SPEAKER_00: I want to bring us a message.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel has power.
SPEAKER_00: There are people saying Tuna Taka, power.
SPEAKER_00: If they want power, this is the real power.
SPEAKER_00: The power to spread the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 1, verse 6 to 8.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, then they gathered around him and asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom of Israel?
SPEAKER_00: They were simply asking Jesus, because you are the king, and we have said, we have just sung us a hymn, crown him, crown him, crown him the king of kings.
SPEAKER_00: The disciples were hoping that Jesus would be an ordinary king to be able to take out rulership in Israel.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore they were just asking Jesus, Are you going to become king so that we can hold cabinet positions?
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus' response in verse 7, Jesus said to them, It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: I want us to read this together.
SPEAKER_00: But you will receive.
SPEAKER_00: Where?
SPEAKER_00: In Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you that the entrance of your word, the entrance of your word, brings light and understanding to the simple.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Holy Spirit, that you would brood over this word, minister to us the urgency of the Great Commission, the urgence to arise and take our positions as those that you have called as sheep among wolves, as those you have called as light in the darkness, those that you have called to become the salt of the earth, those that you have called to become the aroma of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we pray that the spirit of the missions will descend upon us today, oh God, that we may come out of our comfort zones and reach out to the least, to the lost, to the last.
SPEAKER_00: We bless you, we honor you.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name we pray.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You may have your seats.
SPEAKER_00: This is the ninth month, the month of birthing, the month of September.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what you've been trusting God for, but it is my prayer that the Lord will answer your prayers during this month.
SPEAKER_00: What you've been waiting on, the Lord, that in this month, by the time we come to the end of the month of September, that you will testify of one of the things you've been hoping for and trusting God to come through for you.
SPEAKER_00: And we shall celebrate with you what the Lord has done.
SPEAKER_00: Our theme for this month is liberating the power of the kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: And Pastor Simon, who is now sharing in a church called Global Cathedral in Langata, will be coming to take it up from there.
SPEAKER_00: And let's continue to just meditate on being kingdom citizens and Jesus being the King of Kings that he is and the Lord of Lords.
SPEAKER_00: I bring us this message in three forms.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the power to save, number two, the power to transform, and number three, the power to give boldness.
SPEAKER_00: You see, the book of Acts shows us what happens when ordinary people are filled with the Holy Spirit and sent with the message of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The book of Acts is the book of ordinary people filled with the Spirit and sent with the message of Jesus Christ to the people and the nations around them.
SPEAKER_00: Kiswahili brings it out better.
SPEAKER_00: In Kiswahili, it is called Matendo Ya Mitume.
SPEAKER_00: Matendo ya mitume.
SPEAKER_00: I believe, I believe that the book of Acts of Apostles is not closed.
SPEAKER_00: I believe that book is still open today.
SPEAKER_00: Because you are a believer of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, your actions matendo yako.
SPEAKER_00: It's called the Acts of the Apostles.
SPEAKER_00: Acts, Acts Matendo, Ya Mitume.
SPEAKER_00: When you look at Acts of the Apostles, you start asking yourself.
SPEAKER_00: I ask myself, when the disciples are talking about their acts and how God carried them alongside their season and times.
SPEAKER_00: How is your action speaking about Jesus where you are?
SPEAKER_00: Martendo Yamitume.
SPEAKER_00: The book is still open and open for us that we may be able to write about how God is ministering to our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing will stand in the way of a message shared by a believer in the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing will stand on the way of a message shared in the power of the Holy Spirit, because the power of the Holy Spirit is able to turn things around and bring healing, deliverance, salvation to people, to nations, to centers and places of significance and influence.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit came to glorify Jesus when we received Jesus as Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is glorified.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel did not remain hidden in the upper room.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus is taken up in the presence of the disciples in Acts chapter 1.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to imagine with me that they were watching because that is what was happening.
SPEAKER_00: They were with Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was just crucified the other day, and now he's being taken up in their presence.
SPEAKER_00: What was going to happen to them now that they must face the Roman rulers, Sadducees, teachers of the law, and all those that were against the gospel?
SPEAKER_00: It was a very challenging time for them to watch Jesus being taken up.
SPEAKER_00: So what could they do?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe some of them would have thought, anyway, let me go back and do my business.
SPEAKER_00: After all, Jesus has gone.
SPEAKER_00: There is nothing much to do.
