SPEAKER_01: We are standing, we want to read the passage First Corinthians 15, 3 to 10.
SPEAKER_01: Again, it is a month of grace, and you look gracious.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, I see grace on you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Tell the neighbor who ignored you, I see grace on you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This is an amazing passage from the apostle Paul.
SPEAKER_01: For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the twelve.
SPEAKER_01: After that he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.
SPEAKER_01: Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born, for I am the least of the apostles, and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
SPEAKER_01: Then verse 10, which is key for us, but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect, nor I worked harder than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
SPEAKER_01: This is God's word, God's people said, We may be seated in God's presence.
SPEAKER_01: Father, as we sit in your presence, we are reminded of the scripture that says that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
SPEAKER_01: And so this afternoon there is a proceeding word, and we want to position ourselves that we may be able to receive that word into our lives, into our situations, into our circumstances, and we know that Lord, we shall come out with a testimony.
SPEAKER_01: Holy Spirit, let your unction and your anointing be upon the hearing of your word.
SPEAKER_01: Those watching us online, those in the pavilion, and those in the parents' room, we just want to pray that, Lord, we shall be just touched by you in a special way today.
SPEAKER_01: Those watching us online, we bless them.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for hearing our prayer.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name we pray.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We are talking about uncommon grace.
SPEAKER_01: And let me say, like I said last week, thank you for welcoming us back to church, to the pulpit.
SPEAKER_01: Had a good time on leave.
SPEAKER_01: I just appreciated the rest that God gave to us.
SPEAKER_01: And glad to be back in fellowship.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says, let us consider how to stir up one another, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.
SPEAKER_01: One of the main reasons of being in church today is to be able to encourage one another.
SPEAKER_01: And all the more as we see the day of the Lord drawing near.
SPEAKER_01: I have three points, Pastor Simon, and they are simple.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, uncommon grace for impact because grace impacts us.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, status.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor status.
SPEAKER_01: Number two, assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, tell your neighbor assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Number three, signature.
SPEAKER_01: So tell your neighbor one more time because they were not listening to you.
SPEAKER_01: Status.
SPEAKER_01: Assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Signature.
SPEAKER_01: So that's the message.
SPEAKER_01: It is not spiritual, it is just straightforward to you.
SPEAKER_01: Because uncommon grace is so powerful.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that grace is a divine force.
SPEAKER_01: For by grace you have been saved through faith.
SPEAKER_01: It is not your own doing, it's the gift of God.
SPEAKER_01: And Paul says that I am what I am by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: And you are what you are by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: This church is what it is by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: So I want you to know that this grace, as we have sung it so well today, that this grace is a divine force.
SPEAKER_01: It is also a creative power.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that we are God's workmanship created for good works.
SPEAKER_01: We are a creation of God.
SPEAKER_01: And it is powerful.
SPEAKER_01: And this grace should not just be a word in space.
SPEAKER_01: This grace is what saved us.
SPEAKER_01: This grace is what opened the door to our salvation.
SPEAKER_01: And when Paul is talking about it, he's talking about it from experience.
SPEAKER_01: Because you know Paul persecuted the church.
SPEAKER_01: Paul, and when he did it, he did it na Rohusafi.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: He persecuted the church and he had a very clear heart because he knew from his position that the Christians who are talking about Jesus rising from the dead were blasphemous.
SPEAKER_01: And that this Jesus is not supposed to be talked about.
SPEAKER_01: So he persecuted the church left and right.
SPEAKER_01: He was a murderer, he killed the people, he had even the authority to go out.
SPEAKER_01: But while he was doing that, the Bible says, according to him writing in Romans, he says, While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
SPEAKER_01: This is Paul talking.
SPEAKER_01: And so when he says, I am what I am by the grace of God, he really means it.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to say today, because I'll emphasize that fact, that I am what I am by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Your boss did not make you.
SPEAKER_01: Grace made you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You are sweet, your sweetie or babe, or whoever it is, did not make you.
SPEAKER_01: Grace made you.
SPEAKER_01: You are who you are by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace defines us.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace deploys us.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace develops us.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace defends us.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace displays us.
SPEAKER_01: And common grace impacts our lives.
SPEAKER_01: And like Paul said, that this grace changed his life in a very powerful way.
SPEAKER_01: And so, in three areas, I want to talk about the first one is status.
SPEAKER_01: It changed who he was.
SPEAKER_01: And like Jesus told him on the way to Damascus, that you're going to be my preacher, you're going to call people to turn from darkness into light.
SPEAKER_01: You're going to shift their status.
SPEAKER_01: And one of the things Paul said very clearly is what we are now in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 5 17.
SPEAKER_01: So let me read that as we talk about status.
SPEAKER_01: It says, Therefore, if anyone, anyone, anyone, anyone, anyone, tall, short, whichever dimensions, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.
