 Everywhere, at home, at school, at play. Being an adventure means that we are called to be honest, kind and true, to always be like Jesus through and through. This World Adventure Day, on May 21st, 2022, we are calling all adventurers to shine for Jesus. We are calling you adventurers to be little lights and show others how wonderful our God is and how much He loves us. Go and light up the world, little lights. We can't wait to see you shine on World Adventure Day. Elena, why are we in our Adventurers uniform today? It is a World Adventurers Day. Yes, for the very first time, our church is holding the World Adventurers Day. Adventurers, aren't we excited? Yes! Just for you, but before we start, maybe the Adventurers family would love to send a special greeting to yours. So what are you waiting for? It's time to say hello. Happy Sabbath, happy day. It's another time that we welcome you, less on discussion. We currently run two modes of less on discussion. For those who are in the church, we are having an in-person interaction. And then for those outside the church, we are having a virtual discussion. This is a time where we come and answer questions on what we have learned throughout the week and what we need to learn and find out what the Word of the Lord has for us. As we read the lesson, we ask ourselves what does the Bible say and what is important in what is being said and how can I apply it in my life. So we also encourage teachers, please inform our members that the two platforms are currently on and for those who may not have joined so that they join together and we walk in the light as we learn what God has for us. This week's lesson is lesson number eight, and the title is The Promise. We have been looking at one of our fathers of faith, Abraham, when God called him at the age of 75. And today we will go and see how his life ends at 175 years, having worked with the Lord for 100 years. We will be having a good learning and then apply all that we learn in our lives as we journey on in our Christian faith. So for the teachers, I would just ask you to please rise up so that we pray as we enter into the session. The session will end at 9.25. You will be signaled. So when you hear the signal, please wind up so that we transition into the next session. Okay, let us believe and pray. Lord God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for thy guidance and having brought us this morning. As we go into our lesson discussion, Lord, give us a listening ear and ability to understand what we're being taught and also our heart to receive what we learn and apply it in our lives at your aid for the second coming. For those who are still on the way, Lord, hasten their steps so that they come and we fellowship together. We ask believing and trusting. In that holy name of Christ, God, Lord, we believe and pray. Amen. Good morning and happy Sabbath. Welcome to this Sabbath as we celebrate World Adventurous Day. Today with me, forming this panel, are teachers of Adventurous Club. Welcome to the study hour. This is the Sabbath School. Before this quarter, we have been looking at the life of the patriarch Abraham from the book of Genesis. And for today, we proceed and we'll be looking at his life until the end where he is dead. Abraham faces a lot of tests in his life and in his work with God. But it is interesting how he responds with great faith. So there's great test in his life, meeting great faith in his life. As I introduce members of this panel today, I have a test for them as well. And I will give them a hint so you say your name and then decide if you will get the answer to the test. The test, this is the hint. The test, it is a word. The word is revolving around the life of Abraham, but it is not found in the book of Genesis at all. Here's the hint. Abraham had it with God. Isaac, the son of Abraham, had it with Abraham. Abraham had it with his servant Eliazah and his servant Eliazah had it with God. Introduce yourself and tell us. What might it be? Good morning and happy Sabbath. My name is Teacher Nellie and it's a blessing to be here. I think the word is trust. We will see. Good morning and happy Sabbath. My name is Robert Kipulimo. I'm in the Helping Hands. And the word is swear. Thank you so much for trying. I think I will give the answer. The word is trust, which means having full confidence in someone or something. Today's study, our key text is from the book of Genesis chapter 24 verse 1. I will read in your hearing from the book of Genesis chapter 24 verse 1, New King James Version. It says, now Abraham was old, well advanced in age, and had blessed Abraham in all things, not some things, in all things. Let us take a prayer then we begin or we go deep into our study. We are praying. Our Father and our God in heaven, for the privilege to share your word, we say thank you. We ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to come down and help us understand the deeper meaning of your word. Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In Genesis 12, God tells him to leave his native land to go to a place that God will show him. In Genesis 22, God tells him now to go take his son and go somewhere to a mountain that God is going to show him. It is interesting how in both instances he responds with great faith. And as we are going to study from chapter 22, the story surrounding Mount Moriah, which is a foreshadow of our plan of salvation. And to bring in Elder, as we think about the events of Mount Moriah, everything that took place, is there a significance of all these events to us? Thank you very much to just you. I just want to say, Abram is cold and tall. Get out of this place, go to a place that I am going to show you that you may sacrifice your son. And Abram leaves. He reaches a point three days, tells his servants, I want you to wait here. Me and the Lord we want to go up the mountain and we will come back to you. And they start off and they are going him and the Lord. As they are proceeding, the Lord asks, Dad, we have the fire, we have the wood. But where is the lamb? Verse 8 of that chapter, Abram says, God will provide. And for sure, when Abram has laid the son on the altar after he is prepared and is ready to remove his word, he removes it and ready to slay the son. God shouts and says, Abram, Abram, don't touch the child. And when Abram raises his eye, he sees Abram held by the ticket. And what I would say is that Abram will sacrifice instead of Isa. And this is significant to us because this lamb, this lamb, represent Christ who took our position. He died for us. And we have a position in Christ in God because of him. That is what I would say. Thank you, thank you so much for helping us understand. Chapter 22 of Genesis begins by the following words. Sometime later, God tested Abram. Abram already has confirmed his faith in God, his trust in God. But why is God subjecting Abram to test? The Bible says so nearly. Is it true that God test us? Why? And are there some people that God has tested other than Abram? Thank you, teacher Steve. The book of James chapter 1 verse 2 and 3 says, my brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. And so the answer is yes. God tests his people and allows his people to be tested because he would like to see where our faith lies. And we are told that apart from Abram, there are other individuals in the Bible who went through tests, trials and temptations. I'm going to list just four of them to help us understand how God came through for them. We shall start with Job. The book of Job. Job is a man who God describes as one who feared God and eschewed evil. And Job went through a lot in his life. But one thing stands. In the book of Job chapter 13 verse 15, Job says, though he slay me, yet we lie trust in him. And God came through for Job at the end of it all. We then have Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the land of Babylon. They were asked by King Nebuchadnezzar to bow to the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. But the three Hebrew brothers in the book of Daniel chapter 2 verse 16 to 18 tell the king, oh king, we are not careful to answer you in this matter. If the God who we serve is able to save us, but if he doesn't save us, let it be known to you, oh king, that we shall not bow down to this image nor worship it. Then we have Daniel, still the book of Daniel, a man who is known to be prayerful. And in chapter 6, during the reign of King Darius, a decree was passed that for 30 days no man was to worship any man apart from King Darius. And in chapter 6 verse 10, we are told that when Daniel got to know about this decree, he went on his knee and prayed three times a day as his custom was. Finally, we have the greatest example ever given to man, that of Jesus Christ, who was tempted of the devil. The book of Matthew chapter 4 from verse 1 to 11, after his baptism, he was led by the spirit to the wilderness where he fasted for 40 days after which the devil came with his temptation. But at the end of its whole, Jesus did not fall. So what do we learn from all this? The book of Isaiah chapter 43 verse 2 says, when you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. Through the fire, you shall not be banned, nor shall the flame scorch you. Also some chapter 23 verse 4, yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. So the assurance here is that though we pass through trials, temptations and tests, God is always with us. Finally, Patrick's and Prophet page 290 paragraph 3. The path where God leads the way may be through the desert or the sea, but it is a safe path. Thank you. Thank you so much. Though you pass through the fire, it means that you will pass through the fire. But you will not be banned. Though you go through all this, meaning you will go through all those temptations, but you will not fail because God will be with you in them. Oh, so he is testing us to strengthen our faith, develop our character and so that we can just depend and rely on him. Our word today is trust so that we can trust in him. The book of Philippians chapter 4 verse 19 says, but my God shall supply all your needs according to his reaches in glory by Christ Jesus. Abraham and his son they