Six Boys Who Turned The World Upside Down - Brother Keith Daniel

Father, take this time together and help us to seek thee in our hearts in utter honesty and integrity in a way that God will come and visit us. Wash me in the blood of Christ, afresh my only hope of God stooping. To use such a base and weak man, and despiseth man, is the blood. I come with nothing but the blood, to be cleansed, washed, through and through, and through and through, and to fill, anoint with the Holy Spirit, outside of which the blood only can make

that possible,

right through life. And so have mercy on this man, and come and anoint and speak to all hearts, everyone, even the closed hearts. And God, only that is know how closed hearts can be, the crust, the hardness Satan has worked through sin, and confusion, and disappointment, disillusionment. And that closure that there is no way to reach to the flesh. It's just a crust of rock.

Only thou does know whose hearts are just like that, and only thou canst break that heart. For thy word is like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces, and we look to thee to do just that. In thy mercy, come, shelter us under the blood of Christ, the sacred blood of Christ, and protect us from Satan and his demon forces, and from any evil influences through anyone here that might not even be conscious. They're here for one reason, to distract and keep the person behind them or next to them from hearing anything. And so come, make us still, quieten us, and protect us, and brood upon us by the Holy Spirit to every heart, In Jesus the Christ's sacred name and for his glory only in unswerving faith, we ask this of thee, our father in heaven.

Amen. Last night, I brought to you the words of Christ To Nicodemus, except a man be born again. Staggering words. Suddenly, we're thrust into a consciousness. We're not a child of God.

We're just a child of our father and mother, born of the flesh, but not of the spirit. And except a man has this new birth, the spiritual birth, which involves the intellect, the free will, and faith, He will go to eternal damnation and hellfire unless this vital thing happens. And then we looked at what god said to those who are born again. In one Peter, as newborn babes, desire this and see a milk of the word that ye may grow thereby. This is what God holds out to the babes born, to grow.

Thereby, man shall not live by bread alone any further than salvation. You can before salvation because all you are is a physical birth has taken place. You don't need spiritual food. But once you're born of the spirit, there's another food you stay alive spiritually. You grow spiritually.

You need spiritually this sacred book, devouring it. My old preacher said these sacred words to me. That stunned me. I didn't know, but God had many people in mind as that old man instructed me that night. I had no idea that God was writing these words not here, but here.

For multitudes and multitudes multitudes across the world as I would perfect shared what he shared with me from his soulless dying man to the last soul he led on to Christ on Earth. God had multitudes in mind, not just me. Soak yourself in the Bible, and you will never backslide. Soak yourself in the scriptures daily as the greatest discipline in your life every day to the day you die. The most guarded, treasured, nurtured moment of every day of your life that nothing will deter you or hurry you from, nothing Satan does.

To the degree you soak yourself in the Word of God, you will hate the evil. Being saved doesn't mean you'll hate the evil. Many preachers, Keith, who are saved, loved the evil and were kicked out of the pulpit and crawled into their grave and shame. Being saved won't make you hate the evil geese, but to the degree you soak yourself in the sacred book daily, To the degree you soak yourself, you will hate the evil, the devil's greatest priority in your life from this moment to the day you die will not be to tempt you with filth and depravity and lusts because it won't work. He knows that.

If you've stroked yourself in the scriptures, his greatest priority with you now that you're saved will be to divert you, to keep you from this book. Then he'll tempt you, and you will fall. I've never heard a person pray in my life like this, Keith, with such brokenness and desperation, and I believe God has saved you. I cannot believe a God would die for a man the way Christ died for all men and turn away such a prayer. But Keith, I don't want to see what the devil does to you.

I don't want to see what becomes of you, though I've never heard a man pray like this to be saved. I don't want to see what will become of you if you don't. If you don't, Keith, the devil can't touch you. He can tempt you, but he can't touch you. If you soak yourself in the sacred bookies, it's the greatest priority of your life daily.

Three months after my salvation, I was sitting in a meeting like you right now. And I had no idea what was about to happen from that pulpit. But I shook and trembled. I literally trembled as this preacher cried out. God is going to lay his hand on some life here tonight.

