Prepared to Meet with God

[00:00:00] Thank you, and God bless you dear brother, God bless every one of you for coming. I am deeply grateful and privileged and honored to be here tonight, for those of you that fear God, and they hear out of you a love and fear for God. My wife sends out a newsletter and I have numbers of copies here, not too many to be honest with you, but what was over was given to me at some convention I've just come from, the Sermon Index Convention. [00:00:49] and if you'd like to take a copy please do, it's just this tour that I'm on in 17 towns in 14 different states over about a 10 week period preaching just about every day apart from the days I can't get there in time to the next state and all the airplanes but I'd be grateful of you to take a copy to pray for me, I would be deeply grateful I'm going to just leave them on the floor it's a terrible thing but then I think [00:01:20] the truly humble will come and get it then we'll have to be grateful for those who come there's also a list here that Mr. Quivel who coordinates all these tours when I come to America they send out all the newsletters to many, many people, many homes all over this continent and I'm going to leave that here I had a pen but it's gone so you'll have to use your own pens if you could put your name [00:01:52] if you'd like to receive it and we'll pray faithfully oh there you are that was very very good of you a terrible thing you'll never see it again I don't steal pens but boy do other people I have bought so many pens that I'm wondering whether the mission that I work because every single cent I'm accountable to them I just buy things, give receipts but so many pens in one year, it's unbelievable [00:02:24] and it's just people, they don't know it, they just take it so one brother, when he heard me say this a year or two, I don't know how many years ago he got me a pen that thou shalt not steal on the pens he said they won't take it now and I mentioned that And that night both of those pins were gone. Now I don't know whenever it turned it to me, so it's amazing to me that people would even put their names down who steal. Anyways, if you'd like to pray for this man's ministry and my family who I leave alone most of their lives, [00:03:05] I would be deeply grateful because I believe probably 90% of the reason I survived and my children didn't become angry, bitter and destroyed were because so many were praying I do bless God for the many, many multitudes of people across the world that pray for me daily through this newsletter that helps you to know soberly what to pray for Can we bow for a moment of prayer, please, before the dear Lord? [00:03:49] Father, thank Thee that as the blood washed, born again, so saved from eternal hell, by grace through faith in the shed blood of Christ, Washed in the blood by God The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son that cleanses us from all sin We bless thee that we as thy children [00:04:20] Bought to the great price the property of Jesus The responsibility of God In every aspect of life protected by God, kept by the power of God with the multitudes and multitudes of promises of God hovering over us that we are kept by the power of God through faith there's always man's responsibility [00:04:50] in every promise God gave but we bless thee that by thy grace and through faith we are kept by the power of God and that he which has begun a good work in us shall finish it come therefore now Lord to thy people speak and minister to their hearts and if there be any who are going to hell [00:05:20] and damnation and torment for eternity please waken them up to know it tonight and to become fearful in Jesus the Christ name Amen in 2nd Thessalonians in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 9 we read that he will return [00:05:52] He will return. He will return in flaming fire taking vengeance. Taking vengeance on them that know not God. Taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will return in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ [00:06:23] who shall be punished with everlasting destruction who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power In Revelation chapter 20 John records the revelation given to him by Jesus of mankind's destination And we read in verse 11 And I saw a great white throne, I saw a great white throne [00:06:56] And him that sat on it, him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them there was found no place for them and I saw the dead I saw the dead I saw the dead small and great stand stand before God I saw the dead small children children who died as children small and [00:07:35] The great grown-ups who God gave a longer chance to seek him and find him while he may be found. I saw the dead, small and great, stand. That must be one horrific thing to billions of people because billions of people for some reason deaden their conscience that God gave them concerning eternal life [00:08:06] there's no man even if he never heard the gospel that doesn't have some point of conscience in life that he will be accountable, that he has a conscience alone he knows there's accountability there's no such a thing as a man not knowing there's God an atheist is a liar, he's nothing else he's not intellectual, he's a liar, he is not an atheist sorry sir As you die, you will agree with me, sir. What a fright to men who deaden their consciences. [00:08:47] Their consciences sear the hot iron. They do it themselves. You only can do that. who because they would not receive the love of the truth, God gave them over to believe a lie. He sealed your choice. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, even as they did not like to retain, don't you tell me you didn't know there's a God, you scientists. If you came to the conclusion there's no God, you weren't born that way, you were sealed, God sealed your choice at some point of your rejecting what is common sense to a man who lives in a jungle, who doesn't even know how to read, he knows there's a God, there has to be, this couldn't have just happened, and you will be accountable to that God [00:09:42] and you know it before you hear the gospel, you know it, according to Romans 1, 2 and 3. Oh, the men in their millions who came to a place of their own choice and rejection of God out of their knowledge, who lived as they wanted to and died and land up in all they think that life is. The whole concept of life is to do what they want, it doesn't matter. All that's going to be the end is they will die, land up six feet under the ground in a little wooden box [00:10:15] That's all there was to it, there was no more thought of life It happened, it just happened No one gave him life No one gave him a conscience He just happened And he just can do what he wants And when he dies, that's it There's no thought behind it it was a mistake there was no such a thing as a purpose behind him other than to lie dying there [00:10:47] that's the end a wooden box six feet under the ground can you imagine the fear can you imagine the fear of the billions who died thinking that that's the end of it that's all there was I saw the dead can you imagine the dead small and great suddenly stand and people realizing, oh God, that wasn't the end, I still live, so you are eternal, you will never ever ever ever ever cease, you are eternal, a soul will never ever cease, for all eternity you will never ever ever ever ever ever cease to exist. [00:11:38] I saw the dead, small and great, stand, stand before God And the books were opened, the books were opened, the books were opened And another book was opened, another book was opened, which is the book of life And the dead, the dead were judged Every man, every man according to his works Every man, the dead were judged, every man, according to his works. [00:12:24] And the sea, the sea gave up the dead which were in it, the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell, death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. and they were judged, they were judged, every man, every man, every man according to his works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, death and hell were cast into the lake of fire [00:13:05] This is the second death. What is this? You mean that death leaving my body behind is not the only death God speaks of in this holy book that man must face? This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written, whosoever was not found written in the book of life, Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast, cast into the lake of fire. [00:13:53] There's a terrible, terrible fear in my heart when I read the words cast. That's finished. God is finished with your soul with ever trying to reach you there is no such a thing as for all eternity God ever showing you one iota of love or compassion or mercy there is never again anything from God [00:14:23] that will ever be able to be influenced by whatever you scream or say for all eternity CAUSED! Oh, this holy book says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God if you have not prepared to meet with God before you die. Those hands, for all eternity the Bible tells us, will have marks. [00:14:57] Those marks will never leave the Saviour's hands for all eternity As witness that He tastes the death for every man That God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son That whosoever will, whosoever will let Him come Whosoever will live in Him should not perish But have everlasting life The wages of sin, the just reward of an unrepentant life of sin is death, not physical death, what God terms eternal death, a state of torment for eternity [00:15:34] where the smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever. They have no peace, they have no peace day or night. The smoke of their torment ascends up forever and ever, God says, or God lies. If that's not the truth of this God of love, oh God did love. God is love But it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands That will witness that he loved you, that he died for you [00:16:05] Such a death you would weep on your face Sobbing and sobbing if Christ showed you one glimpse of what he went through for you As a soul It's a fearful thing That those hands that died, we have witnessed that he died for you. If you fall into those hands, not having prepared to meet with God, not having accepted and sought his salvation with all your heart, [00:16:37] with all your soul, with all your might, till you found it and knew you were saved. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a God who has marked for eternity that he loved you and wanted to save you if you have not prepared to meet with God when you die. Hebrews 9 verse 27 It is appointed, it is appointed unto men once to die but after this, after this, the judgment God says no utter seeking, no meeting, no listening from heaven, no cry from God [00:17:13] no compassion, no mercy It is appointed unto men once to die But after this one thing God says if you die without Christ Judgment, judgment, judgment You don't wait for the great white throne to face torment The moment you die without Christ you are plunged into hell the Bible tells us [00:17:44] You just swiftly just fall within seconds into the torments of hell, God tells us You are judged, totally, completely, there's no further judgment Don't talk about the great white throne, where you suddenly have a gap to wait before judgment No, you die without Christ, you're plunged, as you die you will sink into what God tells us is hell, the flames of hell Hell will eventually be cast and joined into those who face the great white throne [00:18:17] and who are plunged into this terrifying lake that burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death all in hell but there is no such a thing as a waiting space you will be plunged into hell the moment you die if you die without Christ your judgment is final Jesus, the God of love, the God of love, said these words The man wakes up after death, first death [00:18:48] And Christ, the God of love, who you tell me, preachers, of this modern age We mustn't put fear in children's hearts We mustn't offend people with something from another era, talking of hell and judgment Oh my word, you're from the pit yourselves If you say that preacher You don't deserve to be able to get into another pulpit not once in your life When I think of what God's going to say to you For denying what his book says Oh be careful, Jesus Christ, the God of love said from his lips [00:19:24] The God you say is the God of love that won't judge anybody He said from his lips, so you're saying he's a liar He lies You point your finger at Jesus Christ, preachers, if you say that Jesus Christ didn't warn men and give the gruesome, fearful details to such a degree he went on and on. Listen, listen carefully beloved, Christ speaks of a man who wakes up after death in hell, he had left his physical body behind but he could still feel, Christ said he feels, he could talk, he could still think like a brain functioning, he could remember, he could scream, he could see, he could see [00:20:16] What is missed? Can you imagine the torment of that? He could recognize. He could recognize people who made it, who are safe in eternity. Jesus said that He screams I am tormented I am tormented in this flame [00:20:47] Does Christ the God of love lie? Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and touch my tongue I am tormented Does Christ sensationalize? Does Christ stand there trying to tickle your ears with little stories that aren't going to happen? Is God a liar? Telling us such things? [00:21:18] This God of love? A man who does not warn you of hell, who stands in any pulpit on this earth that says it's Christian, does not care for you, he hates you, he loves your tithing, he does not care whether you go to hell because he knows, don't tell me he hasn't read it. [00:22:05] But he will not say anything to offend you. He will not tell you the truth. He will lie to you to keep your tithing, to keep your seat. He does not love you. A man who loves you will not fear offending you. But he will warn you with every faculty of his being of the judgments of God. Don't ever doubt that when you hear a preacher Don't ever doubt that when you hear a preacher [00:22:36] Ezekiel 33 verse 7 God says to this prophet So thou, O son of man, I have set thee I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel Therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth thou shalt hear the words of my mouth and warn them from me when I say unto the wicked when I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die [00:23:07] if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. [00:23:43] Tell me something, answer God, do you think that this is the only man that ever lived? That God would be so grieved at if he failed to take what God intended him to take? That God imparted to him of what God's judgments are concerning those who will not turn? Do you think this is the only man that ever lived that God would be so grieved at? If he failed to take that which God committed into his trust? of the heart of God, of the contents of God's book, if he fail to warn those God intended him to warn, this is the only man, you have no responsibility now that you know what's in this book, you're saved from hell, you know this is truth, you have this in your hands, in your heart, in your knowledge, imparted by God through revelation and grace, and you have no responsibility, so it was only Ezekiel, [00:24:43] How utterly obnoxious, how utterly obnoxious to suggest that you don't have responsibility to your own conscience, let alone common sense, in handling this book truthfully. concerning, concerning God's warnings concerning God's warnings of judgment and hell that are strewn across the pages of this book [00:25:15] concerning God's warnings of judgment and hell that are strewn across the pages of this book I, I would like to ask two fearful questions here tonight Concerning God's warnings of judgment and hell that is strewn across the pages of this book I would like to ask two fearful questions here tonight To the saved, to the saved I ask, do you warn men as the Bible compels us [00:25:50] Do you warn men as the Bible compels us to flee from the wrath to come to prepare to meet with God, how many men have you passed since you've been saved, that you could have worn, that you should have worn, but you didn't, you didn't, and you didn't lose one blink of sleep, you didn't even say a prayer for him [00:26:24] he cared so little, you care so little for the death of Christ for him as far as you and your responsibility are concerned Christ died for nothing and you don't care for that soul if you pass him, because you might be the only one that ever passes that soul that knows he's going to hell that God gave you opportunity sir I'm not talking about just people in a million passing you and you could have, you should have [00:26:56] but you didn't because you didn't care about anybody's soul but your own but what reason do you want to give God they may as well be in dirt that's how much worth they were though you knew Christ died like that for them They were as good as dirt. You didn't blink an eye. To the unsaved, to the lost, I ask, is it an offense to you, Joel? [00:27:34] Is it an offense to you if someone warns you concerning God's coming judgments and hell? If you, if you reject your salvation from hell through Christ Is it an offense to you if someone warns you, someone in a pulpit Anyone warns you in truth, earnestly pleading with you, confronting you What God confronts you about [00:28:05] And is the responsibility of every saved soul to take to the next soul Is it an offense to you, Joe, if someone warns you concerning God's judgments, His coming judgment in hell that you, you, you, tragically but most certainly will face if you reject Christ's salvation from hell? Is it an offense to you? My mother has nine brothers and sisters. [00:28:45] Nine brothers and sisters. Her elder brother, his name is Peter. My uncle Peter. Peter, when he was a little boy of seven years old. Seven year old boy. Peter befriended my father they were both seven years of age on the age of seven they started kicking a little ball [00:29:20] a football, soccer on the fields after schooling and through the years this was my uncle Peter's closest friend it was like his brother, like a brother to him they did everything together, he loved him as a brother I'm a seven-year-old boy. My mother eventually marries Peter's closest friend. He was always there, always in our home. There's Peter, come to sit with my father. He just wanted to single out his closest friend in this world and be with him. [00:29:59] He loved my father as a brother They were kind of inseparable But at 51 years of age At 51 years of age My father, an alcoholic Destroyed life, knelt before God And gave his life to him My father's life was so transformed we as a home went to shock stunned silence for weeks [00:30:32] We could hardly speak at the amazing transformation in one moment that God brought in this man, not one year God had saved him in the most wonderful way but what shook us far more than the way God saved him What shook us far more was the desperate compassion he had for every single soul he knew on earth. On the day he was saved, sir, that next day my father saw every soul as his personal