 Good morning and praise be to God. Good morning everyone. Those who are watching us live and those who are in the congregation, we welcome you to the start of today's session, our camp meeting Thursday the 7th of July. We are continuing with the theme, I will go and proclaim the three angels message as in Revelation chapter 6 verse 14. We thank God for the days that have been and we are almost coming to the end of all of this. So today we want to start our program and we want to start of course with the session of praise and leading us today will be my sister Betty Okomo, say hi. Good morning everyone. And I'm Eric Owiti. Before we start I'll request my sister to give us a word of prayer. Let's humble ourselves for prayer. Father in the name of Jesus we thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for this beautiful morning that we have today Lord. We thank you for allowing us to see this day Father. We thank you for the camp meeting we have had so far. We are coming to the tail end of the event Lord you've been with us. You've been gracious to ask Lord we thank you for that. As we go through this day we ask the children to be with us. Help us to that that glorifies your name. All the programs you put them unto the enhanced Father that everything we do today Lord will glorify your name Father and somebody somewhere will get closer to you because of what will be done on this point each today. We also put our country into your hands Father we are in a prayer revelation Lord. We pray for peace. We pray for each and every speaker we have here today Lord. We pray for the children who are right now most of them are on a school break Lord. We are having a pandemic still going on in the world Lord. We also put everyone into your hands Father that you may continue guiding and protecting us. We pray for the PA team Lord that as they broadcast the message that other people were not able to make it physically we can also get to hear this beautiful word we have here. We will ask for the forgiveness of our sins and the use of your vessels in Jesus name. We pray amen. Amen amen amen. So to start us off we are going to make use of our 70 Adventist hymns. Song number three to one my Jesus I love thee. I know thou art mine. We invite all of you to sing with us as we thank God for this beautiful morning and for the gift of life that is given unto us on this very day. Three to one my Jesus I love thee. My Jesus We are going to do six zero. Once again to be here this morning it is a chilly morning. The house of God brings a lot of warmth so I'd like to invite you to stand with me for word of prayer before we embark on our devotional thought for today. Let us pray together. Lord Jesus we want to once again listen to your voice and we pray that through the spirit we'll be able to discern your will for our lives and that we'll be empowered to go out in the strength of your word because Lord ultimately it is to your glory and honor that we do everything. Speak to us again in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you Coristers for that beautiful item a very fitting song to the continuing programs of the camp meeting for this year where we focus very much on proclaiming the three angels' messages to the world gospel of the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that each one of us is called to respond to because these are the very last days and during our devotional hour we've been looking at the topic the Lord says go and of course in response to what the theme is as we push forward with our message for today have been going backwards in the Bible, in the Old Testament and today we'll go into the book of Genesis into the book of Genesis chapter we'll look at chapter 6 and 7 and probably 8 where the Bible talks about one of the the great patriarchs Noah who is part of the very very first group of faithful men of God men of faith and Noah is as is described in the Bible the tenth in line from Adam and as we study the story of Noah we find a big semblance to what is happening in our times today and so I'd like to call you together to open our Bibles but we will of course begin with what the Bible has to say in the book of Matthew chapter 24 verse 37 to 39 but as the days of Noah were so shall also the coming of the son of man be whereas in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the yaks and knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the son of man be the story of Noah is a resounding warning to those of us that live in the last days and it is therefore a very important story for us to consider from time to time the Bible begins in chapter 6 of Genesis now it came to pass when men began to multiply the face of the earth and daughters were born to them and the Bible says that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose and the Lord said the spirit shall not strive with man forever for his indeed flesh yet his days shall be 120 now I find it very interesting that when man decides to make the wrong move God counters it with a very specific one and as we study this story we will realize that it is not so different from what happens today today we have so many issues happening around us and as the Bible says in the book of Hebrews 11 verse 7 that is only by faith that Noah having been warned by God of these things that he had not yet seen moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith so it is very clear to us that it is only by faith that Noah was able to act as he did to the salvation of his family and those that responded to the call of grace and in verse 8 of course the Bible said that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and it is evidently clear that in his grace God is merciful God is just God is loving and he always will a warning message to his children and so just like before God comes to Noah in person and gives him very specific instructions for the salvation of his family now if we are we get little bit on a treadmill towards judgment it is difficult for us sometimes to comprehend the significance of our times when we analyze contemporary conditions against history so many things have changed exponentially and yet we do not find things that unordinary and that is why the Bible is calling us to realize that these are extraordinary times consider some of these changes that for thousands of years humankind never exceeded over a horse about 40 to 45 miles an hour but now in the last 100 or 200 maybe 150 years or so we can drive down a highway very fast probably 3 or 4 times that speed and even today astronauts travel at over 17,000 miles per hour in space shuttles for thousands of years weapons of war were limited to just a few war machines that would throw things here and there breakdown walls and so forth most battles were hand to hand combat one man could kill only one man at a time but today with a nuclear blast you could kill millions instantly with just a press of a button only a few years ago homosexuality was considered an anomaly and looked upon as a grossly perversion but today it is celebrated by many and it is admired especially for those who are willing to come out in the open and express themselves there is so much that has changed the epidemic of illegal drug use makes the days that we live in so extra ordinary and even when we come to the issue of marriage that is mentioned here at the very beginning of Genesis chapter 6 in response to which God makes that move there was only one divorce in 30 all over the world at the turn of the 20th century now it's probably one in two and some are even predicting that in the next 100 years Christ is not here marriage will probably become obsolete people will live as they wish the explosion of technology is amazing our lives have changed so focused on what is now influencing our way of life doctors are transplanting hearts and livers and other organs there are drugs that are coming up that are prolonging life yet again there are diseases that are cropping up and defying medication from time to time so innovative technology has caused even traditional careers to evaporate and you find from time to time that in a lifetime you have to probably change careers once or twice no generation has seen so much rapid change like the one that we live in we are running on a cosmic treadmill and it is getting faster and faster and faster and God is resounding a warning to this generation because it is important for us to understand that as children of God God expects us to be ready for these times now in Genesis chapter 6 verse 11 the Bible says that the earth was also very corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence now translated from the Hebrew the word there is willful destruction or destructive acts intended to damage others and so here very clearly God is telling us that human beings have become depraved, sadistic full of violence towards others the sins of greed sexually, morality, murder robbery, vices of such drunkenness probably prevail all over around you wherever you live and wherever you work this is the life to which Noah wakes up at a time when men started turning their backs against God and then of course there these unholy marriages that take place today even in the 7th Adventist church we put a lot of emphasis on the kind of marriages that God wants to see in his church and there these unholy marriages that we see here in the book of Genesis chapter 6 that precede the judgment that God pronounces some believe that this refers to some sort of intermarriage between the godly line of Seth and the disobedient line of Cain and even some commentators tend to think that it was a forbidden union between fallen angels and human women but what is factful about what the Bible has to say is that all that is just speculation what is clear is that God has called some of us and made us his own and wants to use us to help the rest of the world see the light and what happens at this particular time if you go back a few chapters you will realize that when Seth had a son that he called Enosh men began calling upon the name of the Lord of the line of Seth there were those that were faithful but of course of the line of Cain there are those that decided to be totally against God and when the time came that these two lines started to intermingle started to connect so that we would not have a distinction between children of God and the people of the world the secular world it greatly disturbed God and God said that the time of man in the world will be only 120 years before that people came close to a thousand years and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually time after time and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and fouls of the earth for it repented me it grieves me it hurts me that I have made them out of all the men of the world at that time because the Bible says at that time man had begun to multiply as we read in verse 1 and so there was of course there was an explosion of the population around the world man had begun to multiply and out of the many only one found grace in the eyes of God and the Bible says that Noah a just man perfect in his generation walked with God praise God so it is possible that even in the confusion of the generation that we live even in the depravity that surrounds us it is possible that you would stand out and be a perfect man that is just before God that walks with God that is a friend of God it is very possible God came to Noah and said to Noah the end of the flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence and behold I will destroy them with the earth it was not his will to destroy man but because man had chosen to live in sinful indulgences man was to be destroyed with the earth and God said to his righteous friend make yourself an ark of gopher wood make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and outside with pitch and so it shall be that you and your family shall be saved amen in the book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 16 the Bible says let your light so shine before man that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven righteousness is intended to attract the attention of God as well as the attention of man around us in many more parts of the Bible in the books of Proverbs Matthew acts the first letter of John God is very clear that those that love righteousness please God those that hate iniquity please God and thus God anoints us and sends us out to the world to be an example to the world so that the world may see that for sure it is possible even in the confusion of our times to live faithful lives amen God loves the sinner it is the sin that he wants us to repent from God loves that we may live righteousness before him because those that live righteous lives are those that have chosen to trust God to trust that his grace will cover us from all iniquity and so it is that with a magnifying glass of his grace and mercy man has been given and that is why even Paul himself says where sin abounds grace does what it abounds even more so whenever we see so much suffering around us so much decadence so much violence so much sinfulness around us know that God has magnified grace even more so that as man left with a doubt that God has not provided a way of escape and the three angels' messages as the bible puts it in the book of revelation are the very final wake up call to the world there will be no other message coming it is the very final reminder to the world that it is time for us to move out of the world to enter into the ark of salvation so that when the time comes Christ may receive us into his glory amen hallelujah church so God calls Noah and tells him Noah I want you to build God gives Noah specific instructions for building the ark he makes sure that there is only a single door in the side to be the entrance and the exit to this ark just like there is only one way to get to heaven and that is through who to Jesus Christ amen even for a ship builder this was a colossal structure God made sure that there was space available for everybody every creature and especially for man he the desire to enter there was space made available but yet most of us many of man said I will not enter it is possible that God could have saved Noah and his family some other way without having to build such a big structure but it is important for man to demonstrate in God's Word and that is why sometimes God gives us something to do in demonstration of our response to his grace amen the Bible says but will thou ovein man that faith without works is dead was not Abraham your father justified by works then he that when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar important for us to demonstrate our faith in response to the will of God in our lives amen and so God has provided for his children what he expects so that in faith in him we demonstrate our obedience God also called Noah apart from building an ark he asked him to gather from the earth a specimen of every living creature beside his wife and his sons and their wives Noah had to gather two of every living thing male and female seven of every clean animal and God instructed Noah to bring all these living creatures into the ark God had a plan to continue life on this earth and even now I believe that God has a plan to continue life on this earth God is not against life folks he is the creator of life he is life itself and so he had a plan and he still does have a plan for us today and that is why God is saying that it is time for us to enter into the ark and allow him to work for us the church today provides a safe place from the hostile elements of evil and the future destruction of this world the spirit of God draws people to him through our lives and our lives so it may seem that the church may be corrupted it may seem that the church is no longer focused on obedience to God but let me tell you child of God that there is never a time and the church is not the safest place to be amen no matter what happens no matter what picture the devil may paint of the church of God it is the safest place for you to be in praise God and as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of man be for in those days the Bible says we were marrying giving in marriage planning building there were a lot of ingenuity and the Bible says that just before the flood there was an increase in technology and understanding and knowledge and the same is happening even today there is basically almost nothing that man cannot do it is our responsibility as a Christian to gather whoever it is outside of the ark and to get them inside the ark is the church the new birth experience allows us to enter into the ark of salvation praise God John chapter 3 verse 5 and as all these passages that we read are warning a day approaches folks when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven and He will interrupt what mankind has achieved so far and life as we know it will change forever and only those that trust on the Lord only those that look upon the Lord will be saved amen and the first act of God will be to gather His church to Himself the books the Bible says in first Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 15 to 18 leaving the rest of humanity those that have chosen not to accept God to suffer a great tribulation a great calamity and Jesus then will physically return to the earth to establish His kingdom this is coming children of God whether they believe it or not it will be God said the flood God would come and the flood came God said that He would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and He did destroy them God has said that this world will come to an end and it will come to an end it is up to you now to choose to respond to this call Bible says it is by faith that Noah being warned of God of things not yet seen and prepared an ark to the saving of His house so the third thing that Noah does now is to build an escape a vessel of salvation many looked upon him as a crazy old man how can you build such a big ship in the middle of land where there was no sea in sight where Noah talked of water coming from heaven they all laughed at him because they had never seen rain before jokes were thrown up and forth and probably they had all these stand up comedies and shows talking about Noah because he took a long time to build this ark nevertheless the old man and his family continued to build an escape because he knew that if God has said it it shall come to pass what does he do next Noah follows the plan of God to the very letter it is important church for us to