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  GOD'S CRY TO ALL PREACHERS
  by Keith Daniel
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the sacrificial nature of following
Christ, highlighting the need for believers to be willing to leave
everything for the sake of the Gospel. It challenges preachers to be
separated unto the Gospel of God, to prioritize the Kingdom of Christ
above all possessions, and to have broken hearts for the lost. The
sermon also addresses the importance of being courageous and fearless in
preaching the truth, even in the face of persecution and opposition.

Topics: "Sacrificial Discipleship", "Courage in Preaching"
Scripture References: Matthew 10:30, Romans 1:1, 2 Timothy 2:3, 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:58

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This sermon emphasizes the sacrificial nature of following Christ,
highlighting the need for believers to be willing to leave everything
for the sake of the Gospel. It challenges preachers to be separated unto
the Gospel of God, to prioritize the Kingdom of Christ above all
possessions, and to have broken hearts for the lost. The sermon also
addresses the importance of being courageous and fearless in preaching
the truth, even in the face of persecution and opposition.

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Mark 10, verse 29. There is no man, there is no man that hath left
house. Matthew 19, verse 29 says, that hath forsaken house.

There is no man that hath left house, O brethren, as brothers, or
sisters, or fathers, or mothers, or wife, or children, for my sake, for
my sake, and the gospels. But he shall receive an hundredfold now, now,
in this time, houses. And brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and
children, and lands, with persecutions, with persecutions.

Men separated unto the gospel of God, men separated unto the gospel of
God. Romans 1, verse 1 says, I will place, I will place no value on
anything. I will place no value on anything I have, or may possess,
except, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

The words of David Livingston, no man, no man that woreth, that woreth,
entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. No man that woreth,
entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please
him, who hath chosen him, that he may please him, who hath chosen him to
be a soldier. 2 Timothy 2, verse 4, soldiers of the cross that have
sacrificed everything to reach the lost for Christ.

I was in a meeting here in the USA last year, as I was touring for three
months, where a young man began to pray fervently. So fervently, I
looked at him and opened my eyes, but my heart was deeply stirred when I
heard him cry to God, and I watched his face with tears, agonizing. Oh
God, oh God, give us broken hearts for the lost.

Give us broken hearts for the lost. Have you got that, sister? Do you
know anything about that, brother? Jesus cried, compel them to come.
There's something about that word.

It's more than just a testimony if you think you've really got to do the
right thing. Compel them to come. In Luke 14, verse 23, Jude, Jude,
verse 22, have compassion.

Do you? Have you any compassion? Answer God, making a difference. Others
save, save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, pulling them out of
the fire. Have you ever witnessed in that way that God, heaven, and
Satan, and souls are staggered to compassion, pulling them out of the
fire? Are you such a soul winner? I sat earlier this year with a very
godly and courageous woman in Africa who was a great soul winner.

I was honored to sit with her and to pray with her for a while. And as
we were speaking, I mentioned, I spoke of Christians who are not soul
winners, who are not soul winners. You know, that woman was so shocked
that I was deeply moved.

Her eyes were filled with tears, her lips were, she looked at me in
shock and grief. She said, Brother, if we know that there is a hell and
we don't warn people, we are murderers, we are murderers. And she put
her head down and tears just flowed down her face.

And what I'd say, the possibility of Christians who are not soul
winners, murderers. How many people have you stood with yet made no
attempt to witness to them? Though you could have, you could have. But
as you walked away, written across that person's life are these tragic
words for all eternity, no man cared for my soul.

No man cared for my soul. Psalm 142 verse 4, Ye have not sought that
which was lost. Ezekiel 34 verse 4, Ye have not sought that which was
lost, God cried.

And in chapter 33 verse 8, He warned, When I say unto the wicked, O
wicked man, thou shalt surely die. If thou dost not speak to warn the
wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity. But, but
his blood, his blood will I require at thine hand.

Fearful words, Christian, fearful words. But do you believe that will
happen to you? Or do you think Ezekiel is the only man in history God
would be so grieved at if he didn't take that which God had committed to
him and expected him to preach to those God wanted to be saved? My
wife's brother, Andre Leroux, a farmer in the Eastern Cape of Southern
Africa, he was sharing with us a little while ago, weeks ago, in the
evening devotions in Jeffreys Bay. He said, Someone will be accountable
for the lost in this world, Keith, those who failed to witness when they
could have, when they had the opportunity, but didn't.

