 Good evening to this evening's worship. We are welcoming you to the evening worship. We are grateful that you have joined us today. Before we begin the survey, I would like to ask us to bow our heads free. Dear God, we thank you so much for the gift of life that you have given us. We thank you that you have been with us through the day. We have come to the evening part of the day where we want to take a few moments to feed, to worship with you and to pray with fellow believers. We want to ask you to bless our hearts and open our minds that you will be able to listen to your word, receive it, keep it in our hearts and also be able to share it with you. I pray this is a slim. Again, welcome to the evening worship today. And I think I'll just introduce myself. My name is Ebi Okoku. I will be the chorister for the evening. And the pianist is Mrs. Opio, Lawrence Opio. I don't know how you'll say hi. Amazing. So we'll begin with a few items this evening. So let's just turn our song, our hymn, to our hymnals. Song number 545. Saviour like a shepherd. For those of us who are in church, I'd like to ask you to stand so that can let us pray. Our kind and heavily father, we want to thank you for the gift of life and heavily father for this wonderful week where you have brought us to learn about your secrets of prophecy, heavily father. Three-and-seven, as Thar'jau whom you have used most heavily father to present this wonderful message to your children. Continuously use him heavily father and may this message impact our life and everyday. Bless your listeners who are listening to you throughout all corners of the world that heavily father. This message may be able to provoke them heavily father, may may carry out your message so that you soon return to be able to come. this day till the end. All this we ask the name of Jesus Christ for Lord and Savior. Good evening brothers and sisters. God is good and all the time. Amen. We thank God for this opportunity once again that we have come to worship him. We in a special way would like to welcome each one of you who is joining us here in the sanctuary. Do you feel blessed? Do you feel a bit of Jesus? And also in a special way we would like to welcome our congregation following us online. Feel much welcome in this house even as we continue to listen from the servant of God on this day six of this secret presentation. On behalf of the pastorate leadership, whole church leadership, may you all feel blessed and may we all find a place a Jesus fit that you may learn and may we grow closer to him. May God bless you all. Yes, good evening everyone. We welcome you to the Divine Hour and our scripture reading for today is coming from the book of Isaiah chapter 54. A read from verse one to two. It says, Amen. Stand to the opening song. Team number 439. I request the congregation present to rise up as you sing the song. And place you for your brother. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to sit at your feet. And here the wonderful plan you have had for humanity tried all ways to reach East China. Thank you for the way you use the prophets of all so that this message can reach us. We commit ourselves to you as we continue with our series this evening. We pray in Jesus name. Welcome once again to our prophetic series, Secrets of God. And when I read the book of Isaiah, I marvel at the masses and love of God and how he informs his people in advance what he intends to do and why he's planning to do it. We have seen that this wonderful book of Isaiah has two streams of prophecies. The cardinal stream, the main stream, the stream of salvation, the prophecies of salvation. All the way from 740 BC to the time God created the heavens and the earth. I just want you to know that Isaiah goes past the head of the world. When you come to Daniel, we shall see that Daniel reaches the coming of Jesus. He doesn't go further. But Isaiah is the one who goes farthest into the future, past the millennium which he does not mention until God will create the new heavens and the new earth. But there is also the second shortest stream of prophecies which he pick up at yesterday, the deportation of his people because of rebellion. Let me just tell you in my studies of the Word of God and it's an experience. I'm of the opinion that God has suffered more from his people than from those without. Because Gentiles are there, they don't know God, they don't know about him and therefore they go their way. But here is a people who have identified themselves with God. They are called by his name but they are his greatest troublemakers. It depends on God. The goodness of God is that he does not leave them. He struggles with them and that's why God had to take his people whom he had chosen from among all the nations. He took them to captivity and it depended on God to lose ten tribes. It depended on God and in fact we don't know how much God has suffered in the hands of his people. But Judah was no better. The loss or the destruction of the northern kingdom was not that deterrent to Judah. And one of the reasons, even in secular society, why sin is punished is so that it can be a deterrent to those who would commit it, want to commit it, to see now these are the consequences. That's why there is imprisonment and