SPEAKER_00: We are in the season of Jubilee.
SPEAKER_00: Consecration is very critical.
SPEAKER_00: Jubilee did not just happen the time we celebrated with a big tent.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in Leviticus 25:10, consecrate the 50th year.
SPEAKER_00: Not the 50th week, not the 50th month.
SPEAKER_00: Consecrate the 50th year.
SPEAKER_00: Jubilee continues up to August 2027.
SPEAKER_00: So they understood the importance of consecration, and one twenty of them chose to wait on the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And in Acts chapter 2, they were together praying for 50 days.
SPEAKER_00: Consecration.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say there is no visitation without consecration.
SPEAKER_00: There is no visitation without consecration.
SPEAKER_00: We must be keen to hear.
SPEAKER_00: Is that God speaking or are those my thoughts?
SPEAKER_00: We must be quick to understand our seasons and know what God is doing.
SPEAKER_00: Believers, we can no longer think like we are in the days of the Roman church in the book of Acts.
SPEAKER_00: We cannot think that we are in the days of the early church, the days of Herod.
SPEAKER_00: We cannot think that we are like we are in the days of Pharaoh in Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: That is history.
SPEAKER_00: Understand your season.
SPEAKER_00: I repeat, church, awake, smell the coffee, understand your season.
SPEAKER_00: We are the end time church.
SPEAKER_00: We have to be sensitive to the spirit to know what God expect in this season.
SPEAKER_00: We're in the season of much knowledge and knowledge transfer.
SPEAKER_00: Artificial intelligence.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot think like those people who were in the days of the Roman Empire.
SPEAKER_00: We are the end-time church.
SPEAKER_00: We need to be very sober and alert in the things of God.
SPEAKER_00: We are in the days when the love of many will grow cold.
SPEAKER_00: We are in the days when people will be lovers of pleasure, lovers of money and not loving God.
SPEAKER_00: We are in the season of days of people having a form of godliness and no power in them.
SPEAKER_00: We are in the season of the people of God that are still asleep.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know the people in Quiva and in these clubs are people who could be in church right now?
SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
SPEAKER_00: But I'm asking myself as a pastor of this day.
SPEAKER_00: How is the message transforming us?
SPEAKER_00: When you leave church today, what is your relationship with God during the week?
SPEAKER_00: Acts.
SPEAKER_00: Acts Martendo.
SPEAKER_00: Yami to me.
SPEAKER_00: May God help us.
SPEAKER_00: And it's my prayer that when I look at you, I see a mission filled.
SPEAKER_00: And I see missionaries.
SPEAKER_00: I see people God is ready to use, and you are one of them.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord use you.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel cannot be hidden in a closet.
SPEAKER_00: It cannot be contained.
SPEAKER_00: It has to find its way in seeking the lost.
SPEAKER_00: In homes, in the streets, in the corners, in the highways, in the byways, in institutions, in offices, in business circles.
SPEAKER_00: So who is going to take this message if it is not you, if it is not me?
SPEAKER_00: Let me quote Charles Spurgeon, a Baptist minister or preacher.
SPEAKER_00: Because now, if I quote anybody else, that is not a Baptist.
SPEAKER_00: Now this is a Baptist talking to Baptists.
SPEAKER_00: A Baptist preacher, the greatest preacher of all times.
SPEAKER_00: This is what he says.
SPEAKER_00: Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't say, he said.
SPEAKER_00: Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot be both.
SPEAKER_00: So you are either.
SPEAKER_00: And it's my prayer for you that we shall not be imposters.
SPEAKER_00: We shall carry this message.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, a true believer who values and loves Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: A true believer who values and loves Jesus cannot remain completely silent about him.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot be completely silent about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of God will compel you to say something about him.
SPEAKER_00: The Great Commission is not a good idea.
SPEAKER_00: The Great Commission has not lost its greatness.
SPEAKER_00: The Great Commission has not lost its worth.
SPEAKER_00: The Great Commission will remain great always.
SPEAKER_00: But we must ask ourselves, as the generation of today, how are you and I fulfilling this great commission?
SPEAKER_00: You know, as I transition to my first point, the power to save, we must ask ourselves, are we missionaries or are we imposters?
SPEAKER_00: Every believer, every believer, listen, every believer is the light of the world.
SPEAKER_00: Every believer is the salt of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Every believer carries the aroma of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Every believer will give an account.
