Speaker 1: Hallelujah, another round of applause for this man who have led us so ably.
Speaker 1: We can do a better job.
Speaker 1: Let's give it to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Talk to the man next to you and tell them I thank God you're around.
Speaker 1: It's good to be in a house full of men and we appreciate the ladies who are here.
Speaker 1: I see a couple of them.
Speaker 1: If it's a lady near you, also turn to them and say Karibusana, we are happy that you are here.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, god is good and all the time.
Speaker 1: Another hand from man to the Lord, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and his name is Jesus.
Speaker 1: For those who are visiting with us for the first time, either in person, upstairs, downstairs, and those who are following online, what we are having here at Buckland's Baptist is a men's conference.
Speaker 1: It is an altar the men of this church have chosen to raise, and let me appreciate the leadership of men.
Speaker 1: If you just stand up, i think we say today director, not chair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's give a hand to the Lord and appreciate all of them, the leadership of the men.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for raising this altar.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and I know a lot of prayer has gone in preparation.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the pastor, family pastor, pastor Felista.
Speaker 1: She is somewhere at the back.
Speaker 1: Yes, i know she is following the service.
Speaker 1: Let's give a hand to the Lord and appreciate her and the team that has organized So.
Speaker 1: At Buckland's Baptist Church we recognize and acknowledge the place of man and that is why we are having this men's conference.
Speaker 1: Melvin was when was here leading us in prayer.
Speaker 1: He said we started a story yesterday with Reverend Ambrose Nyangau getting us started and opening the gates, and today we have another great man He'll be here in just a moment coming to speak to us And we thank God for the momentum that has been set.
Speaker 1: I have received texts from people as far as Canada, some from Australia, who have been following this service from yesterday, and they are saying let's keep going.
Speaker 1: And you know, when men raise an altar, great things happen.
Speaker 1: Genesis 35, there's an altar called Bethel.
Speaker 1: It was raised by Jacob And Bishop.
Speaker 1: You remember what happened?
Speaker 1: He put a stone there, poured oil there.
Speaker 1: There was a connection direct with heaven.
Speaker 1: So one man with God raising an altar, a whole nation blessed And Chrisam convinced by this altar being set here in Buckland's Baptist that Kenya and Africa and the world will receive a very special blessing.
Speaker 1: How many believe with me?
Speaker 1: Let me see even the man upstairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we really bless the Lord, and so tonight we are very, very privileged to have Tony Kiyama He will be here in a moment.
Speaker 1: His bishop, he is renowned here in Nairobi, in Kenya and around the world And, apart from the ministry that is there at River of God, kag Packlands, he has an online presence and he's got a very big following all over the world.
Speaker 1: And so we have a man who is coming to share with us, who I've known for a long time, together with his wife, caroline, and the three sons.
Speaker 1: Two of them are here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll introduce them.
Speaker 1: I've known him for a long time in this city and we have served the Lord together And I know he's a spirit-filled man who speaks as it is.
Speaker 1: He's candid in his approach I'm just preparing you hallelujah, and so that's how he's coming.
Speaker 1: He's Elijah type.
Speaker 1: You know the one.
Speaker 1: The fire Elijah on the hill in Pastor Ambrose said yesterday there are some who come, they are calm.
Speaker 1: There are others who come is an engine full of power and fire, And I thank God that today we have that kind who is coming And somehow I know, but you're coming, rev Kiyama, there's gonna be a shift in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: And he has been the lead pastor for River of God, kag Packlands, which is at the meeting point of Ojijorod and Chiromalain.
Speaker 1: And let me say very quickly, because this church, where we are some of us may not know started its ministry there, packlands, that's why we are called Packlands Baptist, the church he passed us, that's where we started And then we left, we came here, and so we have a very close relationship And we know, because you're there and you're ministering there, we are always being blessed And the rivers of living waters are also flowing in our direction And so they've been there for many years And so many people have been blessed.
Speaker 1: I know they have a leaning towards Asian ministries.
Speaker 1: There is a grace, like Pastor Ambrose talked about, an impartation.
Speaker 1: They are nointing the mantle that's flowing in you through your ministry And I believe today, as you share with us, this grace and mantle is going to fall upon us, and so we are very, very expectant.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, i'll ask us to stand now as Reverend Bishop Tony Kiyama comes up here.
Speaker 1: Let's keep clapping until he gets here.
Speaker 1: Kari Bousana, amen, let's be candid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Are you glad to be in the house of the Lord?
Speaker 2: Glory to Jesus.
Speaker 2: We thank God for every one of you for coming, because God intended for you to be here And you have a special place, not just in Pachlas Baptist, not just in Nairobi, but in this nation.
Speaker 2: There's something in you that will revolutionize Christ and how he's worshipped in this country, how business is done, how families are raised.
Speaker 2: Just as a man, there's something in you that we need to star for the kingdom in this country.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2: Please have your seats, as I take a few minutes to do introductions.
Speaker 2: About a year ago, i was invited to speak at a school, and Kyoto school is one of the private schools in the city, owned by a couple who's a friend.
Speaker 2: So Kyoto had put together parents and men parents for breakfast meeting that would carry most of the morning.
Speaker 2: But on that same day my third born son had a function for the school and the parents needed to be there.
Speaker 2: Now, incidentally, because I had committed to be with Kyoto way before this meeting, my son was the only one whose father was not going to be in that meeting And they were going on a mission in Thika, this Thika School of the Blind.
Speaker 2: So we were going there as a class And that night, the night before, i started to just think through my salmon and just you know, just going through everything I'm going to be preaching, and the Lord kept asking me so what is this you're going to be saying to these parents?
Speaker 2: And as I read through the notes, at one point the Lord asked me so you're going to teach couples, and specifically men, on fatherhood and parenthood, but your son will not be represented in the school forum.
Speaker 2: They're going to be, you know, parents in the hundreds.
Speaker 2: And I remember I called one of our deacons and he's here And I said I need you to do something important for me.
Speaker 2: I need you to cover for me so that I can be there for my son, so that I can do a practical ministry for my son.
Speaker 2: And I said I don't know what schedule you have, but I'm asking if you can cancel, please do.
Speaker 2: And he said I will, pastor, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: And I gave him the topic and we discussed a bit and I just said may the Lord go before you.
Speaker 2: So in the morning I called.
Speaker 2: That morning I called the owner of the school and I said I want you to trust me.
Speaker 2: That was my opening statement.
Speaker 2: And he said, pastor, where are you going?
Speaker 2: I said I want you to trust me before I tell you what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: I will not come for the meeting today, but I want you to trust that the person I will send will do a better job than me, because I have prayed, because I need to go and be there for my son, not just teach about parenting, but be a parent.
Speaker 2: And she said seriously, pastor.
Speaker 2: I said you remember, trust my judgment.
Speaker 2: So you called me because you trust me and you value my opinion, then trust my choice.
Speaker 2: She said that's fine.
Speaker 2: And so our deconvent.
Speaker 2: And he did a better job than me, because when I called them in the afternoon to us, so how did the meeting go?
Speaker 2: Oh, pastor, you sent the right guy.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you see, he did a better job than me.
Speaker 2: They did want to say yes, but that's the truth.
Speaker 2: He did a better job than me that morning And he told them that I needed to go and be a father.
Speaker 2: I taught a lesson in absentia by being there for my son And I remember that whole day.
Speaker 2: Every time we would be jumping around and it didn't look like much, but for that 80 year old then it meant the world that his dad was there to kick the ball, to run around, sin to the grass and be his father, praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Let me introduce the men who came with me today Everyone from Revive God.