other kinds of punishments. But here Judah sees the northern kingdom lost but they don't learn. Until now they also go into captivity but by the by the masses of God he redeems alumni and brings them back. And I told you that when God, when his people moved to Babylon, he also moved with them. He relocated to Babylon for 70 years. I'm just going to read you one wonderful text by Isaiah on this fact of God relocating to Babylon. As Isaiah was talking about the coming of the Messiah, the repatriation back to their Lord, this is what he says in Isaiah 52 verse 8. Listen you are watching men lift up their voices together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion they will see it with their own eyes. It's clear that there will come a time when the people in Jerusalem, as they are there in Jerusalem, they will see the Lord returning back to Zion. I told you now because these people have gone back to Jerusalem, he also comes back to continue with the preparation for the first advent of the Messiah. Having done that yesterday, now we go back to the old story, to God's international agenda, the Salvation of Manikai, so that we continue with the story from where we left. You remember we left the story where the Messiah came in Isaiah 53 and through his death and the Salvation, through his death and the Salvation, he saved the human race. Now it is very sad for that Isaiah 53 is not read by other dogs, Jews. In fact by Jews in common. But for the other dogs, Jews, they have even put a curse on any Israelite who would read Isaiah 53 and therefore Jews don't read this chapter. They don't understand who is this person. Let me take you back and tell you that Isaiah gave two prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah. The first one said, Isaiah 714, a child who would be born, whose name will be Manuel. The second Isaiah 9 verse 6 and 7, the mighty king, the everlasting father upon whom the government will be. Now you can see one is talking about God with us and the other one is talking about the Messiah coming as a king as a ruler. Now the Jews took Isaiah 9 at the expense of Isaiah 7 and therefore they have been waiting for a kingly Messiah. The one who is going to sit on the throne of David, the one who is going to rule the nations, the ones who is going to make Jews rulers because according the Jews what they have, their concept about God's kingdom is a political kingdom. But God was preparing a spiritual kingdom and therefore they did not understand Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 53 has benefited the Gentiles more than the Jews is very unfortunate and that's why Paul is crying in Romans 9, Romans 9, 10 and 11 trying to answer the question why didn't my people reject the gospel? Why didn't my people reject this wonderful, it was for them but that's how man is. And therefore the Messiah died and saved the human race. Now today I won't answer the question what was the outcome of the Messiah's death and resurrection. What was the outcome and to that we now go in beginning with Isaiah 54. We heard of Isaiah 53, the prophecy of the coming of the Messiah and his work of redeeming mankind. And let me tell you who is listening to me, you have been redeemed in Isaiah 53, God has removed the barrier that was there between you and him. And that's why Paul is saying in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 18 to 20 that God was in Christ reconciling the word unto himself, not imputing their sins to them. And he has given us this ministry of reconciliation. Therefore God has reconciled the human race to him. He has removed the barrier that was there. This was God's work, God and his son. Those who are the beneficiaries don't know it, they do not know it. How are they going to know it? Is God going to implement this wonderful plan that has been executed by his son? That's why all the three members of the Godhead have been involved in your salvation and my salvation. The God, I mean, God the Father of the planets, God the Son executed and after Jesus resurrected, the Father and the Son gave the package of salvation to the Holy Spirit. And now the third member of the Godhead had now to implement package those who are the beneficiaries. And that's why Jesus said in John chapter 16 verse 7 down once he said John 16 verse 7, but I tell you the truth, it is for you are good that I am going away. And as I go away the counselor, the comforter will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. Verse 8, when he comes, he will convict the word of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment. In regard to sin, because men do not believe in me. In regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer. And in regard to judgment, because the Prince of this world now stands condemned. That was not the mainst of the Holy Spirit. His first duty was to convict the sinners that you are sinners and you are lost. Your destiny is eternal death. But God in his mercy, God who created you in his mercy has rescued you from eternal death through the sacrifice of his son. All you need now is to accept God's gift of salvation. That was the work of the Holy Spirit and he was going to use now the new instrument that now God has commissioned after the failure of the Jews. The new