WEBVTT 00:00:01.522 --> 00:00:06.352 Hallelujah, another round of applause for this man who have led us so ably. 00:00:06.352 --> 00:00:09.425 We can do a better job. 00:00:09.425 --> 00:00:10.567 Let's give it to the Lord. 00:00:10.567 --> 00:00:16.062 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 00:00:16.062 --> 00:00:20.092 Talk to the man next to you and tell them I thank God you're around. 00:00:20.092 --> 00:00:27.217 It's good to be in a house full of men and we appreciate the ladies who are here. 00:00:27.217 --> 00:00:28.641 I see a couple of them. 00:00:28.641 --> 00:00:34.825 If it's a lady near you, also turn to them and say Karibusana, we are happy that you are here. 00:00:34.825 --> 00:00:41.094 Hallelujah, god is good and all the time. 00:00:41.094 --> 00:00:50.722 Another hand from man to the Lord, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and his name is Jesus. 00:00:51.863 --> 00:01:03.203 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. 00:01:03.203 --> 00:01:10.368 It is an altar the men of this church have chosen to raise, and let me appreciate the leadership of men. 00:01:10.368 --> 00:01:14.123 If you just stand up, i think we say today director, not chair. 00:01:14.123 --> 00:01:20.004 Yeah, let's give a hand to the Lord and appreciate all of them, the leadership of the men. 00:01:20.004 --> 00:01:23.936 Thank you very much for raising this altar. 00:01:23.936 --> 00:01:29.031 Thank you very much, and I know a lot of prayer has gone in preparation. 00:01:29.031 --> 00:01:32.602 We appreciate the pastor, family pastor, pastor Felista. 00:01:32.602 --> 00:01:34.710 She is somewhere at the back. 00:01:34.710 --> 00:01:36.918 Yes, i know she is following the service. 00:01:36.918 --> 00:01:42.558 Let's give a hand to the Lord and appreciate her and the team that has organized So. 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:51.641 At Buckland's Baptist Church we recognize and acknowledge the place of man and that is why we are having this men's conference. 00:01:51.641 --> 00:01:55.009 Melvin was when was here leading us in prayer. 00:01:55.009 --> 00:02:12.162 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. 00:02:12.162 --> 00:02:25.394 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. 00:02:25.394 --> 00:02:30.987 And you know, when men raise an altar, great things happen. 00:02:31.808 --> 00:02:35.055 Genesis 35, there's an altar called Bethel. 00:02:35.055 --> 00:02:38.545 It was raised by Jacob And Bishop. 00:02:38.545 --> 00:02:40.128 You remember what happened? 00:02:40.128 --> 00:02:43.381 He put a stone there, poured oil there. 00:02:43.381 --> 00:02:45.844 There was a connection direct with heaven. 00:02:45.844 --> 00:03:02.793 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. 00:03:02.832 --> 00:03:03.877 How many believe with me? 00:03:03.877 --> 00:03:05.681 Let me see even the man upstairs. 00:03:05.681 --> 00:03:17.385 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. 00:03:17.385 --> 00:03:36.854 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. 00:03:37.736 --> 00:03:45.723 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. 00:03:45.723 --> 00:03:46.646 Two of them are here. 00:03:46.646 --> 00:03:48.734 I'm sure you'll introduce them. 00:03:48.734 --> 00:03:58.783 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. 00:03:58.783 --> 00:04:08.002 He's candid in his approach I'm just preparing you hallelujah, and so that's how he's coming. 00:04:08.002 --> 00:04:09.986 He's Elijah type. 00:04:09.986 --> 00:04:11.068 You know the one. 00:04:11.068 --> 00:04:18.009 The fire Elijah on the hill in Pastor Ambrose said yesterday there are some who come, they are calm. 00:04:18.009 --> 00:04:32.452 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. 00:04:33.401 --> 00:04:44.404 And he has been the lead pastor for River of God, kag Packlands, which is at the meeting point of Ojijorod and Chiromalain. 00:04:44.404 --> 00:05:21.636 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. 00:05:21.636 --> 00:05:24.845 I know they have a leaning towards Asian ministries. 00:05:24.845 --> 00:05:28.341 There is a grace, like Pastor Ambrose talked about, an impartation. 00:05:28.341 --> 00:05:40.524 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. 00:05:41.365 --> 00:05:47.367 Ladies and gentlemen, i'll ask us to stand now as Reverend Bishop Tony Kiyama comes up here. 00:05:47.367 --> 00:05:49.819 Let's keep clapping until he gets here. 00:05:49.819 --> 00:06:00.889 Kari Bousana, amen, let's be candid. 