responsibility to such a degree he undid people. [00:31:07] He wept. Have you seen a man weeping, weeping, pleading for a man to turn from hell and be saved from hell and how to be saved? My father took one day to start that. People were undone. People were stunned. People were shocked. People were angered, offended. But my father wept. He wept as he pled with soul upon soul, beginning with his loved ones. My Uncle Peter heard of this [00:31:41] and suddenly he was in our home and my father wept aloud as he stood with an open Bible and pointed to verses, reading, showing him pleading with him concerning the judgment of God that was coming upon Uncle Peter's soul pleading with him, weeping to turn from his life of sin that he does not face this hell, this judgment of God to come to Christ to show him the way with his testimony intertwined with weeping [00:32:12] or pleading with his friend to seek God to be saved from hell and eternal damnations, suffering. We sat and we were shocked as my father stood there speaking to his closest friend on this earth. Weeping It was the first time I ever saw a man quake in fear As Uncle Peter looked at his closest friend, his whole body shook [00:32:44] He shook, he was quaking in fear His eyes, tears welling up, his mouth quivering He went white in shock, shock Because of who it was coming from the man he loved as a brother at some point as we sat there looking wondering what would become of this as I looked at Peter shaking in fear [00:33:17] he pointed his finger at my father and he shouted at the top of his voice while tears came down his face and he said stop Stop! Stop! No! Stop! Don't you ever, ever speak to me of this again in your life. Don't you ever speak to me of this again! Because if you do, I will hate you. [00:33:52] I will hate you! with a perfect hatred, with a perfect hatred. We looked as my father, weeping, kept quiet, just looked at Peter for about two or three minutes, unable to move, unable to speak, [00:34:23] knowing what this friend was saying and my father answered these words with tears pouring down his face Peter if I never speak to you again of this if I cease to warn you I would hate you I would hate you with a perfect hatred to stop warning you I would hate you with a perfect hatred [00:34:54] if I stopped warning you Peter walked out of that house screaming in a fence he never saw my father again until my father died he would not see my father he would not come to any occasion No matter what family was meeting He would not speak my father's name [00:35:26] He would not acknowledge such a human existed Whom he would have died for He so loved Before my father was saved At my father's funeral There were so many people from across that nation It was unbelievable such masses that daddy had won to Christ that there was nowhere in that church for people to sit as they stood around all the walls [00:35:58] as I looked at souls upon souls upon souls upon souls that had come to Christ through my father's life and witness Peter would not come to his closest friend's funeral, he so hated him he would not come to even acknowledge him at death he would not attend the funeral when Peter died he died in such shame and such sin [00:36:28] that the front pages of the newspapers across South Africa had his photograph with his sin, his shame we were so same to the family that the way he died But this man died in that same Although the person who was his closest friend in life that he would have died for He so loved him That man warned him [00:36:59] But that man's warning turned the man who loved him Loved him more than anyone on this earth In one moment He hated him with a perfect hatred till death I want to ask you something Does it offend you? Does it offend you soul if someone Is it an offense to you if someone warns you Concerning God's judgments in hell that you You, tragically but most certainly will face Is it an offense to you if a preacher preaches what I am preaching now? [00:37:33] Will you answer God? We will judge you soon. Is it an offense to you? I was preaching. I was preaching a while back in a town along the eastern cape of southern Africa. And I was staying in this godly man and woman's house. Accommodating me. [00:38:05] and this man said with me what happened recently just before I came when his brother died now they had grown up in that community from childhood they were everybody knew everybody and he said at the funeral everybody in the community filled that church that big church in the heart of that town was filled out everybody came someone they'd all grown up with had died the preacher the minister stood up and said God has released him from his long suffering [00:38:42] None of us would want him back to the suffering God has set him free from And he is now at peace, released from the suffering that all of us All of us were so moved and hurt watching him suffer so long and he gave scriptures death is lost as sting, the grave is lost as victory he gave scriptures as a preacher concerning where a soul goes [00:39:14] he was trying to comfort those that cared for the soul, the family, the friends this man said I stood up after him and I have to give the eulogy to thank the people who came from near and far And then I turned to the preacher, brother, who sat behind me, and I said, sir, you said that my brother has been released from his long suffering. [00:39:49] You said that he's released from his suffering and pain and is now in heaven with God. but you are wrong sir, you are wrong, my brother has never ever suffered as any human will ever know suffering my brother is tasting suffering now that no human has ever known such intense fearful suffering and he will suffer like that for eternity according to this book you see sir, my brother died in his sin and every single person in this building knows it [00:40:25] My brother never ever turned from his sin My brother was religious, he carried a bible, he went to church But my brother never turned from his life of sin And he never ever showed remorse as I begged him and begged him as he lay there dying So long a death in a sickbed I begged him, showing him of the wrath of God, pleading with him He never showed remorse He never showed anything of turning to God in remorse Begging for forgiveness or wanting to change I pled with him through the years right through till his death sir [00:40:57] My brother died and went straight to hell according to this book And you tell me to believe what God tells me is wrong You tell me opposite to what this book tells me concerning my brother My brother only now knows what pain and suffering is sir And if you could hear his tormented scream You and I would not believe It is such agony He said, Brother Keith, I was not cruel as I stood there saying these words. [00:41:30] I wept. It was my brother that I was speaking about. This man began to groan, this preacher, in anger, shaking. No! No! No! No! No! You want to see a preacher angry? Preach truth that he won't preach. You'll be stunned at what anger can come from a man to look at a preacher who rejects what God says, who lies, lies for fear of offense against what God says. [00:42:08] He was angry, angry with a man who dared to preach what God says. He said, brother, I looked out of that congregation, it wasn't only the preacher turning and shaking and groaning, no, right across I just saw men, no, no, no, this is unacceptable to do such a thing on such an occasion, unacceptable in this enlightened society you see and then he said these words [00:42:42] I don't know what the consequences are of what I've done here today how you may ostracize me or persecute me or what you will do to me I don't know what the consequences are but I told the truth here today I don't want the last time we meet in my brother's name to be a lie So I told the truth Because if there's one soul here sitting in this meeting [00:43:17] One soul, just one that isn't angry and offended and groaning and angry at me For being truthful If there's one that will just seek God's salvation Acknowledge they're going to this hell, they're not saved, they've never turned from sin Acknowledge there's such a judgment according to this book He says, Brother Keith, I quoted verses as I spoke It wasn't just my opinion leaving out what God says I quoted what God says If there's just one that finds eternal life, it's worth it Whatever I have to pay for this, stand today [00:43:49] Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord We persuade men, Paul says 2 Corinthians 5 verse 11 Knowing Don't tell me you don't know it Tell me is Paul a fanatic sir? Overboard? Undesirable? Unacceptable? Tell me Knowing Paul says Therefore the terror, the terror of the Lord We persuade men [00:44:20] Do you? Do you? You know? When did you persuade a man last? That God was with you God was standing beside you God was taking your lips, your eyes, looking through you as he died, as he sees men. When were you in such touch with God that you persuade men as if it was God himself, the Bible says, speaking through you? Because you cared for the things God cared for and died for. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. [00:44:56] Show God right now as you sit there young man Save, wash in the blood of Christ, save for eternity The last time you persuaded someone knowing the terror of the Lord In the light of the terror of the Lord you persuaded a man Showing him the terror of the Lord Tell God When was that occasion, sir? Tell God Oh what are you doing here if you're not here for God? [00:45:26] Have dealings with God for God's sake? Oh does God not matter in your religion? You're just here for men's sake, just for their eyes Tell me if you're here for God Every one of you that has one iota of respect in truth With one iota Tell God when was the last soul he died for you Knowing the terror of the Lord Persuade it from this book To be saved Have you told God? Oh doesn't he matter young man? If you haven't told him after all this plea, you don't care about God, Bible and all young man, and no one ever in your life again will tell you this, so don't be too scared to sit through to the end of this meeting, you will never hear this again in your life [00:46:10] you haven't got long to endure a preacher that says the truth like this I know that, that doesn't make me something, it makes me the blood on people's hands who don't preach this My father's mother was aged when daddy came to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour [00:46:45] My father's mother was aged and sick, she was deeply sick Her heart, she had these attacks, she was hanging on to life, we thought we lost her, daddy comes to know Christ Now my father goes, my father goes to his mother and he weeps and he begs. [00:47:20] My granny calls me, my granny calls me and says, Listen Keith, you have to go to your father and you have to confront him to stop before he offends me like he's offended others. He has offended many Keith. You have to tell him his mother is next to be deeply offended with his son, her son. Listen Keith, I thank God what happened to your father when I see how he's changed [00:47:53] Knowing what he put your mummy through and what he put you boys through I thank God for his change, I thank God for your change I thank God for what happened, the way he's changed your lives Don't get me wrong, but what torments me is that you people now that you've changed from evil Turn and look at me and call me a sinner Now I'm going to hell because you've given up all your wickedness And that is unacceptable my boy, oh listen carefully my boy Your father implies that I am a godless person facing judgment from God [00:48:32] He just goes on and on pleading with me When I was a young woman with three children, my husband walked away forever Walked away from responsibility, from care I had three children when there was a world recession The depression, economic depression across the world People threw themselves off buildings All you heard was people It was daily Men couldn't face life Just thousands committing suicide Who couldn't keep a roof over their head [00:49:03] There was no work, there was no money There was no food And men couldn't face not being able to survive Or be responsible She said, Keith, I had to wash clothes to keep my children alive, sheets and clothing. I was there scrubbing until my hands were raw every day, pain, pain, my back aching, paining, weeping, but I was determined to keep my children alive. I was determined to get enough money for this little room that we had to live, some roof over our head, no husband to help me. [00:49:39] but then Keith I came to a place where I couldn't survive where there was no hope of surviving with food or money Keith I got on my knees I got on my knees and I cried desperately to God as a Christian believing he could hear me and on every occasion when I couldn't survive that I got down desperately and cried to God someone came to the door almost every occasion while I was on my knees groaning before God with food Keith, with money, now God answered my prayers, does God answer the prayers of someone going to hell Keith, then she waited for me to answer, how can you people tell me I'm now going to hell when God answers my prayers, listen my boy you went astray, you had the whole country running around trying to find you, nobody knew whether you were alive or dead, you were so rebellious, as a boy, listen Keith, I was on my knees praying for you, [00:50:39] the day you were born, through the years, crying out to God for you to go back home, for them to find you, praying for you through the years, daily, from my heart, now you people, you included, look at me and tell me I'm going to hell, now that you've turned, as I asked God to do, and your father, Keith, has gone too far, my back is sore, I can't sit in these meetings and he's got preachers coming with their Bible to my door. Are you Mrs. Daniel? Your son has said I have [00:51:16] to take you to the meeting. You can't say no. And I'm a lady. I can't fight a man with a Bible. And they dragged me along to these meetings in this big home Daddy put Granny. He didn't put her out of the way because of her frailty. He gave her the best. He wasn't neglecting her. Trust me. She was in a wonderful place. But she says these preachers come every and they drag me and my back is so sore and I've got to sit through these long-winded preachers that never know when to stop. [00:51:47] My back aching because your father, he's got to stop. He's got to stop sending these preachers. Look at my eyes. Look how sore my granny's eyes were, blood red in all her sickness, swollen with one eye. look at my eyes your father comes with verses and verses highlighted all over the bible about hell and judgment and how to be saved so I say to him listen, I can't, look at my [00:52:18] eyes man, how can you do this to your own mother, telling me because daddy used to say, I'm coming tonight and you have to read every verse I've highlighted made a little marking a piece of paper, because tonight I've got a whole lot of other verses, so don't tell me you haven't read you're not going to hell mother I won't let you she says I told him I can't read look at my eyes so what does he do look at this Keith he's got this the biggest bible in the earth in the history of the world [00:52:48] you couldn't believe the size of it I don't know where daddy this the writing is this but all marked with highlights and he says now don't tell me your eyes can't read this and he's marked all of it I'm coming back tonight and I'm going to highlight more verses Jesus, Keith I can't take it anymore, you go to your father and you tell him it's enough, he'll listen to you, he won't listen to anybody else, he so loves you, now you go and tell your father that I'm about to be deeply offended with my son forever, if he doesn't stop, go and you tell him now, and stop him, so I went to my father and I said daddy you know I deeply appreciate the way you witness, I can't tell you what's in my heart is watching you [00:53:32] I don't know any preacher or any Christian alive that witnesses like this that has such a compassion for souls that drives them to the next soul no matter what happens to him Daddy I don't want to ask that it change but I think with Granny you need to slow down you've told her the truth Daddy she knows the truth I think it's time now just to pray that somehow she grasps the truth just stop confronting her because she's about to be deeply offended Daddy and I don't want that and my father did something I shall never forget for all eternity [00:54:05] he stood up and he walked towards me the tears were pouring down his face and he shouted at me he said Keith I watched my father die without God I didn't have the gospel to give him my father was a sinner a terrible sinner and the fear he died the fear in his words in his eyes he was so filled with fear having to face [00:54:37] God that he knew but I couldn't help him I watched it haunts me through the years my father's face my father's eyes as he died the fear in his heart and his words I couldn't help him I know I will never see my father for all eternity I know where he is for eternity my mother has had a few heart Don't you dare tell me to let my mother die like that for fear of offending her! Don't you dare tell me to stop trying! [00:55:13] Don't you dare tell me to slow down and let my mother go to hell because you're scared of me offending her! It was a short while after my grandmother was saved. She wasn't just saved, she was gloriously saved. How could she not be saved with a son like that? Tell me, what about your mother? Has she got a son like that? [00:55:45] My journey wasn't to say My father was terrifying on his knees Have you ever got a father like that? Terrifying I used to open my eyes when he prayed Because everything he prayed God answered Apart from one prayer that men heard him pray From the day he was saved to the day he died God answered every single prayer above that he asked or believed Most of them immediately and we feared when daddy prayed [00:56:19] even when he prayed for me I opened my eyes trembling because I knew God answers his prayers my father said to the Lord in front of us it's not enough that she says she's saved it's not good enough and God wasn't grieved God didn't look upon him as presumptuous or irreverent God loved him for what he prayed he had the heart of God God, he had a heart after God, we have the mind of Christ Paul says, when you get very close to God, you know what matters to God, my father said I want to see, I want to see the change, to know beyond any doubt she truly is saved, it's not just a prayer, my granny had had a massive heart attack when she prayed that prayer, [00:57:13] Dear Godly man, call my father, your mother's saved. As she was lying there with this sickness and hanging on to life, my father said, heal her God. I want to see my mother is truly saved by her life. My granny was healed. Nobody put their hands on her oil. Just a man, a son crying to God, my granny. She had better health for five years than she had had in 20 years. and oh, my father saw my granny back and all was in every single meeting there was [00:57:52] and she dragged everybody with this big Bible at the door now look here, don't tell me your eyes are sore all these verses that are marked she says I'm leaving it with you, I'm coming