instrument that now God has commissioned is the church. And that's why Christ before he died, he said in Matthew 16, verse 18, that I'm going on this rock, I'm going to build my church and the gates of hell shall never prevail against this. Jesus is saying, Israel are no longer God's instrument to bring about salvation to the human race. They failed for 1,500 years. God has struggled with them and he failed. They failed him. Therefore, because I have saved the human race, I'm instituting a new instrument, the church. And I know the church will be battered by the world, certainly will fight the church, but the church will triumph for gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. Therefore, two entities to implement God's plan, the Holy Spirit using the church, that was had been prophesied by Isaiah because this is the outcome of the death of Christ for our sinners. And therefore, when Christ died, he produced what we call the gospel, the good news. And now according to God's plan, although he knew that the Jews were to reject his son as the Messiah, they were going to be the first beneficiaries of this plan. Do you know there is a statement by Paul very significant in Romans when Paul is introducing his book of Romans, he gives it keen notes in verse 16. And he says, I want you to listen. I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. Note that the gospel is the salvation is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes none is exempted. Salvation is an inclusive. But now note the next words. First, the Jews, then the Gentiles. Why did Paul say that? Paul is saying although the plan of salvation is to save the whole human race, it must first of all go to the people whom God had chosen, the Jews. And this is how the message went to the Jews. Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54. The message of salvation to the Jews. Now that there is a gospel to preach, now that there is salvation to give to sinners, the Jews who rejected the Messiah are going to be the past beneficiaries. Now I told you that Isaiah is written in a poetic way, in a poetic form with most of the message in a metaphoric form, in a metaphor. Listen to the message to the Jews in Isaiah 54. Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child, burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband. Isaiah 53 has saved the nation of Israel without them knowing, they don't know it. And now God tells Isaiah, tell the world that the first message will go to them. They are going to be the first beneficiaries of the plan of salvation. The gospel saves everyone, but first the Jews and then the Gentiles. And now Isaiah 54, the message goes to the Jews. And the message is, you, bed, and woman. What does that mean? What's God saying here? God is telling, I used to lie, God is telling Judah, I commissioned you as my wife to give me children. You never gave any. You are barren. As far as giving me children is concerned, you never give me any children. You give children to the evil one. And therefore you are burdened as far as I'm concerned because you never bore me a child. God is telling the Israelites, I wanted you to proclaim to the Gentiles that our God is our Savior. He can also save you. But instead of you, Jews, using my temple to bring in the Gentiles, you made it exclusive for you people. And you made the rule, no Gentiles should come near my house of worship. That's why the Gentiles don't know His. They don't know what I've done to them. You never bore me a children. But now, burst in song, shout for joy. You who never went into labor to bring a child, to bring a baby. Why? Because what you've failed to do, I have done it. Hallelujah. What you failed to do, I've done it. And you are the first beneficiaries. What kind of a God do we worship? He knows all the mess that I've done, but He makes them the first beneficiaries. Shout for joy. Enjoy the salvation that my son brought to the world. Although you killed him, you didn't know that by giving him to the Gentiles, to the Romans, you are facilitating your own salvation. Now, enjoy it. Shout for joy. The message of salvation should not be to make you gloomy. It's a message of joy. And that's why Paul is saying, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. And he goes on going to be happy. Why are you going to shout for joy? Because your children are going to be more than a woman who just had two, three children for the husband. Your children are going to be in millions. They are going to be so many. Therefore, although you never gave me children, I got the children. I gave you the credit. Shout for joy. Jesus. And we are going to see tomorrow evening how this happened in actuality, because this is prophecy. How it was fulfilled. Now, they were to shout for joy, because as God was looking at the world, the millions who were going to accept the gospel, me and you included. Hallelujah. God could tell. Can you just see the joys and sorrows? My program has not failed, but you have a work to do. Is there? Yes. Enjoy the benefits. Shout for joy. But there is a task for you to do. Verse two. Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide. Do not hold back. Lengthen your cords. Strengthen your sticks. For you will spread out to the right and to the left. Your dissidents will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate settings. Yes. Is there a joy for what God has done? But there's a work for you. Extend any large your tents. Expand your tents. Why? Because of the influx of the people who are going to come. Now, this metaphor is taken from the Jewish culture where whenever our family had a big occasion where visitors are going to come, you see every family had a tent for the family. Just attend that he feels the family. What about when the visitors come? When the visitors come, it was not customary to bring to go and beg our other tents so that you bring for the visit. All what the woman did is to remove the pegs from where they were for the family and extend it further. Are you getting it? Extend it further so that that can be a bedroom for those who have come. And therefore, every Jewish family had a tent that couldn't expand and God gets that metaphor and tells Israel because I am bringing many enlarge your tent. Hallelujah. Expand. What is going to tell Israel is telling them. My people, you have been too exclusive. You have contained me as your God. I'm not a tribal God. I'm the universal God of all the people. Don't contain me in your theology of exclusiveness. Enlarge the tent. Expand the tent. You do that work. I'll do the work of bringing them. Hallelujah. Your work is to extend the term. What is telling them? You Jews refrain from your exclusivity because you have been, you have been against my plan without knowing by making your religion too exclusive. Now, the Jewish religion, although it was meant for the world, was turned by the Jews to be theirs. And do you know what the Jews believed? There's nothing good you should do for the Gentiles, for they were created as fuel for hellfire. And in fact, the Orthodox Pharisees had a prayer that I praise you God that you did not create me a Gentile, a tax collector or a woman. Terrible kind of a prayer. In fact, after now I've not discovered what was the prayer of the women because this was the prayer of men. I praise you God. You never made me a Gentile. You never created me a Gentile. They had nothing to the Gentiles. But God has saved Gentiles because the first prophecy to Abraham was that through you, Abraham, all the nations of the earth will be blessed. They heard that scripture. It is in their Torah, but they did not understand it because of what we call their kingdom theology, a theology of power we want to rule the Gentiles because they were made created for hellfire. They are for the message, for the Jews was to leave Judaism to understand that Judaism has been a barrier to them. Abandon it and join inclusivity where all the people will be included. That was the message of Isaiah chapter 54, the outcome of the good work of the Messiah, Israel. You whom I commission to work for me as you deserted the work. I have done it. Enjoy the work. But leave exclusivity because I'm bringing an inclusive religion. I'm bringing a new chapter. I have to be worshiped. Remember Isaiah 2? I have to be worshiped by the whole world. That was the message to the Jews. God was telling the Jews, remove the war of partition. You see, by the time Jesus came, it was very hard. Nor were Gentiles to worship in the temple. In fact, they had put different protocols for the worshipers. That is for women. That is for men. That was for the priests. In fact, here was the sanctuary. Next to it was the one for the priests who were nearest to the temple. Then the next were men, were women. Then men. And after the men, after the faradah for men, they put a wall. And it was written at the book that any Gentile who will go past this wall would be responsible for his death, which will ensue immediately. That is the kind of religion that Jesus found here. That Gentiles could only see the temple from far. Because there was a wall. And that writing was in three different languages. It was in Greek, in Roman, and in Aramaic, the Jewish language. And therefore God was telling them, I'm going to bring my people. And you should now open the gate. You should open the temple. You should open the spiritual temple. And let me say, sometimes even we Christians, we have a sort of exclusivity. Although we go missionary, we still believe that this is ours, the others have theirs. Now God is for everyone. Now having brought, having given the message to the Jews, now the Jews were to rejoice in the message of the gospel. And they were to enlarge the tent for the infrax. Now God left the Jews. He has preached to them. He has invited them to the plan for which they never walked. God is telling them, enjoy it. Enjoy its fruits. And its fruits, one word, justification. Justification by faith. In credited righteousness that was credited to Abraham in Genesis 15 verse 6 when he believed. Jews, all I require from you is to believe in the Messiah you rejected and get the benefits of justification by faith. Having done that in Isaiah chapter 3, now God returns with the Gentiles. You remember Paul saying, first to the Jews, then to the Greeks. The Greeks represent the Gentiles. That's where now we go to Isaiah 55, Isaiah 55. The message to you and me. You see, Isaiah had prophesied that this message will come to you. They want to know, to know there's