Speaker 2: My right, which is your left, is Owen Ongwai.
Speaker 2: Owen Ongwai is a he's actually in Bible school, is a minister of the gospel.
Speaker 2: He's doing his masters at Global.
Speaker 2: The wife is a director of women's ministry, revive of God, which is a Kenyans of God ministry.
Speaker 2: Kevin is one of the leaders in our Ashering ministry.
Speaker 2: And we have Paul.
Speaker 2: Paul is a member of our men's ministry, an agriculturalist.
Speaker 2: And then we have Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Jimmy is a businessman.
Speaker 2: Jimmy is part of the leadership of men's ministry, so he's in the right place.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, yes.
Speaker 2: So, chris, yes, there you are.
Speaker 2: And then the man who stepped in for me is called Ethnic Mutinda.
Speaker 2: He's a businessman and a decon.
Speaker 2: He's a secretary to the decon board, a Revive of God, which is a Kenyans of God ministry.
Speaker 2: And we have a young man called Paul just finished college doing entrepreneurship and he's come to support his pastor, praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: And then I brought my two sons.
Speaker 2: You know this generation.
Speaker 2: When they get to adulthood they have a life of their own.
Speaker 2: So I bless the Lord that they came with me.
Speaker 2: So my first born son, tj, is called I prefer to just call him TJ because he's also called Tony KA Ma.
Speaker 2: When he was born, when I went out, when I came back, the mother had given him a name.
Speaker 2: I named him after a man I respect.
Speaker 2: So I said who?
Speaker 2: As in, seriously, i said who, tony KA Ma, oh, sorry.
Speaker 2: So he's called TJ.
Speaker 2: So he's in Strath studying finance and economics at Strath.
Speaker 2: And then I have my second born son is called Toria.
Speaker 2: So, if you can wave, yes, so that's Toria seated there.
Speaker 2: So Toria is a first year in Bible school And I bless the Lord for the two of them.
Speaker 2: And we have another son.
Speaker 2: He's called Thio, he's 10.
Speaker 2: He's still not free from his mother's amped.
Speaker 2: We don't get him much, but we are negotiating, praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: So those are my sons and I'm glad that they're here.
Speaker 2: And the men from River of God.
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you for coming with me.
Speaker 2: God bless and you may have your suits.
Speaker 2: Let me take this opportunity to appreciate and acknowledge the owner by Reverend Ambrose Nyangau for allowing me to be here.
Speaker 2: I know all these invitations must go through his desk as they do.
Speaker 2: A river of God, pastor Simon, thank you for being here this evening.
Speaker 2: I don't take that for granted.
Speaker 2: Chris Magu have been meeting with him and sharing, and we call her teacher Felista.
Speaker 2: Where I come from, she's a teacher at the Bible school at KAG East University.
Speaker 2: So thank you, teacher Felista, and your husband Kamau.
Speaker 2: We bless the Lord for each one of you.
Speaker 2: The men's ministry leadership, the decon board here and the elders and the men Praise the Lord.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen And amen.
Speaker 2: So we bless the Lord for his grace and his mercy And when I was asked to come and share with you today, i bless the Lord that establishing your mantle through worship And friends.
Speaker 2: It's important for us to remember this that the church has lost his voice in the days that we are living and numbers don't lie And I want to remind us that in 2009, when this nation went to the dogs, when we fought each other as sons of the same father, we couldn't find a man of the cloth in this nation who would stand and talk to the two brothers and say, hey, guys, breathe, think, let's talk.
Speaker 2: So what did we do?
Speaker 2: Because we couldn't find a man of the man of the cloth in this nation.
Speaker 2: We went down south and we got a pastor from South Africa.
Speaker 2: That broke my heart.
Speaker 2: The question for me then was where is the church in this country?
Speaker 2: The problem is not that the church was not there.
Speaker 2: The problem was that the church was embroiled in the politics of this country, and we are supposed to be above, not within, and we have to come to the place where, as a nation, the church must step aside from politics.
Speaker 2: We can no longer continue to be intertwined with the king, because the priest must hold the king accountable in Jesus' name, and that's the only way we shall kick nonsense out of the church of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, because there's a church in this country and our voice must be heard in Jesus' name, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: And the church is not just a pastor, it's all of us.
Speaker 2: It's all of us, every one of you, and it doesn't matter your bank balance, the fact that you're a man, the fact that you're a believer.
Speaker 2: It means that, friends, the mantle is upon us, and I want to read a statement here and tell you this Establishing your mantle is a right to be heard.
Speaker 2: So we must earn the right to be heard in this nation as a church of Jesus Christ, which means, then, we must live a life that is above reproach.
Speaker 2: We must live a life that you look at and you admire, a life that you can.
Speaker 2: You live a life that glorifies God, that people who respect that they cannot question.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ, establishing your mantle is a right to be heard, or the right to lead.
Speaker 2: That mantle has been given to us by God.
Speaker 2: By the fact that we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we become the body of Christ.
Speaker 2: The church of Jesus Christ must be heard, but we must earn that right again, because it has been taken away from us.
Speaker 2: We must earn that right Right now.
Speaker 2: The church is saying nothing about the finance bill, sayed absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: and even if they said, no one would have heard them.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: Because the ground out there thinks church has become a business.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: Because we have allowed mad men in church and altars are being raised all over the place, and mad men anyone, anyone, any, every market has a mad man, and now the church has become the market that is led by mad men And the saracases and the dramas that are happening in churches and those are no longer churches, they are concerts and circuses.
Speaker 2: And we must come to that place where we call it as it is in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Friends, when we establish that mantle through worship, we are saying we want to reconnect with God again, we want to come back to the place where we are led by the Spirit of God in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in John, chapter 4, and verse 23 and 24, but the hour has come, the hour has and is now when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 2: So they are worshippers that are not true, because they don't worship in spirit and in truth, there is no truth in them.
Speaker 2: And Jesus said I am the way, the life and the truth, and no one comes to me except through Christ, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: And so, as we continue with that portion of scripture, the Bible continues to say for the Father seeks such to worship Him.
Speaker 2: The Father is actively looking, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: The Father is actively looking for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something, friends, that is very it's intertwined with the character of a man, the character of a man, so that God will hear our voice again, so that God will show up in our homes.
Speaker 2: God will show up in our churches again.
Speaker 2: Praise the Lord Where we come to the place where we call it as it is.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something, friends When you have the spirit of God, then you boldly speak the truth.
Speaker 2: And I want to challenge us, as men, to get to the point where we tell each other the truth, where we tell each other the truth, and the truth has, and the truth of God has not changed.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, if you are sleeping with someone who is not your wife, that's called a doll tree And God hates it.
Speaker 2: But we must come to the place where we tell each other the truth.
Speaker 2: Mujemaahuna chasanamoto, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: We have young people in the church of Jesus Christ who are sleeping with each other right, left and center.
Speaker 2: It's called for negation and it's sin, and so we must come to that place again where we call sin sin.
Speaker 2: But the church has become the place where truth is no longer told.
Speaker 2: We no longer tell each other the truth During weddings.
Speaker 2: It's become a charade.
Speaker 2: Guys who are already living together and the pastor is here joining them in holy matrimony and everybody else is out there wondering Pastor Juan, you don't know, ha Jamah me kuakibin, giri shanatu, and you are here saying holy matrimony.
Speaker 2: Kuwadi ikani say holiness in a manishanini.
Speaker 2: When will we get to the point where, when a young man is having sex before marriage, he's put on discipline and the wedding is postponed?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: Because we are still pursuing holiness, because holiness must still be part of the church.
