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01:19 >> He said, "Don't be sad or don't feel sad."
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01:30 >> Instead, we should celebrate the life of past and present.
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01:41 >> The words that he spoke are the words of comfort.
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01:54 >> In this world we are living in,
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02:02 >> It is hard to say that let somebody be comforted when he's in this world.
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02:11 >> When you have lost your beloved one,
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02:17 >> When he thinks that you will never see him anymore in this world,
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02:24 >> There is a time when I wish just for what to see my father.
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02:33 >> And yet he's no longer living.
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02:39 >> Even when he was a member of the church,
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02:47 >> That time of resurrection, resurrection morning,
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02:53 >> I want to see him face to face.
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03:06 >> Let us, you know, remember this important day of the life of the late Pastor Mpisi.
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03:18 >> There are so many things that we can remember him for.
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03:27 >> I appreciate the way this church works.
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03:37 >> This very day on the Sabbath day,
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03:44 >> When we are remembering the lifetime of this father.
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04:02 >> Yeah, it is so important that the whole church as it were here in Rwanda,
04:07 that will come and celebrate or remember what he has been doing.
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04:18 >> The words that were chosen by the family.
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04:26 >> Second Timothy chapter, second Timothy.
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04:34 >> When the late Timothy or Paul said or uttered these words.
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04:49 >> These are the very words that were uttered by the late Pastor Mpisi.
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05:00 >> I fought, that is what the word says, I fought a good fight.
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05:07 >> I finished the journey.
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05:13 >> There are so many things that were done by the late Pastor Mpisi in his own life.
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05:20 >> I kept the faith.
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05:26 >> The crown that I will be given by our father in the kingdom.
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05:36 >> Let us know that is also a word, not to Paul alone.
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05:44 >> Especially the family of the late Pastor Mpisi.
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06:15 >> I cannot begin telling you my connection with Pastor Mpisi from the times he was in Nairobi.
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06:29 >> Serving as a pastor of our biggest church in the city of Nairobi, the central church.
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06:39 >> I was a very, very young minister then.
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06:45 >> But I have passed through his hands many times.
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06:51 >> I have borrowed a lot from him.
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06:56 >> And he was a generous man.
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07:00 >> When it came to dispensing those advisories which can make you what you want to be in life.
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07:13 >> Pastor Mpisi observed me as a young minister.
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07:21 >> And he saw something potential.
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07:25 >> Thank God for myself.
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07:29 >> Can't you say amen for me?
07:31 >> Amen.
07:33 >> You guys are so mean.
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07:38 >> You are in this life and you need someone to thank you for what you are
07:43 and to thank God for making you what you are.
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07:54 >> When Pastor Mpisi saw it, he kept inviting me in his office at central church.
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08:08 >> And he would tell me a number of things.
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08:12 >> How to walk in this life.
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08:17 >> How to go in and how to come out.
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08:21 >> Let me tell you I am a good listener.
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08:25 >> I am a good listener.
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08:29 >> Many people would have saved it themselves.
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08:33 >> If they would listen.
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08:36 >> May I want to tell you I listen.
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08:40 >> And Pastor Mpisi never forgot me.
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08:46 >> And one time something interesting happened.
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08:50 >> My last born daughter got to get married.
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08:55 >> And I was so happy.
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08:59 >> And I was so happy.
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09:03 >> And she knew Pastor Mpisi.
09:05 I didn't know she knew him.
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09:09 >> And our fiance was a son of a doctor who was very well known to Pastor Mpisi from Central Church.
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09:20 >> And she was very happy.
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09:24 >> And she was very happy.
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09:28 >> And she was very happy.
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09:32 >> And they loved this man.
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09:37 >> So they came to me, they said, "Dad, can you get Pastor Mpisi for us?
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09:45 >> We want him to come and join us in our wedding.
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09:52 >> I did my connections for them.
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09:57 >> Pastor Mpisi flew to Nairobi.
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10:01 >> And he joined those two children.
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10:06 >> Invited me home.
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10:10 >> I had not known that he had gotten so sick.
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10:16 >> I don't even want to say it was sickness, but maybe age.
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10:23 >> All of us are candidates of his life.
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10:29 >> You may be vibrant today, but tomorrow as age catches up with you.
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10:37 >> You will also one day look like I found Pastor Mpisi.
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10:46 >> He was frail, but he was a good man.
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10:55 >> He was frail in nature, like normal.
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11:01 >> He looked weak.
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11:05 >> And he shared with me the experience he has been going through.
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11:11 >> He could not eat very well anymore.
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11:17 >> He couldn't drink very well anymore.
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11:23 >> There are times when life stops you from eating and from drinking.
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11:29 >> That is life.
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11:33 >> But he was so vibrant.
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11:37 >> He was full of energy.
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11:41 >> So when I greeted him after I entered, he was so excited.
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11:47 >> But he could not rise from the chair.
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11:52 >> So I reached him there.
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11:56 >> Gave him my son, father hug.
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12:05 >> The most precious hug I've ever made in my life.
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12:15 >> Amen.
12:17 >> And I said, "Pastor, what do you mean?"
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12:22 >> "Pastor, I have a whole list of names of people I have identified
12:28 who are going to receive a copy of the Bible, and you are among them."
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12:42 >> And he sent the young man who was assisting him --
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12:50 >> -- to pick a Bible, two of them.
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12:55 >> He said, "Pastor, this one is yours."
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12:59 >> "And this other one you take to your wife."
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13:07 >> If I call him Apostle Ezra Mpisi, will I be wrong?
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13:18 >> If I call him prophet, will I be wrong?
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13:27 >> If I praise him and call him a modern patriarch --
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13:37 >> -- the size of men of God like Moses, Abraham, Jacob --
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13:49 >> -- of course I know I'm making a mistake
13:51 because there is no prophet who has a name in his own village.
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14:01 >> Some of you will blame me and say, "Ah, Pastor Oguri,
14:04 are you not glorifying this man too much?"
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14:14 >> If you don't believe me, look at that picture.
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14:20 >> For the last three months, I've been writing a book
14:22 with Pastor Mpisi.
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14:27 >> And I would love to put Pastor Oguri's sermon today
14:31 in that book.
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14:39 >> So my time now is just to give thanks to all of you --
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14:47 >> -- and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
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