understand that in these last days we as a church need to ascribe and subscribe to the plan of God and in verse 22 the Bible says that Noah did according to all that God commanded him so he did and in this verse it is revealed that he was a sincerely obedient person he persevered even in the very strangest of circumstances even when he had a very difficult job to accomplish Noah persevered folks the Bible is very clear that obedience is the real test of faith and the portal to God's blessings if ye be willing and obedient the Bible says ye will eat the good of the land but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with a sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken the Bible goes on to say in the book of Romans that through one man's obedience we are made whole though through one man's obedience sin came disobedience sin came into the world and on the day of Pentecost Peter preached the salvation through the gospel that Christ has brought to us and he told everyone that it is imperative for us to repent, to be baptized and thus to receive the remission of sin through Christ and so this message clearly needs to reach everyone that we come across and as children of God it is imperative for us to follow that plan to the very letter next the Bible tells us that Noah preached the message of salvation the Bible tells us that even when angels messed up God did not spare them he cast them down from heaven he deliver them into chains of darkness where they are reserved for judgment and God is calling us and telling us a time is coming when we will be judged if we choose to be judged by righteousness we will go to heaven if we choose to be judged of sin then we will dive a death an eternal death and as a preacher of righteousness Noah did serve God and he did remind the world but a day came when he finished his task and he entered into the ark and he made that one final appeal to the world and said will you please come in I believe that the world is in imminent destruction will you please come in but those that were there still laughed they still mocked in the book of Corinthians 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 8 God says that we should continue preaching so that we save those that are lost it is only through the dissemination of this message of hope that many may find forgiveness in Jesus Christ and so ultimately by entering to enter the ark Noah and his family escape God's judgment God's judgment is not for the righteous children of God God's judgment is for sinners God had not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 9 says and there are so many Bible examples that attest to this Abraham lot and his daughters escaped of course the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah when they chose to move out when God said it's time to move out when God told Abraham move away from here go to a land where I can begin to relate with you at a personal level he was blessed because he chose to obey God so when God says go children of God tell the world that an impending disaster is very near we need to take this seriously let us not spend more time in building and developing ourselves in marrying and giving in marriage in drinking and eating and providing for our bodies and put aside the work that is so important reminding the world that the end is nigh in God's economy there is no judgment without justice justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne David says in the Psalms and so because Noah believes in the judgment of God he takes heed of the warning and he prepares for it the question to you child of God today is are you prepared are you ready do you believe that God will punish the world and so are you doing your very best to make sure that everybody around you knows this for sure times may be very good for you your business may be booming maybe your family is doing so well and the children that you've been praying for are here and life is going on well they're doing well in school your family is doing well and everything else is doing well maybe in church you're serving God and everything else is wonderful but a day is coming children of God when all that will be nothing all that will matter is are you in the Ark of God are you in the Ark are you in the Ark and when that day came for Noah many many latched onto the logs trying to hold onto debris trying to find a way to ride out this flood but the word of God was very clear if you are in the Ark you will be saved if you are outside of the Ark you will perish and maybe if you want to believe as I read in the spirit of prophecy that in their last moments of consciousness they acknowledged that everything Noah had told them was true but they had mocked the righteous old man of God and refused their only way of escape and because of that these turbulent waters trashed the life out of them they were all drowned and destroyed but those that chose to accept the warning of God were able to ride the storm when this message reaches God's children the spirit the indwelling spirit that works among men will help them understand will help them know that it is true that it is to be believed it is a message of power it is a message that must be preached Noah was able to save his family will you? if you are a father today if you are a mother a husband, a wife a child of someone the question is will you be able to save your family think of them think about how they live their lives are you able to transmit the faith that God has put in your heart over to your loved ones your brothers and sisters maybe your extended family your grandparents your uncles, your aunties all that you love so much can you bring them to the obedience of the word of God parents teach and model the Christian faith before your children so that when these children get to adulthood they will independently make the same decision that you have made to love the Lord Noah's family worked hard together and they were saved together and I want to tell the children of God that here in the house of God we can truly remain safe it is not perfect I'm a pastor in this church and I know that for sure it is not a perfect church but it is where you can remain safe and so I will tell you with all faith in the God that we worship that you are in the right place and make sure that you do everything that you can to help everybody that you love and know to be in here as soon as possible because the time is not on our side children of God God who is with us who knows us will empower us when Isaiah witnessed the glory of God he felt so inadequate he felt like this is too much I cannot handle this God God says go for I will be with you the same with Gideon God says have I not said I am with you and the same with Moses God said Moses I will be with you I will stand with you I will put the words in your mouth if we internalize this message then we will be able to convince many we will be the salvation of so many around us Jesus has made it very clear that he is the only door he is the only way to salvation just like the Ark of Noah Christ is calling us into him so that we may be a part of him where we find salvation many ask themselves why is it that God has taken so long so much is happening around us I feel so ready for Jesus come dear Lord because I have waited so long but the Bible says because of his love the Lord is not slack concerning his promise he just is hoping that the church may finish this work that many more may also find salvation as we have so if you want Jesus Christ to come sooner then go work harder amen go work harder let it be that many have come to the knowledge of salvation through you let it be that through your work many will accept the love of Jesus Christ in their lives in the second book of Timothy chapter 3 Paul provides a list of warning signs of the last days seeing these occurrences we should then warn everyone who listen Jesus is coming back again and very soon and this time he is not coming as a lamb sacrifice for our sins but as John saw him in the revelation he is coming back as king of kings and lord of lords amen do you want to be part of that great choir the book of revelation says that on a very special appointed day all the people drawn from every generation will gather together at the throne of God to take part in that great choir I believe the heroes will be there and I also want to believe that all you others will also be there those of you who have never participated in singing that day God will give you a beautiful voice and you will express all that you have experienced through the years from the times of Adam all through the times of Noah and Moses and Gideon and Isaiah and the rest of them up to today we will be able to give a testimony of the love of God and how we responded to him and how finally we have made it to heaven this song the Bible says cannot be sung even by angels only by those that have participated in this great work and this song be sung and I would like to invite you children of God I have made my decision I will be in heaven because it is my choice to accept Jesus Christ as saviour and I pray that you will make this choice too so that you will be there with me it will be my joy that one one day we will meet on the streets of heaven and you say pastor you remember that day that is the day that I made my decision that is the day that I accepted the salvation of Christ and I am here too and I am happy so happy and it will be a joy to join there with your family and your loved ones and I want to ask once again children of God after having heard this appeal how many of you would say that I will be in heaven because I have decided and I want to do my very best to help many others to get to heaven too if you believe with me then please stand so that we may pray together and commit our lives to God and ask him to use us to help us not to give up at any point but to keep working and keep pushing this gospel of the three angels message out to the world until everyone that can possibly hear it has heard it and received it in Jesus name let us pray together father we want to thank you once again you have demonstrated to us that you are very willing to forgive us of our sins and to make us your own you have shown us that if we choose to obey you then you have provided a means of salvation through Jesus Christ Lord Jesus we want to thank you because you have given us an escape from the judgment of the world you have opened a door and you have created a safe haven for us those that have chosen and loved your appearing and we want to thank you because you have appointed the Holy Spirit to continually guide us to continually engage with us help us O Lord help us to go from power to power to preach this word until everybody ends of the world has heard it and it is our prayer that many will respond so that ultimately you will have a great harvest from this world and when we meet at the throne of mercy in heaven or what a joy it will be O Lord may this be our prayer in Jesus name amen may God bless you I would tell you how he changed my life completely he did something that no other friend could do no like Jesus there's no other friend so kind to take the sin and darkness from full of sin when Jesus found but was full of misery and he did not have any hope for the future and he did not have any hope but was full of misery and hope Jesus placed his strong and love like face above in accord with the message of our previous speaker Dr.Pastorokindo and he spoke about Noah and the life before the flood and when he spoke about that I just remembered one detail that I noticed when one day I studied the Bible and I noticed one interesting thing about the age of patriarchs when they have the first child for example Adam was 130 years old when his son was born Seth Seth was 105 years old and after that we can see the age when patriarchs had the first child was going down Anosh was 90 years old Kenan was 70 years old Maha Lalel was 65 years old but after that we can see that the age is going up Jarret was 162 years old Srelak was 187 years old Lamech was 182 years old and Noah was even 500 years old when he had his children and I just try to explain for myself why do we have this difference the age of the patriarchs maybe chapter 6 of the book of Genesis very well explains this issue because we can see that sons of God took daughters of men and maybe because of that it was very difficult to find a girl to make a family we can see that the age when the patriarchs married and had the first child priest is one exception of Inok today we will speak about three angels message and today we will speak about the second angels message in the book of Revelation chapter 14 verse 8 another angel a second followed saying fallen fallen is Babylon the great she who made all nations drink the wine of the patient of her sexual immorality so the second message of the three angels message is the message about Babylon this is a great city and this great city has fallen and when we speak about about Babylon we can say that Babylon probably is one of the most black gender cities in the world and just few facts about that city we know that two times in history came the largest city in the world and it was in time of the king Hamurapi the very famous king and it is in the second millennium before Christ and also in time of in the times of Nebuchadnezzar from 612 up to 320 BC so it was the biggest city in the world and scholars say that maybe it was the first city that reached the population above 200,000 people so we can imagine that it was really a great big city and also what is interesting that Babylon is very prominent in the Bible because it mentioned in the first chapter not in the first book of the Bible the book of Genesis and it is also mentioned in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation and we also know that Babylon is mentioned many times in many other books of the Bible so when we when we speak about Babylon what is interesting that Babylon occurs in the first time in the book of Revelation the three angels message so it is not mentioned before that when we read the message of the second angel he says that Babylon is fallen he proclaims that Babylon is fallen but what is interesting when we read this message there is no an impression we don't have an impression that the Babylon is a new character in this chapter so it looks like Babylon was something that was known to the readers and to the author of the book of Revelation but it was called differently before that so now he speaks about Babylon as not as something new but as something that must be known to his readers and to his audience so in this case of course we may ask a question I believe it is an important question so why does John use different names for God's enemies because Babylon in this chapter is a symbol of God's enemies and in order to understand this and in order to answer this question we need to look how Babylon is described in the book of Revelation and actually a detailed description of the Babylon of Babylon we can find in chapter 17 of the Bible and here in chapter 17 we have this description and on her forehead and this is a woman so let me read a bit earlier from verse 1 then one of the seven angels who had seven bowls came and spoke with me come I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who is seated on many waters the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual immorality then he carried me away in the spirit to a wilderness I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous knees and had seven heads and ten horns the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet adorned with gold jewels and pearls she had a golden cup in her head filled with everything detestable and with the impurities of her prostitution on her forehead was written a name a mystery Badawan the great the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus when I saw her I was greatly astonished so this is a description of Badawan in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation and we can see that the Badawan in this chapter is described as a woman and this woman is riding a beast is sitting on a beast and of course we may ask a question what kind of beast is this and it is very clear that the beast that is described here is the same beast that we already found in the chapter 13 of the book of Revelation it is the beast that is coming out of the earth verse 3 says then and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and it had 7 heads and 10 horns so the same beast with 7 hands and 10 horns that is full of blasphemous names is the first beast of chapter 13 of the book of Revelation so we can see that the beast who was wounded, mortally wounded but his wound was healed and now he is alive but what is important the important issue is that he is not acting by himself but woman is riding on him and this fact that the woman is riding the beast means that she is the one who controls the beast and she is the one who actually rules over this beast dominates over it so we can see that in the last history this woman or by the one will play a very very important very important role and we can say if you compare what is written in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation and what is written in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation so we can understand that most probably the woman that is described as a Babylon and the one who is riding the beast is the one who is the image of the beast in chapter 13 so we can see that in the Bible everything is related everything is connected to each other and of course we might ask a question so why does John at the mouth of the book of Revelation use Babylon as a symbol of the apostate church in the last period of the world history and in order to understand this we need to go back to the history biblical history and to see how Babylon is described and how is mentioned in the Bible and first time Babylon is mentioned in chapter 10 of the book of Genesis when its builder Nimrod is mentioned but let us read Genesis 11 and this is most important passage today one of the important passages today and let us read from chapter 11 and verses 3 and 4 and they said to one another come let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly and they had bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar and they said come let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth so we can see here people gathered together and they made a decision to build a city, Babylon and they didn't want to build they also