Sermon
International Sunday | Robert Kasozi
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It's so good to be back here. I was here about a year ago
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during the mission month and it's so good to be back again with my family
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in a few of the family, the Mama Sheill's family, the DeVore family
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that has become part of us. And last September we had the privilege to
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have you two come. You passed. Joe landed and she went in the
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bush to do a medical camp with Justice and we had passed doing do a
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passas conference. We bring our parstors together every September, all the three hundred
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and sixty seven pastors come and they go through a training and the conference.
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So we had the privilege to holst passa drain and he did a great,
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great job. We can't wait to have you back there. Amen. And
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over the years this charge knew her rise and has become such a great,
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great partner with the ministry and all that we do in Africa. You're one
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of the biggest partners we have right now as in terms of churches. So
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we are counting on you. Bring greetings from a lots of your friends in
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Africa. They are asking when you are coming back, let me read you
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a scripture. The Book of Matthew, Chapter twenty eight and the last three
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verses of the book Matthew twenty eight and verse eighteen. The Bible says,
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and Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been given
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to me in heaven and on earth. God there for and make disciples of
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all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit. Them to observe all things that I have commanded
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you, and low I'm with you always, even to the end of the
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age. A man, this is this is, This is where we get
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the great commission Jesus sending the disciples to the world. This is after a
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few days Jesus has come back from the dead. This has just reslected.
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And get this bunch of fishermen together in a room, and then give them
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this command to go out and make nations disciples. That's a big task to
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give to people like Peter, who had actually denied him a few days Arier
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denied him. And then when Jesus died, the Bible says, Peter went
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back to fishing, and all the other eleven disciples, one of them actually
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at betray Jesus. The eleven all scattered and they went back to whatever we
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were doing before because they lost the Savior. And so when Jesus came back
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to life, he had to gather these eleven men back to himself, and
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then he gave them this command to go out all over the world and make
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nations disciples. And so that's this is where I come from. One of
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one of the nations that has been discipled or handed discipleship is Uganda in nineteen
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ninety six, that's when the war ended, and so Papa n m'm atually
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landed in Uganda in nineteen eighty seven, a year after the war had ended.
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A lot of people have been killed for during that civil war that lasted
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five years, and there was a lot. Uganda was worse than so Maria
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was broken economy, there was nothing functional in our nation. But that's when
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Paparone ma'ma surely landed as missionaries in a small village, Sagakul and they started
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preaching the gospel. And then the heating of the nation of Uganda is started
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by the preaching of this gospel. That's the power of the gospel. That's
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why Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it's the power to
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save. And so then the following years, you know, a civil war
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would destroy every fiber of the nation and Uganda will start to destroyed. A
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few years back in nineteen ninety, it is said that you Gander, the
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cases of AIDS in Uganda HIV was very high. I think then we had
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about nine million people in Uganda nineteen ninety and he said that about thirty six
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percent of that was seek with HIV. And so we came out of the
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war just to face another war of a disease that killed so many people.
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Multicular way you work with justice. The people there were all killed by AIDS.
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That's where we have a lot of orphans in that area. And so
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it was predicted that you Gander was going to be swept away by this disease.
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But that's when the preaching of the gospel went up. Preachers like Molie
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Cellulo, all robots Rain had Bunkie the later whoseborne. They started coming and
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doing mega, mega crusades in the small country. And You're gonna started the
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recovery through the preaching of the gospel. Right now, about thirty some years
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later, you Ganda today is about forty five million people and AIDS is about
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They said that we have about one million people one and a half million people
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living with HIV. But AIDS can no longer kill anyone because it's now chewallable,
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it's preventable. But it's through the preaching of the gospel. And so
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I just wanted to share that information with you that know that a nation can
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be changed by the preaching of this gospel. And so when Jesus tells the
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the eleven or this bunch of guys and said go into the world and preach
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this gospel, he meant what he said, and he saw recalled that these
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guys went everywhere preaching. I actually believed that by the time they died,
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they thought they had actually finished the great commission, that you preached the gospel
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wherever they went to every known world then and the discipled other disciples who contained
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the cycle or preaching this gospel. And so it's this is a this is
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a good news that as a charge in your horizon two thousand years ago,
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you are still participating in wild missions, helping to heal the nations, helping
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to bring the good news to places where you can't go. But your support
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goes so far. I mean when you give, and especially when you support
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a school kid or a pastor or some mention in a place, they do
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so much more with the little that you give, that God is able to
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take and multiply and increase, because that's how the Kingdom works. It has
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this ability to the little in the Kingdom is much. God has the ability
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to multiply what we give in the form of a seed. And so we
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have a first information. We are the testimony. We are the witnesses of
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what God can do. If someone is saying or if someone gives. If
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you didn't say Mama Suli and Papa ron to you gandha, some of us
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who don't even be saved. But because they came and they said this.
