verse 48 and it says but he who did not know yet committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few for everyone to whom march is given from him march will be required and to whom march has been committed of him they will ask the more. I repeat but he who did not know yet committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few for everyone to whom march is given from him march will be required and to whom march has been committed of him they will ask the more. May God add blessings to the reading. We will now turn to our hymn books. Let's turn to song number 359 Hark the voice of Jesus calling. 359 Hark the voice of Jesus calling. I'd like to invite those in the sanctuary to please be upstanding Let's go. Thank you brother Sullivan for we've come to the time for those of us were in the sanctuary at Clydeley request that we find a place to kneel. Even those who are at home please join us as we believe in this prayer. O heart in heaven we honor you Lord we praise you Lord for we recognize you as our creator Lord our protector and even also our redeemer. We thank you my kind and loving father for your son Jesus and the blood that was shed on the Calvary for redemption of our sins how we pray that the whole act of the Calvary will not be in vain in our lives. My kind and loving father as we come before you this evening Lord we thank you even for the opportunity for this program. We trust and believe my Lord that this program is not just a chance but a plan for you for our lives. We commit pastor Elijah McCannu in a special way Lord that you may use him may the words that come from him Lord be those from you and we pray Lord for those who of us who are listening may you soften our hearts that we may be able to hear and even the principle of responsibility that you tell us today may we be able to act upon them in our lives may change our lives Lord that even our brothers and sisters who see us may they not be seen us but may they be seen you and your glory. My God and my father we also pose as we remember our brothers and sisters those of us who are not feeling well Lord we commit them unto your hands. We pray that you may stretch your healing hand and touch them in a special way Lord that they may be able to get well and continue with their daily activities and even those who are working in your vineyard may be able to come back and continue to do your work. My kind and loving father we have so many applications that we like to bring before you some of them even might not be able to remember some of them we do not even know but we believe Lord you are the alpha in the omega you know the end even from the beginning we trust all these unto your hands trust in and believe in that your will be done according to the riches in glory for we pray trust in and believe in Jesus name amen okay um good evening everyone welcome brothers and sisters those of us who are here and those following us online from wherever you are we want to welcome you to in a very special way that we may again fellowship together through the word of God I pray that the Lord will bless us tonight and continue helping us to grow in grace because that is his will that with time we develop and continue developing that the character of God may be reproduced in us from glory to glory that at the end of this life we may find chance to be with our creator our redeemer forever and ever and so I want to welcome us to this stewardship week of prayer today we continue with our series living in view of eternity and on day four which is today we are looking at a very interesting subtopic it is it is called the principle of responsibility the principle of responsibility that is where we are so again allow me to say welcome and at the same time also invite us with our own issues that we can present before the Lord as I said it is not just a theological discourse this is a fellowship with our God and we cannot come into his presence and leave the way we came the Lord has a way of meeting us you know at the intersection helping us to get over some of the burdens and challenges that we have and this is one moment when the Lord meets us at our points of needs I want to gladly welcome you so that we can spend some few moments you know before the Lord crying to him and and whispering to him and and sharing with him our burdens not because he doesn't know but but just to show our our utter dependence on him to demonstrate that he alone is our God and our creator and to him we all all our all and so I invite you so that we can be able to say a prayer together with him so let us pray with all the burdens that we have all the challenges remember to tell the Lord remember to whisper that challenge to him and also if it is Thanksgiving just remember to thank him for what he has done let us pray together our masifu father and God our creator and redeemer we thank you because to you is power glory and honor we thank you that to you or God is all that we have to you or God we all our essence our nature our very being we walk we exist in you or God without you we would not be there we are here is a testimony that you are there and so we thank you and we ask that in the stillness of your voice in the cool of these uh uh roof and and wherever my beloved viewer is I pray that you stretch your mighty hand that saves to reach to each one of them or God and minister special messes to them look at us with a divine favor look at us with messy or God because we do not qualify we do not merit anything from you it is all by grace and all by your messes or God and recognizing these we ask now that you or God who is so loving and merciful we pray that you may forgive our sins we pray that you may remove all the guilt that has riddled our hearts and filled all our experiences that sometimes we are not even able to see you as our father and our God remove every barrier or God that exists between