00:06:00.889 --> 00:06:02.269 Yeah, right. 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:11.502 Praise the Lord. 00:06:11.502 --> 00:06:14.293 Are you glad to be in the house of the Lord? 00:06:14.293 --> 00:06:16.439 Glory to Jesus. 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:30.182 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. 00:06:30.182 --> 00:06:41.680 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. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:51.339 Just as a man, there's something in you that we need to star for the kingdom in this country. 00:06:51.339 --> 00:06:53.425 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:06:53.425 --> 00:06:57.514 Please have your seats, as I take a few minutes to do introductions. 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:14.026 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. 00:07:14.026 --> 00:07:28.415 So Kyoto had put together parents and men parents for breakfast meeting that would carry most of the morning. 00:07:28.415 --> 00:07:37.620 But on that same day my third born son had a function for the school and the parents needed to be there. 00:07:37.620 --> 00:08:03.009 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. 00:08:03.009 --> 00:08:32.671 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? 00:08:32.671 --> 00:08:52.485 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. 00:08:52.485 --> 00:08:56.693 They're going to be, you know, parents in the hundreds. 00:08:59.081 --> 00:09:07.423 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. 00:09:07.423 --> 00:09:21.414 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. 00:09:21.414 --> 00:09:29.952 And I said I don't know what schedule you have, but I'm asking if you can cancel, please do. 00:09:29.952 --> 00:09:34.706 And he said I will, pastor, what do you want me to do? 00:09:34.706 --> 00:09:41.566 And I gave him the topic and we discussed a bit and I just said may the Lord go before you. 00:09:41.566 --> 00:09:43.750 So in the morning I called. 00:09:44.471 --> 00:09:50.188 That morning I called the owner of the school and I said I want you to trust me. 00:09:50.188 --> 00:09:52.013 That was my opening statement. 00:09:52.013 --> 00:09:54.961 And he said, pastor, where are you going? 00:09:54.961 --> 00:09:59.692 I said I want you to trust me before I tell you what I'm going to say. 00:09:59.692 --> 00:10:20.013 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. 00:10:20.013 --> 00:10:25.106 And she said seriously, pastor. 00:10:25.106 --> 00:10:28.778 I said you remember, trust my judgment. 00:10:28.778 --> 00:10:35.110 So you called me because you trust me and you value my opinion, then trust my choice. 00:10:35.110 --> 00:10:36.833 She said that's fine. 00:10:36.833 --> 00:10:40.285 And so our deconvent. 00:10:40.285 --> 00:10:49.028 And he did a better job than me, because when I called them in the afternoon to us, so how did the meeting go? 00:10:49.028 --> 00:10:52.647 Oh, pastor, you sent the right guy. 00:10:52.647 --> 00:10:55.039 I was like, yeah, you see, he did a better job than me. 00:10:55.039 --> 00:11:00.369 They did want to say yes, but that's the truth. 00:11:00.369 --> 00:11:08.787 He did a better job than me that morning And he told them that I needed to go and be a father. 00:11:08.787 --> 00:11:17.871 I taught a lesson in absentia by being there for my son And I remember that whole day. 00:11:17.871 --> 00:11:40.004 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. 00:11:42.368 --> 00:11:46.894 Let me introduce the men who came with me today Everyone from Revive God. 00:11:46.894 --> 00:12:00.168 My right, which is your left, is Owen Ongwai. 00:12:00.168 --> 00:12:04.807 Owen Ongwai is a he's actually in Bible school, is a minister of the gospel. 00:12:04.807 --> 00:12:07.173 He's doing his masters at Global. 00:12:07.173 --> 00:12:13.692 The wife is a director of women's ministry, revive of God, which is a Kenyans of God ministry. 00:12:13.692 --> 00:12:18.951 Kevin is one of the leaders in our Ashering ministry. 00:12:18.951 --> 00:12:21.197 And we have Paul. 00:12:21.197 --> 00:12:25.070 Paul is a member of our men's ministry, an agriculturalist. 00:12:25.070 --> 00:12:26.735 And then we have Jimmy. 00:12:26.735 --> 00:12:28.460 Jimmy is a businessman. 