have just left the servants and the donkey behind and they are proceeding towards Mount Moriah. And then the Lord asked the Father, Father, we have everything necessary for the burnt offering. But one thing we don't have. We don't have a lamp for the offering. Then Abraham tells his son that God will provide himself the lamp for the offering. Elder this statement God will provide himself the lamp. What is the meaning of this statement? God will provide himself the lamp. Did he provide? And today does he provide for us practical ways today? Thank you. Indeed when the Lord asked his Father we have the fire we have the wood that weighs the lamp. The Father Abraham responded God will provide for himself the sacrifice. If you look at it in a different way it is talking of God himself will provide himself. You will be there as a sacrifice. And this takes us to what I would want to talk about substitutional sacrifice. Christ let me define substitutional atonement. What is the substitute? The substitute is simply someone who takes the place of another and in this case Jesus Christ himself takes the place what is atonement? Atonement means paying the penalty for our own committed and in this case insulation or healing why is this being paid for? Because it is something that has been broken there is a penalty and that takes us back to the book of Romans 6 verse 23 for all have seen the wages of seen is death basically that is what I was saying and the gift of God is Jesus Christ our savior so this scene had to be paid for and Jesus Christ took that position and Jesus died as our substitute the place of Isaac was taken by the Ram our place because we have all fallen short of the glory of God was taken by Christ himself his righteousness is imputed to us we accept him so God has in the past provided for his people and I would want to give some examples when the children of Israel are at the Red Sea they have been able to come out of the land of bondage it had to be prophesied after more than 400 years they have come out and they are at the Red Sea on the left hand side are mountains on the right hand mountain at the back are the Egyptians following them in front is the Red Sea there is no other way and God provided a way when they are in the wilderness after crossing over to the other side there is no water there is no food there is no shelter God provided manna and water in the wilderness the children of Israel after staying in bondage for about 70 years in Babylon God impresses Nehemiah Nehemiah goes back to the king and tells him I want to go back and rebuild the temple there is no the people around them were so wild but Nehemiah decides to go and God provided in fact even the people in the land allowed them to use the machineries and God was able to protect them they were able to build the walls of the city in 52 days God provided there are many ways that God provides for us one of them is can actually provide us how? take the example of Elijah after the Mount Camel experience God provided food for him in the book of Psalms 34 verse 7 the angel of the Lord accompanied around those who trust him God can provide through angels and when you read the book of Matthew 25 verse 40 say if you do this small thing to this one you've actually done it to me that is Christ telling so we can actually be able to take care of others in that case and the last one but not the least is Philippians 4 verse 6 to 7 where God says he'll provide us peace that surpasses all understanding the ultimate gift the ultimate provision that God made was the sign Jesus Christ and gave us free salvation we don't pay anything we are saved by faith thank you thank you so much that while we were still seen as he died for Nabiath Christ provided salvation to us that through him all of us all can be saved in his kingdom in a minute how do you think Abraham felt when he was taking this journey with his own how do you think he was feeling as a father to only one son to offer a child that is begotten he loved him he is only one in just a minute do you think it was a journey indeed it was a hard experience for Abraham you know it does not know how the lad will be ever and himself having the only one and God has said through this one you are going to have a blessing you will come through this one and he is now dying and he is the one who is going to die it was not an easy one and God basically wanted to teach him something which we can also learn of it that God wanted to impress Abraham's mind with the quality of the gospel as well as to test his faith that God commanded him to slay his son the agony which he endured during the dark days of that fearful trial was permitted that he may understand he might understand from his own experience something of the greatness of the sacrifice made by the infinite God for the redemption of man he wanted him to learn himself that it was not for God to give his son to die for us on the cross thank you so much elder he used a human being to undergo that experience so that we can easily relate in a minute do you think it was just easy for the father to walk up the mountain and offer his son no it wasn't easy as elder has said Isaac was the only son of Abraham and he got Isaac of the age I mean Isaac was born when Abraham was 100 years old and so it was not easy but I like the response that Abraham gives his son my son God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering I mean this statement cannot come out of the mouth of someone who did not have an experience with God this response confirms to us that Abraham had a close relationship with God in fact he was right in the middle of God's will he had seen God providing in the past he was confident and sure that God was going to provide a very interesting quote we all know of that we have nothing to fear for the future except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us and his teaching in our past history so yes God provided thank you so much we are all members of a given family here at judge we belong to a family of faith we have biological families where we all come from we try to say that change is inevitable changes take place in our families nearly every day children grow up they marry members of the family increase and that is development the sad side can lose our parents our children our spouses this is in the life of Abraham Sarah the wife of Abraham dies chapter 23 of the book of Genesis talks about the death of Sarah it's interesting how the chapter does not talk much about the death but talks about the burial place you know I was reading this with an African mind we really give value to burial place called them beating send off we must attend the burial of the people we love is in an argument with the sons of heath these people offer him a free land where he can bury his dead but Abraham allow me to read what Abraham answers in verse 6 this is chapter 23 Genesis verse 6 these are the words of the sons of heath hear us my lord you are a mighty prince among us bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places none of us will withdraw from you his burial place that you may bury your dead offer to him freely but the argument continues and continues long it continues because Abraham wants to pay elder why do you think Abraham does not want a gift for a burial place to choose the best that he wants barisara who is now dead why does he insist on paying is there anything Abraham is foreseeing thank you thank you teacher steve indeed having worked with god Abraham for sure knew that the land that he was standing in was going to be given to them okay he knew very well that this land was a farm that he was going to give to him and because he loved his wife so much he did not want something for free something that somebody can come and say no i am going to take it back claim it and take it yes i give it for free i am going to take it back so Abraham did not want to take any chance and that is why he said i will pay for it and in fact if you look at it kindly the sons of earth are giving also exorbitant and they believe that Abraham could not even pay you see what is it between me and you whatever i am saying what is it and Abraham gave him and he was just shocked that Abraham gave him because Abraham wanted a particular place that would be called for it is his property and in fact he is written it was deed he got the title deed for the land he didn't want something that anybody could come and claim it later on and on the other side Abraham having been given the promise that this is going to be your land knew for sure that even his children descendants would come and inherit the place and that is why he was ready to get it by all means and pay the full price because he knew many many years his descendants were going to own the land the canonize would be driven away and that is why he was that keen he actually paid 400 shekels of silver thank you so much Abraham is talking with these people at the surface level these people see at the surface level but him he sees into the future because this land is promised to him he is actually buying a land that belongs to him a promise by God a descendant of Abraham dies in Egypt and he has the faith of his great father he says don't leave my bones behind carry my bones because surely the Lord will visit you and when he does take my bones with you who is this? this is Joseph he requested that his bones be carried away from Egypt into the promised land and when the Lord finally visited him visited his brethren because he is dead now they carry his bones to the promised land a lot of faith in the family of Abraham because Joseph is a descendant we have looked at changes taking place in the family Sarah is dead burial places both in this buried another change takes place in the family Isaac and Abraham both are grown up Isaac is now a man they don't have a female figure in the family Sarah is dead Isaac is not married yet but he is of age Abraham instead of approaching the son that my son who has now come of age when is the wedding he approaches Eliazah the chief of the servants and tells Eliazah instructs him where to go and get a wife for his son Isaac Henel how does the story flow just a brief story