 Happy Sabbath. Happy day. Happy Sabbath church. Happy day. Happy Sabbath to all of you who are joining us online and we welcome you all. This blessed cold Sabbath day. Before we begin, we'd like to request you all to rise. Those who are in the sanctuary, those who are at home, we may take a moment to say a prayer. Let's pray. How can I love you father? We thank you for this Sabbath day. We thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for granting us an opportunity to come and worship you. As we begin our services day, let's pray and commit everything to hands that you may be with us, that you may bless everything, that you may hiss in the footsteps of those who are on their way to the sanctuary. May you protect us all. And may you give us a special blessing this day for its necessity and belief. Amen. I welcome once again to this Sabbath worship. I'll introduce myself and then the rest of the team will introduce themselves so that you can hear the voices. My name is James Amayo. I'm a servant in this church. Let's start from the far, my far left. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. Happy day. Happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath. My name is Joya Wich. I'll be your soprano for the day. And I'll take this opportunity to also introduce the pianist and that is Crispin. Thank you. Good morning and happy Sabbath. Happy day. My name is Florence Opio. I will be doing alto. Happy Sabbath. My name is Bradley Ching. I will be singing bass. Thank you. We welcome all of you to join us in the present worship service as we begin with the song number 240 Ferris Lord Jesus. May we all join together in song. We'll turn to song number 457. Song number 457. I love to tell the story. Happy Sabbath. I hope you all had a blessed week. I did. It's another time we want to transit to a lesson discussion. How many so far can attest that the book of Genesis has been a blessing to them? I too have truly been blessed. We are coming to the end of our discussion. I hope you all had a blessed week. I did. It's another time we want to transit to a lesson discussion. We are coming to the end of our discussion. This Sabbath is our last discussion where we will be discussing Israel in Egypt. Israel, the people who had been promised the promised land are being found in an exile situation. Will it be permanent or will it just be a transition? One of the last words that Joseph puts in the book of Genesis chapter 50 verse 24, Joseph says, I'm dying but God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, the land of which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. At this time, I'd like us to ask the teachers who are currently present to kindly rise up so that we can have a word of prayer. Lesson teachers, let's believe and pray. We want to thank you for the six days where we have labored and we have moved up and down heavily. It's another moment you have given your children an opportunity to come and study your word heavily. We believe that this quote heavily father, you've worked with us and you've taught us so many things from the book of Genesis heavily father. Even as we come this Holy Sabbath day, to worship you and to believe that heavily father you will bless us and open up ways that are going to be greater and as we proclaim your message throughout the corners of the world so that heavily father will soon return and be able to come soon. Bless us this day heavily father, work with us until the end for this we pray in Jesus' name. Once again in the church we discuss the lesson discussion or the Bible study. I hope the Lord has taken good care of each and every one of you to know Wakarebisha, most welcome. With me as usual I'm with my panelist Dorita, good morning. Good morning. How was your week? My week has been a blessing. We thank God it's been cold but we are warm in the Lord and glad to be at His feet on this Sabbath day. Amen, we glad to hear that. On my left is Suleyman Karibusana Suleyman. How was your week? Week has been good. Yes, busy. Nonetheless we thank God for work and we get to work and more importantly we thank Him for the Sabbath rest and get to sit at His and rest from all our labors and allow Him to speak to us. Amen. Thank you. We welcome all of you today being the last Sabbath of the quarter. We want to invite you to send your comments on our different platforms. Say what have you learnt the whole quarter as we were reading the book of Genesis? What has inspired you? What would you like to share with us? And we will be going to be reading through as we discuss the last lesson. And now this week we are looking at Israel in Egypt. That will be our topic of discussion. We will look through different quotas the blessings of Jacob meeting Joseph and finally the words of Joseph as he died. We will be basically what to look through. I invite my brothers to live on to open the opening word of prayer. Let us pray. Our Father in Heaven we thank you for giving us another day to come before your presence. Thank you for the Sabbath that we have congregated in your sanctuary to worship you. As we begin our study this morning I pray that Lordy may with us lead us throughout the entire session. Father may we learn from you during this time for it is my humble prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you now we turn to our lesson. The memory text comes from the book of Genesis chapter 47 verse 27. Genesis 47 you can turn to your Bible verse 27 and it says like this. So Israel dwells in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly. I will repeat. So Israel dwells in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly. Amen. Now we turn to the book of Genesis we look through Genesis chapter 46 chapter 50. Now the last words before they went to Egypt that is chapter 45 where we ended that is verse 26, 27, 28 Jacob is told that his son Joseph is still alive and the Bible says he is hot fainted. However after beholding it all the wagons that Pharaoh had said oh Joseph has sent to pick his father the Bible says his spirit was revived and he said I'm going to see my son Joseph before I die. That turns us to the book of Genesis chapter 46 where we are starting verse 1 it says and Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to be a sheba and offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac and behold the Lord appeared unto him and he called him three times Jacob or Israel and he said here I am and he told him he gave me a promise I'm going to be with you I'm going to bless you so he went down with an assurance that God is going to be with us. We looked through Joseph and all the stories of Joseph and the Lord was with Joseph coming again to Jacob and telling him I am going to be with you what a blessed assurance that Jesus is mine. It's such a comforting words or such a comforting promise to each and every one of us when we know God is with us. Now let's turn to the next page Jacob goes to Joseph Yes Dorita Yes He picks and packs everything and down he goes Yes, actually I wanted to start by saying that this has been a beautiful journey that we have seen God walk with his man servants and for sure we have seen the hand of God all the way and when we look at the story of Jacob Joseph I mean in the family truly reassured that the Lord God keeps his word and keeps his promise that he will never leave us alone You may go through tribulations your family may look like it's falling apart but the Lord God's presence is still there because he has promised and his promise is yes and a man So he has walked with Jacob we have seen he wasn't one of the best people God manifest in his life remember when he wrestled with God he is the only man who has wrestled and overcome and prevailed but we have seen that with all these tribulations God was always by his side and he learnt to trust in God and we see that his name was changed that simply meant that he had a new walk through this new walk it wasn't easy it was a rough one but the Lord God's presence was there to be seen and to be experienced Okay now first forward to where we are right now that was just a recap on what we have been learning throughout the quarter we see that for about 22 years Jacob he was dead he was dead and the last time I remember we talked about him renting his clothes in mourning and you can imagine he's been mourning for his son for 22 years and when does God respond when he's 120 years who what are you waiting upon God for but we'll get to that for Genesis chapter 45 the last verse that's where we start from then Israel said it is enough Joseph my son is still alive I will go and see him before I die I mean Jacob is getting to the end of the final years of his journey on this world and he is quite excited that to learn that his son beloved son Joseph is still alive and he's ready to go however he's like this should have been the promised land but how do I get to live and go but then we see that he has woken up he's up in high spirits and he's ready to live what brings us vision and God is directly speaking to him what does God says verse 2 says that then God spoke to Israel in the vision of the night and said Jacob Jacob and he said here I am what does God say he says I am God and God of your father do not fear I think this is what I want to emphasize the Lord is reassuring Jacob that I am God I promise to be with you and I am with you let us go do not fear after those comforting words I don't think Jacob had any other anyway he had already decided that he was going to see his son Joseph what comes out clean and clear is that from then on Jacob is confident that the Lord is with him and the Lord has told him do not fear do not fear to go down to Egypt and God makes a promise that I will make you a great nation that reminds me of Abraham's call and these are parallels that we see between Jacob's journey and also Abraham when God promised that his descendants were going to be as the stars and for sure God promised that he will be with him and Joseph had been praying had been Jacob had been praying had been believing that the Lord God hears and we see as I said earlier when we started that his prayer is answered at 120 years I mean that's a long time and this is an encouragement to each and every one of us if you're praying to God for a matter please be reassured that the Lord God comes through at his time he makes things beautiful and that reminds me again of Hannah Hannah prayed he prayed and waited for a child and some will came we also see that Elijah prayed and waited for the rain and the Lord God answered Esther Esther fasted for three days and waited for the king and the Lord God manifested himself and came through for the woman with an issue of blood 12 years but the Lord God came through for him the blind man actually him he waited from birth until the Lord God made a difference I remember the disciples they were waiting upon the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the upper room and that was for 120 days for sure the Lord God came through I don't know what you are waiting on God for but please be reassured that however long it takes God is faithful and he is going to come through Jacob waited for 22 years when he knew that things were different and of course his misery was turned to good so do not fear is such a reassuring command that God gives Jacob Egypt because he will be made a great nation and if you go down to verse 4 a promise that was made to Abraham is also repeated here and we see that God is consistent in the way he gets to perform and do what he has promised and we see that Jacob left with his entire family at this point they have grown and the Bible says that he had a total of 70 right now and we see that the number 70 is a totality and an assurance that God surely keeps his promise because when he puts together or when he has his family all together they had reason and they have the numbers had gone to what God has promised so true faith believes in God's faithfulness that's a lesson that I would like to emphasize that for Joseph for Jacob you know that it's always easy to trust God when things are going right in a different direction your faith is tested and that is what the lesson writer is emphasizing for us this morning again that faith believes in God's faithfulness however rough it gets you know and you trust that the Lord God will come through and he has always been faithful regardless of how long so it's an interesting family story that we can resonate with today there's so much to glean from the story of Jacob and his sons and we have seen that it was a tabulent journey for them but then we see that the Lord God is faithful because at that appointed time he had