00:12:28.460 --> 00:12:37.793 Jimmy is part of the leadership of men's ministry, so he's in the right place. 00:12:37.793 --> 00:12:40.681 Hallelujah, yes. 00:12:40.681 --> 00:12:43.990 So, chris, yes, there you are. 00:12:43.990 --> 00:12:47.820 And then the man who stepped in for me is called Ethnic Mutinda. 00:12:47.820 --> 00:12:50.466 He's a businessman and a decon. 00:12:50.466 --> 00:12:55.541 He's a secretary to the decon board, a Revive of God, which is a Kenyans of God ministry. 00:12:55.541 --> 00:13:05.236 And we have a young man called Paul just finished college doing entrepreneurship and he's come to support his pastor, praise the Lord. 00:13:06.278 --> 00:13:07.881 And then I brought my two sons. 00:13:07.881 --> 00:13:09.826 You know this generation. 00:13:09.826 --> 00:13:13.714 When they get to adulthood they have a life of their own. 00:13:13.714 --> 00:13:16.125 So I bless the Lord that they came with me. 00:13:16.125 --> 00:13:25.224 So my first born son, tj, is called I prefer to just call him TJ because he's also called Tony KA Ma. 00:13:25.224 --> 00:13:29.505 When he was born, when I went out, when I came back, the mother had given him a name. 00:13:29.505 --> 00:13:31.309 I named him after a man I respect. 00:13:31.309 --> 00:13:32.513 So I said who? 00:13:32.513 --> 00:13:40.273 As in, seriously, i said who, tony KA Ma, oh, sorry. 00:13:40.273 --> 00:13:44.263 So he's called TJ. 00:13:44.263 --> 00:13:48.514 So he's in Strath studying finance and economics at Strath. 00:13:48.514 --> 00:13:51.942 And then I have my second born son is called Toria. 00:13:51.942 --> 00:13:56.953 So, if you can wave, yes, so that's Toria seated there. 00:13:56.953 --> 00:14:03.493 So Toria is a first year in Bible school And I bless the Lord for the two of them. 00:14:03.493 --> 00:14:05.363 And we have another son. 00:14:05.363 --> 00:14:07.706 He's called Thio, he's 10. 00:14:07.706 --> 00:14:14.139 He's still not free from his mother's amped. 00:14:14.139 --> 00:14:19.875 We don't get him much, but we are negotiating, praise the Lord. 00:14:19.875 --> 00:14:22.322 So those are my sons and I'm glad that they're here. 00:14:23.044 --> 00:14:24.370 And the men from River of God. 00:14:24.370 --> 00:14:27.120 I want to say thank you for coming with me. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.884 God bless and you may have your suits. 00:14:28.884 --> 00:14:43.755 Let me take this opportunity to appreciate and acknowledge the owner by Reverend Ambrose Nyangau for allowing me to be here. 00:14:43.755 --> 00:14:48.708 I know all these invitations must go through his desk as they do. 00:14:48.788 --> 00:14:53.422 A river of God, pastor Simon, thank you for being here this evening. 00:14:53.422 --> 00:14:55.206 I don't take that for granted. 00:14:55.206 --> 00:15:01.926 Chris Magu have been meeting with him and sharing, and we call her teacher Felista. 00:15:01.926 --> 00:15:06.543 Where I come from, she's a teacher at the Bible school at KAG East University. 00:15:06.543 --> 00:15:10.134 So thank you, teacher Felista, and your husband Kamau. 00:15:10.134 --> 00:15:11.980 We bless the Lord for each one of you. 00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:20.501 The men's ministry leadership, the decon board here and the elders and the men Praise the Lord. 00:15:20.501 --> 00:15:23.246 Amen, amen And amen. 00:15:23.246 --> 00:15:42.408 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. 00:15:44.513 --> 00:16:17.032 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. 00:16:17.032 --> 00:16:18.955 So what did we do? 00:16:18.955 --> 00:16:23.803 Because we couldn't find a man of the man of the cloth in this nation. 00:16:23.803 --> 00:16:29.234 We went down south and we got a pastor from South Africa. 00:16:29.234 --> 00:16:31.642 That broke my heart. 00:16:32.563 --> 00:16:35.791 The question for me then was where is the church in this country? 00:16:35.791 --> 00:16:39.764 The problem is not that the church was not there. 00:16:39.764 --> 00:16:56.667 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. 00:16:56.667 --> 00:17:10.372 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. 00:17:10.372 --> 00:17:16.855 Hallelujah, because there's a church in this country and our voice must be heard in Jesus' name, hallelujah. 00:17:17.317 --> 00:17:19.923 And the church is not just a pastor, it's all of us. 00:17:19.923 --> 00:17:29.548 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. 