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Keith Daniel

Keith Daniel (1946 - 2021). South African evangelist and Bible teacher born in Cape Town to Jack, a businessman and World War II veteran, and Maud. Raised in a troubled home marked by his father’s alcoholism, he ran away as a teen, facing family strife until his brother Dudley’s conversion in the 1960s sparked his own at 20. Called to ministry soon after, he studied at Glenvar Bible College, memorizing vast Scripture passages, a hallmark of his preaching. Joining the African Evangelistic Band, he traveled across South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and made over 20 North American tours, speaking at churches, schools, and IBLP Family Conferences. Daniel’s sermons, like his recitation of the Sermon on the Mount, emphasized holiness, repentance, and Scripture’s authority. Married to Jenny le Roux in 1978, a godly woman 12 years his junior, they had children, including Roy, and ministered together. He authored no books but recorded 200 video sermons, now shared online. His uncompromising style, blending conviction and empathy, influenced thousands globally.
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In this sermon, the preacher shares a personal experience of searching for a young man who was lost and in danger. The preacher expresses his desperation and plea to God to find the young man before it's too late. Eventually, the preacher encounters the young man, who is covered in blood and in a drugged state. Despite warnings from others, the preacher gets out of his car and confronts the young man, revealing that he knows his name and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. The preacher emphasizes the power of God's intervention and the importance of yielding oneself to obedience and righteousness.
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Let's have a pray. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. O God, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In my life, God, in every one of us. Have thy way, O God. This is all my heart I say. I'll obey thee, come what may. Oh, but God, have thy way. Please. Life's too short for me to waste one day. And most people who die in one week are under the age of 20 in the whole world. Life's too short for anyone who thinks they've got tomorrow, but they haven't. For us to waste any opportunity to get right with God, and to stay right with God, and to know how to stay right with God. So come in thy mercy to every one of us. Be the smallest little boy sitting there, listening, perhaps staggered by words, such as what I say. To the oldest man, come to every one of us and minister tonight, to every single soul in a way that we will somehow never recover from. In Jesus Christ's name, and for his sake alone, Amen. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you, being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. Know ye not, Paul says in Romans 6 verse 16, know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin, Jesus said. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin, John 8 34. But, hallelujah, he didn't stop there. If the Son, capital S, shall set you free, you shall be free indeed. Hallelujah, John 8 36. If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed from being a servant of sin. As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of gods, even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood. Let's not go there. As many as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God, John 1 verse 10. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Argue with that if you will. You only argue with God, not with conservative Christian preachers. If any man in this building, any man in this state, any man in this country, be in Christ, God says he is a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, I love that God says, look, God invites your enemies, your father, your mother, your children. God invites the world. Look, behold, behold, look, all things have become new. If you're saved, God says that of you. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5 17. Is that your testimony, young lady? When did that happen to you, sir? Or doesn't it matter that God says, if any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a new creature. Does that matter that God says that? God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Now, I love that verse. Some preachers would not preach it. It's against their doctrine. God now commandeth all men, not some. Brother, don't get angry. It's God's word, not me. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Is he mocking me? Repent ye therefore. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out. That your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3 verse 19. Repent ye therefore. Have you noticed? It is your side, God saying to you now, to repent. And be ye converted. Be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Your sins are not blotted out if you haven't repented from them, sir, or been converted from them, sir. Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have mercy, I believe God says in Proverbs 28 verse 13. Repent ye therefore, all men, everywhere, whosoever will, let him come. He will in no wise turn away anyone who comes. Don't blame God if you don't come. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted, that your sins may be blotted out. The one thing God can't do for you is repent. He sets you free. He will set you free, and free indeed. That means more than what you think he's able to do, or even asked you to do. But the one thing he can't do is repent. You can't set yourself free, you know that. It has to be God. But there's something he can't do until you do something that he requires from you. Repent. You have to turn to God in a way that allows God to set you free. You have to turn to God wanting this to be gone from your life forever, and believing even though you can't, he can. And that's faith in a living, risen, resurrected Savior. No one can be saved just by faith in his dead. No one. You see a dead Savior can't set you free. It's the risen Savior. You confess and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. This risen Savior can set you free. It's the risen, living Savior in all his risen, resurrected power that cries out as many as received him by faith. He then gave you the power to become the children of God. This son of God that shall set you free and free indeed, sir, is living. Hallelujah. You have to turn to him though in a way that he's able to save you. You have to want him to save you in such a way you have to turn to God that God looks upon us fulfilling the word repent. One thing that lacks today in the gospel presentation in over 90 percent, I would say, of what we say are evangelical churches throughout the world is the word repent. All accept, receive, believe, come, but repent. No. So we have people receiving in their millions. We have people believing in their millions, receiving, but we have people sitting in their sins, going to hell in their millions with a testimony who received, believed, accepted, but didn't repent because we didn't tell you. What are you doing in the pulpit of God if you leave the word out? Repent. And what are you going to say to Jesus one day when he asks you why? Why? Would you rather have a church full of people going to hell than to have a few that heard the truth but wanted it and you chose the full church by not preaching truth? Repent. Repent. That is a great tragedy that that word's gone. What drunk, what drunk will come out in your church, sir, with a bottle, came in with a sin, a sinner? What drunk will come out and kneel with you and pray, a sinner's prayer, for forgiveness so he can escape hell, but he's still got the bottle in his hand. And he gets up at his knees now and he's prayed the sinner's prayers, received, he's come out, he's just pondered, but he's still got the bottle and he walks out now after praying your prayer with him, after your message, but he's still got the bottle. I mean, that's obnoxious. What drunk would believe he's saved? What sin to you? What sin to you? Go on your knees, nothing in your heart to turn from, knowing you're not going to stop, asking God for forgiveness for the consequences of living it, but not willing to give up. But you still come to Jesus knowing, knowing you're not going to repent. Do you think the drunk is obnoxious, walking out with the bottle, saying, I'm safe? According to that man who's the preacher, who knows the book, what do you walk out with? You say, I'm safe, and you know you're not going to stop, that this book damns your soul to hell. He not deceived, no unrighteous person surrendered to the king of heaven, not that defiler surrendered any names. What moderators and archbishops of Canterbury say, God didn't really mean that these people, and he names his sins, will go to hell, unless they repent. Isaiah 53, the most important chapter in the entire Bible, around which the entire Bible circles, new and old, the axle upon which the whole wheel revolves, Isaiah 53. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He tasted death for every man, this book says to me. I preach that, unashamedly, sir, and even though I'm only quoting scripture, pulpits will close on me just for saying it. He tasted death for every man. He has a propitiation for our sins, John says, 1 John 2 verse 1, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. I believe that, I believe that. Does it offend you that Jesus, I was reading this just before the meeting, sorry I have so many things, I was getting excited, I hardly could prepare what I was supposed to, but let me just read this, 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 1, I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions be made for all men, all men, isn't that lovely, for kings, etc. Verse 4, who will have all men to be saved? I love this. Oh, thank God Paul wrote this to me, and to me. Verse 6, you gave himself a ransom for all. I love these words, and I'm not ashamed to preach them, because if I didn't believe that, I would limit God, and almost be scared who I pray with. Some poor man went to Spurgeon and said, Mr. Spurgeon, I've done a terrible thing. I led a man to Christ, and I'm not sure if he's elected. And Spurgeon said, don't worry brother, I'm sure God will forgive you if you led someone to Christ who's not elected. What a profound theological statement from one of the greatest theologians in the history of the world, but Spurgeon didn't elaborate, he just walked away. Oh, I don't want to live in fear, to limit God with whom I walk past the drunk in the gutter, I don't want to do that. Whosoever will, let him come. Don't blame God. Read Romans 1 before you read Romans 9, please, or you'll misunderstand. Don't start in the middle of a man's letter. You might never understand where he started from, and start really preaching something that isn't of God. Be careful. He will in no wise turn away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus, the Father has promised. I was preaching as a young preacher, and there was a good response. A little girl prayed, and she wanted to speak to me, and so she was saying to me, you said