Point it at me, this old missionary. Asking you to separate your life, to preach, to burn every bridge behind you, every plan, every ambition you ever made, just throw it behind you and never look back, to separate yourself for the gospel of Christ and to burn out for Christ, which is the greatest privilege God could ever give a Christian on Earth if it's the will of God for you to preach. This was not some mental persuasion, and I trembled. And I couldn't get away from it. Everything else just disappeared, fell into oblivion in life.

I went to a theological seminar, not very highly esteemed by man, But most theological seminars would destroy everything. I'm talking about evangelical ones today. Won't you? Everything's sacred. Make you just like the world.

And take away the sharp edge for fear of offense. Don't defend. Don't name sins. Oh, gracious rubbish. Oh, I went to a little college that isn't highly esteemed and perhaps despised because of the deep conservativeness.

Passing the exams there was not so much on paper, but your life. And if you failed there, no matter what you achieved here meant nothing to them. You were just a shame and heartache to them, and you knew it. Oh, I thank God the Lord sent me there. The one thing was this, devour it.

I was so grateful. I was so grateful. And only the godliest of the godliest of the godliest stood and lectured us. But we also were thrust into the deep end of the whole thing. The first meeting, this old man in a wheelchair, he'd been there for before I was born.

And he looked out at us students and said, you better take careful notes of this first lecture and every lecture, because you're going to have to preach from today. You're going out to preach. Preach. Yeah. The Jordan River in Israel flows into the Sea Of Galilee, but it flows out, and it's full of life, fish, vegetation.

But it goes down to the lowest part on the Earth's surface, the Dead Sea. And it doesn't flow out, and there's nothing alive. It's dead. No life. You'll be like that.

If you're not flowing out, you're not gonna take in academically here and be dead. You're gonna give out from today. Brace yourselves. Here we were in the open air. I was a Presbyterian.

Don't tell anybody. The old preacher was burning with the fire of God. Not everyone's like that in that denomination, but you, the principal says, you go and say something. Say something of what you know from the Bible to all these crowds at this bus terminus and station for this railway where everybody jumps at the station to oh, thousands.

Noise as buses. Here we are with

the loudspeakers, this group of young student. Hugo. I said, no, I can't. What do you mean you can't? I can't stand on a street corner screaming at people.

I'm a Presbyterian. Believe it or not I said it. The wrong thing to say. What?

You are saved now.

People were looking. You tell the people what God has done for you. Not a good introduction to preaching. Within about five minutes, every bus had put their motives off. Within about five minutes, there was dead silence.

No one was walking. The streams had stood still. People began to fall on their knees. The student ran to pray with people all over.

I couldn't believe what was happening.

And I quoted a scripture about the possibility of death. The uncertainty. A woman just fell on the street. People running to Everybody was listening. I tasted something that day that ruined everything in life.

Everything else was ruined that day. God can stoop to take the weakest of men and speak through him to multitudes. If he's saved, soaked in the book, fearful yes to this day. Trust me. Afterwards the principal just looks at me and all the students for a long I said, did I do something wrong?

I made a terrible I made a mistake. I just So tears come down you. I have never sensed the presence of God in my entire life as I have when you spoke, boy. He just walked away. They all left me.

But I was destroyed for anything else. Yes. Conscious at god. Yeah. But that moment, they sent us to all sorts of prisons to preach to the prisoners, pulpits across the whole city.

It's a very evangelical city, Cape Town, which I thank God for. Waiters were preaching, preaching all the time, every opportunity, even little Sunday schools, off to this, in areas that are dangerous with a whole group of children to reach. We've come from broken, smashed homes full of drugs and drink. Oh, oh, I was blessed. One of the places I preached was called a reformatory.

They were young people who were too young to go to prison who did major crime. So they put in this reformatory basically a school to give them some teaching and some leading and some form of guidance, hopefully. Because in prison, you come out normally worse than you go in. So these young lives were there, a few 100. So I would go, and these these big man, Afrikaans speaking man, Dutch Reformed church, he organized all the theological students and all those who wanted to speak and had the privilege of preaching to these boys.

Many of the murderers, many of them killed their own fathers, one after the other, killed their daddy. Horrible things. Horrible things you hear. Even little boys, they killed their fathers. So they gave me this small group.