00:17:29.548 --> 00:17:40.605 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. 00:17:40.605 --> 00:17:50.749 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. 00:17:50.749 --> 00:17:59.990 We must live a life that you look at and you admire, a life that you can. 00:17:59.990 --> 00:18:05.912 You live a life that glorifies God, that people who respect that they cannot question. 00:18:05.912 --> 00:18:12.186 In the name of Jesus Christ, establishing your mantle is a right to be heard, or the right to lead. 00:18:12.186 --> 00:18:15.673 That mantle has been given to us by God. 00:18:15.673 --> 00:18:21.292 By the fact that we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we become the body of Christ. 00:18:21.292 --> 00:18:28.423 The church of Jesus Christ must be heard, but we must earn that right again, because it has been taken away from us. 00:18:28.423 --> 00:18:31.994 We must earn that right Right now. 00:18:32.056 --> 00:18:35.665 The church is saying nothing about the finance bill, sayed absolutely nothing. 00:18:35.665 --> 00:18:37.872 and even if they said, no one would have heard them. 00:18:37.872 --> 00:18:39.881 Why? 00:18:39.881 --> 00:18:45.029 Because the ground out there thinks church has become a business. 00:18:45.029 --> 00:18:46.112 Why? 00:18:46.112 --> 00:19:16.874 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. 00:19:16.874 --> 00:19:22.575 And we must come to that place where we call it as it is in Jesus' name. 00:19:23.704 --> 00:19:39.776 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. 00:19:39.776 --> 00:19:40.417 Hallelujah. 00:19:40.417 --> 00:19:56.078 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. 00:19:56.078 --> 00:20:02.337 So they are worshippers that are not true, because they don't worship in spirit and in truth, there is no truth in them. 00:20:02.337 --> 00:20:08.616 And Jesus said I am the way, the life and the truth, and no one comes to me except through Christ, hallelujah. 00:20:09.505 --> 00:20:16.212 And so, as we continue with that portion of scripture, the Bible continues to say for the Father seeks such to worship Him. 00:20:16.212 --> 00:20:20.265 The Father is actively looking, hallelujah. 00:20:20.265 --> 00:20:26.457 The Father is actively looking for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. 00:20:26.457 --> 00:20:43.652 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. 00:20:43.652 --> 00:20:46.330 God will show up in our churches again. 00:20:46.791 --> 00:20:52.174 Praise the Lord Where we come to the place where we call it as it is. 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:58.374 And let me tell you something, friends When you have the spirit of God, then you boldly speak the truth. 00:20:58.374 --> 00:21:13.511 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. 00:21:13.511 --> 00:21:23.230 Hallelujah, if you are sleeping with someone who is not your wife, that's called a doll tree And God hates it. 00:21:23.230 --> 00:21:27.432 But we must come to the place where we tell each other the truth. 00:21:27.432 --> 00:21:32.928 Mujemaahuna chasanamoto, hallelujah. 00:21:34.224 --> 00:21:39.497 We have young people in the church of Jesus Christ who are sleeping with each other right, left and center. 00:21:39.497 --> 00:21:47.515 It's called for negation and it's sin, and so we must come to that place again where we call sin sin. 00:21:47.515 --> 00:21:52.214 But the church has become the place where truth is no longer told. 00:21:52.214 --> 00:21:57.425 We no longer tell each other the truth During weddings. 00:21:57.425 --> 00:21:58.609 It's become a charade. 00:21:58.609 --> 00:22:15.811 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. 00:22:15.811 --> 00:22:18.109 Kuwadi ikani say holiness in a manishanini. 00:22:18.109 --> 00:22:31.432 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? 00:22:31.432 --> 00:22:32.154 Why? 00:22:32.154 --> 00:22:39.074 Because we are still pursuing holiness, because holiness must still be part of the church. 00:22:39.074 --> 00:22:43.054 God desires holiness in the innermost parts, hallelujah. 00:22:43.845 --> 00:22:50.410 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. 00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:54.234 We are not being a secretary, we are not being a house girl. 00:22:54.234 --> 00:22:56.090 We are not living a holy life. 00:22:56.090 --> 00:22:58.407 We are living a holy life. 00:22:58.407 --> 00:23:00.535 Live right first. 