SPEAKER_01: The old has gone.
SPEAKER_01: The new is here.
SPEAKER_01: You are a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: You have a new status.
SPEAKER_01: Your spirit is born again.
SPEAKER_01: That's what Jesus told Nicodemus.
SPEAKER_01: Let me read that.
SPEAKER_01: John chapter 3, verse 3.
SPEAKER_01: He says this to Nicodemus.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus replied, Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.
SPEAKER_01: Is a change of status.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 5, in the same chapter, he says this.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus answered, Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 7, you should not be surprised at my saying.
SPEAKER_01: You must be born again.
SPEAKER_01: Your status must change.
SPEAKER_01: And I believe about 90% of those in Parklands Baptist Church, and this is my estimation, Pastor Simon, the 90% of us are born again.
SPEAKER_01: Ah, let me say that again.
SPEAKER_01: One is not.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: So ask yourself: are you sitting next to the one?
SPEAKER_01: Or are you part of the nine?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, because I'm talking about 90%.
SPEAKER_01: Why am I saying that?
SPEAKER_01: Because you cannot be in Parklands all these years.
SPEAKER_01: Listening to the messages we preach, Pastor Simon, myself, all the pastors, the elders here, and you still remain the same.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot do that.
SPEAKER_01: We want you to go to heaven with us.
SPEAKER_01: We want to relocate Parki into heaven.
SPEAKER_01: All of us.
SPEAKER_01: Now can you imagine you're with us all these years?
SPEAKER_01: And then to Nakponia Kwambali.
SPEAKER_01: We're in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: You are in hell, and we are wondering how did that person not make it?
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because it is not your working, it's the gift of God.
SPEAKER_01: It is the gift of God.
SPEAKER_01: And we have become a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: Now, talking to Pastor Simon, he got saved in 1976.
SPEAKER_01: That day he became a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: Now let me ask you, many years later today, is he still a new creation?
SPEAKER_01: Or that new creation became older?
SPEAKER_01: Is he still a new creation?
SPEAKER_01: Now that word new creation, Pastor Simon, in its particular Greek aspect, it means we are a new species that has never existed before.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because those who received him, who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the children of God, who were born not of the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but by the will of God.
SPEAKER_01: They were born of God.
SPEAKER_01: Born of God.
SPEAKER_01: God, you are born of God.
SPEAKER_01: Born of God.
SPEAKER_01: For the mothers who are here and have said it before, if you are Kandaring Chapati or Kandahing Chapati, that's a Hebrew word.
SPEAKER_01: When you are finyang chapati ni finyange, and you finya this thing until it is just right, and then you grab it and pull it out.
SPEAKER_01: One part, and you make this chapati.
SPEAKER_01: Is this chapati part of this?
SPEAKER_01: Huh?
SPEAKER_01: Is every ingredient in this chapati in this door?
SPEAKER_01: So you are pulled out of this chapati and this door pulled out and you became your own chapati.
SPEAKER_01: God put Jesus together, and out of Jesus He pulled you.
SPEAKER_01: So you are of God, you are a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: And you know, God waited until Jesus died.
SPEAKER_01: You are not part of Jesus of Nazareth.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on the cross.
SPEAKER_01: But Jesus, the resurrected, powerful Son of God, it was out of that you are pulled out.
SPEAKER_01: You became a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: That is why it says in that verse that we preach Jesus who died by the scriptures, who was buried by the scriptures, according to the scriptures, he rose again according to the scriptures, and now you are a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: That is your status, and your status will never change.
SPEAKER_01: Now, the thing that forgets the status is not your spirit, it is your mind.
SPEAKER_01: Because many times you forget who you are when things are going through difficult opportunities and times.
SPEAKER_01: And you forget who you are, and sometimes you begin to regard yourself not as a new creation, not as a child of God, and you begin to reduce your value.
SPEAKER_01: So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor your value has never changed.
SPEAKER_01: And your value will never change.
SPEAKER_01: You are valued at Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: But when situations go south, you can forget that.
SPEAKER_01: Don't forget who you are, that is your status.
SPEAKER_01: And how did that happen?
SPEAKER_01: The grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Last week I was telling you up how I got suddenly sick and had to be admitted in the hospital on the 15th of September at night.
SPEAKER_01: Became quite unwell, had a lot of pain in my abdomen, and before I knew it, it escalated, and that pain went to my right side right here.
SPEAKER_01: And I struggled between 11 at night until around 4 in the morning.
SPEAKER_01: And I told Martha, I cannot bear this.
SPEAKER_01: I need to go to the hospital now.
SPEAKER_01: In between that time, Martha was googling, googling stomach upset, nausea, pain at the right side.
SPEAKER_01: These days are good days.
SPEAKER_01: When she reached to the place of pain at the right side, she found she was told it is an appendix, an inflamed appendix.
SPEAKER_01: And I could not bear that pain.
SPEAKER_01: I was praying, I was vomiting, it was just a crazy night.
SPEAKER_01: But you know, God had set me up because that Sunday, Pastor Kiniti was preaching when he brought his wife on the pulpit.
SPEAKER_01: You remember that time?
SPEAKER_01: He was preaching and brought Kate here and started walking around with Kate, you know, and then said, You see, I'm with Kate.
SPEAKER_01: And then he steps aside and said, Even though Kate does not feel me, I'm still there.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And walked around.
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes, even if Kate does not see you, but you're on call, you know that that person is around.
SPEAKER_01: That message really helped me.
SPEAKER_01: Because I was now at Agakan Hospital.
SPEAKER_01: By that time we had reached there, it was around five o'clock in the morning, and went through the triage and all those places.
SPEAKER_01: Landed at we were told go and get a city scan.
SPEAKER_01: They needed to just find out exactly what was the challenge.
SPEAKER_01: And the city scan, of course, just said where I had an appendix that had inflamed, and you could not parka vastly.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: Parka is a Hebrew word.
SPEAKER_01: And the doctor said, Now you need you need this appendix needs to be removed.
SPEAKER_01: You need to be put in.
SPEAKER_01: Admitted.
SPEAKER_01: And so that took on another aspect.
SPEAKER_01: It was around eight o'clock, and so admission had to start there.
SPEAKER_01: They needed to get the surgeon.
SPEAKER_01: They needed to get the anesthesia and all those things.
SPEAKER_01: And then they needed to get a bed.
SPEAKER_01: By the time I was getting a bed, it was 5 p.m.
SPEAKER_01: in the afternoon.
SPEAKER_01: I was in the hospital.
SPEAKER_01: I was there by around 7.
SPEAKER_01: The doctor came.
SPEAKER_01: He said, We are going to pick you up at 8 o'clock and we are taking you in.
SPEAKER_01: And it's at that time I was saying, God, where are you?
SPEAKER_01: You know, why is this happening?
SPEAKER_01: And God, you know that I have a trip to go to Cape Town.
SPEAKER_01: What is this?
SPEAKER_01: I was really beginning to get worried.
SPEAKER_01: Then I remember what Pastor Kennedy was saying.
SPEAKER_01: That God, you may be feeling God.
SPEAKER_01: There are times when you actually feel God.
SPEAKER_01: You're worshiping God, you're praising God, He's there, He's just there.
SPEAKER_01: Then there are times you're not feeling Him, but He is He's there.
SPEAKER_01: Then He you're not seeing Him, but He's there.
SPEAKER_01: And God was saying, Ambrose, I'm with you.
SPEAKER_01: My grace is with you.
SPEAKER_01: And my grace is sufficient for you.
SPEAKER_01: You know?
SPEAKER_01: Yes, let's give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: You know.
SPEAKER_01: And I was saying, God, just this pain needs to go.
SPEAKER_01: And of course, they called me at eight o'clock.
SPEAKER_01: They brought that bed, they rolled me into the theater, and uh this guy said, We're going to put an oxygen mask on you.
SPEAKER_01: Just breathe.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Okay, I need oxygen.
SPEAKER_01: So they put that oxygen mask on me and they just said, breathe in.
SPEAKER_01: Breathe out, just breathe in, and I just was enjoying myself.
SPEAKER_01: Breathe in.
SPEAKER_01: Before I knew it, I was not there.
SPEAKER_01: I was gone.
SPEAKER_01: That the one hour later, I think it was one and a half hours later, I had woken up in the recovery room and I had my name.
SPEAKER_01: Ambrose Nyangawa.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Yes.
SPEAKER_01: When is your birthday?
SPEAKER_01: I said, 6th December.
SPEAKER_01: Then they said, which room did we bring you from?
SPEAKER_01: I said, room 130.
SPEAKER_01: Said, fine, we are taking you there.
SPEAKER_01: I had come back to life.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I came back to life.
SPEAKER_01: I was rolled in there, and later when I checked, I was wondering what they had done.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, they told me what they were going to do.
SPEAKER_01: They decided they were not going to cut me here.
SPEAKER_01: They decided to put a hole here, another hole here, another hole here, another hole here, and then they put a camera inside.
SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine technology?
SPEAKER_01: Camera, and then they are cutting me while they're watching on camera.
SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine if suddenly an advert comes in?
SPEAKER_01: I'm in trouble.
SPEAKER_01: But of course, later I just saw bandages here, you know, and I was done.
SPEAKER_01: I was good to go.
SPEAKER_01: That was Tuesday, I woke up.
SPEAKER_01: That day I was in hospital.
SPEAKER_01: Wednesday, I was discharged.
SPEAKER_01: That's the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: I am what I am by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, I was just healing and everything was beginning to come back together.