back just now tonight we're going to talk more about further verses But you're not going to hell And she dragged them, dragged them to the meetings Even though they're complaining of their backs and all that old people say, you know As to why they can't go and hear a preacher like me Well, bless God [00:58:23] There was not one single in this entire earth that knew my grandmother That did not know whether they were saved or unsaved That did not know beyond any doubt she was born again Gloriously transformed, gloriously at peace with God and had God's peace that passes all understanding and joy unspeakable even as she died Hallelujah for such a savior [00:58:53] who of my granny know was a savior of my daddy who cared enough to not worry about offense and you Is fear of offense a good enough reason to let her go to hell, sir? She has a free will. You also have a free will. What you do, what you allow God to do, to try and shake her whole heart. [00:59:33] Sir. listen to what Paul says in Jude verse 22 and 23 some have compassion of some have compassion making a difference I'd love to speak on that there's no time but let's go on others save with fear God says pulling them out of the fire tell me is this just dramatic words God doesn't want you to there's some people Jack Daniel [01:00:06] Even if it's your mother, say with fear, such fear that she goes to hell, that you literally pull her out of the fire. Or does the set workbook in the school of God have no influence of what you should be doing? Child of God. I want to ask you something [01:00:42] that's going to hurt you a lot of you does your compassion for souls end your sense of responsibility for souls Jesus died for, end in the four walls of your home answer God sir, answer God I'm talking about real burden prayer groaning before God for the salvation I want you to answer God where you end your compassion and the only reason you got a compassion is because they're affecting you because their sin their lives are affecting you so you're groaning before God because they're right there does your compassion and sense of responsibility end at your front door sir what's in that house is all you really have a great grief and burden for if they're not saved let's go a little bit further does your compassion for the souls Jesus Christ died for and he [01:01:35] taste of death for every man. Does it end in the four corners of the building you meet for church? The culture you come from. Oh, this is something unforgivable to say in many many cultural movements. Tell me sir, tell me lady, you don't care one eye alter for the souls Christ died for outside of your culture. I want you to answer God please. no one ever is going to ask you this again in your life [01:02:09] so don't worry if you don't invite me next year we'll all know why John Wesley John Wesley said the world is my parish God heard him and man heard him two thirds of England's population found Christ Never in history did ever God use a man like that again in one nation Not even here through Charles Finney or George Whitefield [01:02:39] He was the one man on earth that cried the world The world is my responsibility And look what a percentage of the world in his lifetime And look what percentage of the world through history since his death Has been influenced by the message and the life of John Wesley Why? Because God saw that man's cry was real. I'll tell you something, soul. The closer you are to Jesus Christ, the more you have the world on your heart. Because God loved the world, sir. The further you are in truth from a relationship with Jesus Christ that's real, the less you will have any care for anybody but those that influence you adversely. [01:03:25] once you're saved I know people thank God I've met many of the godliest men in this earth whose books you have I don't know why suddenly people whose books I read as a young convert suddenly walk up to me in meetings put their arms around me, want to pray, weeping I've been privileged to stand with some of the men that moved multitudes to God in our lifetime across this world [01:03:55] whose names in the Christian evangelical world are household names I have met men who I know as I've watched them, as I've fellowshiped with them, as I've worked with them, prayed with them that every faculty in their being does anything no matter how misunderstood it is with every faculty of their being to do to reach every soul they can that God can in some way to somehow warn this world To make them aware of the gospel of Christ and the judgments to come Everything they can do, no matter how misunderstood [01:04:26] I know men like that In our mission, back home in South Africa The second oldest mission in the whole of Africa Way before I was born Hundreds of thousands of people seeking God Let me tell you something about the mission There was one man Who was used more mightily than any man in our mission's history His name was Ethelbert Smith Ethelbert Smith won so many souls to Christ in his lifetime. He died the day I was saved. [01:04:59] A young man. Some people say he died the hour I was saved. That kind of shook me. When I began to hear everywhere after my salvation of Ethelbert Smith the way God moved multitudes to find Jesus Christ through his life. Oh I revered him, then suddenly his family, his wife, his children, six of them took me under their wing for no known reason I was just taken under their wing, loved, treated like one of the children [01:05:33] I was so blessed, but knowing this man, this is his family as I heard everywhere about Ethelbert Smith, now that I'm saved the impact, the souls that woke up to me said oh it was Ethelbert Smith's life His ministry, the anointing of God on that man I could not go on in sin So I asked questions about this godly man to his children, to his wife And wrote little notes, little sermons of things that mattered Things that altered the course of my life, my convictions [01:06:04] Even the way I preach The way I prepare has been influenced by the way he prepared And the reverential fear with which he served God and spoke of God That made people fear I was deeply influenced though I never met the man of my life His daughter told me that he had a sense of humor Now that was a bit undoing because I didn't like to believe a man of God could have a sense of humor [01:06:34] It was a little bit unnerving Annoying I argued a bit so she said oh daddy had a sense of humor like few I've since found that Andrew Murray had such a sense of humor I don't want to go on about him but the fact is he had a sense of humor He said the cause in this mission, all of them have been given by Christians Some of them are outrageous, some of them are death traps Some of them you've got to pray the moment you get them to stay alive until you get to death [01:07:07] But that's what God gives missionaries you see, he keeps us on our faith, it's a good thing When you see a missionary arrive in some wonderful car there's something, oh I get a bit scared but anyway so she said my father had what was given to him it wasn't a sleek lovely little card it was this big black horrific van and he filled all these young preachers in the back piles and goes off to the next town you know in this horrific big thing but she said our workers Keith they're not content with the big big big black van [01:07:41] being obnoxious enough They write with paint all the scriptures, all about judgment, all about hell So that everybody they pass sees after death what? Hell or heaven And so these scriptures all over my father's van with white paint, the best they could do And the verses, the references, all over this big, long, high van He had to take it for the family car, it's the best he had He didn't have a nice little car that was respectable. [01:08:13] He had this big thing to take me to school in. There wasn't any homeschooling in South Africa. It was against the law. It was illegal. But she says, I had to go to school with this big, black, horrific van with all the judgments all around it. And she says, the horror of in the mornings having to get out of that car and look up and the whole staircase all the way leading up to the entrance of the school suddenly stopped speaking. silence, looking in shock. Other children had this lovely little normal lovely cars that they would drop off where they could walk with dignity. I had to get out and crawl as people just watched me walking past like I was from another planet getting out of this car. [01:08:58] She said, it was horrible. So one day, I said to my daddy, Daddy, please, won't you just drop me off a little bit before the school entrance today? So, there was a bit of silence. Why, Hutter? That's how they speak, by the way. It's another language. Why, Hutter? Why, Hutter? So she thinks, you know, I just want to walk a little bit. It's a bit early, I just want a little walk. Okay, Hutter. So she climbs out and no one's looking. And she walks, she said, Keith, for the first time I walked with dignity. [01:09:50] no one was looking at me with their mouths open whispering in shock I'm walking up the staircase with a normal human being and no one is shocked at me oh suddenly I heard this hooter you call it a horn she said only one vehicle in the world has that noise it goes on and on until everybody's looking now everybody's quiet, the whole lot looking What on earth is this man? [01:10:24] So I think, oh, so I turn and I look and he wound the window down and he stuck half of his body out. Bye-bye, Hutter! So I said, but that was cruel. I wouldn't do that to my child. I don't think that was very Christ-like or godly. I was a little disappointed. So she said, oh no, she said it wasn't cruel, it was just daddy, he