wanted to build a tower in this city and the purpose why they wanted to do is is to make a name for ourselves so they wanted to make a name for themselves and this phrase is very important because it connects at the generation who lived after the flood with the generation who lived before because the people before the flood were characterized as the man of renown actually maybe it is not the best translation that we have but the original saying that is used there is the man of name the man of name and the builders of Babylon also wanted to make a name for themselves so we can see that actually they follow the steps of their predecessors people who lived before the flood of anti-deluvian generation so that is why it means that they also rebelled against God and they just followed the steps of anti-deluvian people and also another issue that is also important here is the story and of course the bricks and bitumen that they were used says that they wanted to avoid or secure themselves in case if flood is repeated and it also says that they didn't believe God because God said and it is clearly stated in chapter 9 of the book of Genesis but they wanted to secure themselves in case if the flood is repeated but also what they wanted to do they didn't want to disperse over the face of the earth so they wanted to live together they wanted to be together and actually it also contradicts God's commandment because when we read what God said to Noah immediately after he left the ark he repeated to him the blessings of the first people Adam and Eve and the part of the blessing was to be fruitful and multiply and feel the earth so the purpose of the people or they must feel the earth they must disperse over the face of the earth but it is evidently that the people who decided to build Babylon they didn't want to be disperse they didn't want to feel the earth they wanted to live together and we know how God actually indeed dealt with those people he just mixed up their languages he mixed up their languages and they had to go to different places and they had to feel the earth but what is interesting the most important issue for us is that when we look at our world today we can see that we live during the time of Babylon Tower so why do I say like this because many of the features of that time are very similar to our time when we speak about the Tower of Babylon at that time people were speaking the same language there was one language on the earth and what is interesting in our times just a little bit more than 100 years ago the first attempts were done to recreate one language so the language that could be unite could unite all people in this world people wanted to break to remove those language barriers that exist among different people so for example in the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century we can see that 3 artificial languages were created or were invented and this is a language Volapuk Idiom Neutral of course is Esperanto and you can see on the picture the picture of Lazarus Zemenhov who was the author of Esperanto yes, none of those languages succeeded of course Esperanto became most probably the most famous and the most spread language artificial language in our world there are people who can speak Esperanto but there are not many I myself know one person who learned Esperanto and who can communicate in this language of course this project of creating an artificial language didn't succeed didn't succeed but anyway the humanity came back to one language and now if you go almost everywhere and if you know English people will understand you so artificial languages didn't succeed but English language now became an almost universal language like a lingua franca for all the people in this world so we can see that people are coming back to the situation that was during the building of the Babylon Tower when we have one language and for example you and I can understand each other but my mother tongue is not English and most probably for many of you you have your own mother tongue but we can speak one language so at that time we understand we see that people wanted to live wanted to live in one city in one place but what is also interesting in our days people also try to live in the big cities they try to live together they don't want to be dispersed but on the contrary they want to come together and live together for example on this graph you can see two lines and the blue one the urban population and the green one is the rural population and in the year 2006 we can see that those lines came together they met each other and after that we can see that the urban population is growing up and the rural population is going down and in 2018 rural population lived in urban urban areas so people again want to live together as it was during the Babylonian Tower and also when we speak about Tower of Babylon Babylon became a symbol of rebellion against God people rebelled against against God and this is exactly what we can see today and I just used one example of this LGBT rights that we have that are promoted now almost everywhere and this is an example of rebellion against God because do you see the biggest problem that I can see now in the world is that people today repeat the sin of if because do you see what was the problem with if sin that was created the first people decided for themselves what is good and what is wrong and when Eve look at the fruit of the tree and when she said to herself that this fruit is good so she made a decision about what is good and what is wrong and in the Bible we can see that the only person who can make this decision is only God himself because only God in the previous chapters made a decision what is good and what is not good but now if took this prerogative to make this decision and it means that she put herself in the place of God in our days we can see the same something similar is happening in our world when people themselves try to decide what is good for us and what is wrong for us so the Bible and biblical imperatives are not an authority for people anymore and one more issue that also tells us that we now live in the time when the spiritual tower of bubble is built is a biblical heism when we put all the events of the Bible major events of the Bible we can see that they come to one point and after that everything is repeated in the opposite order so let us look at this in the beginning of the Bible we have creation and the world was created after that we have flood the next major event in the history after that we have building of the Babylonian tower after that we can see that the nation of Israel was formed but they appeared in Egyptian slavery they came out of slavery but after a while they came to another captivity or another slavery it was Babylon captivity after that we have an inter-testamental period finally we have Jesus Christ who came into this world and what happened after that when Jesus came the history was reversed and all those events again happened in the history of the church already but in a reverse order for example we again have a captivity and it is also very strongly connected to the Babylonian captivity that lasted 1260 years after that we have a period of atheism and what is interesting in the book of revelation it is again called as Egyptian period so many connections we can have with Egypt and after that we have Babylon Babylon that appeared again so we live now in this period when the spiritual Babylonian Tower is built of course it doesn't mean that the real Babylonian Tower is built but the spiritual one is built and after that we have second coming and we know that Jesus Christ very often compared the flood with the second coming even today we heard in the sermon the devotion that as it was in the time of Noah the same will happened before the second coming so it means that we today live very close to the second coming and of course after that we will have a recreation new creation so we really live in the time of Babylon when spiritual Babylonian Tower is built and for us what is important is not to be among the builders of Babylonian Tower and when we when we look at history of Shumar civilization we can see that at that time very famous for them or very popular at that time was building so called zigurats and what is interesting if you look at the plan of the zigurats at the top on the top of the zigurats is a special temple and they very often called this temple the gates to heaven and actually Babylon in Shumar language means the gates of heaven and those zigurats were built in such a way so that when you stood when you stand at the bottom of the zigurat and you can see this staircase that goes up almost to heaven there is an impression that this staircase really leads you into into heaven and maybe those zigurats and number of them remained until our days were just a reminder of the Babylonian Tower that people try to build but in Hebrew language Babylon means confusion so there is a play of words people thought that this Babylon is the gates to heaven but in case but in true it was just a confusion and what we see in the Bible what we see in the Bible we can see that two cities are very often contrasted the Bible and these two cities are Babylon and Jerusalem Babylon always stands in opposition to Jerusalem and even in the book of Revelation we can see those cities are introduced in a similar way for example look how Babylon is introduced then one of the seven angels who had the seven balls came and said to me come I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute and you know that it is about Babylon and when the new Jerusalem is introduced we can see something similar the same angel then came one of the seven angels who had the seven balls full of seven last flux and spoke to me saying and he says the same come I will show you but not the judgment I will show you the bride the wife of the lamb so we can see that these two cities are very often contrasted in the Bible and not only in the book of Revelation but we can see this contrast in many other books of the Bible for example the same opposition could be found in the book of Isaiah and in the book of Isaiah we have a section started from chapter 13 up to chapter 23 that scholars usually say call this section as oracles against other nations or prophecies against other nations and immediately by the way Babylon is mentioned twice in this series of prophecies but immediately after at the end of this series of prophecies against other nations we can see a description of the city and in Hebrew this city is called kiriat tohu and scholars usually translate the name of the city as the city of haus the city of haus and Isaiah described the city of haus in such a way the wasted city broken down every house is shut up so that none can enter there is an outcry in the streets for a lack of wine all joy has grown dark the gladness of the earth is banished desolation is left in the city the gates are battered into ruins so he described this city of haus scholars say that this city of haus can be a symbol of the entire earth and it could be a symbol of Babylon so Babylon is the city who is opposed to Jerusalem and in the next chapters we can see a description of another city and this city is described as a fortified city in that day this song will be sung at the land of Judah we have a strong city he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks open the gates that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in so we can see the same opposition of the two cities one city is the city of haus and another city is a fortified city and when we when we see this opposition we can see that it runs throughout the entire Bible but of course it takes different symbols or different descriptions for example Babylon is also presented as a woman and we know that Babylon conquered and destroyed Jerusalem in 586 so Babylon opposed Jerusalem we know that Babylon oppressed the people of Judah and later on what is interesting Rome also destroyed Jerusalem but what is important Apostle Peter in 1 Peter chapter 5 in verse 13 calls Rome Babylon so it is the same Babylon of course Babylon in this case is not one particular place any power that opposes Jerusalem that fights against God's people is Babylon and also as I said for example in the book of Revelation we can see that this opposition is also presented as a position of two women and we have pure women that is described in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation and a great sign appeared in heaven a woman closed with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of 12 stars so this is a pure woman that symbolizes a pure church and in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation we can see another woman I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and it had seven heads and ten horns the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality so two women are also contrasted in the book of Revelation by the way if you go to the book of Probes we can find a similar contrast when two women are also presented and one of them is Lady Wisdom and actually we can see that Solomon the author of the book of Probes addresses to his son and he said that it is important it is important to find this Lady Wisdom and marry this Lady Wisdom but another woman is presented in another chapter of the book of Probes and it is a woman who is very similar to this fallen woman and it is called Lady Foolishness and everybody who comes to this lady actually comes to ruin so we have two women two cities but actually the main idea is the same so when we say about a Babylon when John the author of the book of Revelation describes Babylon he makes a lot of allusions to the book of Isaiah allusion is a kind of reference but not a direct reference when he has in mind something that is written in the book of Isaiah but he doesn't quote Isaiah directly but just hints on something that is written in the book of Isaiah Isaiah 14 actually describes a lament over the fall of Babylon or funeral song that lamentation the song that is sung during the funerals and actually scholars who study this song say that it is a kind of a parody when the author it looks like he is crying but in fact there are a lot of humor and parody in this song and we can see that in this song the author the prophet Isaiah says how the oppressor has seized the insolent fury seized all who were leaders of the earth it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations all of them will answer and say to you you too have become as weak as we you have become like us so this song actually portrays the king of Babylon who is going down to Sheol and all the kings of the earth all the leaders of the earth actually stood up from their thrones and said to him you became like us and when John describes the fall of Babylon he actually uses the same language and he also says about all the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with Sheol and they will whip and wail over Sheol when they see the smoke of Sheol burning so actually what the author of the book translation does he wants us to compare the fall of the last day Babylon with the fall of the ancient Babylon we also can find many similarities with the book of Jeremiah for example in the book of Jeremiah we can read when you finish reading this book tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates and sink to rise no more because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her and they shall become exhausted and the book of Revelation uses the same language then a Mati Angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea saying so will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence no more so in other words the author of the book of Revelation Apostle John wants to connect the description of the fall of the first Babylon with the description of the fall with the spiritual Babylon ancient Babylon and in order to understand how this spiritual Babylon will fall we need to look how this ancient Babylon actually fell and actually when we go to the history we can find some we can find some different stories about the fall of Babylon there is a very famous story about the fall of Babylon that is written in the history of Herodotus and actually Herodotus says that Cyrus who was the king at that time when he wanted to conquer Babylon and the Babylon at that time was a very fortified city actually it was the city that was almost impossible to conquer with the military military skills or military means so what he did he just diverted the root of the river Euphrates and at night the soldiers of Cyrus were able to enter the city by the bedrock of the river but this story is written in Herodotus and it also repeated in the history of Xenophon but we have another sources and those sources like Nabonidus Chronicles Cyrus Cylinder and some others that actually say that Babylon was taken without any military effort it looks like the people of Babylon just opened the gates of Babylon to Cyrus so of course now we don't know which story is correct but what we can assume that really what happened to Babylon is that it fell unexpectedly and you remember the book of Daniel the chapter 5 of the book of Daniel actually describes the feast that Belchazar organized and this feast was organized just in the middle of the siege of Babylon when the army of Cyrus came to Babylon Belchazar organized a feast so when I read the book of Daniel I couldn't understand the logic of Belchazar but actually history can tell us why he did like that so for example history says that really Babylon was a city that was almost impossible to conquer and they had supplies of provision for 10 years can you imagine army can came to the city and they can wait for 10 years and people of the city can survive nobody can afford keeping an army at the walls of the city for 10 years it is just impossible and history even says that when one time Babylon was besieged the people in the city they made some cookies or some other food and throw it away to those army that besieged the city and in such way they wanted to demonstrate enough food we can even feed you and that is why all your attempts to conquer the city are futile but what is important when we speak about the fall of Babylon important for us is that Babylon fell unexpectedly so Belchazar when he organized this feast of course he couldn't believe that just in several hours another king will enter the city and his kingdom will be over so Babylon fell unexpectedly nobody expected this it was a very very sudden