 We alive. Good afternoon. Good afternoon once again. And happy Sabbath. Happy day. I really hope we've had a wonderful time till now. We thank the Lord for the blessings of his Sabbath and also for the blessing of the camp meeting. We are yet starting another session of praise and worship and we'd like to welcome you to fail at the fate of Jesus. Before we begin this session, I'd like the team with me to introduce themselves and then we'll have a word of prayer and start our singing session. Happy Sabbath. This is Naomi Maosa. Thank you for joining us this afternoon and may we enjoy sapping from the Lord's table. Amen. I'm Kennedy Mbuvi. David Peter Gada. Welcome once more. At the piano is Mr. Daniel Muroki. I am Paul Odira. We are happy to be serving today. Thank you. Amen. Let us have a word of prayer. Let us believe. Everlasting Father, we come before your presence this afternoon. Lord, we want to thank you for the gift of the Sabbath and for the gift of fellowship. Even as we approach your holy throne, Lord, I pray that you may forgive us. May our service be acceptable to you for the glory and honor of your name. Whoever is involved in this service in one way or another, Lord, I pray for them all that Lord you guide us. May your will be done in this place. For these we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. To start us off, we're going to sing in our Nimboza Cristo. That's song number seven in our SDA hymnals. It's song number three, three, four. The writer says, Oh God, our help in ages pasts. I pray that this song will give meaning to you and let us praise together. It's song number seven, Nimboza Cristo. All together. Kivulichwa kizichwako. Diyo nesru atoshka mkono wako. Nimulinziwe suijakueko. Nchinako tsvaka sasa hojako. Atudinda daima tuenneji. The song is one, eight, three. The song writer says, I will sing of Jesus' love. Sing of him who first loved me. For he left bright worlds above and died on Calvary. If this is your story, let us sing together with the words of one, eight, three. I will sing of Jesus' love. Sing of him who first loved me. If this is your story, let us sing together with the words of one, eight, three. If this is your story, let us sing together with the words of one, eight, three. I will sing of Jesus' love. I will sing his love. I will sing, I will sing of Jesus. Let us praise him who first loved me. I will sing of Jesus' love. Let us praise him who first loved me. Let us go to song number 302. The prayer is that you might go into Jesus' deeper yet in his love, 302. And the way you are going to do is we are going to sing all verses in harmony with no interlude. So just follow the cues as I conduct the song, deeper yet 302. Into the crimson flood, I shall be. Into the crimson flood, this world of sea. I will sing of Jesus' love. An interlude after each verse. Let's go. Thank you so much Coristas, thank you so much. I would ask us to refer to Nile, we pray as we are standing. Okay, we are praying. Our most gracious kind and loving father in heaven, thank you for this Sabbath day and thank you for this come meeting. Thank you for the blessings that we have received so far, Lord. In a special way now we are getting into prophecy. We pray that you may lead your man savant, pastanyaga as you will be presenting that Lord. You will give him the message which will be able to make all of us appreciate what you did, what you had planned for us during the time you set up this very clear message of prophecy. May you be with us from the beginning until the end. And those who are joining us, we pray that you may hasten their feet so that we can all be one communion and one papa. It's my humble prayer in Jesus' name. Thank you for coming in. I know we are running a little behind schedule. Those who are out there please, the program has started. And I should have a decline to whip people to come in. But in the meantime our speaker is our near past Peter Nyaga. He's going to start us off. And I'm sure he will be able to explore even more detail as he gets into the theme of prophecy. How many are happy to have our pastor to speak to us? Thank you so much, Pastor Karibu. The Lord is good. The other times I'm glad this afternoon to have this opportunity to share with us the words of the prophecy in the book of Revelation where we find our key text for this coming theme. This being Bible Prophecy, I'm going to run through a series on a title God's Last Appeal Before the Final Crisis. God's Last Appeal Before the Final Crisis. I know most people when they hear about prophecy they start thinking of difficult things that are reserved for some specific people in church. But I want to request to you that for this particular program just sit the way you sat when you listen to the sermon. Have an attitude of it's an easy thing, it's for me. Prophecy is never meant for some individuals in church, it is meant for everyone. And so it is for you and you ought to prepare your mind and your heart to get the message. Of course we would have, it would have been very good for us to have a new phase during this series as your pastor in these akam meetings and I'm requesting to share on prophecy I need a lot of prayers from you. But I pray that the Lord will take us through in the understanding of what is in the book of Revelation that we are dealing with. The theme for this akam meeting is I will go and proclaim the three angels' messages. I will go and proclaim the three angels' messages. I will go is a quinquennial theme for the Advented Church. But for this particular season we are emphasizing or this year we are emphasizing on the three angels' messages. Three angels' messages. So we are saying I will go and proclaim the three angels' messages. Now the three angels' messages happens to be found in one of the prophetic books which is the book of Revelation. And so there is being Bible prophecy I chose to limit myself to the message of the three angels. It is based in the text of Revelation chapter 14 verse number 6 down to number 12. And from this we will get the theme God's last appeal before the final crisis. We will go through the text of Revelation chapter 14 verse number 6. And as you can read from your version wherever you have then I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel which reached to bozu, dwell on the earth. Every nation, tribe, tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear God and give Him glory kwa kwa uiugia kukunipi. And worship him who made heaven and the earth, the sea and the springs of waters. In another verse number eight, and another angel followed saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen that great city, because she has made our nation's drink of the wine of the wrath of her furnication. Asana manen, then a that angel followed them saying we the Lord voice. If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God which has poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation. He shall be tormentant with fire and blimestone and in the presence of the whole angels and in the presence of the Lamb. This is what the Bible presents as the three angels' messages. There are three angels that John says are so flying in the midst of the sky. So to do this, a number of questions. For us to be able to go through the three angels' messages, I am giving us questions that are going to guide our daughters to go through. So we will be asking very important number one question. What do the three angels symbolize? John say I saw the three angels fly in the midst of the sky. So what does the three angels symbolize? What is the everlasting gospel because they are seen with everlasting gospel? What is everlasting gospel? Why are they flying in the midst of the heaven or the sky? Why are the messages proclaimed to all the world? It is important. What does the phrase fear God mean? The first angels when you spoke, you said fear God. What does the phrase fear God mean? What does it mean to glorify him? Because fear God and give him glory. What does it mean to glorify God? What does it mean to worship the creator? Because it says fear God, give him glory. Worship him. Now in the first angels' message, we are going to see the three imperatives that the angel gave in his message. Fear God is the command, is an imperative. Glorify God, worship God. What does it exactly mean and why did God choose to bring these ones as imperatives in this message? We shall also ask a question, what and when is the hour of God's judgment? It says for the hour of judgment has come, what is the hour of judgment and when is the hour of judgment? We also proceed especially looking at that angels message if Temul is going to allow us to ask who is the beast? What is the image of the beast? What is the mark of the beast? And what is the wine of God's wrath? The angels' message speaks about those who are going to receive the worship of the beast, receive the mark of the beast and then the visitation of the wrath of God which is supported by God's mixture. So what is the beast in the angels' message? What is the image of the beast in the angels' message? And what is the mark of the beast in the angels' message? And what is the wine of God's wrath? Now all of these so many questions are pulled six items that are going to be our simple outline in discussing this week. So number one we are going to begin by looking at the facts about the three angels' messages. Now I'll be cutting across the three of them in a summary to look at the key point what comes out when you look at the three angels' messages, the fact, the realities that it cannot be debated about the three