organized for a great reunion and now we are talking about love in the family at its best and that is what he experiences as a person who was believed in God so we see that it is evident that the account of what we can read from the story of Jacob is such a reassuring thought that the Lord God comes through and he deals with us in such a redemptive manner in our lives his end result is to redeem us from the hands of the evil one he has a plan every day and the plan is to redeem us from the difficulties that we experience from the family wrangles that we experience and just from the rough journeys that we go through we know that the Lord God is working redemptively in our lives that's reassuring we appreciate so much it reminds me of the Lord's promise in Genesis 15 verse 3 when he was talking to Abraham actually he was talking to Abraham but then he was called Abraham and he tells him no for sure that your children or your descendants shall go into a land which is not theirs and they shall be there for 400 years and they shall be afflicted but they will come out now this is where God appears now to Jacob and tell him go and I will be with you amen just read a couple of comments here from our viewers on YouTube sister Susan Machi says God blesses even in Egypt do not be afraid what an awesome God we serve Machi father says answered prayers at 120 years that's for Jacob surely in the fullness of time God makes all things beautiful amen it's an assurance that in spite of the time time does not limit our God God works miracles beyond time but he wants to put us actually to train us to learn to trust him just as we saw in Joseph he had to wait from 17 up to 30 years 13 years of difficulties Jacob too had to wait Isaac had to wait for 20 years to get children Abraham his father had to wait for 25 years to get his son it's a time actually I think God uses time to train us and to change our perspective so that when he brings the blessing we are ready now we turn the next chapter and he says Jacob settles in Egypt does he really settle yeah that's something we're going to find out and just before I turn to that page Sister Jemima Wada also says God promised Abraham in Genesis chapter 15 verse 13 that his descendants will be in exile and in 4th generation they will return these weeks less will actually confirm God the promise amen we see what God had said to Abraham happening here when Israel goes so as we turn into the settlement of Jacob in Egypt actually begging that question did he really settle there and we see quite a lot happening especially in the book of Genesis chapter 47 there's a lot of events taking place but more importantly we see first of all what happened what we read from the previous chapter that is 46 verse 2 about God appearing to Jacob in a vision and telling him do not be afraid the same words he used when he was telling Abraham to leave his mother land and go to a land that he will show him do not be afraid and we see Jacob waking up in the morning and they set off for Egypt as they approach the land they meet with Joseph in the land of Goshen and Joseph cancels his brethren and tells them I will tell Pharaoh that my brothers and my father and all their belongings and all their children and their wives have come and they are shepherds when they ask about their occupation he said they are shepherds and he told his brethren that I have told Pharaoh this and that's exactly what you're going to tell the Pharaoh when he asks you what is your occupation and we see that he takes 5 of his brothers we are not told who amongst the 11 brothers he picks but when they come before Pharaoh Pharaoh ask them what is your occupation and they they answer Pharaoh based on what the cancel that they had received from Joseph now this was not this cancel was not just I didn't have it was not just out of nothingness but it was because of the experience that Joseph had had when in Egypt we remember from the time we remember from the encounter he had with Potipha's wife and all that he probably had seen in the land of Egypt he he did this as a way of killing his brothers from the corruption that was there in the courts of the palace because out of gratitude to Joseph the Pharaoh might have actually appointed his brothers to some offices within the kingdom of Egypt and Joseph knowing that too well he cancelled his brothers to say that they were they were shepherds but even still as much as that was the case the Pharaoh having land of this still did not leave them empty handed he still now appointed them and said because of your expertise for your understanding in this task of being shepherds now I can appoint you to be the chief shepherds of all my flock so still in as much as he is showing gratitude to Joseph he goes ahead and appoints his brothers as chief shepherds of all his flock another very important thing that we see here when they were responding to Pharaoh they went ahead to say that indeed the only reason they had come to Egypt is because they were sojourning in the land look for pasture for their livestock now if you look up the word sojourning in the dictionary it says a temporary stay so in essence what they were saying we are just here temporarily because back in our land there is no pasture for our livestock so we have just come here to get pasture for our livestock for our families so in essence what they were telling Pharaoh is when things get better back home then we would go back to our land and that is a very key component of the fact of the promise that God told Abraham that your descendants will be slaves in Egypt then he will take them out this is part of that fulfillment of this promise because they are not permanent residents and it actually also has a spiritual inclination to it to our lives as Christians we know that we are pilgrims in this world this world is kind of equated to Egypt back in those days that we are just passing through this is not our permanent residents because we have a better land that we are going to so we should always have that at the back of our minds then we continue seeing that now Joseph brings his father before Pharaoh and what does Jacob do the first thing Jacob does he blesses Pharaoh now what is the significance of this act Pharaoh in the land of Egypt he is perceived as the high priest also other than just being the ruler of the land he is also seen as the high priest but this act of Jacob blessing Pharaoh we are told in the book patriarchs and prophets page 233 that not long after the arrival Joseph brings his father and also presented him to the king the patriarch was a stranger in the royal courts but amid the sublime scenes of nature he had communed with a mighty Amonak and now in conscious superiority he raised his hands and blessed Pharaoh this is a very wonderful experience we are seeing here something that is taking place him being the inferior one a stranger comes into these courts of glamour you can imagine how the palace looks like but amidst all that he was not moved and he has to remember a few chapters back he had actually fought with God and he sought a blessing and he sought a blessing after that so there was nothing in this world that could move him therefore he just continued doing what he thought was best in his time to continue spreading that word of God he went and blessed Pharaoh so it was something important to us as Christians as well when we are so joining in this world we are not just supposed to be secluded and keeping to ourselves we should go out there meet these people that are not believers and you know pronounce the blessing of God upon their lives tell them that there is more to life than just what they see here that there is a blessed hope if they were to believe in God that will come after the things of this world would pass so he is showing what we ought to do so pilgrims in this world we are supposed to be continuing the spreading of the gospel to the rest of the world so this was a very interesting depiction of that task or that mission that God Christ left for us when he came so that's also another aspect that we see in this settlement of Joseph in this land so it actually has so many lessons that we actually deriving from it so there is a fact that first of all there is work that we are supposed to do through the occupation that they had and then of course we are to bless the people that we interact with through our own works through our own lives we are to be ministers these people that we interact with and more so we see even that continuing in the life of Joseph as much as there was a lot of God continues to use him in a way that continues to bring blessing to the land he comes up with ideas he says after money as people have used all their money he says now bring your land bring your cattle and then he says bring your cattle everything that they had so that he can continue providing them with food but what does he do as much as they give him the land he now gives them seed you know grow these seeds and what you get out of it just give one fifth that is 20% to Pharaoh and keep the rest to yourself so we see God continues to use Joseph to prosper the land of Egypt and more importantly now after Jacob has left the presence of Pharaoh and goes to settle in his land we see now him getting the thing he's been longing for so many years which is peace now remember a few chapters back he said a few verses back he said now he wanted to go and see his son so that he may die but we see God gives him 17 more years in that land to live in peace to continue ministering to those that he has come and contacted to witness the transformation that has taken place family through the true repentance of his sons and more importantly now he is able to live in peace and his son said he has actually peaceful years filled with joy and happiness amen thank you very much it's actually very touching and heartwarming to note what the book of first Peter says when the bible tells us that we are a royal priesthood royalty means that the world may not see us as you know that high but then you are asked I mean you bless those who are regarded to be way above you and that is nothing else but God and that is consoling to know talking about blessings Jesus when he was talking to his disciples in Matthew chapter 25 he says when the son of man shall come then shall he split the goats from the sheep and he shall say to those who are on his right side come you who are blessed of my father I was hungry and you gave me to eat I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink I was naked and you clothed me these are the blessings that God calls us to go and bless the humanity we should not just walk around but should be a blessing unto those who are in need as we've seen Jacob blessing or blessing now we turn over the chapter chapter 48 in Genesis and here Jacob starts his final journey of blessing and it starts by this and it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph that his father is ailing and Joseph tells goes to see his ailing father goes he takes his son and he goes to the dad and they start to have a one on one dad son conversation last minute and they are talking and saying Jacob starts telling Joseph what we felt him on his journey that he lost his wife and these things continue and the most amazing thing is he tells him that you are two sons that you got when I was away before he came to see you that he is Nase and Ephraim shall be my sons just as Ruben and Simon are what a blessing and I'm detailing you your sons you know your two sons are mine now I possess them they shall be included in my heritage and they shall be called unto my God and he says go ahead and they have a conversation and when he looks up and says look at this his eyes are failing he's now stricken with age and he can tell and then Joseph tells him these are my sons and then tells him bring them closer and they are brought closer and he hugs them and he pronounces a blessing unto them and unto that Joseph pulls them back now he takes a point of strategy he pulls the sons back and now strategizing that's his first born son Nase on his left on the right of the dad and Ephraim who's younger on the left side of the dad and then he pushes them closer to the dad and the dad takes them and the sons kneel down before the father and the dad exchanges instinctively he knew I think it was a custom whereby he would go to the right hand and the youngest would go to the left hand right side and then he switches his hands and he puts his right hand on top of Ephraim and his left hand on top of Nase and he starts pronouncing a blessing and unrealizing this Joseph says no no no no you're making a mistake you're not supposed