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International Sunday | Robert Kasozi

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  1. It's so good to be back here. I was here about a year ago

  2. during the mission month and it's so good to be back again with my family

  3. in a few of the family, the Mama Sheill's family, the DeVore family

  4. that has become part of us. And last September we had the privilege to

  5. have you two come. You passed. Joe landed and she went in the

  6. bush to do a medical camp with Justice and we had passed doing do a

  7. passas conference. We bring our parstors together every September, all the three hundred

  8. and sixty seven pastors come and they go through a training and the conference.

  9. So we had the privilege to holst passa drain and he did a great,

  10. great job. We can't wait to have you back there. Amen. And

  11. over the years this charge knew her rise and has become such a great,

  12. great partner with the ministry and all that we do in Africa. You're one

  13. of the biggest partners we have right now as in terms of churches. So

  14. we are counting on you. Bring greetings from a lots of your friends in

  15. Africa. They are asking when you are coming back, let me read you

  16. a scripture. The Book of Matthew, Chapter twenty eight and the last three

  17. verses of the book Matthew twenty eight and verse eighteen. The Bible says,

  18. and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been given

  19. to me in heaven and on earth. God there for and make disciples of

  20. all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son

  21. and of the Holy Spirit. Them to observe all things that I have commanded

  22. you, and low I'm with you always, even to the end of the

  23. age. A man, this is this is, This is where we get

  24. the great commission Jesus sending the disciples to the world. This is after a

  25. few days Jesus has come back from the dead. This has just reslected.

  26. And get this bunch of fishermen together in a room, and then give them

  27. this command to go out and make nations disciples. That's a big task to

  28. give to people like Peter, who had actually denied him a few days Arier

  29. denied him. And then when Jesus died, the Bible says, Peter went

  30. back to fishing, and all the other eleven disciples, one of them actually

  31. at betray Jesus. The eleven all scattered and they went back to whatever we

  32. were doing before because they lost the Savior. And so when Jesus came back

  33. to life, he had to gather these eleven men back to himself, and

  34. then he gave them this command to go out all over the world and make

  35. nations disciples. And so that's this is where I come from. One of

  36. one of the nations that has been discipled or handed discipleship is Uganda in nineteen

  37. ninety six, that's when the war ended, and so Papa n m'm atually

  38. landed in Uganda in nineteen eighty seven, a year after the war had ended.

  39. A lot of people have been killed for during that civil war that lasted

  40. five years, and there was a lot. Uganda was worse than so Maria

  41. was broken economy, there was nothing functional in our nation. But that's when

  42. Paparone ma'ma surely landed as missionaries in a small village, Sagakul and they started

  43. preaching the gospel. And then the heating of the nation of Uganda is started

  44. by the preaching of this gospel. That's the power of the gospel. That's

  45. why Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it's the power to

  46. save. And so then the following years, you know, a civil war

  47. would destroy every fiber of the nation and Uganda will start to destroyed. A

  48. few years back in nineteen ninety, it is said that you Gander, the

  49. cases of AIDS in Uganda HIV was very high. I think then we had

  50. about nine million people in Uganda nineteen ninety and he said that about thirty six

  51. percent of that was seek with HIV. And so we came out of the

  52. war just to face another war of a disease that killed so many people.

  53. Multicular way you work with justice. The people there were all killed by AIDS.

  54. That's where we have a lot of orphans in that area. And so

  55. it was predicted that you Gander was going to be swept away by this disease.

  56. But that's when the preaching of the gospel went up. Preachers like Molie

  57. Cellulo, all robots Rain had Bunkie the later whoseborne. They started coming and

  58. doing mega, mega crusades in the small country. And You're gonna started the

  59. recovery through the preaching of the gospel. Right now, about thirty some years

  60. later, you Ganda today is about forty five million people and AIDS is about

  61. They said that we have about one million people one and a half million people

  62. living with HIV. But AIDS can no longer kill anyone because it's now chewallable,