SPEAKER_01: But the next week, that following week, I boarded a plane way to Cape Town.
SPEAKER_01: We had a ministry to do there, and I thank God for that opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: But I want to tell you this grace saw me through hospital, it saw me in Cape Town, it has brought me back here in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: But I did not know that God had already engineered certain people to pray for me.
SPEAKER_01: There is a pastor that later got to find out from Kawangware, whom God stirred up and said, Pray for Pastor Ambrose right now.
SPEAKER_01: And that was on Saturday.
SPEAKER_01: And also on Sunday, he started praying for me.
SPEAKER_01: And he didn't know why this urge was so much upon him.
SPEAKER_01: And he was just praying for me and praying for me.
SPEAKER_01: And later he sent a message to one of our pastors here, Pastor Barongo, and said, Tell Pastor Ambrose I'd like to sin because God had brought him to my mind and I was praying for him.
SPEAKER_01: Well, this guy did not know that I was in hospital.
SPEAKER_01: And God prepared me through Pastor Kiniti, prepared me through that man who was praying for me, and many others who suddenly heard I was in hospital and they began to pray for me.
SPEAKER_01: No wonder I got healed so fast.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody better give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: And Pastor Simon, I want to say this.
SPEAKER_01: We have a great church.
SPEAKER_01: We celebrate this church and this family for standing with us.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes they know what we are going through, sometimes they don't know what we are going through.
SPEAKER_01: But their prayers have sustained us and kept us going and going and going.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: And you know, it is times like this when you're going through a difficult time that you forget that you are a new creation, that you are a son of God.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to what Paul said about some of the challenges you went through.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 23.
SPEAKER_01: This is what he says in the word of God.
SPEAKER_01: He says this are they servants of Christ?
SPEAKER_01: I am out of my mind to talk like this.
SPEAKER_01: I am more, I have worked much harder, been in prison, more frequently, been flogged more severely, have been exposed to death again and again.
SPEAKER_01: Five times I received from the Jews the 40 lashes minus one.
SPEAKER_01: Three times I was beaten with roads.
SPEAKER_01: Once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked.
SPEAKER_01: I spent a night and day in the open sea.
SPEAKER_01: I have been constantly on the move.
SPEAKER_01: I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea, and in danger from false believers.
SPEAKER_01: I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep.
SPEAKER_01: I've known hunger and thirst and I've often gone without food.
SPEAKER_01: I've been cold and naked.
SPEAKER_01: Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
SPEAKER_01: Who is weak and I do not feel weak?
SPEAKER_01: Who is led into sin and I do not inwardly burn?
SPEAKER_01: If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you this this guy survived and thrived because of God's grace.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to talk to somebody here and I say, God's grace is with you.
SPEAKER_01: God's grace is a powerful force.
SPEAKER_01: God's grace is a creative force.
SPEAKER_01: And that grace is with you.
SPEAKER_01: So when you are just about to complain and scream and shout and say, God, where are you?
SPEAKER_01: God says, My grace is sufficient for you.
SPEAKER_01: For my strength is made perfect in weakness.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody better receive it in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: But I want to talk about assignment.
SPEAKER_01: That is your status, assignment.
SPEAKER_01: And it is your status that gives you your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5 20, a verse that I like and a verse I enjoy.
SPEAKER_01: We are therefore Christ's ambassadors.
SPEAKER_01: As though God were making his appeal through us.
SPEAKER_01: We implore you on Christ's behalf.
SPEAKER_01: Be reconciled to God.
SPEAKER_01: You are an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: That is your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Simon, you're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying you're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you've ever noticed how sometimes Pastor Simon parks his car.
SPEAKER_01: Today he didn't park like that.
SPEAKER_01: But usually, if you come during the week, there's a way he parks his car.
SPEAKER_01: He parks his car in such a way that the front looks towards the gate.
SPEAKER_01: So that at any time the guy is on the go.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: No time to reverse.
SPEAKER_01: Once the gate is open, when you're thinking he's in the office, he's gone.
SPEAKER_01: He's an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: He's a diplomat for the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to you, and I'm saying you're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying you're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying you're a diplomat of the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your neighbor because they don't believe you.
SPEAKER_01: Tell them you're looking at an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: Tell them you better call me honorable.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: There's a wife who just refused to tell her husband that.
SPEAKER_01: Buana Sifiwe.
SPEAKER_01: You have an assignment, an assignment to bring the message of Jesus Christ wherever you go, whatever you do, share Jesus Christ with somebody somewhere.
SPEAKER_01: Buana Sifiwe.
SPEAKER_01: When we went to Cape Town, uh I went to preach in a in a in a in a in a women's conference.
SPEAKER_01: I went to preach in a women's conference.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying I went to preach in a women's conference.
SPEAKER_01: And we were three pastors who went to preach to the women's conference.