event and when John uses this illustration he wants to tell us that so assuredly as Babylon fell we can be sure that the end day Babylon will also fall and when we speak about the last day Babylon let us try to make a kind of a summary so what it means and we can see that the last day Babylon is described as a woman which is a symbol of a church it means that it is a religious power it also a woman that is riding the beast and it means that the religious power dominates over the political powers and Babylon means confusion and it will be a mixture of everything of religion or political powers and we can see that all the kings and all the nations were drunk of their wine so it means that almost everybody will be seduced by her and the woman is described as a very self confident person she says I sit as a queen I am no widow and morning I shall never see so she is very very self confident but very unexpectedly the end will come so it will fall suddenly and the bible also emphasizes this John says for this reason her plugs will come in a single day and in another words for in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste so it means that this power last days power that will emerge in this world and it will be very very powerful but it will fall very suddenly very unexpectedly and that is why that is why God called his people to go out of Babylon so we can see in Revelation chapter 18 verse 2 and he called out with a mighty voice fallen fallen is Babylon the great she has become a dwelling place for demons a haunt for every unclean spirit a haunt for every unclean bird a haunt for every unclean and detastable beast then I heard another voice from heaven saying come out of her my people lest you take part in her sins lest you share in her plugs and it is very similar to what Jeremiah says many many years ago when he also emphasized that people, God's people must go away from Babylon and he did it several times in his book and we can see that this story is very similar to the story of Lot and we can also say that it is like a symbol for us because in the book of Genesis in chapter 19 or anyway in the book of Genesis we can see there are two characters Abraham and Lot and Abraham is described as the person who was always faithful to God and Lot was also faithful to God but Lot lived in Sodom and one day angels came to him and said that he must go out of that city and we know that he came out of the city and we can see that in the end of time we can find these two groups of people faithful people one group of people who have already a seal of God and another group of people who are still in Babylon and God wants to call them out of Babylon but what is interesting when we again compare the first Babylon and the spiritual Babylon we can see one interesting detail when we look at the history and even if we look in the Bible we can see one one interesting moment that actually not all Jews when Babylon fell not all Jews came out of Babylon we can see in the beginning only a small group came back in 539 or a little bit later after that a group came but it was a bigger group of people but anyway it was not all people we cannot say that all people all the Jewish people came out of Babylon and of course we may ask a question why people didn't want to go from Babylon and history says that actually many Jewish people who lived in Babylon for 70 years they were adjusted and their life was not very bad so they lived in Babylon very comfortably so history says that even the first bank in history was established by Jewish people who lived in Babylon so they had their homes their houses their job everything was very nice and they didn't want to go out of Babylon and to live in Jerusalem and when we see for example the book of Ezra when Ezra was going to Jerusalem from Babylon and he wants to restore the worship in the Jerusalem temple so he had a problem because when they already organized a group who wanted to go he understood that in this group there are no Levites or not enough Levites to organize the ministry in the temple so he had to convince Levites to go to Jerusalem so even the Levites didn't want to go back to Jerusalem or for example in the time of Nehemiah Nehemiah when he came to the city of Jerusalem he saw that Jerusalem was in ruins and the gates are burned and the city is almost ruined so the more later on in chapter 11 when they already built up the wall of Jerusalem the problem was that people didn't want to live in Jerusalem and they lived in many other cities they settled in many other cities but they didn't live in Jerusalem and they even cast a lot to choose who will live in Jerusalem and they blessed those who willingly voluntarily wanted to live in Jerusalem and this is a great warning for us we see what might happen so living in Babylon could be very comfortable for people very comfortable to have all the advantages of the civilization and when the call sounds go out of Babylon maybe not everybody is willing to live so remember lot and his wife wife didn't want to live so don't and it could be a danger for us so that we should not be rooted in this world but we need to remember that all of us just are pilgrims in this world and our house not here but in heaven so now I would like to conclude so Babylon will appear in the end of the world history it will be a religious power that will dominate over political powers it will persecute the God's people it will be seemingly powerful but will fall unexpectedly and God is calling everybody to live Babylon and just a final just a final thought so I said that this power will emerge in the end of the world history but who knows maybe it is already existing in our world so do you see I want to tell you one biblical principle one biblical principle very often people understood that the prophecy has fulfilled only after it fulfilled I will give you one simple example how many times Jesus said to his disciples that he must be killed and after three days he will be resurrected he told them about that many many times but they didn't understood this and when they understood this they understood this only when he died and was resurrected so there is this principle that we can find in the Bible very often people understood that the prophecy has been fulfilled only after it fulfilled and who knows maybe this power is already acting in this world so that is why all of us must be very very careful not to participate in these Babylon activities not to participate in the reading of the Babylon Tower and in order to do this we need to be filled every day with the Holy Spirit he will not allow us to be let astray he will not allow us to be lost and he will lead us to the new Jerusalem amen let us pray our dear heavenly father become before your presence now and we want to thank you for your book for the Bible that reveals to us the events that will happen and today when we speak about Babylon we want to ask you please help us to be filled with your Holy Spirit every day in our lives so that we can always discern spiritual from its counterfeits so we can always be filled with your spirit and be led by your spirit and we can be faithful to you till the very end we ask all this in Jesus name morning church it's a time for book promotion before maybe I bring the presentation I like us to pray our father and saviour thank you for this moment thank you for our pastor who has been here to ask about what is almost taking place in this world father we know that the history of the world is coming into a close very soon may you prepare us to meet you in heavenly courts the humble prayer in Jesus name amen my name is Isaya maingo I'm one of the literature evangelists in Central Kenya Conference and today I'm here to bring you some few titles of course we have many out there and I want to start with the first book called Encyclopedia of Foods and their healing power this is one of the books that will help your family and the rest of the members and even yourself it's a three volume book which has the foods and their healing power healing several diseases if you maybe you are having a certain disease they give you the way you can treat yourself using the natural foods and if you don't have any disease they give you in a way that you can prevent those diseases from affecting your body so it is one of the powerful books which we are supposed to to have in every home because through this book many people have healed from their diseases those people who are sick and they are shipped to India or South Africa for those who go to India they are put on herbal medicine not even a convection of medicine so they are using this book in healing people and I have seen several people being healed through these books so it's a set of three and you can come on the table and we can be able to assist you there the next book I want to bring you is Encyclopedia of Medicine of Plants this is one of the books is one two volume book and it has a DVD this book has got 470 medicine of plants and they are healing power the book explains to you the roots what it heals the leaves the fruit the park and every part of that plant what it heals so through this medicine of plants it is when you can know which type of plant heals what like I know most people are suffering from heart pain I discovered from this book that heart pain and ginger it finishes heart pain so if you read this book you have some of the ailments from your body eliminated in a natural way because most people know that heart pain is only water that you can take but it's more than that so there are many more medicine of plants in that book so we have few copies out there you can come and get one another a very essential book is the bible that's new king james bible that bible is a unique bible because even what pastors already presented was come out of the pulpit some of those around 27 chapters topics discussed in that bible is one of the presentation that pastors presented here and other topics which are very hot and tough topics which are handled in that bible which when you are reading your normal bible you might not understand so it is discussed in that bible and that bible is a very wonderful bible because those illustrations which are there are able to assist you to grow spiritually and morally another book that I want to present to you is high effective marriage high effective marriage is one of the books that I say it's a manual for married couples because that book gives you what is supposed to happen in your marriage marriage life for example it tells you there is a difference between male and female they are reasoning they are doings and they are all sorts of behavior in life so that is one of the books that I do recommend for your information from that book research is done it says that women speak men speak 12,500 words in a day but women speak double the number that is 25,000 words in a day so those are some of the things that you find that when women speak a lot don't worry about them because maybe some of them want to meet the target for the day so that is one of the things that I can point out but they are more to know because we were created different from women another book that I want to bring to you is restress restress talks about what triggers stress or what causes stress what are the symptoms of stress and which type of stress because we have four types of stress I am not going to details about that stress but we have four types of stress the first two are no more to any human being but the last two are very bad so through that book it tells you how you can manage stress when you are stressed in any situation and what you can do when you are stressed that is why this book is out there we have some around three copies if you come there we can be able to assist you I want to go to another book no matter what happens life is still beautiful that is one book which can tell you on how to handle any type of stress you found yourself in that book if you read inside it will change your perspective of thinking on a normal way because the way other people see things is not the way you will be seeing them because through that you can be able to know what to do in life when you are faced with challenges so that book is one of the books that I do recommend to any age group when if you are a youth you are a a child you are a senior in any age in life that is one of the books which should not miss in any family another book I want to bring you is feeling good feeling good is a purely women book because it talks about natural remedies for women only why because this book it shows you on how you can do kegel exercises I had when we were in departmental one of the facilitators who was facilitating was saying about kegel exercises so this book gives you on how to do the kegel exercises and also in that book you can know how to check yourself whether you have a lamp on your breast or whether you have cancer breast cancer on your breast so you can test whether you have breast cancer in your own house by using this book the way it shows so this is one of the books that I recommend for ladies to have so that they can be able to assist themselves where in their own house it has also DVD in it when you buy the DVD is inside and the next book I want to present to you is smart parent smart parent this is one of the books that is supposed to I recommend to young parents who are rearing little children up to their teenage age because it gives you strategies on how to rear children especially how you can you can know how to give them a head start in life so that they can become good citizens in future wherever they go so this is one of the tools that parents, young parents I recommend to you that you should be able to read this book because the way we grew is not the way our children are growing this is a digital area and that's why I'm recommending this so that it can change your tactic of rearing your children the next book I want to bring to you is discover your worth discover the Bible I'm sorry discover the Bible is a set of series of Bible for our children because it gives them stories of love from the Bible and they are around 3-5 stories for school age children written in a simple language that children can be able to understand and they are spreading on all those volumes that you see on your screen and they are slowly from the Holy Bible so they have beautiful illustrations in every age they capture the spirit the excitement of the Bible for our children so your children will develop and appreciate the Bible as the word of God and each story can be read around in the family and the children can enjoy in fact they enjoy seeing the pictures which are given as a illustration from this Bible so this is one of the books that I recommend to those who want to build moral values for their children in the family the last book that I want to present is the one which was presented yesterday and this I'm speaking with a lot of authority because yesterday or even not yesterday the week before some of our aspirants in presidential they launched their manifestos I want to point one of the aspirants who launched his manifesto at KICC I know you all know about Wachakoya if we cannot introduce our families with this book to our children our children are going to to get lost and will be held accountable as parents because of what you can imagine now our youth are embracing the manifesto of Wachakoya ya and he says we should plant what marijuana so Kenya would be a marijuana what country so as he puts it you hear that the youth are saying he has a new content let me tell you we have a new content of true what heroes which can put moral values in our children so my dear friends and church members of Nairobi Central I ask you to buy this book so that we can instill good moral values to our children so that when they hear such manifestos coming up in our life they will know that there is good moral values in this society so if we want to put our country to the right perspective we need to embrace such books which puts moral values in our children and as I come to a close we have books like steps to Christ that one I don't need to project it those books like steps to Christ they are the books that we can be able to take to friends and give them they guide them on 13 steps to Christ they will later on come to this church and actually become church members and may God bless you as we come to a close I wish that we pray and I hope that we will come on the table and I am actually congratulating for those who have visited our table but for those who have not please half time because we have today and tomorrow Saturday we will not be displaying and when we come to a close tomorrow at one then we could have closed the selling of the books so please we hope and trust that you will come on our table and we can share more of those who have not presented may God bless you as we have our prayer our kind and loving master we have presented books before the congregation and for those books that we have presented the ones which you have not presented may you exhort yourself in those books because after all what we have been reached here we might forget but with books we cannot forget may you arrange for your members to come on the table and take those books which are there which can enrich themselves with information and help them in life it's a humble prayer in Jesus name amen God bless you we wish you well good morning a lot is good all the time I am glad to be back here the prophetic message it's my prayer that you are being blessed every day and that this week shall be a turning point in aspects of your work with Christ we have so far built much on the first egos message and today we get to the second egos message and tomorrow we will be wedding up with that egos message now if you have been with me now you already know the flow of our discussions the car meetings for this year is themed I will go with a free egos message or if you want to proclaim free egos messages and I chose to dwell on that text to prophesy to bring out the aspects of these messages in this text of Revelation 14 6 down to verse 12 and our series is captioned God's final appeal before the final crisis or if you want the last appeal from God before the final crisis we are talking about the experience after the close of provision it is going to be a nasty experience when the provision is closed because we all know from prophecies once the provision is closed then what you are waiting is a plague and of course the outmate appearing of Christ now God chose to give a final