had a sense of humor and he couldn't let that chance go [01:10:56] He had a wonderful sense of humor, she said I loved him for it, I didn't argue Well, some people are willing to do that with their cars, no matter what the consequences, no matter what their children go through, even if they have nervous breakdowns but the fact is they don't want to miss any opportunity and they have no fear of offense in their longing somehow to make some witness to people who will ever come near their preaching that their responsibility is toward everyone, they can pass in a car you all hear of Otto Corning, Otto Corning, the pineapple story [01:11:31] who hasn't heard about the pineapple story and who hasn't heard about Otto Corning? put your hands up, if you dare, shame on you Oh, sorry, like my minister, when we were all saved, he said, who hasn't read the Pilgrim's Progress? Put your hands up. He says, you're illiterate. So we all ran to find the Pilgrim's Progress. At least it works. but Otto Kooning now [01:12:02] the pineapple story oh God has used that man wonderfully and I tell you something his sermons are delightful in Africa you can't believe the youth my wife says that in the farm there there's all these cousins and family twenty something kids lying at two o'clock in the morning listening to the tapes of Otto Kooning's ministry and they're all roaring with laughter two o'clock in the morning so everybody gets up in the end and says look we can't sleep no one can sleep You've got to put that off and go to sleep. She says, 20 voices, no! [01:12:37] Show me another preacher in the whole world that teenagers would scream at 2 o'clock in the morning, no! If you want to stop the message. Bless God for Otto Kuhn. And if you haven't got his tapes, you're in poverty. You'll get it now, so you know. That book of his is everywhere. Oh, what a wonderful book. Mr. Gothard I think produced, published, but anyway, Otto Corning for some reason, him and I have had some lovely adventures together, he comes along, you know, driving hours, every year I come, he comes to the nearest point where I'm preaching to his home, nine hours or something, he comes down and last year, the year before, so they decide to ask him to preach, Otto Corning's in the meeting, and the man says, listen Keith, I know you, you've been advertised, you're the speaker, the people have come, [01:13:27] but everybody wants Mr. Kooning to preach. How can we have a man like this and not ask him to preach? Would you be offended? If you're not the only preacher? So I don't know. I think I'd be offended if you didn't ask him to preach. There'd be something wrong with you. Anyway, people love him. He's meeting me now in Moscow, Pennsylvania and a few weeks from now to preach there because he's coming there. But Otto Kooning now is different. He has a vehicle that is very, very different. He drives a hearse. the real thing [01:14:00] he's got a coffin a black shining coffin in the back through the glass, you just see the coffin the lid's off I won't tell you what's up poor Otto Kuhn, he really wants to shock people, but there you are now he drives with this coffin and this thing but all around his car scriptures He just hasn't got enough room so he puts these big, big flocks, you know, big placards right across the top, these boards [01:14:31] So he's got more space about hell and judgment That you're going to So he drives now So when I saw this vehicle and everybody, even the Christians don't get used to this They say, ho ho, it's Otto Corning, look at this, you know People get shocked, even Christians So I said to him over a meal last year, I think it was What do people do as you drive? I mean, you drove nine hours along the freeways. Don't people get upset? You know, you're passing all these lorries, all these people. He says, whoo, they get upset. Whoo, they get angry. Especially these big, big trucks that these men own. It's like they're God. It's sparkling, it's shining. And all of these men are normally big muscles, you know. Hard and real sinners, most of them. [01:15:22] he says and when they come past me and we're all driving trying to keep the speed limit even the trucks not going to pass me too fast but when they come they haven't got ordinary horns you know they get like fog horns you think you've been blown up in the fields oh you know this guy's got something to say so we look and most of them they turn and scream the most abusive filthy language shouting abusive swear words at me cursing me you're mad, stupid, all the language [01:15:55] they even give obscene things with their hands in their offense and anger at him just in spite of his wife sitting there it is the Christians oh, when a Christian passes, you know he's a Christian oh, the hooters go, respectable hooters, horns and he says, and they shout, many of them oh, Otto Quelling, the pineapple store some of you recognize him or otherwise they don't know, they just say hallelujah brother [01:16:26] praise the lord we know who christians and I say you don't mind people screaming filthy language at you and your wife, that your wife has dirty filthy signs and anger you don't mind that he says no, that's why I do it he's a dutchman, they're very different trust me they're wonderful when they get saved but different even when they get saved [01:16:57] nonetheless he says that's why I do it I want to know who's going to hell when they pass me I want to pray and I make no mistake I know as they're screaming and shouting and swearing and cursing in language and all signs I say to my wife oh he's going to hell and we start praying, we know who to pray for, I want to know who's going to hell as I pastor, well, bless the Lord for people like that, I know a man in our country who tried so hard to bring his congregation to Christ and so few came to God in the years that he was there, very affluent area, very large, massive congregation, [01:17:43] This auditorium, oh, but this man began to despair of life And one day, the people started coming into church on Sunday morning And in the front, on the stairs, there's this level that's lifted up And then on top of that would be the stage They love big high stages of pulpits Beautiful, many of them are carved in Africa That's Africa, southern Africa but here was on this, just beneath the pulpit on this higher level [01:18:14] was a coffin, a black coffin on wheels, on the trolley just beneath the pulpit was this black flower beautiful floral bouquets of little notes all around and the lid was off it was open and he said normally they walk in they walk in and there's talking and chattering and laughing from the young people to the old [01:18:45] just grieves me well everybody was dead silent even the children nobody just looking at this black coffin all the flowers looking in shock he stood up and he said I suppose every one of you are shaken here today. I suppose you're all wondering whose it is. [01:19:17] I know you're shocked and all of you are going to be shaken when you see who it is. Before I ask every one of you in this building to come row by row and fire past to look Before I ask you to come after you have come to sit in silence Before I preach the sermon God has put in my heart on this occasion to preach This solemn, tragic occasion [01:19:48] Before I ask you to come I want to assure every single one of you The face you see in this coffin will spend eternity facing God's judgment No matter how much I plead The soul wouldn't turn from the life of sin to seek God Eternal judgment and damnation is the soul you see in this coffin don't any of you doubt this though to me and to you it will be tragic [01:20:22] to acknowledge now come he says beginning in the front row every one of you, even the children, I want you to come in reverential fear they started coming looking in oh oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm sitting down, silence, until the whole church, it took a long while he said, stunned silence, you see, he had put a mirror in that coffin, he had put a mirror, now you might say that's unethical, that's a bit far-fetched, a bit dramatic, [01:21:12] You might judge him for doing something like that in this day and age George Mueller might have got away with it George Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, but not today Listen sir, within three weeks His entire congregation had sought God, prayed with him through for God to save their souls They were so shaken He did something that was offensive He did something that was unethical He did something that you wouldn't get through a seminar today If you were willing to say you're going to do things like that you wouldn't be ordained [01:21:43] but he did something that God used to shake the hearts of sinners to repent in his desperation, what do you do for fear of offense, for fear of offense tell me you want to judge him what have you ever done willing to do that could offend or be misunderstood as unethical not the right thing to say or do to win souls I end with this [01:22:18] when I was a young preacher I had been gloriously saved in a denomination you think God can't do that? careful careful not everybody is born with your privileges Mennonites 99% of the world who come to Christ on four Mennonites be careful where they have to hear the gospel [01:22:49] I came to God under a man a Scottish man that preached of hell weeping he sobbed sometimes in that pulpit preaching of the hell and the judgment we would face every one of us unless we repented from our sins and trusted God to save us from hell by his shed blood and turn to my life of sin, turn or burn, that's what the old preachers used to preach, preach that today you'll burn, about 300 people in a short while