In this sermon, the preacher addresses the audience, expressing disappointment that they were unable to receive the messages being preached. He questions why they allowed themselves to be influenced by the devil and become cruel towards others. The preacher then references the parable of the sower, explaining that some people are like the seed that falls by the wayside and is immediately snatched away by Satan. He warns the audience that they may be susceptible to the devil's influence and urges them to let go of their sins and embrace the cross. The sermon concludes with a plea for the audience to seek God and respond to the message before it's too late.

He can use a preacher in this convention, if I'm not careful. Paul said, guard yourself, preacher, because when you've preached to others, you yourself become a castaway, and imagine what happens. Oh, oh, Paul was disciplined, deeply disciplined. He can use preachers, don't doubt that. I bring my body into subjection, and he cries out to all who preach, to be doubly careful to guard themselves, and carefully be disciplined. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway, and then what will happen to the souls that heard me? If I'm not disciplined and careful, do you think the devil can't use a man who's preached? One of the greatest preachers in South Africa, just a few years ago, fell into the most depression, and do you know how many have stumbled across our land through that? Do you honestly think he isn't going to aim at you, preacher, because you are preaching? You've got to guard yourself from anything he orchestrates. He can use churches, who suddenly want war with each other. Be careful you don't devour each other, Paul says, if you bite each other. Be careful you are not devoured one another, be careful. But what happens to the lost who walk away? And how many churches have I witnessed the lost walk away, never to come near Christ's people again? Having tasted that war, when they should have known you were his disciples by love, one for another. Oh, if the devil can find anyone to cause that, do you think he won't? He can use babies. Now I'm treading on soft ground, tender ground here, so don't think I'm preaching at you, but listen, this is going to shock you. If I start, I'm going to write a book one day, I better ask you to please print it when I'm dead, otherwise I'll die prematurely. They'll kill me. But let me start just touching the tip of the iceberg, the book will come later when I'm dead, okay? If someone like Don would print it, please. So much I'm writing. I was in a church where a preacher was pouring his soul out and a baby screamed and screamed to the degree that you couldn't believe it, but the mother wouldn't get up and go out. At the door, this is the sock, the minister of the church, not the one who preached, but the minister. And I was standing right close by. He looked at this woman and tears came down his face and he said with a loud voice, lady, I watched you pinching that child and pinching it cruelly. What sort of a mother are you? You didn't know anyone could look, but I got up and I looked around and I came to where I could watch you, to see what you pinched that child again and again to make it scream uncontrollably. That virtually no one in this building tonight could have received the messages. You sent people to hell. Why? Was it because you were under conviction that you couldn't tolerate, said you didn't have any compassion for your child? You're so scared about your own feelings. You became cruel. Why did you do that? He wept. She just looked right at him and ran out. Do you think the devil can't do that? A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside and it was shortened down and the fowls of the air devoured it. Those by the wayside are they that hear, then come with the devil. Satan come with immediately. In this convention, here you are, those by the wayside are they that hear. Is this what's going to happen to you? Then come with the devil. Straight way. Satan come with immediately. How? Is he going to do it to you? Is he going to use you to do it to others? Are you available? Dare a preacher preach such things you say. Oh yes. Even if it's one left on earth. Take away the word out of their hearts. Let's face it, believe and be saved. Oh you'll do it. Or Christ was just talking words that couldn't happen. You choose whether to say, the Lord Jesus Christ wasn't warning us. You and me to listen carefully everyone. They in the rock are they which when they hear, receive the word with joy. Now that's staggering. Is that you? Did you hear like people are hearing and there was a moment you received the word with joy, you didn't fight it. The devil didn't use anybody to stop you hearing, to close your heart, to fail in front of you, to cause chaos that you walked away from and said not for me. No, you received it with joy. Is that right? And these have no roots which for a while believe, which for a while believe. And in time of temptation, fall away, fall away. Hebrews 3 verse 12, take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. Don't you dare tell me I'm making a statement of doctrine. I'm just quoting the scriptures of God's sake. Do not accuse me. Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Can I repeat that? Will the church of Jesus Christ allow me to repeat that please? To repeat what God said in this book. We are made partakers of Christ if, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end, God says. And if that offends you, you're offended at God, not at me. So don't dare name me when you walk out there and say, Teresie, name God's book. And for God's sake, start cutting out the verses. You don't believe him, but don't carry a book around that you cannot read every verse because you've labored your colors to some mass that can't afford to even quote certain verses where they desperately needed to be quoted to this generation anyway. Hebrews 10 verse 38. Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition. We are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them who believe to the saving of the soul. 1 John 2 verse 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. They in the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy, did you? And these have no root which for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away. Did that happen to you? And you're still holding on to the testimony, but you fell away from anything real that this book, the whole book that is, could make you feel safe anymore. If you're honest, that is, and not biased. 2 Peter 2 verse 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them in the beginning. It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Now, I want to cry out to you. There's no such a thing as that God's grace isn't hovering over you wanting you to find vital reality. There's no such a thing. No such a thing. That word, they cannot repent if they've tasted everything and gone now back. There's no repentance. Oh, it's wild. That word seeing is wild in the Greek. Look it up. There's no such a thing as permanently, there's never been no growing of grace. For God's sake, if that's your experience, seek God with truth. Seek God desperately. Don't dare close your heart and think, well, that's the end. The latter end is going to be, that isn't what God wants. It's still longing in his heart for you. That's why he's giving this to you. What's the point of warning a man who hasn't got any heart? Do you honestly want to blame God to do that? Don't blame God for man's decision. I would. That's the will of God. But you would not. The will of God didn't happen. Can a preacher dare say that? Well, Christ said it. Forgive me for just telling you. He sent for his servants to call them that were bidden, that were invited. But they would not come. Do you honestly think he didn't want them to come inviting them? Do you honestly think man has no free will because God is sovereign? Do you honestly blame God for man rejecting Christ, who died and tasted death for every man? Is that honestly your doctrine? Pity you. Before you read Romans 9, for God's sake, read Romans 1, 2 and 3. For this cause God gave them up. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up. Don't dare tell me Romans 9 said God gave them no choice. There's a cause before you get to Romans 9. No man will stand before God and say, I had no choice. It was thy good pleasure to make me, to send me to be damned for eternity, and that made thee a pleaser. That isn't my doctrine, sir. And I pity you if it's yours. Does that make me lose ground? No. Because if there's one verse I quote out of its context, for God's sake, walk away. Am I a Wesleyan Arminiast? Am I a Calvinist? Sorry. You'll never know. All I am is someone who quotes everything. Because it must have been for a reason to be there in the full revelation of Christ. There must be a time you do quote it. Or don't you quote passages, sir, that shouldn't be there. I'm diverting. Then he comes to this. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. That's tragic. That which fell among thorns are they, which when they have heard, go forth. And it choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. Now in its context as a verse, and the whole parable, and the light of the rest of the scriptures, there was a response. There was fruit. There was a reaction. There was something of an effect. But what choked it? What destroyed it this time? Well, the fruit was never brought forth. It never came to perfection, never became something that could survive and last and endure to the end. And not just for a while believe and fall away when things, temptations and accusations, underminings and onslaughts from the devil through his evil. Oh no, here we have a moment that God stops people who won't throw away everything to receive that one pearl. Do you remember that lovely parable? All, you find it all in Matthew 13 and all in Luke 8, the whole lot, these parables. I wish I could just bring all the parables of things to that one day. 1345, the king of heaven is like unto a merciful man seeking goodly pearls, who when he found one pearl of great price, went and sold everything, all he had and brought it. Are you willing to let go everything, sir? It's choked with cares and riches and pleasures of his life. They're destroyed by these things. It devours the word of God that can't bring forth fruit because you just won't let go to obtain eternal life. For what of man profit if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul, lose everything, but don't lose your soul. Rich man be poor like Lazarus, but don't land up in hell and Lazarus in heaven because you wouldn't let go of what was your God, what kept you from God. Oh, be careful. They're choked with cares and riches, pleasures of his life is a tragic, tragic, tragic, tragic statement. They just won't let go of everything. 