 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord once again. This is the end year week of prayer. We thank the Lord for the chance that he has given us to be in his presence. We are really thankful for his blessings throughout the year and therefore we've gathered this week to give thanks and glorify his name. We are coming to you live from Nairobi Central, Kenya. It is now, according to my watch, eight minutes to five. We welcome those who are watching us to join and invite even your friends and relatives, colleagues to join us on Facebook and YouTube at Nairobi Central. For the congregation that is within, we'd like to have a word of prayer and then begin with a short session of music. So let us stand as we pray. Let us pray. Everlasting father, we thank you for the honour of being in your presence. Lord, I pray that even as we congregate, you promised us that whenever two or three are gathered, Lord, you will be with them. And Lord, I believe that your presence right now is here with us. And even as we draw near to you, Lord, we acknowledge that we are sinners and have fallen short of your glory. And Lord, I pray that the praises, the worship that comes from our mouths, Lord, be cleansed by you. That this be a worship that is acceptable to you like a sweet-smelling incense before your throne. May we glorify your name in this place. And even as we receive from you, Lord, I pray that you open our ears, open our hearts, that we shall receive you. And at the end of it, Lord, we shall not forget to give glory and honour to you for the easiest kinship's name. Amen. Let us make use of the SDA Himnal. The song is number one, Praise to the Lord. Praise to the Lord. Let's go together. Praise to the Lord, the almighty, the king of creation. O my soul, praise him for he is thy health and salvation. Holy hoo he, now to his temple droning. Johnny in glad adoration. Praise to the Lord, who all things so wondrously reigneth. Shiltefi under his wings is so gently sustaineth. Has the Lord seen how the Jesus have been granted in what he ordained. Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee Shuli his goodness and mercy here daily satanthi. Ponta anihosti, almighty, can do. If with his love he be friends. Thank you, Korista, for that nice song. Good evening everybody, all those who have joined us online and those who are here with us physically. We welcome you to this service, our end year week of prayer. What a befitting opportunity that we have to end the year and we ending it with the word of God. We take this very special moment to welcome you to join us throughout the week during this week of prayer. Tomorrow is a public holiday here in Kenya so we'll start again at 4 o'clock East African time but on weekdays starting Tuesday we'll be starting at 5.30. We just want to make that clarification so that you can plan your timing and join us appropriately to hear the word of God and we invite all of you all over the globe the way you've been with us during this Sabbath worship join to hear the word of God. I take this opportunity also to let you know that you can join us through Narobi Central Church YouTube platform and through Narobi Central Church Facebook. Those are the social media platforms that we have that you can join us with. I want to just introduce those who are serving here today. We have our chorister, Kennedyn Bovee and we have our sign language interpreter, Sister Rose Kemunto and the communication team who are all here. My name is Eda Elias Ocholla, one of the servants here who is here with you serving but I just want to let you know so that we are also very clear that the theme is draw near. That's the theme that we'll have throughout the week and we have our speaker of today is our senior pastor, Pastor Nyaga, who will stand in for our speaker of the week, Pastor Dr. Odiambo, who will start from tomorrow. So join us or join me in welcoming our senior pastor who will take us through today to share with us the word of God. But before we start, I would like us to pray and join me, all of you, wherever you are, I would like us to pray before we start. Let's pray and let's surrender our hearts to the Lord. Father in heaven, what an opportunity you've given us, Lord, to hear your word, draw nearer. Drawing nearer to you, Lord, is power. As your servant will stand, Lord, to share your word, Lord be with him. May your holy angels surround him and, Father in heaven, give him a double portion of your blessings. And may you, Father in heaven, put your words in his mouth as he will speak and give him, Lord, the clarity of mind, Father. And bless us all as we listen to your word. Open our hearts. That our hearts may find a fertile ground for your word, Lord, Father in heaven. That we may be drawn to your path of salvation, Lord. Thank you so much, Lord. I ask all this in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. And just to have an opening song, we'll call our chorister to share with us the opening song, song number three or six. Okay. Draw me nearer. Thereafter, our speaker, our senior pastor, Pasta Nyaga will come in to share the word. May the Lord bless us and give us peace as we listen to his word. Thank you. Thank you, Elder. The theme song, it's three zero six in our S.D. Himnall songwriter says, draw me nearer. As we sing this song, let us sing it with the spirit that it invokes the spirit of drawing nearer to God's presence because he says, I am thine, O Lord, I've had thy voice. Three zero six. I am thine, O Lord. Let's sing together. I am thine, O Lord, I have heard thy voice and told thy love to me but I long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to thee. Draw me nearer nearer, blessed Lord, to thy cross where the house died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding sight. Consecrate me now to the Savi's Lord by the power of Christ divine. May my soul look up with a steadfast hope and my will be lost in thine. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy cross where the house died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding sight. O the pure delight of a single ah, that before thy throne I spent. When I kneel in prayer and with thee my cut, I commune as friend with friend. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy cross where the house died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding sight. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy cross where the house died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to thy precious bleeding sight. So I'll read and the scripture reading is from the book of Hebrews chapter 10 verse 22. That's our key text. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. I'll read it again. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. The Lord bless the reading as we hear His word from His servant. God bless you. Thank you. That all is good. That all is good. And all the time we want to thank God for this precious moment He has given us on this day to start off our end-year week of prayer that is supposed to run from today down to Sabbath of 17th. And we want to thank the Lord because he's so gracious and those who are here in church want to appreciate your coming and encourage those at home even as from tomorrow that many of us may have the way those within the Nairobi City to come and fellowship together with our speaker as he takes us through this very important week. Those who have tuned online want to thank you so much and appreciate your presence and want to request you to share these messages widely with your friends just click that button of sharing and spread to as many people that many may be blessed. Invite a friend every day as we come for these special meetings. Allow me just to let you know that this week is specifically set aside for you to be a blessing to you and to your household as we end this year. This is the last spiritual week of emphasis for this year 2022 and I want to request you to share together with the Lord the blessings that he has set aside for you as we come to the end of this week. As been mentioned our speaker is our brother and our friend pastor David Viambo who is coming to us from the Adventist University of Africa. It's unfortunate that today he was not able to be with us he was also the country today and he has promised tomorrow to be here with us and throughout the week he shall be speaking. I'm just here like John the Baptist to make way for him as he comes and I want to let you know indeed even in my experience I am not able to untie his shoes but I seek the grace of God to guide me as we briefly take this moment to look into this very important theme he has chosen this is not my theme it is his theme for this week and the text comes from him I want to appreciate the text in the book of Hebrew chapter 10 verse number 22 within the theme draw nearer draw nearer before we get to basics let's one more time say a prayer Gracious Father in Heaven we thank you so much and I pray that hallowed be the name and the kingdom come thy will be done in this place and for this message and for this week as it is in heaven for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory Lord as you say do you be lift and that you shall draw all men unto yourself I pray the Lord this evening I may not be seen but may you be seen and may you be heard draw us to yourself is my prayer in Jesus name amen amen now very interesting the book of Hebrews is one of the best exposition of the translation that took place from the old dispensation of worship to the new dispensation of worship Paul writing the book of Hebrews discusses contrasting the experience of the old sanctuary and the new sanctuary in the form of the man of Jesus Christ he discusses the privileges of salvation that the old testament church hand through the sacrifices of the lambs and various animals and the the torment that was being made through the afri men in the name of priest to that of Jesus who appears at the lamb of God and sacrifices and atones for our sins through his own blood now it is in this context the book of Hebrews chapter 10 now Paul takes extensively to bring out this comparison between the merits of the sacrifices that were of animals and that were of Jesus and he is out to say one being and that of animals the old dispensation the old testament in the old sanctuary that experience was of itself insufficient to avail and to bring salvation in totality to human beings and he goes on to speak and to bring out in very clear and powerful manner that God had a plan knowing very well that no blood of a lamb or of a goat of an animal to cleanse to remove the stain of sin from us just assembles demonstrating illustrating the calming of the Lord now Paul says in many dispensations as Paul and the apostle of Jesus Christ has come he has died he has fulfilled the demands of the other sanctuary that a man should be atoned by a perfect blood and he says Jesus now has entered the Holy of Holies no food the blood of the lambs which was weak and could not in any way be sufficient to carry along a sinner and bring him into perfect redemption now we are privileged in this dispensation that we are in a time when Jesus has been offered as a sacrifice atoning for our sins acting like the high priest in our lives he says then in Vasna 19 if you check that chapter 10 of Vasna 19 after that argument of the merits of the animal sacrifices comparing to that of Christ from Vasna 11 then he concludes in Vasna 19 by saying therefore brethren having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and leaving way which he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh and having a high priest over the house of God was drawn here with a true hurt in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscious and our bodies washed with pure water Vasna 23 says let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promises faith form let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of some but exorting one another and so much the more as you see the day is approaching Friends allow me to speak few vings from this passage as Ashaeen our end here we call prayer now in Vasna 19 pauses therefore brethren having the boldness to enter paus is speaking from a point of advantage he says for you and for me we are not waiting for something to be done that we can have confidence in approaching the throne of grace our forefathers were waiting for this dispensation they were waiting for this privilege they were waiting for the conditions that we find ourselves in to be availed to them in vain they died before witnessing what we have witnessed they died before experiencing what we have experienced they died before they were lifted on a platform