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Pastor Cleophas Muyelele is joining us with a new message, so we are excited to hear what the Lord has put on his heart to share with us this Sunday. If Pastor Muyelele is new to you, you may listen to his other sermon titled “It’s Time to Do It” on our website at www.inthefieldaudioscriptures.org. You can also read about him and his ministry in Bungoma, Kenya, and reach out to him on social media or by email with comments, questions, and prayer requests.

Pastor Muyelele provided us with an update since he was last with us. He and his ministry leaders have a new church plant in a neighboring village, so they trust God for Swahili bibles to aid them in their discipleship program. Please keep them in your prayers.

He also mentioned that they stepped out by faith earlier this year to raise money to drill a well in Chemwa village. We have a praise report with Pastor Muyelele’s testimony that the LORD has made a way, and they have raised 90% of their budget. They trust God to launch this project in mid-April - next month. They need the remaining 10% so they can begin drilling. They are still short $2,000, so if you want to donate money to help Pastor Muyelele out, click the Donate button on either the In the Field Audio Scriptures website or the In the Field Worship Radio website. Any donation amount is a huge help and

More good news is that they had a successful children’s outreach sharing the word of God, and they also managed to provide food and hygiene products for 45 of the most vulnerable orphans and children in Chemwa village. If you want to see the outreach photos, click the Donate button and then click Gallery in the middle of the page.

As you can hear, the ministry is seven days a week, and I hope it inspires you to reach out to the Lord in prayer for pastors serving their communities worldwide. I know you are ready to listen to today’s new message, so I hope you enjoy today's sermon titled When Mercy Speaks with Pastor Cleophas Muyelele.

Welcome to this 3-part bible study series titled Comparison of Christ & Melchizedek. In this study, we will see that Melchizedek lays the foundation for a higher priest coming forward, fulfilling priesthood and king duties beyond his own. This higher priest will result from Hebrew law and yet represent a new law, saving humankind from its sins while mediating between humanity and divinity in God.

The author of Hebrews recognizes Melchizedek as having similar characteristics to Christ. There is a need for “another priest . . . according to the order of

God appointed Melchizedek, recognizing the need to change the law, allowing the divine King of Christ to enter as the High Priest and reign forever. Learning from the purpose of Melchizedek and Jesus, the question is whether Christians can lose their salvation, and if so, whether they recover it based on the righteousness, repetition, and compassion displayed by these two high priests.

Melchizedek shows himself to be in the image of Christ with his kingship and priesthood; however, it is through his order that Christ emerges as the King and High Priest. For Christ to be the High Priest, God changed the lineage so His Son would receive the realm of sitting in His right seat.

Melchizedek may have stemmed the priestly order, but David's kingship fell in line. Through preponderance of repetition, believers can rest in Him, answering whether Christians can indeed lose their salvation. The answer is simply yes, but it can be regained by fully believing in Christ, as Melchizedek intended.

I hope you will take the time to learn about Jesus’ lineage, the correlation between the Old Testament and the New, and the High Priest who sits at the right hand of God. This study proves God’s purpose for His Son, the pathway for His Son to enter the earthly world, and the salvation His Son will provide you and me.

This study is exciting to learn about historical and divine purposes. So, click the Bible Study tab at the top of the In the Field Audio Scriptures website to learn more about the lineage God placed on His people to ensure His Son is King and that He can be the One that saves us from our sins.

This sermon features Evangelist Darrell Richardson of Hilton Head Island, SC, in the United States. This southeastern coastal location decorates the terrain with palm trees and sea turtles. Sailboats enter the harbor with pink, purple, and green, coloring the sunsets and resting over the stillness of the ocean.

Darrell was born on April 7, 1946, in a small town in eastern Tennessee, where he grew up on a small farm. He loved to play basketball & baseball and studied music, playing the piano and organ in his local church. He is known as a father, business leader, role model, teacher, evangelist, and follower of Jesus Christ. After retiring from more than a 50-year aviation career, God called him to serve as an evangelist and full-time missionary to both Haiti & Kenya. He helped to establish a primary school in Kenya that provides an education each year to hundreds of students in a small village made up mostly of farmers. He also preached many sermons and taught Sunday School classes throughout the Kenyan countryside, helping people turn in their old lives for new ones in Christ.