appeal to church that his children may not be caught up in the crisis this morning we are going to go to verse number 8 of the a book of Revelation 14 where we are going to discuss or look at a subject the collapse of a great monarch the collapse of a great monarch and before we get to this let's have a wonder prayer gracious for the heaven hallowed be the name thy kingdom come thy will be done this place and for this message just as it is in heaven for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory declared you will be lifted up you shall draw all men unto yourself say that I may not be seen but may you be seen as you speak to us all put your words into your mouth and order my thoughts according to your will I pray in Jesus name amen the collapse of a great monarch now a reading of the wonder of God from verse number 8 says and another angel saying Babylon is fallen that great city because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and so the first angel flew in the midst of the skies with the everlasting gospel preaching to all the nations tribes and tongues and people and saying to the Lord glory to him for the harvest judgment has come and worship him who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of the waters and after that then John sees another angel flying and of course by now you appreciate that the angel we are talking about here is not a literal angel but is God sending message in the last days which shall be proclaimed as a way of warning God's people and preparing them Christ so John sees and I saw innovation as it was another angel this angel was saying Babylon is fallen fallen that great city and the reason why Babylon is falling is given because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication again see in this verse the works of Babylon the influence of Babylon is again worldwide the gospel the everlasting gospel is given to all the world nations, tribes and people the Babylon and her influence is worldwide as a world scope and so we are dealing with the two powers both in church of the universe she has made all the nations we won't talk about all the nations we are talking about all peoples of the world drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and so this second angel's message I begin by saying it is sentan or drawn the first angel's message the reason why we have the second angel's message in the manner it appears is because of what we have received from the first angel's message you see God cannot judge Babylon and bring it to not if he did not first give it a chance to receive the everlasting gospel and if Babylon receive the everlasting gospel and glorify God and worship God who created the heavens and the earth then Babylon could have fallen Babylon is falling because it has refused to receive the everlasting gospel Babylon is falling because it has refused to fear God Babylon is fallen because it has refused to glorify God Babylon is fallen because it has refused to worship the creator infact as we proceed with this one and even as we get to tomorrow that angel's message we see Babylon as a system that also wants to be worshiped and we can't have two beings being worshiped and that's why we speak about the great controversy because the controversy between God and Satan both God and Satan won't be worshiped so Babylon Bible is or the term Babylon in the Bible appears 280 times this is very important for you to know there's no any other city that has been referenced so many times like Babylon apart from Jerusalem Jerusalem is prominent in the Bible but the second city with that prominency is Babylon and from Genesis to Revelation we interact the term Babylon for a number of 280 times or there about now the Bible has two aspects of introducing Babylon or discussing Babylon Babylon is looked into in the scriptures from a physical or literal perspective when the Bible talks about Babylon it is talking about a physical city a literal city like Nairobi a real literal city for the Bible when it talks about Babylon they are portions of the Bible that speaks about Babylon in the context of a spiritual battle a spiritual Babylon so as we interact in the 280 passages of the Bible that talks about Babylon some of them applies to a literal city and others applies to a spiritual or symbolic Babylon representing a system that is opposed to God so briefly let's go into literal Babylon because we want to understand what is this Babylon that is foreign so when talk about literal Babylon I say there is enough evidence in the Bible and even in the history in showing that indeed there is a city that lived that was called Babylon and this particular history in the books of the history traces this particular count of Babylon from the text of book of Genesis chapter 11 both in the world and in church we all trace the beginning of the history of Babylon from the book of Revelation chapter I mean Genesis chapter 11 and we appreciate the issues there in the book of Genesis because after the floods the people of the days chose to find them to put up or to build a tower that would go high in the skies to have reached the place of God and they was in doing this and God came and confused them now the Bible says in Genesis chapter 10 and verse number 9 through 10 that the man who was by building the set of Babylon was connimrod their grandson of Ham and this is very interesting in fact now at your own time go and do a study of nimrod this is very very important just go and do a study on nimrod and see how they are connected with Abraham and the point of departure and what nimrod stands for in the Bible you'll be shocked to see the nimrod is paralleled with Lucifer nimrod is a type of Satan and this is the guy who puts up a city that today is called Babylon and it begins a symbolic or a spiritual Babylon that is opposed to the will of God now this particular name nimrod mean letters revolt or rebel very very important letters revolt or rebel that is his name that is significant in this history and this prophecy nimrod was a Guinness God somebody's own kingdom by force this kingdom originally consistent of Babel a wreck, a card and a canal in the land of Shina southern Babylon above the partial gaf and along the Euphrates river when we read the book of Genesis chapter 11 chapter 10 chapter 11 you see all the story of nimrod and the city of the belt and one of them is Babel where we get the first part of the city of Babylon but in the Bible for the 280 occurrences of Babylon also there are other names I used to refer to Babylon I thought this was important just for you to understand or to know so that you can go and do an extensive study on this now in the Bible when you go to the book of Ezekiel Babylon is called the land of Kaldins if you go to the book of Zechariah and the book of Daniel the land of Shina and of course in the book of Genesis also Shina is where nimrod was putting up the tower of Babel when you go to the book of Isaiah chapter 21 the Babylon is called desert of the sea when you go to Isaiah 47 verse 55 the Babylon is called the land of kingdom the land of kingdoms when you go to Jeremiah the Babylon is called land of Miradhaim and when you go to Jeremiah 25 also she is called Cheshak now all these are terms applied to Babylon in one way or another this name is derived from the experience of Genesis 11 as I have said in the land of Shina and we know the story in the history in one of us we have gone to school and we have studied the stories of Mesopotamia and how Babylon was the great economy of the days because of the irrigation that was taking place from the liver now all this is in the Bible when especially verse number 4 that I would want you to pay attention to of Genesis 11 the Bible says then they say come let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for who for who for ourselves now the people who are building a city or tower of Babylon led by Nimrod their motive their intention was to have a place as higher as that of God number 2 they wanted to get for themselves a name now this is very significant in the Bible and especially when talking about the prophet of Babylon because we see that God was not up with that and the Bible says he came down confounding their language and is cutting them and verse number 9 then he names God himself names the city the tower the place where they were building Babel you see the reason why God is not happy with the whole idea of building a tower but it goes high to heaven as the Bible says and the people get a name for themselves is because whenever you start thinking in that manner wanting to go high to heaven and getting a name you have started claiming a prolegative of God you are putting yourself in the place of God this is very very important of course Babylon because of how it was built and the civilization of the day and all the economy of the day it was a big city in fact the historian says at that particular time those days it was the only city that had about 200,000 people occupying it every day it was such a big city comparatively in the history of the days now and from Genesis there is no mention of Babylon up to the time we interact with the book of Isaiah Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel there is only a portion or mention of Babylon in the book of Joshua chapter 7 verse number 21 when Akin and Sid and there was people and to be checked on who has committed the sin of their class and when Akin was called by Joshua then he says in my tent I had dug somewhere and buried a garment that I had stolen from Babylon that's the only mention of Babylon after the book of Genesis chapter 11 but now we come to the prophecies of Isaiah, of Daniel of Jeremiah and Ezekiel and we get a lot of discussion about Babylon because at that time these prophets are leaving God as a lady started discussing the issue of Babylon its effect in our journey and the consequences that God is intending to bring about from the effect of Babylon Isaiah of course he lived before Babylon would become a great city but Daniel we all know he is a prophet raised right in Babylon Jeremiah in the time of the Babylonian kingdom and when Babylon was such a power Ezekiel is the contemplator of Jeremiah and so we are interacting with the people who and fast hand information of what Babylon was and its effect in the lives of people of God and so briefly let me discuss about the characteristics of Babylon in the Bible now the large people of the ancient days they knew Babylon as a center of iniquity canality and wordliness the people who lived if you ask Jeremiah if you ask Daniel if you ask Ezekiel this is a city of a lost life is a city of no boundaries is a city of do what you want to do this is what they knew about Babylon everything connected with it was in opposition to all righteousness and the effect of leading men down one to the destruction of their souls so when the angel comes and says fallen fallen as Babylon is because God has been working hard to bring down this force this power this kingdom that is living in opposition to as well and as people according to verse 4 of Genesis she wanted or they wanted to go high in heaven and put up a name for themselves as I've said and this can only compare to what we see in Isaiah chapter 14 verse number 14 a discussion of Lucifer who said I will send above the heights of the clouds and I will make myself like the most high now they said we want to build a tower whose top will reach to heaven and we make as world a name now as I've said name road is connected to Lucifer and Isaiah picks this prophecy so many days before Babylon was raised as a power and says this is the intent of the soul of Babylon and so we are also dealing with the Babylonian spirit in this life a Babylonian spirit in the world a spirit that is always exoting itself above the most high God there is so much to discuss in the book of Revelation of course as we are going to see today later in a few slides coming and of course tomorrow in the book of Revelation so Babylon because of its power and the difference between Judah the strength Jerusalem and the temple and the courage of many Jews to Babylon of course we know this where we find the story of Daniel Meshach and Abedna Shadrach who were exiled and Daniel is made a prophet while he is in exile in Babylon of course the story is the book of Second Kings as you can check there in the book of Second Chronicles the prophet Jeremiah devotes two long chapters and I want to call your attention to chapter 50 and 51 of the book of Jeremiah where you get extensive discussion about Babylon by this particular prophet but I'm especially interested in the last writing of Jeremiah concerning Babylon now when you read the prophets of Jeremiah concerning Babylon the very last writing of Jeremiah concerning Babylon Jeremiah same days of Jeremiah verse 62 verse 64 then say Lord you have sinned you will destroy this place so that neither people nor animals will live in it and it will be desolate forever when you finish reading this tie a stone to it and throw it into the euphrates then say so will Babylon think to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her and her people will fall and the Bible there says the words of Jeremiah and here it's very very important to indicate that these were the last writings of Jeremiah concerning Babylon and so the prophecy of Jeremiah concerning Jerusalem even though Jerusalem is so powerful even though Jerusalem the prophecies of Jeremiah is taken captive the people of God is destroying and killing the people of God Jeremiah says finally God is going to be victorious can you say amen Babylon though it is oppressing the people of God Babylon is going to sink and it should never rise again can you say amen and second angel flies and saying fallen is what Babylon Jeremiah has seen God told him and illustrated he gave him the scroll he told him tie the scroll with a stone and throw it in Euphrates river and it was sinking deep it tells him you see how it is sinking that is how Babylon is going to sink Daniel in his book illustrated Babylon as a superior kingdom and he does this in two chapters chapter 2 and chapter 7 now in chapter 2 he compares Babylon with other currencies and Babylon is on top as gold he tells the kingdom Keneza oh king you are the head of gold your kingdom is superior than other kings and later after the death of kingdom Keneza Daniel himself sees a vision where he sees beasts coming and there were four great beasts and the first one was a lion and we know the story of the 7 chapters of the book of Daniel and God tells Daniel what you saw lion is Babylon is the king of jungle so to illustrate the power in which Babylon has lived in says now are these end of gold chapter 7 chapter 7 verse 4 the first was like lion and he goes wings showing the power in land and the power in the skies there was no power like the power of Babylon but then God says even so Babylon will sink and you never rise again are you with me are you with me and so allow me to take you to the spiritual Babylon so that monarch of course we know in the prophecy of Daniel both in chapter 2 and in chapter 7 we know God and prophesied how Babylon will fall and we know men and passions come you remember in chapter 5 of the book of Daniel when the king Beresheza is happy with his people and they are celebrating and even using the utensils from the house of God and lo and behold without their notice they see a handwriting on the wall many many take care and perish and meaning your kingdom has been you've been found wanting and from tonight you're no more and that's how the great money collapse and from that particular time Babylon has never come to power through the world but I want you to know that God was not so much interested in the literal Babylon he just used the literal Babylon to illustrate a great controversy a spiritual battle that is waging in our hearts every single day and God says even that one I have a way out for my people so let's look at the spiritual Babylon in the next few minutes so Babylon is a symbol of a world system that lives opposed to God their system is rooted in pride she not only washes first gods but entices others to do the same as a result her spiritual warfare the only one to God is expressed in her earthly actions of making war on God indirectly against his people and directly against this temple down to chapter 7 says I saw this beast with the tanhons yet I saw a horn that it came making three four of and a mouth to speak things against the most high God and the Bible says in verse 25 he attempted even to change the times and the law of God this is a spiritual Babylon we are dealing with Isaiah chapter 14 verse 12 this power is the power behind Babylon and is a spirit of rebellion against God and is well addressed by Isaiah as Lucifer the son of the morning star chapter 14 verse 12 Daniel chapter 7 verse 25 says and he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the sins of the most high you see in chapter 7 of the book of evolution chapter 2 this is where we discuss about the purpose and our influence in charge of course in the book of revelation we know in chapter 12 chapter 13 before chapter 14 and of course when we jump to chapter 17 and chapter 18 all these are discussing the spiritual Babylon that is opposed to the will of God the righteousness of God the law of God and the true worship of God the beast in chapter 13 and the dragon in chapter 13 all want to be worshiped in chapter 13 of revelation verse number 3 and they shall cause all the people that want to worship the beast and the dragon people went to wonder and ask who is like the dragon who is like the beast and they shall worship him this is the spiritual Babylon that the angel says I saw that he fell fallen is Babylon Daniel chapter 7 verse number 25 imagine he could change the law and the times that we have seen there is a prophecy we know how much purpose has worked for many years to change the law we know even the Bible that we are reading today some parts of this Christodom people do not believe the 10 commandments we know some push of the Bible the second commandments has been removed and we know so many things that have happened within the prophecy in the attempt to change the law we know purpose as declared the leader of purpose as declared himself to be God on earth and I am not ashamed to discuss these things I will get there tomorrow to tell you who this person is and what is transformed but today the message is despite all her pride and power Babylon is fallen Revelation