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<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">SERMON: 10 SPIES INSPIRE FEAR RATHER THAN FAITH</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">by Pius, Servant of Yahweh in Kenya</span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Scripture Reading:Numbers 13:1–</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_327512496" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;" data-mce-mark="1">15:41</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">; Joshua 2:1–24</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">There we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">seemed to them.&nbsp; (Numbers&nbsp;</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_327512497" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;" data-mce-mark="1">13:33</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">)</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;After 40 days, all 12 spies assential testified to the entire</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Iraelite community and Moses that the Land does flow with milk and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">honey just as Yah had promised. Despite that, they also had cities that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">were fortified and giants lived in the Land. Rather than focusing</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">on the great fruitfulness of the land, they focused instead on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">great size of the inhabitants in contrast to their own smallness.</span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Caleb tried to counter their defeatist attitude by assuring the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">people, with Yah’s help.&nbsp; He urged them,&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">"We are well able to overcome it”&nbsp; “Let us go up at once and occupy it."</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">(Numbers&nbsp;</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_327512498" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">13:30</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">)</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">The other 10 spies, however, instilled such fear in the people that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">the whole Israelite community began to cry and shout,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!&nbsp; (Numbers 14:1–2)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">&nbsp; In their apprehension, they forgot how Yah hard sent ten plagues and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">even parted a sea for them, so they cried more;</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">&nbsp; Why is the Yah bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">sword?&nbsp; Our wives and children will be taken as plunder.We should</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">choose a leader and go back to Egypt.&nbsp; (Numbers 14:3–4)</span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Of course, this is not the first time the people wanted to go back to Egypt.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">The people stood trapped between an advancing Egyptian army and the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Red Sea.&nbsp; Terrified, they told Moses,</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Egyptians’?&nbsp; It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">than to die in the desert!&nbsp; (Exodus&nbsp;</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_327512499" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">14:12</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">)</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Then Yah parted the Red Sea and crushed the Egyptian army. when they</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">reached the other side of the sea in safely, they were already craving</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">the food back in bondage.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;<span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;"> If only we had died by the Yah's hand in Egypt!&nbsp; There we sat around</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.&nbsp; (Exodus</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">16:3)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Then Yah sent manna every morning for them to eat.Then Yah sent quail,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">along with judgment for their continual complaining.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">Throughout their wilderness journey, they complained to Moses and&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">about Moses for many reasons.&nbsp; Each time, they witnessed Yah’s&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">judgments and mercy.&nbsp; Yet, they still did not fully apprehend His love&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">for them, nor His ability to keep His promise to give them a land of&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">their own.Yah said it best:</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">How long will these people treat Me with contempt?&nbsp; How long will they</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">refuse to believe in Me, in spite of all the signs I have performed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">among them?&nbsp; (Numbers&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">14:11</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">)</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">What lessons may we learn from this account of Israel in the wilderness?</span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">First, we need to be people of Faith, seeing ourseves as sons and&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">daughters of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and not tiny&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">grasshoppers to be crushed under some giant’s foot.&nbsp; <em><strong>We need to&nbsp;</strong></em></span><em><strong><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">believe that no matter what challenge we face today, we are “well able&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">to overcome it” with Yah’s help.</span></strong></em></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">This is the kind of faith that pleases Yah.&nbsp; Without it, it is&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">impossible to please Him.&nbsp; (Hebrews 11:6)</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">Second, as people of Faith, we need to guard our speech and speak&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">forth Faith filled words.</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Why did the whole community of Israel die in the wilderness?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;They reaped the fruit of their faithless, fearful words.<em><strong>The people&nbsp;</strong></em></span><em><strong><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">said many times, We will surely die in this wilderness, and Yah&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">allowed them to speak their own future into exisitence.</span></strong></em></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Yah, ‘just as you have spoken in My&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">hearing, so I will do to you:&nbsp; The carcasses of you who have&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">and above.&nbsp; (Numbers&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">14:28</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">–29)</span></span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">For each of the 40 days that the Israelites spied out the land of&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Canaan, the Israelites would wander in the wilderness a year until&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">that generation died&nbsp; 40 years.&nbsp; Only Joshua and Caleb, who had a&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">different spirit and wholly trusted in the Lord would enter the&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Promised Land along with the next generation.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">forty years, and you shall know My rejection.&nbsp; I the Yah have spoken&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">this.&nbsp; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">gathered together against Me.&nbsp; In this wilderness they shall be&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">consumed, and there they shall die.&nbsp; (Numbers&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">14:34</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">)</span></span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Third, <em><strong>we need to repent of our unbelief and begin trusting in Yah or&nbsp;</strong></em></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><em><strong>else we cannot move forward</strong></em>.&nbsp; And sometimes, our lack of faith may&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">prevent us from moving forward in a particular area even after we&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">repent .In this sermon, the Israelites were suddenly remorseful for&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">their behavior and gathered up the courage to go up and take the Land,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">but it was too late.</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">Moses warned them,but they rebelled again, went up in presumption and&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">were, therefore, defeated by the Amalekites and Canaanites. Also, the&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">ten spies who had brought back the evil report of the Land were struck&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">down by Yah in a plague; but Joshua and Caleb were left alive. Yah had&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">rendered His final decision and they were now “not able” as they had&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;">spoken over themselves.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, lest you be struck down&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">before your enemies,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;<a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/14-42.htm">(Numbers 14:42.</a>)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">From now on, we should be a humble people given to the intercession for&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">others -- for family members and complete strangers. May we all be like&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Moshe, who pleaded for mercy on behalf of his people. Halleluyah!!!</span></span></p>
<p><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Amein!!!!.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">(Brother Pius, Kisii Kenya, Halleluyah Congregation)</span></p>
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