to be like that he tries to remove the hands but the father says no no no let it be this is how it's going to be yes the younger shall be greater than the eldest and he pronounces a blessing and the most amazing thing here he says you shall be blessed by the name of your father Jacob and the name of Isaac and the name of Abraham he has this assurance of his God I wonder how many of us can say God bless you in the name God of Alfred my son God bless you by the God that I worship do we have the courage have we walked with God in such a way that we know him personally and when he pronounces a blessing say the God I serve bless you what happened to our fathers can they still pronounce blessings to their sons and to their grandsons we call it a bless and it's a call upon the fathers to embark on blessing their children yeah they should bless and bless even the children of their children and that will bring a blessing I want to read the last part of it in Genesis chapter 48 Jacob says this and he blessed them that they saying in the Israel blessing God make thee as Abraham and as Manasi and is it Abraham before Manasi and Israel said unto Joseph behold I die but God shall be with you and bring you unto the land of your fathers moreover I have given thee one more portion above the brethren which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow now we've been studying Genesis did we ever see anywhere that Jacob fought with his sword yes did he ever fight anywhere Sullivan the only fight I recall is the one with God and of course we read about his two sons who went rage and slaughtered the whole city of men yes the Shikimite now it's not narrated in the Bible whether they had a fight or he had an encounter Jacob was someone who was reserved calm always seeking for peace and actually after that scenario he told his son you've made my name to stink kana naita we're going to attack me he was someone who was apprehensive someone who was afraid but at that time God comes to him and tell him do not be afraid and actually God made the kana naita be afraid of him now we turn the blessings do not stop here we turn to chapter 49 and Jacob blesses his children the reader yes when you read Genesis chapter 49 yes it doesn't seem like it's a blessing when it starts for me it gives the impression that it's some form of rebuke and it's some form of correction that Jacob starts with and what we see again is let's read verse 1 that Jacob last words to his sons I can read for you and Jacob called unto his sons and said gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days amen now that simply means that daddy is calling us he wants to tell us what is coming tomorrow let's gather together and I think it was an exciting moment we all understand that even today the most important words are the words of a dying man you're like what is he going to say what exactly and the most attracting thing about his call is that he's going to tell them about the last what is going to happen in the last days I mean that's something that everybody desires to have seems like a prophecy exactly like let's gather together daddy is here we can see he is old he is dying but he has something for us so they gather together and they are here to listen and I like how Jacob is going through each and every one of them and he is declaring a truth about his sons and of course the sons can also attest that daddy is saying of speaking the truth and he is going through as well their future lines and this is the last days that he was referring to and basically expressions of their character that reminds me that character is the one thing that we carry to heaven what legacy are you living behind and we thank God that we serve a God of all mercies who will forgive us transform us and prepare us that our character is changed just to what he expects us to have so we see that the first child addressed here is Ruben the first one and this is verse 3 would you want to read verse 3 what it does it say it is like this Ruben thou art my first born my might and the beginning of my strength the excellence of dignity and the excellence of power and stable as water thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up to thy father's bed then defiled thou it he went upon my coach oh that doesn't sound like a blessing but it sounds like a rebuke and Ruben is being told he is told that he will not excel why? only rebuke them but also to pronounce a blessing to them and so on a lighter better positive note we see that he is addressing Judah and we know that Judah was not the very best of the people but now we see that he is addressed mostly he is actually reminding the sons that you know what you're going to bow down to him prophecy fulfilled one more time and he's going to be praised verse 8 says that Judah you are he whom your brothers shall praise that's a blessing and it's a fulfillment of prophecy the last I checked was Judah was changed and he was willing to be the slave his brother Benjamin and we see that he was the one going to be used so verse 8 says your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies your father's children shall bow down before you I like how the bible puts it that means your brothers will bow down before you and it goes ahead to say that Judah is alliance wealth from the pray my son you have gone up and so much he goes on and on about Judah and we see that this is in connection to the coming of the Messiah because it's from Judah that we are going to see the Messiah ultimate hope of salvation manifested because of the house of David and this is truly a blessing that he gives or he pronounces to Judah and then verse 13 we see that he also talks about Zebulon shall dwell by the heaven of the sea and he shall become a heaven for ships and his border shall adjon Sidon and Isaka is the next one so what we can see is that this blessing to Judah was already a hope of salvation in the coming Messiah that he is talking about and it's indicated in the opening words of Jacob when he says that he wanted to tell them what shall befall them and we can see that he is talking about Judah's house being such a significant thing in the coming of the Messiah or the messianic king that is said in the book of Isaiah and to us Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 to 7 says and to us our child is born and this was a promise or a blessing Jacob gave to Judah so again we also see that God knew and used him to pass this important message to them that he had a plan for him and I like what patriarchs and prophets says page 236 that the lion king of the forest is a fitting symbol of this tribe from which came David that has been pronounced and the son of David Shilo the true lion of tribe of Judah to whom all power shall finally bow and all nations render homage so verse 28 completes it by saying that all these are the 12 tribes of Israel and this is what their father spoke to them and he blessed them and he blessed each one according to his own blessing and according to what their character would manifest in the future this is a blessing one more time and it's a clear indication that we also we were going to render homage to Jesus as it was pronounced by Jacob during the blessing of his children thank you very much now I want to go back a little bit on the pronouncing of this blessing on Seimon and Levi yes Jacob says this word in Genesis chapter 49 verse 7 cast to be their anger for it was fears for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel God comes back later as the children of Israel have left Egypt going back to the land of Canaan and Moses is leading them he's going to receive the 10 commandments and he comes down and finds the Israelites have become corrupt and they are worshiping idol and then he says the Lord has said this everybody take his sword and prepare for war and only the children of Levi raise themselves and take swords and they go and kill their brothers and everybody to kill his brother and his companion they take up their sword out of holy indignation they go killing each and every person who had bowed down who was rebellious God and out of that God pronounces a blessing he says I have chosen Levi for my service because of their anger and their fear not to be hated because of doing right they stood up and God pronounced a blessing out of their anger and then our sword came into blessings and that is what he does when we stand right unto him we gonna get a blessing amen now we turn over the pages so Levi chapter 50 of Genesis the last final words and even before we move into chapter 50 we go back to chapter 47 verses 30 actually from verse 29 which says bury me not I pray thee in Egypt but I will lie with my fathers and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place and he said I will do as thou has said now that shows a revival of your hope of the promised land so yeah that actually is the it now sets the stage chapter that we are going to see and there are 3 lessons that we pick from now chapter 50 lessons of hope of the promised land that we see first of all we start with that covenant that Jacob and Joseph have when Jacob tells his son that when I die do not bury me here it reminds us of the promise that God gave to him in verse 46 saying when he appear to him in a vision and says do not be afraid to go down to Egypt because there I will make thee a great nation and I will surely bring you out of that land so we see here a form of type of that fulfillment of that promise because we see when Jacob has blessed his sons and now he dies Joseph goes to Pharaoh and tells the Pharaoh that his father has died and he would want to go and bury him in back in his land and Pharaoh grants him the permission and we see there is that funeral procession that leaves Egypt and we are told that it is every adult person the family of Jacob went with that procession and the people that were left behind were the children and the livestock so it was a form of a type of the day when it comes when the nation of Israel will now leave the land of Egypt back to the promised land that is the first first hope that we see in this experience that is brought about by the death of Jacob and the other thing and now we see immediately Jacob dies now the brothers of Joseph remember their deeds and they now say oh no now our time of reckoning has come surely our brother is going to deal with us for what we we put him through and they were so afraid we are told they were so afraid they came to Joseph in Genesis chapter 50 verse 18 when they say brothers also went and fell down before his before his face and they said behold we are your servants because of the fear that they had that indeed now Joseph is going to revenge everything that he did and to them and we see what Joseph does here he calls his brothers and he says in verse 19 and Joseph said to them do not be afraid for am I the place of God asks him that question because he wonders why are they thinking this way and as much as he actually acknowledges that what they had done to him was evil but he says because of what they did they made evil to him but God turned it into good we see that what we see it takes us back to chapter 15 verse 1 when he says after these things the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision saying do not be afraid I am your shield and you are exceeding great reward Joseph in his situation did not see things the way his brothers saw because as much as he had gone through a lot of trouble through the hands of his brothers he learned to see things from the perspective of God and we see here that he saw the greater picture as much as his brothers made evil for what they did to him God had a purpose for that to happen so God uses interesting means to accomplish his mission and we see why it not for that experience probably he would not have ended up in Egypt and he would not have been used of God to save his entire family so Joseph no longer carries that grudge in his heart because he has understood the intentions of God he has understood why God allowed him to go through that experience and we see him extending the same grace to his brothers and telling them do not be afraid he is trying to tell them I do not hold it against you for what you did because it was God who intended things to go the way they did so there is that hope that we are seeing there and it is a lesson to us that we should always strive to see things from the perspective of God sometimes it is hard because from our point of view we do not have the ability to see beyond what we even beyond the next minute or the next hour we can only see now but it is only when we surrender to God and allow him to use us and to allow and