how does it flow from swear by myself up to the time okay so in ancient times we are told that marriage engagements were generally made by the parents and this was custom among those who worshipped God and please note not only parents but experienced and God fearing parents so around this time Abraham was of age and we are told that he requested Eliazah to perform this task for him now Eliazah was Abraham's eldest but he was not just the eldest servant he was a man of priority experience and of sound mind and so Abraham chose the best to go look for a wife for his son and Eliazah sets off for the journey but before that he prays and he is very specific with his prayer he asks God that the lady who will give me water but also water the 10 carmel will be the one and did you know I don't know did you know that a thirsty carmel consumes up to 32 gallons of water now 32 gallons equals to 4 liters of water in approximately 13 minutes so Rebekah did quite an amount of work and living with Abraham Eliazah was accustomed to kindness and hospitality and so he asked God to use that which he was used to in showing him exactly who they made and was and kindness was shown to Eliazah just to confirm that God had indeed answered his prayer so here we learn that just like Eliazah we should be specific with our requests I call this shameless audacity or shameless audacity where you spell it out to God just as it is be specific with your requests like we approach the throne of God boldly boldly as you are if you in need of shoes pray dear God please give me shoes don't cover it up and say oh God you know what I need please provide all my needs please God give me shoes and we are told in the book prayer page 95 paragraph 1 that no man is safe for a day or an hour without prayer and so prayer is an important aspect in the life of a Christian and our prayers are not to inform God of something he does not know I mean God is all knowing he already knows our needs but prayer has a way of connecting us with God and so prayer is important in the life of a Christian thank you so much shameless audacity please God with your challenge now Elda if I will first forward to my generation today probably it might be different from what you did a young man would walk in with a fiance and introduces her for the parents the parents are seeing her for the first time this is the exact opposite of what happens in the story of Abraham and Isaac I'm reminded that in the beginning what I got created he created me created meaning Adam and there was not found a suitable helper and so this thought begins God the proceeded ahead and made a helper for Adam the thought originates with the father as well Abraham because the son is of age today Elda you being a parent allow me ask have you failed as parents why does it begin with you instead what we hear is that still when is the wedding when is the wedding and he Isaac responds with obedience because the lady presented to her he accepts I don't know whether we will not accept today I don't know why it has changed why you wanted the process to begin with us ok thank you before I answer the question I just want to look back at what Abraham did as you said the thought started with God in Genesis I think in Genesis 22 God so man did not have a helper and that is why he created Eve for him Abraham was very cautious of what God had said he had promised him a descendant a big descendant and that was very critical on who was going to be chosen and he did not take any chance he tells his servant go back to my people if by any chance the lady that you get is not willing to come then you are set off from the vow and Eliezer asked after he is introduced after he is done the introduction he was very clear he was very clear in the way he spoke to the family of Bethlehem Laban and then the family even before he had I have to say what has brought me here before it I have to finish the business and he explains it clearly and the lady after getting it you know the parents Laban and Bethlehem they say we are ready to give you because this is God who has spoken this is God who has spoken to us through you we are ready to give her but let us call her let us call Rebekah and ask her because he is of age and Rebekah when she is asked he says I am ready to go yes I do yes I am ready to go and what I would want to say is that basically I think we this was the best model the model that we have where the young goes on their own may not be so good but basically there is freedom for us you are free to do but parental guidance parental guidance is very necessary why marriage is a very solemn institution it is the only institution two of them that man came out with it from the Garden of Eden the second one is the Saba very only so this institution is very critical so if you don't do it the right way you will end up messing yourself the second point is it has to be entered with prayerfully if you are praying once pray four times why? because what you are going into is not just something simple but it is something that is going to take you either to hell or to heaven prayer prayers and remember this is not even his wife he is a place pray for us as well yes so the parents have to pray and the concern also I have to pray to get the right person because it is very important and then the other thing is the Bible tells us we should not be an equal yoke Abraham is very specific you see don't take my son back there even if the lady does not come this side don't take my son there and even if the lady does not come you are set free yeah so it was very particular to get into my house my family because he knew his family despite the fact that they were idolaters but they were some quality they feared God but they didn't know about God they were idolaters but they didn't know but given the fact that how do I put it Sarai who had lived with Abraham you know she was a faithful wife and I believe Abraham felt that getting from his own people was much better and that is why as young people we call you to look into within the body of Christ don't go outside because if you go outside outside they are what? dogs as it is stipulated in the book of Revelation thank you so much Helder but now to just understand what happened between these two generations when did it stop? it began with the father today it begins with the youth when did it stop? is it practical today for you to walk home with a young lady and tell your son she is here I think with changing times we could see it in as I've said we have the free will we have the the opportunity to choose the way God has given us the opportunity it gives us either we choose him or we choose the other side and now that we have that freedom we as the youth as the youth you have the freedom to go out and make a choice before you are finalised you have to make a consultation with your parents and that is why we have what we refer to as engagement to come and know one another and I believe when in the olden days you are going to your people they went to their people because they knew them but you see we have gone so when we come for the engagement that is the point we are now the parents would want to scrutinise and check is this person okay and most of the time sometimes the youth are told this is not the right direction you've made it but it's not the right direction but they would not want to listen to and after the wedding 2 days 3 or 4 they are coming back to the parents saying we are not compatible while when they were being told you are not ready to accept and that is where I think we have that problem and this generation which says we can actually google it google it we don't have to tell us we go to the internet and check what we need and that is where we have a problem they are not ready to listen I live with that point dear youth you have the free will to choose but parental guidance is necessary please seek the guidance of parents then pray then all will be well and I said godly parents because even those are not godly parents they become parents as well so seek the cancel of godly parents and pray it will be okay in a yes and no answer that shows up and tells you yes the man will you say yes I do or do you want your choice in a yes or if you want a yes or no defend your answer in a minute no we proceed we are looking at changes that take place in the family we are looking at the life of Abraham and every development around his wife is dead son is married now Abraham himself is getting another wife allow me to read the book of Genesis chapter 20 5 I will read the book of Genesis chapter 25 5 I read verse 1 25 verse 1 says Abraham had taken another wife whose name was Ketura another meaning there was some before and after taking another wife there is a way Abraham treats the sons of the children born to him through Ketura versus Isaac born to him through Sarah is treated verse 5 says Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac elder why is Abraham having two families okay first Abraham has taken another wife is remarrying okay is it okay then why is he treating these families in different ways thank you I would say the Bible allows us to marry it allows us to remarry I would want to say when Abraham is getting old he is getting old he becomes alone Isaac has gone with his wife his wife has already died and he is old and he needed some comfort and that is why he picks Ketura to be his wife but when it came to the promise it was very clear the promise was to his son Isaac and that is why before he died he ensured that he sent away the other children Abraham gave them gifts he sent them away to the east side why because he did not want to gamble with the future because God had said it was very particular your descendant would be blessed through Isaac so it had to be followed that way even though the story of the other children of Abraham that is it was very clear to Abraham that he was going to have his descendant through Isaac his offspring was going to be blessed through actually Isaac and he did not want to gamble he did not want to gamble with it and that is why he did not want to take any chance he gives the sons of Ketura an opportunity to go aside and then Isaac is left in the