Repent

[00:00:00] Thank you. I don't know why it's whistling, but we'll have to stop that whistling. Okay, so whoever is making it whistle, stop it now. I don't know how to be more kind to the poor people who are going to have nervous breakdowns with our loud speaking system. I am deeply grateful to God that I could be here tonight and I am deeply grateful to the dear brothers [00:00:31] who have so kindly asked me to come to this part of God's vineyard. It is just an honor. I am deeply grateful for all of you though who have come with seeking hearts and God bless you for that. Now we are going to have a moment of prayer And even if you have to put it down a little bit, brother, so long as it stops whistling, I will be deeply grateful. There's a slight whistle here. [00:01:02] I'd rather have it down ever so slightly, but don't let it whistle, please. Let's just bow for a moment of prayer before God. Our Father, we thank Thee that we can gather together in the name of Jesus Christ. We thank Thee for the Saviour. Above everything that could come near our minds or thoughts, we worship Thee for our Saviour Jesus, who died for us. That His blood was shed for us, that we might have eternal life. [00:01:34] We bless Thee that He rose from the dead, and in all His risen ascended glory He ever liveth to make intercession for us. We have a High Priest. Oh, we bless thee for such an high priest as ours that ever liveth to make intercession for wherefore he is able to save us to the uttermost who come to God through him. So now, Father, as our Saviour intercedes for us [00:02:07] come in mercy upon us by the Holy Spirit wash me in the blood and a fresh that I might be by thy grace and in mercy a vessel meet for the master's use. Come protect us from all the powers of darkness, from our enemy the devil. Rebuke thou thyself him away from this place by the risen resurrected power of Christ [00:02:37] and brood upon this building by the Holy Ghost. Lord, visit our hearts for we long for God and we are deeply conscious that no man can do anything for us. Without thee we can do nothing. Our expectations in thee and thee only come in spite of the weakness of this man, the baseness, the unworthiness. [00:03:10] Who at his best is most unprofitable of all God's servants But in spite of that, let thy strength be made perfect in weakness For thy glory, that no flesh will ever glory in thy presence Come visit us Visit us, God In a way that we will be stirred to love Thee more than ever before in our lives. [00:03:42] In Jesus the Christ's name. In Jesus the Christ's holy name. Amen. Amen. In Romans 6 verse 16, Paul asks a staggering question. know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey [00:04:12] his servant ye are to whom ye obey his servant ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness but God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin But ye have obeyed from the heart, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, being then made free from sin, being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. [00:04:56] Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? The dear Lord Jesus Christ turned to man and uttered words that man had never rightly considered. [00:05:31] And he said in John 8, 34, Whosoever committeth sin, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant, the servant of sin Now that's a tragic verse Don't read this book fast, brother, sister [00:06:01] Don't lose any verse God has to whisper into your heart, his heart To give revelation There is something here when Christ speaks of a servant of sin that is so tragic that your heart should break, as mine has. As I look at this earth, it explains something to me that I would be so confused about if Christ hadn't said these words. [00:06:34] There is something here that Christ is telling us clearly. It's not talking about an isolated sin. Here, an isolated sin there, he's talking about a life of sin He's talking clearly that you are enslaved, you are a slave, it's not a choice You don't choose when to go conveniently and enjoy sin You become conscious at some point in life, you are enslaved, you all become conscious at some point in life [00:07:10] Some children, barely out of just a, barely out of a conscious, they're enslaved. It's a tragic thing. When you can't choose to stop, no matter what the repercussions, no matter what the consequences, you become conscious. I can't stop. I have no choice but to ask you all a question. [00:07:41] I want you to answer it, even the smallest boy, the smallest girl here today, I want you to answer this question to your heart. God's looking at your heart, little girl, so answer it honestly. Do you think, do you think that a man chooses to lose his children, their love? Do you think a man honestly chooses to look at his child and see hatred in the eyes of a child, contempt, fear? [00:08:18] Do you think a man wants to lose the love and trust of his children? Do you honestly believe a man calculatedly would say, I choose this, that he doesn't want to stop if he sees it coming, if he sees it in those eyes? Do you think a man wants to lose his wife? Do you want to make her weep because of his sin? Do you want to lose those things he loves both? Do you think he chooses? No. [00:08:53] No. Do you think a man chooses to lose his health? With sin? his honor, his self-respect, to lose everything that is worth anything, to lose it, lose it, not able to hold on because of sin, tragedy, this that Christ tells us, what percentage of the homes, I'm not talking about little Mennonite colonies, [00:09:30] Will you ever, to a great degree, protection above most in this world? What percentage of most in this world right now have lost everything because of their sin, their health, their work, their friends, their happiness? Do you think sin makes you happy? Oh, child, if you smile today, you'll soon know what it is that even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. [00:10:06] Sin doesn't give you happiness. You think it does? The devil is so evil, he makes you think. You all weep soon when you realize what you lose in life through this thing you played a fool with and eventually become conscious the more you go against the God-given conscious the more you have been opened to what you cannot let go even if everything in life is lost who shall ever commit a sin [00:10:39] oh I would love to have seen the Saviour's face as he looked at man and said the statement that God had to tell man he's a servant, a slave admit it, admit it it's no longer a choice even if you lose everything in life you're a slave of sin what? he says in verse 36 I'd love to have seen his face oh that I could have had that joy of watching God manifest in the flesh look at man and say these words for the first time [00:11:11] if the sun, capital S if the sun shall set you free you shall be free Indeed, indeed, indeed, you know what that means? Gloriously freed. That's the closest you'll ever come to what God said to man. Now, did Jesus Christ lie? Did he lie to what he would do to the man, the woman, the child that's slaved to sin, enslaved, a servant? [00:11:47] no choice anymore it has to do it no matter what the cost no matter what the consequences drawn back like someone insane just when just draw you have no hope outside of Jesus Christ but if the Son shall set you free this holy book declares you shall be free indeed hallelujah Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. [00:12:25] Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. Now, either God lied there, you make up your mind, or that happened to you, or you're not saved. Therefore if, all of you put a big circle around that now If, if this didn't happen to you, no one in the whole world ever saw this happen to you But if this happened to you, every single person on this earth that knows you in this earth Beginning in the home, whether it's your child or your father or your mother or your sister or brother [00:12:58] Knows