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They started in a small village, just one church for several years. What
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they did was to do a church with Passa, Steve Mayanji and Pasa Kawasa
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for many and the minister was in this tiny village. But right now,
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I mean, we're all over Uganda, we are all over Africa. The
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ministert has going on to go to Rwanda, Bloondi, Tanzania, Kenya,
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southernas Dan, Congo, Ghana, and sometimes you when you watch your TV,
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you think the church is dead or the ghostpel is done. Let me
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tell you something. God is alive and it's still on the throne. You
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need already to open this verse in MARTHI twenty eight eighteen. I remember what
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Jesus said. He said, all authority know some not a part of it
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is said. All authority has been given to me, and that has never
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changed. All authority. It doesn't matter which nation live in. All authority
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belongs to God. And you need to wake up every morning remind yourself that
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all authority belongs to Him. Even in the most rebellious times like we live
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in. It sounds like the darkness is increasing everywhere everywhere you go, and
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there's a lot of fear, especially here in the United States. Your country
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has been a going backward from where we are coming from. I mean more
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scared in this theater than I am in Uganda. It feels like you guys
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are walking backward. But let me tell you something. The Gospel is the
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light of the world, and where darkness is. If there is pitchy darkness,
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even the smallest of lights will become a bigger one. And so that's
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the good news that we have. All authorities still belongs to Jesus. All
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authority still belongs to him. Amen, I don't care if you're going through
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a recession, whatever is happening. You don't belong to the kingdom of darkness.
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You belong to the King of Kings. He's still on the throne.
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He's still able to save. If God can change you, gander from the
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worst to where we are today. God can take the United States to where
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are you. So we are going to be. We are going to be
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joining you in prayer and fasting. I'm going to ask all my Ugan and
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prayer warriors to join you to pray for the United States. I believe there
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would be a revival. There will see an outpouring of the speed of God
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on this nation because of your generosity, because you have sent out me about
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missionaries rather nation. The Lord, remember you, the Lord who is the
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United States, one more time before the end of the world. And so
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the good news is Jesus is in charge. He's in charge of DC.
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You may don't see it, but he is. He's in charge of every
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White House, every state house, every palace, every The Bible says that
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at the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee, one time will
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bow to Jesus. I have them. I have this picture in my mind,
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pasted doing the one day, and the Bible says that I think it
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was the apostle John that looked at and said that I looked at the far
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the eye cold could see, and I saw nations, tribe, tank and
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all kinds of languages. People that I look like strange people, but they
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all belong to one kingdom, and they line up before the throne of God
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or confessing the Jesus Lord. That's going to happen very soon. People.
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I feel like we live at the age of time. We live in a
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moment where the spirit of God is about to move across the nations, and
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we need to be ready. We need to be people that are ready to
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go. We need to be ready, but people that are ready to give.
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We need to be ready because when everything is said and done, the
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only thing that we are going to show when we show up at the Throne
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of Grace is going to be the souls that each one of us want for
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the Lord. The cars who disappear, vehicles who disappear, our houses wouldn't
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be there, but the people, the people, the people that we preach
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to, the people that we we support, the soul that would be saved,
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the riches, the trophies that we are going to present before the Throne
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of Grace. When we signed before the Lord, and the question will be
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asked to each one of us, what did you do with your life?
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And all I have to answer it. It would be so wonderful to have
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people lining up behind you and say, hey, these are Africans that used
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to send fifteen dollars to a pastor or to a church. And these are
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the people that came out of my giving. Because that's how powerful the gospel
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is. And so this year, this year, yeah, this last month,
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we're able to love roof two churches with the last bunch of many centers.
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We are amazing, amazing soul is coming out of Africa. We are
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these two communities that have been striving to have a church or a roof over
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their churches. And the people started the Passa Peter and another passa called Passa
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Banghissi. They started churches in poor communities and they mobilize the people. They
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made bricks with their hands, They bake the bricks and started building their churches.
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Passa Peter told me every rain season they will come together the church and
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get a garden and plant corn and other flutes. And then at the harvest
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time they sell their harvests and get a little bit of money and contained constructing
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the church. And so when they got at the roofing level, they called.
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They both called me and said, hey, we need the roof over
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our churches. And neither Passa Peter is the zone leader. We divided our
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three one hundred and sixty churches in small groups. So Passerpeter leads about fifteen
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churches. We call them zones. And so we had no functional building in
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that area. So Passor Peter started building this. And when you set the
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money, we are able to put a roof over those buildings. And so
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for maybe another hundred years or above, if Jesus service, there will be
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a church in those communities as a reminder of God Is faithfulness. Pass some
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Banghazie churches up on the roof you can see miles away. It's a testimony
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of God Is goodness to that community. And so the gospel who continue to
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be preached and out of those buildings. Pastor Peter Persson, Banghassie are starting
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to plant other churches in their territory and the gospel is being preached. And
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so when Jesus said, go and make disciples of all nations, he made
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that all of us should be should participate, We should be able to do
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something. And that's when you give a fifteen dollars, ten dollars, five
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dollars. You don't know what that does. In a third world country,
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For one hundred dollars, you can send a kid to school for a full
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year, meals paid, four books, uniform, shoes, everything catered before
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you can pay a teacher to teach a hundred in our schools. One of
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the schools we started, we have about six hundred kids in Masulita. In
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Bukumula the same number, about four hundred kids in the school you helped us
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to build two years ago. And so in one class you have about fifty
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to one hundred kids in one class and one teacher. You pay teacher.
