In this sermon, the preacher highlights the issue of addiction and the destructive thoughts that can arise from it. He shares a story of a man who became addicted to evil thoughts and was on the verge of committing a terrible act against his family. However, as he was about to carry out his plan, he came across an advertisement for a meeting and felt an inner voice urging him to go there. He decided to attend the meeting, where God's presence was felt and many people, including the preacher, were moved to tears. The preacher emphasizes the need for individuals to turn to God and seek salvation through Jesus Christ to prevent them from doing something terrible in the world.

There are some staggering promises in this holy book and staggering warnings in the promises. Many people love the promises and they don't realize there's a warning there. A terrible warning. Listen to these words you all know. That God said through his ire, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. That's a warning. Don't doubt it. He may not always be able to be found. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. That's a warning. Have you thought of that? That's a warning. Call ye upon him while he is near. God says in the book, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now that's a promise. But you only call upon him while he's near. Don't take a chance and think he's going to come again and again if you harden your heart. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him. To our God for he will abundantly pardon. What more could God say? Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Today. Today. Now. Now is God's time. Now is the acceptable time God says. Today is the day of salvation if you will harden not your hearts. What's God saying here? Can I say no to God? Now is when I want to save you. Now. While I'm near. While I may be found in your life. Now is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation if you, God says, if you will harden not your hearts. That's the day of provocation. Choose you. This day. Amazing how God says now. Choose you this day whom you will serve. Whether you want to serve God or the devil. And here Joshua stands and says, make up your mind. But you have to make a choice. You have to seek the Lord while he may be found. Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth. To him that knocketh it shall be opened. He will no right turn away. Anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. What more can God say but oh the warning. The warning. Choose you this day whom you will serve. Make a choice now. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey. His servants ye are to whom ye obey. You make a choice who you obey. Romans 6 verse 16. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey. His servants ye are to whom ye obey. Whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. He that committeth sin is the servant of sin. You that live on in a life of sin. You are the servant of sin. But if the Son shall set you free you shall be free indeed. But you have to choose. You have to seek him. You have to call on him while he's near. While he may be found. While the acceptable time. You won't have chance upon chance upon chance. God now commanded all men everywhere to repent. He wouldn't command all men everywhere to repent if they couldn't. He tasted death for every man. I hope you believe that. I hope you know that. He's the propitiation for our sins as Christians and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. I believe that. I believe he tasted death for every man and he has the right to say to all men everywhere. And you have the right to say to all men everywhere with hope that they choose and seek him. While he may be found. God now commanded all men everywhere to repent. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out. Your sins can't be blotted out if you haven't repented for them. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out. Whoso confesses and forsakes his sins the same shall have mercy. Repentance is vital to salvation. Repent. Make a choice. Make a turning choice toward God that God will save you. That's the one thing God can't do for you and me is repent. That's the one thing he says he commands you to do. All men everywhere to repent. To turn. That's a turning sir not into believing. The devils believe that isn't a choice. Not into accepting. It's a turning in a way that God knows you want to turn from a life of sin. From being a servant to sin. Being enslaved to sin. And if the son shall set you free you shall be free indeed. Are you? When did you repent? When did God make you free indeed not just free. When did you become a new creature in Christ that all things passed away and all things became new. When was God able to say to the devil look behold. When was God able to say to your wife to your children to your father. When was God able to say to your enemy look. If any man be in Christ he's a new creature. All things have passed away behold all things have become new. That's salvation. But that's the result of repent. Take the word out of the pulpit repent and you'll have people in their millions receiving in their sins. Having a testimony through some prayer but never turning from a life of sin. You have to repent and be converted that your sins have been blotted out. What drunk will hold a bottle as he walks into you your church and ministry. And you say come to Christ and he walks with a bottle. And you kneel with him and he has the bottle. And he prays for God to save him and he's still holding the bottle. And he gets up and he says I'm my savior. Yes you receive Christ. And he walked