Burning Heart for Lost Souls - Brother Keith Daniel

Mark 10 verse 29. There is no man. There is no man that had left house. Matthew 19 verse 29 says that had forsaken house. There's no man that has left house, oh brethren, that's brothers or sisters or father or mother, a wife or children.

For my sake for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive. He shall receive a hundredfold more. Now now in this time in this time, Houses. Oh, many how many houses I've been in fifty years of preaching across this world. Brothers, sisters, and mothers.

Oh, how many And children. The spiritual fruit. God promises. And lands lands with persecutions, with persecutions, with persecutions. Men men separated unto the gospel of God.

Men separated unto the gospel of God. Romans one verse one says, I will place no value. I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. David Livingstone said those noble words.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who had chosen him to be a soldier, that he may please him who had chosen him to be a soldier. Soldiers of the cross. Soldiers of the cross that have sacrificed everything to reach the lost for Christ. I was in a meeting here last year in America, and they had a time of prayer.

There was a young man who prayed fervently, crying out to God with such fervency that I opened my eyes to look at him. There were tears coming down that boy's eyes, down that boy's face, and I was deeply moved as he cried to God. Oh, God, give us broken hearts for the lost. Give us broken hearts for the lost. I want to ask every one of you sitting here this morning.

Have you ever once, you who say you're saved from hell for eternity by the blood of Jesus and you know the way for salvation from hell, have you ever had a broken heart for anyone but yourself in any circumstance in life. Give us broken hearts for the lost, this boy cried. Jesus cried, compel them to come. There's something of that word. That incredible sacrifice of life is to be able to compel to compel them to come.

Luke 14 verse 23. Jude verse 22. Have compassion, have you? Now answer God. Why are you here if it isn't for God?

Why did you come to church if it isn't for God? Now if it's for God, you came. Answer God. Answer God. Have compassion.

Have your compassion when you walk out there and you mingle with the lost, those who are going to hell for eternity, and you know the way. Have compassion, Jude. Verse 20 says. Making a difference. Others save with fear.

Save with fear. Pulling them out of the fire. Are you such a soul winner? Has that ever been seen in your life once? Once by any soul on earth that's going to hell.

Has this been written across you? Compassion, saving them with fear, pulling them out of the fire. Are these words nothing to you that God requires of us when we know the way? And we face people who go to eternal hell. Oh, I sat earlier this year with a very godly woman in Africa, a very courageous soul winner.

Oh, I wish I could say that of all women I've met that say they know God. She was a courageous soul winner in Africa, and I was honored to sit with her. And as we were speaking, I said I spoke of Christians who are not soul winners. Is that possible? Is there anything more grievous in earth and in history than that?

Can you think of anything in the eyes of God in heaven more grief? I spoke of Christians that are not soul winners. You know what that woman did? She sat up with such grief on her face and her eyes well with tears and shock. And what I said, she said, oh brother, if we know there's a hell and we believe what God says about hell and we don't warn the lost.

We are murderers, brother Guy. We are murderers. How many people have you stood with child of God, yet you made no attempt to witness to them? No attempt. There was no compassion, no concern, though you know what's in this book.

How many people have you walked away from, risen across that person's life or these tragic words for eternity? Don't doubt this now. You didn't witness. You didn't attempt. You felt nothing.

No compassion. Though you're saved, you know there's a hell. You believe there's a hell and all the hell required for eternity. But you didn't attempt to witness to them. You could have, but as you walked away, written across that person's life are these tragic words for eternity.

Now don't you doubt this. No man cared for my soul. Psalm one forty two verse four says, no man cared for my soul. Ye have not sought that which was lost. God cried in Ezekiel 34 verse four, ye have not sought that which was lost.

Does he say that to you? But she say that of this generation, as you sit under the gospel and walk out there knowing the gospel, ye have not sought that which was lost. Ezekiel 34 verse four. And in 33 verse eight, he warned, when I say unto the wicked, oh wicked man, thou shall surely die If thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity. But his blood will I require at thine hand, god says.