angels' messages. Number two we will look at this, the fact, the first fact. Number one is what I'm going to deal with shortly after this and then tomorrow we will proceed looking at number two from eternity to eternity. And we will be addressing the question what is the everlasting gospel? On Monday we bag the grace of God, we shall look at the imperatives of the first angels' message. The imperatives of the first angels' message are to invite you to explore from the scriptures what the Bible says about fear God, what the Bible says about giving God glory and what the Bible says about worshiping the creator of man. What the Bible says about worshiping the creator of man, the heavens and the earth. On Tuesday we shall look at the nature and the power of God's judgment just in the three angels' messages. And the following day we shall look at the beast, the image and the mark. And of course the last day we shall look at the beta wine, the beta wine. Now this is the outline or basic outlook of what we are going to go through in this week as we discussed the Bible prophecy based in the text of John Revelation chapter 14 verse number six down to verse number 11. And of course when you go to verse number 12 where the Bible says, here is the patience of the saints. Here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And so friends allow me then to take us through to the discussion for this afternoon facts about the three angels' messages. Facts about the three angels' messages. Now before we get into the scriptures let's say a prayer. O gracious Father in heaven we thank you so much for the privilege that you have given us to share. Lord I pray that may I not be seen but may you be seen as you speak to us. Put your words into my mouth and order my lips and my thoughts to glorify your name. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Facts about the three angels' messages. Now when you hear about the three angels' messages which especially LNG weight has written a lot of information about. Our church that when the church we are known to speak more of the three angels' messages. But when you hear about the three angels' messages what comes into your mind. So fact number one when you talk about the three angels' messages we are saying fact number one angels. Help human beings to proclaim the message. Remember we are talking about the everlasting gospel and the angel is seen proclaiming the everlasting gospel. In fact number six John says I then I saw another angel flying in the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth. John saw an angel with an everlasting gospel. Now what is this angel? Now angels in the Bible prophecy are beings that help human beings to proclaim the message that God has given. Now in the book of Revelation chapter one verse number one through verse number four just to give evidence that angels I help us of human beings. Or beings that help human beings in proclamation of the gospel. The Bible in Revelation chapter one begins by saying the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show his servants things which must surely take place. It is sent and signified by his angel to his servant John. Verse number two who bore witness to the world of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ to all things that he saw. Verse number three blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near. Verse number four John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Now I want you to note here that in the simple passage God is giving a formula through which he communicates the gospel. And in this formula we find the place of the angels in communicating the gospel. Remember we are saying fact number one about the free angels message is that the angels are beings that help human beings to proclaim the gospel. So we see John says I saw this revelation was given to Jesus by God so it begins from God himself and God gives his message to his son Jesus Christ. Then Jesus picks the same message and he gives it to an angel. Now the angel flies from heaven. He comes down on earth had he meet a servant of God called John and then he gives John the message that he has received from Jesus. Then John takes the message to the church. In fact the angel tells him this message has been given to bring to you. You may take it to the seven churches in Asia. Mine are you with me? And then John takes the message to the church then the church takes the message to the world. So this is the structure or the formula the method through which God communicates the everlasting gospel. So in this we see the place of an angel. So the angel is sent to aid to communicate to help the servant of God John in reaching out to the church with a message. And so the fact number one the angels in the prophecy that we're dealing with are sent to proclaim the message to the servants of God. Now the term angel in Greek simply means messenger or an envoy or one who is sent. If they send you to go and take something to a friend, you are an angel. The Greek word for anyone sent deliver a message on behalf of another person is an angel. You see the problem at times we find in understanding the scriptures is the attitude and the perceptions we have given the Bible holistically. You know we were introduced to the term angel from the concept of the beings, the creatures, the beings in heaven that God sends. And we forget that the same term that refers to heavenly beings that are sent by God also refers to the earth beings that God also sends. And so the term angel in Greek which is used in this particular text here simply refers to anyone who is sent. And in the scripture angels are heavenly beings that are sent by God to earth to as cute is purpose. And we have a number of examples of two literal beings called angels who live in heaven And oftentimes God send them to deliver some specific messages to specific people. Now very quick examples is what I've given you there, there are so many in the Bible. But we will check in the book of especially Matthew chapter 28 and verse number 2. Upon Sunday morning when Jesus was resurrecting the Bible indicate there was an angel that he was sent from heaven who rolled away the stone that he covered the tomb of Jesus. Now that mention of the term agelos in that text does not refer to an earthly messenger but to a heavenly being sent for that purpose. And upon accomplishing that purpose he returns back to heaven. Now in Mark chapter 1 verse number 13 we see the angels were sent to minister to Jesus when he was in the wilderness for 40 days before the temptations. Those ministers were not earthly beings, these were heavenly beings sent to minister to Jesus, literal angels. In Matthew chapter 1 verse number 20 we also see when Joseph was about to get married to Mary he discovered that Mary was expecting. And Joseph descended to run away from Mary but then the Bible says an angel was sent to Joseph to comfort him and to assure him that it is well. This pregnancy is not from the earth, this pregnancy is from above. That particular term agelos in that text refers to an heavenly being messenger sent by God, a literal angel. But also we have in the Bible very many potions where the angels are sent not as literal beings who live in heaven but human agencies that cooperate with God to accomplish the mission of God. Now in this regard the text we are looking at in the book of reverence in chapter 14 verse number 6 to 11 he is not mentioning the literal angel that we have seen in the first package of the text but it is referring to men and women that volunteer to be used of God. And in the Bible we have just given a few examples of people that we know that the Bible calls angels, one of them is John. The other one is the Apafroditas who was also very close with Philip and the Bible calls him an angel and there are a number of them of course the one who was sent to Rahab you remember in the story of Rahab also is called an angel. So the message that God sends to accomplish his purpose though in human form are called angels. So in the free angels message we are not dealing with the literal angels, we are dealing with the messengers in the human form Pashtanyaga Pashtatiropa, there is beauty here, the courage as anyone who volunteers to be in the gospel in the gospel commission, in the mission of speaking of the soon coming of the Lord Jesus Christ they are the ones symbolized as the angels flying in the midst of the sky. So then I think my time is over. Let me summary conclude by this text. To wrap it up, the great commission of the gospel was not committed to the heavenly beings but to the heavenly beings and Jesus came and spoke to them saying authority has been given to me in heaven and earth God therefore God therefore is not a command to heavenly beings, is a command to earth free beings, human beings. So we are the angels in the text of verse 14 verse number 6 down to number 11 the free angels messages is a message that is given in the last days by the servants of God who have been called from takines into the mavalas layer of God and accepting to be collaborators together with God So we are the messengers of the gospel and we are the ones symbolized as the free angels messages Now the question is, are you cooperating with God? We will pick from here maybe tomorrow because of time and see other facts about the free angels messages but on this one discussion here we established that the phrase and I saw another angel fly in the midst of the sky does not imply heavenly beings but the human instrumentality is committing in the proclamation of the gospel Are you willing to be that angel? That