SPEAKER_01: Very privileged.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Cape Town is a beautiful place.
SPEAKER_01: And we went to Cape Town, had a good time there, you know, and we were in this hotel where we checked in, and that first night we just had a good time.
SPEAKER_01: But the second night, the second day during breakfast, some of the team we went with, I went with Pastor Riggs' wife, went with Martha, went with another lady called Susan and Debbie.
SPEAKER_01: And during breakfast, uh these ladies started talking to Martha and said, We are relocating you from this hotel.
SPEAKER_01: You cannot stay in this hotel.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm sitting at the same table and I don't know what is happening.
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you this.
SPEAKER_01: Women are powerful.
SPEAKER_01: Just look at a woman next to you, tell that woman, I'm afraid of you.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you can be sitting with women and they have an agenda that can either destroy you or make you.
SPEAKER_01: But these ladies at the breakfast table had an agenda to upgrade us and they moved us to another hotel.
SPEAKER_01: And before the day was over, I had preached.
SPEAKER_01: Before the day was over, we did not go back to our room.
SPEAKER_01: We went into an Uber to the next hotel.
SPEAKER_01: That hotel was right in front on the lake.
SPEAKER_01: On the lake.
SPEAKER_01: You see, here at Kangemi, I stay.
SPEAKER_01: I stay in an estate called Waterfront Gardens.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's at Kangemi.
SPEAKER_01: Uh sometimes we say Loratio, but it is actually in Kangemi.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: It's called Waterfront Gardens.
SPEAKER_01: We were relocated to a hotel in Cape Town at the waterfront.
SPEAKER_01: It is called the waterfront.
SPEAKER_01: And the hotel is called Radison Blue.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor, don't be envious.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor it is an opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: And it is your portion.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: We stayed there for nearly seven nights, had a wonderful time, always looking at the ocean, taking breakfast next to the ocean.
SPEAKER_01: A great thing.
SPEAKER_01: You know, sometimes you can sit there and then forget your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: And we found out that our assignment was between the two hotels.
SPEAKER_01: Because from going from one hotel, we had to take an Uber and then come back, take an Uber, and it was being arranged by the ladies who were with us.
SPEAKER_01: And it is during those Uber shifts.
SPEAKER_01: That one guy, as we were talking with him, and before when we were reaching, I gave him this card.
SPEAKER_01: This is called God's Weekly Blessing.
SPEAKER_01: I gave him this card, and he looked at it and I said, That's my name.
SPEAKER_01: And he looked at it and I said, You're Reverend.
SPEAKER_01: You are Reverend.
SPEAKER_01: I've never driven a reverend.
SPEAKER_01: He was so excited.
SPEAKER_01: But let me tell you this: where do you pick reverence in Ubas?
SPEAKER_01: Ambrose is either being driving a Prado or he's being driven in a Prado.
SPEAKER_01: When will he meet a guy in an Uber?
SPEAKER_01: And God knew Ambrose, that is your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: You have to talk to somebody in an Uber, somebody who has never carried a reverence.
SPEAKER_01: And give him that card.
SPEAKER_01: And those trips, that's what we use them for.
SPEAKER_01: Every time we are about to alight, we give them this card.
SPEAKER_01: We give them this card.
SPEAKER_01: That was our assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I was preaching and I was delivering the word, but there were some people who could never be reached if you did not were not in there.
SPEAKER_01: And you know, even for me, even right now, I do not have an an Uber app.
SPEAKER_01: I don't have it.
SPEAKER_01: Because I usually don't need it.
SPEAKER_01: But that day in Cape Town, this guy said he's from Malawi.
SPEAKER_01: Then we met another guy who was from Burundi.
SPEAKER_01: And we met another guy.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I mean, it was amazing that God was giving us dropping things.
SPEAKER_01: That time you're not the senior pastor of Parklands Baptist Church, you're just an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, you're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: You're an ambassador.
SPEAKER_01: So don't miss those opportunities.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor, don't miss those opportunities.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, there was a particular driver who tried to take us in round in corners.
SPEAKER_01: But that's what you meet.
SPEAKER_01: So this guy is driving us back to the hotel, but then he's taking a very long route.
SPEAKER_01: Then he comes and says there's too much traffic.
SPEAKER_01: Then we Martha is looking at me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at her, and Martha is trying to say, you know, when a woman looks at you, they're not saying anything, but they are saying something with their eyes.
SPEAKER_01: And so I had to take action.
SPEAKER_01: So I tell the Uber guy, hey, wait, wait.
SPEAKER_01: Where are you taking us?
SPEAKER_01: Are you taking us to the hotel?
SPEAKER_01: The guy says, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: But we knew the route, but he's taking us a long way.
SPEAKER_01: And then Martha is speaking now in Swahili because he knows this guy, we will gyana to corn.