God, if that matters, does it? His blood will I require at thine hand. Fearful words, Christian. But do you believe that will happen? Or don't you believe this book that you carry?

His blood will I require if you fail to warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, that wicked man shall die in his inequity. But his blood will I require at your hand? Do you believe that? Does it not stir you? It's God.

Do you think it was only Ezekiel he said these words to? Is that the only man in eternity that God will require the blood of men that you walk past? Oh, my wife's brother is a farmer in Africa. His name is Andre Leroux. He was sitting a little while ago, a month or so ago, and he did the evening devotions for us as a family when we went down that area.

And he said something startling. He said, brother, someone will be accountable for the lost in this world. Someone will be accountable for the lost in this world. Those who failed to witness when they had the opportunity, but they didn't. Those who failed to witness when they had the opportunity, but they didn't.

Those who didn't live the life that's expected of a Christian in front of the unsaved. And as a result, the unsaved close their hearts to Christianity and spend eternity in hell because of you. Though you're saved, someone will be accountable, brother, to God for the lost in this world. Or preachers who didn't preach uncompromising truth faithfully and fervently and fearlessly in the pulpit. Preachers who didn't preach uncompromising truth from the pulpit.

You know, preachers, Martin Luther said, will not be held accountable for what they said in the pulpit as much as for what they did not say. And they knew, strewn through the pages of this book, in God's compassionate warning to mankind. Preachers are going to be accountable to God for what they did not say In case they lost your seat and your tithing, I'd rather send you to hell than lose that. Though they knew someone will be held accountable. Someone must be held accountable.

I have not refrained my lips. I have not concealed thy truth from the great congregation, Psalm 40 verse nine. But how many preachers have? They will be accountable to God across the end. What percentage do you think of those who hold this book, who've been through theological seminars didn't preach?

They will be held accountable. They knew. Oh, the blood of men will be on many a preacher's hands in this world. But God promises. God promised in Jeremiah three verse 15, I will give you pastors, that is spiritual shepherds.

I will give you pastors according to mine heart. I will give you pastors, spiritual shepherds according to mine heart that will turn many away from iniquity. Many that will turn many away from iniquity. Malachi two verse six, that will turn many to righteousness. That would turn many to righteousness.

Daniel 12 verse three. Now at the moment of salvation, the moment of our salvation, we are all entrusted we are all entrusted with this, the set workbook in the school of God. At the moment of our salvation, we are all entrusted with this, the bible. But to the preacher, the preacher, from the moment of his calling till the moment of his death, he is fearfully conscious that a staggering amount of God's word addresses those who God has called to preach, who have been separated under the gospel. When Peter when Peter asked Christ about John's life and ministry, Jesus said these staggering words.

What is that to thee? What is that to thee? Follow all thou me. John 21 verse 21. Each preacher, beloved, has a unique calling and ministry to fulfill.

Some will be embraced and honored and revered by multitudes, while others will be led of God to preach cutting words that will anger the multitudes. Some will be greatly gifted in preaching, that will be immediately envied by carnal preachers, like the Pharisees who immediately felt threatened by Christ and therefore and for that reason only evilly sought to destroy him from the moment because he gripped the crowds as they never knew they could and never would know. But all, though their ministry may greatly differ, all are called to separate themselves, to be consumed in a fervent study of the word of God daily. All, no matter how different their ministries may be, all are called to separate themselves. It's the greatest discipline of their life once they're called to be consumed in a fervent study of the word of God daily.

Give attendance. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. One Timothy four verse 13. Lourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine. One Timothy four verse six verse 15.

Meditate upon these things. Give thyself wholly to them that ye may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers, to convince those who oppose and contradict and challenge you about what you're preaching. Titus one verse nine. Therefore, study to show thyself approved. Study to show thyself approved under God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed.