  63. it's preventable. But it's through the preaching of the gospel. And so

  64. I just wanted to share that information with you that know that a nation can

  65. be changed by the preaching of this gospel. And so when Jesus tells the

  66. the eleven or this bunch of guys and said go into the world and preach

  67. this gospel, he meant what he said, and he saw recalled that these

  68. guys went everywhere preaching. I actually believed that by the time they died,

  69. they thought they had actually finished the great commission, that you preached the gospel

  70. wherever they went to every known world then and the discipled other disciples who contained

  71. the cycle or preaching this gospel. And so it's this is a this is

  72. a good news that as a charge in your horizon two thousand years ago,

  73. you are still participating in wild missions, helping to heal the nations, helping

  74. to bring the good news to places where you can't go. But your support

  75. goes so far. I mean when you give, and especially when you support

  76. a school kid or a pastor or some mention in a place, they do

  77. so much more with the little that you give, that God is able to

  78. take and multiply and increase, because that's how the Kingdom works. It has

  79. this ability to the little in the Kingdom is much. God has the ability

  80. to multiply what we give in the form of a seed. And so we

  81. have a first information. We are the testimony. We are the witnesses of

  82. what God can do. If someone is saying or if someone gives. If

  83. you didn't say Mama Suli and Papa ron to you gandha, some of us

  84. who don't even be saved. But because they came and they said this.

  85. They started in a small village, just one church for several years. What

  86. they did was to do a church with Passa, Steve Mayanji and Pasa Kawasa

  87. for many and the minister was in this tiny village. But right now,

  88. I mean, we're all over Uganda, we are all over Africa. The

  89. ministert has going on to go to Rwanda, Bloondi, Tanzania, Kenya,

  90. southernas Dan, Congo, Ghana, and sometimes you when you watch your TV,

  91. you think the church is dead or the ghostpel is done. Let me

  92. tell you something. God is alive and it's still on the throne. You

  93. need already to open this verse in MARTHI twenty eight eighteen. I remember what

  94. Jesus said. He said, all authority know some not a part of it

  95. is said. All authority has been given to me, and that has never

  96. changed. All authority. It doesn't matter which nation live in. All authority

  97. belongs to God. And you need to wake up every morning remind yourself that

  98. all authority belongs to Him. Even in the most rebellious times like we live

  99. in. It sounds like the darkness is increasing everywhere everywhere you go, and

  100. there's a lot of fear, especially here in the United States. Your country

  101. has been a going backward from where we are coming from. I mean more

  102. scared in this theater than I am in Uganda. It feels like you guys

  103. are walking backward. But let me tell you something. The Gospel is the

  104. light of the world, and where darkness is. If there is pitchy darkness,

  105. even the smallest of lights will become a bigger one. And so that's

  106. the good news that we have. All authorities still belongs to Jesus. All

  107. authority still belongs to him. Amen, I don't care if you're going through

  108. a recession, whatever is happening. You don't belong to the kingdom of darkness.

  109. You belong to the King of Kings. He's still on the throne.

  110. He's still able to save. If God can change you, gander from the

  111. worst to where we are today. God can take the United States to where

  112. are you. So we are going to be. We are going to be

  113. joining you in prayer and fasting. I'm going to ask all my Ugan and

  114. prayer warriors to join you to pray for the United States. I believe there

  115. would be a revival. There will see an outpouring of the speed of God

  116. on this nation because of your generosity, because you have sent out me about

  117. missionaries rather nation. The Lord, remember you, the Lord who is the

  118. United States, one more time before the end of the world. And so

  119. the good news is Jesus is in charge. He's in charge of DC.

  120. You may don't see it, but he is. He's in charge of every

  121. White House, every state house, every palace, every The Bible says that

  122. at the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee, one time will

  123. bow to Jesus. I have them. I have this picture in my mind,

  124. pasted doing the one day, and the Bible says that I think it

  125. was the apostle John that looked at and said that I looked at the far

  126. the eye cold could see, and I saw nations, tribe, tank and

  127. all kinds of languages. People that I look like strange people, but they

  128. all belong to one kingdom, and they line up before the throne of God

  129. or confessing the Jesus Lord. That's going to happen very soon. People.