things today in this message that I needed to hear as a little girl about your father, who's an alcoholic, and now in one moment, one moment, he was set free. He didn't go to Alcoholics Anonymous and stand up and say, I am an alcoholic. He stood up and said, I was. I'm no longer. She said, I needed to hear that. And she said, my daddy is an alcoholic. I haven't seen my daddy for a long time, because when he drinks, he does terrible things, and the law, the police have forbidden him within a 50 mile radius of where we live, or he will be jailed. He so hurt mommy and the children, us children, and she said, I want my daddy to know what you said today, that in one moment, if the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed. This isn't word perfect, obviously. It was a long time ago, but this is what she said, basically. So we had a prayer. Now, it was just about two and a half years ago, later, maybe close to three years. I was in a town where this man, big man, Keith Daniel, I want you to come with me in my car, and I want to share something with you, but I want you and me alone. He said, okay. His face shone, by the way. So we get in the car, we're driving. He says to me, do you remember my daughter? She prayed with you. He said, brother, I used to sober up and look at what I did to my wife and my children, just sob and sob. I couldn't believe what I did. I would say, I'll never think again. When I couldn't, when I tried to stop, he said, things happen, spiders, like giant spiders. As I'm trying to sleep, as I'm trying to work, would just start coming towards me, climbing over me, my mind, until I grabbed the bottle running down the street, thinking I'm going insane and just, lie drunk. He said, I couldn't stop. I went to homes, I went everywhere, I couldn't stop, even though I hurt the things I love most in life. Servant of sin, doesn't choose when he sins, doesn't choose when he stops. He can beat his children, but he's not allowed to see them again, though he loves them, and he can't stop. Sin, when you're a servant of sin, there's no choice, brother, you just have to, even if you're losing your health, your honor, your work, your job, your life, your children, your family, you lose everything. You don't want to, don't think a man wants to. He says to me, brother, my daughter phoned me, and she said, listen, daddy, I'm not allowed to phone you. Mommy doesn't know, but I've got to tell you what I heard, and she told him the gospel. A little girl, and daddy, this man said, Jesus Christ can set you free. She said about my daddy, she said, daddy, I know Jesus can set you free, if you let him, if you ask him. He said, of course, I was stunned. Of course, I was moved, but I still drank and drank, but this voice would come, daddy, Jesus can set you free, if you let him. It just kept coming, but you know, my brother, I nearly went insane, and I couldn't bear another minute. I got into my car, and between the town I live in, the town where my family lives, I drove along this freeway, and I put my foot flat, and I went fast, until the whole car was shaking, and then I just tried to turn the car and roll and die, but I couldn't. I tried. The wheel wouldn't turn, and I heard this voice in my heart again, daddy, Jesus can set you free. I know Jesus can set you free, if you want him to, if you let him, if you ask him, and as I tried to, God, why won't this turn? I stopped, and I was weeping. I was under the influence, I admit it. I got out of the car, I fell on my knees on the road, on the tar, and I screamed, Jesus Christ, if you are there, and you can set me free, like my daughter said, set me free now, brother. I never touched a drink for that long. I never craved for a drink that day, that night, through the next day. I walked past a pub that I couldn't walk, and it repulsed me. It didn't draw me. Now, that was many years ago. Did it last? Oh, yes. He became a preacher. I was preaching once in a town where it was pouring with rain, not just a little bit of rain. For me to get from the vehicle into the church, I was drenched. Everyone was drenched, but the church was full. Small town, back in our South Africa. Beautiful town along the coast. And one night as I stood there, starting to preach, there was a commotion at the door, a real commotion. This drunk man, reeking with drink, staggering, screaming, shouting, fighting his way in, and I had stopped preaching. I was shocked at the screaming. The whole congregation just turning, looking. Couldn't concentrate with the whole sermon stopped. And I noticed something strange. A few people came to a lady sitting in the front row. Oh, she was a lady. What a lady. And they were putting their arms around her, kneeling in front of her, holding her hand as she just hoped. And I knew that drunk was your husband. In the end, I heard him shouting, God told me I must be in the smithy. You will not keep me out, he sought. In the end, these men, the elders, the deacons, led him to the back row, and he sat there alone. He slumped his arm over like this, but tears were coming down his face. He was drunk. No doubt of that. I preached, and I battled to preach that night. I struggled, and I remember stopping my sermon about three quarter way through. I didn't get to the end because I just didn't somehow. He was the only one that came out. The others went, and I prayed with him. He never touched a drink again on that night, though he prayed while he was under the influence of drink, sir. Don't, don't tell me I was wrong. Don't you limit God's, not this God. If a man can't get sober, don't limit this God when he comes. When he died, he had