out of the church with a bottle. Will you believe he said no. What sin sir do you get in your knees knowing you're not turning. It's not salvation. Salvation is when you know you're the servant of sin. And you turn you turn from sin in a way that God knows you're not just coming for mercy. For sins you're going to go on in trampling under the flesh the blood of Christ. But you're confessing and forsaking and you're looking and you're turning that the son can set you free. He knows you want to come to be saved from a life of sin. Not sinless perfection but from a life of sin. When did you stop. When did you repent. You want revival America. I dare your evangelical preachers to put this one word back into the salvation message. Repent. You cry out believe. Receive. Put it in there sir where you have millions professing they received and they're going to hell. You have to turn. You have to turn to be set free. For God to forgive you and to make you able to have a cock that the witness of the spirit doesn't condemn you as you read this book but it confirms. I'm Christ. My life has been brought into alignment with this book. Oh repent. Repent. And that costs. It costs. It costs. That's why people don't want to preach. Salvation begins to cost if you have the word repent. God may try to intervene in your life. God may try to intervene in your life before you destroy your life. But you could choose to reject God's intervention. You could choose to reject God's intervention and your life will forever be destroyed. But you will remember for all eternity sir. Lady. Young boy. You will remember for all eternity that God tried to save you. But you said no. And you listened to the devil who told you to not not take heed to God trying to intervene in your life. You will remember for all eternity that God tried to save you but you said no. I've learned. I've learned that God brings many people across my path who are about to destroy their lives in moments. In seconds some of them. I've learned that God brings many people across my path who are about to destroy their lives and others with them. One day I was in a city and going to see a Christian businessman up on one of the floors in the big factory of all the office blocks. And I was in the factory area waiting for permission to go through security before I got permission to go up in this lift. I had to wait until they had phoned up and given me clearance. So I was standing there in the factory area and suddenly as I looked over there was a young fellow sitting on a tractor. These forklift tractors you know that pick up the big cartridges and put them in the lorries and move them around. He was a driver of this little tractor this forklift tractor in the factory area. Now he saw me standing there waiting looking out across the factory. And I looked at him as he sat there with the tractor idling. He didn't work as he just sat there looking at me smiling. And I couldn't help but look at him with a bit of fear. He had one of these Mohawk hairstyles on you know. I don't know if you know what that is. I suppose you would know more than anybody in the world. But now I looked at him and I thought and wondered at what he was looking at and why he had the style you know. And he just looked at there not moving the tractor just smiling with a strange smile. That isn't a style by the way. That's a message. No doubt that most styles today most styles are messages crying out loud and clear something to people of like mind. Let me tell you that. In fashion most fashions are messages clear clear messages. Trust me about stepping the styles today in the fashion. That boy was crying out something to the world of his life loud and clear loud and clear. Well I stood there looking at him him looking at me and suddenly I just found tears pouring down my face just looking at him. And I found my heart just sinking to such a grief and such a sorrow for this young fellow. And he looked at me and he stopped smiling when he saw these tears just pouring down my face the grief I felt for him the compassion. And I just walked over to him he put the tractor off to listen to me and I looked up at him and my heart was so broken I could never put into words how God does this or why God does this to a Christian when he's confronted with a wicked boy. I looked up at him and I said to him you need God you need Jesus Christ to save your soul you need to seek God to save your soul through Christ before you do something terrible in this world. That boy suddenly the tears just came down his face the shock of someone confronting him like that and suddenly they called for me and I couldn't say another word to him I never saw him again. I went in the lift and went up. A few weeks later I picked up the newspaper. Now I don't read the newspaper you may but I haven't got time. I saved the strength of my eyes for this book. To read all the junk in the paper is just a waste of strength and vanity makes faith in the spirit. I do this though my children say but daddy you didn't read the newspaper before. Well I thought about it and I said well boys I only read the headlines through the years because daddy's just living out of his suitcase so much. In case something's happened in the world that I need to pray about and if the Holy Ghost says to me this you need to know about it. 20,000 families are wiped out in some terrible tragedy. You need to as a Christian to pray not to be ignorant and say I cut myself off for more news. You need to pray for those who survived the families that are wounded some are God in mercy. What's going on you just so I only read and only what the Holy Ghost seems to put in my heart you need