14 year old, I suppose. I don't know. And, I got to love these boys as they listened, and some began to weep and pray. And I would prepare every week a little bit more what to say to them now. What illustrations?

What can I take of what I've been given, what I'll be reading, and give to these kids who don't have this? Would I have I arrived there one day. Oh, we stand there and have this prayer with this man who organizes where you go and who you are and what you're ready for. And he points to me. He says, you, what's your name again?

Daniel, you're going to leave those little boys, those young ones. You're going to the worst in the whole reformatory right now. Most of them have murdered. Most of them should be in jail. They're old enough, but they're giving them a chance here, but they're not easy.

They're the worst in the reformatory. You go and speak to them today. Everybody looks at me, so I said, no. Please no. I I'm ready for these young ones.

I've been reaching them. Don't tell me to leave. I've been preparing for them. Don't you argue with me, man. There you are.

He was a preacher, but they can speak like that sometimes. You go. God will help you. I walk with this warder. He's like a policeman, you know.

He didn't look too thrilled with life. Down the passages past these buildings that all look like mortuary cells. Barge. When it comes to this big building, you think it's a vault. Big steel doors.

So opens these big steel doors. And I look in, there's about 60 boys. Six they're sitting in a half circle, all in this hall, big boys, looking who's coming in to speak to them. Go in, he says. They're waiting for you.

You're not coming with me. So he looks at me unimpressed. No. You're all alone. There you go.

Oh. Locked in. Okay. They began to laugh. I must have looked like somebody really that would wanted to escape, run out of their climb, out of their bashful.

There was this laughter. So I said, can we pray? I prayed. I opened my eyes all laughing at me. So I quoted a few scriptures and tried to speak to them, and there was this laughter.

So I said, listen. There's a hell. I'm young, but God has saved my soul mightily. And I wouldn't be here if it wasn't God in me, desperate for you to find what I found before you die and go to hell, before you destroy your lies. And there's a big boy sitting in the front row of the 60, right in the edge.

Yeah. His face could have have scars. I don't know what happened to him. You almost couldn't look at him at first. But he's big.

Scars. He grabs this boy next to him and

throws him like a somersault.

Pow. And he jumps on him, and he's hitting a pow,

and everybody jumps up, screaming with laughter. You're fighting.

Eichon Helpedu. It means,

he's going to Helpedu. You're going to Helpedu. They're all screaming with laughter, and I'm just trembling. What am I gonna do? There's no interest in me.

There's a boy taking the whole thing and they're screaming. No one's there to stop them. I shook like a leaf, and my heart was so downcast I just felt such a failure and hopeless. I prayed

in my heart, but I prayed in a way that I hadn't prayed apart from the night I was saved with such desperation that I think I came close to death in despair that God would save me and not turn me away.

The same desperation, the same grief, the same fears flooded me as I cried out to God for these boys. Not for me, but for them. God, don't let this opportunity be wasted because of my weakness, because of my inability. I can do nothing. I'm worthless.

I know that now. Apart from these, this opportunity is gonna be taken that I will never have again in my life to see these boys at once.

God help me. Oh, God save them if they don't go through

a life of hell on earth, let alone the hell they're going to.

When I was praying, suddenly I looked up. They were all sitting, one or two standing, but they're all looking at me dead silence. Because I had tears pouring down my face. They hadn't heard what I prayed, but they saw I was in agony, and I think agony they'd never seen in their lives or since anybody could have. And something happened to me that shook me more than it shook them.

I raised my voice. That's something I did not do. I was so withdrawn and full of complexes and fear of men. And with a broken heart, I cried out every scripture I learned of God's love, Beginning with John three sixteen. Isaiah 53.

I just cried out. And then I shared everything I could. I don't know how many minutes I was speaking and I had to stop, because they all began to sob. The sobbing was so loud I couldn't I looked at them. The one with the scars was on his face.

Everyone stood shocked because he was the worst in the whole reformatory. Even the police lived in fear of their lives with this thug. He's on his face sobbing. God.

Oh, god. Oh, sobbing.

The others standing, tears but shock. Unbelief, fear. Oh. So I said these words. Those of you with courage.