00:23:00.535 --> 00:23:06.169 You earn the rights because you have the mantle, and the mantle is not a position. 00:23:06.169 --> 00:23:24.332 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. 00:23:24.332 --> 00:23:30.535 The reason why the world is looking at the church and think we are a bunch of fools. 00:23:32.625 --> 00:23:36.990 You go to a funeral And, pastors, we must stop to lie. 00:23:36.990 --> 00:23:55.357 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. 00:23:55.357 --> 00:24:00.751 Who said that We must hold each other accountable? 00:24:00.751 --> 00:24:07.468 How come, when you go to ask for a loan in the bank, you don't tell the bank manager stop judging me. 00:24:07.468 --> 00:24:10.611 How come they have to do due diligence? 00:24:10.611 --> 00:24:13.714 Let's see your credit rating. 00:24:13.714 --> 00:24:17.412 Let's see your credit rating. 00:24:17.412 --> 00:24:19.769 Let's see, do you pay your debts? 00:24:21.505 --> 00:24:29.371 Let's see, when we employ you and you are in the interview panel, the questions you ask, you go to someone. 00:24:29.371 --> 00:24:42.817 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. 00:24:42.817 --> 00:24:45.250 You need to know what kind of guy is this. 00:24:45.250 --> 00:24:47.194 What kind of woman will this be? 00:24:47.194 --> 00:24:53.536 You're just employing a receptionist, but you have to do due diligence on this receptionist. 00:24:53.536 --> 00:25:01.535 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. 00:25:01.535 --> 00:25:03.250 So you must do your due diligence. 00:25:03.250 --> 00:25:15.412 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. 00:25:15.412 --> 00:25:19.673 It's not just a blonde, but it's a blonde with brains. 00:25:19.673 --> 00:25:31.369 We are not just looking for blondes, we are also looking for brains if you are going to represent this organization. 00:25:31.805 --> 00:25:44.013 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? 00:25:44.013 --> 00:25:50.907 How much more should we look into the character of the people that we are assigning positions in church? 00:25:50.907 --> 00:25:57.915 We must hold you accountable, so you can't be an answer that stops judging me. 00:25:57.915 --> 00:26:05.742 When you order for a bottle of beer, they don't find out your character. 00:26:05.742 --> 00:26:11.953 They don't find out whether you are a thug, kinesis or a bar born as a spewe. 00:26:11.953 --> 00:26:20.810 And even those bars they write somewhere on the wall, somewhere We reserve the right of admission. 00:26:20.810 --> 00:26:25.752 We reserve the right of admission. 00:26:25.752 --> 00:26:30.009 But church, come as you are, that's fine, we don't care who comes. 00:26:30.009 --> 00:26:36.280 But before we give you this mic or we make you an answer, we will do our due diligence. 00:26:36.280 --> 00:26:37.424 Hallelujah. 00:26:37.424 --> 00:26:45.791 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. 00:26:46.605 --> 00:26:50.993 If you start culling things out here to nagu futayokazi, shout out Una tuangusa Funga sipe muja maa. 00:26:50.993 --> 00:26:52.517 Why we are going to hanga isawa. 00:26:52.517 --> 00:26:54.079 Tu apa una pigabibi Una ruka mata. 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:55.041 By the way, let me tell you something. 00:26:55.041 --> 00:26:59.289 There are many people who are looking up to you. 00:26:59.289 --> 00:27:11.573 Hebrews 12 1,. 00:27:11.573 --> 00:27:15.440 There's a huge cloud of witnesses as you are jumping right. 00:27:15.605 --> 00:27:16.468 Let me give you a short story. 00:27:16.468 --> 00:27:31.757 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. 00:27:31.757 --> 00:27:39.884 Anyway, we are going home And, as you know, at that hour no one really stops at those lights No one. 00:27:39.884 --> 00:27:48.942 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. 00:27:48.942 --> 00:27:52.555 I think they were in standard two or standard one. 00:27:52.555 --> 00:28:06.597 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. 00:28:06.597 --> 00:28:09.894 And so he asked dad, you just jumped a red light. 00:28:09.894 --> 00:28:14.134 I said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:28:14.785 --> 00:28:16.531 You don't understand the circumstances. 