is your prayer, rise as you pray Thank you so much for the time we have spent together looking at the introduction of what you shall be dealing with in this week the free angels messages as we look at the final warning before the final crisis today we establish that the free angels messages speak about us who are willing to get committed with the gospel only help us to fully understand that this message is meant for us we are the ones to go and proclaim Lord feel us with the spirit and as the next presenters come Lord may you occupy this sanctuary that we may all see your glory we pray in Jesus name Good afternoon everybody I think I have been introduced before pray and go into the message let us pray loving father in heaven I praise you and I thank you this afternoon for your goodness for your love and care of us Thank you for the father for the gift of life and for the gift of health this afternoon as we share Lord be with us leaders I pray in Jesus name Projector if you can share with us on the screen series of talks on health I want this afternoon to start with the basics because medicine and issues of health are very technical they are terminologies that may not be familiar to everybody and it is just good that we go through them so that we are together the first thing I want us to take note of as I present this series is that God is the creator the maker one of the most foolish things I was ever taught in school was that life is an accident it has no meaning and it has no purpose it was just a bad accident so we came into existence just through some accidental chemical reactions and for tweeters events in the environment that resulted in microbial life and the microbial life by some accident developed into more complex forms the complex forms into bigger animals eventually the end result was that monkeys were there and then monkeys like syngianthropas Australopithecus Kenyanensis all these funny bones which the Kenyan National Museum and some of our confused academicians think are our forefathers my bible tells me God is the creator the maker of life and all life forms life is not an accident it has meaning it has a purpose and the reason God created us you know sometimes we think God created us to worship him excuse me God has so many people to worship him he necessarily does need some more people to sing to him to entertain him the reason God created us is so that we can be his children in other words God had so much good things that he didn't know what to do with them so he decided to make people to share with the good things he has and that's the purpose of life God made us to be his children to share in the good things of life as I go through the bible what the bible says is that we have been here for approximately 6,000 years not the 6 billion years of the evolutionary process the 6 billion years by the way is not even enough to create a bacteria because if you are to calculate the probability of a living organism like bacteria coming into existence by chance the probability is more than 1 in 10 to the 50 over 1 in 10 to the power of 500,000 and what is the limit of reality in other words when is the probability of something happening so remote that practically it is not possible it is 1 in 10 to the power 50 which is equivalent to the sum total of all the particles on earth in heaven and throughout the whole universe the probability of just one bacteria coming into existence by chance is 1 in 10 to the power of 500,000 in other words it is impossible as you go through the basics of science study biology, physics and chemistry it amazes you that people can look at these things, know them and still have such foolish ideas that life is an accident as you look at the study of the human body the structure, anatomy you look at the eye, the ear you look at the tongue you look at the gastrointestinal system the heart, the circulation system the lungs, the breathing, the respiratory system as you look at the musculoskeletal system you look at the endocrine system and you look wonder of wonders the nervous system you cannot escape one conclusion everything in us as a purpose and it is well designed and created for the purpose which they are meant to serve and so I find the Bible true and right now we are aware that after God created when God created this earth it was created perfect there was no blight of any wrong in it but through some kora called the devil sin came into the world and sin broke down everything and from the moment sin entered we were condemned to die disease, sickness is part of the process of death all of you from the moment you were born you grow you develop until maturity by age 25 growth is over then you have about 25 years to live properly by 50 years you start deteriorating after 50 years every day you lose about 10,000 neurons in your brain but thank God there are over 100 billion and so even if you are losing that much per day it will take very many years for your brain to grow into nothing but by age 65 things are getting serious by 75 you start losing memory and in my language we say kumanyo leto lewa ok for the axe but the axe is on the shoulder those are the unfortunate things about memory age 75, 85 or a large proportion of age group is dementia brain functions is because of in your brain and part of your body oh ok at about 50 years as things currently stand chunk of the men are now in pain having with erectile dysfunctions and many of them end up with prostate cancer the leading killer in men the ladies any age but at above 50 now breast cancer and all kinds of cancer cervical cancer start setting in now all these diseases arriving at beyond are part of the process of slowly and gradually dying and so Revelation 21 please open with me Revelation 21 tells us one of the passages I love to read most Revelation 21 verse 1 to 5 and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more and I saw the new city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I had a loud voice out of heaven saying behold the tabenaku of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away and he that sat upon the throne said behold I make all things new and he said and to me right for these words are true and faithful brothers and sisters what I am reading here is restoration of the original form restoration back to paradise removal of pain sickness sorrow in the new heaven and the new earth and so in short we were created perfect this earth was perfect sin came in it brought pain sickness aging dying now in between that time and now until Christ comes we live with sickness at the beginning the earth was perfect the air was perfect the environment was perfect and they lived almost 1000 years after the flood things deteriorated very fast and the generation after the flood they started going down in years very rapidly until at the time of moses from 950 years by the time of moses we read him writing that our life on earth is 70 and if you exceed that it is bonus so between birth and the 70 years what kind of life do we live the life we live does it depend on predetermined course which God created or does it depend on you and my hope this afternoon is to show you that actually the way you live between the time you were born up to the 70 years that you are here on earth is determined by your choices and so I start with the definition of health when was the last time you were healthy an example of the way it will jump and summers out and turn and run and life is exciting you feel like you can do anything if you are a student when you are given a subject to tackle you feel like you can get a PhD within a week you are healthy you feel well your mind feels well in the class and you listen to your teacher and you just absorb knowledge I have been teaching for many years and one of the interesting things about teaching and teaching is that of a page just a paragraph but at the end of the term there is a call 80s and 90s who are very busy listening and writing they look at you very intently you think this one is getting everything until you ask a question then you wonder what's happening was he not listening and when you give an exam 20% 40% we have different capacities and abilities when you are in good health the mental capacities ability to concentrate to absorb to learn and understand to think out to make decisions is easy but if you have a difficulty making decisions you are not healthy so health is a state of well-being physically mentally socially and spiritually next slide now what we mean by physical well-being just refers to the gross you that I see the wholesome fully working body your eyes are seeing, your ears are hearing your nose you are able to smell your tongue you are able to taste when you touch things you are able to feel you have a sixth sense you have instinct and you have common sense your brain, your body your organs are working well you are able to run you are able to jump you are able to climb trees you are able to do things physically you are healthy okay and some of the talented people like Usain Bolt who can do 100 meters in less than 9.6 seconds some of us put there will take 20 or 30 seconds that's somebody who is physically healthy when was the last time somebody healthy some of us go through life literally dragging ourselves along life is a drudge the back is aching the knee is not well when you hold things the hand is trembling arthritic knees and hands and backs and necks and life is a drudgery a punishment what do we mean by mental health now what distinguishes a human being from a goat are his mental functions these goats they reproduce they eat, they