this happened to you If you're in Christ, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature All things are passed away. Behold, look, God says to everyone that knows you, even your enemies. Look, if God can't save it of you, I fear for your soul. If any man, even a child, you think the children sitting here, no difference is going to be seen when Christ comes in their heart. You don't know, not my child, he's not ruined by sins of the little angel. [00:13:32] Oh, sir, you're born in sin, child. Don't any mother and father sit there and tell me your child's a sinner. Let me come to your home then for a week. It's to watch your child revealing he was born with a sinful nature. It doesn't take long, even when he's a baby, before he can speak. You know when he wants his way and when he's really good, but angry with life, you know. Not getting his way. A child, when he comes to Christ, he doesn't have to be a drunk for God to say to everyone in the world, [00:14:06] Look, this has really happened. This child has changed, totally. Everyone knows it, even a child. You don't have to wait until you're a drug addict before anybody can say, I honestly can see a change. There's no such a thing as anybody coming to Christ that a tremendous transformation that is staggering, that God can say and the devil will tremble at. Look! Behold! Look! And if God can't say that even of a child, I doubt the child's salvation. [00:14:41] Don't cheapen this gospel by saying anything less will ever happen in the heart, sir. Don't cut out verses of the Bible and say, not applicable to my child. My brother is three years older than me. And I was so unsaved, it's beyond comprehension. Someone of you could have been that unsaved. If it makes sense. But when I saw my brother turn to Christ, it didn't take a week. [00:15:13] It didn't take a month. It didn't take a year before I started thinking. That night, when he came home, From that night my whole home was stunned to shocked silence Stunned, shocked, unbelief We couldn't speak at this change Now I didn't know this was in the Bible But I could have told you Almost word perfect by a life [00:15:45] From the moment I saw my brother's salvation I knew, though I didn't know, I never heard in my life from any pulpit I knew that if any man is truly saved by Jesus Christ If any man comes to Christ, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature All things are passed away, behold, all things have become new I could have almost quoted the Bible word perfect before I ever heard that verse in my life Because of a life You see, we become living epistles, known and read of all men, read as if it's the Holy Bible, not with ink, but with the Spirit of God, known and read of all men. [00:16:34] Once you're saved, there's no one that doesn't read the gospel of Christ, sir. You don't need to get someone to a message to hear the gospel. You just need someone saved, and that home is in terrible trouble. Because they know from that moment onwards they're going to hell once someone gets saved in truth. Because that never happened to them. Oh, I could have said no to doctrine. I could have said no to messages and God knew that, so God is perfect, he just showed me a life that I knew backwards, I knew inside out that life and I couldn't argue with God [00:17:12] This, no man could transform himself to this degree in one night No man could so change himself, no man has the capacity, the strength, the ability to maintain this day after day, week after week, month after month I was desperate for God to save my soul before I heard any sermon ever being preached I heard God's preaching through life that's salvation that's 2 Corinthians 5.17 [00:17:50] mighty verse God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent oh I love that I know some preachers who wouldn't dare say that from the pulpit because they don't believe it it doesn't go with their doctrine all men, no no no no sir God doesn't mock man, God's not deranged you say God's deranged if you say [00:18:22] he didn't mean that brother I believe this with all my heart, God now Now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. If that wasn't in the Scriptures, it would be heresy. You're a heretic if you don't shout it loud and clear because it is in the Scriptures. Leave the pulpit. You're not there for souls, you're there for a doctrine. The day you want to defend a doctrine and not be there for the soul, you're in trouble with God. Heaven help you. If you don't cry it loud and clear, that God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. [00:19:01] Repent ye therefore, repent ye therefore, God says, and be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3 verse 19, repent ye therefore, and be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Your sins have never been blotted out if you've never repented from them If you've never been converted from them Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have mercy, God says I don't see anything else in this book Be not deceived, no unrighteous person shall enter the kingdom of heaven Not that defilers shall enter therein And he names the sins that today our theologians sent from hell False prophets [00:19:50] they say this is wrong these sins that we that God says don't be deceived you commit this and God names it they stand up and want to ordain men in the sense they say God's wrong the way you fight this book sir you fight the very foundation of your faith that you say you represent The day you question this book, you'll just write across your life, I'm a false prophet, a heretic. [00:20:30] Don't doubt us, don't soft-soap these men if they've got degrees in universities that tell us all these things against what God says. No, sir, no unrighteous person shall enter the kingdom of heaven, not that defileth in God's name the sins. and it's fearful because theologians fight for those sinners to be ordained to preach that God says No! Don't deceive yourself! Repent ye therefore [00:21:05] be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out the one thing The one thing that God cannot do for you is repent. The one thing God cannot do for you is repent. The one thing you cannot do is set yourself free. And you become conscious of this. [00:21:39] If God the Holy Ghost speaks to you through anyone handing the word of God right and not lying, You will become conscious the one thing God cannot do for you is repent That's your job God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent That's your job Repent ye therefore, be ye converted That's God places on the free will of man That God places there and he will not do for you You have to turn, you become conscious [00:22:12] You have to turn to God in a way that you allow God to set you free and God cannot set you free until you allow him he can't force you you have to, the free will choose you have to look beyond forgiveness of sins to be saved or otherwise you trample underfoot the blood of Christ telling this world you are saved by the blood of Christ and continuing in the sin [00:22:43] that's a lie from hell What junk, what junk, what junk will walk in this building? You say the gospel is preached with a bottle. I mean this is obnoxious to even think of, little preacher, but I'm going to do it to show you how obnoxious these men are in the understanding of God. What junk will walk into your church holding a bottle? Listen to the gospel of Christ. Then they come forward at your appeal [00:23:15] And they say a sinner's prayer You help them But you look, you know he hasn't put the bottle down He's saying a sinner's prayer holding the bottle He's drunk Then he gets up and now he walks out with the bottle After responding to your appeal, to your message of the gospel And now he walks out with the bottle What drunk would anybody in his right mind would accept that that man saved? But now, what sin do you, as you get on your knees praying for God to save you from hell, [00:23:47] from the consequences