us and you all the sins we have committed blocked them out or God and as your word promises that they shall be as far away from us as east is from west we pray that this particular promise may be ours tonight or God and as we sit as we as we listen to your word we pray that this word that has power invested power inherent power that saves that heals power that transforms power that gives hope that power may be our experience tonight we seek that you may heal us who are not feeling well those of us who are sick those of us who have our loved ones in the hospitals in beds at home we pray that you minister your special healing messes upon them or God because you are our great physician we also pray that you minister to those who are faced with various challenges we remember our brothers and sisters who are in Ukraine and the war raging between Ukraine and Russia has brought a lot of untold sufferings to them we pray that in your own way or God you minister special healing and comfort to the souls of those who have been affected of those whose loved ones have died and we ask that you may bring stability in those particular countries we are here also praying dear lord for our nation that you minister your special healing grace to our nation we pray that you will bring peace among us all the stakeholders of this great nation and that we as Christians may find chance to continue ministering and and and sharing the good news of salvation to the many people who have not heard about you to the many people who have not given their loves to you who could have properly died without knowing you and so tonight may you award minister all these blessings to all of us including those of us who have thanksgiving or God find it in your favor to accept them and continue blessing us in Jesus name we pray amen amen the principle of responsibility you check in the book of look chapter 12 that is where we are in look chapter 12 and verse 48 the words of jesus i wish you can get time just to read the entire you know chapter just to see what is going on what is going on it you know jesus is talking about when he will come when the king will come sorry and he likens his coming to many things he he in this particular context he gives an example of a rich man or a land owner a business entrepreneur who who leaves and goes to some far country but leaves his household in charge of somebody he he asks one of his servants he says you are in charge of this other servants make sure that you take good care of them give them food in due season do not delay them and pay them for what they are working make sure that they get their due wages you know make sure that they don't suffer should they have any problem please be there to minister then this particular land owner takes off to a far country and stays there for some time and time is about for him to come back jesus continues with the story is about to come back and and then he says um uh so when when jesus comes back and and and he gets to his house there is a moment of reckoning you know a moment of reckoning to know how his workers have been dealt with by the servant how his servant has played his responsibility how he has been with them these are the issues that jesus christ is talking about then in verse 42 he says and and the lord said who then is the faithful and wise manager whom his master will set over his household to give them their patient blessed is he is that servant who his master will find so doing when he comes verse 44 truly i say to you he will set him over all the possessions or his possessions verse 45 but if that seven says to himself my master is delaying incoming and begins to beat the male and female sevens and to eat and drink and get drunk the master was 46 of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect and at an hour he does not know and then he says and he will cut in pieces and put him with unfaithful you know what is going to happen here is that when he comes at that hour he will get this servant who has spitefully treated his other fellow workers and then he says you will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful then verse 47 and that servant who knew his master's will but did not did not get ready or act according to his will according to the will of of the master this particular servant will receive a severe beating then of course in verse 48 our text tonight says but the one who did not know the will of the master and did what deserved a beating the bible says will receive a light beating will receive a light beating some kind of equity is expressed here not equality equity then uh he he continues this will receive a light beating then everyone to whom much is given of him much is required and from him to whom they entrusted much they will demand more much more uh to to whom much is entrusted what is demanded is not the much you are given but much more than what you are given and that is the word of the lord i want to take us now into the study of the scripture tonight this statement spoken by jesus in verse 48 has become somewhat of an idiomatic expression in the western culture it is found and paraphrased especially in angobens words of wisdom to peter pecker in this film called the spider man and the title of it the same words paraphrased is with great power comes great responsibility i could not have perhaps done a better justice to this text if i didn't mention this ladies and gentlemen that responsibility is an ethical concept that refers to the fact that individuals in the groups have morally best obligations and the duties to others and to larger ethical and the moral codes above themselves and the two standards and the traditions that are way beyond themselves that is what responsibility is according to aristo to one of the famous greek early philosophers moral responsibility was viewed as originating with the moral agent as a decision maker