never touched a drink from that night, all those years to the day he died. He had been a magistrate of that town before he became an alcoholic, and a shame to a good woman who prayed for him. I was preaching in Cape Town years ago. I was a lot younger, and after the one meeting of these three nights, four nights, sorry, this missionary convention or something, this little lady, 20 years old maybe, I don't know, 19 maybe, I saw her trying to get my attention, so I left every walk to her and said, are you wanting to speak to me? I was a drug addict. I would lie in the streets of Cape Town. How I stayed alive, I don't know. How God allowed me to stay alive, how I lived for a few years as a rebellious teenager. This Dutch reformed doomany, Petey Victor, used to go in the streets and stand outside of the nightclubs, and as they came, try and share, and all these young people try and share, and anybody who showed interest would, they would invite them to this little coffee shop there in the center of the city, and there they would sing, these young Christians, testify, and anyone who in any way wanted Christ of these drug addicts and his broken life of sin from the streets, many of them, they would take to this big hotel that they bought, this Christian doomany, the pastor in the Dutch reformed church, and there they would wash them, clothe them, feed them, and pray them through, and many, many came to God, and they didn't stop. They would, through discipline, nurture them, carry them till they were established, watching over them. Oh, bless God for the work doomany Petey Victor did. He's dead now, violently killed about two years ago in a country that's full of violence, tragically, but he said, I came to Christ, and God set me gloriously free. There she stood with her Bible. I took it, and I knew she was saved. Let's go through a person's Bible. If this is living, throbbing, mocked, ramer, well, she said, I loved a man, and I had also a drug addict, and he watched me. He watched me. When I went with these Christians, he came and watched me as I began to listen, and let them start praying for me. He watched me as they took me, but he didn't come. He's still on the streets, but I love him. I still love him, and I so want God to save him. I was listening to you preach last night, sir, and something in my heart, I didn't hear any voices, something in my heart just said, I've got to speak to you about him. He's in the hotel. They said to me, he won't stay. He's causing chaos. He's smashing the place up. He's physically violent, angry. He's not, they don't know how long he'll stay, and I thought, oh God, he's going to go. Only one place he might find with these people's help. He said, I want you, sir, to go. I want you to go before he leaves. I said, you know, I'm pretty busy. They're keeping me busy with these meetings and what's happening in the day. He said, sir, please don't fail me. I believe God said that I should ask you. I believe God impressed it in my heart. Well, it took me two days before I could get a vehicle, be let off, and go find this big hotel. There was this little clean, godly-looking lady, young lady, at the other side of the reception desk, and I said who I was and who I was looking for, and a tear came down her face immediately. Oh, have we been praying for you to come? We heard you were coming. He left 20 minutes ago. You're too late. I'm so sorry, and the tears, and he left and away, he'll never come back here. He'll never, ever show his face the way, the things he did before he left. I'm sorry, sir. You're too late. I said, but surely you have an address. You have a contact, something that I can find. These people don't have addresses, sir. They sleep in the gutters. You'll never see him again. You're too late, sir. What does he look like? Tell me what he looks like. She explained, long hair. I got in this car, and I started driving around that block, and then more blocks, broader, around the city. I don't know how long, a few hours, God knows as I groaned, groaned. Oh, God, let me find him. God, let me find him. Don't let him die. I can't face this lady and tell her I was too late. The night fell. And I had to meet some young fellow outside of this big Lutheran church in Strand Street, where I preached often. And he sat in the car beside me, and we were talking, waiting for a while for something had to come that night. And suddenly, there was a banging on my car, the whole car. And this young fellow looked and started screaming, Oh, God, no. Oh, God, no. And I looked up, and there was this young man, long blonde hair, covered with blood. And the blood was on my window. His head had smashed. He was so drugged, he couldn't feel what he was doing, the pain. And he got up. He runs, and he smashes his head. More blood. Oh, I don't want to hurt you. Speaking sensationalism. Oh, God, forgive me. No. He clings now. I want money. Please, please, I need money. Give me money. So I opened the car and pushed the door as he walked back. And I got out the brother, and they said, Keith, please, don't. He'll kill you. He'll hurt you. Don't. Don't get out of his car. But I got out. You see, I knew who this was. I had no doubt who this was, because I know this God, who doesn't mock a man who groans for his soul and searches and longs. I know this God's integrity. He cannot say no to such a crime. And he looked at me, staggered. I said, you are, and I gave his name. I was a bit shaken at that stage, like he sobered in the morning. Pulled himself up. Who are you? How do you know my name? I don't know you. Who gave you my name? How do you know my name, man? And I told him. I