where we have been sitting today now because we are not where Abraham was we are not where Isaac was we are not where the prophets were and the portraits were who lived with the hope of better things to come we are living in a time of better things they dependent on the blood of the lamb which was of a weak animal lesser than a human being we have dependent and been washed and clenched and atoned through the blood of the only begotten of the father it says for this reason then we should have the boldness that Abraham did not have because of this we can have boldness which prophet did not have we should have boldness that many those who came before us did not have because they hoped for things they did not see but we are living in the things evidence in our experience and it says now if they were faithful in a time when they were still hoping for better things to come how then ought we to behave now that we are in the real experience of the things which were foreshadowed in the plan of redemption Jesus who has become the lamb of God and ascended on the tree slayed and his plans flew from the tree and clenched every scene and on the trees that it has finished from that particular moment then we are living in a new dispensation where we are no longer waiting but we are enjoying the better things can you say man and because of this therefore we have the boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus but let me pause here and ask you friend do you feel confidence do you feel courage as a Christian do you feel experience the reason of you being bold to speak about your faith bold to go before the Lord did you have confidence if you do then what is the basis of your confidence now pause here the basis of our confidence even as you approach the throne of grace is what Jesus has done on the cross we no longer stand condemned and accused of the sins that we have done but we are justified through his blood and so we can approach the throne of grace and confidence and in verse number 20 says by anew and leaving way that's that phrase that is showing here that there is the old way and there is a new way it says the old way was not working for man the old way was there as a shadow the old way was there waiting for the new way and the new way has come the new way is the new way that we have received through Jesus Christ it says now a new and leaving way this new way is the method, the strategy the formula through which Christians are to be saved we are no longer to be saved based on our works we are no longer to be saved based on the blood of some animals we have been saved through the blood of Jesus and you say man this is the new way that God and kept for so many ages many patriarchs and prophets men and women who came before us died waiting for this new way and Paul says it is right here with us and because of this we can have boldness and confidence as we approach the throne of grace this way is not only a new way but it is a leaving way can I hear a man out there this is a leaving way to imply that it is a perfect way it is never going to end the way through which Jesus has given us to approach the throne of grace is leaving is perfect, is adjuring is forever and every sinner the world is inviting to come through this new way and the leaving way he says I am away so Jesus has done something that Paul is adjuring here and says if every believer understands what Jesus has revealed to us then we will be quick to draw near to God in full assurance of faith now let me speak one more thing in this verse after saying by a new and leaving way which he consecrated for us is through the veil that is his flash Paul is contrasting the old way which was through the veil the great day of atonement once per year the high priest would go through the veil of the old sanctuary to get the holy of holies that you can sprinkle the blood to atone for the sins of Israel now Paul says here Jesus has gone into the holy of holies through the veil which is his body he says here but his flash he has offered you see let me speak to somebody here and let you know how powerful this verse in your Paul is you see as the high priest in the own sanctuary the day of atonement was consecrating the camp of Israel and consecrating the sanctuary he also consecrated the veil the veil was being contaminated throughout the year and it demanded that it be sanctified and clenched as the people were being consecrated and clenched but the veil that Jesus has gone to the holy of holies through needed no consecration the body of Jesus was without sin had he get himself through to the holy of holies through a perfect veil which is his blood and indeed agree with the Paul this is a better thing for believer that today we have no veil whatsoever we can approach Jesus who says come to me we can approach him it doesn't matter the experience of our life we can go to him there is no more veil he removed the only veil the only veil that is there is his body is flesh and he says I have given my flesh to you have given my body to you for your consumption there is no barrier of approaching Jesus he has availed himself to us they should give you confidence to draw near to God and in verse number 21 Paul says here and having a high priest over the house of God and having a high priest I will not take much time here because friends we all know that as I'm speaking to you Jesus is now the high priest in the heavenly sanctuary Jesus is a high priest over the house of God and this word this particular high priest and his ministry he is different from the high priest of the other sanctuary in form and in spirit and in mission Jesus his body his life is perfect every high priest needn't to be consecrated every high priest needn't to atone for his sins fast before he could atone for sins of the world but Jesus who knew no sin was men sin that he may become the hollies of those who come to him Jesus who is perfect body who do not know any sin is now a high priest who does not require any sacrifice for him to be fit to conduct the ministry of a high priest now the every high priest who only appear the hollies once a year but this one is on duty 247 january to december you do not wait to the end of the year a set day for atonement you can approach Jesus every day every second every hour every experience and every moment of your life is an opportunity