to read this. I read the rest is junk it's defiling many of it. Well I opened the newspaper a few weeks after I saw that boy and my heart just sank. There on the front page of the newspaper as I put it down was a big photograph of this boy you couldn't miss him and my heart just sank as I read and I worked up the day I stood with him and said those words. That night that boy went out with a friend in their car and there in the city along the beachfront they pulled a young girl off the streets. They drove her into the field away from where there was any sight of cars and I won't tell you what they did to her I haven't got it in me to stand in the pulpit of God and name such things. Forgive me I don't want to defile you children I went into Christ and I'm scared what some preachers have the liberty to tell us details about. They did terrible things and then in their wickedness it wasn't enough they took a knife and 40 times stabbed her. Forgive me I'm not trying to wound your heart and mind to make sure she's dead that she could never ever tell on them. After their wickedness they left her dead in their eyes drove off can you believe it to try and find more wickedness no concept. That girl I don't know how she did it she pulled parts of her stomach that were all over and she crawled for hours to get back to the main street. How she lived no one knows no one knows doctors can't work out how she's been a lot. They found this girl's body after hours getting back to the road and people rushed her to the hospital. The doctors and all the knowledge God has allowed us to have in these days somehow put this girl's body together and she survived. The police of course took a report of the identification of these fellows it didn't take long to find that fellow the description she gave him not many boys are like that at the age of 20. They went to him got him and his friends and in the back of this police car as they drove them the policemen overheard them saying she can't be alive she can't have lived through this she can't be alive no one could live. Then the court case started and I bought the papers daily whenever the court was proceeding to follow what was going on they got this young fellow up and they asked him to give some account and he said when he was a boy his home was a poorly home had no love a sad situation of where he came no real love in that home real sorrows and grief through the sin and the lust of the parents but as a boy he somehow was drawn into a little group at schooling the Satanists of the school it seems these are all over the schools across the western world drawing children in and especially those children with a gap in their heart a wound in their home and he said from the time he was drawn because he felt he belonged as a group he belonged to something he somehow identified this with belonging and suddenly he found himself deep in possession and he said voices in his head from a boy started crying out to do terrible things and how this voice has cried out telling him to do this this day for days before even well they got a Christian evangelist to testify they asked him questions and he said it's true we put our heads in the sand and say there's no such a thing as Satanism we don't want to hear about it we don't want to hear what's going on we're scared but it's everywhere and it is so boys girls normally involve themselves in Satanism they become possessed by evil spirits and these things do cry out voices on their heads and they do land up doing things well they called a psychologist a psychiatrist of high repute in my land also to stand there and also give witness who had spoken to these boys for hours and he said no no I'm not contending that there's a devil and that there's Satanist and that there's demonology but you don't blame the devil to get off from what you did you chose it was a premeditated act and you won't get off by saying it was the devil's fault who made you do it you did it don't blame the devil boy and he walked off eventually they got that young boy up that young man up and he said these words and this was the end of the case he said it is true it was a premeditated decision for days we knew we were gonna do it that night and the weekend came it was my own choice now I have to pay I know but then he said these words but God God sent a man to warn me on that day when we knew what we were gonna do that night God sent someone to tell me to seek Jesus but I needed God I needed God's salvation before I do something terrible and I was shaken that that man did that but I rejected God's intention I said no to God though he tried to stop me now I have to pay he did two life sentences were given him he won't ever walk out of the prison nor that other boy God tried to intervene don't you dare believe a Christian stands there waiting and looking at him and move my God to cry out those words the day that boy knew what he was about to do God tried God may try to intervene before you destroy your life and others with you but you could choose to reject God's intervention and your life forever will be ruined but you will remember for all eternity that God tried he tried to save you but you said no and you obeyed the devil who told you not to obey God not to listen to God's intervention to reject it I have learned that God brings many people along my path who are about to destroy their lives and others with them I was preaching in a conference in our country and as I was pouring my heart out two messages each day by the end of the conference I was so tired my mind just became like numb and the last message well I just got ready to pack up and go with a fellow that had invited me and I