SPEAKER_00: What did you do with me?
SPEAKER_00: What did you do with Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: The gospel has the power to save.
SPEAKER_00: You know, in the book of Acts, 50 days, you believe 50 years, 50 days after Passover, after Jesus' ascension and the Passover season.
SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 2, Peter stands to preach to a crowd that had come to celebrate Pentecost and is preaching a message about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He is no longer afraid of the Roman rulers.
SPEAKER_00: The timid Peter, who was afraid when asked by a girl, do you know Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: When the co crowd three times now would stand in a crowd and saying, If I die, I die.
SPEAKER_00: If I'm arrested, it's fine.
SPEAKER_00: I will stand up and stand out for Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Stand up, stand up for Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Ye soldiers of the cross, are you standing up for Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is waiting on you to stand up for him.
SPEAKER_00: He died a shameful death for your redemption, for my redemption.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, Jesus was shamefully put to a cross because of us.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, he was crucified naked.
SPEAKER_00: They just tried to give him some dignity by covering him up.
SPEAKER_00: But Jesus was crucified without clothes.
SPEAKER_00: You know, let me give you a challenge.
SPEAKER_00: Let me give it to the men.
SPEAKER_00: I can't give it to the ladies because ladies, uh ladies are different from us.
SPEAKER_00: If you imagine removing your shoes and removing your shirt, I will not let you remove your trouser.
SPEAKER_00: Remove your shoes, remove your shirt, and remain bare chest or just with a vest and walk to westlands.
SPEAKER_00: What would people say about you?
SPEAKER_00: You are a madman, right?
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine Jesus being crucified naked on top of a hill for sins he never committed for your sake?
SPEAKER_00: God would have saved him from the tree, but Jesus gave his life for you and for me.
SPEAKER_00: Let's appreciate Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You would have chosen not to die for us.
SPEAKER_00: But you chose to die for me, for us.
SPEAKER_00: Where would you be if Jesus didn't die for you?
SPEAKER_00: Well sometimes I ask myself, how do people live outside of Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: How?
SPEAKER_00: Life is difficult without God.
SPEAKER_00: Life is difficult without Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Why should we be ashamed of talking, telling people about him?
SPEAKER_00: He did all for us that we may give him all.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are telling me, Pastor Victor, I don't know what to do, I don't know how to start a conversation.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are in the transport industry.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
SPEAKER_00: A conversation can start from there.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are in the baking industry.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the bread of life.
SPEAKER_00: Start a conversation there.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are drilling water like the woman at the well.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the living water.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are an architect and thinking there is no place for me in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Do you remember the story of the builders?
SPEAKER_00: Two, one who built in the sand and one who built in the rock.
SPEAKER_00: Architect, do you have a place?
SPEAKER_00: The accountant.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, I don't have anything to say about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You must balance your books, and books will be opened.
SPEAKER_00: You know?
SPEAKER_00: The book of life and the other book.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore the books must balance, and you must.
SPEAKER_00: Give an account, so accountant, you are there also.
SPEAKER_00: The lawyer says, No, I'm not in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is our advocate.
SPEAKER_00: Every story is in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: And you are in the business and asking, I'm in the business.
SPEAKER_00: What is there in the business for me?
SPEAKER_00: You know, business is about making profit, right?
SPEAKER_00: Buying and selling and making profit.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, What would profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
SPEAKER_00: Do you have an excuse?
SPEAKER_00: Somebody said you are either making disciples or making excuses.
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know what you are making.
SPEAKER_00: I hope you are not making excuses for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_00: You can even start there.
SPEAKER_00: All have sinned.
SPEAKER_00: We are all sinners.
SPEAKER_00: We need Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We need a savior.
SPEAKER_00: We all need to know.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the savior of the world.
SPEAKER_00: This message must move from here to your neighborhoods, to your family members, to everyone who needs to know about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the other day I had a dream and I was so scared.
SPEAKER_00: It looked like rapture, you know.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know whether I was reading about rapture so much that, you know, it came in.
SPEAKER_00: Some psychologists say you dream what you think.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know whether I was thinking about that so much.
SPEAKER_00: Then I was caught up.
SPEAKER_00: I found myself being caught up.
SPEAKER_00: I could not control myself.
SPEAKER_00: I just found myself going up.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Where is my wife?
SPEAKER_00: Where are my children?
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to shake myself so that I can come down and look for them.