Those who didn't live the life expected of a Christian before the
unsaved, who as a result, as a result, closed their hearts to God, to
God's salvation that they heard from your lips. Someone will be held
accountable, Keith, don't doubt it, for the lost in this world. Or
preachers who didn't preach uncompromising truth faithfully from the
pulpit in fear of man.

Preachers will not only be held accountable for what they say in the
pulpit, but for what they do not say, that they know is in this book,
but will not say for fear of losing your tithing, or your seat, or your
smile, for fear of any ostracization or criticism. Martin Luther said, I
have not refrained my lips. I have not concealed thy truth from the
great congregation.

Psalm 40 verse 9, But how many preachers have, how many preachers in
this world have fear of man, so they let them go to hell, murderers.
What are you? How would you care to rephrase that, preacher? But God
promised, God promised in Jeremiah 3 verse 15, I will give you pastors,
that is spiritual shepherds, according to mine heart, that will turn,
that will turn many away from iniquity. Malachi 2 verse 6, that will
turn many to righteousness.

Daniel 12 verse 3, Now at the moment of our salvation, at the moment of
our salvation, we are all entrusted with this, the set work book in the
school of God, the Bible. But to a 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 unto the gospel. A staggering amount of
God's Word addresses those who God has called to preach, who have been
separated, separated unto the gospel.

Now, when Peter asked Christ about John's life and ministry, Jesus said,
What is that to thee? Follow thou me. John 21 verse 21, Each preacher,
beloved, each preacher has a unique calling and ministry to fulfill.
Some will be embraced and honored and revered by multitudes, while
others will be led by God to preach cutting words that will anger the
multitudes.

Some will be greatly gifted in their preaching, that will be immediately
envied by carnal preachers, like the Pharisees, who immediately felt
threatened by Christ, and therefore, and only that reason, they evilly
sought to destroy him. Pilate knew that for envy they had delivered him.
But all, though their ministry may be greatly differing, all, though
their ministry may greatly differ, all are called, all are called to
separate themselves to be consumed, to be consumed in a fervent study of
the Word of God daily.

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.
Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1 Timothy 4
verse 13, We nourish up in the words of faith and of good doctrine.

1 Timothy 4 verse 6 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. Titus 1 verse 9, Therefore study, study to
show thyself approved unto God, a workman, a workman that needeth not to
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2 verse 15, Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with
all thy might, with all thy might. Ecclesiastes 9 verse 10, We all must
seek God to find our specific ministry and then redeem the time.
Ephesians 5 verse 16, For the time is short.

50 years ago I started preaching. It was like a moment ago. So what's
left? The greatest shock you'll ever have in life, every one of you, is
how short life is.

You will wake up to it in one terrifying moment when you think it's just
beginning, it's finished. It's over. I guarantee every one of you.

Redeem the time, for the time is short. 1 Corinthians 7 verse 20 warns
us, Seest thou, seest thou a man diligent, diligent in his business?
Proverbs 22 verse 29 asks, Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
The godly Will McFarlane, most certainly the godliest man I ever knew in
my life, without him saying a word about Jesus, people fell on their
knees in public and sought God to save their souls just by being near
him. The only man I ever trembled in his presence in my whole life, as I
saw what God could do with one man just looking at his countenance, if
he let God have all his.

The godly Will McFarlane once looked sadly at a group of young people
and after a while he wearily shed of them, nothing to do and all day to
do it. Amy Carmichael wrote, Let me not sink to be a clod, make me thy
fuel, flame of God. So firstly, firstly, firstly there is a separation
from all other Christians of those that God commissions to preach, who
like Paul are separated unto the gospel and for the gospel, Romans 1
verse 1. But secondly, there is a separation, 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 of every preacher to not entangle himself in unnecessary things
of this world ever, but to devote himself wherever possible to fervent
study and prayerful meditation of God's sacred word daily. And preacher,
God solemnly cries, Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee
great and mighty things which thou knowest not. The Hebrew is, I will
show thee great and mighty things inaccessible on a human level without
God.

Jeremiah 33 verse 3, So we cry to him, Give me understanding. Psalm 119
verse 34, Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of
thy law. Psalm 119 verse 18.