sat in the back seat of the car and he said Keith we know you're tired but there's there's people we are so burdened for in the town just outside of where the convention center is and before we leave this town we just know we've got to go their lives are in trouble Keith and we'd like you to speak to them so I said brother I haven't got anything left you go in though I'm gonna sleep I don't want to stop you but I won't be any blessing to those people you go so they left me and I fell asleep suddenly God woke me up I suddenly but I was woken up in this phase where I was weeping as I woke up now think about that in case you think that's emotionalism my heart just sank to such a despair and I I just knew God was crying out to me get in that house fast and I got out and ran to the door these people who invited me to come in they were just leaving and I said wait just a few minutes just wait I should have come in here brother I didn't know these people and I began to plead with them to say things from my heart oh when I pled they just sat looking at me as a family we left the next thing I heard of him was he took a gun he shot his wife dead his children dead in himself do you think God didn't try to intervene do you think God puts such a broken groan and compassion in someone who knows nothing about them and drives them into there to plead God tries to intervene but you can say no and destroy everything but forever you will remember he tried you rejected his intervention you can you know don't doubt it now you can you think tomorrow you can seek be careful God might know today's the last thing you don't know what you're capable of having tomorrow he said no I was preaching in a hall and the place was filled to capacity with no way for people to sit it was just overflowing with people and suddenly while I was preaching this fellow starts weeping and so loud was he weeping as he shook violently just sobbing but I had to stop preaching everybody was upset and hurting the whole atmosphere just changed to grief as they looked at this man crumbling broke and sobbing and they had to take him out before I could carry on preaching some evangelical ministers most of the ministers of the town were in that meeting and two of the evangelical fellows here saw when he took him out to pray with him in some of the rooms back in the halls behind the building I battled to finish preaching but afterwards I went to find out and I walked in and there was this fellow sitting and they shared about what he said he had gone home walked to the desk weeping broken life was so destroyed he took a gun started loading the bullet he was going to kill his wife his children and so you think people don't do this why are we sitting here do you know how many are thinking of these things life is so crumbled and crushed this man was loading the bullets his mind just collapsed through the hardships of life the hopelessness of life of any survival was gone he just gave him and there he was going to wipe out everybody to the hopelessness of life and as he was loading these bullets he sees a piece of paper right there on the desk there's advertising the meeting tonight the place the time and as he looked something in his heart just cried out go there now that's what he said go there now he put this down he's so shaken by this inner voice crying such words to him not understanding what was going on he just put it down unloaded the bullets got in the car and raced to get to this building came in i was preaching halfway through my sermon he shut down after about 10 minutes he just broke when he realized no man knows anything about his life but he has this man crying out everything about his life do you think that was just a mistake that he came and that god put that pamphlet there do you think that wasn't god and when he walked and i was crying out the things about his life oh god god loves so he broke when he realized what god was saying to him that it must be god well that man gave his life to jesus and i can't understand this you can't understand it but it's true in one moment that man suddenly found peace that passes all understanding i'm glad god says there's no way of understanding how god can give a man who wants to kill everything in life and himself he has no hope and in the next moment after receiving christ salvation he has a peace that passes understanding flooding his heart do you know he's so met with god that he walks with god to this day a long long time now since that happened he never ever was listened to the fair and god gave him work god healed all the circumstances but somehow god put hope and all this hopelessness was taken away in one moment when god saves your soul you become conscious that second you are now his responsibility that's a wonderful thing to know you know imagine the peace that floods in your heart when you know take no thought for tomorrow jesus said no don't even think about it i'll close you you just seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things up and jesus said oh you don't worry about tomorrow suddenly all the fears are gone one day at a time and i'm jesus christ's prophet peace that passes all understanding and he walks with god now because he said yes you see god tried to intervene before he destroyed his life and he listened and he trusted god's intervention and voice and god saved his soul for all eternity for all eternity he's gone oh that's precious i was standing with my wife and suddenly i started weeping my heart just down and i ran down to the door and i started banging on this door and i my wife came and said are you mad keith you'd be in trouble you don't bang what's wrong with you i