1 Timothy 6 verse 9, they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. They go back in a destroyed spirit before it really comes to true eternal life. The love of money is the root of all evil, which while some have coveted after, they've erred from the faith, pierced themselves with sorrows. They've just thrown it all away. Oh, it's the beginning of all the hurts that can come to the spiritual side of life. It's a destruction and perdition of any profession you might make if you're not willing to let go of the things that God told you to let go because these things are going to keep you from God. Listen, 1 John 2 verse 15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. You cannot serve God and never. You cannot serve God and be materialistic. There isn't a million of a chance, let alone one chance. There's no chance. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. That's a command. Oh, you say you keep the commands, thus you'll not commit adultery. Tell me, lay not up for yourself treasures upon earth. It's a command. Where moth and rust doth corrupt, where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You cannot serve God and never. You cannot serve God and be materialistic. You cannot. Set your fix on things above, not on things upon the earth. For God's sake, don't love money. Don't let the riches, the desire for them drown you when God says, let go of this child. I'll give you what you need. You find you'll be happy with very little and so miserable with lots. Cares and riches can be linked, you know. You've got so much and the more you have, the more you drown because you're scared to lose it all. How am I going to keep it all? Well, some people are so insured that they die of heart failure and worry how they're going to pay their insurances. You can get so complicated without just taking no thought for tomorrow. It's a command. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. Oh, don't allow yourself to look at things and fear and anxiety and scaredness and cling and throw yourself in that you're drowned spiritually before it comes to true fruition and salvation. Oh, be careful. God is saying, they hear they go forth and it's soaked with cares and riches. Has that happened to you? And pleasures of this life, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. You know what that means? There was a choice. There was a time they had to really make a choice. They felt love for God. As they looked at the cross, there was this love and appreciation but there was also love for pleasures. Do you think you're saved? Wait, you've got to let go of everything. The riches, you've got to let go of everything. The pleasures, everything that keeps you from true vital reality with God. Let go, for God's sake. That the Holy Spirit tells you, let go or you're drowned. You'll be choked, you'll be destroyed before this can become real. The lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Are you? Answer God. Have you given up your pleasures that you know? This book says you're going to hell. Be not deceived, no unrighteous person shall enter the kingdom of heaven, nor that defier shall enter therein. And then he names the sin. Well, I keep that sin, God, but I'm getting in. Is that what you're saying to God? Don't deceive yourself, you can't. You will not be, nor that defier. He names. You want to go and look at your sins and look, is there anything there that I'm still just holding on to? I'm a lover of pleasures more than lovers of God. I chose pleasures. When it came to the actual genuine choice, it wasn't when I chose to come out in a meeting and say, Jesus Christ, save my soul. It was when I walked out there and there were the sins and there was the Bible. And there were the people of God and there were the people of the world. And I was a lover of pleasures more than lovers of God. And I was choked, destroyed. That which fell on my heart didn't get there to bring forth eternal life, as it ought to have and could have. If I was willing to let go, oh, Moses in Hebrews 12, verse 24, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Oh, no matter what it costs, he let go of all that because nothing matters. But God, if you're going to come to salvation, true salvation, the ministry that led me to Christ said, they say it's freaky, they lie. It will cost you every single thing in life. Or you're wasting my time, you're wasting your time, you're wasting God's time. Are you ready for that? Count the cost. Or you'll go for a while and just become someone who'll find it 10 times hard to ever respond again. If you don't count the cost now and be willing to say, God, everything I let go of for this pearl called salvation of my soul, by grace of faith, not that on the good ground, are they which in an honest and good heart. Did this happen to you? Having heard the word, keep it. Is that you? According to Jesus Christ, you're saved. According to Jesus Christ, the rest, you're lost. Even if you received it with joy and didn't endure to the end. In an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, keep it. Be you doers of the word, James says, not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgeteth what manner of man he was, but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word. This man shall be blessed in his deed. Where there profit my brethren, no man say he hath faith and have not works. Can faith save him? Can faith save him? Be a man may say, Thou hast faith, I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and I'll show thee my faith by thy works. By my works thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well the devils also believe in chamber. But wilt thou know, vain man, that faith without works is dead, totally worthless, literally. Ye shall know them by their fruits, Jesus said. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord. Listen, do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord. Shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord. Have we not prophesied in thy name? Preached in thy name? And in thy name cast out devils? Is that possible? In thy name done many wonderful works, miracles. Is that possible? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. You that never repented from a life of sin. You that were lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Even if you preach in my name. There was no fruit. That on the good ground are they that hear. That in an honest and good heart. Having heard the word, keep it. Keep it and bring forth fruit with patience. That endures, that lasts, that survives. That doesn't for a while believe. And in time when all the onslaughts and everything the devil wants to bring, fall away now. That doesn't close the heart and eventually depart from the living God. Before deep work of truth comes out of fruit. It's not just getting down, brother, sister. It's the fruit that endures to the end. In closing, listen carefully. No sorry. Listen prayerfully, please. Prayerfully, every single one of you. Matthew 13, verse 24. Jesus says, the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. It's likened unto a man which sowed good seed, good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. The word tares. It's a weed that looks like wheat, but no fruit ever comes. There's never going to be fruit. You want to destroy a man financially in the biblical times? Go and sow tares while men sleep. Economically, you ruin him. He loses his crops. While men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, an enemy, an enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, nay. This while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them. But gather the wheat into my barn. Bring them home to me in heaven. Set the prisoners of the earth free. Oh, that's precious in itself. But I want you all to look back now to the statement. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. The church of Jesus Christ, if it ever comes to a situation in any part of history where it is lulled to sleep. You think that can't happen? Jesus warned of it. Ye are the salt of the earth. But what if the salt lost his savor? Wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men. Forgive me, but it seems that's what's happening in most of the world today toward the church. They don't want it. They just despise it. They're trembling. It's just, while men slept, the enemy came. And this enemy, in his terrifying power and liberty, has strewn across this world in the evangelical churches multitudes who say they saved, who are going to hell because the church is not awake. Because the church is not on its knees, awake, in prayer, crying out to God that no man compromising will be allowed in the pulpit. That preachers will be, that the church won't compromise in its music, in its dress code, in its whole testimony, that it swallowed up the world to win the world. No, the world just won you. You didn't win the world. You won crowds. Goodness me, was it worth it? Well, the church is not what the devil does. It's amazing. I think the world finds it hard to distinguish anything different apart from that you preach about being saved from what? Oh, church of Jesus Christ, I cry out to you from my soul, even if you never invite me back to this land. Wake up. Can't you see the state? You blame the souls. I blame the salt of the earth that the enemy is sowing in our midst. You got to look and wonder, can this man be saved? But we don't question it anymore. It's not ethical to preach the things I'm preaching. You never get invited back. Oh, church of Jesus Christ, get down before God before there's nothing left. You won't know because you haven't given any authority to statement from your pulpit or life, whether the bulk sitting there are saved or lost. Does that offend you? God forgive you if you are offended. Preachers, wake. Wake that you don't sound an unclear call of the gospel. Come back to the clarion call. Come back to a clear sound with no compromise, no fear of man, fearing only God. When you get from the pulpit, seeking only his well done. It doesn't matter if they bless you or curse you. It's only God's well done that matters. Preachers, get back to that or you'll just become an entertainer of the crowd. Wanting men's applause. For God's sake, preach to those who are really wanting sin and the world will flee. And not sit in comfort, singing hallelujahs with you in their sin without any conviction. Because the watered down prayerless church, the enemy, is just making the unsaved take over. Causing wars within our midst. Undermining the preacher, undermining the music that's godly, undermining the dress code. Anything is legalism. Any standard, even if it's a standard of the New Testament. Lawless, judgmental. Oh, even if Jesus Christ said it himself, I'll never go near this church again. If such things are preached. A woman said after I preached. Just quoting the Sermon on the Mount. Even if Jesus Christ himself said that, I'll never come back if such things are... What the centers of the church, the so-called evangelical church of Jesus Christ, will get up and walk out if we just quote the scriptures as they stand once across the whole spectrum of the world's evangelical pulpits. Oh, we desperately need revival. And we desperately need to seek God, this church that's