Sabbath, April 18th 2026 | Elder Geoffrey Mugalu | Thunder In Silence

And the question is, where are those men and women today? What has gone wrong among us? That even when we see something wrong, we don't want to mention anything about it because we are fearful what somebody's going to say. What about my position as an elder in the church? We sit and we brush it off. It is okay. Church, it is not okay. God holds us accountable. Let us call wrong for what it is. Let us call sin for what it is called. Let us stand up for the truth, though heavens would fall. [01:30:35] (34 seconds)  #StandForTruth

Instead, I'm here this morning to bring a message of hope and assurance knowing that all this storm, it will pass at one point. Church, I can't tell you how long it's going to last. But if I can answer the question, it won't be long. Therefore, hold on. As I preached to empty pews this morning, this afternoon, don't give up because the world is going to remember us. We are going to be judged but by what we did and how we behaved in this time. Yes. We can rise up to the occasion. [01:21:38] (41 seconds)  #HopeInTheStorm

My brothers and sisters, some of us have thrown our brothers and sisters in those muddy pit of slander, of gossip, backbiting. So people are walking around with a with a with without any dignity, with shame, despair, and even depression. And we are watching them in the mighty pit and we can't put we can't pull them out. Why do you think the church is divided? Why do you think there's a lot of mistrust? Why do you think nobody try seems to trust each other? And why do you think there is confusion? We are in a stage what we call politically engineered chaos. [01:34:47] (45 seconds)  #EndSlander

My brothers and sisters, the time is now that as God's people, don't wait for somebody else. God is calling you to be of the time such as now to leave the house. And every time you hold somebody's hand, that is thunder in silence. Every time you pray for somebody, that is thunder in what? In silence. And the thunder sometimes don't need storms. No. Sometimes they happen without storms. So if you're waiting for the whole village to get you together to do something, it may never get done. Take the lead. You don't have a depart you don't have to be a department head in the church to do something good. [01:39:03] (39 seconds)  #LeadWithoutTitle

The story and the experience prophet prophet Jeremiah takes place during the time when the ancient Israel was in a season, a time of turmoil. The city of Jerusalem was under siege, but the Babylonians under king Nebuchadnezzar the second. The kingdom of Judah was collapsing under the heavy weight of political failures, religious corruption, and even avoiding and violating the covenants they had made with God. Under those intense, starving, and a spiritual bankruptcy conditions, Jeremiah shows up on the stage. In verse six of chapter 38, Jeremiah was thrown in the muddy pit, a cistern or a dungeon. [01:24:55] (63 seconds)  #JeremiahInCrisis

And the only crime Jeremiah committed to be treated that way was because he was preaching a message from God that if the people didn't repent at the time, Jerusalem would be captured by the Babylonians and including even the temple, the Solomon's Temple would be destroyed. They called him a traitor. Not only that, they thought that he was preaching heresy. He was weakening the soldiers on the battlefront who were fighting to fend off the city of Jerusalem against and from the hands of the Babylonians and a king Nebuchadnezzar the second. King Zedekiah was the king of the kingdom of Judah at the time. [01:25:58] (48 seconds)  #CourageToWarn

Church, it took a slave, Algerian, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a Kushite from Ethiopia to break the truth and also become the thunder in silence. When everybody was silent from the top to the bottom, nobody could raise a finger to call wrong for what it was. Church, can anything good come from Africa? This time it did. Abenimarik was an Ethiopian and archaeologists have told us that in 400 four four century AD, churches, the oldest churches in the world, were found and discovered in Abyssinia, present in the Ethiopia. [01:28:11] (52 seconds)  #UnexpectedHeroes

So you add all those adjectives, he had no chance to go up to the king. That was boldness of its highest level. Even I wouldn't get in my kind drive from here to go to the headquarters of Oregon East without an appointment that I want to speak to the president of the conference. They may tell me he's not around or he's too busy even when he may be sitting in his office. Am I not getting myself in trouble? Maybe. Maybe. But let the truth be for what it is. [01:31:46] (38 seconds)  #SpeakBoldly