SPEAKER_01: Then I told this guy, if you don't know where you're going, take us back where you came, brought us from.
SPEAKER_01: Because we don't have a phone, we cannot call anybody.
SPEAKER_01: And the guy suddenly found where he was supposed to go.
SPEAKER_01: But you know what?
SPEAKER_01: He was wasting time so that we could pay more.
SPEAKER_01: And when we arrived, then he tells us, he clicks his phone and then he shows us the amount.
SPEAKER_01: I tell him, We are not paying that amount.
SPEAKER_01: He says, You're paying that amount.
SPEAKER_01: He says, You have been taking us around in circles, banner, we are not paying this amount.
SPEAKER_01: He says, That's the amount.
SPEAKER_01: So I pulled out some no sh I had no shillings, I had uh I had some runs.
SPEAKER_01: So I pulled out some runs, gave it to him.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, it was less than what he was showing us, and I told him, This is what we have, and we are not giving you less.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Kakakuam Kali.
SPEAKER_01: But we knew that that was just a trick.
SPEAKER_01: But you see, when you're an ambassador, you meet all kinds of people.
SPEAKER_01: There are those who con you, there are those who like you, there are those who don't like you, but you still represent Christ because that is your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor that is your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Simon, before I forget, one of the assignments that God has given me in the recent past, there were two young people who came to me and said, Pastor Ambrose, you need to have a YouTube channel, uh, a YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_01: The messages you preach have to go as far as they can go.
SPEAKER_01: So you need a YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_01: And so in May, I got a YouTube channel, and basically, we took the messages that we preach here every time on the YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, we have the parky uh channel, but now I have the Ambrose channel.
SPEAKER_01: So I have a channel for YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Me, I don't know that language.
SPEAKER_01: It is these two young people who know the language, they know what to do, they know what to post, and we we meet every time just to make sure that things are going okay.
SPEAKER_01: From the month of May, Pastor Simon, to today.
SPEAKER_01: We are reached, we have reached just this last week 15 million views.
SPEAKER_01: 15 million views.
SPEAKER_01: On YouTube, it is one point three six one point three six million views.
SPEAKER_01: On TikTok, it's 10 million views, on Facebook 3.4 million views, on Threads, 70,000 views, Instagram 127,000 views.
SPEAKER_01: Better give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I've not said all that to both.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying all that is the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: And if you want to go into those handles, just put my name, Pastor Ambrose Nyangao.
SPEAKER_01: You find it there, Reverend Ambrose Nyangao.
SPEAKER_01: Either whether you are in on TikTok, whatever, whatever, talking about TikTok.
SPEAKER_01: We are in Cape Town and we are in a mall.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm in this mall, Martha and other ladies are buying things, buying things, running around, and then they told me, stay with a trolley, we are coming back.
SPEAKER_01: The things they allow senior pastors to do, to stay with a trolley.
SPEAKER_01: I'm standing there with a trolley and just waiting, and suddenly this lady and her daughter walk in, Pastor Simon, and she just shouts and she says, Pastor Ambrose, Pastor Ambrose.
SPEAKER_01: I cannot imagine.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm I don't know her, I'm greeting her, and she's saying, You are here.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Yes, you know, she tells me the last time she saw me was 20 years ago.
SPEAKER_01: She used to come to Parkland's Ojijo Road when she was now a girl, she was still a girl.
SPEAKER_01: Later, she grew up, she relocated.
SPEAKER_01: She lives in Namibia, and her brother sends her things on TikTok and Facebook, and she has been watching, and then suddenly, who is in front of her in South Africa?
SPEAKER_01: Ambrose, she nearly died.
SPEAKER_01: That's the power of these channels, and God is using it as a grace opportunity to release impact.
SPEAKER_01: Now, not everybody should be on these handles, but if God gives you that opportunity to be on that handle, just be there and let God use you to impact the world because they need to hear Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And of course, I've been listening to myself as I watch these this to cuts and all this, and I'm blessed.
SPEAKER_01: I thank God for Parkhee.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, we are heading to now nearly 40,000 subscribers.
SPEAKER_01: We're going to get there.
SPEAKER_01: And I pray that in Jesus' name, uh, if you have an opportunity, you can subscribe to my channels.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, you can do what you need to do so that we can impact this world with that simple message that you're now listening to right now in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor you have an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Tell the other neighbor you have an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Tell the neighbor behind you you have an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: I know they all they already looked behind, so so you never even saw them.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Simon, I am thankful that God has given us this opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Chair PDB, I know that some of our deacons have have those platforms on social media, and let us use them to the glory of God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Let us use them to the glory of God.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, status, number two, assignment.
SPEAKER_01: What was number three?
SPEAKER_01: Signature.
SPEAKER_01: So let me read this verse.
SPEAKER_01: Romans 8.37.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says this in Romans 8.37.