Speaker 2: God desires holiness in the innermost parts, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: But the reason we are unable to tell the young people to live a holy life is because we are not living a holy life.
Speaker 2: We are not being a secretary, we are not being a house girl.
Speaker 2: We are not living a holy life.
Speaker 2: We are living a holy life.
Speaker 2: Live right first.
Speaker 2: You earn the rights because you have the mantle, and the mantle is not a position.
Speaker 2: It's the right to speak because you have lived a holy life, because you are telling them Do as I do, follow me, as I follow Christ.
Speaker 2: The reason why the world is looking at the church and think we are a bunch of fools.
Speaker 2: You go to a funeral And, pastors, we must stop to lie.
Speaker 2: You go to a funeral And this guy here is the thug And the pastor is saying we are praying for him to be with the Lord, but where We are not here to judge.
Speaker 2: Who said that We must hold each other accountable?
Speaker 2: How come, when you go to ask for a loan in the bank, you don't tell the bank manager stop judging me.
Speaker 2: How come they have to do due diligence?
Speaker 2: Let's see your credit rating.
Speaker 2: Let's see, do you pay your debts?
Speaker 2: Let's see, when we employ you and you are in the interview panel, the questions you ask, you go to someone.
Speaker 2: You go on their Facebook page because you want to see, because you want to, this guy who is coming into your organization, who will carry the face of your organization.
Speaker 2: You need to know what kind of guy is this.
Speaker 2: What kind of woman will this be?
Speaker 2: You're just employing a receptionist, but you have to do due diligence on this receptionist.
Speaker 2: It's not based on how much you will earn vis-a-vis the CEO, it's the fact that she is the face of that organization.
Speaker 2: So you must do your due diligence.
Speaker 2: You must go online and find out who is this girl, because when people come into organization, we don't want them to assume that we are a joke, so we must put a face that is serious.
Speaker 2: It's not just a blonde, but it's a blonde with brains.
Speaker 2: We are not just looking for blondes, we are also looking for brains if you are going to represent this organization.
Speaker 2: So if those worldly organizations and banks that are dealing with money, we have to do due diligence, what about church that is dealing with spiritual issues?
Speaker 2: How much more should we look into the character of the people that we are assigning positions in church?
Speaker 2: We must hold you accountable, so you can't be an answer that stops judging me.
Speaker 2: When you order for a bottle of beer, they don't find out your character.
Speaker 2: They don't find out whether you are a thug, kinesis or a bar born as a spewe.
Speaker 2: And even those bars they write somewhere on the wall, somewhere We reserve the right of admission.
Speaker 2: We reserve the right of admission.
Speaker 2: But church, come as you are, that's fine, we don't care who comes.
Speaker 2: But before we give you this mic or we make you an answer, we will do our due diligence.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: And when you have been appointed a position of leadership in church, it's not until death is as long as you are living a holy life.
Speaker 2: If you start culling things out here to nagu futayokazi, shout out Una tuangusa Funga sipe muja maa.
Speaker 2: Why we are going to hanga isawa.
Speaker 2: Tu apa una pigabibi Una ruka mata.
Speaker 2: By the way, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: There are many people who are looking up to you.
Speaker 2: Hebrews 12 1,.
Speaker 2: There's a huge cloud of witnesses as you are jumping right.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a short story.
Speaker 2: One time I used to live in South B And, as we are going home on Huru Highway, i don't know why the lights still work on Sunday afternoon, because no one follows them anyway.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we are going home And, as you know, at that hour no one really stops at those lights No one.
Speaker 2: And so I came and I jumped to the first set of lights, and so my son asked dad this son who's sitting here, yeah, that day you just jumped a red light.
Speaker 2: I think they were in standard two or standard one.
Speaker 2: They were doing the traffic lights, and so red means stop, yellow means wait And green means so the lights were red and I've just come and crossed like everybody else.
Speaker 2: And so he asked dad, you just jumped a red light.
Speaker 2: I said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: You don't understand the circumstances.
Speaker 2: The intricacies of life are beyond your.
Speaker 2: You are great at three in Nairobi, no one stops, look around.
Speaker 2: And so he said so there is a time for breaking the law.
Speaker 2: Buanas here, some repentance service.
Speaker 2: There's a huge cloud of witnesses that is saying nothing, but they are watching, their little eyes that are watching what you're doing.
Speaker 2: And so, friends, we must earn that right.
Speaker 2: And so when the Bible here is telling us, dear friends, that father is looking for those who will worship him in spirit, in the things of God, and we shall get to that shortly, but he also says that we shall worship him in truth, we must live a life of truth.
Speaker 2: And so you cannot write fictitious reports.
Speaker 2: Your Padi Ames must be truthful.
Speaker 2: Some of you seated here.
Speaker 2: When you're given Padi Ames, even Amrudi Shangi changed.
Speaker 2: It is your God given right.
Speaker 2: But you see, to you, truth does not apply to Shilling's hand Sense.
Speaker 2: So the accountant knows your lie.
Speaker 2: No wonder he's not saved because he's looking at you and wondering if this is an elder in church.
Speaker 2: Naa naa kula gapa Padi Ames, naa folk and knife.
Speaker 2: If this is church leadership, then I'm doing fine.
Speaker 2: Where, where I am, who is a gambling bloke?
Speaker 2: U naa naa fula kum anya maa tha hukun Eh Buanas fiewe.
Speaker 2: When you're writing reports and they are fake, when you have not realized your goals and your lying.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: One of the things I've come to realize is some of the documents that many of you have prepared.
Speaker 2: One of those documents, eg a CV, a curriculum vitae, will be some of the documents that the devil will use to accuse you.
Speaker 2: Because let me tell you something Have you ever looked at a CV of a friend and you're wondering I don't know this guy, this is not the guy I know.
Speaker 2: No, seriously speaking, you ask someone by the way, kun a job, can you send me your CV?
Speaker 2: They send you their CV.
Speaker 2: If you don't look at the name and you just read the details, you know Who is this.
Speaker 2: You send me the wrong one.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: Check The name.
Speaker 2: Allah, when you took somebody's CV, no, that's me.
Speaker 2: Lies, lies.
Speaker 2: We no longer know what truth is, even if we met with it head on.
Speaker 2: We don't know what truth is.
Speaker 2: Even if we met with it head on, we don't know what truth is.
Speaker 2: But every day after that, in your report, in your CV, in how you report about funding that comes your way, how you handle church money, how you handle money in leadership, we must, we should, because I am telling you, establishing an admiral is the right to be heard.
Speaker 2: But is God speaking to you Or is it Iqabud?
Speaker 2: Let me bring you to the cost of worship, the cost of worship, the cost of worship, if you open your Bibles, to the book of Exodus, chapter 32, exodus 32 is an amazing story.
Speaker 2: The children of Israel are on their way to the promised land.
Speaker 2: On their way to the promised land, and they get to the Sinai Peninsula.
Speaker 2: Just next to Mount Sinai, moses is called up to the hill by God, and so he is gone for forty days.
Speaker 2: And while he is there, god writes on two tablets of stone, with his finger, the ten commandments popularly known.
Speaker 2: And he is there for forty days.
Speaker 2: The children of Israel, not a kilometer away, but a few meters down the hill, decide Moses has left us here.
Speaker 2: All they needed to do is lift their eyes and see the glory of God covering the top of the hill Right there.
Speaker 2: Remember they are here and they have carried the wealth of Egypt, the gold and the silver and other precious stones.
Speaker 2: And so they tell Aaron to build them a calf, build us a god.
Speaker 2: They had left Egypt, but Egypt was still in their heart, so they wanted to worship idols just like they had seen for 430 years.