for you to be before the Lord to pour your sins and you say come to me you are every lad even for your sins are as red as blood I am able and willing and ready and already in the office of cleansing sin come to me now I shall make you clean and white as snow not on that day set for the atonement but every day we are in the dispensation of daily sacrifices and we no longer await we are only waiting the day of glorification when Jesus is going to come to take the church home don't have to close this year with a baggage of your sin you don't have to wait for that first of december this year for you to appear before the Lord to speak about your case about your ways of life if you have gone through in the experience of this year you can even now speak to Jesus and your sins shall be forgiven so in verse number 22 which is the key verse for this week then Paul says let us draw near with a true hurt in full assurance of faith very very powerful passage here let us draw near with a true hurt in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscious and our bodies washed with pure water what is Paul saying here in the context of what Jesus has done for us moved the burial and having removed the death cut that was there for our sins to be atoned let me speak to somebody here it was not easy for those people in those days for their sins to be atoned they had to live the guilt mind for they only are waiting the day of atonement of course you know there are sacrifices that would give them the privilege of being forgiven as they keep committing their sins but it was in a way not cleared from their camp until the day of atonement so it was difficult process for one to receive pandon of his sins but not so today Jesus has removed all that difficult every day is a day of atonement your sins can be forgiven and cleansed perfectly whenever you appear before Jesus and confessing your sins sins shall be removed for every single senior who comes to Jesus supposes let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith let me speak here of this phrase with a true heart this is a true heart is is a is a worshipping heart a heart full of praise and prayer a heart full of joy for the Lord a heart full of desiring and admiring the Lord a heart that is out for the Lord this is a true heart a heart that understands what Jesus has done a heart that understands the science of redemption now this true heart gives full assurance of faith now not here this phrase full assurance of faith it means unwavering confidence the fullness of faith it is faith in what Jesus has done faith confidence absolute belief and trust that what Jesus has done it is perfect it is not weak it is able to save the belief and the faith that the bury has been removed this is what Paul calls here full assurance of faith in what Jesus has done it is the means by which our confidence and boldness is cultivated and we can draw near to God you see friends for you to cleave to somebody you must be assured of who this person is and what benefits you get out of him and process the only sure thing that it can give a belief assurance and confidence to appear before the Lord and draw close to him to God is when you understand and know and acknowledge that now there is a path cut for you and he is waiting to receive you can say man this one process ought to give us confidence so let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our heart sprinkled from an evil conscience lost with pure water again he goes back to contrasting what you saw the day of atonement the high priest would get the hold of holies then he would splink the blood upon the walls the curtains of the temple the sanctuary that symbolized removing the scene of Israel from the camp of Israel this demonstrated or illustrated the cleansing of scenes of Israel that they have committed for the old year on this particular day of atonement their scenes would be removed and it was illustrated by the sprinkling of the blood upon the curtains and the walls of the temple now this was a physical removal of scene the blood of the Lord who would not be able to penetrate to the hearts of people and remove the inner scene from men so we were cleansed from a physical scene but never from the guilt of our scene now Jesus pauses here he has come and he has sprinkled his blood not the blood of the lance but the blood from his body he has sprinkled death upon our hearts Jesus has a ministry to your soul the high priest, the other sanctuary and a ministry to the physical being of humanity and the temple but Jesus ministry is the inward ministry of the soul he is able and powerful to speak to your heart to turn around your heart and to bring it if it is a difficult heart he can remove it and recreate it and make you have a new heart pauses having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies was with pure water and I want to believe here when he speaks about pure water he is not only talking about the waters of baptism but actually he is talking about the fountains of water that come from Jesus Christ let me end this message here let me give any friends to let you know that this assurance of faith is the basis of having confidence in the Lord the basis of having a push within you to move away from where you are living your life and come close to the house of the Lord there is the thing that shall push you to come nearer of God this understanding and realization that we can have full confidence full assurance of faith in the things Jesus has done should give you confidence to appear before the Lord no matter what you do you want to position yourself to be at the feet of Jesus how I pray this week somebody will experience the assurance of faith and have confidence in the things Jesus has done in availing salvation to humanity that we will admire to come and enjoy the fellowship of the new things that have been availed through a new way which is the living way through Jesus we are more than conquerors today through Jesus we can stand like the brave and face the force straight to the eye and tell him we are deciding to follow Jesus who do not purpose this week to come to experience this great ministry of Jesus which is now not of the physical nature but of spiritual nature addressing the issues of our hearts and drawing us to Jesus that we may have confidence as Christians in this period of time