don't know and i pulled up the window along the side of the wall and pulled myself in these pipes and shouted through this window can you hear me give god a chance what makes a man do that when he doesn't think about how god how desperate god is when people are in trouble what do you take if you just stay available give god a chance i don't care how hopeless life is i don't care i'll destroy your life as sweet as canary and i carried on and on while i stood there there was a woman in that room in the lounge standing she just put a rope around her neck and standing on her leg she heard this banging shaking as long as he put the rope around her neck what made god do that god loves souls god cares more than you and i and suddenly she hears his voice screaming give god a chance he can hear she thinks this is who is this man i he doesn't know me i don't know he doesn't know what i'm doing anyone this must be god who sent this man it must be god god must want to do something for me you know she she gave her life to be and god took that broken soul and healed her life beyond measure she became a woman of god as the years went by she listened to god's intervention before she destroyed her life she believed god could who tried to stop her she obeyed god a woman phoned me up and said she's my husband has been involved in much wickedness and i've packed my bags and i've taken the children away from him and i said he will never see the children till the day he dies legally i'll get that right unless he's willing to speak to you and i said to him if you're willing to speak to this man who i heard preach one ago and to do exactly what he said i'll never let you and your children again on me but if you do everything that man says i may be able to forgive you and trust you again in life and he wants to see you would you be willing to see him i said yes lady so i went to this home and there was this man broken his family gone here he sits with an empty house now he had the internet you know the internet and he says to me i had to get the internet because it's tomorrow's way of work we're not going to go through the traffic anymore and all the cars and all we can work from our homes as if we're together we're just communicating as if we're sitting in the same office we don't walk out the door the internet's going to change the whole business world one day we started to save enormous amount of cost and so i had to get the internet but i started fiddling around he said on the internet he said i didn't mean to and suddenly i stumbled upon such indecency such depravity i couldn't believe what i'd seen how is this he'd never thought of these things in his life once never occurred to him oh the devil's powerfully alone suddenly the image is put in his mind now he goes on with his work but that night he couldn't sleep he comes back feeds these same words and then he stumbles and there's all this and he thought to himself well let me feed in another dirty thing whatever depravity he could possibly imagine he just said it was all there unimaginable resources for your children isn't that wicked of the world to do the danger you have no idea you have no idea and you know how many children know all governments of the world what are you going to do about it sit back and say we can't do anything about it god will judge you can do something where's your strength that man said he became addicted he couldn't understand that he'd never thought these evil things before he'd never ever had these temptations before and here he was slaying as soon as the children his wife asleep he would come thinking everybody's asleep he would just feed his mind more and more couldn't get enough hating what he was scared of what he was becoming and one night he said suddenly he heard his little daughter she had woken up and stood watch for a long while and watched what he was doing she went mental she went berserk she went just i don't know it'll ever become that child's mind i mean the daddy of everything his wife had to be told why this girl she fled took the children of the house and he said my wife said if i listen to you and do just what you say she might come back i said would you do anything i say he said anything i said there's a word called repentance i want you to take that thing and throw it throw it out do you know what that's called i said throw it out yes but i lose my work i can't get my job you know what it is to get work in this country we have 40 percent of the population without work in the recession you want me to stop i said sir i won't pray with you you're wasting my time you're saying to a drunk come to jesus and put him behind a bottle still do you honestly believe you're charlie your wife will trust you with that in the house still do you think you can trust yourself i said sir lose your job but don't lose your soul lose your job but don't lose your family she's giving you a chance you can't come to god unless you throw out what you know you might go back to throw it out of his house you're not strong enough don't you dare believe you'll be strong enough when you get saved you don't get saved you sit in front of your temptation and she let me test it now no you stay away from it what did he do oh he threw it out by the way i was ignorant i didn't know all these technical things and it seemed something called a modem or something not the whole thing that i thought he had to throw out here he got rid of the modem he lost his job but he came to christ and god came in his heart and purified his mind that he soaked himself in the word of god god gave him a better job by the way god honors them that honor him don't doubt that the devil tells