Speaker 2: So Moses Aaron builds them a calf of gold.
Speaker 2: That was a lot of gold, gold that God had given them.
Speaker 2: So they build a calf and they start worshiping it And they start being orgies In the whole nine years of evil.
Speaker 2: And Moses hears the noise and God tells him that your people have gone astray and I'm going to kill all of them.
Speaker 2: And so Moses comes down and he sees the calf and he cannot believe it.
Speaker 2: He cannot complete, he can't believe himself to believe what he say The tablets that were written by God himself in his own handwriting.
Speaker 2: He banged them to the ground And that anger cost him his life because he never went to the promised land.
Speaker 2: He was told to speak to the rock.
Speaker 2: What did he do?
Speaker 2: He struck it and God told him you will see it, but you will not step on it.
Speaker 2: The purpose to which God had called him in his entire life.
Speaker 2: God had set him apart to carry the children or to return the children of Israel to the promised land, to carry them to the promised land.
Speaker 2: That was his entire purpose on earth.
Speaker 2: He didn't fulfill it.
Speaker 2: He saw it but he never stepped on to the promised land because of his anger.
Speaker 2: So the story continues.
Speaker 2: So Moses, here he is, he's angry, he's destroyed this.
Speaker 2: He's taken that calf, he crushes it into powder, puts it in water and they drink it, as in.
Speaker 2: This guy is out there.
Speaker 2: And so the Bible says that God spoke to him, exodus 32, verse 27.
Speaker 2: These are the words of God.
Speaker 2: Moses is reporting what God told him, verse 27,.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this.
Speaker 2: Then he said to them this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.
Speaker 2: God gives this instruction.
Speaker 2: He says this Each man, strap a sword to his side, go back and forth from the camp, from one end of the camp to the other, each killing his brother, friend and neighbor.
Speaker 2: Praise the Lord Here.
Speaker 2: What God has told them.
Speaker 2: God is telling them through Moses, verse 28.
Speaker 2: The Bible continues to say this verse 28.
Speaker 2: The Levites did as Moses commanded and that day, about 3,000 of the people died.
Speaker 2: 3,000 people died on that day.
Speaker 2: When Moses got down, he asked of the 12 tribes of Israel, about 2.6 million people, who here is on God's side?
Speaker 2: All of them, all the 12 tribes, had an opportunity to step forward and say it was an opportunity, it was a clarion for them to repent, to turn away, to shun evil and to say we repent.
Speaker 2: And here we are.
Speaker 2: Only the Levites.
Speaker 2: Only the Levites say you know what Cicit, copande, amungo, we are on God's side.
Speaker 2: Only the Levites.
Speaker 2: That's what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: Only the Levites, only the Levites.
Speaker 2: And so it wasn't enough for them to just step forth.
Speaker 2: Faith without to ask is dead.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in James, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: So that statement was not just meant for the New Testament crowd, but even in the Old Testament you must prove your commitment and your allegiance to God.
Speaker 2: And so he said every man, those who have stepped forward and only the Levites had done so strap a sword on your side and, from one end of the camp to the other, slash whoever you find, whether it's your brother, whether it's your friend or your neighbor.
Speaker 2: And 3,000 people died that day, and they had proved their allegiance before God.
Speaker 2: That's how God set them aside to serve him in worship.
Speaker 2: Friends, for your mantle to be established in worship, it won't be cheap, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: It won't be cheap.
Speaker 2: But I also want to make this statement that it will be personal, it won't be congregational, it's personal, personal.
Speaker 2: It will be personal, number one.
Speaker 2: It will be personal for those who are writing notes.
Speaker 2: It will be personal.
Speaker 2: You must resolve in your heart that I will worship God in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 2: And worship is not just lifting up your hands on Sunday morning or on a forum like this.
Speaker 2: Worship is a way of life.
Speaker 2: You worship the Lord with everything you do the words of your mouth, the meditations of your heart, your actions, the places you go, the people you interact with and how you resolve.
Speaker 2: Everything you do at home, at work, on the road, when the rights are read and everyone is jumping, you still choose to stand.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something the next lights was Hail Silasih.
Speaker 2: When I got there, everybody else was jumping, but when I stopped, the next guy stopped, the next guy stopped, the next guy stopped, everyone stopped because one guy stopped.
Speaker 2: He takes one guy to break the law, but he also takes one to say you know what I will obey?
Speaker 2: I didn't tell anyone to stop, i just stopped and put my hands on so that somebody doesn't ingear me behind.
Speaker 2: I stopped, The next guy came and he stopped, the next guy stopped And even the acceleration stopped.
Speaker 2: The guy stopped.
Speaker 2: My assumption was that I must have seen a policeman.
Speaker 2: But the truth is I did.
Speaker 2: He's a seven-year-old.
Speaker 2: On my back seat, he's a seven-year-old at the back, he's the policeman and my conscience.
Speaker 2: And I stopped and everyone stopped And when they went green I passed.
Speaker 2: It must be personal.
Speaker 2: That mantle of worship is personal.
Speaker 2: That God has given you is personal The cutting toe.
Speaker 2: So we don't go as a crowd, we go as we are And the Lord doesn't care about our bank balance.
Speaker 2: The church might, the community might, but you know what?
Speaker 2: God doesn't care about how much you've got, he just cares that you're willing to obey, because as men we measure each other on the basis of how much we've got.
Speaker 2: See how a guy who drives a Range Rover when you go somewhere, people respect you, whether you're a dander head or not.
Speaker 2: The fact that you're a Range Rover, they assume that you're wise and you know what you're doing, because you don't just drive an 18-million-shilling car and you're a dander head.
Speaker 2: But what they forget is a dander head can make money.
Speaker 2: It doesn't take a lot of praise to make money.
Speaker 2: And some of you might sit there and say how come you haven't made?
Speaker 2: How come you haven't made?
Speaker 2: But you know the Lord uses the foolish things.
Speaker 2: It's personal.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 2: It will cost you everything.
Speaker 2: It will cost you friendship.
Speaker 2: It will cost you your family.
Speaker 2: It will cost you When you choose to worship God in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 2: It will cost you everything.
Speaker 2: It will cost you relationships, because there are things that people do that you say you know what I won't.
Speaker 2: Let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: Many of us, when we were in college, were on fire for Jesus When we had nothing and we were believing God for a job.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you here, truthfully, many of us, when we finished college, whatever our high school, we had absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: God was all we had.
Speaker 2: True, and God has answered many of our prayers and he has covered our shame.
Speaker 2: Some of you, some of the businesses that you run today that are thriving, started from nothing.
Speaker 2: You are a miracle, you are a walking miracle in the corporate world, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: But how many of you know people you started together, you served you either worship ministry together.
Speaker 2: You are ashes together.
Speaker 2: You are in the mission ministry together.
Speaker 2: You are teaching children's church together.
Speaker 2: But after they started getting amazing jobs and flying all over the world Now, before, if you gave them a bottle of wine, they would look at you like the devil shit.
Speaker 2: You are contaminating me.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: How can you drink?
Speaker 2: In fact, that would be a serious case In church.
Speaker 2: It would be brought to the church leadership, not so?
Speaker 2: and so drunk wine?
Speaker 2: No, i saw him holding a bottle of wine and we are saved.
Speaker 2: How can you do that?
Speaker 2: Nowadays I see young people who haven't been married, the pictures they take on social media and they are dating.
Speaker 2: They hold their girlfriends tighter than I hold my wife.
Speaker 2: No, seriously.
Speaker 2: And you are wondering are they asking for a?
Speaker 2: is this a married couple?
Speaker 2: or they are inviting us to a wedding ceremony?