as we wait for Jesus and so in verse number 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promise is faithful can you say man first a foarana of better things coming this week I want to invite you this week every evening tomorrow we will be here at 4pm who is the public holding but as from Tuesday we will be here from 5pm every evening and the man of God will be standing here to speak to us expand more on this great passage of the Bible bring out the beauty of salvation and showing us the privilege that we have in Christ Jesus that is intending to push us to give us appetite that we may admire to move away from the world and cling to Jesus that we may be prepared for the second coming unto not purpose to end this year Jesus is willing to do something for you and for your family this week just for you and your family this week please don't allow these special blessings to pass by without coming to your house I want to plead with you this week is for you Jesus is admiring you he has a purpose for your life he has a gift for you as we end the year come a reason with him because you never know that he is always waiting for you to come because he knows you are safe when you are near the heart of God come this week as we journey through seeing how we control nearer Jesus is my prayer in Jesus name get a song then I am going to pray for the song thank you pastor the song is 560 in our SD hymnals let all things now living let all things now living that's the tune 560 the congregation that is within kindly be on your feet as we close this session let's sing together let all things now living a song all things giving to God the creator triumphantly raise who for short and way does protected and state us who guided us on to the end of our days his banners are on us his light goes before us a pillar of a shining forth in the night till shadows have vanished and a khezi is banished as forward we travel from light into light his low he enforces the stars in their causes the sun in his orbit obediently shine the hills and the mountains the rivers and fountains the deeps of the ocean proclaim him divine we too should be voicing our love and rejoicing we've blood adoration a song let us raise till all things now leaving uniting thanksgiving to God in the highest hosanna and praise a gracious father in heaven we thank you for the privilege of this fellowship we thank you learn for the privilege of this week a unique week a special week that should attract every Christian what a better way of ending the year the world is rushing out for vinks that fileth and destroys the soul as a means of enjoying and climaxing the year but we have chosen to come here to the sanctuary for all week that we may end this week and this year with you I know Lord for sure this will be a turning point to somebody's life devil is not happy and he may push his agenda to keep your people away from these meetings make them busy not to come for these meetings but God a previous evening that you have power to break down every chain and every barrier that will prevent your people from these messages of this week bring them from far and wide that we may end this year in a thanksgiving attitude being before the Lord before you for all week as you seek to learn more on how to draw near to you there is nowhere that compares to this place devil said a day spent in a sanctuary spent in the cult of your house is wafa much better than a thousand days spent elsewhere he knows the secret the privilege, the advantage of drawing near to you Lord I pray that this week may bring healing to somebody who has been struggling with the sickness this week may not only bring healing to physical sickness but also healing to our relationships marriages are broken Lord I pray that this week may be a healing to our relationship that this week for them may not only be a healing to our physical maladies and relationship but also may be healing to somebody who's emotions have been broken do something this week learn for those who shall turn for this experience that we will look back and say it was worthy drawing near to Jesus I want to pray for your man seven pastor David Lord as he prepares to come I pray Lord may you give him self journey coming and fill him with your spirit as he comes to stand on this pulpit may Father pray let him not speak of what he knows but may you speak through him of what you know that we ought to know that you will draw us to you as you prepare us for eternity this means us with your blessings Lord on this evening and bring us tomorrow in joy and in confidence as continue learning on how to draw near continue may what Jesus has done be the reason why we will not shy away but we will have boldness to approach the throne of grace knowing that it is now our opportunity to be with you thank you Lord pray for these meetings pray for the whole spirit in this sanctuary and for these meetings this week may Jesus name we pray amen and all bless you and be with you please as you come tomorrow come with a friend and those are watching online share these messages with your contacts call bless you let's say amen to our pastor let's say a big amen to our pastor for the word of God that he has shared with us the word centering on the fact that because of Jesus Christ we can enter the holiest with boldness because we have a new lifestyle because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ pastor thank you for the word of God that you shared with us and the assurance that we have as those who have known Christ that we can approach the throne of grace the holiest with boldness and confidence what a privilege we have we are inviting all of you as pastor say come physically join us through our platforms Narobi Central SDH church YouTube and Facebook join to get energised as you go for your holidays this is the end year we call prayer what a privilege you have to hear the word of God and as you go for your holidays you can reflect on the word of God that you may be drawn closer and nearer to him we thank God that we have this opportunity so invite a friend to join here tomorrow physically invite a friend to listen with you to the YouTube and through the charge Facebook that all of us may get this blessing I would just like you let's rise up as we join the grace may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more Amen God bless us