His glidepath to God has not always been a smooth one. There was some turbulence, but he made a smooth landing. He has a strong relationship with Jesus and tells the story that Jesus told him one day, "Go tell them who I am." So, in the end, he sold everything so that he could follow Jesus' command, serving Him in the outback of Kenya as a missionary.

It is a pleasure to have Darrell share his obedience and dedication to God with us, and I hope you enjoy today's sermon titled, Defining Evangelism with Evangelist Darrell Richardson.

Peter writes the first letter in a question/answer format. One must know who he is, in this case, Peter knows that he is an apostle of Jesus Christ, but who is everyone else? A pilgrim. A pilgrim is a person who is living away from home. The next question is, where is everyone from? On earth, people migrate from one place or area to another. Our heavenly home still awaits us; therefore, Peter saw “everyone” as pilgrims.

To understand who this pilgrim is, we must understand that with movement comes rest. Resting in God’s Word provides the opportunity to understand that the Spirit of Christ solidifies the truth and is secured in the scriptures as it is written. Now we must be holy. Peter claims that holiness is not to be confused with morality, as morality is an outward set of standards, whereas holiness is an inward transformation. Hope joins holiness producing harmony, and in the end, love should be sincere, enduring God’s Word forever.

Now it should make a little more sense how Christians are to love the Lord whom they have not seen before, as His Word endures forever.

So let’s review: Peter details who he is before Christ and whom the rest of the population is before Christ, representing pilgrims. Each person or pilgrim must learn to rest in God’s Word; however, in order to do so, one must understand the difference between the outwardness of morality and the inwardness of holiness. It is the holiness that has transformation, producing harmony and love, completing the circle of resting in God’s Word forever.

This sermon features Pastor Lephen Kumar of South Carolina in the United States. Lephen was born and raised in India, where he worked as a school teacher, a pastor, and a director of a non-profit organization. His involvement in school education and child and community development continues to embrace and uplift his theological training.

Lephen, his beautiful wife, Lydia, his son Sam, and his daughter Saakshiyah moved from India to the United States, answering God’s call as a way of obeying a turning point in his ministry.

Growing up as a pastor’s son, Lephen felt the call to commit his life to ministry after high school. He knew the Lord was calling him to serve and preach the gospel, realizing this call involved more of an international mission, which can be seen in his work in the church he pastors here in South Carolina.

Even as a pastor, Lephen felt something was still missing in his ministry. A friend introduced him to chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education. Lephen started his chaplaincy with two extended training units and then completed a full year’s chaplain residency program at a local hospital. Lephen’s new ministry helped him connect with people enduring injuries, diseases, and end-of-life while allowing him to slow down and open his heart and mind to the suffering. Patients need someone to walk alongside them, and Lephen becomes their person.

Building relationships with people is very important, proving that God continues His work in us. Therefore, having a heart for God, Lephen continues to serve his local community here in South Carolina and back home in his village in India.

It is a pleasure to have Lephen share his love and inspiration for God with us, and I hope you enjoy today’s sermon titled, I Need Rest, with Pastor Lephen Kumar.

Pastor Cleophas Muyelele was born in July 1986 and raised in a small village in western Kenya near the Uganda border called Bungoma. He is married and blessed with three children - one girl and two boys, whom he and his family call Bungoma home. Cleophas grew up as an orphan, and with missionaries' help, he went through elementary and high school, later joining media college to pursue videography and photography. Once again, working with missionaries, Cleophas continued to serve in different capacities for over eight years, but this time in Eldoret, east of Bungoma, in Kenya.

Years later, in 2018, after praying and seeking the LORD for his direction, Cleophas, and the leaders he discipled, planted a church in the village where he grew up, calling it New Life Celebration Center. Cleophas' passion for teaching the Word of God and serving orphans and vulnerable children in their community directly reflects his upbringing. His ultimate passion is to give back and be the mentor to his community that the missionaries were to him by providing people the opportunity to learn, grow, and serve the LORD.

Besides being a pastor of the fastest-growing church in the rural areas, Cleophas is also the Community Director of the small grassroots organization Friends of Watoto Kenya, empowering orphans, vulnerable children, and young single mothers.

Hope and encouragement are abundant in his words, but the inspiration that he provides in his voice is a testament that God answers prayer. I hope you enjoy today's sermon titled It's Time to Do It with Pastor Cleophas Muyelele.