And this is gonna take more courage than anything you will ever do in life, what I'm gonna ask you to do now, because you will suffer the consequences of what you're gonna do in a place like this. The weaklings will never stand up in their life against the tide. They'd rather go to hell and make a stand against evil and be separated and persecuted. You weaklings, you weak ones, you won't come. You're too weak.

But those of you with courage, enough to stand up and face the consequences of giving your life to Christ unreservedly as I did, in a way God can't turn you away. He will save you in a way every single thing in your life will change, all of you, with courage to let God do that, to give you a life so unreservedly and in front of everyone here, no matter what they do to you afterwards. I want those with courage to give you a life to God unreservedly that he changes everything to death. You come aneel in front of these people who are the weaklings who won't come. Come and kneel, and I'll pray with you, and God will not turn you away.

He will save you. The one on his face stood up and looked at me. And he walked slowly and fell back on his knees and onto his face, trusting. Five others came of the 60 boys, all on their knees. The others just looked there in disbelief.

They've never seen this. They never believed this would happen. In this section of the worst of them. I knelt and took each one and prayed. Would them pray after me?

Well, the one on his face couldn't pray. So I prayed for him as I held his arm for God to save him by the blood of Christ, to the risen power of Christ to enter into his heart, to set him free. For as many as received him by faith, to them gave he the power to become the children of God even to them that believe on his name. And then I stood. It was a deathly silence.

If you want to stood there looking at me. Me. And the old warrior came and opened the door. And I walked out. And he shut the steel door and locked.

Days went by. Days went by. Days went by. At my little room, the afternoon, where you study periods, many days. I get up from my desk.

There's the principle of our theological seminar. Very godly man. Keith,

get your jacket

and your bible and come with me. Leave the study. Yes. So we walk, we get in his vehicle, we're driving. Where are we going?

We're going to the reformatory. Why didn't you tell us, of the six boys that came to God, when all the students come back from everywhere, and they open doors, and the opportunity and share if anybody came to Christ? Or why didn't you share that that we could pray? I said, I didn't feel to. Well, Keith, the principle of that reformatory has phoned me.

He's a Christian. He's in the Dutch Reform Church. He's an elder where I attend. And he said that the worst boys in the history of the entire reformatory came to God through one of your students preaching. Everyone lives in fear of their lives.

They don't know what to do with these boys. They've had to discuss things. They're so wicked and so dangerous. The worst six in the entire place in its history have come to God. He said the change is so radical.

There's a stunned shock silence in the police, in the lecturers, in his heart, and in all the students. He said he cannot believe the place is in dead silence, where there's joking and laughing in the fields. There's no one. Down the passages in the classrooms, there's no one. There's this dead silence.

He says he cannot believe. No one can believe what's happening. And so he's been making inquiries and talking to these six boys and talking to the others. He has the whole school waiting for you. You're preaching to the entire reformatory.

They're in the hall waiting. So I said, but I don't have a message. How can you tell me to preach? I haven't prepared any. I haven't got a message.

He looks at me. Oh, God will help you. Don't worry. So I talk to myself. It's easy to say that.

And I was trembling, and I said, woah.

So shall we drive?

And I'm thinking, I don't know what to say. So we walk in, there's this hall, they all stand up. All the police, the boarders, everybody standing up, all the lecturers, all the principal, everyone standing up. And all the boys, and then in the front row is the six boys. Beaming faces, because they knew the whole school was there because of their change of life.

There they were beaming. They all sit, some form of introduction. I can't remember, but I looked out at them. Now you might never know what dilemma this is, but I really didn't know what I was going to say. And I stood there stunned, fearful, and I couldn't get a thought.

And I began to tremble. And I know there were people trembling for me because they realized something's wrong. Four minutes dead silence is looking. God help me. Suddenly, the same crushing.

Nothing of the flesh. We don't know how to praise we ought. The Holy Spirit knows how to give us something of his grief for souls with groanings that cannot be uttered. There's no ability in a human's nature to have that compassion. You can't work yourself up to it.

Only God can give it to the degree you yielded to him. And I was groaning. And I was crushed as I thought of, God, I'm gonna waste this opportunity. It'll never be given to me again in my life.