and the judgment, what sin do you know you're not giving up? What sin do you know you never gave up? You had no intention. Oh, you came. You know what the greatest tragedy today is about the presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the entire world? The majority of evangelical churches across the world leave out one word. And it's the great tragedy of our day and age. That word is repent. [00:24:20] Oh, come, believe, receive, accept, but repent. Oh, you won't hear that. I mean, that might offend them. We don't want to offend people now, we want their tithe. If it isn't their tithe, the preacher wants your seat to be full, but just for his carnal success as a preacher. But don't offend them and touch on sin now. Don't start telling them to turn from their sin. [00:24:53] Don't start naming sin, that's another generation. No, no, no, talk about come receive, but don't talk about sin. Don't talk about the judgment of sin. Don't talk about the responsibility that God places in your hands to turn or burn. The old preachers used to preach. You preach that today there. Watch out for what you burn. And you'll be stunned who burns you. You'll be stunned the devil doesn't go out and get someone with horns or a wicked old drunk to burn you. Will you say that? You'll be stunned the people that crucified Christ were the religious leaders of a God-ordained religion set up on this earth. [00:25:27] They hated God. You think they'll hate you any less? If you say what God says, God manifest in the flesh? It's impossible, but that offense will come, sir. They did it to me, they'll do it to you, Jesus said. Listen, dear friend, and listen very carefully now to the gospel of Jesus Christ that I see in this book. James, the Lord's brother, never ever dared call himself that [00:26:02] after he was saved, he was thrown off the temple because he refused to deny that Jesus was the Christ he fell down as his body lay quivering they stoned him with great rocks until his body that's how he died, he was willing to die, he was no longer his brother never referred to Jesus as brother once God saved him. He died for that Messiah, his Savior. Hallelujah for such a man. But James asks a staggering question. [00:26:34] In James chapter 2 verse 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith and hath not works? You and I sit here and we say how could James have said I mean, we know, and I'm not telling you that you're saved by works, you're not saved by your own strength, giving up sin, stopping this, stopping that, now God will save you, no, that doesn't save you, you can give up a hundred things and go to hell, it's not that that saves you, we know, and I'm not doubting it, you're saved by grace through faith, not of works, not of works, it's the gift of God, [00:27:19] to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly. His faith is counted to him for righteousness. God declares you righteous in one moment by faith. As you put your faith, it's not works to him that worketh not. Don't look at your works that you could do in your own strength or what you think might rectify your life that God could now possibly say He'll forgive you. No! I'm not saying that. Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith in one moment through your faith God declares you righteous being justified freely by grace through faith in his blood outside of that God can't save your soul but wait wait wait that's not the full gospel that's what the Jehovah's Witnesses are guilty of they quote verses the devil quotes verses it's not enough you've got to look in the light of all scriptures [00:28:17] And if there's any scripture in the entire scriptures that contradicts your interpretation of any particular verse, doctrine, you're preaching heresy. You have to look at it in the light of all scriptures. If you find one verse that contradicts your interpretation of what God is saying, now listen to this. Just to be honest with the scriptures concerning salvation and faith. What doth it profit, my brethren, though man say he hath faith and have not works? Can faith save him? James 2 verse 14 [00:28:53] Wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? You know what that means? It's worthless to God that is. And then he says something staggering. He says the devils, demons literally, also believe and tremble. Do you know he actually, in honesty, he says he respects demons' faith in this book more than yours. Do you know why? They know that every, they believe every word here. [00:29:27] They have no doubt. But that doesn't save them. But they tremble knowing what God said is to happen to them in the light of eternity. In the lake that burned with fire and brimstone which is the second day. But we look, we say we believe. We don't even tremble though our lives contradict this book totally. Though this book condemns our lives, and we read it, we see it, we don't even tremble. So he has more respect in this passage to demons' belief. Oh, believing won't save you. [00:29:58] It's not just this idea of grace through faith, you know. It's repent. Now, that isn't the works. It's an act of faith that makes you repent Conscious, conscious that you can't set yourself free So it isn't what you're doing It's what you're allowing God to do now in your life You have to turn to God in a way And that's repentance that God waits for and won't force you [00:30:30] You have to turn to Him a way that God sees you want to be set free And not only that, that you believe that He can set you free that's faith, that's saving faith not only, you see it's not only confessing Christ it's believing in your heart that God has raised him from the dead why? I'll tell you why, because a dead savior can't set you free it's not just the blood of Christ it's beyond that, to look beyond asking God forgiveness because you know your heart won't accept that in truth [00:31:02] your conscience won't, if you're honest if he doesn't set you free from the things you're asking for forgiveness So you look beyond to a risen Savior and as many as received Him, by faith it is, to them gave He the power to become the sons of God. Even to them that believe on His name. Christ in you is the hope of glory. You have no hope of eternal life if Christ isn't in you. You want to receive Christ? [00:31:35] If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God, not of us Christ sets you free as you receive Him and as many as receive Him by faith to them gave He the power to become He sets you free and free indeed you look to Him for forgiveness in the blood of course you do it's not your works it's not your works it's His work that sets you free [00:32:07] to the degree that anyone in your own heart will know you've been freed by God, not by your own strength. But He does. But you have to repent. You have to repent. You have to put the bottle down drunk before you come and kneel or you're going to hell. You haven't been saved. And what other sin you sit here with tonight that you might condemn a drunk for but God knows and you know that God condemns these sins [00:32:40] and assures you you will never enter the kingdom of heaven until you repent from them until you repent in a way that he can set you free you are as obnoxious in your faith as a drunk holding a bottle if you haven't turned from him don't judge me for preaching like this sir judge me if I don't Someone has to cry out loud and long before there's no difference between us and the world [00:33:12] and sinners will sit in their sin content in the house of God that they are safe by your preaching. The most important chapter in the whole Bible is Isaiah 53. Don't doubt this. Get through a few hundred times. You won't doubt it. Get through 400 times. You'll know 400 times more clear because by the time you get through it first you should know. [00:33:55] Isaiah 53 is the axel of this book upon which the whole scriptures revolve and hold everything together, Old Testament, everything, 500 years before Christ died, God told you why he would die, what he would do, what it was all about, everything is linked, the Old Testament, sacrifices, everything God revealed, the New Testament was fulfilled ultimately through Isaiah 53's full revelation of why God would die on the cross But I don't want to just preach on the whole chapter I want to just take one verse tonight [00:34:26] All, you'll find the word all, all over the Bible All we, like sheep, have gone astray We have turned every one to his own way And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all Now I can't comprehend that I gave up long ago trying to comprehend God but I can't comprehend how God can put all the judgment [00:34:59] just to be justified in His eyes that every bit of suffering for eternal hell and damnation that God had for every soul that ever lived was somehow plunged onto Christ in such a way that God said He's totally justified Able to justify everyone who comes now to him through Christ You see, he tasted death for every man If they repent, of course He tasted death for every man [00:35:30] I hope you believe that A man said to me, show me one verse in the whole Bible that he died for every man Oh, I said, for every one verse you give me, I'll give you ten He nearly died of fright 1 John 2 1 John 2 Verse 2 He is the propitiation for our sins [00:36:00] and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world I believe that I believe that The propitiation comes from Leviticus 16 Where the high priest once a year would enter into the tabernacle Which is a replica of what God says is in heaven Now he would enter in and he would take blood Because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin So he would slaughter an animal The high priest alone was allowed to enter the holiest of holies once a year [00:36:34] And there was the mercy seat on top of the altar And he would sprinkle the blood all over As he confessed and asked God for the forgiveness of the sins of the people Now, Jesus Christ is that exact word He is the propitiation, literally the mercy seat And it's His blood, it's His blood that is sprinkled It's Him, the whole concept of mercy is through Christ He is the way to God for mercy, not for our sins only Speaking to Christians for isolated sins after they've turned from a life of sin [00:37:05] That there's mercy through the blood of Jesus Christ But not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world if they repent. And I believe that with all my heart. I was reading the other night in 1 Timothy, and I'd like you to listen to this. I exhort therefore, chapter 2 verse 1, that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions [00:37:39] be made for all men. I love that, that God asks us to do that through Paul. Verse 4, who will have all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. I believe that. I want to preach that. Who will have all men to be saved. Don't you tell me about Romans 9, you theologians, until you tell me about Romans 1. God tells us in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 that he gives man up to a reason, a cause. [00:38:10] Don't take things out of context or isolated passages of verses like the Jehovah Witnesses are and they're scared to look at the same book in the Bible which cancels out what they're saying. You might find out that Romans 9, by the way, is just one of three chapters that God is confronting the Jew. And it's the greatest statement in the Bible of our faith, doctrinal faith. Romans. And he was a good Methodist. Paul was? He was methodical, you see. Or should I say John Wesley was a good Pauline theologian. He was methodical. And he comes now and he takes every single concept from trying that all men, whether it's Jews, Gentiles, irreligious, godless, heathen, or religious, are under sin. [00:39:01] And so he takes each step of the way and I'm not going but he comes to three chapters where he just confronts the Jews who say we're the chosen. God can't bypass us like you say Paul and Peter. We're the chosen. God how do you talk about he's going to the Gentiles now and bypassing the chosen. We're the chosen. No such thing. Oh, Paul says, what if? If you didn't start with that, you might be in trouble with Romans 9. He's saying the nonsense of saying God can't do this. [00:39:32] God can do what He wills. So be careful of Romans 9. He's speaking to the Jews full stop. Confronting their argument in the light of the gospel of Christ. So be careful now. Be careful now. it's all men who will have all men everywhere to be saved hallelujah I believe now there's a staggering verse whosoever will let him come that puts so much into your hands [00:40:03] that God is not mocking you whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved God says you've got to call them seek ye the Lord while he may be found Don't put it off and think God's You can play the fool with God Call ye upon him while he's near If the wicked forsake his way The unrighteous man is sought And let him return unto the Lord And he will have mercy upon him To our God for he will abundantly pardon But you've got to seek the Lord while he may be found There's so much responsibility put on you [00:40:34] He will in no wise cast away anyone Who comes to him through Christ Jesus You know what John Wesley says about that text? He's taking it from Luther Remember, John Wesley just perfected a lot of what Luther said, believe it or not. John Wesley said that God was saying, in this book, He cannot turn away anyone who comes to Him through Christ Jesus. Wesley went so far as to almost say, word perfect, what Luther said. [00:41:10] He is incapable. God is incapable of turning away anyone You see, you say that's irreverent, that's sacrilege Brother, it's sacrilege, it's irreverence not to say that of God because you want to see what God's just said here He tasted death for every man who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth who commands all men everywhere to repent Now this, he tasted death for every man [00:41:42] Therefore, he's unable to turn away anyone who comes to him through Christ Who tastes the death Because Jesus paid the price for all If they come He cannot But that, that staggered me to such a degree That I've never recovered That I said, but Lord, all men When you think of men and their depravity The worst men and the depravedness of sin that God died knowing their sin [00:42:12] and died knowing how evil man could stoop to and still says all while we were yet sinners knowing your sin Christ died God commended his love for us and that he died for us all while we were yet in our sin God in his foreknowledge seeing all men he allowed it to be written of his son that the Lamb of God was slain in God's sight that was as good as dying From before the foundations of the world He wanted to win all men back [00:42:42] And the blood of Jesus Christ Hallelujah Was shed for all men I believe with all my heart All men He cannot, he will not He is incapable Or John Wesley and Luther You throw back into Heretics I'd be scared to do that, sorry but they were being honest with what God was saying it's beyond comprehension there's no one you passed [00:43:13] no one you have lost hope for that says unreachable you know when I was a young preacher I'm talking about a long time ago just on 40 years ago I had a lot of fire very little wisdom that's how young preachers are if you're honest Great fire, little bit of wisdom But you've got to forgive them Because nobody's just going to have all the wisdom, you know So have mercy, in my country All they wait for, the evangelical conservatives across the land [00:43:46] Is just to see fire Doesn't matter if you've just got a little bit of wisdom So long as you've got fire They will take you, they will pray you through They'll stand with you Even if you preach a little bit of heresy I did the dear people didn't tell me that they just came to exalt me and encourage me push me on somewhere along the line somebody just