in that congregation sought God to save their souls, I was one of them, under the ministry of this man who suddenly dropped dead, God just brought him and a movement came and God took him before he could even be glorified in any way a human takes the glory, [01:23:36] By 300, and you cannot believe how many went out into God's service of those 300 It's beyond comprehension how many God separated to full time service As missionaries and preachers Well Now I go into God's service, a young preacher And I was in the capital of our country, Pretoria Very stately historic buildings It's the capital of South Africa And I was told that in the same denomination as where I was saved, way over there [01:24:10] This building, the same denomination The preacher here in Pretoria had been the preacher there before This godly man who preached truth where there was such a movement of God So, knowing it was the same denomination, I went with my little Bible Always carried it And I wanted to see him To share with him that I was saved in his last congregation, last pulpit that he preached Just to try and make contact and fellowship [01:24:41] So eventually I was led through to this office where this man stood, this preacher And he had a young man sitting on the other side of the table A man who had done seven years in university That's what's required before you can be trusted to be allowed in their pulpit And now he had two years of practical before he would be ordained and this was the man he had to spend the two years with before this man could consent, he's ready, he's right, he's acceptable so here he's spending his practical, this young man [01:25:11] this is the two of them, so they let me in eventually I sat down at the table, the man said what do you want, how can I help you so I said, I said I heard that you had been the preacher, the minister of your former congregation was this particular church I said, I just wanted to come knowing that just to share with you what God In case you haven't heard the way God used this man and how many I came to Christ. Oh, about 300, over 300 have turned to Christ and are born of God. God did something wonderful there. He's passed away now, but we thank God what he did to this man. [01:25:44] But I said, I was born again in your former congregation. God saved my soul from hell. The man preached hellfire. He preached the truth. He called upon people to repent and to be born again. So I sat there and this man looked at me At first with a shock and then he began to laugh Now he didn't just laugh, he laughed with a wicked laugh And you don't have to be educated to know that He laughed with a wicked laugh as he looked at me [01:26:16] And he looked at this young fellow, the two of them just sat there shaking their heads Looking at each other laughing at me, laughing aloud I said, Sir, why are you laughing? What are you laughing at in this way? What have I said that's making you laugh? Suddenly the smile went, the laughter stopped. he says to me [01:26:49] I don't believe all this trash it's rubbish I don't believe this trash of people preaching about hell and repenting being born again I don't believe that It belongs to another age man Come down to earth, that's not acceptable [01:27:19] Not in this society Not this generation I don't believe it, it's trash It's unacceptable I said you You say that what Jesus Christ said Has to happen to a man Except a man be born again He cannot see the kingdom of heaven. There's no hope of him going to heaven. You say that is rubbish. Being born again is trash. That God manifested in the flesh. Jesus Christ said that. You say what he said has to happen for a man to go to heaven or he goes to hell according to the book is rubbish. It's trash. [01:27:56] He said I have never stooped and I never will stoop to talk about being born again in a pulpit He was angry It's trash It's rubbish I say you say that when God says a man goes to hell [01:28:26] You say that's rubbish what God says You sir, I know this denomination The whole congregation stands as the Bible is brought in In reverence or fear of God's word Throughout this land and when the Bible is placed in our fear and respect and reverence of fear of this book when it's placed on the pulpit for the preacher to open we sit only when it's placed in the pulpit [01:28:58] and you say that we stand for a book you say is trash is rubbish do you believe anything of this book sir? it's from God you hold this book as you stand in a pulpit as if you have authority of what its contents are to those who need to know what God says and you believe it's rubbish [01:29:29] it's trash do you believe anything is divinely inspired do you preach anything what do you preach From this book that's meaningful in the light of eternity, what do you preach? If you believe it's just what Jesus said, it must happen. Or a man goes to hell, what do you preach, sir? [01:30:02] You know, he was so angered, and I believe I was crying, I didn't know I was crying, I was weeping. Someone told me years later. He got up and he ran around that table screaming with his fists Who gave you the right, you and he swore Who gave you the right to come here and ask me that question Who gave you the right Weeping I cried back to him [01:30:35] God, God gave me the right sir God gave me the right to ask a man who preaches, he's preaching truth who holds a book and he tells me it's rubbish God gave me the right to ask you what do you believe of this book? what do you preach then in the light of eternity that can be meaningful to God gave me the right because sir their blood is on your hands every single what you know what's in this book [01:31:15] and you regard it as rubbish their blood is on your hands I don't know what that means on the day of judgment sir but your judgment is beyond comprehension for all these men's blood is on your hands that you believe and act like you believe it but you believe it's rubbish, I won't tell you what he did to me, never been able to tell anybody that yet, a few years went by and I went out preaching all over, for some reason the pulpits of my country just opened to this young preacher, pulpit after pulpit after pulpit, towns, some towns came to a standstill, [01:31:59] God mercifully just met through the answers of people's prayers that were groaning before God as I stood in that pulpit where I was in one town where it was like the community came to a standstill seeking God and I was blessed I was really thrilled that what God was entrusting to a young person who wanted to bring the world to God that's what I know is in my heart One of the men at the door says to me, Brother Keith, Daniel, would you come to my home and have a meal with me tomorrow please, lunchtime? [01:32:39] Don't say no. I need you to come to my home and I need to discuss something with you. Please come. It was a minister, one of the preachers of the town. at the table he said do you know where I met you brother I was that young man sitting in that building in the capital a great gothic building [01:33:10] with a crowd thronged oh everybody goes to church in South Africa and they go to the devil's house the rest of the week most of them I was sitting in that minister's office when you came in my practical year I used to throw beer bottles in a drunken state [01:33:44] in the theological seminar of the university Where they train most of the preachers for these big denominations I lay drunk throwing beer bottles, smashing against the wall They didn't excommunicate me for that That's no reason to excommunicate a coming preacher who's going to tell the world about God When you walked in there, Brother Key you were the first time in my life that I ever saw a man defending this book [01:34:17] I never knew one man in my entire life that defended this book not once I was so shaken though I laughed I was so shaken I trembled while I laughed I couldn't believe a man defends this book like this and when I saw to what degree you were willing to pay the price and not recant, not step down to defend this book, what you said, what that man did to you for saying it, the way you said it. [01:34:52] That night I couldn't sleep, brother. I writhed in pain, weeping, fearful of hell for the first time in my life. The next night, the next night, writhing in pain, walking through the day, tired, worn, fearful of hell, fearful of death, Fearful for the first time of all, one night I got down, nobody helped me, just what you said in that room, on that knowledge, those scriptures you quoted, what you said happened to you, I sought God to save my soul from hell, desperately, and he did, his holy spirit bore witness with my spirit, in one moment I had peace that passes all understanding [01:35:31] Now brother, I ask you to come here just in case you thought you went through that for nothing. I wanted to tell you it wasn't for nothing, God let you endure that. But let me not end there. I've had one congregation before this and now this congregation. I've shared how I came to God. I've shared how you stood, what you endured. I've shared from the pulpit, I've shared how I came under conviction and sought God, and brother, about two-thirds of my whole congregation has been saved, wonderfully saved, mostly when they heard of what you did, when I shared it from the pulpit of God. [01:36:20] more, more brother Keith a great number I can't remember the exact amount but I was staggered of young preachers that I went to and said when God saved me that knelt down weeping and asking God to save their souls who now preach the gospel in this denomination from their pulpits a great number of fellow preachers have come to Christ when I said When I said what you did for God [01:36:52] I