a difference. This is an invitation to the Gentile world. Isaiah 54 is an invitation to the Jewish world. Come, all you who are thirsty. That's how God opens the message to the Gentiles. Come, all you who are thirsty. Come to the waters. All you who have no money. Come, buy and eat wine and milk without money and without cost. Why is paid money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me and eat what is good. And your soul will delight in the richest of fear. The message to the Gentiles. The message to me and you. Come, all you who are thirsty. This is an invitation to all. Because Isaiah chapter 3, in verse 6, had included all. All of us have gone astray. Each one has gone to his own way. But the Lord has laid our iniquities on him. All. And because all the iniquities of all have been laid on the sun and he has paid the penalty for them by his death. Now the invitation goes to all come because I know you are thirsty. Let me tell you brothers and sisters, a sinner is a dusty person. He is dust of righteousness. He may be okay in all other areas. But when it comes to righteousness, he is a dusty person and every sinner is a dusty person. He may know it or he may not know it. And God knows the extent and the depth of that dust. And you know, God is not saying hunger. Because you can continue with the hunger for several days. I remember when someone was dark, was rescued in that pit where they were digging for God, I think. I think after six days, after six days, you can see the word of God. Now, dust does not go for long because the body will be dehydrated and you will just die. And the worst of all, dust is dust for righteousness. Therefore, God is opening to sinners. Come, you drink. You remember Jesus, you are the same during the come meeting in John chapter seven when he called the people, come to me all you are thirsty and drink. The same metaphor. Now, then he goes and says, come, buy wine and the milk without money and without cost. Another metaphor, another symbolism. He is telling people, come and you buy. But I don't want your money. Now, we know that in our modern world, all transactions are done through money. Money is very crucial. In fact, when this pandemic came, the first thing the government had to handle was how are people going to handle the transactions because life has to go on. And you remember, they said that you use the emplacement. And very interestingly, for two years, I have not touched the money and I will not have any transaction with you through hard cash. I use emplacement. Muah told that money has gone through so many hands, but God is inviting Gentiles to come and buy, but without any money. What does that mean? You know, before our modern business transactions, people were still trading. Even before we were colonized, even when we were only Africans, we were trading between ourselves. And what people did in their trade was called butter market. Now, in the butter market, you don't have money. What you do is that you exchange what you have with what you don't have. And mostly in the reserve, when there was hunger, what the people did is that they took what they had or God had blurred them with. If it is millet, they go to the other tribe who did not have millet, but they had emice. And therefore, they agreed to the transaction. So many did not have the weighing machines, and therefore they used containers. So many karabaches of millet will be equal to so many of maize. And you give the millet and you get the maize. This is what you did not have. This is what you wanted. You give what you had, you get what you did not have. That was the butter market, the butter trade. This is the one God is using here. God is telling you, gentle. God is telling you, sinner, you come to me. I have eternal life. I have forgiveness. I have justification. Give me what you have, but I'll give you what I have. We call it the great exchange. Hallelujah, saints. The great exchange. Do you know that the salvation of a sinner is an exchange between God and the sinner? And God is telling the sinner, give me what you have. And what does the sinner have? All he has are sins. Nothing else. A sinner has nothing else to give to God. All he has are sins, dreadful ones that are taking him to hell, to eternal oblivion. But God tells him, bring in your sins. I'll have them and I'll give you my righteousness. That is the exchange being stabilized here by having, by buying something without money. And this transaction is well articulated by Paul in second Corinthians, chapter five. Second Corinthians, chapter five, listen to the transaction. Verse 18, all this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation that God was reconciling the word to himself in Christ, not counting man's sins against them. Why? Why is God not counting their sins? Because he has counted them on Jesus Christ. And he has given us the message of reconciliation. Verse 20, we are therefore Christ about us as though God were making appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. Why? Now the transaction comes in bastard one. God made him who had no sin to be seen for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God, the better transaction. Jesus took our sins and gave us his righteousness. Now as we close our message of Isaiah, 55, he goes on and says, University, seek the Lord for he may be found, call on him for he is in there. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man, his thoughts, let him turn to the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God for he will fully pardon. Wonderful message to the Gentiles is seek the Lord for he may be near. Why he's saying that? He's telling the Gentiles, there was a time God was very far from you. And Paul is telling the Gentiles that there was a time that you are not a people. God was too far away from him. In second, when he was talking about innovations, chapter two verse 13 he says that listen to this, remember that from verse 12, remember that at that time you were separated from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreign us to the covenants of the promise without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. That's the message. You are too far, you Gentiles. Now seek the Lord when he's available. Since the death of Christ, God is near every sinner and all what the sinner is being told to do seek the Lord when he may be found. This is the time to seek the Lord for his near. Since the death of the Son and the cross, God has been near every sinner without the sinner knowing and he's just telling the sinner, please seek me, accept me as salvation is you. That is the message of Isaiah to the world and therefore this wonderful messenger of God proclaimed everything that God was to do and therefore the New Testament is just a fulfillment of the promises of Isaiah, of salvation. The Messiah died and I serve everything. The gospel went to the Jews, I serve 54 and then it has now been going to the Gentiles and even during this Quinequenium the message is that I will go to do what, to tell the Gentiles come and have a better trade with God. Give him your sins and you get his righteousness. I will add by a statement by one of wonderful scholars on the book of Isaiah. Listen to what he says. These three chapters, I serve after three, 54 and 55 form in themselves one of them of those significant riots that characterize our book of Isaiah. The first chapter 53 gives the groundwork in the sufferings of the cross. Then in chapter 54 the efficacy of those sufferings announced to Israel and now in chapter 55 we come to their worldwide proclamation. Amen. He has come to you just as Isaiah has prophesied for you to get it and to give it to others. It made me so. It's our prayer in Jesus name. That's our prayer. That's our prayer. Thank you for the gospel to the Jews to rejoice in what they never worked for and to launch their tent for the infrax of the Gentiles. Thank you for the message to the Gentiles to come without money. Poverty is not an issue. You just come and do a transaction with the God for you have sins and he has righteousness. Have an exchange program with him and heaven is yours. May it be so forevermore. It's our prayer in Jesus name. Amen. Let us sing the closing song in number 439. How far from home? Can we rise? Present your sister for that. I want to thank you all for tuning in to our program this evening. The Lord has been with us. We have received blessings from the man of God Pastor Francis Jiao on this series of prophecy. I want to thank you all those who are watching live from your homes and some of you in your offices, whatever you're watching us from Facebook or YouTube. We thank you so much for choosing Narobo Central Church via source of your blessings even as we journeyed through this week. Just to inform us that this series is also in one of Pastor's books and you can access those books from our ABC bookshop right here in Narobi City if you are from within this city. So you can walk to our ABC and you can have a copy of the series of these prophecies of presentation that is captured in one of his books. This coming supper on 18th we will be having baptism and we are appealing to anyone out there who has been waiting to be baptized. This is your time. Please drop your name to any of the baptism classes, leaders or to our pastors or any of the elders that you may be prepared for the same. Our programs continues tomorrow at the same time from 5.30. We invite you to be part of the program. Tell our friend to come and fellowship together with us. May the Lord bless us. Let's pray as we close the fellowship this evening. Gracious Father in heaven we thank you for being so kind and gracious to us even for giving us this privilege of this fellowship. We thank you for the messages that have been coming to us every evening Lord. We thank you for speaking to us through your man servant. I pray that we all may see you and find you and we may have salvation. We pray Lord as we come to the end of this week that we will be revived, we will be equipped, our eyes will be opened. We'll be able to see the world and salvation in the light of heaven that we may be fully prepared for the soon coming. Those of us here in church Lord I pray even as we journey back home you can give us a safe journey and those at home Lord continue blessing them and that all together we will be blessed of you and prepared by the Holy Spirit for the soon coming. This is our prayer this moment we pray in Jesus name amen. God bless you all. We meet tomorrow at 5.30