  130. I feel like we live at the age of time. We live in a

  131. moment where the spirit of God is about to move across the nations, and

  132. we need to be ready. We need to be people that are ready to

  133. go. We need to be ready, but people that are ready to give.

  134. We need to be ready because when everything is said and done, the

  135. only thing that we are going to show when we show up at the Throne

  136. of Grace is going to be the souls that each one of us want for

  137. the Lord. The cars who disappear, vehicles who disappear, our houses wouldn't

  138. be there, but the people, the people, the people that we preach

  139. to, the people that we we support, the soul that would be saved,

  140. the riches, the trophies that we are going to present before the Throne

  141. of Grace. When we signed before the Lord, and the question will be

  142. asked to each one of us, what did you do with your life?

  143. And all I have to answer it. It would be so wonderful to have

  144. people lining up behind you and say, hey, these are Africans that used

  145. to send fifteen dollars to a pastor or to a church. And these are

  146. the people that came out of my giving. Because that's how powerful the gospel

  147. is. And so this year, this year, yeah, this last month,

  148. we're able to love roof two churches with the last bunch of many centers.

  149. We are amazing, amazing soul is coming out of Africa. We are

  150. these two communities that have been striving to have a church or a roof over

  151. their churches. And the people started the Passa Peter and another passa called Passa

  152. Banghissi. They started churches in poor communities and they mobilize the people. They

  153. made bricks with their hands, They bake the bricks and started building their churches.

  154. Passa Peter told me every rain season they will come together the church and

  155. get a garden and plant corn and other flutes. And then at the harvest

  156. time they sell their harvests and get a little bit of money and contained constructing

  157. the church. And so when they got at the roofing level, they called.

  158. They both called me and said, hey, we need the roof over

  159. our churches. And neither Passa Peter is the zone leader. We divided our

  160. three one hundred and sixty churches in small groups. So Passerpeter leads about fifteen

  161. churches. We call them zones. And so we had no functional building in

  162. that area. So Passor Peter started building this. And when you set the

  163. money, we are able to put a roof over those buildings. And so

  164. for maybe another hundred years or above, if Jesus service, there will be

  165. a church in those communities as a reminder of God Is faithfulness. Pass some

  166. Banghazie churches up on the roof you can see miles away. It's a testimony

  167. of God Is goodness to that community. And so the gospel who continue to

  168. be preached and out of those buildings. Pastor Peter Persson, Banghassie are starting

  169. to plant other churches in their territory and the gospel is being preached. And

  170. so when Jesus said, go and make disciples of all nations, he made

  171. that all of us should be should participate, We should be able to do

  172. something. And that's when you give a fifteen dollars, ten dollars, five

  173. dollars. You don't know what that does. In a third world country,

  174. For one hundred dollars, you can send a kid to school for a full

  175. year, meals paid, four books, uniform, shoes, everything catered before

  176. you can pay a teacher to teach a hundred in our schools. One of

  177. the schools we started, we have about six hundred kids in Masulita. In

  178. Bukumula the same number, about four hundred kids in the school you helped us

  179. to build two years ago. And so in one class you have about fifty

  180. to one hundred kids in one class and one teacher. You pay teacher.

  181. You are educating one hundred kids. And as our education is that important in

  182. Africa, for those kids, it's everything. So we give them Jesus and

  183. we give them education, and we give them clean water. And you're building

  184. in the and you Gandha is that nation that actually being exemplar U Ganda started

  185. descending up missionaris. All the eight all they eight other African countries, warmth

  186. works in. They all been to u Ganda through the Bible College, and

  187. we've been able to send them back to their countries. Our person in Balloondi

  188. came as a refugee. He came running away from a war in Burundi and

  189. he ended up in Uganda. Passa Sive Mayana found him, took him to

  190. Bible College for four years. When the war ended, he went back to

  191. Rundi and now he's an apostle, planting churches left and right, and many

  192. many other small things that happened around us. Every time you come and you

  193. go to Mutucula to do medical outreaches with justice, you don't know what you

  194. are doing in that community. The baby that I've been born, which we

  195. had a tracker that we put on their hands to track them. How they

  196. turn out, maybe they will be the next rain Had Bunkie, They will

  197. be the next preacher. That's how powerful the gospel is. He takes someone

  198. that's nothing and turn them into a man of God. When I was living

  199. in the swamp. It is my book. I have a book. Yeah,

  200. I don't want to tell the story so they can buy the book.

  201. Do you have a few more copies? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  202. I won't tell the story, but the book will tell the story.