you you're in trouble god honors them that honor him his wife came back eventually as children we're all praying for the girls too but she'll come to full healing i believe and trust again you see god tried to intervene before he destroyed his life oh he was well on the way to it when he did that but he could have chosen to say no but he didn't he he obeyed he embraced what god was holding out another chance before everything went wrong he said yes to god what makes a man a woman a child say no to god trying to intervene before they destroy everything for eternity and they're conscious there's something about eternity in my choice now don't say they're not what makes a man or a child willing to say no to god have you thought of that oh so many reasons fear of man is perhaps the worst reason of all ostracization rejection mocking losing all your friends you'll be amazed at that how much that reason is used by people to say no to god almighty in his intervention for their lives but the devil's a liar you know you don't lose you gain you get such friends that you can't imagine i remember preaching in a reformatory what do we call a correctional school these young fellows some of them were murderers some had killed their own father and i remember standing there preaching and they began to mock me this lot whoa such mockery and laughter and suddenly god came oh i'll never forget how god came that day swept across that building and suddenly they're all weeping sobbing in seconds when god comes when you're suddenly conscious you're not mocking a man you have to deal with god and people become conscious within seconds when the holy ghost come in that they have some fraternity going on here these boys started weeping i said these words to those boys it's gonna cost you to come out in front of all these people they're watching you and those who are weak won't come but those who have courage will come to jesus no matter what it's gonna cost you being seen because when you get up they're gonna watch you you who have courage you weaklings sit down you who have courage come to jesus now it'll take courage but come don't lose your soul six of them came six of them came hell before god two of them couldn't even pray they were so broken on their faces i had to pray for them that god saved them those six met with christ all the devil probably told them now you're in for it in this place with these people you're in for it now but you know what happened within three weeks two hundred of those boys sought god to follow those boys they thought they were going to be rejected in the end there were more saved people in the reformatory than they were unsaved the whole place is prayer meetings for years god just swept back and forth across to six boys the devil says now you're in for it but what were they in for revival virtually in that place oh don't listen to the devil my minister said to me when i stood before him please count the cost you're going to lose every friend you've got in life you will lose every friend you have in life i guarantee you boy will you come to christ are you willing for that i thought to myself he doesn't know my life i don't care what i lose i want god i know i gave my life to god on my knees that night i gave my life to god so unreservedly and i thought well now i lost every friend well it started you know the first friend phoned we're going to do this and this tonight we meet up here i said no i'm not coming with you he said why i said i'm not coming ever again he said why i said just trust me i'm not coming again dead silence you stay where you are he said don't move after a while he comes he looks at me and says why why are you never coming again i said because i've given my life to christ and i'm never taking it and i'll never be able to go with you people again never again he looked at me and i looked at him and he says well if you give your life to christ i'm giving mine isn't that lovely oh god is good god on his knees you pray for me he says i don't know how to pray tell me what you said god saved him he still walks with god to this day 33 years later a few days after that another one phones i've heard you've become a religious nut a terrible word he says uh everybody's laughing everybody's joking with you men what's wrong with you we know we're good enough for you now you've given us all up i said no you've given me up but i said i'll be honest with you i can't ever come with you again he said no please i've got to speak to you but i don't want anybody to see me with you oh what friend has put you through so we decided to meet at this model dairy we used to have all milkshakes as we grew up you know no one would go there anymore so he's sitting there he said tell me i want to know everything about this christianity but why why would someone like you give your life to god and what made you so i said he said and said and sat there with tears and i said listen you know he was the hollywood film star type of the group we were in all our friends he was the boy that should have been in films i suppose he was pathetic actually it was sad when he walked into a party all the girls just smelt it you know nice i used to walk away and just not all girls are like that i know that but you can't believe what happened when this boy walked in a room it was terrible he was the one that all of us just said oh no now here he's sitting there tears coming down his eyes and i said why don't you come to me come serve god with me he got up and he walked out i had to pay so we walked out and he just walked and i kept walking after him and all the people were coming out it was right in the center of the city and he stood