told him of his girlfriend, what she said to me, and how I missed him. My 20 minutes and how I wept and groaned, crying to God to let me find him. And I said, listen, Lionel, look at the city. Look at the thousands of cars. Look at the thousands of people. You walked to this car, passed all of us in the city. Do you think that just happened? Do you think that could just happen, that you came to this car, to this man who's wept, groaning to God? Don't doubt this, Lionel. God wants to save your soul, or you wouldn't have come to this car, to this man, if God couldn't do something for you. And I began to share scriptures, and I began to share my life, and I began to share other testimonies. I don't know how long it was, just sharing with him, telling him Christ can set him free with scriptures. The boy fell on his knees in the streets, and he screamed so loud that I fell on my knees. He was so desperate, God could never say no to such a man. Drugged. I admit it, drugged. Jesus Christ. I always doubted. I don't doubt anymore. Save my soul. Oh, God. That boy stood, never touched a drug again in his life. Do you honestly believe Jesus Christ can't save anyone, no matter how destroyed their lives are? Has there the slightest doubt in your heart, young lady, mother, weeping over some rebellious boy? Have you any doubt in this God? The only thing God needs from a man is that he wants God to set him free, and allows him to set him free. I was preaching in a town where God began to move in a remarkable way. I was young. So many came to Christ, the Christians just openly weeping as they're just walking in the streets. People who'd never, ever been in their lives near a church, let alone even just seeking God and being saved. I was preparing in the church, as I always did over the years, the whole afternoon, just me and God in the pulpit. I stand and go over that sermon and pray, asking God for word and word, verse after verse, getting something from the heart of God and praying, soaking, consumed with the Bible and prayer for the meeting that night. At the door, and I went, there's this godly lady, Mrs. Hindley. Keith, I know you're preparing. Oh, forgive me, I don't want to disturb you, but I had to come here. Listen, my boy, my brother is a drug addict. He never wanted God in his life, from a boy, mommy and daddy, we're all saved. My brother wanted the devil. My brother wanted sin. He hated religion. He hated the gospel. He never once wanted to listen. Not one occasion can we remember the boy ever wanting. He just wanted sin and oh, sin's destroyed him. He's a drunk. He's a drug addict. And he broke mommy and daddy's heart, broke their hearts. We're all sitting in the lounge in my home, all the ladies. Suddenly, he had come. He walks in the door. I haven't seen him for so long. And all he did was stand there listening as these ladies were sharing, who's come to Christ, their children, their husband, this one who never came there, et cetera. How God is working. Suddenly, he stepped forward and said, I want to speak to this man. I want to speak to this man. Keith, won't you please speak to my brother? He's never once in his life wanted to speak about the gospel. I said, of course I will, but I can't. I'm not the sort of preacher that can just stand up and preach. I have to prepare. I can't. Can't you bring him to the meeting? Oh, Keith. We tried my husband's jacket and different clothes. He said, I can never go into church like this. Everybody knows me. But he said, he'll wait, Keith. He'll wait. I know it's your last night. You're leaving tonight after the sermon. But please, Keith, my brother's never wanted Christ, never wanted to speak in his life of a little boy. He's never once showed interest to today. Please, Keith, won't you come? Even if it's late? He said he'd wait. It doesn't matter how late. If you just speak to him. I said, of course I'll come. Well, that night, God did something we didn't expect. The church was so overcrowded, and so many came to Christ. That last night, everyone that was saved, dealing with souls, dealing with souls in the name of Jesus. Then, of course, the ministers want to have a time of prayer. We eventually look at the watch, very past 11, 20 past 11, and we felt finished. We could deal with all these souls and give them the follow-up, get their names so they could be followed up. This young fellow with me and the minister said, Keith, it's too late. No one knew. You can't visit people at this time of the night. He wouldn't have waited. You would have to arrange, explain, and try and see him some other time as soon as possible. But there's no possibility he would have stayed so late. So we all agreed. I said, I understand this. So we left. We got in the car. We drove back through the night to our town, to our headquarters. It was a few days later, probably about a week later, to be honest, that I was sent by our district superintendent to go past that town on Sunday morning to get to another town along the coast to preach in some Baptist church. And as I was driving, I realized I'm early. So I drove in off the freeway into this town, went up the road way to where this lady's house was, knocked at the door, and she came. And as she opened that door, my heart sunk. Her face, her eyes swollen. And as she looked at me and saw who it was, she didn't say hello. The tears just came and she began to sob. And I started weeping right then as I followed her in. She sat on the sofa, made me sit beside her. She said, Keith, Keith, you said you would come. I told you that he said he would wait. It didn't matter how long. Keith, you didn't come. It was the first