Please, God, don't let this once day souls help me.

I had the same crushing burden and I began to just And in my heart, I never heard voices saying, God, if preacher says he's heard voices, run, you're in trouble. In my heart, that God impressed on me. Read Isaiah 53, the axle upon which the entire Bible revolves. Take it out of the Bible, we're in troubles. Trust me.

Five hundred years before Christ died, The gospel according to Isaiah. But chapter 53. Read it. I loved that chapter. I opened, weeping, and I began to read slowly from the first verse.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord have laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.

With his stripes, we are healed. And I read on and on, and I had to stop with these words, when thou should make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed, his child. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. When I said those words, I had to stop reading.

The whole place was sobbing.

I said, but God I haven't said a word. I've just read, how can this happen? I've just read, how can this happen?

And something else happened in my heart that day that turned my ministry forever. It was not a voice audible, but it was a voice in my soul. And I knew it was God. I don't need your preaching. I need someone that will quote this book, that will bring this book back to the pulpits of this world, but with a broken heart like yours.

That shook me. And that turned my ministry to this day to memorize this book. Books upon books of the Bible. Passages every doctrine every and just bring God's word back. Back where it's been buried for entertainment, etcetera.

Across the evangelical world, I just saw this weeping, and I said the same words I said to the six boys. You with courage, you weaklings, you couldn't make a stand in a place like this and face the consequences. But you with courage, it'll take more who want God to do what God has done for these six boys and had the courage to do it. And look what's happened as a result. Those of you with courage and say, God take my life no matter what I have to face, no matter what friends I lose, even my stand alone, have it for thyself eternity.

Those of you that would have the courage to say that to God stand, I said. And those who stand, I will pray for. As I prayed with these boys. As I prayed the night, I will save you, and God will save you. 200 and just under 20.

209, they stood. There was a shock as they stood. One boy was so undone, he grabbed hold of his friend and said, no. No. Pushing him down.

Not you. This boy stood up and pushed him and shouted, leave me. I'm giving my life to God. Don't you stop me. It shook that building.

As the friend just sunk and bowed his head, and this man stood, weeping, I prayed, and we left. The principal took me with my principal, other warders, teachers, etcetera, And they discussed things with me, and I said, I'm gonna get follow-up. The little I know, I'm gonna just get follow-up. I had no money. I had to get script to give me some sending me boxes of just scriptures.

Little booklets after surveys and watch everything. To tell them even what salvation. Why? To remind them to bring everything to teach. And I gave out these hundreds bringing boxes, and they were disputing it to all the saved.

Zealously. Because many of the lecturers and warders gave their lives to Christ that day. God even helped me when I knew that Bibles were needed. And I went and did some ink at trials with all the Bibles I ordered. And then I had to pay.

And do you know when I walked back after making that and taking all those books to that point, there was an envelope on the board with my name. And nobody knew in the world what I was doing when I bought those, where I went, and how much it cost. But God knew. And God made sure that I knew it was The exact amount of money was there in notes. And I knew it was God.

Oh, I did follow-up and follow-up and follow-up. Then I had to leave Cape Town, go to preach in Africa as a missionary, Young missionary. So I don't know how many years went by. I wish I really could be truthful saying how many, but I'm not sure it was a few years. I was walking in a mall.

No. It was actually we didn't have malls. It was some sort of shopping scene. And this boy walks up to me and says, are you Keith Daniel? Yes.

He had scars on his face, But his face was shining. Don't you remember me? I was the first one to come out. In those where six came. The first time you preached, yet God started.

Do you not remember me? I threw that boy onto his face and started joking and mocking you and mocking God. Oh my, I do remember you so well now.

But what are you doing out? I didn't know you would be let out

because I knew his crimes. Yes. I am out. They've let almost everyone out now. Of course, we have to report to the police every week or two weeks, I don't know, for many years.

And, but they get us jobs with people who know our criminal records and give us a chance in life. So I have work. And this is my wife and my baby.

Beautiful girl. Oh, she was beautiful and clean. She saved. That's why I married her. And this little one, I'm gonna bring this little child up like my mommy and daddy didn't know to bring me up.