Speaker 2: Those days when we are inviting people for a wedding, there was enough room here for other human being to pass by.
Speaker 2: Holding hands was an issue, in fact.
Speaker 2: I remember when we went for youth meetings.
Speaker 2: You are saying is holding hands going too far?
Speaker 2: I don't know when we got away from holding hands to holding each other's busts on social media.
Speaker 2: He's holding his girl like this and one hand is on the bust and I'm wondering my brother, you didn't notice.
Speaker 2: And then, in fact, the brother is enjoying.
Speaker 2: The problem is the sister.
Speaker 2: You are allowing this to go public to us.
Speaker 2: That was pornography.
Speaker 2: Me, the Lord, have mercy on us And see my life.
Speaker 2: My time is running out on me.
Speaker 2: Friends, it will cost you everything.
Speaker 2: It will cost you friendship.
Speaker 2: It will cost you family.
Speaker 2: It will cost you everything.
Speaker 2: It will cost you a business deal, but your faith will be tested if you must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 2: And it's not for everyone, this is not for everyone, but a few who choose and purpose that.
Speaker 2: I want to work on the straight and narrow.
Speaker 2: And friends, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: How many of you today know people who feared the Lord deeply?
Speaker 2: but you go to the house and those days when they lived in a bed-sitter in Kawanguare believing God to come, those days they used to leave the windows open so that when they are selling God to come, the window would not be a hindrance.
Speaker 2: And today they build a house in Runda and they have a bar in their house.
Speaker 2: Now there is alcohol all over.
Speaker 2: How many of you know people who are truly born again?
Speaker 2: and today they drink, they sleep around, they come to church when it's convenient.
Speaker 2: You are standing with someone on Sunday morning and the pastor is there on Sunday and you ask them where were you on Sunday last week.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, i was staying off at this golf club at 6 last Sunday, so now golf is greater than God.
Speaker 2: You go to church when it's convenient.
Speaker 2: How come I don't see top notch doctors and lawyers who used to lead the worship still leading worship today Is ministry for the broke and for the searching and for the young.
Speaker 2: What happened to serving God wherever I am, whoever I will become Buanaspewe?
Speaker 2: People have walked away and the fear of God has left their hearts.
Speaker 2: Because God has answered their prayer.
Speaker 2: Those days when we used to go on missions and we were saying, god, the day you will give me a car, i will go to every part.
Speaker 2: Now they are more.
Speaker 2: The next time you call for people to go on missions, why don't you count how many SUVs, how many Prados and VXs and BMWs and musty here in the parking lot and see how many of them will sign up for that mission?
Speaker 2: Because those guys, god is not good enough, the work of God is not good enough for their cars.
Speaker 2: Their cars can't go to the bundles to serve God.
Speaker 2: Ask yourself when was the last time my SUV went on a mission?
Speaker 2: When was the last time you took leave from work to go on a mission, because I'm sure you guys have missions in the NFD, northern districts, true Mandara and wherever Some of you, by the way, it's not the first time you're going there.
Speaker 2: You went there as college students when you were in the CU and you were on fire for Jesus and you had absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: Even the bus fare was believing God.
Speaker 2: Now you no longer need to believe Him.
Speaker 2: You just need to withdraw and go.
Speaker 2: You no longer need to believe God.
Speaker 2: You can just do it because God answered your prayer.
Speaker 2: But how many of those SUVs, how many of those Prados and V8s and Range Rovers and BMWs and the males, how many of those pickups, go on those missions?
Speaker 2: Chances are you guys have to hire vehicles to go on missions, not because they're no cars in church, but because the cars in church are not subject.
Speaker 2: God has no access to them because He's not the one who brought them.
Speaker 2: It's your hard work.
Speaker 2: Watch out for the ones who are dead.
Speaker 2: Please, horror over all of the people.
Speaker 2: Quietly, hold on.
Speaker 2: You will find him following jubilee, even feeling getting up.
Speaker 2: So when you have an opportunity, you have a purpose to have a Shortly Enjoyed God on Your future.
Speaker 2: I would swear like this You can take assistance from someone.
Speaker 2: You have to take assistance from someone.
Speaker 2: I will crush grated, чудaslling out of you as A manérie jakeaux.
Speaker 2: Number two it will cost you everything.
Speaker 2: Number three it means being set apart from the group, being set apart When it costs you everything.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 2: Number two when it costs you everything, it will set you apart.
Speaker 2: It sets you apart.
Speaker 2: Abraham had an issue.
Speaker 2: He was old.
Speaker 2: He didn't need to pray and fast to know whether he's dying or not.
Speaker 2: He knew sikusangu zimedidimia.
Speaker 2: There's an age you get and you know I am going, i am going.
Speaker 2: Abraham got there.
Speaker 2: His son, isaac, was born when this man was a hundred.
Speaker 2: Now Isaac is forty and he has no children And now he's worried like any father is worried.
Speaker 2: When some of you young people are afraid to get married because you don't have money, who told you we got married because we had money?
Speaker 2: It was a step of faith.
Speaker 2: Uza serazako vizuri.
Speaker 2: Look like you have money.
Speaker 2: That's faith.
Speaker 2: Faith is believing in what you do not Me, i'm telling you.
Speaker 2: I talked to Kara.
Speaker 2: You'd think I'm the CEO And, by the way, i was the only guy who dated that chick who wasn't driving.
Speaker 2: But Nili Uza, manifesto yangu ka ruto.
Speaker 2: Hey, yama ayu koko kwa sere kali na ali tukua.
Speaker 2: Ali tukua is your manifesto, buena, i swear Me, i respect that guy.
Speaker 2: There are many things I don't agree with him, but that one I give him up.
Speaker 2: My you're excellency my president.
Speaker 2: He sold his manifesto The way I sold my manifesto to Basta Kara.
Speaker 2: She didn't know whether she was coming or going.
Speaker 2: Some of these guys by the time they were getting married.
Speaker 2: If you saw the marriage photos, some of these guys, you would think they are from Somalia.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, some of these guys the first time they wore suits was on their wedding day and they took the whole village because they were called fundraiser.
Speaker 2: I am the man who wore suit Afunike ibuza community.
Speaker 2: It was a step of faith.
Speaker 2: So, my brother, we don't get married because we have money.
Speaker 2: We get married because it is time.
Speaker 2: Watcha kuchele wa nuk, step in and God will come.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, god will And he has come.
Speaker 2: But I couldn't feed myself by the time of getting married.
Speaker 2: Now these guys all eat, plus the house girl, plus people who visit.
Speaker 2: That's not faith.
Speaker 2: It will set you apart.
Speaker 2: Set you apart.
Speaker 2: Abraham told Eliazah we in the promised land, go back to my place, my people, and get a wife for my son.
Speaker 2: Eliazah said what if the girls say no?
Speaker 2: What if the girls say no, me, i don't want to go.
Speaker 2: Marry a guy who is sending his father's servant to get him as wife.
Speaker 2: Me not to come to Akujitu.
Speaker 2: Ma What if they refuse?
Speaker 2: And Abraham said if they do?
Speaker 2: he said God will provide for you.
Speaker 2: What if he doesn't?
Speaker 2: do not bring my son back to my people, because we have already left.
Speaker 2: When you're saved, you're saved.
Speaker 2: Come on, meokokka, end our bonus fear When people start mixing themselves.
Speaker 2: Now they are playing golf, people start drinking to wines and going to discos and doing to things.
Speaker 2: And you're wondering, adam Meokokka, what happened?
Speaker 2: They come to church when they want You set yourself apart.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be friends with those people, just leave them alone, because they know the truth.