land so that the promise is fulfilled through Isaac and basically yeah but he blessed the sons of the children of that is they are blessed the sons as well Ishmael becomes the father of many nations he blessed him also actually Treluf as well as Isaac as Isaac nearly there are events now surrounding the last stages of the life of Abraham what can you say about these last last events surrounding the life of the patriarch Abraham thank you Shastri so Abraham like elder has said was lonely especially after his wife Sarah died and Isaac marries Rebekah and being in his last days he wanted also to be happy that's why he marries Ketura for company too Mabel tells us in the book of Psalm chapter 127 verse 3 behold children are a heritage from the Lord the fruit of the womb is a reward and verse 5 happy is the man whose quiver is full of them they shall not be ashamed so Abraham was a blessed man because he had many children and he did not treat any of his children in a good way he was kind to his children he loved his wives as well as his children but there was a difference their presence in Isaac's life would interfere with the promise God had made for him we not hear that the promise was specific only for Isaac not for the other sons of Abraham and so Abraham made sure that before he died he put his house in order he wanted to take chances and allow the sons, the many sons to decide who the son of the promise was no Abraham wanted to be accountable in his lifetime to ensure that everything was in order before he died so what we learned here is that while we are still alive and God has given us an opportunity to serve him and also serve those around us we should be careful to take care of his business and we should give God our best thank you so much we should give God our best to Elder time has allowed us to answer a question here Abraham says to the servants earlier in this story because we have followed Abraham now to almost the end but Abraham now at the beginning of actually this study he tells the servants that he men here and the dunk is left then takes the wood on the boy and they proceed we meaning I, Abraham and the boy will come back to you God told him take your son your only son and offer him he is aware he is going to kill him why is he saying we meaning him and the boy will come back to you are you saying anything from the servants because you know he is going to kill the boy or is he hiding it from the boy let the boy run away why is he saying stay here we will come back and he is going to kill the boy over there thank you so much I think Abraham having worked with God all his life with the challenges that he had gone through many of them have seen God and he knew very well that whatever God would say he would be able to fulfill in fact if you read the book over I think I will read that book very fast Hebrews Hebrews 11 verse 17 when he is giving his son he knew very well that God had the power to even resurrect bring him back to life 11 verse 11 verse 17 let me read it very fast 11 verse 17 says by faith Abraham when he was tested offered up Isaac and he who had received the promise offered up is only bigorensan of whom it was said in Isaac your seed shall be called concluding that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from which he also received him in a decorative sense and before you say a word does it mean he trusted that the boy is going to die but God has power over death so the boy will be brought back to life sure because he had worked with him for those many years 25 years he waited for the promise and when he comes in chapter 18 God tells him next year the same time as this you will get us when Sarah loves Genesis 18 verse 14 God says is anything too hard for the Lord it's nothing God came through after that he came next year and for sure Sarah had a child and Abraham knew that from the bottom of his heart that even if I give him out and that is why when he is drawing his sword it was not like I'm trying it was not a reaction it was action and actually God was able to save him in a minute talk to our audience I'm arising the lesson in a minute today from the story of Abraham we appreciate the fact that God kept his promises and he fulfilled all that he had promised Abraham the book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 11 says he has made everything beautiful in its time however long God's promises take to be fulfilled in our lives at God's own appointed time he surely fulfills them another lesson we learn is that God is interested in our salvation he is also interested in the person we marry or we get married to thank you a minute thank you God offered his son Jesus Christ who died on our behalf we who did not have hope at all God has given us hope that if we believe in Christ Jesus our only hope then we are going to be saved I want to say to us that the salvation is free and God is calling upon you you give your life to God because you're already paid and penalty and you are just to receive him because the book of Ephesians 3 verse 8 to 10 says we are saved by fear it's not over work but we are given freely so that no one can boast that I have done it but we are given freely to us secondly let's do God's work when we still have life thank you thank you so much as we finish we have been looking at the promise dear viewer dear audience grass may wither flowers may wither but the word of God and his promises are very sure hold on to them the most important decision you can ever make is to follow Jesus Christ as your savior but the second most important decision you can ever make the choice of whom you marry God is invested in your salvation as well as whom you marry as we come to the end we invite you to join us in our next Sabbath school of the next coming week God keeps us alive allow me to leave you by the following words that the angels never die that same angel that rescued this young man from being offered up and led a year to find a good and better wife for him that same angel is alive today and will help you and marry you the best for you who will lead you in this journey let us pray our Father and our God in heaven for the opportunity to share your word from the leading of the Holy Spirit we say thank you bless our audiences who have been sending to us bless this panel bless the communication team that has made this possible that we can reach the audience wherever they are keep us safe in the time when you offer us opportunity to share your word we pray in Jesus name thank you man for with us today Jasmine Quay Herao Eke Manolo Dore Felix Junior our first song is going to be I surrender all song number 309 for us the two of us to get more flowers that's amazing right? iridescent you're wondering iridescent is caused by multiple reflections of light on surfaces light bounces off a hummingbird like soap bubbles resulting differences as you look at them from different angles in other words the beautiful color that you see on the hummingbird is just the feathers reflecting the light of the sun amazing right? sounds do we learn from the hummingbird you see has given it a job to do when it is not flying it looks like it looks like a fragile and awkward bird it does not even look like it can fly but oh lot of power into this bird with you it doesn't matter if you feel too young too small or too unimportant to make a difference in your world just like little David or little Samuel the young maid or young Jeremiah God has packed you with a lot of power and skill coming from his Holy Spirit into you just like the hummingbird looks for blooming flowers you too can look for other people who need God's love and shine the light of Jesus in their lives the other important lesson we learn from the hummingbird is that its beauty comes from reflecting the light of the sun in John chapter 14 verse 8 Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father Jesus answered in verse 9 that he who has seen me has seen the Father do you know why Jesus said this it is because he reflected God's character in everything he did here on earth just like the hummingbird reflects the sun Jesus reflected who God is you adventurer you church who do you reflect we are all called to reflect Jesus our light the son of justice we are all called to shine as little lights which have the light of Jesus and shine the light of Jesus in their lives and just like the hummingbird we can walk through God's word filling it with light, color, joy and wonder God has given us everything here on earth to spread the joy of his love all around us lit lights will you go this is the adventurer telling you to go out and make a difference amen good morning church happy Sabbath God is good and all the time we want to thank you we want to thank you all for coming to worship the Lord this morning and the choristers for the wonderful music presentation I'm standing before you to read out the announcements for the week I ask that you all be attentive to what has been prepared for each one of us just before we begin let's just have a word of prayer let's pray Heavenly Father I want to thank you yet again that you have given us time to be able to come to your house of worship as we look into what you have prepared for us I want to ask Lord for your presence to be with us even as we worship through this day Lord be with each one of us for a prayer this in Jesus name amen announcement number one is on camp meeting our camp meeting for this year is scheduled to take place from the 2nd to the 9th of July the guest speaker will be Pastor Jean Donaldson coming to us from Algeny East's conference Colombia we'll also have the guest choir that will grace the occasion and they'll be coming to us from Uganda the budget that has been set for the camp meeting camp meeting expense is Kenya Shilling's $2.5 million and for the camp meeting offering Kenya Shilling's $3 million we are appealing to each one of us to give towards reaching these goals announcement number two the women ministry department is appealing to all the women to continue giving their contribution monthly contribution of 200 shillings towards their kitty so that they can continue planning their programs for this year announcement number three