Rightly dividing the word of truth. Two Timothy two verse 15, whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might. Ecclesiastes nine verse 10. We all must seek God to find our specific ministry, and then redeem the time. Ephesians five verse 16.

For the time is short. The time is short. One Corinthians seven verse 20. The greatest shock I ever had in my life, and I mean this, is when I woke up to this, how short life is. Suddenly, when you think it's his beginning, it's over.

Your one moment in eternity that God gives you, you only have a moment. This moment called life. It's gone in a moment. Oh, that's the greatest shock I ever had in my life. Oh, god.

If fifty years of preaching went so fast, what have I got left? That's why every breath in my body cries out, please don't let me lose this moment. It's only a moment. Life's only a moment. Whichever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all I might.

For the time is short, god warns in one Corinthians seven verse 20. And he warns all of us, oh, it's short. So don't lose it, redeem it. Seest thou seest thou a man diligent in his business? Proverbs 22 verse 29 asked, seest thou a man diligent diligent in his business, in what God has shown him he needs, what he should be doing.

Proverbs twenty nine two two verse nine. The godliest man I ever met in my life. The only man I ever met that made me tremble and shake like a leaf and weep just looking at him. I'm not the only one in this world, across the world, who trembled and some fell on their knees. And he hadn't said one word about God.

I know missionaries that fell on their knees publicly and gave their lives to Christ just being with him. I don't know another man like that. The godly William MacFarlane. He looked wearily at a group of young people one day, and my wife was with him. He was just looking at this group of young people wearily.

And after a while, he said, nothing to do and all day to do it. Nothing to do and all day to do it. Tragic words. Amy Carmichael wrote, let me not sink to be a clod. Let me not sink to be a clod.

Make me thy fuel, flame of God. Occupy till I come. Luke 19 verse 13. Occupy till I come. So firstly firstly, there is a separation from all other Christians of those that God commissions to preach, who like Paul are separated under the gospel.

Romans one verse one. But secondly, there is a separation. There is a separation among those who are called by God to preach into their specific and unique ministries. And thirdly, there is a separation for preparation. A discipline expected and required of every preacher to not entangle himself in unnecessary things of this world, but to devote himself wherever possible to fervent study and prayerful meditation of God's word daily.

And preacher, God cries, call unto me and I will answer thee. And so the great and mighty things which thou knows not. The word there is inaccessible to humans. Jeremiah 33 verse three, I will show thee great and inaccessible things on a human level, which thou knowest not. So we cry daily, give me understanding.

Give me understanding. Psalm nine 119 verse 34. Open thou mine eyes. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119 verse 18.

Now a sermon is not worked out. That is folly. A sermon never worked out, brother. A God given sermon is born as a child is born. It has to be.

As the Holy Spirit gives revelation through his word, the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life to this book, two Corinthians three verse six. Preachers, we need to be careful here. When a baby is about to be born, we don't say, hold on now, please. This isn't a convenient time. It's the middle of the night.

Daddy's tired. Can't you make this in the morning? You can't do that to a baby. That's a bit silly, isn't it? With the sermon's the same.

When god given revelation is imparted to a preacher's heart or a Christian who shares his book through revelation from the pages of this sacred book, Even if it's the middle of the night, get up, write it down, prayerfully, carefully. Don't lose it, and you will. You will. When I was a young student at theological seminar when I was a young theological student, often through the whole night, revelation just kept coming. So I put the light of my mind.

Oh, I excitedly get up. And so not to wake everybody else, I used to have a torch, you know, and writing down. And many nights, I gave up the idea of going back to bed. I well, there's no point. The whole night, imagine in your whole life that you never knew anything that excited you enough to keep you up the whole night.

What a shame. You can't do it often though. You may die. But anyway, I used to write it down all again and again. I didn't have I had this fear of losing anything that God was giving and it just came and came.