sleep, they play they enjoy life but the ability to think and engage in abstract thinking is not like that of human beings because we are created in the image of God and we have the characteristics of God so when you are mentally well then you have ability to be alert to pay attention to concentrate to learn, to remember things you are able to think and make decisions you are able to express your thoughts you are able to adapt to various situations using the information that you already have and last but not least you have emotional balance you are mentally healthy and so some of my students in class they are very healthy physically but mental functions are not very good so they are not able to do well in class social health right now there is war going on in Ukraine and it paints me to talk about this but war and when we read history some of the wars that have taken place when you read history of the second world war Adolf Hitler the president of Germany who tried to conquer the whole world starting with neighbors then intention to go to Europe and then come to Africa and the whole Asia and then last year America and Australia and be the king the emperor of the world that was his imagination fortunately all those wicked dreams were brought to a thunder halt by the British and American forces in his team working with him was a group of very bright and intelligent doctors the leading one of them was called Doctor Death after the second world war was ended they were all brought to the Gutenberg trial and they were tried for doing human experiments with human beings poor Jews they were using women Jews for experiments if they wanted to know how serious how bad a poison is they give different concentrations of the poison to a Jewish woman or child and they see what amount of poison or what concentration of the poison is able to kill that's very wicked if they wanted to test the extremes of temperature of heat they put a Jew in the oven and increase the temperature until he is reduced to soup or on the other hand put him in a freezer and reduce the temperature to 10 degrees 0 degrees, negative 10, 20, 100 and see how far can you decrease the temperature and a human being still can come back to life experimenting with human beings you can be very healthy physically you can be very healthy mentally but socially and spiritually sick the problem with our world today is there is social spiritual sickness ok people very bright, very intelligent but unfortunately they are corrupt and wicked they have no morals they are socially unhealthy social health refers to right relationships with your fellow human beings with your family colleagues, with other people around you with the authorities of course I hope all of us are socially healthy there are people who are very difficult to live and there are people with antisocial characteristics liars there are people who are pathological liars they will tell you a lie with a straight face then they are thieves there are people who never see anything valuable their hands can't help reaching it then they say I didn't steal it is by hand which stole you can be all this health physically mentally and socially and if you are spiritually not well if your relationship with your creator is not well you have a problem because life will have no meaning and you will tend to be cold and cruel now how healthy we are determines our performance in life and our longevity we have a look at what we call life expectancy the next slide please listed below is the life expectancy for leading countries worldwide what is life expectancy what is normally how long you are expected to live it is at some average of the number of children born at the age which they live until they die the age at which people live until they are dead so you take the age of the oldest group and the youngest group and the male group and you average them and you get the average age at which you expect a person in a place or country to live people with the longest life expectancy are a small semi-autonomous region in Spain called Monaco their life expectancy was 89.52 these are WHO figures 84.74 Australia the Nordic countries follow at 81.98 Finland 80.77 which is 80.8 Denmark follows Canada follows at 81.76 next Germany follows USA 79.68 a South American country not a most developed country but there they are because of their lifestyle and a few countries in Africa Egypt look at the Kenya this was the last few years ago currently told it has increased a little so our women are living at average 68 years and our men at 63 usual men are scoring lowest in South Africa 62.34 Tanzania 61.7 Ethiopia 61.48 so Kenyans we are not at the bottom we are doing very well just following after Egypt now what are the factors which determine how long we live I already said that how long you live depends on your well-being all round well-being number one what is it that makes some of these countries people are so healthy they live long number one is primary healthcare now primary healthcare is a big subject but this is just a good summary primary healthcare refers to preventive healthy life things you do to prevent sickness disease and death now this number one includes education how well educated people are has an influence on how they respond to health messages because they make sense of what is being said then number two food and nutrition number three clean water number four clean air the environment if your environment is polluted of course when the factories are too many and they are just producing you know effluence from them into the environment into the soil into the water into the air the air the water is polluted and the rates of sickness increase housing and social services Kenya is one of the countries with extremes of socioeconomic stretches we have people living in 10 bedroom houses and yet they have only two children and then we have people living in a bed-sitter but they have seven children with a maid with a sister and maybe a brother-in-law the house is so packed that some people sleep under the bed housing social services if one of them gets COVID-19 all of them please just just assume they have we don't even need to test sanitation you know in our slums the toilets are not enough so we have flying toilets people you know defecate in plastic bags and then just throw them so the situation the sanitation situation in some environment are unfortunate diseases you expect because of this have a pattern they are infectious diseases they are real diseases and all manner of parasitic infections cholera amebiasis typhoid the infectious diseases as adventists I grew up being taught about cleanliness of the home the house, the room, the environment is a good thing I have to continue this teaching not only for our people but for our neighbors and the whole nation sanitation maternal child care and family planning there are people who produce babies every year somebody is 30 years and she already has 8 children I don't know when she started having children you are this your wife children children and that care we call it antinatal care and all the way during pregnancy during delivery after delivery care and then the childhood vaccinations and the well-being of the mother and the child and then of course with family planning to help them space so that the women who have had children have time to recover their bodies to regain their now provision of these services is one of the key factors in determining the state of health and the longevity in our countries if you look at all these countries with high life expectancy it is because these services are very good excellent so all that is primary health care preventive medicine the things that you do to prevent disease and sickness number two curative services this refers to things that we do after people have gotten sick then you take them to hospitals to clinics they are treated given medication and advised what to do and of course emergency services you get an accident if the emergency services are not available you easily lose your life you arrive in a hospital and if the emergency services are not good you can die in the queue very easily so hospitals clinics emergency services curative services all these factors were brought into the fall and put down for all to read and know at the Alma at the Alma Ata city and so they are called the Alma Ata declaration this one was of 1978 which noted that primary health care is the most important part of health care in other words don't wait until people are sick behave do things in a manner that prevent sickness prevention is better than cure now that brings me to disease pattern now what are the diseases in Kenya in our environment in other countries how do they differ and these patterns of diseases are in line with how much we practice primary health care and how much of the curative health services we have first a look at the USA in USA the leading causes of death in the 1850s was infectious diseases which made up 60% of the total cause of all illnesses diseases like TB diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, malaria typhoid, pneumonia diphtheria, scarlet fever meningitis, open cough measles, resipelas smallpox, please don't worry about those difficult terminologies it's all just meant to show you that these are infectious diseases that's what I want you to get don't mind about the terminologies now these infectious diseases are as we talk in this generation largely controlled largely by the turn of the last century these things had come under control and how did the developed countries like America and the rest of Europe managed to bring