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you, I was so fearful.
SPEAKER_00: I was sweating.
SPEAKER_00: I was sweating after that.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, wow, Lord, help me to pray.
SPEAKER_00: Help me to reach out to others who don't know you.
SPEAKER_00: I remembered my cousins who do not know the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: I remembered my friends.
SPEAKER_00: I remembered my colleagues.
SPEAKER_00: And I made a deliberate intention to always send a message in my profile that challenges people to love Jesus more and more.
SPEAKER_00: What are you posting?
SPEAKER_00: In your status.
SPEAKER_00: Would Jesus look at that and say, Wow, he's talking about me?
SPEAKER_00: He's marketing me to the world.
SPEAKER_00: What would Jesus say?
SPEAKER_00: We all are sinners.
SPEAKER_00: We need a savior.
SPEAKER_00: The world needs a savior.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you are working, you know, and it's good that we are working and God is giving us a lot.
SPEAKER_00: And we thank God.
SPEAKER_00: We pray that He continues to bless you, to bless the work of your hands.
SPEAKER_00: You know, that you may continue supporting the ministry.
SPEAKER_00: Because it's good to have that money.
SPEAKER_00: Because the Great Commission is expensive.
SPEAKER_00: We need to reach out.
SPEAKER_00: We need to fuel vehicles.
SPEAKER_00: We need to support children who need food.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, I got a call this week from the team lead in administration in Trucana telling me we need money to feed children.
SPEAKER_00: And some of you have a lot of money.
SPEAKER_00: Can you bring the money to us?
SPEAKER_00: We put it to good use.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
SPEAKER_00: We have 200 children, right?
SPEAKER_00: Right, Henry?
SPEAKER_00: And we only need 50,000 only.
SPEAKER_00: Can't you give us a hundred?
SPEAKER_00: We send it tomorrow to feed these children.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
SPEAKER_00: And you probably in this congregation, and maybe 100,000 is not much for you.
SPEAKER_00: Come and talk to us.
SPEAKER_00: So these children in Turkana can have something to eat.
SPEAKER_00: Normally, when you are going for missions, we look at the prisoners.
SPEAKER_00: Some of them have no shoes.
SPEAKER_00: They are walking in the prison cells without clothes.
SPEAKER_00: And you wonder, what are we going to do about it?
SPEAKER_00: I know some of you are saying we are paying taxes.
SPEAKER_00: It's true, we are paying taxes, but that is the situation.
SPEAKER_00: A bar of soap.
SPEAKER_00: A bar of soap is a miracle in a prison.
SPEAKER_00: And somebody is saying, watch our kaiuko.
SPEAKER_00: Why are they there?
SPEAKER_00: What what why should we make them comfortable?
SPEAKER_00: Well, Jesus was once a prisoner.
SPEAKER_00: It's a mission outreach space.
SPEAKER_00: You can give, you can encourage, you can support.
SPEAKER_00: No human heart is too hard for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: No crowd is too large.
SPEAKER_00: No past is too broken.
SPEAKER_00: When Christ is preached and the Spirit works, sinners can be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Let me repeat.
SPEAKER_00: No human heart is too hard for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Don't write off anyone and say this one cannot be saved.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, they don't need to be reached with the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: In some sometimes, you can even say this one is actually supposed to be the one that will be used as cooney in the hellfire.
SPEAKER_00: You know, sometimes we say that about people.
SPEAKER_00: Everyone qualifies to be part of those that God has called.
SPEAKER_00: For God so loved the world.
SPEAKER_00: God loves every sinner.
SPEAKER_00: No human heart is too hard for the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: No crowd is too large.
SPEAKER_00: No past is too broken.
SPEAKER_00: When Christ is preached and the Spirit works, sinners can be saved.
SPEAKER_00: You can come to Jesus today.
SPEAKER_00: Do not hold back.
SPEAKER_00: Today is your day, the day of your salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Mission begins when you give your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Will you give your life to Jesus today?
SPEAKER_00: You see, somebody said, Yesterday is gone.
SPEAKER_00: Today is given.
SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow is a promise.
SPEAKER_00: Now that you have the breath, now that you have the time, give your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We shall be inviting you today.
SPEAKER_00: And I believe the Spirit of God is speaking to someone in this congregation.
SPEAKER_00: There is a reason to come.
SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus is the savior of the world.
SPEAKER_00: Come to him.