and grew out of inability to reason meaning you are not subjected to this moral principle and you are not made responsible until and unless you are a reasonable man you have reason you are aware of the action and you are equally aware of the consequences of every choice you make and every action undertaken according therefore to aristo to there cannot be moral responsibility without a willingness on the part of this person who is responsible a willingness to freely choose without any external convulsion so as servants of the lord we are responsible to god not out of convulsion there is free choice and will we are aware or we have been made aware of the actions that we are supposed to undertake we are much aware too of what we are supposed to do in terms of what is supposed of us and also in terms of the consequences of whether we do what we are supposed to do or not and for that reason then we become liable or we subscribe by nature to what we call moral responsibility we have already established in the few days past that god made man in his own image and likeness that god created men in his image he created man in his likeness he he simply decided to institutionalize in man what we would call the inner liable abilities of god in men the institution of character and the morality was institutionalized in man it was put there at the origin of men and the reason for this was that then everything that god requires of me is not something that will have to be taught and told it whatever he requests naturally responds with what is inside me so i have to either choose to accept exceed to it or refuse either way he created man with the power to choose what you want to do but advised men to choose to only do the good and never experience or do the bad or evil he he advised man he also created men and began developing him intellectually and we have already seen this he developed man intellectually by teaching him even the concept of language how to communicate and and we saw how god came and spoke to man and and god had created something in men that would then resonate quickly with the speech of god and the man was listening as god was talking god began developing man intellectually then he gave him a command that established what we call the moral principles that are in net and natural in man he told him man i have created you you are a free moral agent you may eat of all this but on this one please do not the boundaries that god had established were the only ones that would help man define what is wrong and what is right the basis of right and wrong is established within the moral nature that god had put in man i have had a lot of discussions with people who don't believe in god both in in this country and outside and sometimes i find it very interesting because they want to they want to define evil they want to define good without any absolute standard because they don't believe in god they don't believe in absolute and therefore there is no center there is no point of reference but they will say this is good this is bad so you ask them on what basis are you then saying this is bad and they will say by feeling but if you follow the concept of feeling my friend you end up in a very interesting place because i if i feel that i should kill you then who say i'm wrong i can kill you on the basis of feeling i can take your spouse take your wife on the basis of feeling i feel good so is that wrong there must be what we call a moral reference point where we can go to and god established this in the constitution of man we have already established this one for those of you tuning in maybe for the first time please understand that we have already done maybe you can refer to our previous presentations you can find that we have also discovered and already established that man was made to rule over what does not belong to him you don't have anything that is yours i have nothing that is mine all that we have and all that we are the substance of our own being the multiplication the additions are mathematical additions of of what we have and what we are without clothes without money without anything just the normal human being alone belongs to god let alone all that we have we have already established that and we have also said that god have has given us instruction so clear that this is what is expected of us and for that reason the definition of aristo therefore makes more sense because man is without excuse now back to our verse verse 48 now there are two parts of verse 8 i will only deal with part two part one talks about two that servant the servant who did not know because in verse 47 is talks about talks about an individual who knows the will of god or the will of the master but does contrary what happens to him severe beating now to that servant who does not know the will of the master but because of the constitutional alignment of his moral principles does something against his own conscience well knowing it is wrong he will receive a lighter beating now this is within the context not of god but within the context of the master and the servants what happens if if your house help does something that is not so bad but it is bad anyhow sometimes we reprimand what happens when they do something that is so sometimes you send them parking this is what happens in the world of human relations but in the world of god i'm not dealing with that part but i'm just summarizing so that i can go to what i'm saying in that part it simply means in the in the economy of heaven there is nothing like you did not know and yet you did that which was wrong because constitutionally from stewardship perspective what man ought to do is clearly known and stated within your natural constitution it is and for us who are in the church is even worse because we have been taught over and over so in in the economy of god there is no lighter beating and there is no heavy beating