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You are educating one hundred kids. And as our education is that important in
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Africa, for those kids, it's everything. So we give them Jesus and
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we give them education, and we give them clean water. And you're building
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in the and you Gandha is that nation that actually being exemplar U Ganda started
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descending up missionaris. All the eight all they eight other African countries, warmth
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works in. They all been to u Ganda through the Bible College, and
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we've been able to send them back to their countries. Our person in Balloondi
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came as a refugee. He came running away from a war in Burundi and
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he ended up in Uganda. Passa Sive Mayana found him, took him to
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Bible College for four years. When the war ended, he went back to
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Rundi and now he's an apostle, planting churches left and right, and many
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many other small things that happened around us. Every time you come and you
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go to Mutucula to do medical outreaches with justice, you don't know what you
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are doing in that community. The baby that I've been born, which we
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had a tracker that we put on their hands to track them. How they
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turn out, maybe they will be the next rain Had Bunkie, They will
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be the next preacher. That's how powerful the gospel is. He takes someone
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that's nothing and turn them into a man of God. When I was living
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in the swamp. It is my book. I have a book. Yeah,
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I don't want to tell the story so they can buy the book.
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Do you have a few more copies? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I won't tell the story, but the book will tell the story.
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And actually it's on Amazon. It's cheaper to buy to buy the book on
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Amazon. But my story is an amazing story. I came to I came
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when I came to Mama Suuri and Papaone. I was just coming out of
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the wall. I had lost my family, I had been through trauma that
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I never thought I would ever mount to anything in life but the Gospel.
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But the Gospel he changed me. I never thought that one day I'll be
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preaching or standing before you telling my sorry. But the power of the Gospel
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is able to change any man from nothing to anything that God wants them to
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be and do. And so that's why we never stop going around preaching to
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every creature. Jesus said, go and preach this gospel to every creature.
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Creation needs to hear the good news. Tacoma needs to hear the good news.
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Five needs the good news. Everyone in the US needs to hear the
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good news. The good news is Jesus seals salves, and he's able to
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turn around your life into the goodness of God. And when you get the
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good news, you turn it around and appreciate your neighbor. It makes a
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cycle that goes on and on until everyone gets a place where they have the
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hope of glory. The Bible says the hope of glory in each one of
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us. So the hope for America is not in the politics. The hope
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of America is not in your economy. The hope for this nation is in
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your Bible. It's in your Bible. And you guys are starting on well.
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If you go on your knees and pray for nation, God is able
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to save any nation. And so I want to encourage you this morning.
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Are we seeing the morning the mom sing on your gand in time? I
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think it's morning in your gandas afternoon here. But I want to encourage you
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as you give. I want to let you know that you're giving goes far
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and Heaven is going to record. There's no small giving in the Kingdom.
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The way the kingdom resources work, little is too much. When you give
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little, the Lord is able to take it multiply, it expand it and
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give it back. Remember the soul of a master deceit. The tiniest seed
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in the world is able to turn into one of the biggest trees ever.
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So that's our giving works. So you guys, over the years, the
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seeds and the offerings you sent out to Africa, especially Uganda where I live,
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is helped to change in nation and the Gospel never sees as long as
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you continue to give. An amount you give, God is able to bless
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you. And I pray that as you give this this afternoon, the Lord
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who remember your nation, the Lord who remember families, the nanny of your
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children, walk away from the Lord, that your relatives and your families who
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turned back to God, even though that are walked away from the ways of
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the Lord, that will be able to return because you are sowing a seed
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for them this afternoon. Father, thank you for this church, and thank
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you for passor Grain. Thank you for Passor Joe, Thank you for all
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the leaders of this congregation. Lord, I thank you Father for the for
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the levelation that you give them to do world missions. I pray that they
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give this morning, every giving individual, every giving family, that you remember
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them, you smile over them and bless their hands of God. Bless their
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businesses, bless their work. So God, bless them with salvation, Bless
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them with your protection, with your favor. May you increase and multiply them.
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Of God. I pray that the fear of the Lord will be upon
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every family, every marriage, and the air you don't know. God,
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I pray that even generations should come out of these people present, that they
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will walk with God. They will know your ways, hear your voice,
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and do your will of God. I prayer the United States. So God,
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the one more time you visit the states of God, and with the
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noutpulling of your spirit or God in the capitals of every state or God,
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there will be move of the Holy Spirit that this nation turned back to you,
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but the fear of the Lord will turn to every state capital. God,
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I bless the United States with I preyer revival. I pray for your
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presence in this congregation in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, Amen,