SPEAKER_00: Let me transition to my second point: the power to transform.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel has the power to transform.
SPEAKER_00: The early believers devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayer.
SPEAKER_00: They became a worshiping, learning, and generous united community.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel changes what people love, how they live, how they relate to one another.
SPEAKER_00: It turns selfish people into generous servants.
SPEAKER_00: Hello?
SPEAKER_00: It turns selfish people into generous servants.
SPEAKER_00: Fearful people into bold witnesses and isolated people into a family of faith.
SPEAKER_00: You see, Peter, when he was confronted by this girl, you can see the transformation in Acts chapter 2.
SPEAKER_00: He comes out boldly, you know, to share this message completely, totally transformed.
SPEAKER_00: A few weeks ago, he denied Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: But a few weeks later, he's no longer afraid of facing whoever it may because he believes, and I believe, and we believe, the one who is in you is greater than the one in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Why should you fear the world?
SPEAKER_00: The one who lives in you is greater.
SPEAKER_00: You have not been given the spirit of fear, but of love, of power and a sound mind.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give hand clap to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We shall not fear.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: We are people of faith.
SPEAKER_00: We shall not fear.
SPEAKER_00: To stand up for Jesus, we shall stand, Ephesians 6.
SPEAKER_00: You know, stand in the full armor of God with a belt of truth buckled around your waist.
SPEAKER_00: Probably you are in security, and you think there is nothing to talk about in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Put on the full armor of God, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, the belt of the truth, and the shoes of the readiness of the gospel of peace.
SPEAKER_00: You know, we have no reason to fear.
SPEAKER_00: What do you fear?
SPEAKER_00: What is there to fear?
SPEAKER_00: We are children of God.
SPEAKER_00: God loves you, God loves me.
SPEAKER_00: The spirit of God dwells inside of you.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know that?
SPEAKER_00: The spirit of God is inside of you.
SPEAKER_00: The one who created all things.
SPEAKER_00: When the Father said, Let there be light, the spirit of God that was hovering over the formlessness is inside of you.
SPEAKER_00: You have the capacity, the ability to make declarations and say the atmosphere shifts in the name of Jesus, because greater is He who is in me.
SPEAKER_00: It's about time we shifted our conversations and start speaking about the shift we see.
SPEAKER_00: Instead of saying how the economy is doing badly, why can't you give a positive narrative that things are good and they are going to change?
SPEAKER_00: The power of life and death is in the tongue, and whoever loves it shall eat of its fruit.
SPEAKER_00: Transformation.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you must change.
SPEAKER_00: If anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
SPEAKER_00: The old has gone and the new has come.
SPEAKER_00: Paul, who was known as Saul, is transformed from the persecutor of the church to the one who takes the gospel to the nations.
SPEAKER_00: And remember, they were first called Christians.
SPEAKER_00: In Antioch, the center of the gospel moved from Jerusalem to Antioch because the Gentile world needed to hear about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: They were called Christians.
SPEAKER_00: They did not call themselves, they were called because of their acts.
SPEAKER_00: And people would look at them and say, These ones are like Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And they were called Christians.
SPEAKER_00: The difference with us today, we call ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: And I wonder if we match the standard.
SPEAKER_00: You see, the population of this country is said to be 80%.
SPEAKER_00: Is am I am I right?
SPEAKER_00: You are saying the population of this country is 80%?
SPEAKER_00: I'm not hearing.
SPEAKER_00: It is 80%.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, there is nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER_00: It's a good thing.
SPEAKER_00: We are 80%.
SPEAKER_00: That is very good.
SPEAKER_00: 80% Christian corruption index.
SPEAKER_00: We are we are what in the ranks?
SPEAKER_00: Top ten, right?
SPEAKER_00: Huh?
SPEAKER_00: Top five.
SPEAKER_00: So what is the disconnect?
SPEAKER_00: So who is corrupt?
SPEAKER_00: Who is corrupt?
SPEAKER_00: Us.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So we must start asking ourselves the serious question.
SPEAKER_00: What is your act?
SPEAKER_00: Matendo yako ni gami.
SPEAKER_00: We are talking about the acts of the apostle.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody said during the conversation we had this week.
SPEAKER_00: What are people going to miss?
SPEAKER_00: Or what do people miss about you in your place of work?
SPEAKER_00: Do you display the character of Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: That people will say, We have seen this person is honest, faithful.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the level of integrity.