trust in his in his leading then now we will start to appreciate what his intentions are for our lives and finally we see now and the last lesson we learn from the death of Joseph himself now when Joseph dies he gives instruction he does not say that he wants to be buried in canon but he says when I die remember that when God visits you this land please remember to carry my bones out of this land to the land of canon now what do we see in this the lesson we are picking from this is the hope of the new Jerusalem that we read in the book of revelations chapter 21 from verse 1 to 4 and I will quickly read that verse it says now I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first heaven had passed away also there was no more sea then I John saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming out of heaven from God adorned prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold the tabanakola of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people God himself will be with them and be their God and God will wipe away all the tears from their eyes there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying there shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away and this is actually if you go back to the experience of the Israelites in the land of Egypt when they were in bondage there was death there was sorrow there was crying there was pain there were going through a lot but when came the day of their departure from from the land of bondage there was rejoicing we are told that they sang they sang with joy in their hearts that God had actually had their cry and he was delivering them so we are seeing the same thing here Joseph says as much as we are in this world some of us may die before God comes but we still have that hope that when he comes for the second time then we will be raised up as we read in Fast Thessalonians 4 verse 16 and we will be caught up in the air with those that are alive and we will meet the Lord who has come to take us home amen thank you very much we come to the end of our lesson discussion I am going to ask my panelists to look through the platform to see what are the parting shots of our viewers we will be saying what are their comments so that we can engage you going to read your comments and now we turn to the last part where we are going to see the plural between Joseph and Jesus Joseph out of envy was sold by his brothers so that they can do away with his dreams so that they can silence him and Jesus the same way the elders of the church wanted to silence him and kill him by doing that they brought about what they did not want we see that Jesus became more famous became more glorified and he pulled more people unto himself after he was rejected the same way Joseph was rejected by his brothers he became the governor of Egypt secondly Joseph was thrown into the dungeon suffered a lot was treated and everything the same way Jesus bore having done nothing he did not deserve but out of those suffering he bore it patiently so that he can save us and finally Joseph became the savior of his family his father's family the same way Jesus through going through tribulation he became our savior not in spite even though his brothers through them does not say they were guiltless but also the same way because the Hebrews killed Jesus they do not stand guiltless even though they brought salvation to man so we should take care of our action they might fulfill prophecy but may come at an expense what do our viewers say as we end up yes Dorita yes there is a comment here that I would quickly read that Susan has put out that Jacob knew his son so well a father who knows his children and honestly gives his son's blessings and rebukes them too this is a godly principle for parents to take home that besides giving the blessings then you also rebuke on the things that need to be changed thank you to live on what do the viewers say what is your parting shot there is a viewer here by the name Ariwi God can use the worst situation in our lives fulfill his good plans amen thank you so we come to the end of Genesis we've seen it through we've walked through it and the pages are turning to our next quarter which is the first lesson will be the Shepherds Crossable we invite you to continue reading the word of God learn from it and God is going to bless you to my panelists do you have anything our last word one word kindly so that you cannot have a word of prayer the coming quarter we'll have different panelists and we thank you for being with us and staying with us and God bless you I start with the reader Psalms chapter 27 verse 14 says wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart wait I say wait on the Lord whatever you are trusting God for he's going to come through in his time as adventists we are awaiting the second return of our Lord Jesus as we are waiting let us be reassured that our strength will be renewed and God's promise and prophecies are always fulfilled may we wait upon the Lord patiently God bless you all thank you I would just say let us always remain faithful and trust in God to whatever situation we face in life let us always trust the process God knows what his intentions are for us and he always has the best for us in all times so let us always remember to put our trust and faith in God at all times amen let's pray our gracious Father in Heaven we thank you for the tender care you've taken upon each and every one of us you've been so good you've been so gracious we honor and glorify your holy name thank you for being with us throughout the quarter we've read through the book of genesis and we've learnt a lot that you're a God who keeps your promises and best plans for us help us to trust you to walk with you and to glorify your holy name even when you do not see what is coming ahead guide us through bless us and may you face be upon us and shine your blessings upon each and every one of us be with us remember us in your kingdom for we pray believing and trusting in Jesus name amen thank you and goodbye we have now come to the end of our lesson study I request the congregation present the congregants present the members present at the church to please conclude teachers please say your final prayers thank you very much youth class up there thank you very much the class behind let's say our closing prayers and congregate for the main service thank you for those online thank you for joining us for the lesson study I hope that you've enjoyed it and that you have been blessed so we will close the lesson study with song number 195 showers of blessings as we call God to just be with us on this very high Sabbath this is holy communion Sabbath and this is the 13th Sabbath so the close of the quarter be blessed song number 195 showers of blessing showers of blessing this is promise of love there shall be season refreshing sent from the Savior of love showers of showers of blessings showers of blessings we need mercy drop rounders of fall the showers we need there shall be Shower, showers of lair, Precious reviving aga, Blessing we be, I see drops round as a falling, But for the showers we be, There shall be showers of lair, Blessing we be, Drops round as a falling, There shall be showers of lair, New God we call, Shower, showers of lair, Shower, showers of lair, Blessing we be, Drops round as a falling, Happy Sabbath church. Happy Sabbath once again. How many are happy to be in the house of the Lord this morning? Let's just wave. I welcome you to the announcements. But before we do the announcements, let's pray. Kind of never lasting father. We come before you Lord this Sabbath morning with Thanksgiving. Bless us heavenly father. And even the announcements that you are going to make this morning, heavenly father, we pray that we may internalize and help us heavenly father, keep that commandments because he is our humble prayer. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you Kwaia for the good singing. Okay, announcement number one. This is about our come meeting. Our come meeting is starting next Sabbath. That is 2nd to 9th of July 2022. Let us all plan for our come meeting. And also let's invite our friends, our relatives and all that we can reach to. The second one is Holy Communion. Today is Holy Communion Sabbath. Please plan to participate and pray about it. There is also an announcement by the women ministry. And they are saying that they are studying the book of the book Steps to Christ. And they are calling upon all the church, women in the church to also contribute through the church baby number. An amount of 200 chillings. Yudh sabah school lesson discussion. Yudh sabah school lesson discussion shall be held every Sabbath morning at the balcony from 8.30 a.m. All young members are invited to attend baptismal and post baptismal sabah school classes. The church runs both virtual and in person baptismal and post baptismal classes every Sabbath morning from 8.00 to 9.00 a.m. The baptismal classes are facilitated by Eldarobat Arunga. His mobile number is 0722-789-160. He is also assisted by Eldar Benzon atem 0707-344-154. And also brother Katianyi. His number is 0733-961-937. Okay, let me go to that announcement to continue supporting this mission by sponsoring one evangelist in my corner for one year. The church board is appealing to church members to contribute towards evangelism funds so that we can re-invigrate our outreach evangelism program. Please contribute in the normal envelopes and church pay bill numbers and indicate account as local evangelism. Wedding bans. There will be a wedding ceremony between sister Robi Matini and brother Rodini Genga both of SDA Amazing Grace and Node 2117 Johannesburg, South Africa. The wedding will take place here at the church tomorrow 26 June 2022 from 11 a.m. You are all invited to attend. Consens. Sister Rispa, Gai who is mother to Betty Anyango was discharged last night from Coptic Hospital and is recuperating at home. Let us remember her in prayers. Briefman. Death has occurred of Mze Joseph Genga on 23 June 2022 in Kisi. Mze was father to elder James Nyambane and Alice Nyambane of Nairobi Central SDA church. Baril will be on 4 July 2022 in Kisi County. There will be a get together on this day. That year June 2022 at the old sanctuary of Nairobi Central church from 5.30 p.m. to collect funds to defray the funeral expenses. All are welcome. The other concern death has occurred of Edna Genga after a long illness on 15 June 2022 in Eldoret. She was sister to Christine Kaino of West Kenya Union Conference and Eldane Maia Mayo of East Kenya Union among others. She was sister in law to Jessica Mayo and Auntie to Lee. Baril took place yesterday June 2022 at the home in Kaiboi, Nandi County. The other one is death has occurred of Mina Helen Aniago. I don't know whether it is Aniago. On 23 at Kenyatta National Hospital she was mother to this repetition Sorry for that. The other announcement exactly concern death has occurred of Mama Susan Ajuang Oenga on 16 June 2022 she was mother to Elfas Ouma Oenga and others. Baril ceremony will take place on 8 July 2022 in Homa Bay County Nangwe Bondo SDA Church in Kenya Lake Conference Let us all remember these families in prayers and visitation. The church conveys its heartfelt condolences to friends and relatives. May the Lord bless all that you have said. Be blessed. Happy Saba Church Happy Day Yes, thank you very much. Thank you for joining us this Saba for those who have come. Thank you for coming to join into the blessing of this Holy Communion Saba the last Saba this quarter in a high Saba we know that there are blessings in store for you. For the one joining online thank you for tuning in. And just as we begin our song service we would like to pray. Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Dear God Thank you for this day. Thank you for this very special high Saba that you have accorded unto us. Thank you for the privilege of being in your presence. Father, as we worship today and as we commemorate on your sacrifice and your love we ask that you give us your presence give us your Holy Spirit to guide us unto all truth give us your Holy Spirit to convict us and Father cleanse us from our unrighteousness that our praises may rise up to the heavens and by this worship experience we may be transformed and ready for your coming. All this I pray believing and trusting in Jesus name. Amen. Okay we'll sing song number seven six Oh love that will not let me go Our lesson is a testament to God's love that will never abandon us no matter what we go through no matter how much we let him down he remains faithful when we come back to him and so his love will never let us go We'll sing song number seven six The door of grace is always open especially now that will sing song number one in English it's called there's a gate or the gate ajar song number one one zero in Yimbosa Cristo We thank you my kind and loving God for having given us this opportunity to come into the sanctuary this morning How we pray my Lord that the worship that we present before thee may be worthy and acceptable to the throne of grace and mercy for this is our prayer in Jesus name Happy Sabbath and happy day we want to thank God for having given us this opportunity to come and worship him on this Holy Sabbath day and at this point I'd like to welcome each and every one of us who are in church here please feel welcome We also would like to welcome our members who have joined us virtually from the various Nairobi Central SDH church platforms whether it's YouTube, Facebook including our members who have joined us through the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Please feel welcome and feel you are at Jesus feet as we worship him today I'd also like to thank the various officials who have been assisting with the worship today from the pastorate to the elders to the deacons the deaconesses the choristers our elders choristers our church choir our sign language officials and members we want to thank you all together with the communication team and even as much as we serve our Lord today let us remember and humble ourselves that we may be part of this worship I'd like to very briefly emphasize the announcements that were made earlier on based on the concerns and one of them is a concern which is sister Rispach Guy who is mother to Betty Anyago was discharged last night from Coptic Hospital and he's recuperating at home let us remember her in prayers the other concern also we'd like to clarify is death has occurred of Mama Helen Anyago sorry mother Mama Helen Anyago on 23 June 2022 at Kenyansha National Hospital she was mother to Elder Robert Anyago and Betty Anyago prayers are being held at their home in Kelle Leshua opposite Methodist Guest House please let us remember these members in prayers and if possible we can also visit with them it's my prayer that today's sabat and worship will make a difference in our lives be blessed happy sabat church once again I would like us to pray but before we pray allow me to read from the book of Isaiah chapter 41 Isaiah chapter 41 and verse 10 this verse that we all know and it reads fear not for I am with you be not dismayed for I am your God I will strengthen you yes I will help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand may the Lord bless the reading let's all find a suitable place so that we can kneel and pray kind and loving father in heaven we come before you Lord this sabat morning as sinful as we are Lord in heaven we have seen before you we have been unrighteous heavenly father even since we started the week heavenly father there are things we might have even said that are not worthy in new heavenly father all these scenes we pray Lord God in heaven that you may forgive us forgive each and everyone of us heavenly father and help us cleanse us heavenly father so that in whatever we say let us say to glorify your name Lord Father we thank you for the opportunity that you have given unto us today that we may come here to your house heavenly father to worship you thank you for the aggress there is no other God that you are going to worship other than you Lord in heaven remember us in a special way and bless each and everyone Lord we remember believed families wherever they are we pray for them heavenly father we pray for the nyambanes we pray for the anyago heavenly father they have lost their loved ones Lord in heaven give them the shoulder to lean on we pray Lord even other believed families wherever they are we commit them unto your hands and bless them too Lord God we pray church heavenly father from the leadership at the top to the local church Lord God in heaven we pray that you may continue blessing us and help us heavenly father proclaim your message we have our come meeting heavenly father coming in the next sabat and for the all of that we heavenly father visit unto us we pray Lord God prepare adequately to receive you we pray Lord for the entire church that we may even go out to bring those who are suffering outside there that they may also come and listen to thy word we pray for the come meeting that it may be successful Lord God in heaven despite the challenges that we have been going through including COVID-19 heavenly father which has kept us out for the last 200 years and since this will be our physical meeting since 200 years ago heavenly father we really pray that you may give us the success that comes from you Lord in heaven we pray that you may continue blessing each and every activity that is taking place as we begin now until we finish today's program we pray for our pastor heavenly father when he speaks heavenly father touch his lips bless him heavenly father so that whatever you will say let it come from you Lord in heaven open our hearts help us listen to thy words and cleanse us in each and everything heavenly father for this humble prayer praying believing and trusting in Jesus name times happy sabat happy day we thank the Lord for the blessings of this beautiful sabat morning as we worship him today is my prayer that we are all excited to be in the house of the Lord I stand here briefly to Asha as into giving but before we give I want to call our attention to the text of book of the book of Psalms chapter 116 and verse number 12 and this is regards to our cup meeting Psalms chapter 116 verse number 12 the Bible says what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits to once me I will read one more time what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits to once me and I think this is a question I want to pose to each one of us this morning as we worship the Lord we have now counting just few days the cup meeting our cup meeting is starting officially this coming sabat and I want to confirm that all our guests are set to travel the beginning on Monday we shall start receiving our guests especially our main speaker way before the end of this coming week and all other speakers have confirmed they shall be here in time we expect all of them to be here with us this coming sabat now we all know that cup meeting comes to the expense both the offering just to say thank the Lord for what you have done and you see David says what can I give to say thank you to the Lord indeed there's nothing we can give to the Lord to say thank you for the gift of life and many things he has done for us but we can often times come to his house and give a thanksgiving offering and especially when we come to the cup meeting is a special occasion a plan by God when all his people shall gather together for 8 days and they shall wait upon his refreshing just few days from today and I want to request us today when I look at the accounts accounts are not looking good accounts are not looking good and help us to make sure that all our speakers have come you know the travel, the accommodation requires that we have money before the end of this coming week we are waiting upon you to give us your offering that we may be able to support this very important divine occasion so as we give this money I want you to go deep into your heart and search your heart and ask the Lord whether you need to give or not just look into your family and see the things God has done for you look into your life and admire the many blessings that God is willing to give unto you and purpose this money and offering that is going to be a blessing to the house of God we want to avoid appealing to you when our guests have come and I know you are able to help us that once we come next subath all we will be focused is receiving the messages so please today as we give give even more than you didn't want to give give that which is in your pocket give that which is in your accounts in the banks give because I know God has blessed you I'll be very very glad to stand here next subath and tell you it is enough I know you have done it in times past we can do it even now please this subath morning as you give purpose to give until we will come back to tell you it is enough let us pray our gracious for the heaven we thank you so much when we look back especially for the last the last three years since 2019 when COVID came and where we are today we have every reason to appear before you the thanksgiving offering to say thank you God for what you have done as a church for the last two years we have not been able to celebrate our comedings together as a people we were forced by circumstance of COVID-19 to wash it from our houses but we are glad that this particularly year 2022 bear your help and in faith we have purpose to have our calm meeting in person and we are excited that we are going to have a wonderful experience with our brothers and sisters for the whole week we know indeed you have a special message for your people so Lord we thank you but also we are praying the Lord because we know that comes with a cost and in your divine purposes it is the worshipers that supply it the needs of the sanctuary this morning Lord we have such a need that evil members don't come out in love we will struggle to go through the calm meetings I know you have blessed us I know you have helped us to do it in time past even today Lord as we give I am praying that you can touch our hearts that we can give and give and give until the treasury we will say it is enough in the house of the Lord do this Lord because when we give we receive blessings from you those who have worked in they are visitors we also invite them to participate in this act of worship and so on today we pray that everyone will participate in giving to one supporting the camp expense and the camp offering because we have trusted in you bless our speakers Lord from far those who are traveling our send of Africa and from part of Africa and in this country Lord we pray for all of them we pray especially those who are traveling from far you may protect them from the COVID-19 Lord each one of them as you land here they shall be free of COVID to serve your church prepare us to receive your blessings from you in this season of come meeting we pray in Jesus name amen God bless you nothing but the blood nothing but the blood nothing but the blood trumpet of Zion angel flying in mid here it had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on earth and it had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on earth to every tribe nation language and people it had it said in a loud voice and give him glory because the office judgment has come worship him who made the heavens the earth the sea and the springs of water a second angel followed and said under great which made all the nations drink maddening wine of her adultery a third angel followed and said in a loud voice if anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand they too will drink the wine of God's fury which has been poured full strength into the cup of his drug they will be tormented with burning sulphur in the presence of the holy angel and of the lamb and the smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever there will be no rest day or night for anyone who receives its mark or for those who worship the beast and its image Welcome to the festival of Tabana cold Kamp meeting 2022 for 7 days starting 2nd July to 9th July Right here at church Whom should you come with? Be joyful in this year's festival as you can come with your sons daughters male and female servants the foreigners the fatherless and the widows in your town The children ministry have organized the program of its own kind the children ride from Cardinal all the way to collegiate Hmmm you know what's interesting the children will have an opportunity going round and round through different stations stations like games music stewardship Bible health craft and life skills the church is appealing for your support to run the camp for the entire week the budget is estimated to be 6.5 billion Thank you all See you there I've written it I've written it I've written it I've heard your word and I've written it I've put it down in my heart Happy Sabbath Sorry Happy Sabbath Happy day a beautiful Sabbath morning we have let's pray thank you for this opportunity we ask you to be with us children my name I pray my names are Megan Dachand I'll be taking you to the children well primary B has taken us to a fun and amazing lesson about locus I must say my favorite lesson is that eat your own weight imagine eating your own weight isn't that incredible we've also learnt