SPEAKER_01: No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors.
SPEAKER_01: Through him who loved us.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, you're a champion.
SPEAKER_01: Let that sink.
SPEAKER_01: Just tell them one more time, you're a champion.
SPEAKER_01: Now use the language of the Bible, you are more than a conqueror.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Simon loves at athletics, and he loves people who run.
SPEAKER_01: And I was asking him in the morning whether he used to run, but he says he used to play table tennis.
SPEAKER_01: And many of us are in sports, and we love sports people, and and and Samoa, if you look at the guys who play table tennis, especially from China and those places, my friend, those things just they're champions.
SPEAKER_01: One of the person who walks around knowing she's a champion is faith.
SPEAKER_01: Keep you going.
SPEAKER_01: When she's in the kitchen, she's a champion.
SPEAKER_01: She has that mentality, she's a champion.
SPEAKER_01: When she's on the road, she's a champion.
SPEAKER_01: When she's now on the track, she's a champion.
SPEAKER_01: When people see her, when they are entering on the on your marks place and faith is there, they know they have lost the game.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: They're champions.
SPEAKER_01: And when God created you as a new creation and God gave you an assignment, God also made you a champion, ladies and gentlemen.
SPEAKER_01: When the devil sees you this coming week, he will know that he has lost because he's meeting a champion.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! Yeah, let's give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: He's meeting a champion.
SPEAKER_01: You are a champion.
SPEAKER_01: You're more than a conqueror.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says, For I'm persuaded that neither death, no life, no angels, no principalities, no powers, no rulers, no things present, no things to come, no things above, no things below, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because we are more than conquerors, and all this is because of what the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: I am what I am by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: This week you're going to make a difference.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because the grace of God is upon you, the grace of God is upon you.
SPEAKER_01: Ali, this service, early in the other service.
SPEAKER_01: I said, the last verse in the Bible, the last one, Revelation 22, 21, says this may the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you all.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible starts by saying, In the beginning was God, and then it finishes by saying, May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace that is going to fight for you this week.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace that is going to open doors for you this week.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace that is going to cause you to be healed and to be restored this week.
SPEAKER_01: This is the God, this is the grace that is going to cause favor to come your way this week.
SPEAKER_01: This is the grace that is going to sustain you this week.
SPEAKER_01: So let the devil come and let him see you.
SPEAKER_01: And let him see the crown of grace upon you.
SPEAKER_01: Look at his face and say, I am what I am.
SPEAKER_01: By the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: And I was telling the people in the early service, you know, you know, you tell your neighbor, ah, the grace of God is upon me.
SPEAKER_01: Utahu.
SPEAKER_01: So look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is me, with me, uta do.
SPEAKER_01: Now some of them are not smiling, so now tell them the grace of God is with me, uta do.
SPEAKER_01: But the better person to tell is the devil.
SPEAKER_01: The grace of God is with me, Utah, because I'm more than in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody better give God a big hand and tell him thank you.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
SPEAKER_01: I would like to ask the champions to stand.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, we have so many champions in the house.
SPEAKER_01: Give your neighbor a high five and says, Good to meet you, champion.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Are you glad you came?
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad I came.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm glad Jesus is here.
SPEAKER_01: Why don't we appreciate him one more time?
SPEAKER_01: Somebody, somebody, somebody, we better give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And because of this grace, you have a status.
SPEAKER_01: You're a new creation.
SPEAKER_01: Because of this grace, you have an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: You're an ambassador for Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And because of this grace, you have a signature.
SPEAKER_01: You're a champion in Christ.
SPEAKER_01: So don't walk out of this church a weakling, a doubter, full of fear.
SPEAKER_01: Arise and shine.
SPEAKER_01: Your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
SPEAKER_01: In a moment, I'll be calling Pastor Simon here to release us.
SPEAKER_01: But I believe if we can take a minute, allow this grace to touch you.
SPEAKER_01: Because this grace is not just about salvation, it's about sustaining you in your journey here on earth.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Take a moment to just pray.
SPEAKER_01: Uh worship team.
SPEAKER_01: If you're around as the Lord leads you, and just receive that grace.
SPEAKER_01: For this week, I am what I am by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: That those of you who are getting married, receive that grace for that marriage.
SPEAKER_01: That those who are already married, celebrating your anniversaries, receive that grace.
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Just pray and say, Lord, I receive grace.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Let's enjoy them.
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
SPEAKER_01: God's grace is sufficient for you.
SPEAKER_01: And I command that grace to now rest upon you this afternoon.
SPEAKER_01: I command that grace to fill your life this week.
SPEAKER_01: I command this grace to connect you in your business.
SPEAKER_01: That grace will connect you into your family.
SPEAKER_01: Grace will connect your children who are sitting for exams.
SPEAKER_01: This grace will abound.