SPEAKER_00: You see, we must move our actions and especially prayers from microeconomic prayers, where we pray about my need, our need to thy kingdom come.
SPEAKER_00: So that everything is aligned.
SPEAKER_00: When we start praying kingdom come prayers, then God starts to move in our spaces because we represent his kingdom where we are.
SPEAKER_00: So we must shift our mindset from thinking about working for profit and think about working for the kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: When you start thinking about working for the king of kings, because the Bible says, whether it is in eating or drinking, do it for the will or for the glory of God.
SPEAKER_00: If eating and drinking is for the glory of God, how much more what we do every day.
SPEAKER_00: Make Jesus count in your place of work, that they may see that there is transformation in a Christian who knows Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: In the early service, we talked about, you know, making a difference in your spaces.
SPEAKER_00: Being the light, being the salt, and bringing that significant shift.
SPEAKER_00: Because when heaven agrees with you, can you imagine when God looks at you and says, This is my servant in this institution?
SPEAKER_00: Heaven agrees with you concerning matters of your institution.
SPEAKER_00: Why will that institution fall?
SPEAKER_00: God will not allow.
SPEAKER_00: Because he knows you are representing him.
SPEAKER_00: And if he allows, there'll be a good reason for that, so that he can establish you.
SPEAKER_00: So that you can know he's the God who moves in your circumstances to bring a shift and a change in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Transformation.
SPEAKER_00: Transformation is change.
SPEAKER_00: I remember my life some years ago.
SPEAKER_00: I was a thief, like Pastor Simon was mentioning also.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why we were all thieves.
SPEAKER_00: We are all small thieves.
SPEAKER_00: And I was one of them.
SPEAKER_00: So the transformation part.
SPEAKER_00: Now I we used to go to the grocery, the guy who's selling fruits, uh, and they would arrange mangoes, and then there will be bananas in that order, and then there will be pineapples hanged up.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why they hang up pineapples.
SPEAKER_00: So we told this guy to put your pineapple.
SPEAKER_00: When he goes looking for the pineapple, we'll take the mangoes and share them with our friends, share them with our friends.
SPEAKER_00: Then we tell him, uh, we don't want that one, we want this other one, and we will keep taking these mangles.
SPEAKER_00: But we are transformed, we are no longer stealing.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, we are now taking people out of the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.
SPEAKER_00: We are telling them, you shall not steal, kill or destroy.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can give a better hand club to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I once was a thief, but now I'm taking them out of the kingdom of darkness.
SPEAKER_00: Another one about my transformation.
SPEAKER_00: It's good to tell your story because it is your story.
SPEAKER_00: You know, nobody can take your story from you.
SPEAKER_00: Let me put a disclaimer.
SPEAKER_00: Also, your sins are yours.
SPEAKER_00: Before I go to my story, nobody can take your sins from you.
SPEAKER_00: That is the only thing you have that nobody can take from you.
SPEAKER_00: Everything else God created is his, but your sins are yours unless you take them to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
SPEAKER_00: Now, we went to this kiosk where we used to have lunch in high school.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we used to have lunch, but the lunch is actually breakfast.
SPEAKER_00: So we were having tea and bread.
SPEAKER_00: It used to be called buffalo.
SPEAKER_00: Then they would serve, you would you'll be taking half the bread.
SPEAKER_00: You can imagine.
SPEAKER_00: Now I can't even finish five slices.
SPEAKER_00: Life.
SPEAKER_00: Now they would cut it into four blocks.
SPEAKER_00: Four blocks.
SPEAKER_00: And we were leaving class to go out for lunch, and it was, we were so hungry, you know, teenagers, and the way they want to eat bread.
SPEAKER_00: No wonder Jesus is the bread of life.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So when the bread is being cut and the tea is being served, four of us, four of us will take that block.
SPEAKER_00: You take your block, we would agree for our skill m to shake blocky.
SPEAKER_00: Una shika, una finya.
SPEAKER_00: Now it becomes like that.
SPEAKER_00: You swallow very quickly with your tea and it disappears.
SPEAKER_00: It has vanished.
SPEAKER_00: Now the owner of the shop will look for the bread and wonder where the bread went.
SPEAKER_00: We are telling him, he's saying, I left the bread here.
SPEAKER_00: Where did it go?
SPEAKER_00: We are telling him, we are at a Sisia to Jui.