00:28:16.531 --> 00:28:22.214 The intricacies of life are beyond your. 00:28:22.214 --> 00:28:33.267 You are great at three in Nairobi, no one stops, look around. 00:28:33.267 --> 00:28:36.990 And so he said so there is a time for breaking the law. 00:28:36.990 --> 00:28:44.772 Buanas here, some repentance service. 00:28:44.772 --> 00:28:57.833 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. 00:28:57.833 --> 00:29:01.454 And so, friends, we must earn that right. 00:29:01.454 --> 00:29:18.371 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. 00:29:20.265 --> 00:29:23.653 And so you cannot write fictitious reports. 00:29:23.653 --> 00:29:27.271 Your Padi Ames must be truthful. 00:29:27.271 --> 00:29:29.646 Some of you seated here. 00:29:29.646 --> 00:29:34.375 When you're given Padi Ames, even Amrudi Shangi changed. 00:29:34.375 --> 00:29:37.250 It is your God given right. 00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:50.285 But you see, to you, truth does not apply to Shilling's hand Sense. 00:29:50.285 --> 00:29:52.230 So the accountant knows your lie. 00:29:52.230 --> 00:29:58.226 No wonder he's not saved because he's looking at you and wondering if this is an elder in church. 00:29:58.946 --> 00:30:02.753 Naa naa kula gapa Padi Ames, naa folk and knife. 00:30:02.753 --> 00:30:07.611 If this is church leadership, then I'm doing fine. 00:30:07.611 --> 00:30:11.171 Where, where I am, who is a gambling bloke? 00:30:11.171 --> 00:30:19.930 U naa naa fula kum anya maa tha hukun Eh Buanas fiewe. 00:30:19.930 --> 00:30:28.807 When you're writing reports and they are fake, when you have not realized your goals and your lying. 00:30:29.971 --> 00:30:30.773 And let me tell you something. 00:30:30.773 --> 00:30:35.307 One of the things I've come to realize is some of the documents that many of you have prepared. 00:30:35.307 --> 00:30:43.992 One of those documents, eg a CV, a curriculum vitae, will be some of the documents that the devil will use to accuse you. 00:30:43.992 --> 00:30:56.853 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. 00:30:56.853 --> 00:31:03.596 No, seriously speaking, you ask someone by the way, kun a job, can you send me your CV? 00:31:03.596 --> 00:31:04.798 They send you their CV. 00:31:04.798 --> 00:31:10.136 If you don't look at the name and you just read the details, you know Who is this. 00:31:10.136 --> 00:31:12.929 You send me the wrong one. 00:31:12.929 --> 00:31:13.289 No, no, no. 00:31:13.289 --> 00:31:14.051 Check The name. 00:31:14.051 --> 00:31:16.477 Allah, when you took somebody's CV, no, that's me. 00:31:16.497 --> 00:31:17.499 Lies, lies. 00:31:17.499 --> 00:31:29.118 We no longer know what truth is, even if we met with it head on. 00:31:29.118 --> 00:31:32.748 We don't know what truth is. 00:31:32.748 --> 00:31:44.314 Even if we met with it head on, we don't know what truth is. 00:31:44.314 --> 00:32:17.425 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. 00:32:17.425 --> 00:32:24.150 But is God speaking to you Or is it Iqabud? 00:32:24.150 --> 00:32:48.978 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. 00:32:51.085 --> 00:32:55.297 The children of Israel are on their way to the promised land. 00:32:55.297 --> 00:33:03.694 On their way to the promised land, and they get to the Sinai Peninsula. 00:33:03.694 --> 00:33:16.048 Just next to Mount Sinai, moses is called up to the hill by God, and so he is gone for forty days. 00:33:16.048 --> 00:33:29.041 And while he is there, god writes on two tablets of stone, with his finger, the ten commandments popularly known. 00:33:29.041 --> 00:33:32.526 And he is there for forty days. 00:33:33.619 --> 00:33:45.084 The children of Israel, not a kilometer away, but a few meters down the hill, decide Moses has left us here. 00:33:45.084 --> 00:33:54.500 All they needed to do is lift their eyes and see the glory of God covering the top of the hill Right there. 00:33:54.500 --> 00:34:01.487 Remember they are here and they have carried the wealth of Egypt, the gold and the silver and other precious stones. 00:34:01.487 --> 00:34:06.950 And so they tell Aaron to build them a calf, build us a god. 00:34:06.950 --> 00:34:19.931 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. 00:34:19.931 --> 00:34:27.751 So Moses Aaron builds them a calf of gold. 00:34:27.751 --> 00:34:33.168 That was a lot of gold, gold that God had given them. 00:34:33.168 --> 00:34:42.525 So they build a calf and they start worshiping it And they start being orgies In the whole nine years of evil. 