is on baptismal and post baptismal classes these classes are ongoing and they are the classes go on every Sabbath morning from 8am to 9am and those willing or desiring to join these classes are asked to get in touch with the leaders evangelism the evangelism is planning to revive their outreach evangelism programs and the church board is appealing to church members to contribute towards these funds so that the programs can be initiated as planned in that department the lost and found items for those of us who have lost or misplaced their items you are kindly requested to see the deacons or go to their deacons office and from there you will be guided accordingly on how you can be able to get your items that are misplaced bereavement the death as a card of Ronald Oboigua on Tomoa on 11th May 2022 in Nairobi he was husband to Mevin Barare and father to Hulda Yaboke teens class Albright Mora who is in junior class Shifra Wamboka Crédorol B and brilliant Kemunto in Crédorol A there will be a fund raising on Tuesday 24th May 2022 this will be held at the old sanctuary starting from 5pm to assist in defraying the hospital bills funeral service will take place here in church on Wednesday 25th of May 2022 from 10am and the burial will take place on the 27th of May 2022 at his home in Nyatu Rago village Kabasui sublocation Kisi County we are also sad to announce the death of Mama Beatrice Akini Were which occurred on the 10th of May 2022 in Kenyatta National Hospital she was the loving mother to sister Beldin, Lucy, Robin and William she was mother in law to brother Joseph Ngumo and brother Were who is one of our deacons in this church she was grandmother to Navin, Amzi, Ayanna and Levy the burial will take place on the 27th of May 2022 at her home in Konyango village Kindube district home of county let us all remember these families in prayer and visitation the church conveys its heartfelt condolences to the friends and relatives of the bereaved families May God bless you all as we continue to worship him on this wonderful day, God bless you the position called out of darkness into his wonderful light we have been called to be his leader that you are the king of flag bearers attention forward and helping out attention forward sunbeam and bcp attention forward alibards lambs power torchlighters congregation we request you to be upstanding for the national anthem adventurers salute national anthem adventurers salute a why song adventurers salute adventurers song adventurers song we like Jesus through and through adventurers salute the new adventurers song the beauty around in our friend Jesus Christ adventurers pledge salute adventurers low let us let us remain standing for the doxology our gracious Father who art in heaven it's another beautiful sabbath you've given us that we may be done before you in worship Lord we thank you for the program which you've made it possible for our children to participate and to bless us through this worship today Lord you're in charge of everything because you created everything and you hold everything together and that is why today we've come to glorify your name we've come to thank you because you're our Father you are also our Father this morning we pray that you may be in charge of all the programs may we go from here at the end of the day blessed and more closer to you than we came in Jesus name we pray can be seated thank you so much I want to welcome you to Nairobi Central SDA charge whether you're here physically in person or you're joining us virtually wherever you are in all the four corners of the world you're welcome some of us could be out there in our offices you could be in your living room you could be traveling on the way you could be in any part of the world either in the US Africa, Europe, Asia or the islands or wherever we welcome you to Nairobi Central Church here at the heart of Nairobi City my name is Elder Ezra Mayo I'm one of the elders of this church I also want to welcome those who are viewing us on KBC because we want to thank God for us because KBC has been with us and they've been airing our charge services live within the country we are also live on Nairobi Central SDA charge YouTube and also on KBC Central SDA charge Facebook platforms so welcome and may God bless you I also want to introduce those who are going to participate today in our charge programs the children you've seen upfront are our adventurers today we are celebrating their adventurers world adventurers day so wherever we are on the planet the adventurers are really leading us and participating in the charge worldwide so Nairobi Central charge is one of the charges we also have on the KBC side on the sign language we have sister Joyce Kwamboka I believe those who are on KBC can see her on the sign language in the corner but here in charge we have sister Joann Kwamboka who is right there today and she'll be assisted by sister Zawadi and sister Nancy on the praise of the music team we have Hera Oyeke Emmanuella Gwinsodwar Jasmin Odira Junior Felix will also be with us in the music team and the praise junction we have Magin, Brenda and Diana the temperate as you see at the corner are our brothers Oliver and Darius right? yeah thank you on the piano the pianist today is Kasmuel Aure may god bless you and the elder in charge is elder George Anyango but if you have any issue you want to bring to our attention we are there to assist so right after this we'll have a prayer by elder Arastas Amayo we'll also have the children someone and the program will continue so I want to welcome you may god bless you as you join us to participate in our worship and god will bless you in a big way thank you so much may god bless you happy Sabbath it's now time for us to pray and add you as much as it is possible to kneel down as we worship the lord our kind of loving father we thank you one for just being here for being alive because being alive is is a miracle you have been able to keep us through the week until you brought us back again and it's only through your grace that we are here and we pray that you will be able to forgive us our sins forgive us our trespasses and so that you can be able to come before you so that you can put our subjugations upon your throne of mercy we are falling short of your glory but through your son who died for us we can confidently come to you lord we thank you for the great things that you've done for us and miracles that you do every day the invisible and the invisible things that you do and also we thank you for bringing us together to worship you and glorify your name lord we have had several things in our lives which sometimes we feel are falling short there are people who are unwell we pray that you'll be able to pass by and touch them it's just a touch from your hands that we all require to be healed we have seen the economic hardship that is facing everybody and we see prizes going up and up sometimes we feel you are hopeless helpless but you know you can still be with us we want to pray for the situation in the country at this moment as you go through the electionary period we pray that there'll be peace and may you give us the ability to discern and be able to know who are the right leaders and we pray that you'll be able to give us right leaders we pray for the country we pray for rain there are areas in the country where there's no food people are starving but you know if you pray for that you'll be able to provide for us we pray for the church as we move on that you keep us united as we go on and keep the programs that we have in a way to move us in the right direction Lord we want to put our pastors going to give the salmon today that you put in their hands so that everything that is going to say may we be able to meet with the fertile ground that you have set that you have set for us we pray for those who are in the hospital we pray for those who are in prison we pray for those who feel down today that you may uplift them Lord we cannot pray for everything but you know them individually but you put all these things because you asked in Jesus Christ our Savior Amen It's now time for tight sun offering and I want to request that deacons and deaconesses rise and we have two methods of returning our tight sun offering you can give it at this time directly or you can use the M-Pesa number which is put there 32100 or other accounts which are available in the envelopes we also want to emphasize that you should particularly put what you want clearly on the record what you want tights and offering and also at this time also emphasize that as we give we also remember the camp meeting that is going to go through so that we don't forget the camp meeting before we give our answers to read Psalms 50 verse 10 I know all the fowls of the mountain and the wild beasts of the fields are mine if I were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fullness therefore will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats offer unto God thanksgiving and pay the vows unto the most high let us pray kind of loving father thank you for today we thank you that you have been able to loan us or give us the ability to just oversee some of the things that you have given us and now you are just asking us to provide you to give back to you what you have already given us and you pray that we do it genuinely but all we also pray that we will be able to offer our hearts as a sacrifice we ask all this because we are saying Jesus Christ our savior amen today we have a very interesting children someone about a boy named David who was a little light that pointed us to the greater light our Lord Jesus Christ David allowed God to use him so that he can remind the Israelites that they can only look up to God for deliverance today we have the kinder this month of May rather the kinder gotten class and our early bird in our adventurous club we will be taking us to the lessons of the rock lessons from the rock our message or our title today is Five Stones Against Goliath our memory verse comes from the book of first Samuel chapter 17 and verse 45 and it says you come against me with sword and spear but I come against you in the name of the Lord the God almighty the God of the army