there's no severe beating and lighter a beating is just a beating and the beating means exclusion from you know the kingdom being thrown out of the kingdom but now that is not what i'm discussing i'm discussing part two and part two says to whom march is given march is required to elucidate or to explicate what i would call the principle of responsibility to whom march is given march is required to whom march is entrusted march is demanded no much more is demanded of him now this two clauses are the ones i am discussing in our semen tonight the two clauses look at it but one says to whom march is given march is required the first part of the clause but two to whom march is entrusted much more is demanded so what is the relationship or what is the difference and and what is how do they marry each other now the two clauses differ slightly though they are parallel in meaning the first one refers to gifts to whom march is given march is required it refers to gifts which involve what we refer to as generally as moral responsibility the gifts that have been given to us and these gifts in most cases are immaterial you may not quantify them they are immaterial they have been given to us and so by nature morally we are responsible to the one who gave them to us and i'm going to explain that in a little while now if you look at the second clause which says and to whom march is entrusted march more is demanded this refers to what we would say what is is is generally referred to as something that has been committed to us in trust that which we are holding and it is material we can be able to see it we can quantify we can count that which the lord has put at our disposal that we can quantify that also that which has been put under your care you may not multiply your body you may not for example multiply some of the things god has given to us naturally that are immaterial but for material things you are supposed to multiply them put them to use so that god can find what we call the interest of what he has done that is what is a both inferred or implied or what is implicit and explicit of this particular verse 48 to whom the statement to whom normally when we are writing letters of recommendation to some people we say to whom it may concern meaning you are not just referring to one person you you are simply writing to anybody out there to whom now that statement is crucial the bible says to whom march is given to whom means means whom so ever because god by his nature love he does not treat as by looking at our faces if he did some of us would not be where we are would not be what we are would not be having what we have god is no respecter of persons he says to whom any human being can become something praise the lord he he does not look at you he doesn't look at your face he does not look at your parentage he does not look at where which village you come from he does not consider so much about where you come from so as then to influence him to give you what he gives to people amen amen he does not look he does not deal with us the way we even deserve that is why even though you and i have this opportunities that are marvelous and other people are you know they look at us and and to to some people when they look at us we are actually a dream they look at us and say god if you can only take me up to where that guy is to to some people you are their ultimate dream but even with that we come to misappropriate that which the lord has given to us let me put it in another way you know we use what the lord has given to us so that we can abuse him we take what he has given to us both material and immaterial so that we can abuse his name cause his name to be shamed among men and women he does not look at us like that he will allow you to grow he will allow you to expand he will he will allow you to to go up and higher he he he will just allow you he will allow your salary to increase he will allow your health to continue he will allow your children to pass exams he does not interfere he is our great benefactor he does it out of his own love out of his own love to whom to whoever to mahanu to that person to that brother to my elder to all of us to our pastor here he he does not look at us before he does something for you and if he were to do that i tell you i tell you so he says to whom to whom to whom he doesn't look at your tribe because to some of us you mention of a certain tribe you feel agitated you you just feel bad you you even lose appetite because of of a certain tribe mentioned especially we who live in Kenya here God does not place at our feet the numerous gifts that he has that he has done he he does not do that referring to who we are to whom to whom so ever to anybody could be a street child the Lord can make them into something it could be a young man who was never born in Pumani hospital but can be made into even a president of this country you can be something by the power of God amen to whom so ever to whom so ever now he he says to whom march the word march it's interpretation from the original language speaks of a number it speaks of an amount to whom a certain amount of it is not only money i'm going to discuss that to to whom to to whom march to whom a certain figure is assigned to to whom a a certain amount of knowledge and talents is given to to him to whom a certain amount of money is given to to whom you know a certain amount of time is given to to whom to whom opportunities are given to whom march is given and this you know God has not allowed us to guess how much it is very clear you know four areas are crucial here your body which is you can call it material but it is immaterial you cannot quantify it then of course your talents which to some people they are both material and immaterial you have time and then you have your wallet ponzibo and accountable in the way we use and manage them he has not allowed us to guess the word