chapter 17 we see an illustration of the system in a form of a woman and John says I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy then the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the failness of her phonication this is chapter 17 now chapter 14 the second angel's message says Babylon is fallen because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of the world her phonication that is chapter 14 the second angel's message now chapter 17 pays attention to the second angel's message why is the second angel's message speaking of the falling of Babylon or in other words Babylon falling in the second angel's message the reason is because in chapter 17 this is a woman and you know in the Bible prophecy a woman represent world the church so we are not dealing with the kingdoms at Jeremiah saw them in chapter 7 but you are dealing with a religious system appearing like the church of God appearing like a lamp of God by it speaking like a dragon this is what in chapter 17 John sees in details it has written the display of the woman the church and a postage church that has cost great ham to the house of God someday sometime God has declared he has a date with her and the payday is coming John says as I was trying to understand who is this what system is this then I saw on her forehead her name God displayed her name that people may not be confused and what is her name her name is Meshri Babylon the great mother of halots and of the abominations of the earth this system the spiritual system a church that is ant christ in nature is what the bible calls Babylon and so when you are looking at the second angels message Babylon is fallen we are not just talking about what happened when man and passion came and attacked king but you are talking about this spiritual system Christ what began in heaven when the war began what came the garden of Eden and said did God say you shall not eat of the fruit and he said surely you shall not die the deception is what God has put a date to come and was and for all deal with it conclusively that he can free as people from the deception and the works of this system called Babylon Papa said today is working so hard to ensure that even the liberty of worship for Sabbath keepers is removed that angels message will be speaking to us talking about the beast the image of the beast and the mark of the beast and we who are faithful being forced to receive the mark of the beast because it is all about worship and this particular worship poor cause the leader of this system the man of woot lawlessness this man of lawlessness is the son of woot destruction second in chapter 2 verse 3 chapter 2 verse 89 he is God the lawless one but the wine of affonication angels say is because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the rather affonication what is the wine of affonication the wine of affonication or affonication are simply the false doctrines the prophecy succeeded introducing to the church and still doing this now when we go to chapter 12 of the book of revelation we see the beautiful church there is picture being a woman who is expectant and about to give birth and she bears the little boy then a dragon is there and waiting to snatch the boy to devour the boy then snatched by a hand mightier than the hand of a man and then taken to be hidden then the woman has given the wings of ego to fly then the dragon started running after that beautiful story there but what is very interesting there is that the dragon after tried catching up with the woman and the woman was running so fast because she had wings and an ego the dragon decided to spew from his mouth water it was like a flood that would swallow, drown the woman now the water that this particular dragon spews from his mouth is false doctrines that would suffocate and drown the people of God now this is what the second angel's message says the wine of half on occasion are you with me so this is the first doctrines for stitching so much in churches today many people are drunk today the cup they are giving us they are telling us it doesn't matter how you appear it doesn't matter how you dress the other day you saw them walking the street saying my choice and they are telling us come to church to the where you are but let me tell you even going to heaven you wouldn't go to heaven the where you are the baby is very clear we shall be changed so when you being told come the where you are that is not true that is an inception Jesus says come the where you are but after you have come to me take upon yourself my yoke it's a simple gospel in the scripture but the reception of this woman tells us come to me the where you are but I am not interested with your salvation I am interested in your comfort that I may destroy you chapter 18 of reveration verse number 4 then God says come out of her my people God is calling us to come out of Babylon God is calling us to come out of this first doctrine God is calling us to come out of this constant rebellion and contention with God God is calling us to live in freedom of a sphere God is calling us to live as a people who know how to fear him and giving glory God is calling us into a worship that is worship of speed and truth God is calling us to live by his word in a time when it is not popular to stand for the truth God says I am calling my people because I am about to destroy her does this bring bells in your mind does it remind you of something let me take you there before God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah he hinders people there can you say amen before God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah he hinders people there and he sent his angel to go and tell them come out of her my people unfortunately one of the people of God even though she heard the voice and she was willing to walk out of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah the attraction in the city who not allow her to walk out of Sodom and Gomorrah and even today even though the appeal is being made still people will be found enjoying life in Babylon how I pray today that we may heed God saying come out of my heart my people that you may not share in our sins unless you receive over plagues I want to end by the quote from Ellen G. White I love his order I love reading the books of Ellen G. White and she says there is a writing page 275 I saw that since Jesus left the holy place of heaven of Henry Sanctuary and entered with a second veil these churches have been filling up with every unclean and hateful bud I saw great iniquity and wellness in the churches yet the members profess to be Christians let me speak to us in our own context here we so much apply this prophecies to the Sunday keepers but let me tell you this prophecy is for us God has exceeded through the ministry of his son on the cross to raise a church that he caused a remnant church but one greatest challenge God has with the remnant church is what is identified in leverage on chapter 3 the luqvomness of the church the rodentian spirit in the church that we are neither warm we are neither cold we are neither in the world we are not in the church we are just good people here on earth when we go to the world and we are with the worldly people we are just like them when we come to church and we are with the Adventist fellows we are just very good Adventist people let me tell you it doesn't happen that way you've got to take chance and stand on one side God spoke that you don't have to tell them choose on whose side you want to belong said their side choose where to belong and as we close the history of the world God is appealing to the Adventist today to be more decisive in whose side you'll belong singing giving ties and offering being in church positions leadership have nothing to do with your salvation God is interested with your soul and has his disciple is also interested in how you demonstrate his power that the world can see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven so she says I have seen a problem in the church members who profess to be Christians are living in the company of a clean birds and spirit look at the rebellious spirit in the church today when I was growing up and I'm not very old when I was growing up I couldn't even imagine how I could stand in church and talk how I want in church when I was and I'm saying I'm not very old do you think I'm very old? no I'm not very old but I am lucky to be in an age today where anyone can stand in the house of God and say anything he want in an age today where men and women children and young people can say anything can say anything do anything with all manner of arrogance and impunity in the house of God as though this is not the house of God I wonder where the fear of God is today am I speaking to adventist members let me tell as friend going to heaven is not a tale is the real story of our salvation and the death of Jesus on the cross yesterday I told you the death of Jesus on the cross has made it so difficult for any evil doer to be forgiven you're not listening to me you know we are deceived there's enough grace of God so we can live here now we want let me tell you the cross has made it so difficult for any evil doer to be forgiven because Jesus and God emptied themself of anything that it can be given to pardon man's sin so their backcrap they have nothing else to give to offer for forgiveness of man until you accept the cross we have serious that heaven is happy with how you are living this life she goes on to say their profession their prayers and exotations are an abomination in the sight of God God says I'm not going to smell in the assemblies for selfishness proud, seed are practiced by them without conscience when all these things are happening the clock is ticking after ending the then angels message in verse number 12 verse number 14 introduces our savior coming can you say amen you just say the bible John says I saw and I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sat like unto the son of of man on his head golden crown a sharple sickle for the harvest is right this harvest is not gathering the saints to come to church this is Jesus coming to take the church home we have no time only but on time we have is for you to prepare yourself put your life in harmony with the principles of heaven with the time it's short is it a desire is it a prayer that you may be on the side of God because it is very very clear that at the end of it all God righteousness the law of God the suburb of God is going to triumph against all the schemes of Lucifer Satan and the system of Babylon I choose to belong to his side Jesus is calling saying come come come out of her but also come unto me is calling us not only to come out of Babylon but to come out of Babylon and come unto him who is the order and the finisher of our faith who understands every time and twist of our spiritual journey for he was tempted as we are and he qualifies to be a sympathizing master of our lives he says come unto me now I shall give you rest I want to invite you as a prayer this morning that you may choose come out of Babylon because Babylon is falling soon Jesus is coming take the church for me stand with me as you pray gracious heaven thank you so much for the time you have given us as you go on with the discussions these warnings you have given us as a church Lord I pray that we may look at this message but it eventually that each one of us purpose to make changes to come to you for refreshing newing and committing that we will be saved from the great day that is coming because indeed you have said a date when Babylon in spite of our power and an influence she is going to sink and never again to rise Lord you want your people to be saved you are appealing to us in the free angels message that we may go and tell other people come out of Babylon come to you because you are preparing a people zebras for good works that people who shall be assured into a kingdom it is my prayer today that Lord those who have hand this message may be disturbed by your presence and by your spirit until they can make such decisions and choices to align their lives and their well to your well as the gospel shall bear fruits in our lives and we shall be prepared for the second coming it is our prayer this morning in Jesus name we will bless you tomorrow we are going to look at the beast image of the beast mark of the beast please don't miss as we end our discussions on the free angels message good morning church good morning the Lord is good so all the time the Lord is good we want to get into the divine service and I request that we all rise up for the doxology may we rise together praise God from who blessings flow Father what in heaven we come before you this morning we thank you for all the blessings that you poured upon us all throughout this week up to this time we want to pray for your Holy Spirit that He might come and guide us into all truth and that He might reveal the truths to our hearts that we might come out of here and all the same people that we came in here may your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven for this we pray in Jesus name God is good and all the time God is good once again and all the time I want to take this opportunity to welcome you all on behalf of the church leadership and the pastorate we want to welcome you to this sixth day of the camp meeting I believe that all of us have been blessed in one way or another from all the summons that we've had so far I want to believe that we have gotten something from all of the speakers that have spoken on this and that we are going to practice and even pass on the blessings that you've received so far so please feel free feel welcome feel at Jesus feet feel at home and let us worship together in truth and in spirit and also I'd like also to take this opportunity to welcome online visitors online viewers may you also feel welcome to join us in this worship at this moment also I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome all the visitors that have joined us maybe for the first time this day and even this week it has been your first time to join us in this church as visitors are there any visitors that we have especially if you're not an adventist are there any visitors around by a show of hands if there are any visitors around in a special way there are some elders standing by the sides who will notice you any visitors in the balcony down ok I think as we proceed we can continue to recognize those visitors and appreciate them by the deacons and also the elders who are standing by the pews thank you very much I also want to take this opportunity to remind you that we have prayer boxes up front here please take a piece of paper and write your prayer request and then drop them in the prayer box and then we will be prayed for at the end of the day after the services are ended also I'd like to welcome all the servants who are leading us in worship today from the church choir the heralds thank you for your service the pianist the same language interpreters and all the other leaders who are going to lead us in worship this day I want to take this opportunity to appreciate you for the work that you are doing may God continue to bless your ministry and that may you continue to do God service I also would like to take this special opportunity to welcome our pastor Pastor Jean thank you very much for your word thank you for accepting God to use you at this special moment as we are going to continue we place God into your hands that you might speak his word and that you might receive God's word from you thank you at this moment also I'd like to ask that all of us let's maintain reverence in the house of God if you have children with you please maintain them by your side so that we do not have any interruptions during the service thank you good morning once again thank you it is another time we are going to read from the word of God may we now open our Bibles the book of Daniel chapter 3 verse 8 to 15 the book of Daniel chapter number 8 verse 8 verse 8 to 15 and I read at this time some astrologers came forward and denounced they choose they say to king Nebutkatnesa oh king live forever you have issued a degree oh king that everyone who hears the sound of the horn the flute, the sita the lair, the harp pipes and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be drawn into a blessing furnace but there are some choose whom you have set over the affairs of province of Babylon Shatrak, Meshak and Abethnego ube no attention to you oh king they neither serve your courts or worship the image of gold you have set up furious with rake Nebutkatnesa, Samon Shatrak, Meshak and Abethnego so this men were brought before the king and Nebutkatnesa said to them is it true Shatrak, Meshak and Abethnego that you did not serve my courts or worship the image of gold I have set up past 15 now when you when you hear the sound of the horn sita have pipes and all kinds of music if you are not ready to fall down and worship the image I made but if you do not worship you will be drawn immediately into a blessing furnace then what court will be able to rescue you from my hand may I repeat from past 8 at this time some astrologers came forward and denounced their choice they say to king Nebutkatnesa oh king, live forever you have issued a decree oh king that everyone who hears the sound of the horn the sita, the lir have pipes and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be drawn into a blessing furnace but there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of province of Babylon Shatrak, Meshak and Abethnego who pay no attention to you oh king they neither serve you your courts or worship the image of gold you have set up you just would break Nebutkatnesa, someone Shatrak Meshak and Abethnego so these men were brought before the king and Nebutkatnesa say to them is it true Shatrak, Meshak and Abethnego that you did not serve my courts or worship the image of gold I have set up now when you hear the sound of the horn the flute, the sita the lir, the have and pipes and all kinds of music if you are not ready to fall down and worship the image I made very good but if you did not worship it you will be drawn immediately into a blessing furnace then what court will you be able to rescue you from my hand may God bless the reading for today we rise up with our theme song inspired by the book of Matthew 28 Godi there for antitial nations we have a story to tell to the nations our theme song may we rise up a story of truth as we will see a story of peace and love a