two important lessons one we should be able to trust God and two we should work in unity and be orderly today we learn another amazing lesson so that every time we see locus you may remember that God wants you before judgment before that let's read our Bible text today Exodus chapter 4 Exodus chapter 10 verse 4 to 6 Exodus 10 verse 4 to 6 and it says tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locus on your country that will give out what little is left of your crops so I have a little story long long long ago the Israelites used to live in Egypt and they were becoming many and many and many so the Egyptians said these people if they ever come against us they will overpower us and they will win us you know why because there were so many so we must make sure that they know the slaves and the under us I know I would never like to be a slave anyway you know how when someone is making fun of you or making you feel bad and you run and you tell mommy or daddy or your guardian and they feel so sad so God was hot as well when he saw his Israelites being treated as slaves in Egypt so God called Moses Moses come go tell the king of Egypt who was Pharaoh by then tell him to let my people go and then Moses was a bit shy so God called Aaron as well to help Moses God called Moses and Aaron and told them go tell Pharaoh let my people go and Aaron do they went to Pharaoh and they told Pharaoh let his people go so that they may be able to worship him in the desert and you know Pharaoh as the king who is this God and why should I obey him and tie the king and tie the one in power so Pharaoh said go away I'm not letting your Israelites go and for that he even made the Israelites work harder and harder and harder so the Israelites were so sad Israelites were so sad and they went to Moses and Aaron and told him because of you Pharaoh has made us work twice as hard so God did not let them down they went again to God God said go and this time go with that chick just to show Pharaoh that I'm being serious and that I am more powerful than him so they went to the small chick and they told Pharaoh let our people go and Pharaoh said what evidence do you have that he is more powerful than me and they showed the trick unfortunately the magicians in Egypt were able to do the same trick so again Pharaoh said go away so they went and they came back again with a second trick again unfortunately the magicians in Egypt were able to do the same trick so again Pharaoh said go away God said ok you are playing with my people you know how someone is disturbing you or mommy daddy or guardian you are playing with my child so God decided to punish Egypt he punished them in several ways he sent nuts, he sent flies he sent boils all over the body he sent hills he killed their livestock so now to the seventh punishment just as our key text says he called Moses and Aaron and told them go tell Pharaoh to let my people go or else I will send locusts to their country so again Moses and Aaron went they went and they told Pharaoh why not letting our people go and God has said if you don't let our people go tomorrow I will send a swarm of locusts to your country so even though officials in Egypt so that Egypt was already destroyed considering those flies and nuts and frogs all over the land already Egypt was completely destroyed already the officials told Pharaoh please please just let them go Pharaoh said okay you will go with the men I will stay with the women and the children and Moses told him no God does not work like that God takes all of us Pharaoh said ah you know what nah I am not letting you guys go so Moses and Aaron went back to God's hand but God kept his word so the next day God sent a swarm of locusts all over the houses everywhere turn right turn left and guess what they ate everything now imagine going to school or driving around or walking anywhere and you see nothing green that would be so weird anyway unfortunately Pharaoh did not let the people go just immediately but if you do pay keen attention God had warned Pharaoh if only Pharaoh responded to this warning Egypt would not have been as destroyed as it was considering it was already destroyed and then adding to locusts Egypt was completely destroyed and it reminds me today God has given us so many warnings in the Bible for example the 10 commandments we have the do's and the don'ts unlike Pharaoh why can't we just respond to his warning why should we let our bodies be destroyed as Egypt just because you do not want to listen to God now we know that every time we see locusts we'll remember that God warns us before his judgment oh yeah and one more thing what if God calls us to be his Moses and Aaron did you know God called you to go warn other people please do a good job just the way Moses and Aaron did let's go and warn people around just as our theme I will go now that we know we should respond to his warning I've heard your word and I did it I did it I did it I've heard your word and I did it I'll put it down in my heart let's pray I can't help any father for that amazing lesson maybe we'll learn to respond to your warning in Jesus name I pray bye see you next time as we learn about eating healthy happy Sabbath it's now time for our scripture reading our scripture reading will come from the book of Exodus chapter 15 verse 1 to 3 the book of Exodus chapter 15 verse 1 to 3 we will read together then son Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord and Spake saying I will sing unto the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea the Lord is my strength and song and he has become my salvation he is my God and I will prepare him and habitation my father's God and I will exalt him the Lord is a man of war the Lord is his name I'll read again Exodus 15 verse 1 to 3 then son Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord and Spake saying I will sing unto the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea the Lord is my strength and song and he has become my salvation he is my God and I will prepare him and habitation my father's God and I will exalt him the Lord is a man of war the Lord is his name may you be blessed Happy Sabbath I request you stand so that you may sing from our nimbosa crystal nimbosa tiywan nii imbe pendolake tasimamaote Thank you, thank you so much Let's sit down Let's sit down Thank you so much, chorusters for that beautiful singing and the church I want to thank our Lord and our God for this day that he has allowed me to stand before you to preach the gospel the everlasting gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ I want to thank the membership of Nairobi Central Church for the support you've given and to the work of God in this territory I also want to thank our online members, those who are watching us online on all the platforms the YouTube, the Facebook and on KBC TV Thank you so much for sparing your time to be part of this service I also want to thank Nairobi Central Church Board who have really supported the ministry of this church and have provided the leadership the Board of Elders and the head elders of this church Elda Alooch, Elda Muachi Elda Anyango, Elda Mutai and all of us we have done very well and we thank God for whatever you are doing I want to thank my colleagues Pastor Pete Anyaga our senior pastor thank you so much our other pastor welcome and thank you so much the reason why I'm spending this time to thank everybody is because I feel that there is a way each and every one of us have participated or contributed to the ministry and my ministry in this church and I can't I can't wait and fail to thank you for what you're doing I know that we even have online members who are waking up very early in the morning far away from this country just to watch our service and I think it is just prudent for us to thank them for being part of us and recognizing them that they are really contributing, spending their time to be able to be part of this service today friends we want to thank God for a lot of blessings welcome you, thank you so much those who are coming from South Africa there is a wedding tomorrow here thank you and welcome to Narobi Central Church and those who are coming from Tanzania led by retired pastor Martini if you are here please can you also stand we want to welcome you in a special way thank you so much thank you so much pastor and the team of those who are coming from Tanzania, our neighbors Mungo Abariki, Karibuni San and Narobi Central SDH I also want to take this opportunity to thank and welcome our church leader Misyani from West Kenya Union and Mrs. Samul Misyani they are joining us and we want to thank you for joining us can you also just stand and wave to the congregation you are a member of this church and you've been here many times thank you so much pastor may the Lord bless you friends allow me to dive to the word because of the limited time that we have allow me to read the text and I want to thank my sister Ket for reading it very well allow me to read it again and this is what the Bible says if you open with me the book of Exodus 15 verse 1 to 3 which ideally is a song and what I'm going to read is just one stance of that song this is what the Bible says then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord and said I will sing to the Lord for his highly exalted the horse and his riders he has hauled into the sea the Lord is my strength and song and he has become my salvation this is my God and I will praise him my father's God I will extol him the Lord is a warrior the Lord is his name let's close our eyes for a word of prayer kind and loving father we want to thank you so much this sabath day that you have allowed us to come to your sanctuary heavenly father we want to thank you for your sons and daughters who have decided to sit wherever they are to listen to this message Lord I pray that you may arrest my faculties that as I speak your Lord may you speak through me may you use me Lord for the glory of your name inspire me Lord even as I stand before your people for I know without you I can do nothing be present and speak to all of us for this I pray believing and trusting in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour let all of us say amen thank you so much I want to say that Exodus is a very special book in the Bible it is the second book in the Bible and theologians will tell us that this book was written by Moses and for us to understand what I am going to say here allow me to bring the context of this message it is important for us to understand the context where we are coming from because this is nothing but just a response to what the Lord has done and the Bible tells me that God decided himself and chose the children of Israel as his own and they ended up in Egypt and while in Egypt I am being told that they grew in Namba they became so many God was still with them but even though they were chosen people of God the reality is they were very poor they were hopeless they were suffering exploitation and they were slaves Friends sometimes poor people also belong to God sometime hopeless people also belong to God the children of Israel in Egypt were hopeless were being exploited by the leadership in Egypt and they were so poor and they were slaves and they suffered for a very long time the Bible tells me that they lived in Egypt for 400 years they were in Egypt but God decided one time and that is in Exodus 3 which I am going to read Exodus 3 God decided that he has to do something and in Exodus 3 verse 7 this is what the Bible says the Lord said I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have given heed to their cry and because of their task master for I am aware of their suffering I have now appointed Moses to go and deliver them these are people who have been in foreign country for 400 years actually if something happens for too long it becomes almost normal and even though they were slaves in my own view for that long time they took it normal it was part of their life to be slaves and the Bible tells me they kept on crying to God and that is why in verse 7 the Lord is saying I have heard their prayer I have heard their cry I have seen their suffering I have seen their afflictions the Lord decides that I want to go and rescue them and then the Lord calls Moses and tells Moses that I want you to go to Egypt and go and tell Pharaoh to let my people go Friends the first thing you will detect in this context is God is instructing Moses is not requesting Moses to go to Egypt he is actually ordering Moses to go to Egypt and bring Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go Moses had no choice but to obey the command of God and Moses accepted to go and Moses