Now, a sermon, a sermon is never simply worked out, brother, then you
should go to another trade. If you think that's what you're doing, a
sermon is never, ever just simply worked out. A God-given sermon is born
as the Holy Spirit gives revelation through his word.

The Spirit giveth life to this book, 2 Corinthians 3 verse 6. And
preachers, we need to be careful here. When a baby is born, you don't
say to it, Hang on now, it's the middle of the night. Be a bit
considerate.

Daddy's tired. Can't you wait until the morning? That's a bit stupid,
isn't it? Well, preachers, be careful. Be careful here.

When a God-given revelation is imparted to your heart from the sacred
pages of this book, you are on holy ground. Even if it's the middle of
the night, brother, get up, write it down. Don't dare lose it, and you
will.

You will. When I was a young theological student at the Glenvar Bible
School in Cape Town, often throughout the whole night, revelation just
kept coming. So, I just kept getting up in excitement to write
everything down.

Some nights giving up the idea of getting back into bed at all. The
whole night, imagine living through your life and you couldn't find
anything to be excited about to actually stay awake the whole night. Oh,
how boring life must be.

You can't do too much or you'll die young. But anyway, I just kept
getting up, giving up the idea of going back to bed again in order to
write everything down as the excitement, the enthrallment of God, the
Holy Ghost, giving revelation to this book that you dare not lose. In my
fear of losing anything, I wrote everything down through the nights,
often weeping as God gave revelation, often worshiping that such
revelation has been imparted to a man.

One day, after some event that the students were involved in across the
other side of Cape Town, one of the biggest cities in the world. So, we
go along the freeways in a convoy of cars, all that had a vehicle with
the college vehicles, putting all the students. Yeah, we go down all
these cars.

We're coming back now from this event where we sang and testified and
everything else, some convention, the other side of the city.
Nonetheless, here we're driving along the freeway back to the Bible
school when suddenly, there's no way you could comprehend what I'm
talking about unless you experience it. The revelation just kept, whoa,
whoa, whoa.

So, what did I do? I forgot about everybody else. I just took the car
off the road into the side little thing, boom, pulled out a paper and a
pen and started writing. I didn't want to lose it.

After a while, there was a banging on my car window. It's the principle
of the Bible school. Yes, what's wrong? What's happened? I didn't want
to lose anything, but there was this revelation just coming.

God is suddenly breaking things open to me. I just had to write it down
for fear of losing it. Oh, he says, gee, we saw you just pull the car
over as if you're going to crash into the side and suddenly you just
slump, boom.

I thought you were dead. You can't do this to us anymore, boy. Well,
anyway, I would have been in total poverty as a preacher if it had not
been for Dr. Colin Peckham.

I thank God for him and every memory of him. One night here in America
many years ago now, in a place called Loveland, Colorado, there was a
big conference they asked me to preach at and it had a lot of people.
Whoa, that hall, whatever it was that they hired was just filled as far
as you could look, just people and people and people cramming in there.

Oh, it was a joy. So after the meeting, I go back to the house they
provided for me and I put aside now what I thought I had to preach the
next morning. So I said, let me prepare a bit before I go to sleep
because there's not going to be much.

But you know, within minutes, I put that sermon aside as God began to
give to me thoughts I'd never ever thought in my life about my father,
his life before his salvation and then his salvation and then his life
after salvation. Everything I could think of until the day he died that
shook the powers of hell and shook this world. He turned his world
upside down.

Almost every step he took shook the powers of hell, I guarantee you
that. So I wrote it, I thought of all these things that I could remember
my daddy and what we endured as a house until his salvation and what God
did and what happened through him in this world until he died. And so I
went to the meeting.

I didn't sleep one minute the whole night, trembling, weeping as I
remembered, as God brought to remembrance. It means even in my
childhood, remembering of my daddy right through to as he lay there
dying. I said, hold into that.

I have seldom ever seen such a response in my life of 50 years of
preaching as what happened in that meeting. I made no appeal. There was
just a bowing as people just went to the floor and just started weeping
on their knees everywhere, just crying, weeping to God.

The gentleman who asked me to preach at that convention took that. It
wasn't filmed. It was a tape those days.