A true definition of fear, resulting in love and faith in God, divides this chapter into two parts. The first part is verses 1-6, where testing the spirits is necessary, ensuring that the messages heard are true from God. Exposing false teachers proves their mischievous teaching methods misalign their words with those from the Word of God. The second part is verses 7-21, where John shows how God can love His people when He loves through us. God’s love for us through His people removes the fear on the day of judgment, as we know that Jesus will be our advocate, standing beside us.

Our obedience to love and faith results from knowing that if people love God, they love one another. This love is so unique that if His children stray, He will receive repentant believers again. Jesus bore God’s wrath, so we will not have to, proving that we have a forgiving, loving God.

Welcome to the reading of the First Epistle of John Chapter Five with In the Field Audio Bible. My name is Christie, your host for this episode.

This fifth and final chapter of 1 John answers the two most important questions that are even asked today: whether one is truly a child of God and whether there is love for God and for one another. Both questions are proven if one believes that Jesus is Christ.

There is victory to celebrate, knowing that even Christ had to overcome temptations and troubles to take loving ownership of His people.

John writes about three witnesses proving that Jesus is God: water– Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River; the blood – Jesus died on the cross for our sins; and the Spirit – each person can bear witness to Christ.

Finally, each person was more likely than not to be born with a birthmark on their body; however, John writes that there are five birthmarks, or tests, of a believer. First is the faith test, aligning what we believe with the Word of God. Second is the life test on how we keep God’s commandments. Third, love tests us on whether or not we love one another. Fourth, the growth test measures how far we are going in our way with Christ. Finally, the last one is the sin test, measuring our continuation to commit sin and whether it justifies meeting our human needs.

Let’s review: First, the two most important questions asked are whether one is truly a child of God and whether there is love for God and one another, with the answer resting in Christ. Second, there are three witnesses proving that Jesus is God: water, the blood, and the Spirit. Last, a believer has five birthmarks or tests: faith, life, love, growth, and sin.

I hope you are in your quiet place with your favorite coffee or tea while enjoying this reading of the First Epistle of John Chapter 5.

This sermon features Evangelist Hezron Marwa of Kehancha, Kenya. This location is in the southwest corner of the country, nestled between the bordering countries of Uganda and Tanzania in East Africa.

Evangelist Hezron, considers himself to be an Mwanafunzi Wa Yesu, meaning a Disciple of Christ in Kiswahili, the Swahili language, wearing several titles, such as motivator, educator, community leader, business coach, mentor, media personality, and public speaker. He is well-known in the southwest corner of Kenya and surrounding areas as a director, who is a resilient businessman and media personality, relentlessly balancing various aspects of entrepreneurship with godly living. Growing up in the church, it is only fitting that Hezron is called "evangelist," as his ministry is expressed through his artistic and business abilities, making it easy for everyone in his path to follow the word he preaches - God's Word. I hope you enjoy today’s sermon message titled the Importance of Faith with Evangelist Hezron Marwa.

In this chapter, John tells us how to love one another. There is a yearning for us to love people and for them to love us back. Personally, I have always wanted to know “how” to love others. It is a weird question because we should already know, or so we thought. John puts forth three elements on how Christians are supposed to love one another. If you ever have wanted a biblical instruction manual, this is it.

First, we are to love “unconditionally.” So, let us go back to what I said earlier. There is a yearning for us to love people and for them to love us back. This give-and-take process is “conditional.” If you love me, I will love you back. This is the earthly way we love one another. However, John says that we are to love “unconditionally.”

Second, we are to love “sacrificially.” Remember John 3:16? “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” God demonstrated His love for the lost humankind by sending His only begotten Son to pay the debt for our sins. Think of a time when you sacrificed something so that another person could benefit from it. You did so out of love so that it would provide comfort to this person. Knowing that you would do without, this difference shows our earthly take on what divine love is supposed to look and feel like, achieving it through Him.

Finally, we are to love “personally.” The only Christ most people will ever see is the Christ they see in us, and you may be the one person. Therefore, we are to show God’s love for others through our demonstration of love to His Son, Jesus Christ.

Again, we are to love one another unconditionally, sacrificially, and personally, and do so, centering our love on Jesus.