Speaker 2: They are living in rebellion.
Speaker 2: Stay away.
Speaker 2: You have been set apart.
Speaker 2: Don't go back.
Speaker 2: You live for him because it's a huge cloud of witnesses.
Speaker 2: Our children are watching to see our relationship with God.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, he will set you apart.
Speaker 2: Romans, chapter 11 and verse 29, for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Speaker 2: God has called you friends.
Speaker 2: It is without repentance.
Speaker 2: He hasn't.
Speaker 2: Just because you are a CEO, god has not changed from calling you to play the guitar, to play the drums or sing in the worship chamber.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question for Clans baptism Men here, who washes the church of God?
Speaker 2: Who washes this temple?
Speaker 2: Your money does.
Speaker 2: The truth is, i don't work here.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I can almost tell you without fear of contradiction The people who wash this church are paid to wash This church is not washed out of worship or love or reverence, because nene, nene, you are deadly.
Speaker 2: I'm always as if you come up and wash it and say I'm on, go, i'm sure you are deadly.
Speaker 2: Nene, you are normal Pesasene, your money is working for you.
Speaker 2: Who told you God is interested in your money?
Speaker 2: Who told you that God is interested in your money?
Speaker 2: God is interested in you, your heart and your service.
Speaker 2: One was the last time people were cutting grass or painting this church and they were not paid for because the men said we'll do it, we'll do the repairs, we'll clean this church, we'll divide the church in groups.
Speaker 2: The guys who live on this side will be washing this church on Monday.
Speaker 2: The other guys will be washing on this.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: because it's the temple of God, because we are reverent of him.
Speaker 2: Mungu, i'm sure you are not interested in your money.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are deadly.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are Nene.
Speaker 2: You are not a normal person.
Speaker 2: It is your money that will wash the Lord.
Speaker 2: You are not a normal person.
Speaker 2: God is not interested in your cash.
Speaker 2: God is not a chick who you can tantalize with your money.
Speaker 2: No romance without, anyway, i'm in charge, sorry.
Speaker 2: God is not a chick that you can tantalize with your money and your nice suits and your flashy phones and your two small machines out there that in 20 years will be no more Liabilities.
Speaker 2: God is interested.
Speaker 2: God is interested in your heart and in your service.
Speaker 2: Ask yourself one was the last time I served God with my bare hands.
Speaker 2: One was the last time I did anything?
Speaker 2: Those seats you're sitting on, somebody wiped them, not out of love, but out of payment, financial reward.
Speaker 2: That's why they wipe those seats.
Speaker 2: Somebody swept this church today.
Speaker 2: Somebody wiped this.
Speaker 2: Somebody wiped the altar of God, this altar.
Speaker 2: Somebody wiped it.
Speaker 2: Not because they are not men or women in this church, but the men and women have no place in their hearts for his altar because it is beneath them.
Speaker 2: Why would you?
Speaker 2: Worship is out of reverence and love and action and giving of yourself as a living sacrifice acceptable by God.
Speaker 2: We no longer offer animals.
Speaker 2: We offer our hearts.
Speaker 2: I will repeat We no longer offer our animals and our wealth.
Speaker 2: We offer our hearts and our bodies as a living sacrifice.
Speaker 2: I sure hope it shall be acceptable before him In Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Genesis 24, verse 6, is where God said Abraham told Eliazah make sure not to take my son there.
Speaker 2: Abraham replied to his servant Eliazah, make sure that you do not take my son back there, because Abraham thought he will not make it back.
Speaker 2: By the time he's coming back he might be dead.
Speaker 2: So make sure, make sure you don't take my son back.
Speaker 2: That's a greater problem than him not getting a wife.
Speaker 2: The next point is we must pray.
Speaker 2: Worship is about prayer, about connection with God, connection with God.
Speaker 2: Prayer is not an event, it's a way of life.
Speaker 2: Prayer, prayer, prayer.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you took your Bible and a notebook and a bottle of water and came here on a free day and just spent more than an hour in the praises of God, sharing with God your heart.
Speaker 2: Friendship is about sharing.
Speaker 2: We buy our friends meat, we buy them lunch so that we can share what our heart because they are our friends, true We share.
Speaker 2: You have a wayward son.
Speaker 2: You don't write it on Facebook.
Speaker 2: You're struggling in your marriage.
Speaker 2: You call a friend, a brother, or you book an appointment with a pastor, and it's uninterrupted and you share your heart.
Speaker 2: You're broken, a place of weakness, and you share your heart.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you shared with God?
Speaker 2: because He's God, because you acknowledge that He's God and that He's your best friend?
Speaker 2: When was the last time you were vulnerable before God?
Speaker 2: When was the last time you even went to the notebook waiting to hear from Him, as you're reading through Scripture, because He has revealed Himself through creation, through the Holy Spirit who is resident in us, and through Jesus, who hung on the cross.
Speaker 2: He became flesh and made His dwelling among us.
Speaker 2: John, chapter 1 and verse 14,.
Speaker 2: Because we are His sons, he's given us the power to be His sons Verse 12 of that same chapter.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you spent time with your God, when was the last time you blocked out time?
Speaker 2: Jesus left the disciples, he came back and He said couldn't you wait at least an hour?
Speaker 2: You know why they couldn't Because they had no idea what was coming.
Speaker 2: You see, because you have no idea what God has deposited in you.
Speaker 2: You are disconnected to power.
Speaker 2: You can plug in your phone on a charger fast charger, high voltage but unless you plug it in, the phone won't charge.
Speaker 2: So many of us are phones that have amazing capability but we are low on power, so we are unable to perform and we just need to be plug-bucketed to power Excuse me So that we can function again.
Speaker 2: We need to be recharged every so often, but we don't.
Speaker 2: You go around complaining.
Speaker 2: You know I'm low, but you're holding everything without power.
Speaker 2: Prayer is an integral part And I want to tell you, friends, some of you, there are things that are going on in your life that you must pray about, because Jesus said there are things you pray about, but there are things you fast and pray.
Speaker 2: One was the last time you took three days to just fast and pray over the issues, over that business that is dying, over that marriage that is struggling.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something, pastor Simon?
Speaker 2: There are many times people walking into my office and say you know, pastor, i'm calling it, i'm done, i'm done with this marriage, i'm done.
Speaker 2: There are times people walking into my office and say, pastor, i've tried this business, i'm done, i'm going to be auctioned.
Speaker 2: And without fail, i ask them when was the last time you prayed as a couple?
Speaker 2: or when was the last time you took a few days to just fast and pray over this issue?
Speaker 2: And without hesitation, many of us say you know, pastor, i can't even remember the last time we prayed.
Speaker 2: You know, pastor, i can't remember the last time I fasted and prayed for my business.
Speaker 2: You know, pastor, i've been sending my son to a psychologist, i've been sending my son to a drug recovery center, but I can't remember taking my son to the presence of God.
Speaker 2: Friends, you can't compare a rescue center, a drug recovery center, to God.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you took three days of prayer and fasting?
Speaker 2: Because there are things you pray about, but there are things you fast and pray about.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you got a friend and you didn't buy the meat?
Speaker 2: Do you have a friend?
Speaker 2: you would say you know what I need a brother to stand with me, i need a sister to stand with me, i need you to fast, to take leave from work for three days and pray with me, because two are better than one.
Speaker 2: And you agree, together with a brother, and you fast for three days, you go to the mountain or you go to that house that you build in the village that no one lives in, and you spend three days there crying out to God day and night, and see when you come back what the Lord will do.
Speaker 2: You see, for us, prayer is something we talk about, sing about, read about and hear about.