He had recorded it on tape and he gave it the title, My Godly Father.
That was spread around the world when they told me roughly an estimate
of how many copies have spread around this world. Not only that
movement, but other movements such as took it and spread it and the
homes and the souls and the families that have found Christ across the
entire world through that message.

I didn't go to sleep that night and stand up empty the next day of what
God wanted me to preach. Thank God. That is how I've had the joy of
living for many years now and preaching.

More revelation comes now than ever before in my life. Isn't that
wonderful? I'm 72. It literally explodes from the pages of the sacred
book daily.

One becomes fearful that life may be cut short now when so much more
light and understanding is being given now than ever before because now
you know the Bible and you compare Scripture before you even pass one
thought. The whole Bible is comparative. I'm scared you'll be cut short
now.

It's just coming, bursting like a flame into your heart and setting you
on so on fire you want to run out into the street and tell the whole
world what God says. I was talking to a former missionary of our
mission, the Africa Evangelistic Band. I believe it is now the oldest
surviving mission in Africa that has sent literally thousands of workers
throughout that continent.

There's even one of the dear young men now. Is he here? David Wiley, are
you here? David, where is he? Brother, I can't see you. Oh dear, okay.

I knew him when he was a boy. I was a boy, too, actually. I was four
years older than him.

David Wiley. Oh, we saw him up in Star City when they advertised there
when they asked me two or three years ago, and he saw this advert and
Keith Daniel. We came to hear, and there he was.

His father was the greatest influence of our work in the Congo in those
days. So many of the workers and the mamas were slaying the
missionaries, slaughtering them. Anyway, his father and mother did a
great work for God there.

The radio stations still went on from other countries when they weren't
allowed back in, and I believe it's still going, and David had a lot to
do. Anyway, he's one of the children of one of our great missionaries,
and I'm very grateful he's here today because I loved your father and
mother and revered every moment I ever spent with them. Well, I was
talking to one of the former missionaries of our mission, a retired
woman who's now in her 80s, Miss Pat Seddon, and I said to her as I
stood there, I said, you know, I'm 71 now.

She said, oh, shame, brother. It's downhill all the way now. Oh, not if
I can help it.

Oh, well, Caleb was 85 when he cried, give me this mountain. Oh,
hallelujah, for such people who don't give up at 60 to die in a rocking
chair. Oh, anyway, they shall still bring forth fruit in old age.

Psalm 92 verse 14 is a wonderful promise to open, to hold onto for those
that have given their lives to reach the lost. I know some of our
missionaries, as they died, they led the soul to God that was tending
them, the doctors, the nurses. That's all they lived for.

Last breath, hallelujah. Imagine dying and not being concerned of the
souls because you really had no concern for any souls ever. You can't
suddenly start a death, sir.

They shall bring forth fruit in old age. Don't bury your ministry too
quickly after having acquired a lifetime of God-given experience and
knowledge. You can't get that in a Bible school, sir.

Don't bury it too quickly if God's given it to you, and you can hold on.
But there is yet another separation. There is yet another separation
among those who have been called by God to preach.

In Judges 7 verse 3, we read of the 22,000 Israelites who had responded
to fight alongside the godly Gideon. Of those 22,000, only 300 were
carefully separated by God, who later went on to conquer an army of
120,000. Judges 8 verse 10 records.

And in 2 Samuel 23 verse 8 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, the 37 brave men. But of those 37, only three
were referred to as chief among the mighty men, a very unique term in
the whole Bible, mighty men. Adino, who lift up his spear against 800,
whom he slew at one time, 2 Samuel 23 verse 8. Secondly, Eleazar, who
smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto
the sword.

It was stuck onto the sword with blood, 2 Samuel 23 verse 10. And
thirdly, Shammah, who courageously stood alone to fight an entire army,
when all others had fearfully fled, 2 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 a
staggering devotion to their king, 2 Samuel 23 verse 16 records.

These things did these three, these three singled out, 1 Corinthians 11
verse 19. But the other 34, though faithful and brave, did not attain
unto the courage and greatness of these three mighty men, 2 Samuel 23
verse 19 and 23 records. Now there is also such a separation from among
preachers, beloved, of those who rise up to be more fearless, selfless,
and courageous than all others in every generation.