SPEAKER_00: We also don't know where the bread went.
SPEAKER_00: That is the life we once lived.
SPEAKER_00: At least we were not like Paul, who was persecuting people.
SPEAKER_00: But God was watching and said, Who are you?
SPEAKER_00: Kunapalentam Shika.
SPEAKER_00: I remember in high school, they were passing bangi from one student to another.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, I don't know the grace of God.
SPEAKER_00: I held it like this, and I passed it.
SPEAKER_00: These are my friends.
SPEAKER_00: They are smoking bangi, cigarakubwa, shada, dom, msala, boom.
SPEAKER_00: Bazooka.
SPEAKER_00: And it passed.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't.
SPEAKER_00: I remember cigarettes.
SPEAKER_00: I never smoked.
SPEAKER_00: God loved me.
SPEAKER_00: I never even tested alcohol.
SPEAKER_00: The only thing I loved was music and dancing.
SPEAKER_00: So I said one day, these things of the world, what an yende, at least I enjoy myself.
SPEAKER_00: So I was told by my parents, very strict, you go.
SPEAKER_00: Remember, you have an ID.
SPEAKER_00: If anything happens to you, Shaoriyako, you land in the police cells.
SPEAKER_00: Mia will not be coming to take you from there.
SPEAKER_00: Shauriyako, you are an adult, you should take care of yourself.
SPEAKER_00: So this day I decided, ah, people go and dance.
SPEAKER_00: So let me go today.
SPEAKER_00: I said to my parents to Taunana as buy because now there was no transport after 11 p.m.
SPEAKER_00: Those of my days, some of them who are here can remember.
SPEAKER_00: We used to have Kenya bus operating up to 11 in the night.
SPEAKER_00: We couldn't afford taxi.
SPEAKER_00: So I went to this place.
SPEAKER_00: I won't tell you, I won't tell you where.
SPEAKER_00: And they started putting on the music.
SPEAKER_00: My friend, when Jesus has called you, he has called you.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know when they started playing the music?
SPEAKER_00: I could not stand the volume.
SPEAKER_00: It was so loud.
SPEAKER_00: I started asking myself, why, why, way, way, why.
SPEAKER_00: Who told me to come here?
SPEAKER_00: Even the music is not good for me.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I went to a corner and waited until morning.
SPEAKER_00: I took the first bus home.
SPEAKER_00: Transformation.
SPEAKER_00: There must be change.
SPEAKER_00: This gospel is transformational.
SPEAKER_00: It must change us.
SPEAKER_00: It changed Paul.
SPEAKER_00: It will change you.
SPEAKER_00: In Galatians 2.20, Paul says, I've been crucified with Christ.
SPEAKER_00: It's no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me.
SPEAKER_00: In Philippians 1:21, Paul says, For me to live is Christ, to die is gain.
SPEAKER_00: He has known the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He has been transformed.
SPEAKER_00: In Philippians 3, verse 10, he's saying that I may know Christ and the power of his resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: Paul continues in 1 Corinthians 2, verse 2, I desire to know nothing but Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_00: This gospel has the power to transform you.
SPEAKER_00: Are you going through a condition situation?
SPEAKER_00: Are you in an addiction?
SPEAKER_00: You are trying to stop drinking substance abuse and drinking alcohol or any other condition, and you are struggling.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is able to change that condition.
SPEAKER_00: There is no sin or bondage too deep that Christ can't get.
SPEAKER_00: You are not too far from Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: After all, you are in church.
SPEAKER_00: This is the right place.
SPEAKER_00: Cast your burdens to me.
SPEAKER_00: Come to me, Matthew 11, 28.
SPEAKER_00: All those who labor under heavy laden, that I may give you rest.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is giving an invitation to you, and I hope at the end of this service you'll come through for Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Let me move to my last point as I wind up: the power to give boldness.
SPEAKER_00: See, the gospel gives us the power to speak boldly, and in Acts chapter 4, verse 1 to 26, Paul gives his submission to King Agrippa.
SPEAKER_00: I will not lead the whole text, it is too long.
SPEAKER_00: I will go to verse 31.
SPEAKER_00: Acts chapter 4, verse 31.
SPEAKER_00: In the conclusion of his submission, in the conclusion of his submission, this is what Paul says.
SPEAKER_00: After they prayed.
SPEAKER_00: Is God able to do that?