asleep. And we desperately need to seek God, those who sit in the pews thinking they're saved. But God cries out to you, no you're not. There's no fruit and demand after a message like this. I know there's such shock and fear going on that to respond is very, very hard. But maybe the fruit of the sermon will go on and on as people begin to throw aside the lie. They're embracing and get right with God and truth. Pleasures of this life, riches, for a while believe, fall away. Receive the word with joy and all the other things under the blood of their God. Is there anyone, angry yes, who has ears to hear tonight, who will obey God and hear? And I ask you, seek God tonight. Because I doubt he'll ever speak to you again like this in your life. So it's your choice. If you know these things have drowned you, shook, destroyed. If you know what you hung on didn't work, you're as much of the world as the most lost sinner with a testimony, because you for a while believe, but you don't let go of that. I mean, you can't. I want those of you who need to say God, tonight with all the devil's done, his doing, trying, with all the failures and all I've neglected to do and rejected when I needed to, God was crying out to me, bury everything. Everything but come with this one poem. And I've never been worrying. And every statement said tonight, whatever reached your heart, I want those of you that say God, tonight, no matter what it costs, even if it costs everything in life, I lay everything beside to embrace the cross and eternal life. No matter what it costs me, even if I lose every friend I have on earth, I embrace it tonight with my whole being, the honest and good heart. And I ask you for the grace that no matter what it costs, I will keep it till the day I die. No matter what comes against me, through whom it comes against me, even if the men's enemies become the members of my own house against me, I'll keep it. Even if I lose everything, God, I'll keep the word of God with my whole being. Till I prove to God that this was not something that rejects everything else that's demanded in the Bible. But what God demands must be seen in my life for me to be at peace. I want anyone who needs to cry that out to God with their whole soul, and that'll cost you in this building, but it'll cost you a billion zillion times more hurt and shame if you don't. Trust me. I want you to stand up and say, God, it's me. Whatever it was God said, but tonight it's Christ. Even if I lose everything in life that I've been clinging to, I'm willing for that. Will you stand those that need to, even though it costs it? And you know God said, be careful, don't close your heart. While you can here, don't close your heart. The valley of decision, that's your decision. Those of you that are standing, I want the ladies to go out that door, the men to go out that door, and soul winners to follow them. Ladies with ladies, please, and men with men. Soul winners, don't hesitate. What can be greater privilege than to have a soul to pray through? Don't preach to them, just point them to the cross and let them cry out by faith, and then tell them about the quiet time. As your source of survival now, if it's your greatest goal of your everyday life, you'll never backslide. You'll go through. Please, can the ladies go out there, the men there right now, please just push your way out. And soul winners, don't hesitate now. Don't shame God or me or any of your people. Go, follow them, soul winners. And the rest, while men slept, I want to ask the children of God who are asleep, and you know this world is in the state it's in as far as the gospel and preaching. The standard is concerned because you sleep. No more sleeping, God. I'm waking out of it, and I'm going to go through with God myself and pray through and be careful to allow no compromise in my preaching, in my testimony, in my living, in my standard, even though I've called the most legalistic, separatist, judgmental person on earth. Let them call me that because if they don't, there's something wrong. I want those of you desperate enough to say to God that at any cost from now onward, God, a man in war, in the army of God on his knees, and as he walks through this world with the grace of God, to have effect, to bring something of vital truth back everywhere I go. I want those who desperately need to say, God, I require that with my whole heart. Will you stand with me? I desperately need to ask leaders of my life, those who need to. Yes, and those who are standing, you bow your heads. I'm praying for you, but pray it in your heart. Oh, God, take me. What's left of my life I put in the altar tonight, washed me in the blood of Christ. From every failure, every compromise, every wasted moment, let alone hours, days, years, wasted opportunity to witness, wasted opportunity for every compromise in any way, God, in anything that I've tolerated, that I haven't prayed out of pulpits, prayed out of churches by groaning before God that the church won't be asleep, Lord, and the devil make the world be quiet at home, even in the evangelical church as though they go to hell, because I'm groaning. They'll find a discomfort, and so will I, people. Oh, God, take me and let me be the instruments of revival, but begin the revival in me, God, tonight by washing me through and through with the blood and taking control of me as I lay my life afresh in the altar of God. Fill me with Thy Holy Spirit. Take complete control and stagger the powers of hell through this life by Thy grace till I die. In Jesus Christ's name, amen.