  203. And actually it's on Amazon. It's cheaper to buy to buy the book on

  204. Amazon. But my story is an amazing story. I came to I came

  205. when I came to Mama Suuri and Papaone. I was just coming out of

  206. the wall. I had lost my family, I had been through trauma that

  207. I never thought I would ever mount to anything in life but the Gospel.

  208. But the Gospel he changed me. I never thought that one day I'll be

  209. preaching or standing before you telling my sorry. But the power of the Gospel

  210. is able to change any man from nothing to anything that God wants them to

  211. be and do. And so that's why we never stop going around preaching to

  212. every creature. Jesus said, go and preach this gospel to every creature.

  213. Creation needs to hear the good news. Tacoma needs to hear the good news.

  214. Five needs the good news. Everyone in the US needs to hear the

  215. good news. The good news is Jesus seals salves, and he's able to

  216. turn around your life into the goodness of God. And when you get the

  217. good news, you turn it around and appreciate your neighbor. It makes a

  218. cycle that goes on and on until everyone gets a place where they have the

  219. hope of glory. The Bible says the hope of glory in each one of

  220. us. So the hope for America is not in the politics. The hope

  221. of America is not in your economy. The hope for this nation is in

  222. your Bible. It's in your Bible. And you guys are starting on well.

  223. If you go on your knees and pray for nation, God is able

  224. to save any nation. And so I want to encourage you this morning.

  225. Are we seeing the morning the mom sing on your gand in time? I

  226. think it's morning in your gandas afternoon here. But I want to encourage you

  227. as you give. I want to let you know that you're giving goes far

  228. and Heaven is going to record. There's no small giving in the Kingdom.

  229. The way the kingdom resources work, little is too much. When you give

  230. little, the Lord is able to take it multiply, it expand it and

  231. give it back. Remember the soul of a master deceit. The tiniest seed

  232. in the world is able to turn into one of the biggest trees ever.

  233. So that's our giving works. So you guys, over the years, the

  234. seeds and the offerings you sent out to Africa, especially Uganda where I live,

  235. is helped to change in nation and the Gospel never sees as long as

  236. you continue to give. An amount you give, God is able to bless

  237. you. And I pray that as you give this this afternoon, the Lord

  238. who remember your nation, the Lord who remember families, the nanny of your

  239. children, walk away from the Lord, that your relatives and your families who

  240. turned back to God, even though that are walked away from the ways of

  241. the Lord, that will be able to return because you are sowing a seed

  242. for them this afternoon. Father, thank you for this church, and thank

  243. you for passor Grain. Thank you for Passor Joe, Thank you for all

  244. the leaders of this congregation. Lord, I thank you Father for the for

  245. the levelation that you give them to do world missions. I pray that they

  246. give this morning, every giving individual, every giving family, that you remember

  247. them, you smile over them and bless their hands of God. Bless their

  248. businesses, bless their work. So God, bless them with salvation, Bless

  249. them with your protection, with your favor. May you increase and multiply them.

  250. Of God. I pray that the fear of the Lord will be upon

  251. every family, every marriage, and the air you don't know. God,

  252. I pray that even generations should come out of these people present, that they

  253. will walk with God. They will know your ways, hear your voice,

  254. and do your will of God. I prayer the United States. So God,

  255. the one more time you visit the states of God, and with the

  256. noutpulling of your spirit or God in the capitals of every state or God,

  257. there will be move of the Holy Spirit that this nation turned back to you,

  258. but the fear of the Lord will turn to every state capital. God,

  259. I bless the United States with I preyer revival. I pray for your

  260. presence in this congregation in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, Amen,