these infectious diseases to control in third world countries like ours that is where we still are what did they do the reason for the high incidence of this kind of diseases was because of polluted water supplies there was inadequate waste disposal you know some of you so used to going to toilets you have no idea where toilets toilets have always been there since then toilets are very recent especially flashing toilets okay and in the 17th, 18th centuries you visited cities wow the cows, the goats the camels human waste were all over it was a very unhealthy and sanitized environment sanitation was very poor due to inadequate waste disposal the first person who invented a toilet was imprisoned because somebody thought he was being funny okay how do you make a flash toilet and then you flash with water and it goes somewhere it was thought to be very bad manners today we assume it if you don't have a flash toilet you look very funny and out of place there was polluted milk and food they didn't have standards of hygiene pasteurization of milk today milk is pasteurized it's very safe there was overcrowding there are no idea that overcrowding is a cause of illness there was little protection from flies and disease causing insect bites like mosquitos some of them even thought that mosquitos made them healthier poor nutrition there are no idea of what proper nutrition is there were long hours of work overwork as bad as not working the bible says those who don't work should not eat but on the other hand those who overwork they hurt themselves then there was gross ignorance of disease and what causes disease health education and other measures have controlled majority of this now to prevent these things more or less what they have done is just observe the primary primary health care practices which is health education immunization personal good hygiene human waste disposal control of air pollution dust insects animals proper handling of food and milk clean pure water isolation of the infected the disease if you have missiles if you have this infectious disease if you have covid please you isolate yourself don't go around spreading it to everybody we see that in the bible lepas were isolated they lived out far away from everybody to prevent spread isolation to prevent spread of disease killing of organisms using antiseptics and disinfectants we see our public health people going around repeatedly spraying houses and pools and cutting bushes that is insect control in the 1970s preventable diseases were killing up to 5 million children paella and that changed so today what we have in the west led by USA okay is heart disease that's the leading cause of sickness and death followed by strokes cancers 5 chronic obstructive airways diseases 6 pneumonia especially influenza covid like illness affecting your breathing system 7 diabetes 8 of all things suicide healthy physically very intelligent and probably socially okay but they do not know God is meaningless and hopeless suicide rates are high especially amongst our young people chronic liver disease 9 especially liver cirrhosis 10 atherosclerosis which is deposition of excess fat in your blood vessels the leading causes of illness are mainly lifestyle diseases they are caused by your diet and the way you live now let's have a look at Kenya 90s are 1995 figures I didn't put up the latest figures this is outpatient what were the leading disease problems in this country number one malaria number two respiratory diseases basically a problem of overcrowding before the days of somebody called Michuki John people are packed in matatus like mitumba matatu which you align you are supposed to be three people you put first of all put four people and then others are crowded in between your legs and then others are behind you and you are sitting in a matatu and somebody is standing in front of you with these bottoms in your face number three skin infections overcrowding respiratory illnesses or diarrhea intestinal worms number six accidents seven eye infections eight urinary tract infections nine rheumatic diseases like arthritis ten ear infections the inpatient pattern was not much different leading cause malaria that is heart disease hypertension and the like pneumonia abortions number six Kenyans and abortion number seven TB eight upper respiratory tract infections nine traffic accidents and ten exposure hypothermia mainly you know low temperatures especially for the alcoholics who drink and spend the night in the gutters in 2010 these are the most recent figures there was not much change this time number one respiratory infections followed by malaria pneumonia number three diarrhea number four skin diseases number five cancers have moved up to number six TB number seven HIV moved up peptic ulcer disease now a very common problem just because of your diet then number ten urinary tract infections so when you look at these diseases it is mainly infectious diseases which are the leading causes of illness in developing countries like Kenya now worldwide the leading lifestyle diseases includes the following heart disease that's coronary artery disease the technical term number two cancers three strokes for hypertension chronic heart disease number five diabetes gonja wasukari number six of all things pombe alcoholism number seven stress and suicide number eight sexually transmitted diseases especially HIV number nine the real diseases and infectious diseases of the skin and upper respiratory tract infection number ten obesity and malnutrition those are lifestyle diseases now the last bit of this presentation is having looked and seen the life the pattern of diseases in developed countries what is the solution number one we can do what the west has done that will improve us but the people with the best state of health are seventh day adventists who are health reformers studies in my presentation there is a long list of references for those who are interested you can read studies studies done on adventists who are health reforming it is amazing that this church of all churches the only church that keeps the Lord of God God favored them and gave them a special message on health but how many know about it how many practices practice it it is unfortunate but we are just following after the pattern of Israel for many years, decades, centuries God struggled with the people of Israel what didn't God tell them what truths didn't he reveal and they didn't listen and to date Israel remains a stubborn and rebellious nation they call Jesus a liar and if you become a Christian in that nation you are persecuted for it stubbornness stiffness of neck and belief rebellion has caught up with us even in the adventist church the only hope of the world the only group of people with whom God has entrusted a system of truth that is meant for the last days it pains my heart and even as we talk I wonder how many of you here don't lift your hands because it will be embarrassing now what is this adventist health lifestyle that has put them on of the general population of America Europe and the whole world it's a lifestyle called which is basically a balanced life of rebellious that as new start because of a commended Christian pattern rest and trust in God Adventist are good people believe God sometimes even the devil believes in God but he doesn't believe God my time is first of the last bell that is the last bell so I'm supposed to end okay so next time we'll go through there is the list of references and some of the studies done and in the next presentation I'll just go through a summary of this new start the lifestyle pattern that has made adventists be on top of everybody else in terms of health the number of times you become sick in a year and life expectancy may God bless us as we continue to get these truths and make a decision to cooperate with God in living healthy and being able to serve him without overburding your family your neighbors and friends with arambas for hospitals and surgeries India going to US and all over may God bless you let us pray okay let us pray loving father in heaven you have entrusted us with a body of knowledge and information for our own good but father as your people of old Israel did do we listen Lord, do we believe forgive us father for our stiffness of neck, for our stubbornness and rebellion even against you thank you Jesus for the blood father made this love and goodness changes make us different people make us believe you and follow your instructions even for our own good is my prayer in Jesus name good afternoon everyone can we stand up just for one moment just for one moment let's just stretch let's stretch and let's do this yes and get the blood say oh wow let's stretch like this alright thank you so much may we be seated happy sabbath everyone happy day what a privilege what an honor it is for us to be here and it is my rare privilege to be teaching I'm usually preaching did you hear that I'm usually preaching so today I'm teaching so I pray that God will bless us in a special way for that health lesson from the time I came here until now I've had five comments about my weight now I was saying some of you if I comment about you now you're going to be very upset with me so thank you so much please thank you about my weight I think I've heard enough thank you I really appreciate it I love your concern for my weight but I'm here to talk about stewardship amen thank you so much may God bless us this afternoon we're going to talk about stewardship amen so the first thing you are thinking is that it's going to talk about our money and I'm going to assure you I'm going to