Speaker 2: Prayer is work.
Speaker 2: It's not something you sing about, read about or talk about.
Speaker 2: Prayer is work.
Speaker 2: And for you to pray, you need to pray in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: No wonder we are living in victory.
Speaker 2: We are living in defeat.
Speaker 2: The next point is the word 2 Timothy 2.15.
Speaker 2: The Bible says study to show thyself approved and to God.
Speaker 2: A workman that need not to be ashamed, a worker that need not to be ashamed.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 2: Because you are correctly dividing the word of truth.
Speaker 2: And for you to correctly divide the word of truth, you need to study the word.
Speaker 2: Some a bit of hominutics here.
Speaker 2: You need to understand the word You need to understand.
Speaker 2: Read the context of that particular scripture.
Speaker 2: What is God saying And how does it apply to you?
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: But many of us are ignorant and that's why Hosea 4.6 was written.
Speaker 2: My people perish for lack of knowledge, because they don't know, not because it is hidden, but because we are lazy to read Correctly dividing the word of truth so that you shall not be ashamed.
Speaker 2: But many of us are ashamed.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something Defeat brings shame And many of you are living in defeat because of shame when a marriage falls apart, not because God is not there, but it brings defeat even to the children, and the children are wondering God, you can't hold this marriage together.
Speaker 2: God can't.
Speaker 2: But if only these two people can give it to God, because God is the author of marriage.
Speaker 2: God is God of the marketplace.
Speaker 2: God knows where the gold is, he knows where the silver is.
Speaker 2: Some of you are in court Not because you are Gongwad, but because, even when you are starting that business, god was telling you there was a witness in your spirit.
Speaker 2: You were the one who was telling Gongwad And it was your idea.
Speaker 2: You just brought a thug along.
Speaker 2: You were in university daily.
Speaker 2: You were in school in the middle of school.
Speaker 2: You were in Gongwad And you were in the middle of school.
Speaker 2: But because you never sit still for a day, be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 2: I shall be exalted in all the earth.
Speaker 2: God is exalted in all the earth through man.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Let us be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit In Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: The word.
Speaker 2: Then, finally, we must be consistent.
Speaker 2: We must be consistent.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in Hebrews 11.6 that it is impossible to please God without faith.
Speaker 2: God cannot please if you don't live by faith.
Speaker 2: In contemporary language, faith is risk, and so all who come to Him must believe that He is And He rewards those who diligently seek Him.
Speaker 2: So you cannot describe the word diligence without the word consistency.
Speaker 2: You must be consistent for you to be diligent.
Speaker 2: Are you following my point here?
Speaker 2: And so we must be consistent in what we do.
Speaker 2: We must be consistent in prayer, we must be consistent In the word.
Speaker 2: We must be consistent in service of the Lord in church.
Speaker 2: You don't just come to church one Sunday, one weekend.
Speaker 2: You wash the church and you pat yourself on the back and say Nelio Shaqanisa, last year, july Shadow Attawewe, we'll you'll you'll your last July Attawewe, we'll you'll your last July.
Speaker 2: Badu me ngarat asasas indio.
Speaker 2: We must be consistent.
Speaker 2: Consistent in everything that we do.
Speaker 2: Consistent in loving your wife, in being there for your children, in paying your tithe, in coming to church, in serving the Lord, in prayer.
Speaker 2: Consistent.
Speaker 2: If you were to write somewhere on a piece of paper, one being the least and five being the highest, how consistent are you in prayer, in the word?
Speaker 2: One was the last time you brought your whole tithe to the house of God.
Speaker 2: No, seriously speaking, can you say Mejama go undi maze Muna nyorosha gamumu, right, left and center, an anayas and safaira.
Speaker 2: One was the last time you were consistent in just loving your wife.
Speaker 2: No wonder God is not hearing your prayer.
Speaker 2: Read the word He says if you treat your wife wrong, even your prayers, it's not that they won't be heard.
Speaker 2: God will consider that prayer noise.
Speaker 2: So aqa kade muno onaga ni kama kada kusumbua kilas aka kuruya.
Speaker 2: You're knocking me.
Speaker 2: No, she's knocking you.
Speaker 2: Even God is saying even me stop knocking me, shut down.
Speaker 2: It's like that In simple language Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: He says onayu waif, Love her, treat her well so that your prayers shall be what.
Speaker 2: But if you don't do that, your prayers will be.
Speaker 2: It doesn't say not her, it says distaste, taboo.
Speaker 2: I think it's 1 Peter, 317 or 7.
Speaker 2: 3, 7.
Speaker 2: Ebu yu weke apon dobu Fundi wa mitam bue bue weke.
Speaker 2: See, we're going to eat away for the money.
Speaker 2: Kbc VOK Fundi wa Eh Fundi wa mitam o bai bue mehang.
Speaker 2: 1 Peter, 3, 7.
Speaker 2: Marai yu yom duango, hallelujah Press.
Speaker 2: Anayu The weaker partner as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers, so that nothing will hinder If you won't go to hear your prayers.
Speaker 2: When your wife calls hi Asai yu yom du'a atwoli tu anataka k'uonga ya News du'a meh anza Na unai tuwa jikoni Enda tuwa k'unye nyekia Di'o mungu aske mombia kondubu.
Speaker 2: For the sake of this nation, because when God answers your prayer you will change this nation.
Speaker 2: So, for the sake of this nation, for the sake of this nation, my brother, when she calls just go, just go.
Speaker 2: You will read the story in the newspaper tomorrow Or you can Google.
Speaker 2: How many of us today your wife can truly say this man honours me.
Speaker 2: How many of us here truly speaking, one being the lowest and five being highest, your wife would grade you as a four or a five.
Speaker 2: That you respect her, that you listen to her, because that I want you to respect that.
Speaker 2: You just listen to her.
Speaker 2: If you do And you're asking yourself why your prayers are not being answered, you can fast and pray until you're blue in the face, come out here and say Nothing really and you're Bible.
Speaker 2: And some of you might think that bus is very unreasonable, but is still in the Bible, in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: So, for the sake of this nation, listen to her.
Speaker 2: In Jesus name, i want to pray And I want us to pray as men.
Speaker 2: For sure, you are here and you know that your prayer life is in the shambles.
Speaker 2: You can't remember the last time you stepped aside to pray For the issues that surround your life.
Speaker 2: You can't remember the last time you invested your time in the world to study the world, not to read the verse for the day, because some of you, that is all the devotion you do verse for there.
Speaker 2: One was the last time you studied the word.
Speaker 2: One was the last time you serve God.
Speaker 2: You are in this church, so many of us need to repent and so this is a repentance service.
Speaker 2: I'm saying you know what guys?
Speaker 2: We need to just ask God to forgive us.
Speaker 2: So the altar is open.
Speaker 2: Come and kneel here and just say God, here I am, because it's a personal decision.
Speaker 2: I will serve you, i will spend time with you.
Speaker 2: I will spend time with you.
Speaker 2: I will study your world And I will serve you with me, not my money, but myself, and I will honor my wife That my prayers will be heard.
Speaker 2: It's not child play, in serious business.
Speaker 2: In Jesus name, as I sing if that's you right there, if you find the courage to come to this altar, come You Only do not pass me by.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, i come before thy throne of grace this evening.
Speaker 2: I pray, almighty God, for your presence and for your grace.
Speaker 2: I pray, almighty God, because you care, because you're calling us for a new season as men, to take this city.
Speaker 2: You're handing the mantle over to us In humility and in brokenness.
Speaker 2: Father, i thank you because you have a plan and a purpose for us, for each man, each life, each home represented here today.