of God is explicit on this when it comes to our bodies he orders for 100 percent surrender any part of your body that remains under your watch care be sure that little part that remains will drive you into being crazy surrender the hall of it 100 percent of our bodies to him when it comes to time or to talents talents god does not allow you to surrender 99.999999 up to infinity percent even 0.1 that remains matters to god it must be 100 percent of the talent surrendered if not whatever that remains will make it impossible for you to use those talents towards god you will employ them in the service of the other one when it comes to time god reduces and he asks one over seven of the week which translates to 14.2 something to eight which is 14.3 percent now this is what the lord is asking of us that over our time do whatever you do but he has mapped out mapped out set aside his 14 in every week 14.3 percent it is his it is holy unto the lord and it remains like that when it comes to our wallet he also has march he has an amount he has a number the march to whom march is given that's what we are saying to whom march is given he has stated that in the wallet there will be 10 percent number one we call it a tithe in fact the word tithe simply means one over 10 and then there is what we call an offering on top of the 10 percent so basically in your wallet he is asking of what we call 10 plus and he has allowed you at least to play around with the other plus he has given you a chance to out of the heart of gratitude say god i can't thank you so much but this month i got a salary who told you that you are supposed to be there to get that salary who told you who told you that you must have been there to receive that salary your relatives you'd have fisted on it when you are not there out of a grateful heart you say god your 10 percent is here but out of this heart of gratitude i'm adding on this the lord allows you to think out of gratefulness of what he has done for you to to consider how much you'll add on top of 10 percent again it is march to whom march to whom march is given now he says march is required now i i checked again in greek the word march is the same so in other words if the number used and i want you to listen very carefully if the number used in to whom march is given if the number is x then x is required so let's let's change it now in from march to x so to whom x is given x is required that's basically what i'm talking about god does not require what he has not given to us he never asks from anybody to whom he has not given god never asks from one to whom he has given nasing what it simply means is when he asks from you he's only asking of his own he's asking that you give back not from you as but from his own for unto whom so ever march is given of him shall march be required i have discovered something that is very unique when i was reading this passage of scripture you see whatever the lord has given to us that which he is entrusted to us he he has given he has laid at your feet if you cannot be responsible to god your creator whatever else you will never be responsible enough you see i'll take you back to the garden of Eden when adam and eve failed to temp their appetite over a fruit the sin of adam they did not kill anybody they did not steal people's what they simply ate a fruit that was forbidden the failure to temp their appetite the failure to be responsible enough towards their creator resulted into the untold pain and suffering that we have today failure to be a responsible steward in the matters of godly things we cannot be responsible enough over our own things as a matter of fact if i cannot surrender my body a hundred percent i cannot tame this body this body will tame me instead is somebody listening to what i'm saying if i cannot surrender my talents as it is a hundred percent those talents i cannot tame them the talents will tame me instead if i cannot return a faithful tithe and an offering to the lord i will never ever balance my balance sheet will never balance at all and i repeat this my needs will never fit into my income as long as i am not responsible to god so god allowed me and allowed you to have all these things for one reason that through our being responsible to him in the way he gives to us then that will help us to manage our own small things for that reason the principle of responsibility comes with the blessing to us that through that we will be able to manage our own we will manage this body you will manage your finances you will only as long you will be faithful to your spouse only as long you will be successful in the way you do your businesses only as long we are as we are responsible to our god the more knowledge a man has the more practice is expected from him the greater his gifts are the more useful he ought to be and diligent in the improvement of them now you remember the second part says to whom much is given much more is required to whom much is interested when the lord has entrusted talents to us when the lord has entrusted time to us we are supposed to make use get enough of the time that you get ensure that you improve on those opportunities if it is the opportunities of the talents that we have the wallet that we have the bodies that we have the time that we have make the best of them so that when the lord comes you can say out of the time you gave me this is how i have used my time out of the body that you gave me this is what i have done with this body out of the wallet you gave me oh god this is what i've done with the wallet this is what is implied in the text that if the lord has entrusted you with his body because the body does not belong to you the bible says we were bought and therefore we belong to him we are not our own if the lord has entrusted it to me he has entrusted time to me he has given me talents he has given me a wallet i am supposed to make improvement