talk about your money but not now is that fair so let's look forward to me talking about your money maybe around Thursday Friday is that okay so those of you who are planning not to come when we're talking about money you can plan not to come on Thursday or Friday or Sabbath or I think it's either Thursday or Friday because a lot of times when you speak about stewardship it ends up being about your money are you with me church you'll have to forgive me I come from southern Africa so from southern Africa when the preacher speaks to you you respond are you with me so that I know that you're with me so I'm going to talk about your money on Friday I'm just saying some are saying amen I'm just hearing these mamani things they are tough but let's begin our subject today from trying to build the context in which stewardship takes place are you with me before we begin let's bow our heads as we pray Father in heaven we thank you so much for this wonderful day that you have given to us we thank you for this camp meeting and we thank you Lord for the blessing of knowing that you still call us to be faithful stewards Father we pray that now as we go through this service that you bless us in a special way in Jesus name we pray amen so I'm not known to speak for long so I'll speak as long as is necessary is that okay but I'll make sure that I keep time so I want to paint a picture and our subject or our topic for this afternoon is context turn to your neighbor and say context okay there's a statement I want to give you any text which is taken out of its context will become a con that's a nice one any text taken out of its context becomes a what a con that's a good one it's a take home if you're not going to catch anything in this camp meeting go home and tell your spouse your mother your father that mama any text taken out of context is a con that's the one thing I want you to do so imagine I what is the most famous beer in Kikenya now I know your adventist but just tell me ah kaska alright now I want you to imagine you see pastela ven in the village and he walks into a into a shop okay into a beer hall and he's holding a bottle of kaska and he's drinking are you with me what's your first judgment who wants to try your first judgment is what the pastor has fallen are you with me the pastor is drunk and this is what a typical adventist would do they would run to the church board and they would say I saw the pastor drinking kaska so the next time I stand in front of you half of you if not all of you would dismiss me and say ah this one is a drunkard because you saw me drinking what but was I drinking kaska move with the preacher now ah no I'm teaching move with the teacher was I drinking kaska so I want you to understand this that if you do not understand the circumstances surrounding pastela ven holding a bottle of kaska and drinking a liquid from it you will make a wrong judgment so what you must know is the context what are the circumstances leading to pastela ven holding a bottle of kaska and drinking it so this is a true story it happens in one of these villages Babako means Mambue a young man happens to be doing a way witnessing program or on a Sabbath and so he believes in the great commission and the great commission says so he goes there for so he gets to a village and there are some shops and this young man has been walking the young man is thirsty are you with me what's the functional word I've used he is thirsty so the young man is thirsty so he walks into a bar because that happens to be the only shop which is there so he walks into a bar and he says I need some water and the barman says my brother the only thing we have is an empty bottle of kaska he says give it to me put some water in it so he puts water in it and he walks out of the bar and he is drinking what are you with me church he is drinking what he is drinking water then the righteous Pharisees of the church they say now we have caught him but what is his concern in that moment his concern in that moment is he wants to alleviate a problem he wants to get rid of a problem and the problem is that he is thirsty now from a church perspective we are supposed to say no he was supposed to ask for a cup he was supposed to ask for him that is not his concern his concern is that he wants to drink water and the only vessel or the only container which is available for him to drink his water from is a bottle of kaska what is the context of the event the context is that he is thirsty hello now when you are teaching a church please give the preacher the latitude to be creative are you with me please don't come after and ask me so what happened to him that's not the story you see some people miss the point there are people who are going to come to me and ask me now pastor what happened to him because they are concerned about the image the point is the context are you with me church someone lied to me this church is very lively amen even after lunch presenting after lunch is a church challenge so understand the context so our lesson for this afternoon is there is nothing that happens on earth without a context let me give you another story the conference I work from or the Ismaba conference which I work for they encourage us to wear suits and ties as we go and submit to trust funds our ties and offerings so this young man one day or this young pastor goes in a pair of jeans and sneakers and a t-shirt he is bringing what in his mind I am bringing the tight so one of the senior pastor says to him stands with his hands in his pockets why are you disobeying the rules of the organization you should be wearing a necktie and a suit and the young man turns to him and says pastor you have not even asked me why I am dressed the way I am dressed context so what happened when was this they had gone to a field visit to come up or to to clear some land for a campsite you honestly can you go to a campsite in the village in the bush wearing a suit you can't so he says you know what I might as well collect the trust funds for the conference and then go and leave them since the locations are near each other let me collect the trust funds and go and leave the trust funds so this pastor when he sees him he is judging him what in what he is seeing but he is not cared to ask what is the reason that this young pastor is dressed the way he is dressed what do we call that context what is the context of stewardship hmm are you with me chisha chacha so a lot of times as preachers we come to you and we tell you return titan or offering stewardship of time stewardship of talent stewardship of all this but what is the context in which stewardship is taking place now one thing I want you to appreciate and understanding of the context enables you to make a better judgment of the situation one of the challenges I've seen as preachers and as pastors you know when you visit people as a pastor you get to know them okay I remember one day I went to visit a family which had nothing the mother and an employee but as preachers we stand in front of the church and say what return your titan or offering if you are not returning then you are not what faithful do you know that there is someone who gives not because they are faithful but because it is a religious requirement some people come to church not because they want to come to church but because they grow up being told good thing so some people come to church not because they have it in their hearts but because they were taught that it is a good word okay let's go to revelation chapter 12 revelation chapter 12 and my aim in this lesson is this to bring out the context in which stewardship is to take place now you remember our theme I will go and proclaim the words come on talk to me as you sleep I will go and proclaim the words the three angels the three angels messages and all the preachers and speakers have done so well I am personally being blessed I will go and proclaim the three angels message okay revelation chapter 12 and this is where the story becomes very interesting for me we have a very big problem in revelation chapter 12 verse 7 who knows it and war broke out where now I wish I don't know victor I wish I am the kind of preacher wants to come close but I think I am confined oh I can come close amen all the years I have come here I should have known this is this okay and even in this committee can we just interact those who know me no I am not a very formal person I want to talk to people I want to smile and I think it's because of my wife she changed me there amen there she changed me I must confess now revelation chapter 12 verse 7 what does the Bible say and there was war where okay that's where we are stopping for now let's look at let's deconstruct that sentence where is the war in heaven what word in the sentence tells you of the geololocation of the war it's heaven right but there's another word it's called the preposition good it's the word war now a preposition is a word that shows the relationship between two objects okay so when I say that the Bible is on the table so what two things are relating it is the Bible and the table what is the relationship we call it a special relationship the Bible is on now fundamentally do you see that there's something wrong with that that text listen to the adventist they're saying I'm not preaching I'm teaching you've never seen this side of me you've never I'm not preaching I'm not preaching so don't worry I'm not preaching there was and there was war where but why in heaven heaven is where God dwells why would there be war why would there be war in heaven heaven is where God's throne room is heaven