of the Israel who you have defiled but before we start let us pray my last comment to pray for us yeah pray amen now do you all remember the story of David and Goliath from our sabbatul class do you remember what happened in that story what happened in that story Gaby is trying to say something what happened well when David wanted Goliath Goliath he just said he said to the soldiers he will come with food and give them amen amen now David was a little shepherd boy and he had no warrior skills whatever but you know what our story is the giant and you know how what happened he was told by his father to go and take food to his brothers who are fighting against who the philistens when he got there he saw a giant called who Goliath and he was saying very bad words about God and the army of God and David said so David went he took his sling I have my sling here forgive me I'm not going to put my stone because I might hit somebody he took his sling and he picked five smooth stones like visions of mine you can see they're smooth and then David took one stone and he put it in the sling but I'm not going to put mine because I don't want to hit anyone and he put the sling up and started swinging it and he let go of the stone and the stone went up up up in the air and what happened it landed on Goliath's head and the giant came tumbling down and he dead children do you know even us in our lives we have Goliaths do you know we have giants in our lives I'll give you example of giants you see when you're about to do your exams they get afraid they don't want to do their exams they don't know whether they're going to pass but let me tell you right there there is a Goliath okay mummies and daddies even worry sometimes they worry where they're going to get money to feed us or take care of us boys and girls there is a Goliath right there do you remember during the pandemic when he had during COVID we had the lockdown they lost their jobs they didn't know what to do or how they're going to feed there mummies that fear is a Goliath right there we also fear losing our loved ones and when you fear losing our loved ones that is a Goliath right there but I want to tell you one thing boys and girls even as little as you are you can be able to take up whatever Goliath that comes your way and conquer it just the way David conquered Goliath and I am going to tell you how now let us put on our thinking hearts very quickly you want to put on our thinking hearts yeah now have you ever wondered why David picked five smooth stones hmm do you wonder do you ever wonder why it was five numbers do you ever wonder why the bible tells us that these stones were what smooth do you ever wonder let me tell you why David had to pick these five stones because they represent the rules that he had to use to be able to conquer the Goliath the bible tells us that these stones were smooth that means they were proven and tested do you know what proven and tested means I'll give you another example when you're about to go to the next grade or the next level what happens you have to do an exam right in our school the teacher sets up the exam we find maybe the examination body they set up the exams and then when you pass that means that you're what you can move to the next level so those stones were proven that there were rules that can be able to do what Goliath of our present I mean the past and even the present I want to tell you what these stones are the first stone it talks about faith faith David had great faith that he would conquer the giant and even he knew that after he had killed the bear and the lion that the same way God saved him is the same way that God was going to give him strength to do what conquer Goliath the second one is obedience David was at the right place at the right time do you know how his daddy Jesse told him to go and do what take food to his brothers were who at the battle filled did he whine did he refuse but he obeyed the third one is service that means that David was taking care of his father's ship David also gave himself to people and go and fight who the giant Goliath and I'll give you an example do you know our soldiers armies you know our soldier the ones who go out there to protect our boundaries Kenya so that enemies or bad people cannot come into Kenya now that is service the fourth stone is prayer even as David went to fight or to meet up with Goliath he had our prayer in his heart and that is where our memory of us comes from that he says that even if he comes towards him with our swords and spears and javelin he came with the he came with the name of the Lord and lastly David had the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit which dwelt in him and that is why he was able to have these five rules we see the same example with our Lord Jesus Christ you know that he has the same he applied the same rule in this sense Jesus was faithful Jesus obeyed his father he left the heavenly throne and came down to earth to die for us sinners so that we be assured of eternal life Jesus did service do you remember he washed the feet of the disciples remember and yet he is the king of the kings and he did that to wash the servants I mean his disciples that is service Jesus prayed do you remember the Bible tells that that you would wake up in the morning go to a quiet place and pray and the last boys and girls it is my prayer that just like David we will use these five stones as rules to be able to conquer any giant that comes our way and may God be able to help us to listen to him in all ways amen let us pray our kind and loving father we thank you so much for the lessons that you been able to learn today it's our prayer that Lord you may help us to be able to apply this lesson in our lives in readiness for your kingdom for it's in Jesus name we pray amen from the kindergarten class what do we say open it her Matthew 516 and it says let your life men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven let your light shine before men that they may hear your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven singing we happy this Sabbath to be in the sanctuary and to worship him celebrate the many things our children are doing through the adventurers club we thank you teachers for working hard to ensure that our children are well trained in the Lord allow me to greet you in the name of Jesus happy Sabbath the Lord is good and all the times you can surely do better than that the Lord is good and all the times thank you thank you so much I want to invite my two beautiful girls Makenna and her mother if you're in please come and as they do that I want to make this announcement that after the salmon before we break for lunch through the women's ministry we are inviting all ladies in church from the age 18 onwards to kindly remain seated there will be a very very important information to be passed across all ladies in church from that age onwards we request you through your leaders the women's ministry to remain behind for a very important information or announcement my two girls here going to sing and then I'm going to preach but before let us pray our gracious for the heaven thank you so much for the privilege of this fellowship and worship today we invite your presence I pray that Lord as minister today may we not be seen but may you be seen may we not be heard but may you be heard as you speak to us all so Lord I pray that you can touch our thoughts you can direct our thinking even to the glory of your name we pray in Jesus name amen allow me to venture as greetings for this very important Sabbath when I say I will go respond by saying with my little light when I say with my little light say I will go that okay I will go with my little light I will go with my little light I will go with my little light with my little light amen today everywhere in the globe in the Adventist family this is the greetings the theme is I will go with the little light this is the world adventurers stay and welcome you to feel part of the great family of the Adventist church we are glad that the Lord has prepared a great army of young people who are excited and prepared to win heaven down here in our church we are grateful to have such dynamic energetic team that is being trained and they are doing a lot for the Lord I want to say thank you for the Adventurers Club, teachers, the leadership thank you for your sacrifice indeed I have watched what you do over the week the children are in school you have been training them the songs via zoom very difficult things to do with the children may the Lord bless you so much I know time is far much spent but in the next few minutes allow me to get to the theme and the text for the day Matthew chapter 5 and verse number 16 and please kindly come along with me through your versions Matthew chapter 5 and the text the verse is number 16 the word of God says let your light so shine before men that they may see your good deeds or good works and glorify your father which is in heaven Matthew chapter 5 verse number 16 the key text for this adventurers global day let your light so shine upon men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven now a few things to mention in the next few minutes Jesus recognizes that light is important and let me begin by saying that before God would do anything when he came to create he began by causing light to be the Bible begins by saying and God said let there be light and then there was light then the meaning of the creation story unfolds after the light comes this is to suggest from the very onset the importance of light in this world now the Bible in various occasions has spoken about light and broom metaphors and other symbols that could communicate the importance of light one of very key verses in the Bible is this one where Jesus comes and speaks about the light of course you know that Matthew chapter 5 contains the Beatitudes of Jesus and in the Beatitudes Jesus speaks about salt that we are the salt of the world but also speaks about us as the light of the world it allow me to read from verse number 14 of that Matthew chapter 5 the word of God says this spoken words of Jesus the light of the world a city that is set on an hill cannot be