SPEAKER_00: My prayer is God moves in our circumstances, and God causes things to shift because we are praying.
SPEAKER_00: When Paul stands before Agrippa, I believe it is Acts 26, media, if I'm not wrong, Acts 26.
SPEAKER_00: Acts 26.
SPEAKER_00: He speaks he he he speaks about Acts twenty-six.
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: After they left the room, they began saying to one another, This man is not doing anything that deserves death.
SPEAKER_00: Give me eight.
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Then Agrippa said to Paul, Do you think in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?
SPEAKER_00: Paul has given his submission to King Agrippa.
SPEAKER_00: He's not afraid, he's not fearful, he's not worried.
SPEAKER_00: He has believed that this message must reach all people.
SPEAKER_00: And he's talking to the king, not fearful, not worried, not in despair, but with courage, with boldness, and saying, Short time or long time.
SPEAKER_00: I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me today may become what I am except my chains.
SPEAKER_00: This is the boldness of a man transformed, standing before a king, not fearful of the authority, but speaks his faith in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: As we wind up the service today, what is God saying to you concerning his ministry of missions in your life?
SPEAKER_00: It starts by giving your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: May we close our eyes and pray as we close our eyes and pray.
SPEAKER_00: The mission field is awaiting for you, and you need to give your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Felix will be standing here.
SPEAKER_00: Henry will be standing here.
SPEAKER_00: This power of the gospel is the power that transforms.
SPEAKER_00: It is the power that saves.
SPEAKER_00: It is the power that gives boldness.
SPEAKER_00: You can come to Jesus today.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you this morning, this afternoon.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word, which is true.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word which is able to turn around our circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word which is able to save.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word which is able to transform.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word which is able to bring boldness.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Father, we pray that you minister to your people the need and desire to give our lives to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: That Lord, this afternoon, Lord, we pray that Lord, would you bring even just one that we may rejoice, that heaven may rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we pray any of us in this congregation that needs to dedicate their lives to Jesus, Father, we pray that they will come and rededicate their lives to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Today is your day of salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Those who come to Jesus, he will not turn them away.
SPEAKER_00: You have wandered away from the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He's telling you, today is your day.
SPEAKER_00: Come to me.
SPEAKER_00: I will handle your situation.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus gives us not one chance, but many chances.
SPEAKER_00: Today is your day.
SPEAKER_00: You can come to Jesus today.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you.
SPEAKER_00: We bless you.
SPEAKER_00: We honor you.
SPEAKER_00: As we go into the week, go into the week with us.
SPEAKER_00: Because we are praying this, even believing and trusting in the name of Jesus, our Lord and our Savior.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: Even after we do the benediction, please keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: Please keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: Because this is important for you.
SPEAKER_00: This is important for us.
SPEAKER_00: At BBC Southgate, we normally say, PBC Southgate, we release you to go and serve.
SPEAKER_00: Can I say that here?
SPEAKER_00: And by the way, receive greetings from Parklands Baptist Church, Southgate.
SPEAKER_00: We meet not far from yes, you can give a hand clap to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: PBC Southgate, not far from Bomas of Kenya, on Forest Lane on the left.
SPEAKER_00: We are just a few meters from there.
SPEAKER_00: You can come and have fellowship with us.
SPEAKER_00: Our service begins at 9 o'clock, ends at 11 o'clock.
SPEAKER_00: Then we have a Bible study.
SPEAKER_00: Please keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: Let us stand together as I release you with the words of the grace.
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 forevermore.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You leave the sanctuary with the blessings of God.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord go before you.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord go beside you.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord put his hands of blessing upon you.
SPEAKER_00: May you walk in the victory of God this week.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord expand you and increase you in every way.
SPEAKER_00: May you never turn away from God.
SPEAKER_00: I say, may you never turn away from God.
SPEAKER_00: I pray, may you never turn away from God.
SPEAKER_00: May you be the light.
SPEAKER_00: May you be the salt.
SPEAKER_00: May you be the witness of Jesus Christ as you go into the week.
SPEAKER_00: May the Holy Spirit fill you, minister to you and your family, meet you at your points of need, and may God be glorified in everything you do this week.
SPEAKER_00: PBC Westlands Campus, I release you to go and serve in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Keep coming, keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: You need to give your life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Keep coming.
SPEAKER_00: We'll pray together with you and God bless you.