Speaker 2: The Lord, your mantle, will be established again.
Speaker 2: That Lord, the voice of the church, the voice of the believer, the Lord will come to that time again.
Speaker 2: When a man who is born again says I will do it.
Speaker 2: It's like money in the bank.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, that as men who are born again, we shall no longer Hand over bouncing checks, that we shall pay our debts.
Speaker 2: We shall be known as honorable men, men who tell the truth.
Speaker 2: The Lord, in this church, there will be men all over this place, almighty God, who clean the house of God, who work and repair the temple of mighty God.
Speaker 2: As you set apart the Levites to work in the house of God, you set them apart specifically those who would carry, those who would bend, those who would clean Jehovah in the name of Jesus Christ, those who'd mend the curtains.
Speaker 2: You set them apart Literally and said only they would do it.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, i thank you for this altar today, because life is changing.
Speaker 2: This man on this altar saying hear, lord, use me, use them, lord, use this man In this nation, in this city.
Speaker 2: Use them and bring change, because, god, you just need one.
Speaker 2: Use this man, use this man, use this church, lord.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, i ask that, lord, you may forgive us as men.
Speaker 2: Forgive us where we've dropped the ball.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, almighty God, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, where we've dropped the ball.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, almighty God, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, almighty God in the name of Jesus, forgive us, lord.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, for we have dropped the ball.
Speaker 2: We all, lord, have brought shame to the mantle Of leadership, christian leadership in this nation And in the church of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, almighty God.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus, i come before thee and I ask for forgiveness.
Speaker 2: I ask forgiveness, almighty God, on behalf of every man.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, lord, forgive us, jehovah, jehovah, forgive us.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, almighty God.
Speaker 2: Forgive us, jehovah, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Forgive us In the name of the Father, the Son And the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: We pray Amen, amen, in Jesus name, Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Psalm 51, verse 17, says A broken and a contrite spirit, god will not despise.
Speaker 1: Thank you, bishop Tony Kiamma, for that message That was just on point And very, very candid.
Speaker 1: And today, again, you've reminded us Principles of establishing The mantle through worship, empowered obedience, establishing the mantle Through worship, and I've taken note of those Six main principles The principle of personal relationship, the principle of sacrifice, the principle of consecration, being set apart, the principle of prayer, the principle of the word And the principle of consistency.
Speaker 1: So, building on what was shared yesterday, now Bishop Tony Kiamma Has been the principal, but today we have learned How to establish the mantle, and I thank God, bishop Tony, for how you defined the word mantel, saying it's the right to be hard.
Speaker 1: Our voice needs to be heard In the nation And also in our homes And in the people, and in the people, and in the people, and in the people And in the people, also in our homes across the globe.
Speaker 1: The voice of the church, the voice of the believer needs to be heard, and thank you for those six principles that bring back the voice, or bring back the mantle to every one of us and men who have turned up, ladies who have turned up those who are following online today.
Speaker 1: The Lord has opened the gates, teaching us on how to establish this mantle, and we need to come back to where God wants us to be, and so the whole idea of worshipping money idols, relegating our service to money and to things that is on, needs to pass.
Speaker 1: And so I sense in the spirit there is a shift, and I have taken time to redidicate my calling to God and I'll say God, refresh the mantle that's upon my life through those six principles, and I have determined that I'm connecting a fresh at a new level in those six areas that you have actually mentioned.
Speaker 1: One of the areas I circled is sacrifice, the area of sacrifice.
Speaker 1: When you say it, one is the last time I used my hands to wash the pasta washer.
Speaker 1: When is the last time you did that?
Speaker 1: you can't remember deacon Joe.
Speaker 1: He says, oh, gijo, where we were that time, and I remember the youth of this church as young people.
Speaker 1: We were young people then.
Speaker 1: We used to wash the church, we would arrange everything, we would play the instruments, we would run the worship service, and we did it with our hands.
Speaker 1: I still remember.
Speaker 1: You remember missions, the way we did them, or Gijo time I would call us to go on mission.
Speaker 1: 30 cars would show up in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: We would get into this salon cars and discuss.
Speaker 1: One time someone gave me the arrange rover don't remember the show and went to kiss me and Mary.
Speaker 1: Yet remember we went that the kegogi and we covered the whole area range rover but the engine broke down on that side.
Speaker 1: Remember, joe?
Speaker 1: and of course I mean the person didn't get angry.
Speaker 1: Despite that, we were there, deacons, all of us.
Speaker 1: We were on the ground.
Speaker 1: I have suckled sacrifice for me sacrifice.
Speaker 1: When is the last time I did those things?
Speaker 1: and you know, even for churches, as they grow larger and become our size, they become comfortable.
Speaker 1: They become comfortable.
Speaker 1: There's another one I've suckled prayer and sometimes, when churches grow large, even as pastors, we think it's for the man who are there to pray.
Speaker 1: And I asked myself, as you're speaking, when is the last time I was in this prayer room?
Speaker 1: we have a prayer room somewhere here and I'm also asking deacons who are here.
Speaker 1: I'm what, i'm our pastor here.
Speaker 1: So I mean, this is time, it is candid time and we have candid bishop here who says it as it is.
Speaker 1: When is the last time I was in that prayer room.
Speaker 1: It's touched me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back in there.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah, in there, in Jesus name, and deacons and pastors, why don't you one day come and wash, dr Kujo?
Speaker 1: come and wash this place and clean this desk.
Speaker 1: I mean this, this what are they called seats?
Speaker 1: this sits?
Speaker 1: when did we last do the mantle?
Speaker 1: establishing the mantle through six key principles, and those principles define the word worship and then, once again, we shall regain and recover the voice to be hard, we shall be respected.
Speaker 1: When you say 2009, a bishop had to come from South Africa because, it seems, like the whole of Kenya, we had lost our voice.
Speaker 1: And you raise the issue of the finance bill and you say where is the voice of the church?
Speaker 1: and so, as we go home today, we need to look again at those principles and for you, like I've done for myself, circle, underline something and let us refresh those principles so that we establish this mantle tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We have pastor Victor.
Speaker 1: Kimani is our missions pastor.
Speaker 1: He's the one who is coming, and I look forward to tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1: Invite your men, friends, those who are online.
Speaker 1: We thank God for you.
Speaker 1: If you can make it tomorrow, come over, and I know pastor Victor is building on what Bishop Tony Kiyama has set pace on, and then Sunday I will be coming to also build.
Speaker 1: Melvin, you say it.
Speaker 1: Where is Melvin?
Speaker 1: yeah, you say it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the story is building.
Speaker 1: I like the way you put it and you can see the way it's kind of building.
Speaker 1: And then Sunday, father's Day, we crown it in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, let's give a big hand clap to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, bishop, and also appreciate Deacon here, your sons, or the son was somewhere here.
Speaker 1: Amanda Panigani I'm a song, a kiddo, or Palaevi and the man from River of God.
Speaker 1: Please pass our greetings.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Let's continue to partner together.
Speaker 1: Maybe we all stand up now after this there's a cup of tea.
Speaker 1: I'm a jet, there's a cup of tea.
Speaker 1: No, you're looking, but yeah, yeah, there's a cup of tea by faith.
Speaker 1: On this side we have a cup of tea somewhere.
Speaker 1: There we're gonna have fellowship and you are all welcome.
Speaker 1: Now that the Lord bless you, the Lord keep you.
Speaker 1: The Lord causes face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: The Lord tarnished face.
Speaker 1: To what do you?
Speaker 1: the Lord give you peace and now may the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore amen.
Speaker 1: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever amen.
Speaker 1: Good night.