One day when I was a student, we as students were required to go across Cape Town, one of the biggest cities in the world, to some event where we sang and testified or something. Then we as a convoy of cars would all travel through the city up around the great mountain. And millions of people come across every year to see from the whole world, to see the most beautiful city in the world. Well, as a convoy of cars now, we used to travel back. And one day, I was in my old car, and revelation started.

Things suddenly from the word and river. Oh, what did I do? I forgot about everybody and just swerve the car off the freeway onto the small little section. Pull out a pen. Start writing down.

I didn't want to lose it. I excitedly oh, I'm gonna preach this one. Suddenly, there was banging at the window, but loud banging. It was the principal of the bible school, mister Peckham. Yes.

What happened? What's wrong? I said, I I'm just getting revelation. Things are just coming, and I had to write it down. I'm so scared I lose it.

Sorry. He said, brother, we just saw you pull the car off. And you slum forward. I thought you were dead. But Keith, you can't do this to us anymore, boy.

He turned away. Well, I felt terrible. But that's life. That's how I've lived all these years, fifty years later still unable to not be excited through nights and days. With God's word, enthralling my heart as God gives revelation, things inaccessible to the unsaved, unaccessible to those who don't care about anything to relay this to the world.

One night here in The USA, I was preaching in a very large conference years ago in Loveland, Colorado. And they had this massive conference center, and all the people housed in right across the city. And I was given a very lovely place. Now I was praying because I just preached that night, and I had to preach in the morning to a very large amount of people from across The USA who had come there for these meetings. And the sermon I had that I thought, well, I better start preparing now because it's not gonna be much time in the morning.

Suddenly, I put it aside because God started giving revelation. And I knew I knew about things in my father's life that made me weep. In his unsaved days. And weep when he was saved and things that he that happened and he did after his salvation as few have ever mounted up to do for God in a lifetime. And all these things before salvation, I had to tell people of what he was, that God saved him, and what radical change, and how the multitude sought God through this man.

He never preached once in his life, and he brought more people to Christ than most preachers in the history of South Africa or Africa to a life of fire for God. Oh, the sun comes up and I, oh, I haven't slept the whole night. That doesn't matter. So I go with the sermon born through the night, and I've never thought ever of sharing to the world. And I stood and I preached to this massive auditorium filled with people.

I've never seen a response in my entire life as that meeting. And I've seen brokenness as the whole place just went down, weeping and sobbing. Children, grown up teenagers, old people, saints, sobbing, seeking God. No one was prayed for. They just all just seeking God.

And the man who organized that conference took that message, not on a video, but those days on some form of tape recording. Okay? Audio. And he gave the title, my godly father. And he sent that message around the whole world.

Now I know that's an incredible statement, but there's few countries left in this world that haven't somehow let me know. Churches, entire churches have listened to that, and people have just sought God in their masses across this world. Whole families just seeking God. Yes. I have lived with this incredible joy of God giving revelation and seeing God move men because I didn't lose it if I'd been staying up through the night.

As many sinners stay up through the night to feed from what Satan gives them. They don't baton eyed it. They won't miss a minute even if they go home tired for a week. What about children of god? More revelation comes now than ever before in my life, and I'm 72 years old.

After fifty years of preaching, almost every single day, sometimes seven meetings a day, many times to thousands of people. Oh, more revelation comes now than ever before. Literally explodes from the pages of this book daily. One becomes fearful that life may be cut short at this age because so much more light, so much more understanding. Because you know the book, you can compare scripture to scripture so much more now than ever before.

And you're scared for a new scared life. I was talking to an old missionary in her eighties now. From our mission in Africa. Miss Pat said in a very godly woman, faithful woman, teenage girl, 18, right through to retirement. And now in her old age, she was there at this convention I was speaking.

And, she said how old she is now, and that God still kept her alive. So I said, you know, I'm 71. I've reached 71. So she smiled. Oh, shame brother.