hidden verse number 15 neither do men light a candle and put it under the bush but on a candlestick and it give light and all that are in the house and then verse number 16 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven our emphasis today is not us being the light of the world but us being able to allow the light that we have to shine that men may see now Jesus is communicating very physical things here now when he says let your light so shine before men it is in the context of the background that he has already communicated that we are the light but in the book of John chapter 8 in verse number 12 Jesus before speaking of the Beatitudes he says I am the light of the world and anyone who follows me will live in the light and he will be the light so when Jesus comes in the Beatitudes in the text of Matthew chapter 5 and says ye are the light and then so shine your light he speaks from that context that we do not have light of our own but that which we have received from him he is the natural light he is the true light then those who come to him they come into an environment of light and so they start catching that light they start emanating that light they start shining that light we become light as a result of becoming the disciples of Jesus now he is speaking to disciples and he tells them you who have come out from the world and have come to me and you have become my disciples then automatically you become light so here then you become light you cannot light your candle and put it under the bush under the table but you light up your candle and put it on top of the desk that the light can be seen and be useful you see Malachi chapter 4 verse number 1 this prophet of God says Christ is the son of righteousness son as the son that he gives us light Jesus in the bible he is the son that he gives light and we as his followers we reflect his light the way the moon reflect the light of the sun so the disciples of Jesus the followers of Jesus reflect the light of Jesus can you say a man can you say a man you see there is something very important I want to mention the next few minutes before we end this session because of time Jesus in verse number 16 he is not laying emphasis on having the light you say he says let your light so shine which you have received from me you see and he says when it shines then the people around you shall see your good works and glorify the name of the father you see Jesus does not say let your light so shine that people may see you he says let your light so shine that people may see your good works there is a difference in the Bible of people seeing your good works and people seeing you you see in the same text in the next chapter Jesus himself again in the process of the attitude he not very carefully in chapter 6 verse number 1 if you can read with me now chapter 6 verse number 1 Jesus there is a distinction between people seeing your light and good works and glorifying the father and people seeing you in chapter 60 verse number 1 take heed that you do not your arms before men to be seen of them otherwise you have no reward of your father which is in heaven that you do not your arms before men to be seen so in the Bible Jesus has two phrases that people may see your good works see your good works another phrases that people may see you the two phrases come from the mother of Jesus and there is a huge difference huge distinction Jesus in chapter 5 verse number 16 does not appeal to our self does not appeal to our works does not appeal to our glorifying Jesus is appealing for the things we do as a result of having been subject and to glorify the father he says when you come into my light and you will be willing to allow it to be seen then people won't see you but people will see my father can you say amen people will not glorify you but people will glorify my father in this text Jesus is not concerned about the candle he is concerned about the light you are the candle but Jesus emphasis is not on the candle Jesus emphasis is on the light let your light shine now number 2 Jesus in this particular text is not concerned about the effort you put to shine he is not concerned about how do you want to improve the brightness of the light that you have Jesus is concerned and emphasizing on the willingness to allow the light in you shine are you with me he says you are the light of the world so then let your light so shine because in verse number 15 there is no one who lights up a candle and put it under the bush and indeed many Christians though they have received the ability to become the candles and they have received the ability to be the light they have denied God the privilege of his light being seen in the world and so today there are seven when we are looking at the little boys and girls in our midst the question is as a parent are you intentional in allowing the light in your child's life to shine are you intentional in placing them on a higher platform where their light can be seen or you are the reason why their light is not visible or you are the reason why they are not shining as they ought to shine now listen to me Jesus is very particular in this discourse that it is when the ministry of the gospel carried by the every verses like these little children you see that will lead to conviction of sin will lead to waiting of the souls and the mind the conversion that it comes along and the sanctification that it takes place when you have allowed your light to shine you see Jesus using this symbol of the lamp or the candle you see in the days of Jesus they did not have the technology of lighting that we have today they used to have what when I was growing up in the village so those tin lamps that you can make and put a piece of cloth inside and then pour some paraffin in that when you light it it gives you light now when the paraffin or the oil is dried up in the center tin that lamp you not light for the lamp to continue lighting you need to continue refuelling the oil in the tin now the oil that makes the light to keep lighting the spirit and when God said then let your light so shine he is appealing for your consciousness of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in your life denotes not the Holy Spirit to impact you in your life for you cannot shine you cannot give for the light if you are by yourself you shall dry up and indeed many believers have brined up but today as adventurers in the world inviting in the we are saying we will go with our little light we will be keen to make sure no circumstance, no situation no tribulation nothing not even our age shall make us put our candles under the bushel we are willing to keep them up and lighting for the world to see the good works and glorify the name of the Father you see brethren when we talk about the little light in the context of the adventurers day don't you be confused to imagine that we are talking about the little light because these are little children and because they of their age so their light is small is little and because you are big and old your light is big no the little light is in the context of the big light is Jesus so all verse today in our age whether you are 90 years or 10 years or 2 years our light is the same Jesus has appeared and has given light into the world and the light has been given in the same measure for the church and for the grandpa we all have the same amount of light in Jesus Christ that's why Jesus looking at his disciples with their misbehavior because of their confusion for beating children from coming to serve Jesus Jesus rebuked them and he told them don't you think that you have greater light than these children suffer them not for being them not from coming to me for indeed I tell you the kingdom of God is for such like these poor when he was addressing the young pastor Timothy and sending him to the world he told him Timothy listen to me the world has a way of looking down upon those who are young but do not allow yourself to be looked down upon because of your age for the spirit that is in you and the light which is in you is the same spirit in me power and the same light in me power we all equal in Christ Jesus go for the power preach him season and out of season you see let me end by saying this I have been a Christian not for too long now since I was born I'm not very old but I can tell you for sure in my few years of my Christian journey I have seen God working powerful miracles for children I have seen God using his children to reach out to very difficult hearts the pastor cannot reach out I have seen God glorifying himself through the life of young children and indeed I confess today that the kingdom of God belongs for such like these children and we as a church we join the world church today to declare that we will not sit down can you say amen we will not sit down we will do everything we can now we can think to ensure that our children in their church are thoroughly equipped and trained to be the soldiers of the Lord but in them is the light of redemption you see you may wonder how much do they know recently I was driving with my daughter just picked her from here in school and we are driving home and we were listening the car was running a song that is sung we will kind of how does it go the train going to heaven the train it's okay you know that song it is okay it's okay in the train the car was running that song and my daughter sitting here and then she asked me daddy is it that people will go to heaven using trains how will it look like and for the first time I've sung that song so many times it struck me by the way what is the author of this song telling us this is a young child 6 years old the other day I just outside here a few boys they are sitting in the afternoon they were having a discussion with their teacher then they were challenging the teacher that they called me and they said they were challenging me past that he is the garden of Eden in heaven then I thought this is a very simple question and then I was quick to answer them they told me past that you do not know can you sit down then they opened the bible and there is something reason with me our boys we are in church one or some other afternoon very critical question do they