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:51.063 And Moses hears the noise and God tells him that your people have gone astray and I'm going to kill all of them. 00:34:51.063 --> 00:34:58.472 And so Moses comes down and he sees the calf and he cannot believe it. 00:34:58.472 --> 00:35:10.610 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. 00:35:10.610 --> 00:35:19.512 He banged them to the ground And that anger cost him his life because he never went to the promised land. 00:35:19.512 --> 00:35:21.746 He was told to speak to the rock. 00:35:21.746 --> 00:35:23.226 What did he do? 00:35:23.226 --> 00:35:28.110 He struck it and God told him you will see it, but you will not step on it. 00:35:28.110 --> 00:35:33.688 The purpose to which God had called him in his entire life. 00:35:33.688 --> 00:35:40.182 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. 00:35:40.182 --> 00:35:42.987 That was his entire purpose on earth. 00:35:42.987 --> 00:35:44.764 He didn't fulfill it. 00:35:44.764 --> 00:35:50.929 He saw it but he never stepped on to the promised land because of his anger. 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:54.684 So the story continues. 00:35:54.684 --> 00:36:01.931 So Moses, here he is, he's angry, he's destroyed this. 00:36:01.931 --> 00:36:10.967 He's taken that calf, he crushes it into powder, puts it in water and they drink it, as in. 00:36:10.967 --> 00:36:12.349 This guy is out there. 00:36:12.349 --> 00:36:24.146 And so the Bible says that God spoke to him, exodus 32, verse 27. 00:36:24.146 --> 00:36:25.163 These are the words of God. 00:36:25.163 --> 00:36:28.782 Moses is reporting what God told him, verse 27,. 00:36:28.782 --> 00:36:29.344 The Bible says this. 00:36:29.344 --> 00:36:35.130 Then he said to them this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says. 00:36:35.130 --> 00:36:37.565 God gives this instruction. 00:36:37.565 --> 00:36:58.572 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. 00:36:58.572 --> 00:37:02.661 Praise the Lord Here. 00:37:02.661 --> 00:37:04.726 What God has told them. 00:37:04.726 --> 00:37:11.003 God is telling them through Moses, verse 28. 00:37:11.003 --> 00:37:15.007 The Bible continues to say this verse 28. 00:37:16.019 --> 00:37:24.271 The Levites did as Moses commanded and that day, about 3,000 of the people died. 00:37:24.271 --> 00:37:30.829 3,000 people died on that day. 00:37:30.829 --> 00:37:35.927 3,000 people died on that day. 00:37:35.927 --> 00:37:48.463 When Moses got down, he asked of the 12 tribes of Israel, about 2.6 million people, who here is on God's side? 00:37:48.463 --> 00:38:05.172 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. 00:38:05.172 --> 00:38:05.981 And here we are. 00:38:05.981 --> 00:38:07.405 Only the Levites. 00:38:07.405 --> 00:38:14.545 Only the Levites say you know what Cicit, copande, amungo, we are on God's side. 00:38:14.545 --> 00:38:15.789 Only the Levites. 00:38:15.789 --> 00:38:17.282 That's what the Bible says. 00:38:17.282 --> 00:38:23.023 Only the Levites, only the Levites. 00:38:23.023 --> 00:38:27.489 And so it wasn't enough for them to just step forth. 00:38:27.489 --> 00:38:30.184 Faith without to ask is dead. 00:38:30.184 --> 00:38:32.364 The Bible says in James, hallelujah. 00:38:32.364 --> 00:38:44.889 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. 00:38:44.889 --> 00:38:58.889 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. 00:38:58.889 --> 00:39:05.989 And 3,000 people died that day, and they had proved their allegiance before God. 00:39:05.989 --> 00:39:12.329 That's how God set them aside to serve him in worship. 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:22.461 Friends, for your mantle to be established in worship, it won't be cheap, hallelujah. 00:39:22.461 --> 00:39:24.849 It won't be cheap. 00:39:24.849 --> 00:39:33.550 But I also want to make this statement that it will be personal, it won't be congregational, it's personal, personal. 00:39:33.550 --> 00:39:41.601 It will be personal, number one. 00:39:41.601 --> 00:39:44.429 It will be personal for those who are writing notes. 00:39:44.429 --> 00:39:46.324 It will be personal. 00:39:46.324 --> 00:39:58.775 You must resolve in your heart that I will worship God in spirit and in truth. 