time, the only time in his life that he ever said he wanted to speak to somebody about Jesus Christ, his soul. And you didn't come, Keith. Oh, wait, Keith. We understand. We found out. Everyone told us how late it was. And we understand. You didn't think he had waited. And you thought you could come and see him again. And that's why you've come today. Keith, he waited until a quarter past 12. And then he said, let's go to the church. And when he knew and found out you had gone, he shouted, Keith, in the street in the dark, I'll never seek God again. He shouted God in his car. They don't know what happened. He's in a room. He stays in with a cigarette to the seat. Something caught fire. The whole place went up like a furnace. He was burned to death, his body like a cinder, drunk, drunk. The first day in his life he wanted to seek God. He died. No one judges you, Keith. But will you take advice from this person? Don't ever take a chance with the soul again, Keith. It doesn't matter how inconvenient. It doesn't matter how ridiculous the time. It doesn't matter how tired you are or how far you have got to travel. Never take a chance with the soul again. Please. Till you die. I got in the car. And I had to drive and preach. And I wept aloud in that car. Oh, God, what? And I made a vow to God that day. I don't make vows to God. But I did that day. From my soul, doesn't matter how tired I am. It doesn't matter how inconvenient. It doesn't matter how ridiculous. Give me the grace. And by thy grace alone, God, I will never, ever neglect another soul. And by God's grace, through these years, I have never, ever neglected a soul that wanted to speak to me about Jesus. No matter how drunk they were, or drugged, or rebellious, or lying in blood in the garage, and their parents just pushed me in the room and helped me, I never neglected a soul again. No matter how impossible it was, no matter how impossible it was in other people's eyes that anything could be done with such a life, I never neglected another soul. And almost every one God ever led me to who was impossible to reach in the eyes of most of this world, God saved this God. He gave these verses. Are you saved? Has the Son set you free from your sin? Do you think he'll turn you away when he promised? He will in no wise turn away any who comes to him through Christ who takes the death for every man. Do you think he's capable? One version, although I hate versions, it isn't really a version, it's this young Greek thing, but he is incapable of turning away anyone who comes through Christ. Little bracket, because Christ takes the death for every man. This God is holy, this God is sovereign, this God is just, but this God will never, ever be accused of being the reason you didn't get saved. Not in that book, unless you're willing to take scissors and cut out many chapters, not this God, sir. Let's shut our eyes. Father, give grace for people to put pride down and find eternal life through Jesus in Christ's name. While our heads are bowed tenderly now, just in case tonight you're willing to say no more, am I going to take another step without Jesus who did this for me and wants me so much and will set me free? I want to ask those of you, young and old, no matter who you are, that Jesus has never set you free. I don't care how much religion's in your life or if you carry a Bible, but if you're still carrying a life of sin that you never turned from and he never set you free, I want to ask you to seek him tonight for that, to repent tonight. And then he sets you free from what you can't set yourself free, but you have to repent, you have to want him to, and you have to let him, and you have to have faith that he can and will if you come. And those of you that would do that tonight, to this God who so loved you, I want you who need to, please right now, while heads are bowed, I want you to please just put your hands up and say, I'm coming, I'm coming to Christ. Would you do that? Would you do that? Anyone just stand if you need to. I'm giving you a moment. Anyone that would say that to Jesus that needs to, don't take a chance with your soul, sir. This might be God's last call. I'm asking once more if Christ needs to save you and you know you're not truly saved, will you stand please right now and let us pray for you. Father, take this message and let it burn in our hearts, through our lives, that great fruit will come through it, in us and through us, to others. In Jesus Christ's name, Amen.
Ye Shall Be Free Indeed!
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Keith Daniel (1946 - 2021). South African evangelist and Bible teacher born in Cape Town to Jack, a businessman and World War II veteran, and Maud. Raised in a troubled home marked by his father’s alcoholism, he ran away as a teen, facing family strife until his brother Dudley’s conversion in the 1960s sparked his own at 20. Called to ministry soon after, he studied at Glenvar Bible College, memorizing vast Scripture passages, a hallmark of his preaching. Joining the African Evangelistic Band, he traveled across South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and made over 20 North American tours, speaking at churches, schools, and IBLP Family Conferences. Daniel’s sermons, like his recitation of the Sermon on the Mount, emphasized holiness, repentance, and Scripture’s authority. Married to Jenny le Roux in 1978, a godly woman 12 years his junior, they had children, including Roy, and ministered together. He authored no books but recorded 200 video sermons, now shared online. His uncompromising style, blending conviction and empathy, influenced thousands globally.