know anything about Jesus yes they know do they have the light yes they do have the light but as you positioning them to allow their light to shine in this club we will go with our little light you keep your great light but us with our little light we shall go and tell them of the love of Jesus we shall go and tell them of the grace of Jesus we shall go and tell them we are fearfully and wonderfully made we shall go and tell them there is a kingdom that Jesus has gone prepare for us and he is our friend he is coming to take us home we will go with our little light is there to a desire today that you may join the adventurous club to say I also will go with my little light is there to a prayer is there to a prayer that you may check in your life and to see how you may have made the light of your shouts know to shine these young people they are gifted so much gifted have you seen the gift they have are you intentional in sharpening their gift for the Lord is my prayer for this church that we will be very intentional very intentional in training and equipping our young people for the mission because these are the people God is waiting to tell other world that Jesus is coming the second time and I want to thank you that adventurous club for being tireless the same teachers in adventurous club are the same teachers in the children ministry department in fact next suburb was supposed to be children suburb and as simple as with them running week after week get on them can we postpone and change your week you come after one we just to allow them to breathe may the Lord bless you so much but parents how much are we committed in allowing the light that Jesus are giving our children to shine as they come to seeing here I thank the Lord for the ministry of young people when I took these people I'm just waiting them to come to nhipievo what other people will not be able to do for the weeks that we were there the children did it so easily in fact the majority of the convert we had in nhipievo was as a result of the ministry of children I don't have time to speak more but I am excited to know that heaven is too excited to have children as part of the great army that is conquering heaven and I will say children go forth shining for the Lord in a simple press in a simple memory verses in a simple smile in a simple smile that touch your hearts keeping it for the Lord for God is pleased to give you his kingdom please sing and bless God I discovered you are not seeing you are just watching out there please let's get excited and join them in singing can you say amen so let's sing now do you know that when you sing angels watching from heaven their wings they spread a gracious Father in heaven thank you for the precious privilege to be your children Lord we bow we will go with our little light because you are a great light and so long as we are working and going with you we will continually give forth life I pray for these young children whose heart are pure and clean their thoughts and defile they love you with a genuine love committing to serving you Father I pray that you will forgive their sins and accept their ministry and putting them spirit of discernment to know in their young tender age where is wrong and what is right that they may choose always what is right to work with you and before you they can have your word and put it in their hearts given they can say your word have I hidden my heart that I may not see against you for your word is the lamb and my feet and the light for my path the Lord you shall continue illuminating in their way and their lives and they will be examples of what you can do and accomplish in them who have accepted to surrender their lives to you bless their parents Lord in the form of bring up these children in your likeness is so real but Lord I thank you I pray that you shall reach out to the parents and give them understanding and wisdom consistency Lord and recipients in training these children being very intentional and deliberate in possessioning them in your church along they will be your servants in their tender age but we do not know but we know that indeed you value the ministry of young children those of us Lord who are old in age remind us today that we are all children in you and we ought to have such a spirit like the one in the children that we all may be prepared for the second coming bless us with your presence as we continue worshiping you today through the ministry of these children Lord we pray for them and pray that you may meet us all at our very point of needs we pray all these things in Jesus name Amen Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Praise the Lord I want to thank God for this privilege to just be in the house of the Lord and just to share and just to just to thank God the way he's been with us today as you've said is a well-adventurous day and I believe you've been able to learn, been able to hear the children serving, giving their all for Christ and as the pastor who I want to thank him so much thank you pastor for making it clear to us we are just by the little light yeah God our Father the greater light has given us the smaller that we may be able to shine to others be able to reach others with the message of hope. Thank you so much for that message may God bless you I want to thank each and everyone of you for coming for being part of this service this morning may God bless you everyone who was able to participate I want to thank the people who did in the morning the lesson panel I want to thank the choristers I want to thank the the communication that I've been able to fallacitate all this and I want to thank KBC for having been able to broadcast this message to the ends of the world may God bless you after this we are going to close this service this morning and after this we have our children taking us through a skit you don't want to miss it this afternoon we are going to have another program starting from 2pm ensure that you are here all the classes there are five classes in adventurers that are going to participate they are going to make presentations and you don't want to miss it you are all welcome so that you can be able to share together the message of God and be ready to intentionally the children be able to be used of God they are ready to be used and we are there to guide them as parents and teachers and facilitators may God bless you and I want us to share the grace even as we close can we stand and share the grace let's share the grace may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit forevermore amen we will continue listening as the children continue God bless you of course his heart was hardened and he needed a little bit more before he could let the Israelites go darkness gives no one a break what is the opposite of darkness let's be defeated we the adventurers invite you to come and join us and find how to overcome darkness do you know what is the greatest need of the world the world is in need of adventurers are you sure yes courageous boys and girls who love Jesus and are willing to help other children out there know about Jesus boys and girls who are willing to let their light shine for others little lights I want my light to shine for Jesus light of my it seems to be an adventure means that we are adventurers everywhere at home, at school, at play being an adventure means that we are called to be honest kind and like she came early T transformed by his love I will be he got to see really and shine my light for him it's journey hedge heaven awaits us to be good is it easy to be kind to others it is very hard to be good and kind believe me very hard to do the right thing so one day I was happily happy with some money that my dad gave me for my good performance in my helping hands class so I decided to buy some yummy treats for myself mmmmmm then out of nowhere what should I do I can give him my money but that means no yummy treats for me mom didn't buy that dress that she read so that she could replace your sneakers that were worn out as soon as you should ask yourself is I the things that you really like don't worry miracle before of course but I did not know what it means well I will tell you a miracle is an extraordinary and wonderful event that cannot be described it can be attributed to the intervention of God a miracle is only healing nooo it's of healing for example if you find somebody is angry what do you do what do you do Hera what do you do we face transforming into a cute smile well that is the first example of a miracle what other example of miracle do you know Cherub amazing what do you think it is a miracle for Sarah to have a baby when she was 90 years old yes of course you know what God can make impossible circumstances possible I know a song about it which song is that it's a miracle it's a miracle it's a miracle it's a miracle it's a miracle baby had a baby it's a miracle maybe a source of miracle to the others around us let us pray that God is the perfect gift comes from Him first gift Jesus we are called to be the children of light in past the Saloniums chapter 5 don't even need the sun do you know why as we got to learn more about the adventurers and what we do to shine our little lights for Jesus every day accepting to be an adventure means that we are adventures everywhere at home, at school, at play being an adventure means that we are called to be honest kind and true to always be like Jesus through and through this world's adventure date on May 21, 2022 we are calling all adventurers to shine for Jesus we are calling you adventurers to be little lights and show others how wonderful our God is and how much He loves us go and light up the world little lights we can't wait to see you shine on world adventure date thank you happy Sabbath church I'm standing here because I want to make I just want to say that let the ladies remain behind our services has come to an end now and I want us to stand and call for the grace and immediate after that ladies please we'll just come this side we want to have a short meeting with you and show others how wonderful our God is and how much He loves us go and light up the world little lights we can't wait to see you shine on world adventure date