SPEAKER_01: This grace will cause you to be provided for so abundantly and even to overflow.
SPEAKER_01: May this grace even bring salvation if you have never given your life to Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Don't walk out of this church just the way you came.
SPEAKER_01: Allow grace to reconnect you to the King of Kings and to the Lord of Lords.
SPEAKER_01: Father, thank you.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for grace.
SPEAKER_01: Receive the grace of healing and the grace of restoration.
SPEAKER_01: If you have somebody who is in hospital, a loved one, we send grace to them.
SPEAKER_01: Grace.
SPEAKER_01: Those watching us, grace, those in the pavilion, grace, those in the parents' room, grace.
SPEAKER_01: Grace is divine force, a creative power that is moving in our midst right now.
SPEAKER_01: I sense that grace.
SPEAKER_01: Touch us.
SPEAKER_01: I give you praise.
SPEAKER_01: And I give you glory.
SPEAKER_01: If you believe that, you better say I receive it.
SPEAKER_01: I take it.
SPEAKER_01: It is my portion.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Let's give God a big hand.
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Simon.
SPEAKER_01: As he comes and you want to connect to some of these cards, these tools that are in the bookshop, get some.
SPEAKER_01: If you came by Uber, use it as your assignment to track somebody in Jesus' name, a friend, a member in the family.
SPEAKER_01: You never know whom God may use you as an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, come up, Pastor Simon.
SPEAKER_01: You're looking good.
SPEAKER_01: Better than yesterday.
SPEAKER_01: I know last week I told the people you went to the trade show and you went to preach.
SPEAKER_01: Because that was your assignment.
SPEAKER_01: Let's celebrate this man.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So, Pastor, I really want to appreciate your leadership while I was away.
SPEAKER_01: God bless you so much.
SPEAKER_01: May God continue to enrich you and use you with the pastors and leaders of this church.
SPEAKER_01: And may this family of Parky, because this is a family, we don't we don't talk to people who are segregated.
SPEAKER_01: We are talking to people who are connected, connected to a great family.
SPEAKER_01: And that's the Parky family.
SPEAKER_01: You guys are known everywhere.
SPEAKER_01: And so as you walk out there, behave yourself.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Because you're known.
SPEAKER_01: I'm known out there.
SPEAKER_01: I'm shocked at how many people know me out there.
SPEAKER_01: And it's because God has raised this church into a level of respect.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank God for that.
SPEAKER_01: And we thank God, even as I stand with Pastor Simon, I'm representing all the leadership of this church.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm saying now to the church family, thank you for being our family.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you for being our family.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying thank you for being our family.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord enrich you.
SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you this, Bado, there's more to achieve.
SPEAKER_01: And this as we finish the quote this court of the year, entering into next year.
SPEAKER_01: May we finish strong.
SPEAKER_01: May we be spirit-led to finish strong in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So release us.
SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give a big hand to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: For this great servant of God, another hand to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00: Reverend Ambrose Nyangawa for your ministry over the years.
SPEAKER_00: And especially today, a powerful message on God's grace and what God's grace has done for us.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, it has changed our status.
SPEAKER_00: Secondly, it's given us an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: And finally, it has made us champions.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give another hand to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: That's the work of grace.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
SPEAKER_00: And so may this grace, like Reverend Ambrose has proclaimed, lead us through this week, from Monday all the way to Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: And we pray that all the benefits that accrue from grace become our assets, our portion in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The devil can do nothing about it.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, because it's already settled at the cross, and grace is flowing like a river everywhere we are.
SPEAKER_00: So this grace, again, seconding what Reverend Ambrose has shared, will open doors for us.
SPEAKER_00: This grace will heal us.
SPEAKER_00: This grace will bring favor in our direction.
SPEAKER_00: This grace will raise us to another level.
SPEAKER_00: And for that reason, the grace leads us forward and our future is bright.
SPEAKER_00: And so as we lift our hands to God, we decree and declare that Monday is covered by God's grace, Tuesday is covered by God's grace, Wednesday covered by God's grace, Thursday covered by God's grace.
SPEAKER_00: This coming Friday is fully covered by God's grace.
SPEAKER_00: On Saturday, grace flows like a river.
SPEAKER_00: And this coming Sunday, the grace of God brings us back with testimonies of the doings of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Our God is able, our God is powerful.
SPEAKER_00: And so, congregation, we are released now with every blessing, Ephesians 1:3, with every blessing in the spiritual realms.
SPEAKER_00: The heavens are open, there is no obstruction.
SPEAKER_00: I see it in the spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Every roadblock we are removed, and the blessing of God coming upon you like rain throughout this week.
SPEAKER_00: And that which you have desired from the Lord, may it come quickly, may your breakthrough come faster than you know.
SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a great week in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And we all say a mighty hand clap to Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_00: We thank God.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: 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 foremore.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Shalom.