was also given an instruction a command anytime you see in the Bible it is written let it is more of an imperative it is a command God is commanding that Moses to go to Pharaoh and command Pharaoh that was very difficult extremely difficult for few reasons which I am going to give number one how do you let people who are growing your economy to live because these are the people who are growing the economy of Egypt and God is commanding Pharaoh such a superpower king to go and allow the children of Israel to go how it is almost impossible and if you study the theology or the worship in the Asia Near East you will discover that these people and it is still present even today these people had a God for everything in fact there was a God of prosperity there is a God of fertility there is a God of almost everything there is a God and according to their theology their God made them to succeed and they didn't understand and no Egyptian who could understand that there is another God of these poor people people who are slaves who can order the king to allow these people to live it was almost impossible for one to believe but that is God God had decided that Pharaoh is being commanded to allow the children of Israel to go that is God in fact when I study the Bible as a student of the Bible one thing I don't understand with God is that he always start as the weak one he always start as one who is not very strong and in this particular context God is coming as a very weak God he has only one person called Moses to go and fight Pharaoh and he is fighting a superpower a giant nation and the decision what is instructing Moses to go and do is almost impossible in fact even the Egyptians themselves even the Israelites themselves who are not understanding Moses how will that be possible how will Pharaoh listen to you and accept that you allow the children of Israel to go and Moses himself he is also a stamina he has been in the bush for so many years and is coming to somebody who is enlightened somebody who is he is a king, he is endured with wealth it doesn't make sense friends that is God he will always come from a weaker point he will always appear to be weak at some point but you see he has already given instruction the first instruction was for Moses go and Moses had to obey and the second instruction is go and tell him to release my people I want to say this I want to say that sometimes people who don't even have any relationship with God appear to be rich they have the wealth they have the power and the authority and that power and authority is not a confirmation that they are blessed you know there is a theology around that those who are having endured with all these things are blessed the Egyptians had everything they were rich they had the power they had the authority but they didn't know God I am not saying those things are bad it is good to have wealth of this world and I am praying for all my members to be rich I am also praying for my members to be affluent and to succeed in whatever they do but I have learnt that wealth in the hand of a believer is much better than wealth in the hand of somebody who doesn't know God and the Egyptians had it but they didn't know God so the fact that one has all these resources is not a confirmation is not something that you can say you see the Lord has blessed me I have everything unless you believe in God and wealth and all these resources in the hands of a believer I say praise be to God because I know a believer will use those resources and the gift of wealth and all the things for God's glory and to build the kingdom of God is being told that you have to let the children of Israel go no wonder it was a very difficult assignment to Moses extremely difficult for Moses to convince them that you know God has given instruction in fact when I was studying this I was saying and I want to say it here that even the weak also have a God even slaves also have a God even servants also have a God and therefore we should know this that even the weak also have a God they have just God who will defend them they have a God who listens to them they pray to him and that God will answer them so Pharaoh found it very difficult almost impossible to accept this instruction from the God of the Egyptian Yahweh but Moses insisted that you know this is what has to happen because the Lord has said Friends I want to say that reading this context and reading this text I have discovered and I want to share with you let me digress a little bit I want to say that there is no power in the world which can stop God from saving you Hallelujah church there is no power in the world we can stop God from delivering you Pharaoh was powerful but God had decided to deliver his people and he did all that he wanted to do but the bottom line is that what God wanted happen happened at last Friends I want to say that God has allowed us as leaders to lead and as we lead we should know one thing as leaders we should know and I know I am talking to so many leaders of online and in church here Pharaoh was a leader who did not know the source of his leadership and there are so many leaders today in the world who don't know the source of their leadership because God was giving Moses instruction to go and command Pharaoh to order Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go because God is the source of leadership so he was he was just within his powers as God go and tell him Moses to let my children go because I am the source of leadership but I know that in the world today we have so many leaders who don't know where the authority as leader is derived from and I want to say that any leadership and any leader the authority is derived from somewhere for instance let me say that as a pastor in Nairobi central church a local church pastor I derive my authority as your pastor from the world leader of this church from his office pastor Ted Wilson and the division president pastor Iguru his office derive its leadership from Ted Wilson and then it goes down to pastor Makori or pastor Misyani they derive the authority of leadership from pastor Ugoori who is the division president and pastor Misyani or Makori also derive from pastor Ugoori and then pastor Mwangi the conference leader also derive his leadership position from the union president and then I as a local church pastor I derive my position as a leader and a church leader in this church from my conference president that is how leadership go we all get our leadership from somewhere but it is possible for one to ignore where the source of that leadership is and Pharaoh was ignoring the source of that leadership because the source of his leadership whether he knew God or not was God and that is why God gave a command to Pharaoh that you know you have to let my people go he commanded him today we are in a campaign season in this country and all politicians are asking you for votes because our constitution is saying that they will derive their leadership from you as Kenyans that is why they are coming to you so anybody in leadership derive his leadership from somewhere and we are all deriving our leadership from God himself so when God is giving an instruction is giving an instruction because he is the source of leadership and God commanded that you know you have to let my children go you have to let my children go he commanded because he is the source of that leadership and Pharaoh being one who did not know God being one who did not understand the God of the slaves being one who did not understand the God of the poor refused hope you know the context but one thing I want to say and I have learnt is that when God has commanded his command has to come to pass there is nothing you can do about it because he is the source of all that we have and that happened and Moses decided to continue doing that which the Lord commanded him to do he went on to do that so friends I want to say here that I know that even today there are so many other powers which are putting us down for instance the power of sin majority of us are arrested and captured by the power of sin majority of us are not able to do certain things or to accept Christ and surrender their life because they have been captured by this power I know that the people were saying maybe the power of alcohol has captured my son, my wife, my husband and I think there is nothing which can deliver him or her friends I want to tell you today from this text that there is no power which can stop God from saving us there is no power not even the power of alcohol not even the power of sin cannot stop God from saving you that is what this text is telling and therefore if you come now to chapter 15 verse 1 and 2 the children of Israel all the things have happened and they have been delivered chapter 15 they have been delivered and they are responding to what the Lord has done to them and in their response they have decided to sing a song which is rather long but I have decided to take only the first stanza of that song and the first stanza is verse 1 to 3 of chapter 15 where the children of Israel are saying that Lord God you are our song they all sang to the Lord because of what the Lord did the deliverers they were able to witness God delivering them from such a powerful force or power and they decided to respond to what the Lord did by singing I don't know whether you are singing I don't know whether you know that the Lord God conquered some power in your life for you to be saved and to be called a child of God I don't know whether you know that God decided that you are going to be His own and that is why you are finding yourself in the church of God today I don't know whether you know that and I don't know how you are responding to what the Lord has done into your life which has brought you unto salvation I don't know how you are responding to it but I know how the children of Israel responded to it and the way they responded is captured in Exodus 15 verse 1 to 3 and of course the entire of it when they are singing song of praise to the Lord then Moses and the sons of Israel after deliverance unto salvation they decided to sing a song in praise of the Lord I don't know whether you are singing I don't know whether you are singing for your salvation but I pray that if you can only know what it took heaven to deliver you I want to believe that you will sing with me hallelujah if you can only know what it took heaven to bring you unto salvation then you will sing a song of praise to the Lord the Bible tells me that God decided to rescue almost 2 million people friends there is no way 2 million people can all be right in the process of God when I read this I say that maybe some of them were not very good people in fact the Bible tells me even Egyptians joined them that tells me that God out of his grace decided to deliver them there is enough grace to deliver people and because of that they decided to respond to what the Lord did by singing a deliverance song by singing a redemption song and they sang a song which has been captured in Exodus 15 the entire chapter but I am only interested in Sansa 1 where they are singing the Lord for what the Lord did and they sang I want to believe that there is somebody in this congregation who is saying Lord God I also want to sing I want to sing a song like the children of Israel I believe there is somebody but before I come there I want you to analyze this song first there is nobody who taught them how to sing this song the Bible does not tell me who taught them to sing this song but the Bible tells me that they sang this song friends there are certain songs we are going to sing not because we have been taught but because of our experience the experience if you have gone through in this world we will give you a song to sing the Bible does not tell me who composed this song it doesn't tell me who composed this song but it was sung and when I study I discover that this song was composed by God himself when the Lord took them through an experience of deliverance an experience of redemption an experience of salvation that was enough for them to just start singing the Bible tells me that this song sang by all of them it was not only left to the ladies to sing all the Bible says then most says than the sons it was sung by the children it was sung by the ladies it was sung by the men because that experience the only way they could respond to it is to praise the Lord I don't know whether you are singing I don't know your story but how I pray that the Lord can give you a song like he gave the children of Israel how I pray that the Lord may give me a song like he gave the children of Israel the Bible tells me that they sung a song like he gave the children