It's downhill all the way now. You know? Downhill? I didn't not if I can help it. I didn't say that, but I walked away and I thought of Caleb.

Give me this mountain. He's 85. Why can't I do that? Well, they shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. God promises to certain who want to be used of God till the last breath.

And I know many as they died. As they died, they led the doctors and the nurses to Christ. That was their life till their last breath. They died climbing. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age.

Psalm 92 verse 14 is a wonderful promise to hope in, to hold on to, for those who've given their lives to reach the lost. Don't bury your ministry too quickly After having acquired a lifetime of God given experience and knowledge, be careful not to bury it and want to retire and sit in a rocking chair. The most horrible thought I could ever imagine a human could stoop to. Well, if you do, I take it back, in case I'm in trouble. But there is yet another separation.

There is another separation among those who have been called by God to preach. In Judges seven verse three, we read of the 22,000 Israelites, who had responded to fight alongside the godly Gideon. But only 300 were carefully separated by God, who later went on to conquer an army of a 120,000. Judges eight verse 10 records. And in two Samuel 23 verse eight to 39, we are given a detailed record of the 37 brave men who courageously fought alongside king David in one of the darkest hours of his life.

But only three were referred to as mighty men. A unique term in the whole bible that god gave three men. Only three of those 37 brave men, God referred to as mighty men. Adino, who lift up his spear against 800, whom he slew at one time. Two Samuel 23 verse eight.

Elisha, who smoked the Philistines until his hand was weary and his hand clave to his sword, stuck to his sword with all the blood. Two Samuel 23 verse 10. And thirdly, Samah, who courageously stood alone to fight an entire army, an entire army, when all others had fled fearfully. Two Samuel 23 verse 11 records. And these three mighty men, the bible calls them, also broke through the host of the Philistines to draw water out of the well at Bethlehem in staggering devotion to their king.

Two Samuel 23 verse 16 records. These things did these three mightiest of men. One chronicles Lembas 19 records. But the other 37, though they were faithful and brave, did not attain unto the courage and the greatness of these three mighty men. Two Samuel 23 verse nineteen and twenty three records.

They did not attain unto the courage and greatness of these three mighty men, God's word records. Now there is also such a separation from among preachers of those who rise up to be more fearless, selfless, courageous than all others in their in every generation, including this. Daniel prophesied in chapter 11 verse 32 that in the last days and by the way, if you don't know we're in it, you're in trouble. I doubt you even have a bible. If you don't know, this is the last days.

Daniel prophesied in chapter 11 verse 32 that in the last days, contextually, they would rise up men who will do exploits exploits and instruct many who will make a courageous and staggering stand for God's truth in such a way that many on the earth will be profoundly affected, God says, in the last days. Mordecai cried to Esther. Mordecai cried to Esther, who knoweth whether thou who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this. Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this. Esther four verse four.

Does God not cry that to us as preachers in this apostate compromising, shameless generation? Does God not cry that out to our hearts as preachers? He hath made us able ministers. Two Corinthians three verse six says, he had made my mouth like a sharp sword. Isaiah 49 verse two says.

That we may open our mouths boldly, Ephesians six verse 10, with great boldness, one Timothy three verse 13. To contend for the faith, Jude verse three, And to be valiant for the truth. Jeremiah nine verse three. To be counted among those who have hazarded their lives for Christ. To be counted among those who have hazarded their lives for Christ in this world.

Acts 15 verse 26. Brother, if I perish, I perish. Yes. The four verse 16. Now in our opening passage today, in Matthew 10 from verse 30, Jesus spoke of the spiritual fruit and honor that would be bestowed upon those who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the souls of men in the gospel.

But then he carefully added these words, with persecutions. With persecutions. Preacher, Satan will not just sit back if he sees you totally surrendered to God's will, diligently seeking him to make you a sop, threshing instruments in his hand. Isaiah 41 verse 15 says, Satan declared war against such saints. Daniel seven verse 21 warns, the lord Jesus warned Peter, Satan has desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat.