There is a separation, such a separation from among preachers of those
who rise up to be more fearless, selfless, and courageous than all
others in every generation. Daniel prophesied in chapter 11 verse 32
that in the last days there would rise up men who will do exploits for
their God and instruct many, that is, who will make a courageous and
staggering stand for God's truth in such a way that many across this
earth will be profoundly affected in the last days. Mordecai cried to
Esther, who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom, for such a
time is this.

Esther 4 verse 4, does God not cry that to us as preachers in this
compromising and apostate generation? He hath made us able ministers, 2
Corinthians 3 verse 6 says. He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword.
Isaiah 49 verse 2 says that we may open our mouths boldly, Ephesians 6
verse 10, with great boldness.

1 Timothy 3 verse 13, to contend for the faith. Jude verse 3, and be
valiant for the truth. Jeremiah 9 verse 3, and be counted among those
who have hazarded their lives for Christ in this world, to be counted
among those who have hazarded their lives for Christ in this world, Acts
15 verse 26.

And brother, if I perish, I perish, Esther 4 verse 16. Now, in our
opening passage of Scripture, 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. But then he
carefully added these words, with persecution, with persecutions.

Preacher, preacher, Satan will not just sit back if he sees you totally
surrendered to God's will, diligently seeking him to make you into a
sharp threshing instrument in his hand, in his powerful hand. Isaiah 41
verse 15 says, Satan declared war against such saints. Daniel 7 verse 21
warns, the Lord Jesus warned Peter, Satan hath desired to have you, that
he may sift you as wheat.

Luke 22 verse 31, in this world ye shall have tribulation. John 16, 33,
there is total onslaught of Satan and demons. Jesus said to his
disciples, in this world ye shall have tribulation.

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 3, marvel not if the world
hate you.

1 John 3 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, 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,
that's in grave danger among false brethren. Being in perils, danger
among false brethren.

2 Corinthians 11 verse 26, in the time cometh that whosoever killeth you
will think that he doeth God's service. That's contextually frightening,
because it's speaking about religious people who actually believe
they're serving God, they're doing God's service, but they're so far
from God, those that thought they were serving him hated him and wanted
him dead. They were the leading religious people of the day.

You think that's changed? Today, they may not kill you with a rock like
Cain killed Abel, 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 a tongue.

Jeremiah 18 verse 18, let us destroy him. If Satan can impart any
knowledge to you of how to destroy anybody, and if you're willing to
listen to Satan, you don't need a gun to kill a man, sir, or a knife.
You murder somebody more evilly, cruelly, with this.

Just one sentence is all the devil needs, and a man, a great man, will
crawl into the grave because the power of suggestion. He's guilty even
if he's not. That's all the devil needs is a tongue, a tongue.

Come and let us smite him with the tongue. The tongue is an unruly evil
full of deadly poison. James 3 verse 8 says, 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. It's your choice.

Satan goeth to and fro in the earth, God says, from walking up and down
in it. Job 1 verse 7, your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh
about seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5 verse 8, and they go up and
down for him as tail bearers.

Leviticus 19 verse 16 says, and here is where all faithful preachers
need to be careful, for the words of a tail bearer are as wounds. They
cause wounds that go down like a knife into the innermost part of the
body of the body. Proverbs 18 verse 8, they love devouring words.

Psalm 52 verse 4 warns, the prophet Habakkuk cried fearfully to God,
wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest
thy tongue when the wicked devoureth a man that is more righteous than
he. Habakkuk 1 verse 12, when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
righteous than he. I considered all the oppressions that are done under
the sun, and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, but they had no
comforter, and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they
had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4 verse 1, and here is where we are in danger of taking our
eyes off of God, and can become gravely wounded. Preacher, we can become
gravely wounded when my heart is wounded within me. Psalm 109 verse 22,
their reproach hath broken my heart.

Psalm 69 verse 20, and I said, O that I had wings, that I could die, for
then would I fly away. I would fly away and be at rest. Psalm 55 verse
6, but we are prisoners of the earth.

Beloved, lamentation see verse 34, which at times long for death, but it
cometh not. Job 3 verse 21, I once in weariness of life, years ago now,
spoke to a very godly man, a German man in Africa, and I said to him, it
would be better if I just die. I would welcome it, and to face any more
of this cruel unjust world.

This dear man looked at me and smiled gently. He said, no, Keith, boy,
you're wrong. That's the easy way out, boy.