story of peace We want to give thanks and glory unto your name this morning for giving us yet another opportunity to come and worship thee in this day, during this time of the camp meeting. We want to thank you so much for the gift of life and we want to thank you for the love and for the grace that you have extended to each and every one of us. And this morning, our dear Lord of Glory, as we pose to seek your face and listen to you talk to us, we want to invite thy presence, the presence of the Holy Spirit to be with us and also to guide us and to be with the speakers, men and women whom you have called to come and speak to us during this time of the camp meeting. That father in heaven, you may be able to use the speaker, especially our pastor, Pastor Donaldson, as he prepares to speak to us this morning. I want to pray that the Holy Spirit may use him greatly, that father you may be able to give him words, wonderful words of life, that he may be able to speak to our hearts. That father, after having listened to you talk to us, we may be ready for your second coming, which might be very soon at any moment. Again I want to pray for the other speakers whom we have also called, that father you may also use them to thy glory. Remember this church, men and women who are not feeling well, who are sick physically as well as spiritually, you are people who are in the hospital, who are challenged in various ways, we want to commit them in a special way. That father you may meet them according to your will and you may touch those who are sick and you may also provide for those who are in need. We don't forget to pray for our country Kenya during this time of election and campaign. That father you may bring peace from on high and you may your God keep this country safe. Be with the programs that are still ahead of us this morning and Father Lord we pray that you may bless this church members and even those who are not here with us this morning, even the ones who are breathing that father you may be with them. Bless this camp meeting and bless all of us and prepare us for your kingdom that as you prepare to come again Father Lord we may be among the group whom you have redeemed. Who will sing Osana Alleluia on that great day that you will come back to this earth and take us home. Thank you for everything, for we commit everything under the mighty hands is my humble prayer in Jesus name. Amen. God is good once again. We thank God for this opportunity where we want to worship Him with our tites and offerings. I invite all of you to prepare your tites and offerings for those who wants to give virtually via MPSA. The pay bill number is 320100 and for that is for Airtel that is SDA01. Account number please put in the offering that we are giving. As you are being waited upon by the deacons and deaconesses I request them to stand up so that we can have a word of prayer even as the church choir is leading us in worship. As the church choir is coming let us read from the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 7. 2 Corinthians 9.7 it says every man according as he has proposed in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for the Lord, for God loves a cheerful giver. May we all be blessed even as we return the tites and give offerings to God. The deacons and deaconesses let's pray. Our Father in heaven thank you for this time that we want to worship you with our giving and returning our tites. We pray that you might bless us and continue to provide for us. And Father may we continue to be a blessing even to humanity. We will continually be done in our lives as it is in heaven. We pray this in Jesus' name amen. Welcome to our children's story. I'd like us to greet the change in the way we do it. Come meet in 2022. Meet in 2022. 2022. And Vichitika it's happening. Our story today is saying I will go in the name of the Lord. And our story is coming from 1 Samuel chapter 17 and we'll read verse 45 and 46. The Bible said and David answered. You are coming against me with a sword, a spear and a javelin but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty. The God of the Israel armies you have defiled. This very day the Lord will put you in my power. I will defeat you cut off your head. I will give the bodies to the Philistin soldiers to the birds and the animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God. So the Bible tells us that there was a father by the name of Jesse and he had a son David. And so one time David was taking care of sheep. He called him David come come come. I want you to go and look after. Check on your brothers take some bread and ground nuts. And as David was excited to go and see the brothers fighting at the battlefield. So he ran to the battlefield. But when David got to the battlefield he was surprised to find a big giant insulting the God of Israel. And do you know what Goliath would do when it's time to pray in the morning. He would come up stand on a hill. Israel send me a champion. And the Israelites would be afraid they would be shivering. They would run in the tent. And again when it's time to pray in the afternoon. Goliath would come Israel send me a champion. And they would be afraid they would run in the tent. Again he would do it in the evening so that they do not pray. But when David arrived he heard what Goliath was saying. And David said I cannot sit and look at this man inside my God. And then David said what shall the king do to the man who will bring down this giant. And David accepted the challenge and when he faced Goliath. David got some five stones and Goliath said you give me this little boy to me. I have been a man of war and I can bring down this little boy. And when David saw what Goliath was saying he said to him you are coming with me with the sword and javelin. But I come in the name of our Lord. So boys and girls as we go on this mission as we share the love of God. The three angels message they are some giants out there. There are some Goliath that you are going to find. But when you go in the name of the Lord there is power, power, wonder, waking power. In the what? Racious blood of the Lord. So boys and girls let us go in the name of the Lord. Are we going to go in the name of the Lord? Amen. So let us close our eyes as we pray to go in the name of the Lord. Let us pray. Have any father? Just like David we have accepted the challenge to go and face the filistines out there. We pray that as we go to preach this three angels message we will meet different institutions. We will meet the beast. We will meet all these things that will come against us. But we will not be afraid because we are going in the name of the Lord almighty. So bless us and use us as little children because we have prayed in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So from me and my team we love you and we say that you must go in the name of the Lord. Bye. Make an announcement that we made last evening on baptism. And I pray that you may listen to this carefully. We had announced that we will be doing our baptism next sabat on 16th. And so for those who would be willing to baptize we had asked you to come out for that. But after the announcement we have some requests and a bit of consultations. And we have changed that we will be doing our baptism next base coming sabat. So as we end our come meetings we shall do our baptism. These are day after tomorrow. So kindly those of you who wish to be baptized. Now we have very short time to have your names and prepare you. So I'm requesting that you give us your names in of the pastors or the elders. Today elder baby is on duty. Where is elder baby? Elder baby is not in. Thank you. Elder Daniel. Daniel. Kindly you can see his face maybe there could be visitors. If you want to baptize you can give out your name to him or to any of our pastors or elders. To recommit themselves and rededicate themselves by baptism. We were looking at the 16th pastor has said that we have people. Can't wait until the 16th. And so this Sabbath we're going to have a big celebration for the most exciting news that can happen in all Nairobi. It's whenever anybody goes down into the watery grave. Can you say amen out there? And we are excited and looking forward to what God is going to do for us on this Sabbath. As we celebrate with our brothers and sisters who are making the ultimate commitment to the Lord and savior Jesus Christ. And I hope I'm praying that there are others of you who are listening either through the virtual airwaves or those who are here in person. That you are taking stock of your spiritual lives. That you are not just basing where you are in Christ on what you used to be or your experience in the past. The times in which we are living in are so critical. You need to be very sure that you are in the Ark of Safety. And sometimes that means that you need a new start, a fresh start, a jump start, whatever it is brothers and sisters. We don't want to leave this encampment without making sure that Jesus is first, best and foremost in our life. What do you say out there? Amen. Once again we certainly thank both our choirs for the uplifting music that they have shared with us in making our worship experience so meaningful. Thank you again for using your great talents gifts to lift up the name of Jesus. Now, I'm going to do something today that is a little dangerous for pastors. I want to use a text that is well worn, familiar, and yet I still believe that it has import. And so I'm going to attempt today to take an old well and see if we can get some fresh water from it. I call your attention to the third chapter of the Book of Daniel. You heard the preamble to what I want to talk about red so earlier in our scripture reading. But I want to add these key verses. Daniel chapter 3 and I want to pick up this familiar narrative but one that never loses its import in verses 16 and following. If you have your Bibles or your devices, I call your attention now to the third chapter of the Book of Daniel verse 16. And wherever you are, as has been our custom, would you please stand as we give honor to God's Word. I'm reading from the new King James version but I trust whatever version that you have will carry its import. The Bible says that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindigo answered and said to the King, We have no need to answer you in this matter if that is the case. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and He will deliver us from your hand, O King. But if not, let it be known to you that we do not serve your gods. Nor will we worship the golden image which you have set up. I want to talk for a few minutes this morning. Subject entitled Living in the Key of F, Living in the Key of F. Father, once again we have assembled ourselves for the express purpose of hearing from you. Now we pray, Lord, that our hearts will be open and receptive, our minds clear to hear your word. Bless us with your presence, for we dare not open up your sacred book. We ask in a special sense that we might capture the splendor of Him who really matters. For we are careful to ask it in the name of Jesus. Let everyone say amen and amen and you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Living in the key of F. The piano has 88 keys. It consists of repetitive notes with letter names ranging from A to G. Each note has one of three designations. It is either a natural or flat or a sharp. All except one key. The key of F on the musical scale is unique. For it is the only key signature that has only one flat. No other key in the entire keyboard has this distinction except the key of F. The key of F is also unique because it is the only key that has one black note. Every other key except the key of F has a white key. I mentioned all this because in a brief moment of reflection I said to myself in a real sense every child of God ought to be as unique in this world as the key of F is to the piano keyboard. Permit me to pause here just for a moment because I just stopped by to tell you that the ultimate spiritual challenge in your spiritual pilgrimage is that life has a way of severely pressing you to the point where you are tempted to change keys in life. You are dealing with a danger so subtle that it does not require you to completely and obviously be out of tune with God. Neither do you have to be completely tone deaf in order to play your spiritual music in a way that does not sound right to heaven. All that needs to really happen is for the devil to use somebody or something to get you to either modulate up or slip down just a half of a note. To be sidetracked by enticing you to spend more time playing other keys that lead to spiritual distraction. The devil's game plan for people in this room is not all that complicated. He knows that with your religious training he will be hard pressed to get you immersed in the squala of sinfulness. So his plan is to get you to play the key F just off note. Just enough to make you think that you are safe and secure while you are out of sync with the Holy Spirit. Close but not connected. Around the church but not grounded in the truth. Convicted but not converted on the church ledger but not in the Lamb's Book of Life. Busy practicing and doing the do's and don'ts of religion as long as you are not engaged in mission. Anything by any means necessary to keep you preoccupied instead of focusing your attention on spending the time God wants you to spend living in the key of F. Every person whether male or female, black or white, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, young or old ought to stand for something. And if you're going to make it in this life, if you're going to avoid the traps of the evil one, you must have some stopping point, some value that you will not violate. There must be something that you will not compromise, something you will declare no matter what pressure thus far and no more. Some core belief that is so dear to you that you would rather die than give up. In fact, brothers and sisters, the Bible is really a constant plea for you and for me to stand for something less we fall for everything. And the clarion call of today, the most pressing need at this desperate hour in Earth's history is for God's people to realize the value that God places on living in the key of F. And I want to say this to some young person or some person young of age. The most significant contribution that you can make to the church, your family, yourself or for God is to be in this crisis hour, a man or woman who has ordered their steps in the key of F. God is looking for anybody who will stand without convenient excuse that wrong is okay just because everybody else is doing it. God is looking for people who are willing to stand for what is right even if it means that they must stand alone. God is looking for disciples who will proclaim the good news by the testimony of their lives and principle living. And that's why the story of our text is so insightful and never loses its import for is the story of three young people who were living in the key of F. Who at a critical moment despite great pressure to do otherwise stood up for Jesus demonstrating that he was first, best and foremost in their lives. Nebuchadnezzah, the undisputed ruler of the then known world. Nebuchadnezzah, the king of Babylon begin to think that he was more important than God. To validate his exaggerated sense of I'm all that and a bag of chips he decided to build a golden image dedicated to himself. God had revealed to him in a dream the future kingdoms that would come on the earth. Nebuchadnezzah's kingdom was represented by a head of gold and though strong and powerful, God had shown Nebuchadnezzah that his kingdom eventually would come to an end and be replaced by another kingdom. But Nebuchadnezzah decided I don't care what God says I'm not receiving his information my kingdom will last forever. And to back up his defiats, Nebuchadnezzah instructed his artisans to build the very image God had shown him in his dream with one exception. Instead of just the head being gold he directed the head, the torso, the arms, the thighs, the legs, the feet, in fact the entire image from head to toe to be made out of gold which represented Babylon. Nebuchadnezzah was saying to God that I and my kingdom will be here forever and by the time of our text when the image was completed he commanded everybody within his realm to come to the plains of Dura and worship the golden image at a designated time in order to pay homage to his egomania and anyone who refused to bow down and worship the image did so with the certain knowledge that they would be put to death by being thrown into a fiery furnace. The record says in verse 7 that when the music began to play everybody bowed down except three young people Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego three people who were living in the key of F Now don't miss that for while the intent of the narrative is to focus our attention on the gallantry of these three Hebrew boys who were heroes who did not bow down the real underlining tension for us today is while the three boys did not bow down everybody else did which causes me to wonder if Daniel were writing today what would he write about us here at Nairobi Central for while the music of the world plays would he be able to declare that everybody else bowed down except the people here at Nairobi Central Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were not the only Old Testament seven-day Advitish Christians who worshiped God they were not the only people from the church on the plains of Dura confronted with the pressure to compromise and the question today is why did the majority of God's people choose to bow down reaching an activity of worship that they knew was offensive to God why was only Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego ready to stand when tested well the answer is clear the majority bowed down because they lacked commitment and conviction the truth is they did not possess a heart for God Jesus said to love God we must love Him with all of our mind our soul our strength and there can be no equivocation about His preeminence in our lives hear me now those who bowed down bowed down because even though they were surrounded by religion and participated in it they were not living in the key of F Jesus was the center of their joy in name only because the truth of the matter is while they knew a lot of information about Him they learned a lot of nice facts according to Him Jesus had never really captured their hearts and despite the best efforts of