Luke 22 verse 31. In this world in this world, ye shall have tribulation. You know what that means? Total onslaught from Satan, the powers of darkness to his people, always through his people, always through his people who sit in most congregations across this world. Don't doubt that in their messes.

In this world, ye shall have tribulation, total onslaught. John 16 verse 33, he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. Isaiah 59 verse 15 records. How much more then they who preach the truth fearlessly, who turn many to righteousness. Daniel 12 verse three.

Marvel not if the world hates you. One John three verse 13. John 15 verse 18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own.

But because ye are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore, the world hateth you, especially the world in the church. Paul spoke of being in perils, in grave danger among false brethren. In grave danger, in perils among false brethren. Two Corinthians 11 verse 26.

And the time cometh that whosoever killeth you, God manifests in the flesh shed to his servants and to everyone that would serve him till he comes. Don't doubt that. The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. He's speaking about religious people, like the religious Pharisees, the most religious leaders of their day and age, and influential teachers of the scriptures who were of the devil, he said. God said to people who said and thought they were serving God, they wanted him dead.

They were so far from God. The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God's service. John 16 verse two. Today, they may not kill you with a rock like Cain killed Abel. The first murder through jealousy, or with a spear like Saul attempted to kill David.

Oh, no. They may lose their testimony doing that. Today, they say, come and let us smite him with the tongue. Jeremiah 18 verse 18. Let us destroy him with the tongue.

In the school of Satan, if he can just find someone that's willing to listen to him, what they haven't once in a destroyer is so much good. Come and let us smite him, destroy him without tongue. Jeremiah 18 verse 18. The tongue is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison, god warns in James three verse eight. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Proverbs 18 verse 21, you choose to make or break a man with this. It's your choice, though. You choose even to destroy a preacher because it just takes one sentence that the devil put in your mouth. And I've seen preachers crawl into the graves destroyed by that one sentence. That's all it takes.

In case you don't know the power you've got by just the power of suggestion, let alone proof. Satan goeth to and fro in the earth, walking up and down. And at Job one verse seven, your adversary, your enemy, the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Destroy, one Peter five verse eight, and they, his people, go up and down for him as tale bearers. Leviticus 19 verse 16, they go up and down for him as tale bearers.

And here is where all faithful preachers need to be careful. For the words of a tale bearer are as wounds that go down like a knife into the innermost part of the belly, Proverbs 18 verse eight warns. They love devouring words. Psalm 52 verse four warns of Satan's children. The prophet Habakkuk cried faith fearfully to God.

Wherefore does thou look upon them that deal treacherously and hold us thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he. Epochic one verse 12. When the wicked devoureth, destroys the man that is more righteous than he. I considered all the oppressions. I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold the tears of such that were oppressed, but they had no comforter.

And on the side of their oppressors, there was power, but they had no comforter. Ecclesiastes four verse one. And here is where we are in danger of taking our eyes off from God. Here is where we are in danger of taking our eyes off from God as so many preachers have. And we can become gravely wounded preacher.

When my heart is wounded within me. Psalm a 109 by 22. Their approach had broken my heart. Psalm 69 by 20. And I said, oh, that I had wings like a dove, but then when I fly away and be at rest, Psalm 55 verse six.

But we are prisoners of the earth, beloved. Lamentations three verse 34. We are prisoners of this earth, which long at times for death. But it cometh not, Job three verse 21. I once in weariness of life, said to a very godly German man back in Africa, I honestly wish I could die.

And to face any more of the cruel, unjust wounds that come from people who profess to know God, even from preachers and to face anymore just because of what I'm preaching. I think I'd rather die. And he gently answered me, this godly old German man, no, Keith boy. You're wrong. That would be the easy way out, Keith.