00:39:58.775 --> 00:40:03.289 And worship is not just lifting up your hands on Sunday morning or on a forum like this. 00:40:04.739 --> 00:40:05.483 Worship is a way of life. 00:40:05.483 --> 00:40:16.572 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. 00:40:16.572 --> 00:40:25.610 Everything you do at home, at work, on the road, when the rights are read and everyone is jumping, you still choose to stand. 00:40:25.610 --> 00:40:29.250 And let me tell you something the next lights was Hail Silasih. 00:40:29.250 --> 00:40:40.449 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. 00:40:40.449 --> 00:40:49.260 He takes one guy to break the law, but he also takes one to say you know what I will obey? 00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:56.927 I didn't tell anyone to stop, i just stopped and put my hands on so that somebody doesn't ingear me behind. 00:40:56.927 --> 00:41:06.804 I stopped, The next guy came and he stopped, the next guy stopped And even the acceleration stopped. 00:41:06.804 --> 00:41:07.465 The guy stopped. 00:41:07.465 --> 00:41:12.507 My assumption was that I must have seen a policeman. 00:41:12.507 --> 00:41:17.483 But the truth is I did. 00:41:17.483 --> 00:41:21.182 He's a seven-year-old. 00:41:21.182 --> 00:41:29.788 On my back seat, he's a seven-year-old at the back, he's the policeman and my conscience. 00:41:29.788 --> 00:41:35.905 And I stopped and everyone stopped And when they went green I passed. 00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:40.224 It must be personal. 00:41:40.224 --> 00:41:44.465 That mantle of worship is personal. 00:41:44.465 --> 00:41:48.063 That God has given you is personal The cutting toe. 00:41:48.063 --> 00:41:54.447 So we don't go as a crowd, we go as we are And the Lord doesn't care about our bank balance. 00:41:54.447 --> 00:41:57.869 The church might, the community might, but you know what? 00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:07.746 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. 00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:14.628 See how a guy who drives a Range Rover when you go somewhere, people respect you, whether you're a dander head or not. 00:42:14.628 --> 00:42:23.246 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. 00:42:23.246 --> 00:42:26.088 But what they forget is a dander head can make money. 00:42:26.088 --> 00:42:28.829 It doesn't take a lot of praise to make money. 00:42:28.829 --> 00:42:31.601 And some of you might sit there and say how come you haven't made? 00:42:31.601 --> 00:42:39.844 How come you haven't made? 00:42:39.844 --> 00:42:45.422 But you know the Lord uses the foolish things. 00:42:45.422 --> 00:42:52.922 It's personal. 00:42:52.922 --> 00:42:56.119 Number two. 00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:57.344 It will cost you everything. 00:42:57.344 --> 00:42:59.586 It will cost you friendship. 00:42:59.586 --> 00:43:02.405 It will cost you your family. 00:43:02.405 --> 00:43:09.987 It will cost you When you choose to worship God in spirit and in truth. 00:43:09.987 --> 00:43:11.150 It will cost you everything. 00:43:11.150 --> 00:43:16.110 It will cost you relationships, because there are things that people do that you say you know what I won't. 00:43:16.110 --> 00:43:17.922 Let me give you an example. 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:27.907 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. 00:43:27.907 --> 00:43:37.327 And I can tell you here, truthfully, many of us, when we finished college, whatever our high school, we had absolutely nothing. 00:43:37.327 --> 00:43:38.862 God was all we had. 00:43:38.862 --> 00:43:43.947 True, and God has answered many of our prayers and he has covered our shame. 00:43:43.947 --> 00:43:50.269 Some of you, some of the businesses that you run today that are thriving, started from nothing. 00:43:50.269 --> 00:43:58.983 You are a miracle, you are a walking miracle in the corporate world, hallelujah. 00:43:58.983 --> 00:44:05.726 But how many of you know people you started together, you served you either worship ministry together. 00:44:05.726 --> 00:44:08.552 You are ashes together. 00:44:08.552 --> 00:44:10.143 You are in the mission ministry together. 00:44:10.143 --> 00:44:11.969 You are teaching children's church together. 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:23.581 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. 00:44:23.581 --> 00:44:25.068