is where the sanctuary is heaven is where angels sing why would there be war in heaven now if we deconstruct that passage leave my Michael and his angels if that text were just to read that there was war in heaven one of the prerequisites of war is that there have to be two sides hello number two there has to be a status quo when I say there has to be a status quo I'm saying there has to be a way that things operate follow me now follow the teacher now there has to be a way that things operate number three there has to be discontentment from one party then you have filled you have fulfilled the prerequisites of war you are not with me for there to be war in a particular geololo location one of these three things has to be fulfilled now we have a fundamental problem in that in heaven we don't expect war where do we expect war on earth but they can't be war in heaven because in heaven the government of God is a government of love how can they be war where there's love young couples I'm coming to you in the afternoon how can they be war where there's love when someone is not playing their role now I'm going to family life let me leave it I'm just giving you a four taste when someone is unhappy about their role then there's war now when you look at the two sides who are the two sides fighting Michael and his angels they are fighting against who the dragon and the dragon is who Satan are you with me now this passage according to Adventist theology and doctrine forms the broader context in which we understand all our doctrines when you speak of Adventism there are two fundamental teachings that you cannot ignore the great controversy and the sanctuary amen even prophecy is understood within the confines of the broader context of the great controversy what is the great controversy it is the fight or the conflict that is taking place between God and who Satan between the forces of good and the forces of what evil God assigns to his children who are believers they must understand it in the broader context of the great words so stewardship is meaningless if you think that is just giving money and yet you don't realize that there is a controversy now let's go to Ezekiel I'm happy that you are fighting the verses you'll hardly see this when I'm preaching I'm teaching are you with me Ezekiel 28 I thought this is very important now when you read and then we are going to go to Isaiah church chapter 14 but I want you to take note of this there are 8 descriptions that Ezekiel gives of Lucifer hello and these 8 descriptions in the book of Ezekiel are positives number 1 Ezekiel 28 and verse 14 you are the seal of what Ezekiel 28 and verse 14 is that the way it starts let me check now you are the seal of perfection number 1 you are the seal of perfection you are full of you people are sleeping can I have 8 volunteers here I don't think the audience needs to see them come 8 8 volunteers before I peak because I will peak I will definitely peak in this case I usually want youth but the youth are not the first ones okay today you are in trouble today you have to really move your camera give me for that now Ezekiel 28 from verse 12 hey you are powerful number 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ladies come come now starting from verse 12 sasanof men take up a lamentation upon the king of tyros and say unto him that said the lord god thou sealest up the sum okay full of what we wisdom you are the seal of perfection now number 1 this is number 2 full of guys come on where the young people come come come full of wisdom number 3 perfect in beauty hey perfect in beauty every pressure stone covered by every the workmanship of your pipe pipes were perfect in you you are there where is the other one 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, okay you were chichirubu covers ladies please come I'm going to be using you in Uganda I've seen your face will you be there at Ketkem meeting ya stand there who else come yes okay you were on the holy mount of and you were perfect in your ways from the day you were now we have a problem here how many descriptions which are positive have been come on to talk to me 8 8 descriptions which are suppalatives if you wish of perfection I'll use myself because I'm wearing a black suit okay if you read your bible it then says until the day that sin was found in you so when the day or when sin was found in Lucifer sin erased all of these things go and sit down one one you are who perfection down you are who full of wisdom down you are who go and sit down you are who covered all these things are being erased by what by sin yes ya just say anything go and sit ya don't worry just because now you've all been erased by what I like this church is lively I like lively church is amen all those things erased by what sin one thing now I want you to and understand this even when we speak about stewardship I want you to understand that God wants to bestow upon each and every one of us a huge responsibility that ashes in all these things but sin can totally remove them you cannot be a true steward of God if you have a sin so let's not even talk about the stewardship of money or the stewardship of resources or of time no now do you agree with me that Lucifer's position was delegated delegated authority okay did he assume it himself no so in other words when he was given that responsibility of being a covering cherubim he was to be a steward of that office do you agree with me so what is the one thing which removed him well done sin let's go to Isaiah and I want to show you something else and we will end on this passage let's go to Isaiah it should be Isaiah chapter 14 Isaiah chapter 14 we will start with verse 12 Isaiah chapter 14 could I request Victor that for my translations could I have the new King James yes could I please have the new King James that's the only translation I usually use how are those King James when you just say ah dow just know it's King James okay dow okay okay last time we had new King James where is Steve how you are fallen from or what none of them how you are to to the what you who weakened what is the one thing that makes you fall from heaven well done so the current state that we find Lucifer or the devil in is a state of being fallen is in a state of falling now when you then read Isaiah chapter 14 verses 13 to 15 he mentions himself five times okay now watch this verse 13 for you have said in your where does sin begin for you have said in your heart I will ascend into heaven number one I my throne above what okay okay something has just hit me who is the creator God okay who is the created even if he is fallen he is the created right but by falling you don't become the creator you don't the choir is with me you don't become the creator but by falling even in your fallen state you are still the created so number one he says I will ascend into heaven number two I will exalt my throne above the stars of God the angels okay I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation number three in the sides of the north verse 14 verse 14 I will ascend above the heights of the I will be like the most ones who is the most high so he says I will be like the most so what level is he putting himself at the same level as God let's go okay okay here you shall be brought down to hell now he has a question I have for you in Eden when he tempts Eve what does he say he says for God knows that in the day you eat of the fruit you shall be like you shall be like like God so what was the desire to be like God but were they not created in the image of God so what are the likeness of God did they want by that very statement the devil was introducing a terrible deception to think or to make Eve think that God was hiding something from them can I just hit you with one God gives you he says give me ten ninety is yours ninety is who's he says give me but you say no I want to know what it's like to eat the hundred okay but no no no who's is the hundred who's is the hundred so by eating hundred you are aspiring to be like God in my church we now say you didn't hear me by eating hundred you are aspiring to be like God you are claiming ownership of hundred what's yours is ninety what's God's is a hundred but he just says give me of mine ten and I'll leave you with ninety context the context of the great controversy is this now do you see the characteristics of the devil number one he operates on the premise of sin God operates on the premise of love first John 4 verse 8 God is love number two God operates on the premise of selflessness number two the devil operates on the premise of selfishness God operates on the premise of humbling himself through through Christ the devil operates on the premise of exalting himself yes something interesting the mystery of godliness it is God becoming man the mystery of sin is men aspiring to be like God and this is the fundamental problem that we have in the great controversy now I want to hey I've got eight more minutes now I want to close this session with this thought the kingdom that you choose to align yourself to determines the premise on which you operate are you with me church church so if you operate or if you align yourself to the kingdom of God then you operate on the premise of love but if you align yourself to the kingdom of the evil one then you operate on the premise of selfishness and that is the major challenge that we have in stewardship we can stand here and promote stewardship but if the seed of sin is still in our hearts it is meaningless hey you know what my father told me if you are preaching or teaching and they say amen ya you are