whispered oh by the way that one verse you should have but they didn't want to discourage so long as you've got fire it doesn't matter [00:44:18] if you haven't got much wisdom but if you've got a lot of wisdom and you've got no fire they pray you out of the pulpit because you really do damage whoa Oh, put a man in the pulpit who's got a lot of head knowledge through academic achievement and theological seminars, but he hasn't got the fire of God, he just sends people to hell. Oh, the devil just wants people with a lot of knowledge but no fire. That does the devil's work. But nonetheless, as a young preacher, I had all this fire, [00:44:49] and boy, did they open the pulpit for this little fellow. I was given one of the big conventions in Southern Africa, and I was barely in the preaching, barely out full time. It shocked a lot of people throughout my country that they actually let me take this pulpit of this great convention. I was just so young in the pulpit, so unable in people's eyes to hold theology as I should. Here I was now preaching to theologians and preachers from across southern Africa. [00:45:22] but in this meeting God came this whole convention many began to seek God many godly under this young man began to get in their faces weeping before God you see God takes the weak things of the world that's careful so that no flesh can glory in his presence well one day a whole lot of people responded for salvation in one of these meetings as I preached about the salvation of God in my own home particularly and the scriptures that I could bring at that stage And one of the people who came out at the appeal to respond to seek Christ [00:45:58] That he will in no wise turn away anyone who comes Come, come Martin Well, one of the people was a little girl A very, very little girl She had long, long blonde hair That's all I do remember about her A very pretty face Shame A very pretty face Long, long hair. That's good. That's what a woman should have. God says it's a glory. [00:46:32] We don't want to get into that now. Let's leave that. My wife says you divert too much. It's a terrible problem. She's not here, but I can see her sometimes. No one else sees her. Stop diverting. Oh, well, anyway, we'll not get onto long hair now. But, this little girl had long blonde hair, that's all I remember And she asked to speak to me I didn't pray with her Many preachers were praying with those who responded From all over, soberness could help But this little girl now, she shook me [00:47:05] She had tears in her eyes and she said, I've just given my life to Jesus I said, that's wonderful She says, but, my father is a drunk Look, my father is not allowed within 50 mile radius of us or he will be put in jail. My father is not allowed to contact us or he will be put in jail. Because he so hurt us. You see, in his drinking, he so beat us and hurt us [00:47:40] that the law has stopped him from making any contact with us. He's not allowed to have any contact now, he's jailed. She said, Sir, you said something in your service, in your sermon. You said that your father was an alcoholic. You said that your father destroyed the home. Your mother wept and aged and looked like a battered little bird. You said that you, the children, were in a stray, broken, the whole home destroyed [00:48:15] Now my daddy got down before me one day, weeping, saying, Keith, it's me, I know what causes you to be what you've become I just broke loose and became a rebel, I say to my shame They didn't know whether I was dead or alive they hunted through the country to find this little boy that just ran to get out of that house and daddy says I'm going to stop Keith, it's me I know it's me, I'm going to stop, I'll never drink, I'm not going to drink anymore [00:48:48] hours later, hours later, hours later a man saying with all his heart I'm stopping he was back to the bottom You said that your father got on his knees and asked Jesus Christ to set him free and your father stood up and it didn't take him a week, it didn't take him a year [00:49:19] he never touched another drink God set him free you said Jesus can do that you said your daddy didn't say what the alcoholics anonymous like my daddy has to go say they say the first step to getting over drink is to stand up and say I am an alcoholic to have the courage that's the beginning of getting over you said [00:49:49] your daddy stood up and said I was an alcoholic But Jesus has set me free That your daddy could walk past bottle stores and not be drawn into it Hating the smell of it Breaking the bottles Tonight he was saved and got up from his knees weeping as he smashed those bottles I will never ever ever allow this in my home As he smashed, weeping This destroyed my life He wouldn't allow wine in that home [00:50:21] he wouldn't allow champagne in that home he wouldn't allow any drink in his house till he died and he never touched another drink without going through withdrawal stages without going to homes for alcoholics he was freed she says my daddy is an alcoholic my daddy has done the same to us and I'm going to phone my daddy now [00:50:51] I'm not telling mother I'm not allowed to contact my father but I know his number I've kept it I'm phoning my daddy sir but I want you to pray that somehow I'll be able to tell him what you said in this pulpit in a way that my daddy will find Jesus Christ though he doesn't hear you preach that he looked at Jesus Christ and asked Jesus to set him free also like your daddy did that God would save him [00:51:23] and this little girl staggeringly had grasped what theologians across the world haven't grasped that this is the vital essence of salvation I prayed she wanted me to pray I prayed for that man A few years went by, and one day a man, a big man, big mop of hair, shining face, big Bible, comes up to me in another town and he says to me, [00:51:56] Would you do me a favor? Would you come with me in my car? I just want you and me alone in the car. So I looked at this man. He says, listen, I want to get you out of this building or I'll never get to speak to you. Look at all these people like wolves, they want to speak to you. And before they do, because I'm desperate, I need to speak to you. Will you get out of this building, Foss, and come? I'm going to drive around the streets and I want to share something with you you have to know. So I looked at him and he had a big Bible, he had a shining face, so I said, well, he looks safe. [00:52:31] So I got in his car and we began to drive around He says to me as we were driving down the streets Do you remember a little girl Gave the name Back in that town when you were preaching at that convention Named the convention Do you remember her praying Telling you to please pray for her father who was a drunk and alcoholic She was going to phone him Tell him what you preached I said you know I do remember that little girl [00:53:04] I do remember now praying He says well I'm the father Brother When I walk up and begin to get a little bit sober And looked at my children's faces all bruised Their eyes closed from the way I beat them With my fist in my drunkard When I looked at my wife's body I fell on my face, not once, on my face crawling like an animal, begging for mercy [00:53:36] I couldn't believe, I didn't know, I didn't know Drink, drink cancels out conscience, cancels out what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing I begged, I abhorred myself, I couldn't believe And I say, I'm stopping, I'm stopping, I'm stopping He says, but brother, I had started from a young fellow, and it just got steadily worse and worse. When I tried to stop, it took three days, actually, and from then onwards it was like spiders. [00:54:10] He says, I don't know how you would ever comprehend this, brother Daniel, but your mind's so gone that spiders start crawling up, giant spiders. You shut your eyes in the dark of the room, all you see is these spiders, they never end, they're just coming over you, until you go