of Israel the Bible tells me that they sung a song it was a song of victory you know I know so many of us here I want to believe that most of us here have been praying over certain issues issues which are pressing you down issues which have enslaved you for so long and you are wondering whether you will be delivered one day I want to pray with you that the Lord may deliver you and as He delivers you He may give you a song I want to pray that you can join the large multitude of people who will sing a song because they have experienced and witnessed the redemption of the Lord the Lord may give us a song Friends that song is a beautiful song because in this song we discover that the power which has held us captive whether it is the power of sin whether it is the power of I don't know what it is that power that power which is holding your son captive that power which is holding your husband captive that power God has ability to conquer it in the name of Jesus and because of that the best way you can respond is to sing a song when I study this song I discover that the things which the world is using as weapons to conquer us to detain us like the horses of Pharaoh and the riders the Lord can defeat them and destroy them in the sea I don't know those weapons which are holding you captive in this life but I want to tell you today that we have a God who knows who listens who see to conquer those weapons which whoever is using to defeat or to conquer you when I study this song I feel tempted as a singer to ask God that God I also want to sing can you give me my song you are the one who knows what I am going through the Lord is the one who knows what you are going through because you come to the church and more so today it is my prayer that the Lord may give you a song that the Lord may give you a song the Lord may defeat because friends this was corporate the children of Israel but I want to say that each and every one of us should be able to sing a song each and every one of us should be able to sing a song of redemption each and every one of us should be able to sing a song and God is willing to compose a song for you I don't know but my prayer is may the Lord compose a song for me may the Lord compose a song which I can sing about my redemption may the Lord compose a song for you which you can sing about your redemption my prayer is that the Lord may compose a song for you to sing how best can we respond to what the Lord has done to us today is a high Sabbath and we are going to be reminded of our salvation and I pray that even as we sit on this table and protect to the bread and the wine we may remember how the Lord conquered all the powers of the world which held us to the world and conquered them and allowed us to be called His children we may remember what the Lord has done in our life and we may say that indeed God we are ready to sing I know there is somebody who has been praying for a long time in this congregation I know there is somebody who has been crying to God all night I know there is somebody who has been saying Lord defeat these powers holding me my prayer is may the Lord compose for me a song may the Lord compose for you a song and therefore as I invite the chorus us to come and sing this beautiful song which they have sung and they want to repeat singing it again want to pray with somebody who is saying I have heard the Lord speaking for a long time I have thought that the world are great and cannot be defeated but today the Lord has spoken and I know that God is still in the business of delivering His people God is still in the business of revealing Himself as the saving God God is still in the business of redeeming His people and I come before Him and ask Him that God Lord give me a song Friends it is my prayer and as the choir sing let us all stand and we sing this beautiful song it is about singing as the choir sing I want to pray with somebody who is saying Lord God I pray that you may give me a song you are the one who knows that which is keeping you from serving God the way you would want to serve Him you are the one who knows that which is keeping you from giving your life and to Jesus the way you are supposed to give and who knows that which is keeping you from experiencing God the way you are supposed to experiencing but today the Lord is telling you this I can give you a song I can compose for you your song I can defeat those powers if that is your prayer as the choir sing I pray that you come in front we pray together with you we are going to sit at the high table today you know yourself and I just plead with you as I present myself first that God give me a song I don't want songs which have been composed by human beings I have sung those ones enough today I am coming before you that you may compose for me a song yourself that is the song I want to sing that is the song I want to sing the song which God has composed the song which God has trained you to sing because it is coming out of your experience of deliverance that is the song we want to sing as the chorus are saying if you want to sing a song if you want God to compose a song in your life please come in front we have enough pastors here to pray with you I also present myself that Lord give me a song a song of redemption a song of victory a song that will defeat all powers which have put me down for too long give me a song I want to sing this song I want to sing a song which was composed the way the children of Israel sang this song if that is your prayer as we sing this beautiful song come the Lord is ready to compose for you a song song number one please thank you God bless you we can even move behind we can even move behind thank you those who are coming from the balcony he has done I will sing I will sing let's pray thank you so much as I invite pastor Misyani to come I know you want to sing that last answer you have to sing a song this is what I want to say friends there is no power there is no power which should keep you in captivity today we have learned that our God is willing and ready to deliver His people and I want to tell you something that human being only come into their senses when they accept God when you accept God when you are ready to worship God is when you come into your right senses otherwise you are not in your right senses when you don't know God and you don't care and you don't believe then you are not in your right senses and therefore I want to say this the Lord wants us to be in our right sense He wants us to be in our right senses because there is no way there is no way we can claim anything apart from what He has provided and therefore as they sing the last answer I still pray that the Lord may give you a song and for those who have made a step of faith and have come in front we are several pastors here our prayer is that the Lord may give you a song a song which He has composed for you out of your experience a song of deliverance a song of victory the Lord may give you a song I pray that one day the Lord will give me an opportunity to listen to your song Hallelujah I have an opportunity to preach the song which He gave the children of Israel and I know that the God above in heaven will give you a song and will listen to you as you sing that song and you know people don't sing only when they are happy the Bible say when you are happy rejoice and sing and that time will be a time of rejoicing because you will have discovered that indeed you have been delivered let us sing the last answer then Pastor Misyani our church leader here will commit us to the Lord in prayer the last one loving father Lord of lords and king of kings we thank you this beautiful Sabbath day because you are the Lord the song giver you are a God who turns situations around you keep on doing great things we have been reminded of how you delivered the children of Israel they were weak and powerless after 400 years of slavery but when you spoke O Lord they were delivered today your children have come forward everyone of them is longing for a song of deliverance that you may turn things around in their personal lives you may turn things around in their family lives you may turn things around for their families that they may have a song of praise a song of deliverance how we pray O Lord that you fill them with your Holy Spirit that you deliver that you release that you heal that Lord you bring comfort and peace in the lives of your people that Lord they may leave this place with joy and rejoicing in their hearts thank you for your month Sabbath was spoken to us thank you for those who are listening online thank you Lord for KBC was allowed their systems to be used so that thousands and millions may be reached with a message of hope of a God that you turn things around and releases people from captivity and put songs of praise in their mouths blessed be thy name let your name be glorified both now and forevermore and even as your servants continue with this our next service of Holy Communion may your blessing continue to be with us and with all the members of this nation thank you as they are taking their seats we want to thank the Lord for the timely, very powerful inspiring message that we have received this morning I'm sure that we will be going back home today with a reason never to give up let's keep trusting this God can turn around the event in your life to be a blessing to you as I mentioned earlier we are starting our come meeting this coming Sabbath and this is for taste of what we shall experience throughout the week from Sabbath to Sabbath every single day here having messages from various speakers right from money devotion all the way to the evening sermon it will be an experience that you don't want to miss I want to encourage you those of you who have not taken leave please do that so that we shall be listening also to remind you just to inform you that this coming Friday even as we asha in the come meetings they come come together together the passage we have agreed to open the come meeting on Friday with a powerful worship our guest choir would have arrived our guest would have arrived so this coming Friday we invite you to walk in the sanctuary from around 530 that we may have a worship together as we asha in Sabbath and indeed the come meetings thank you so much our elder duty will give more announcements before we break for the foot washing happy Sabbath how many of you are going to be blessed we want to be part of that song of redemption the song of experience I would like to take this opportunity to thank God for the privilege of worship I normally tell you that you are not here by chance you are here by design and God has allowed us to worship him today in that special way that Pastor Jacas delivered the message Pastor thank you very much for the message and may God bless you just to let you know that today is a special day it's quite special day in two fronts we are coming to the end of our quarter this year and we are starting a new quarter on second of July next week in that connection we are having a holy communion this morning and for those who are part of the team that will be partaking of the holy communion will be directed by our deacons and deaconesses please but we also have a space for observers so if you are not part of the team but you want to observe how it goes kindly you can remain behind and be given directions from our deaconry department now just an announcement as we cup off is that in the afternoon we will not be having our normal programs in the afternoon kindly note that especially for our listeners and our followers on the church platforms will be having what we call family togetherness at individual levels and family levels so immediately after the we partake of the emblems and after the holy communion ceremony kindly you are asked to go back home where you will meet your family members and worship together from that point of view so may God bless you as we asha in our choristers and the leaders in the grace then you will be directed by the deacon and deaconesses on what to do next may God bless you, thank you so much we will turn to our hymnals song number 336 336 there is a fountain we rise for the grace and we the grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore amen so the deacons will lead us as we go to partake of the full torsion please make your way to the response of the deacon and the deacons will lead us as we go to partake of the full torsion please make your way to the respective areas deacon shall make an announcement as to where you are supposed to be sabat happy sabat here are the directions for foot washing the ladies will use the old sanctuary and the men or the gentlemen will use the union grounds