wanted to tell you You came in my home I just wanted to tell you That God honors them that honor Him No matter what the devil tells you That you're going through for being faithful There's no such a thing as God not honoring you God has honored what you did that day in the most remarkable way And when we get to heaven and see how many souls will be saved that would have never heard the gospel in their lives because of what you are willing to endure for truth. [01:37:24] Then we'll know how much God honors them that honor him like you did that day. I wanted to tell you that and to assure you that God honors them that honor him, Brother Keith Daniel. I'm going to shock you all. I know that. I'm going to ask a question, the exact opposite question to what you're all expecting me to ask [01:37:55] if you have any knowledge of the gospel being preached I'm going to ask the Christians who sit in this building that in shame need to ask God's cleansing in the blood for the sin of defying this book of neglecting souls he died for not caring, not even confessing, not even feeling slightly guilty I want to ask those of you that know you sit here and shame and need God's forgiveness and cleansing in the blood for the sin and the grief you've caused him by walking past souls that he died for as if they were dirt [01:38:28] opportunities you had that you didn't take because you didn't care that Jesus died for them will stop no other reason it didn't matter I want those of you that need to desperately say God forgive me for the grief my life has been since I've been saved to thee as I've walked past the souls the amount you died for whatever reasons you may have sir that you justify yourself you know in God's sight you need cleansing in the blood from this terrifying sin you've done of denying souls truth many of whom are going to be in hell that you stood with for moments and sometimes many times but you didn't care and I want you to say something even further than [01:39:15] God, their blood will not be on my hands by mercy and grace. Whatever that means, God, it's in the Bible though. I want to now, God, before I leave this building, before I take another step, I want to lay my life at God's disposal. As weak as I am, as unlearned as I am, but I know the truth I want to ask thee God to take what's left of my life as brief as it may be And give me the grace to never neglect another soul that God expected me to witness to [01:39:49] Not just the souls that walk past you in their dreams, that we're not talking about But those God stopped in your life, in your circumstances and you could have and you should have but from this night forth I'm not neglecting God, I'm not going to neglect the opportunities God gives me to tell the truth no matter what the consequences and fear of offense, I'm not going to from this time forth by thy grace, I'm going to do everything in my weakness to say something, even if it's just have a tract available because I'm expecting circumstances that might be very very difficult and I'll at least put a tract and say read this or go to hell if you don't. [01:40:28] but I'm going to do what I can by thy grace from the next step I take to the day I die God now be careful if you pray that from your heart God is going to stagger the rest of your life and the world through you God doesn't turn his face away from such a cry when such a person is available for the soul he died such a death for and longs for those souls to hear God will take you at your word and the powers of hell are trembling even now [01:41:02] let alone as you walk from this building and what the consequences will be for God's glory of anyone that does pray that and dares to pray that in truth I want those of you that need cleansing in the blood for the shameful grief and sin you have been to God neglecting souls who doesn't want to argue through pride just says God I need forgiveness and I want those of you who stand only to stand if you're going to say to God what's left of life God take, anoint me, give me wisdom, give me understanding how to do it, when to do it [01:41:38] when to keep quiet and when to speak but I will speak when I know God says to me now speak child because this is what you're living for now and I'm giving you what you're living for to impart the greatest news Anything in eternity could be imparted to another soul And you have that news, that guarantee I want those of you that desperately, desperately, desperately, not so desperately, desperately, desperately need God's cleansing [01:42:12] And to say that to God I want those of you who desperately need to pray that prayer to a God who waits and watches you To stand right now, those of you that stand, be careful God's going to take you I want those of you that know you need desperately to seek God's forgiveness and cleansing in the blood for neglecting to witness to thoughts and who would say here take the rest of life Lord and I will not neglect by thy grace again those of you that desperately need to pray that to God will you stand please [01:42:45] those that stand those that stand come let's make something sacred here come those of you that truly seek God here in this meeting let's not run away what on earth do you want to run away from sacred moments where God confronts you in a way that could alter everything of your life every value of your life everything that you choose to do in time, daily you don't rush through that moment when you finally come [01:43:15] come kneel, kneel wherever you can and don't kneel if you can't kneel ladies or men who are sickly, it's not the outward that counts, it's the inward, to this man will I look even to him that is a broken spirit, contrite hearted, not necessarily the knees, so if you're uncomfortable God doesn't look that as spiritual or needful, you stand, if you can't kneel, and at some point if this prayer goes on too long you still stand, you just get up, it isn't people that matter here watching you, it's God now, [01:43:48] the rest of you sitting out there you have the right to pray for these people or you would be out here too so please pray that God turns their life upside down from this day forth till the day they die and as they die still witnessing to doctors and nurses in faithfulness to what they say here tonight Will every one of you please forgive me asking you this? [01:44:23] God does not look at the words. God does not look at the words that proceed out of the mouth. God looketh at the heart from whence they come. But I want you to pray this aloud. But I want you to pray it in a way that you know that God sees. This is the best you can to all the ability given you in your intellect. This is the best you can pray from your heart to God, though I'm leading you in this prayer, and that's all God needs. I'm not going to hear that you just pray in circles and circles and not come to what I know, and I can't get people counseling every one of you, so I'm leading you in a way you're not used to. [01:45:00] But I want you to trust me that my heart and motives, God will answer this prayer because of the motive of my heart. But I don't want you to just pray and pray and not, I want to pray what I believe is central. After just 140 years of preaching, I want you to please just somehow pray in a way that you know God sees you praying this from your heart Even though another man's leading you, that's all God needs, trust me, if he sees your heart is true, he's going to answer this And don't you dare believe the devil that will tell you that God is capable of turning his face away from a moment like this [01:45:34] When you want this, don't dare even think that God could turn you away or that he isn't going to be interested He's going to answer your prayer above that you're asking or believing, the God I'm believing So pray in faith with no doubt I want you all to pray aloud though, but from your heart Oh my God, forgive me for the shame and grief of my life. [01:46:09] Forgive me for the sin of defying this book, of neglecting souls, of not caring. Forgive me for wasted time, wasted opportunities, because I didn't care. about souls going to hell, or that thou didst die for them, a terrifying death, forgive me for such shame, and the grief I have caused thee, O God wash me in the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that cleanseth us from all sin, [01:47:04] Wash me with that blood that no man's blood will be on my hands because of the sin that I am seeking forgiveness for. Let the blood go deeper, wash me through and through, and through and through, and through and through [01:47:35] Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me them shall I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee take my life let it be consecrated Lord to thee fill me with the Holy Spirit [01:48:11] by that I mean my limited understanding of the truth of God take control of my life by thy spirit let me become an instrument of revival but revive me first then use me Thou who dost cry, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Here am I. Send me. Take what's left of my life, though short it may be, and use me to reach souls that will go to hell for eternity. [01:49:10] because Christians neglected their opportunities but don't let me be guilty by thy grace of the next step I take till the day I die and as I'm dying that I may still be more compassionate to the doctor, to the nurse, to the patients beside me As I have care for myself, for their souls, while I have breath, that I may be faithful, not just the next day, but through life, till my dying moments, use me to reach dying souls, eternal souls, of which each one thou hast tasted death. [01:50:09] Subtitles by the Amara.org community