not doing anything but if you teach and preach and you just see him then know that ya it's sinking are you are you with me church now I am hearing and this is the context of the great controversy this is the context or this is the platform from which we are going to build our stewardship for this whole week the question I want to ask you is what premise are you operating from what premise are you operating on if you are aligned to the kingdom of God there's a song we sing love is not love until you give it away now when you read John 3 I think I read it this morning John chapter 3 and verse 16 we all know it for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that also ever believed in him she should not perish but have everlasting love now the word used for love there is a word which in the simplest form principle it is selfless love that is willing to empty itself for another are you with me now if we operate from that premise of God's selfless love of God's willingness to pour Ellen White tells us that God poured out all of heaven in that one gift and Paul says to us in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form we have in that one gift who is Jesus Christ we have one gift and we have the fullness of heaven are you with me now I'm going to close with this statement the context in which the great controversy is taking place is a context of war it is not a context of peace I mean the context in which stewardship is taking place God is looking at our stewardship and is asking who's side are you on look at your time look at your talent look at your resources look at yourself do you know I fight with my boys now this is going to have a digital print let me not say but let me say it I fight with my two boys and I always ask them if you are not going to do it then who is going to do it I'll explain that further on in the week but one very simple example if you leave your shoes there who's going to do it the grace of God is not a ticket to do as we wish but it gives us access into the bounties of divinity may God bless us as we go through this week I look forward to the same energy and to the same excitement what is the context of stewardship we are at war are you with me church and we are at war forces of good against the forces of evil may God bless us this afternoon let's bow our heads as we pray Father in heaven we thank you so much for yet another privilege that you have bestowed upon us we are so grateful to you father for your love, for your grace and for your kindness we thank you Lord for your faithfulness that even when we are not faithful you are faithful Heavenly Father we pray that as we go through these lessons on stewardship that may we understand that you call us to be faithful within the confines of the great controversy where the devil is pulling on one end to ensure that the image of God is removed from us while you are attempting and trying to restore the image of God in us we pray that by the end of this week may we have a clearer understanding of what you desire of us thank you Father help us to be faithful stewards to you in Jesus name we pray amen we thank God so far for the blessings we have received for accompanying and we have now reached the time when we want to divide ourselves into groups of family life so we are going to guide on how we are going to separate ourselves just before we pray and then go to our respective areas of discussions the bible tells us that we all belong to the family of God though we each come from individual families but we are all a family of God so as we join in those places let us elevate and manifest the spirit of family of being together we have those who are going groups who are going to be in the sanctuary both down and at the balcony we have five groups who are going to be down and three groups no two groups which are going to be at the balcony and then we have others as you walked in you have seen where the tents are and I am going to guide who are going which group is going to which tent and so on I will also in the process request the coordinators of those groups to rise when I call their names now I will start from this side in front of the union offices we have two tents the rare one and the one at the front now that will be the one in the union office that excuse me let me follow it from this side the drawings I am still following a bit just excuse me please alright the one at the front will be occupied by the young adults this one in front then the rare one will be the young professionals now the front one will be with pastor Benjamin Okindo with the youth that is I mean the young adults and this group of family will be led by it will be led by brother Paul Odera and his sister Aching Oro so that your group can see you I am not seeing them right but the young adults will go into that a tent and then the rare ones the other one that will be the young professionals now the young professionals will be there with pastor JP Mayua with pastor JP with pastor JP Mayua and this group will be led by the young professionals will be led I have missed sorry it will be led by sister Winnie Gissare sister Winnie Gissare are you in the congregation pose that we can see you ok I am not able to see her that will be led by sister Winnie Gissare and the young adults by brother Paul Odera and Aching Oro then we will have this tent out on the right side this tent out here will be for groups 0 to 10 0 to 10 and that is where pastor Lavan Moyo will be with the group of 0 to 10 led by sister Dorita Abura sister Dorita Abura is there we will guide that group to that tent then we have the tent in front of the old church that one outside there which is in the parking area that group is for ambassadors the collegates they will be in that tent over there and that group will be led by sister Brenda Akedi I don't know whether sister Brenda Akedi is in she will lead and guide and coordinate that group then we shall have those who are inside the church here at the balcony will have two groups will have the groups of the family ministries who have been married 11 to 20 years they will be at the left hand side in the balcony they will be sitting at the left hand side of the balcony that is this side and there they will be with pastor Jack Ogeda the speaker who was supposed to take that group has not come but we trust that by tomorrow they will have a speaker but for today this afternoon the pastor Jack Ogeda will be with them then on the other side the right hand side of the balcony we shall have the widows and the widowers the widows and the widowers this group sorry this group of 11 to 20 will be led by brother Jerry Siage brother Jerry Siage yes there he is at the decon desk so he will be leading that group we will be sitting and discussing at the balcony the other one which is widows and widowers will be with our speaker professor Miriam Muita and the coordinator will be sister Beatrice Uyugi sister Beatrice Uyugi in the congregation there she is she will be leading that team and then down under the balcony here we shall have married group those who have been married for 31 years and over in the family they will be sitting right under the balcony on this side at the far end there and then this side the side of where the choir is seated will have the singles they will have the singles sorry the married 31 plus will be with pastor Dr. Ghanu with pastor Dr. Ghanu and that will be led by elder and Mrs. Ocholla who is myself and then we have the singles seated next to the elders desk that will be led by they will be led by sister Dorothy Muga I wonder whether Dorothy Muga is in the congregation please you can rise so that we can see you sister Dorothy Muga there she is right at the far end there she will be leading the singles group who will be sitting right next to the elders desk and in front here just next to the youth desk here in front we will be having the married group 21 21 to 30 years will be sitting right in front here and they will be led by brother George Ocholla sister and brother George Ocholla may I find whether they are in the congregation please thank you so much sister Ocholla is there she will be guiding and leading that group which will be sitting right next to the youth desk and the speaker there will be sister Jerosha Muga will be leading that class the singles I did mentioned is sister Jacinta Were who will be with them so these are the nine groups of the family life the family ministry division that are going to separate themselves and the quest keep time we start in time, keep time and when the bell rings please wind up and then we shall all come and rejoin again in the church may God bless each one of us as we participate and receive God's blessings in the camp meeting may I request that we now rise as we pray heavenly father we thank you for this camp meeting we thank you for the schedule programs Lord we know that you knew this would come and it has come we want pray Lord that you feel us with your spirit that even as we continue with all the programs of this camp meeting Lord the blessings you have in store for us let each one of us receive according to your riches in glory also father we want pray that as the families separate and go to discuss matters that pertains to the growth and development of our healthy relationships amongst our family members we pray Lord that may the Holy Spirit guide the discussions guide the messages that will be shared and above all that we may increase our relationship with you thank you heavenly father for hearing our prayers and answering according to your will we have prayed in Jesus name God bless you