of those things the lord has entrusted me because when he comes he will not ask for the body the way it was given to me the question will be how did you use your body how much did you make with your body did you use your talents how much of the kingdom that you earned that you made with the talents and how much did you make with your wallet ladies and gentlemen and to whom men have committed much or to whom much is committed of him they will ask the more not more than what was committed to him but more than from him who has less committed to him in proportion to what is entrusted with the greater increase and the improvement it is expected that he or she should make adam lost his sense of responsibility as a matter of fact marriage became a casualty after adam failed to tame the appetite of the fruit because he failed to be accountable to god marriage suffered a huge blow when adam told god it is this woman that you gave to me at this time it is no longer my sweet heart it is no longer my honey darling a babe it is no longer that it is this woman you gave to me is the cause bitterness hatred came in because he failed to be responsible to god in fact i would like to propose to us that most of the problems we have in our marriages most i'm not saying all most of the problems they have their solution in our being faithful stewards to god once we choose to be faithful stewards to god those problems will disappear we can only manage what we have if we are responsible men and women in our stewardship in it lies the secret of managing everything else irresponsibility towards what belongs to god results in a responsibility towards everything else that belongs to us the only way for us therefore to overcome our selfishness kovetoasness the only way to overcome it is by us enlisting ourselves into the order of faithful stewards men and women who count themselves as responsible to a higher power than themselves who do not live by feelings who do not go by what they see but they go by thus says the lord men who are willing to surrender men who are willing to subordinate everything including their own interest for the sake of the interest of their creator jahova this is the way to be able to overcome the war that we are dealing with would you be free are you over burdened today are you struggling to add up figures are you finding it very hard to have to have your your needs fit into the income the solution is one choose tonight and it will be different in business management we say only fools will do the same thing repeatedly and the same way yet expecting different results choose and do it differently choose jesus surrender to him totali and we will overcome amen you you have a challenge with the passions of your flesh the desires of your flesh are not just normal they are so irrational they are inordinates they they make you cross the boundaries and you only discover when you have already messed up yourself the only way is this and list yourself as a faithful steward surrender your body to jesus and he will take care of the passions in it the song writer says would you be free from the burden of sin says there is power in the blood he says would you or evil a victor win there is wonderful power in the blood would you be free from your passions and pride there is power in the blood come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide there is wonderful power in the blood would you do service for jesus your king there is power in the blood as i invited my brother to sing together with us i will ask those in the audience here to stand up and wherever you are watching us from i pray that you join us sing this song and then we will finish with the prayer would you be free from the burden of sin when we finish when we finish i will ask our pastor to come so that he can offer the closing prayer for us would you be free song number 284 power in the blood would you be free from the burden of sin there's power in the blood power in the blood would you or evil a blood there is power power wonder walking power in the blood there is power power wonder walking power in the precious blood there's power in the blood wonderful power in the blood before i commit all of us those who are watching us online and those who are in church i want to remind you that tomorrow same time we are going to be here to be blessed the way we have been blessed today and we are requesting all of you please to share with us this blessing by attending or watching the services that are going on here let's close our eyes for a wider prayer our lord and father god who lives above in heaven we want to thank you for the blessing of this evening we want to thank you for speaking to us through your servant lord and reminding us lord that there is power in the blood your sons and daughters who are watching listening to this message lord i pray in the name of jesus lord that may they may you make them experience the power of the blood as they struggle with the sin of this world as they struggle to listen to you as they struggle to be faithful lord make the power of the blood to be a reality in their life as we go home disperse us with your blessings lord and prepares lord to come back tomorrow to receive the same fill your servant who has spoken to us give him that power to speak and father may this wonderful teachings and things which are reminding us become true real and alive in our life be with us lord even as we leave this sanctuary and we have processed this evening i pray this believing and trusting in the name of jesus christ our lord and savi and let all of us say amen thank you so much and may the lord bless you as you prepare to come tomorrow or watch tomorrow so that we cannot be blessed now i want to call us to say the grace and now may the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the fellowship of the holy spirit be with us all in the name of jesus amen