mad, you're going insane. Until I couldn't bear it, and in desperation I would run. If I had no drink in the house because of my attempt to stop, I'd run until I smashed things to get a bottle, lie in the gutter, lie in the street just drinking, and suddenly all these spiders would stop. [00:54:44] The only way to get rid of going insane, I had to lie there and make myself drunk again, when I tried to stop desperately. And one night, my little girl phones me, and she's weeping on the phone, and she tells me she's given her life to Jesus, to save her soul from hell, and then she said, Daddy, this preacher said that his father was an alcoholic, she said, oh, you said, as best she could, and then she said to me, Daddy, I believe that Jesus Christ can set you free. [00:55:22] Daddy, you have to want him to set you free though You want to think of the theology of a little girl just saved one day The concept, the grasp of what God was saying man is required You have to want him to Daddy You have to believe that he can and you have to ask him Believe that he can but you've got to want him to You've got to allow him to Daddy I believe Jesus can do the same for you [00:55:56] in one moment as he did for that man's daddy but you've got to ask him to set you free and you've got to believe daddy he said brother I wept when my daughter she hadn't spoken to me for quite a long time I was stunned she had phoned me I wept and I wept and I wept It was two days later, my mind just went. I couldn't bear another moment in life. My mind just closed in a way that never totally closed. I got into my vehicle, my car. I put my foot flat on the accelerator and I went on a road I wasn't allowed to go. [00:56:31] The road to the town where my children and wife lives. I went on that freeway and I had my foot so flat on that accelerator until the whole car was reverberating, shaking at such a speed that they couldn't pick up more speed in this car and I had a strong engine in that car and as I got to where the cliffs were and I knew they were coming and all I could hear was my daughter's voice crying in my conscience Daddy, Jesus can set you free but you've got to want him [00:57:01] you've got to believe that he can set you free you've got to ask him you've got to allow him oh I just couldn't but I, the car's verbally now the cliffs are coming and I screamed with my daughter's voice echoing in my mind. I screamed as I tried to turn that wheel to get over those cliffs and to finish it. I couldn't turn the wheel, brother. The car was shaking to speed and I'm going now past it. I couldn't turn the wheel. In the end I was so screaming [00:57:31] and I stopped screaming. God! God, why won't this wheel turn? Suddenly, I realized, God was stopping me. I couldn't turn that wheel, brother. I slowed that car down. And all I could hear was my daughter, Daddy, Jesus can set him free, but you've got to want him. You've got to ask him, Daddy. I realized something was happening here beyond any comprehension. [00:58:04] I opened the door when the car stopped and I fell on my knees onto the street and I lifted my hands to heaven and I screamed Jesus! Jesus Christ! Set me free! That's all I prayed, brother. I never touched another drink from that moment. I was free. I couldn't understand how but I was free [00:58:34] My heart just flooded with peace It passes all understanding while I was on my knees on that street That God had saved me With my limited knowledge, no sermon Just my little daughter telling me to believe You have to want it, you have to allow it You have to ask him Let me tell you something God doesn't need great theologians. He needs little girls, little boys who believe what he says. [00:59:08] From this book, there's no doubt in their heart, no matter who they walk up to, no matter how destroyed a man is in sin that most have given up and have no hope for. All God needs is some little child that believes this book. Did he ever go back to drink? That was nearly 40 years ago, 38 years ago. No, he never went back to drink to this day. [00:59:39] He never touched a drink again in his life. He was saved, not in his sin, from his sin. And that's the salvation I see in this book. Not sinless perfection, don't you accuse me, but a life of sin, your sin. God sets you free what this book assures you until you are freed by God and allow him you will go to hell unless God sets you free oh he became a preacher by the way a full time preacher [01:00:11] in my country you don't work and then go out exhausted with matchsticks in your eyes to do the work of God because men won't help you to stay in full time service he became a full time preacher how could he be anything less with the knowledge of what he had found the greatest knowledge God could impart to a child, to a man, to a drunk is when he experiences, but if you experience it you give your life to give this to the world [01:00:45] If you don't experience it, don't tell me any salesman can sell what he doesn't know is great. He can lie, but he can't sell. But when he knows this works, this is wonderful. Watch him. Is that why you don't pass on the gospel to anybody in this world? Because you yourself aren't saved? You have a testimony, but you're still in sin? Once you're God, because no other preacher on earth will ever ask you, I know that now. [01:01:22] And I say it with fear and trembling, but I say it. Two years after that incident, I was in a town where it rained so much that I couldn't believe God was doing this to us. I was a young preacher, we went around inviting the world to come of that particular town It was like a waterfall opened from heaven just down on that hard town while I was preaching [01:01:53] Just a little bit away is the highest recorded rainfall in the southern hemisphere of the world Just a few miles away This was a town to try and preach in One night it was so bad, it was unbelievable I sat in the car and I thought, well, no one is coming. For me to get from this car into that church is going to be a feat. But I didn't try and, I didn't even put the umbrella up. What's the point? The umbrella broke. [01:02:25] It just, so I just forgot about that, took my Bible, tried to hide it underneath my jacket, and I ran and opened the door of the church, and I was wet, I was drenched like somebody who'd stepped out of a bath. Terrible When I looked in the church, the whole church was full Too capacity I mean, I'm talking the whole church You couldn't believe it was like the whole town All wet, nobody sitting in dignity [01:02:55] All trying to dry off You can't believe how wet people were But I marveled, they're all in the church So now we all settle down Then I start in the pulpit. I preached for about ten minutes. And suddenly at the door, the rain's still coming, but at the door we heard screaming. The elders shouting. The deacon shouting. And a voice shouting above theirs. There was a drunk, a drunk, a drunk, trying to fight his way into the building. [01:03:32] And these men must have known this man has destroyed other meetings. Thanks. And they were determined he wasn't coming in. They didn't hit him. They would have lost their testimonies. But they did everything physically to make him know he's not coming in this building. No matter what he did to them. He wasn't getting past them. well I couldn't preach while others were screaming I mean this man was swearing dirty words and he was swearing loud and I looked at something that startled me [01:04:04] there was a little lady sitting in the front row she was a lady sir she was a lady the open bible, the refinedness She just bowed her body and sobbed violently, sobbing Within seconds people all around her, women comforting her, consoling her, weeping with her And I knew, this drunk is her husband, this lady, being shamed [01:04:36] How many times has he done that? This woman is broken and shamed Everybody knows it's her husband, this woman The drunk at the door screaming, fighting, swearing My heart just broke But