home, school or church it was easy for the devil to chip away until their religious rut and status quo became palatable to them can't you hear them in your mind's eye can't you hear us hey Shadrach get down that serious you can just do it today and tomorrow go back to your business can't you hear us I know it's wrong but I'm in love me Shack just do it this one time it's okay you don't have to keep doing it just bow down this one time and get it over with can't you hear us the Lord will understand when they go Nebuchadnezzar is not playing he's going to put you in a fiery furnace and you don't want to burn up hear me now don't fool yourself what you do now will determine to a large degree what you will do later if you cannot take God seriously now and you think that you will somehow get it together later on you are sadly deceived if you only come to church because your parents make you if you only come to church because you grew up in the church and it is the only church that you know if you only know stories from the Bible but God has not given you your own story if you have tried to have a testimony but you are unwilling to go through the test that makes the testimony if Jesus is not your friend in fact if he is not your very best friend then you are prime candidate to succumb to the temptations that will shortly come on the face of the earth and here's the kicker you will fall you will fail you will conform you will capitulate you will compromise you will cough up your Christianity precisely for one reason your demise will not be because of what you thought you were missing and had to go out to get no, your demise will be because of what you always thought what you already lacked Shadrach, Meshach and Abindi Gold were able to stand at the most trying time in their lives because they had a firm grip on Jesus at an early age learn to love God with all of your heart learn to develop good spiritual habits because you will always do in a crisis what you are practicing and learning to do right now you will bow down or stand firm give up or get out get in or get through compromise or show courage fall into sin or have faith surrender to role or submit to righteousness in direct proportion to how much we choose to cultivate a meaningful relationship with Jesus when Nebuchadnezzar heard of their refusal he pointed to the fire reminded Shadrach, Meshach and Abindi Gold that punishment awaited them if they persisted and not obey and then he added this addentum that changed the whole trajectory of the story he said to them if you don't obey I'm gonna put you in the fiery furnace and he said if I put you in the furnace who can deliver you out of my hands now why in the world he go and say that Shadrach, Meshach and Abindi Gold replied in a mortal fashion we are not careful about this matter in other words we don't have to discuss it we don't need to caucus we don't need a board meeting we don't need to have a debate we don't need to call an impromptu business meeting we don't even need a commercial break if it be so that is to say Nebuchadnezzar if that's your decision for God not the God of my parents but the one that I know personally and intimately myself whom we serve the one that we are committed to the one that we are in relationship with he is able in other words Nebuchadnezzar you may think you have the power but you are not running the show oh I wish I could stamp that indelibly on every forehead listening to me God calls the shots he always has and he always will if Calvary proves anything it is that God is able the God we serve is able to deliver evil may crucify on Friday but God is able to fix it on Sunday the key to standing when everybody and everything around you suggest that you bow is to learn how to bring God into the situation but that's not all if you really want to see God work learn how to sweeten the pot don't just bring God into the situation but exercise faith while you wait for him to show up the Bible says in Hebrews 11 verse 6 without faith it is impossible to please God for he that come after God must believe that he is able and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him if you want to please God don't stop at verse 17 when you say God is able move up to the higher ground of verse 18 but if not he should have been to go got the Holy Spirit excited about their testimony but if not is a statement of permission and submission that I am willing to let God do his thing in the manner that he sees fit but if not is an attitude that takes your religion to a level beyond where you serve him everything is going right up to a level where your testimony is in harmony with the lyrics of the songwriter whatever my lot thou has taught me to say with my soul God is able is powerful enough because our God can do anything but if you really want to get God excited and but if not for it is the highest compliment that you can give to God because it declares that even if things don't work out as you think they should you are still confident that God is still working for your good but if not see that's big boy and big girl talk it communicates the message that because you know God's heart it is not necessary for you to always see his hand and because you trust him you will trust him even though you can't trace him but if not is like sweet music in God's ear because it is the sibling of other statements of faith like though you slay me yet will I trust you like father take this cup away nevertheless not my will but your will be done it hangs around with statements of faith no weapon formed against me shall prosper and the Lord is my light and salvation in whom shall I fear but if not is a testimony that recognizes that before you get there God has already been there because he's already been there where you are trying to get now it means that he has already prepared for the situation but if not validates that I have since enough to give God credit enough because I have been with him long enough to know that if he allows it to happen he has already thought that thing through and already worked that thing out it's alright to stand in the midst of your difficulty and declare God is able but the greater testimony comes if you can also add to your conviction that God is able but if not Nebuchadnezzar got so angry when the three Hebrew boys declared but if not that he ordered his soldiers to make the furnace seven times hotter the wrecker says it was so hot that the flames slew those who escorted the three Hebrew boys into the fire Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell bound into the fiery furnace but the Bible says they did not burn up infact the only thing that burned were the ropes that tied their hands and the only reason the ropes burned up was because the ropes were Babylonian the Bible says fear not for I have redeemed you I have called you by my name you are mine when you pass through the waters I will be with you when you walk through the fire you shall not be burned and the flames shall not consume you for I am the Lord the Holy One your savior what I'm trying to say is this if God allows you to go into the fire he will also take the heat out of the flames and if God allows you to go through the fire not only will he take the heat out of the flames if that is not enough for your situation he will get into the fire with Nebuchadnezzar expected to see three utterly destroyed boys but when he looked into the fire again something caught his eye Nebuchadnezzar turned to his cronies and said didn't we cast three men into the fire but I Nebuchadnezzar was introduced to God's math where two fish the size of a small sardine and five body loaves can feed five thousand Nebuchadnezzar was introduced to God's math where a little cruise oil can feed a prophet and a widow and a child through a famine Nebuchadnezzar was introduced to God's math where I can do more with nine temps than I could if I kept all of my money Nebuchadnezzar was introduced to God's new math where a multitude of sins can be erased by one drop of Jesus blood Nebuchadnezzar said I put three people into the fire but now I see four and the fourth person that I see was Jesus who never forgets his own Tradition says that when the youths were about to be put into the fire God called an emergency meeting up in heaven said to the angel, Sinclair how long will it take you to get down there to save the three Hebrew boys Sinclair replied it would take me about five seconds Lord God replied that's not fast enough so he turned to Gabriel and said Gabriel how long would it take you to get there Gabriel said I can get there in one second God said well that's not fast enough then he turned to Jesus and said how fast can you get there Jesus replied father I'm already there low I am with you always even throughout the consummation of the ages he was the fourth person in the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abendigo he was the third person in prison with Paul and Salas he was the second person with John on the Isle of Patimus he is the one person that you need to stand with you remember because the Hebrew youths didn't bend, budge or break neither did they burn because God always comes through remember that being a Christian is like being a teabag you are not much until you've been placed in hot water remember God runs the show even if it doesn't look like it for he knows exactly what he's doing remember in every situation God has thought that thing through and he already has worked that thing out remember that God is able he will either take the heat out of the flame or he'll get in the fire with you either way you are in good hands remember following the path of least resistance is what makes people and rivers crooked remember spiritual failure occurs because of what we lack learn to love God with all of your heart and let your devotion be to him like blue the three words but if not are just as important to God as God is able please God by giving him permission through your submission learn new math one with God is a majority no matter how many people are on the opposition and after you have done all you can just stand, be still and see the salvation of the Lord and in this crisis hour be faithful to God by living in the key of F your head's about in my country we have several branches of service for the military one is called the Army Navy, the Air Force and the Marines and often times in my country these branches of the military will go to the high schools of various high schools across our nation and they go there for the express purpose of recruiting young people to consider a profession in the military there was one such school where the recruitment took place with the senior class in the high school and each of the branches of service the Army, the Navy and the Marines were scheduled to have 15 minutes of peace to make a convincing argument to those who may be interested in going into the military the Army representative went first and he used the famous slogan that the Army is known for in America be strong and be all that you can be if you come into the Army we will make you into all that you can be but instead of 15 minutes he took 20 minutes there were only 45 minutes allotted so the Navy recruiter got up next saw that the Army recruiter had taken 20 minutes decided that he would not be outdone so he made his pitch which is famous for the Navy if you come into the Navy you will see the world and so he took 20 minutes that left the Marine recruiter with just 5 minutes to make his case the Marine recruiter walked up to the stage got behind the podium and for 4 minutes of his 5 minutes he just simply stood at attention and said nothing finally when he had 1 minute left he said to the senior class at that high school potential persons who might be recruits for the military he said most of you would be better off in the Army or Navy because only a few good men and women have what it takes to be a Marine those of you who are desirous to be different and to make a difference meet me in the dining room dismissed and the entire class showed up in the dining room where the Marine recruiter was what I'm trying to tell you today simply is this in a world of mediocrity in a world and in a church where most people want to be like everybody else God is looking for those who are willing to be different and to make a difference who are willing to live in the key of F let us pray before I pray I'm wondering if today that those are listening to me whether online or those who are in this audience today want to say to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in this crisis hour in which we are living in a world surrounded by mediocrity that by your grace I want to be different and I want to make a difference I want to live in the key of F I don't want to be like all the other keys on the piano I want to be unique for my God if you are here today and would like for me to especially acknowledge your commitment in my prayer I want to invite you to stand you want to be different you want to be a Marine despite everybody else you want to be one of the few men or women who is determined to live in the key of F now before I pray I would be remissed if I did not offer an opportunity for someone either online or someone here in the midst of our in-person service who understands and realizes that this is a critical juncture in their lives before you can live in the key of F for Jesus it presupposes that you have a relationship with Jesus and so I want to encourage some man woman boy or girl some young person today if you really want to make God excited that you want to say to him Lord I want a relationship with you perhaps my relationship in the past has gotten off track and I need a refreshing I need a new experience I need a new place to be able to say that I started over with the Lord or perhaps you're a young person today you've been around the church maybe you've grown up in the church but you've never really made a conscious personal decision to make Jesus Lord of your life now God won't force it on you but He stands at the door ready to receive you and all He's asking is for permission to enter your life and to become first best and foremost I don't know who you are but perhaps you are here today God has been speaking to you and saying hey listen I heard the pastor say that there is a way for me to signal my ultimate commitment my definitive statement that I am on the Lord's side He's going to grant us the privilege by opening up the baptismal waters for those who need to come back home or those who have never made a definitive decision for Jesus Christ well the church is praying everybody's head is bowed here's what I want you to do it's going to take some courage but if you will take one step for Jesus you will find that your steps will be light because He will dispatch angels to help you to take the rest of the steps so I'm calling for that man woman boy or girl here today who perhaps knew Jesus but when you came to this camp meeting you know and you knew that your relationship with Him had grown stale in Mildewd you need a new start if you want that new start to start today I want to invite you simply step out of your seats come down it's going to take courage but don't worry about anybody else in here because this is between you and Jesus I want to call for that young person today that perhaps has never simply made a personal decision to accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and you want to make this camp meeting a special time where the Lord and Saviour will receive you the while every head is bowed the people in this church are praying if you meet one of those conditions won't you come man woman boy or girl right now just step out of your seat and we will receive you and you can join the others who are planning to participate in the big celebration of baptism anybody here today want to make that decision won't you come for those who are online we don't want to leave you out either if God is speaking to you and you know that you need a new start you need a new experience with the Lord and Saviour somehow the devil has gotten you off track but you need and want what you once had back again there's a number that's on the screen call that number and there are counselors there waiting to receive your call and they will provide you with all of the instructions that you need so that you can participate also this is serious business God is looking for those who are totally on his side anybody else here today want to say to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Lord I can't go another day not another minute not another second I hear you speaking to me and I want to make my calling and election clear and sure any young person today want to say to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I want you to be first best and foremost in my life I'm getting ready to pray there's still time for somebody to come anybody else today want to make their calling and election sure your head's about bother we thank you today Lord for the example of Shadrach Meshach in Abendigo who teach us through their testimony that not only is our God able but when we add but if not we show supreme confidence in him your people are standing today signifying that they want to live in the key of F they want to be unique different and make a difference they don't want to be mediocre they don't want to be just like most people going through the motions not up or down just going through the motions no they want to do something great for you my prayer is that you bless them my prayer is that you prepare them my prayer is that as they live in this crisis time may the preparation of loving you first best and foremost prepare them now and for the crises that must come and may each one of us live in the key of F so that the world can know that we have been with you thank you for those who are considering being baptized recognizing Lord that they need to make their calling an election sure and now father hold us protect us bless us but give us the commitment and consecration that is necessary to live in this world in an exceptional manner for you we thank you in Jesus name bless everyone to live in the key of F this is our prayer in Jesus name amen and amen turn to your neighbor and tell your neighbor I'm praying for you to live in the key of F being faithful by living in the key of F we will close our worship with song number 610 stand like the brave song number 610 in our SDA hymnals as will be our closing song I request that we rise as we do this song stand like the brave 610