We all have crushes to bear, boy. We are all called to endure hardness, not to give up or want to get out. You see, my boy, your darkest moment in life, don't doubt this, Keith, the darkest moment you will ever face in life. God is doing his greatest work in your life. Or he wouldn't be allowing it because he's still God.

It is in such times, Keith, that the Bible will become your source of survival. It's in such times that the Bible ceases to be your source of doctrine, boy. Forever, it becomes your source of survival and that's when you can actually preach the way God wants you to preach. Not before. In such times as these, God clothes us with humility, Keith.

You can't do that. Only God can do that. He allows things. It isn't orchestrated by God, boy. It's sent by the devil to destroy you, but allowed by God in his greatness to make you what he wants you to become.

Don't you ever attribute greatness to Satan, boy? God clothes us with humility in such times. One Peter five verse five. It's in such times that God does instruct us and teach us discretion. Isaiah 28 verse 26.

To make you preach what he wants you to preach, the way he wants you to preach. That you would never preach such things in such brokenness to broken lives out there, and his God did this. That I should know how to speak. Isaiah 50 verse four. And preachers always remember always remember, he was despised and rejected of men.

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53 verse three. Yet he opened not his mouth, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. One Peter two verse 21. Set a watch, oh lord, before my mouth.

Keep the doors of my lips. Psalm a 141 verse three, the prayer I prayed more than any other prayer in my life. In every circumstance, we say, oh god, set a watch before my mouth. Keep the doors of my lips now, God. Oh, I lose the right to talk of God again to these people.

Say not, I will do to him as he hath done to me. Proverbs 24 verse 29. When Christ was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. 19.

I will undo, Keith, when I was on my face, I will undo, Keith, when I was on my face, I will undo, Keith, when I was on my face, I will undo all that afflict thee, God promises. Zephaniah three verse 19. I will undo, Keith, when I was on my face crying out to die what they were doing to me. I opened the bible and God said that to me. I will undo all that afflict thee, and he did.

I've seen three men in one day drop dead in one town within thirty minutes who were trying to destroy me and my ministry as multitudes had sought God through me when I was young. I didn't want that. I aged. I wept for two weeks. I couldn't stop.

No. No. The whole town, especially the unsaved, knew it was God's judgment. No one doubted that. And every pulpit in that town is open to me to this day.

Every single pulpit. I will undo all that afflict these a fearful, fearful, fearful statement for a preacher to realize who's saying this. Pastor Don Kovel, who reigns as a steward of mine for many, many years now in your states, in your country, he once said to me, I'd rather be attacked. I'd rather be attacked than to be the attacker in the light of the scriptures, Keith. For god in righteousness turns the devices of the wicked men to naught, god says.

Requitting the wicked and justifying the righteous, two Chronicles six verse 23, by bringing his own conduct upon his head, his own head, till all iniquity shall stop her mouth. And I've seen God do that over fifty years to so many that I'm scared to look back. I don't know if one man left that God didn't deal with. I didn't have to. The one thing God required of me was, don't fight back.

This is the only religion in earth where you win the battle by not fighting back when wrongs come on you. Till all iniquities should stop her mouth. Psalm 107 verse 42. But if it had not been for the lord If it had not been for the Lord who was on our side. When men rose up against us, then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us.

Psalm a 124 verse two. When all hell rose up against God's people, when he had commanded them to work, God said, be strong and work for I am with you. Haggai two verse four. Fear thou not. Let not thine hands be slack, Keith.

Zephaniah three verse 16. Be ye steadfast, unmovable. Unmovable. Always abounding in the work of the Lord. The one thing you've got to learn, preachers, no matter what the devil or man is doing, if all hell is coming against you.

Just go on preparing for the next battle, even in the pulpit. But don't stop. Leave them to God. Leave the fighting to me, Keith. Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

One Corinthians 15 verse 58. Now perhaps in closing, the words that God gave to Joshua in Joshua one verse five are the best words I could end this sermon with. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Only be thou strong. Be thou strong and very courageous.