by these road bars as the traffic was waiting to change for the pedestrians to walk across the road in the center of the big city so i looked at him and i said listen david came please come with me to christ we'll be friends forever i'll never be able to see you again i don't want to ever see you again i don't want to ever see you again till the day i die if you don't come to christ i won't allow you people to draw me back and i'm not giving you a chance i've got to cut ties you boys are some such wickedness you fellas i'm not going to give you a chance come to christ we serve the devil together come let's serve god together you know i saw sweat pouring up his face i saw him shaking so violently that i couldn't believe the value of decision is a terrible thing you know it costs to follow christ don't say it doesn't but it costs you four more if you don't and this fellow stood there sweating shivering his eyes his little lips and suddenly he did something that i'll never forget for all eternity he shouted as if he was in pain as he made his choice all the choice for eternity he cried with a loud voice so loud that people stopped in their scores and couldn't no it cost too much and he turned and he ran like he was running for his life from god for fear of god saving him he ran as if he's scared being near me might make him come to jesus and turned on the light of sin he ran in fear two years later he lay dead ten years later i walked in those same streets of that city fellow pulled me off into this lane i thought he was going to hurt me i said what do you want me you don't you know who i am the tears just poured out he told me he had been the one who had this little angel's face you know ten years and he stood there ruined destroyed you can't believe what will be left of you in ten years from now you think you've got forever to enjoy this youth and a sparkle of do what you want to you know you can't nobody gets away with he stood there weeping and he said oh please look at you you look the same the other day he said look at me he said we mocked you we joked and everybody laughed every day we laughed about you we joked you were a joke when you started preaching we stand there saying i'm keith daniel the preacher you know mocking oh we laughed at you but keith you were right we were wrong not one of us not one of us hasn't been destroyed you know strive as he could try as he would he couldn't find jesus when you said no so many times god tries to intervene remember for all eternity that he tried to say while he could be found while he's near is he near tonight he can be found tonight don't doubt that if you will harden not your heart i'm not asking you to all sit there and say only the wicked need to listen to this message i know perhaps you haven't done wickedness where you take guns and you're going to kill your wife we've watched defilement i know you might not have lived in sin and depravity and done what that boy did to sitting with two life sentences now i know your wickedness may be nowhere near that but i want to ask every one of you sitting here tonight every one of you no matter how your lives are when did you repent because you have to repent like they have to that's the one thing god way when did you turn and become a new creature in christ not only those people have to when did you repent i'm not asking you when you became religious when did you change and start serving god and not the devil when did you repent i don't care how clean your life may be even you have sin and you know it when did you repent when did you turn to christ to transform your life and become a servant of god and not of sin the sin of your life when did you repent when did you come to christ by repenting from the life of sin and become a new creature in god wait i'd like to ask every one of you sitting here tonight right now and this will cost you in a group like this it'll cost you but oh what it'll cost you if you say no i'm gonna ask you those of you that will repent tonight and say god i'm not saved i've never become a new creature in christ i've never repented that thou can save me from sin not just the consequence and i want to repent i want to turn in the way that god sees i'm turning from sin for him to set me free i can't set myself free but thou can set me free if i turn in a way that thou does see i want to be free i want to turn that's repent i want god to set me free from these things i want to tonight god i want day to come and make me a new creature in christ that i'm truly saved by repentance i want those of you who've never repented no matter who you are i want you to seek god tonight i want to ask you to do something that's going to cost you i want you to stand right now i know this will cost perhaps you're all sitting here and thinking to yourself everyone's saved here trust me everyone's not saved here and you will not say no now is the acceptable time today is the day of salvation if you will harden not your heart as in the day of provocation seek ye the lord while he may be sound don't take a chance with your soul call upon him while he is near he'll save you but if he's near call upon him don't don't fear that i'm gonna grieve if you don't stand it's god's grief i worry about not mine he's all i care of standing here i'm nothing my opinion is nothing but i care of god's heart and you rejecting it i'm only asking you once if you want to seek christ tonight this being a servant it's a value to see when you stay standing now i know what it costs to stand not in secrecy but like this that god loves you we all have to stand we all have to repent we're no better than you i'm giving you another moment of peace