Praying for her and teaching her salvation and the word of God. I said, and you never backslid. You never went back to sin. Oh, no. Why would I do that?

Oh, it's just wonderful. Wonderful you met me. God let you walk up to me just giving me courage in a way I showed him a hand, just looking at you. You never backslid. You just not one backslid.

Two hundred and twenty four. Not one, Baxter. Oh, as you say, through with God. Everyone went through with God. Not one is known to have gone back.

I said, how can you be sure? No one could know that for sure. You're the only one that doesn't know, he said. The police, the warders, the psychologists.

Everyone knows there's no one that's gone back to their own life. I was just amazing. No one know Nietzsche. You wanna know why? Not one went back to sin?

Not one is known to him? Do you want to know why? Yes. The last time you preached, the whole gathering there,

they had brought everyone together.

And you wept. You hadn't wept since that big meeting. But you wept that day. And you said you probably will never see us again. But in your head, as you wept with a loud voice, you held out the Bible and you said, it doesn't matter that you don't see me.

Ever again, this is all that matters. This is your source of survival. Your only source of survival. Soak yourself in the bible as if your greatest priority and discipline every day of your life. The most guarded, treasured, nurtured discipline of your life and moment of every day of your life to the day you die.

And nothing Satan will do to divert you will keep you from unharied time with his book, and you will find that time when God is first. When you don't

find it, you push God second,

and you're in trouble. And you will never backslide. Satan, greatest priority till the day you die will be to try and keep you from this, because he knows if he can. He can then tempt you, but to the degree you soak yourself in this book as the greatest discipline in your life, the most guarded discipline in your life, to the degree you soak yourself in the bible to that degree only will you hate the evil right through your life, and more and more will you hate it. You'll abhor the evil to the degree you soak yourself in the Bible.

I cannot guarantee you of much in my life, but I guarantee you this. The devil will tempt you, but he won't get you. You left every single day for years. They walked down the passages. Have you soaked yourself in the bible?

How many chapters did you read? They pushed me against the wall, this crowd. You're not backsliding, not you. Tell us how many chapters you read. Tell us what you read, where you read.

The next day,

tell us what were the next three chapters.

It was on the field, said the sport. You read your Bible? Don't play the fool with God. You cunt backslide. Did you read your Bible, man?

They're all watching us now. Maybe we're on our knees across the reformatory with a Bible, soaking our shelves in the word. Right? It was like everybody regarded the other as their total responsibility. There was a deadly, deadly earnest and compassion in everyone that spoke to me until I left.

And I believe, he said, that is the reason. Not one is known to have gone back to sin in the years since you left. And not one that I have heard of and others who contact me is known to have gone back to sin, even though most of them are out in the world. Now, what happened? That was forty what?

Fifty years ago, Nellie. Fifty something. Oh my. Well, many have phoned me. Many have walked up to be in the morgue and conferences and churches where I've preached.

On the streets, They've just walked up contact, little letters written, I suppose, almost everyone by now. Not one is known to have backtracked all these years later. Not one is known to have gone back to sin. If I had to tell you some of them what they decided was the will of God for their lives, you would tremble. And what God's made of them, in spite of the terrible background and sin of their lives before salvation.

I haven't seen most of them for a few years, but I have come to believe in the power of a God, who are kept by the power of God through faith. And faith cometh by the word of God, to the degree you soak yourself in it. Tell me, are you the weakling that the devil loathes over because Christ died for you, but you're too weak to genuinely give everything to Christ? Are you that? Well, you know if that's true, don't you?

You'd rather go to hell than lose your friends and face rejection, ostracization, and mocking, and pussy, wouldn't you? Terrible issue at stake here. Don't play the fool with God, young man, young lady. This might be his final call, and I have seen many walk out and within minutes dead. Don't think that can't happen.

Within minutes, if you really have courage, you'll be getting someone to pray with you in a very big building. And God is waiting, and Satan is waiting to know whether he still has your life. Because you have no courage, and you're weak, and you're ashamed to yourself. You're your biggest enemy. No one hates you more than you hate yourself if you don't give your life to God.

You just think of the consequences. Tell me you are not weak. But to all of you, oh, disgrace, Can we stand, please?