We all have our cross to bear, Keith, in this world. We are called to
endure sorrows, to endure suffering, to endure trials. 2 Timothy 2 verse
3, in the school of God, boy, and always remember that in your darkest
moment, Keith, God is doing his greatest work in your life.

He hasn't ceased to be God. Oh, orchestrated by the devil, yes, but
allowed by God who is always to be looked at the broader picture of why,
what he allows. He hasn't lost control, Keith.

In your darkest moment, my boy, God is doing his greatest work in your
life where it wouldn't be allowed, for he is God. For it is in such
times, Keith, that the Bible ceases to be your source of doctrine and
becomes your source of survival, my boy. And you can't preach, boy,
properly until it is that others can survive too, Keith, through you.

It is in such times that God clothes us with humility. You can't do that
for yourself, boy. 1 Peter 5 verse 5, it is in such times that God doth
instruct us and teach us discretion, Keith.

Isaiah 28 verse 26, to make you preach what he wants you to preach, the
way he wants you to preach, Keith, that I should know how to speak.
Isaiah 50 verse 4, and preacher, always remember, always remember he was
despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief. Isaiah 53 verse 3, yet he opened not his mouth, leaving us an
example that we should follow his steps.

1 Peter 2 verse 21, set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door
of my lips. Psalm 141 verse 3, 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. 1 Peter 2 verse 23, for I will undo all that afflict
thee.

God promised in Zephaniah 3 verse 19, I will undo. I remember when I was
on my face and that verse was given to me, and within 30 minutes, three
men had fallen down dead in one town who were trying to destroy me. I
aged years in the next two weeks that that happened.

I didn't want it. That's why I have fallen on my knees in front of
people that want to destroy me and beg them, not for my sake, sir, but
for yours. I'm begging you, sir.

I will undo all that afflict thee. Zephaniah 3 verse 19, Pastor Don
Covell once said to me, I'd rather be attacked, Keith, than to be the
attacker in the light of this book. I'd rather be attacked than to be
the attacker.

For God in righteousness turns the devices of wicked men to naught,
requiting the evil, the wicked, and justifying the righteous, literally
bringing his own conduct upon his own head. 2 Corinthians 6 verse 23,
till all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Psalm 107 verse 42, but 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 124 verse 2, 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 2 verse 4, that matter, Keith, what's going on around you?
You leave the fighting to me. Don't you fight? That's when you can be
destroyed, boy.

There are very few left, and I don't even know what became of them who
tried to destroy me that God didn't destroy in a way that left even
whole towns in deathly silence and shock, because they knew it was God's
judgment. Even the unsaved said so. Fear thou not.

Let not thine hands be slack. You just go on working. You just go on
preparing.

You just go on to the next pulpit. Leave them to me, but you go on.
Don't stop.

Let not thine hands be slack. Fear not. Zephaniah 3 verse 16, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15 verse 58, perhaps the words God spoke to Joshua in
Joshua 1 verse 5 are the words I should end the sermon with. I will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee, verse 7 only. Be thou strong and very
courageous, no matter what Satan and wounded soldier in the battle.

For the Lord, fallen hero, but you still hold your sword, and though you
are fallen, God looks from above, and you must not doubt this. He looks
down with love. Valiant warrior, Satan looks now with glee, and his
people are glad what they see.

Their hearts were condemned as you preach from God's word. And they were
all angered by what they had heard. You had dared to preach God's solemn
truth.

He remembers how you stood from your youth, how those that condemned you
and rose at your fall, all hate you. As David was hated by Saul, as you
lie there, you look back to see who's left standing. You cry, can this
be? For those who condemned you are fallen away.

Hold on, though you're wounded, till God has his way. Be wounded,
soldier, take God's healing balm, for like David, he heareth your song.
As Peter was sinking, Christ held out his hand.

He now holds his promise by which you can stand. You can stand, so take
your sword to do battle for your Lord. Though you're fallen on the
ground, through his promise, grace is found.

Wounded soldier in the battle for the Lord, fallen hero, but you still
hold your sword. And though you are fallen, God looks from above. And
you must not doubt this, he looks down with love.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/KqI1JIDMeaE.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/keith-daniel/gods-cry-to-all-preachers/
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