then something shook that church That man said something that shook every heart Including those elders at the door He screamed someone like absolutely desperate [01:05:11] He was so desperate. He was so despairing. He was determined. No matter what happens, he screamed, God told me I have to be in this meeting. Nothing you do will stop me. That shook those men. That shook that woman. He never said that. That shook that whole church. this man was drunk I wish I honestly could stand here and say he wasn't [01:05:43] just for the dignity of the gospel, but he was he was under the influence of drink this man, eventually these elders let him in but they wouldn't let him come and sit with the rest they led him to a little bench right at the back at the wall and he put his arm over The one put his arm, he hung himself, to hang, to stay up straight, he hung himself like this, his legs sprawled out, and he made noises, terrible noises, he was drunk, and he just listened to me, now I tried to preach because there was a deathly hush in that whole building, including his wife, she stopped crying, oh she was weeping but not loud anymore, I tried my hardest to preach, but I battled, [01:06:35] I struggled, I had no liberty, I quoted scriptures, I said things but I was utterly undone About three quarters of the way through the sermon that I had prepared to preach I had to stop and I said I can't preach anymore I can't finish this sermon, I'm sorry But, just in case there's someone here tonight God knows that in spite of everything, knows that God brought them here, knows that God wants to save their souls, knows that God will in no wise turn away anyone who comes, just in case there's someone that knows that and that wants this opportunity, I invite you to come right now and seek God and I'll pray with you, though I can't even finish this sermon. [01:07:27] The only one that stood was this drunk. As he staggered down, he fell. I admit that. And I noticed something. People began to stand, watching him. He had never come forward to seek God. Whatever he had done in other meetings, he knelt. And I looked at him full of fear in my heart. And he put his hands up like this, and he looked at me helplessly, weeping, weeping loud. [01:08:01] I can't pray, but you, you must pray for me, please. Helpless, but wanting God. Some people, that's the most sober God knows they'll ever get, before they die. Don't judge God for stooping to what you people would say is casting pearl before swine We're so scared of reaching the unreachable [01:08:35] of even having them in our church I prayed God as I put my hand on him kept his eyes open, he was looking at me I can demand nothing of you but if this is thy will if this is thy will save this man's soul through the said blood of Christ and the risen power of Christ [01:09:10] set him free, help him now you might not be able to believe this but I'm asking you to That man stood and he was sober. He hadn't lied. Don't doubt that. You don't lie when God saves you. He stood like someone so shaken that he couldn't believe what was going on. Something had happened. He just looked. And then I saw in his eyes, peace. [01:09:46] Peace. that passes all understanding. How does God keep a man like that at peace? He never touched another drink until the day he died years later. He never once touched a drink. He had been the judge. The court, the high court judge of the whole area of that part of South Africa. And through socializing and wealth which calls for socializing which is why it's a curse. He had become an alcoholic and a shame to the whole community [01:10:22] and to his wife and children But Jesus set him free Can I close with this? In case you think this old man is never going to end I was just saved and I went to Johannesburg the city built on solid gold Two miles down, they're still finding veins of gold that just go on and on The richest gold mines on earth, South Africa The richest uranium, platinum, name it [01:10:55] The richest mineral resources on earth, one country But they're in devastation, they're in sorrows, they're weeping, most homes In all the agony because they turned their back on God as a nation You can be the richest country on earth, but until you have a God-fearing element That justifies God blessing you, your nation will be cursed We need desperately for God to visit us, like you do. Trust me, you'll all be weeping soon, if he doesn't visit his church first. But, I was in this great big city hall, 15 million population of the city built on gold. [01:11:36] And I went to one of the auditoriums right up, not the great big hall with the symphony orchestras and famous singers and entertainers come. that I'd been before God had converted me. It holds thousands and thousands and thousands, all the galleries. You know, I was up in one of the smaller conference halls with evangelical conservatives from all denominations who didn't want to know what denomination or culture you're from. They just wanted to know you're washed in the blood and you were the body of Christ to them. [01:12:07] Hallelujah for such people. Oh, I enjoyed that service but afterwards, after helping the old missionaries who spoke gave reports and all that thrilled my heart I was helping all these people take their hymn books and their Bibles and their other things they're selling, Christian books all back to their vehicles I wanted to be everything I could for God from the day I was saved I was just saved, young in the faith so we finished and then my last little trip down the steps [01:12:38] Along with my Bible, I look into the big hall. Not the great, big, big, big hall of the whole thousands, but what they call the great hall. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of children. Little children. They must have brought busloads and busloads and busloads for the children's outreach of the gospel. There were two Americans. Missionaries. Child evangelism, this big board said. But there he was. He must have come from the south. He was broad, sharp and aspirant, you know. I thought he's really American, with that accent, but he had a shining face, he had grey hair, his little wife stood beside him and they were doing things for the children, but what shook me was that not one child moved, hundreds, I couldn't, the smallest, this is in there, gripped by God the Holy Ghost, and this man, he wasn't childish, that's sickening, [01:13:38] but he became childlike and oh was I educated of how to reach children watching that man I was gripped I was more blessed than listening to the big preachers upstairs this meeting was ten times more thrilling the way the Holy Ghost was working in these children's hearts as the gospel was being preached in a way that every child was gripped held on to all the things Jesus had done as this man made a living as he became childlike not childish and his wife This godly wife, these American child evangelism people [01:14:12] that were in our country holding a crusade in our big city. Well, while I was sitting there enthralled, enjoying it, gripped with the children, learning theology. If you want to be honest, sometimes that's where we have to learn it, from child preachers. These other men, they're way over your heads. And then something terrible happened The door I just come through and pushed open and looked [01:14:43] Two tramps Vagrants Not just drunks but vagrants They haven't no any home You see they sleep in the gutters They have no address Two men walked in reeking of drink Obviously the way they were carrying on You knew they were from the gutters Vagrants Now that's the rock bottom of life isn't it and as they sat there making these noises, they're sitting listening, they started making strange noises because they were under the influence of drink, nudging each other [01:15:15] and I sat there and I looked at them and I said, Satan sent you. I was righteously indignated. We try and hide behind righteous indignation, you know. But I thought, the devil sent you to destroy this now because he was disturbing some of the children. Even the preacher sort of looking at times. But here we're these two now, messing up the whole atmosphere, destroying the liberty these poor people had and disturbing the children with their loud noises Well, I was really angry, believing the devil had sent them in there [01:15:49] Had no compassion on them, no pity on them I didn't even say a prayer for them, I just thought, woof, if only they could get out Righteous indignation can make you really be angry with sinners, but you hate them Well, what shook me was after a few minutes They sat dead still After a few minutes I looked at them Tears pouring down their faces [01:16:20] Tears, they were under the influence of drink Pouring down their faces Eventually this American man says to these children Now you come to Jesus To those of you that know that Jesus has never come in your heart in truth. And he made an appeal and these children came out, enormous amount of children with a lot of children, there were hundreds and hundreds of kids. They came and they knelt, he made them kneel in reverence before the God they were asking to save them from hell. What shook me was these two men stood up, the one first and he walked out, weeping, scared. [01:16:59] the other one followed him they both knelt beside these little children these vagrants from the gutters, the streets of sin and then what really shook me was that American evangelist child evangelist he didn't look at them with anger he didn't look at them with contempt or righteous indignation came and knelt close to them after he had spoken a bit [01:17:35] and his wife and others were giving out and all sorts of things and he spoke to them, I don't know what he said but he was speaking softly to them they answered him and he put his arms around them and you know I looked at his face and for the first time in my life the first time in my life I thought these words of someone, a preacher That's how Jesus Christ looks at sinners. I've never thought about that in my life of any preacher, any Christian. [01:18:12] That's what Jesus looks like. I felt so rebuked. My heart just sank. God forgive me. they didn't pray, listen carefully, he prayed for them, but he cried out to God with this joy and this love on his face as he lifted his hands to heaven, crying for them, you might not believe this again, well I, in heaven, just come up to me please and you can, and I'll take you and introduce you to them, in case you doubt me, it's not long, life's just a moment, let's face it, you haven't got long to wait brother, [01:18:55] Those men never touched a drink again in their lives. Those men turned to Jesus Christ and their whole life turned from that day. God had saved them. Vagrants under the influence of drink, kneeling with children. Now I want to be honest, it was long ago, 40 years, I haven't followed them up to this day that I know and say look last week I can be sure, but I know this, it was 7 years later, and I still made my way to your conservative meetings that made sure I went through with God whenever I was back in Johannesburg, and there they were, until I stopped going back. [01:19:55] Many people passed on of the great old leaders that helped me when I was first there. Those old men were there. I looked at their faces and you could see they'd come from something terrible. That's true. But the refinement of the Holy Ghost's work was written on those faces to the degree you knew they were children of Jesus Christ just as I was. Their Bibles were in tatters like mine was. They were saved as much as I was saved. And in love with Jesus. Now I don't doubt God kept them because I happen to believe in the keeping power of God. I'm not talking about doctrinal statements, sir. I'm not here for doctrine, to be biased to some group. No. I just happen to believe in the faithfulness of God. [01:20:48] And I've been staggered at what God, oh brother, I have knelt on streets with drug addicts that are covered in blood. And I've prayed with him and they stood up in one moment sober, saved, never to touch a drunk again, never to touch a drug to this day. So drugged that they had no feeling in their mind, they were numb, covered with blood, not even knowing they were hurt and bleeding with gases. In one minute, God saves souls. [01:21:18] Now, I'm not asking you, I'm not asking any of you, I'm not asking you little girls, I'm not asking you preachers to go out there and get vagrants, to go and get drunks, to go and drag drunk people. Don't do that! Don't say I said that! No! You'll get hurt. But I am asking you this. From this night forth till the day you die, don't you look at one soul on this earth, no matter how unreachable he is, if he comes into a circumstance wanting God. Don't you ever believe God can't save them Don't you ever not try and pray for that salvation [01:21:51] Or somehow relieve God's love of you in a situation where you're safe Where they won't hurt you Don't you go like me on those streets God's given me more wisdom about that now When I saw how many of our workers got really hurt I was young, but God still saved souls We'll be careful on streets who you go with and how you go and where you go and who you pray with You take care, use your common sense Being a blaze for God doesn't mean going to dangerous areas, sir [01:22:21] No, I'm not asking any of you to drag any drunk into this building, that would be stupid But if one does come one day And if one comes to you, do it If one comes in your circumstance, if one is even if he's your father, little girl And beat you and punched you and kicked your mother No matter who you find in this earth, I don't care how perverted he is, no matter what he's done to you, at home, at town, I go near that I can't believe what people do in their own homes, in their sin and depravity, it doesn't have to be drunk, don't you ever believe there's anyone on this earth, Jesus didn't know that sin when he died and said these words, he tasted death for every man, who will have all men everywhere to repent, [01:23:03] Who will have all men everywhere to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth Or he lies, even these drunks, even these vagrants, even these drug addicts, even a father that beat you, little girl Or a young drug addict, young lady, or your son that you gave up, don't you dare give up Don't you dare give up There's no one God can't reach, sir Don't you start throwing isolated verses at me You know my heart when I say this, there's no one Jesus didn't die for, there's no one you dare stoop to pass, if God showed grace to you when you did not deserve his love or grace or mercy, how can we give up on anyone who we can reveal the love of Christ through, who God can reach through our love, even if we're six, seven years old. [01:24:03] I know I am different, I know I preach in such weakness it's obnoxious to some But if you saw this heart, you would weep If you saw this heart, you wouldn't judge If you saw this heart, and what I've seen God do Because I believed in him, and I believed in this God and I want the church of Jesus Christ to get back to belief [01:24:37] and not to hate souls because we're too good to win them or even want to come near them. Can we stand please? Father, take this message and even to the little girls and boys in this building give wisdom, give discernment don't let them be in any way foolish to what they heard but let them go out to this world with faith enough to pray and to say what they can no matter how destroyed a man is [01:25:10] if God gives them opportunity and access to this whole world to the whole world if we can in Jesus Christ's name He who tasted death for every man We ask these things And for his sake [01:25:41] That his blood was not shed for nothing For millions who we wouldn't even pray for Let alone try and reach We have so little compassion On the ugly sinners of this world In Jesus Christ's name In Jesus the Christ's name, Amen.