This sermon emphasizes the importance of seeking God, warning against the dangers of cutting oneself off from communion with God and fellowship with other believers. It highlights the role of elders in watching over and warning the congregation, urging them to walk in the light and avoid worldly influences. The speaker shares personal stories and powerful illustrations to drive home the message of staying faithful and seeking God's guidance in all aspects of life.

And thank you everyone who has come. We wondered who would come to the City Theatre, the City Hall, half of whom we've been holding meetings, so I'm very grateful. I need to say thank you to the people that asked me to come. My dear brother Matthews and his wife and sons, who I've met. I am in different places. All that tribe, it seems there's two tribes in this room tonight. All right, this is the back of the tribe. You're on the one side, and I'm on the other. Sister, I haven't got my list. Tell me your name again. My name is Ben. Ben. Ben. Ben's son. Thank you so much. Thank you so much from my heart. Thank you for letting me come. And you were very courageous. I'll say the same to your wife. You went to church in Burlington, so you didn't have a great congregation to expect. And yet you courageously arranged these meetings, and I'm very grateful to God for that. God bless you from my heart, for your courage, your vision, your faith, your hope, and your love. Bless you from my heart with your kindness. And everyone else that has come, I am so grateful you're here tonight. I see in the back you've got your little children in the back row. And they look so good. You could have slept in the front row. Are you in the back row in case you need to leave with the children? Look at them. They're a picture. Let me show them myself. Look at them. Perfectly dressed. Wonderful children. Yes, okay. Well, God bless you, each one. I'm very grateful to God for you coming. And I'm trying to mention also that we have a little newsletter, and if you would like to receive it, many thousands do, mostly preachers across the world. For some reason, people carry us in prayer as they see our program. If you'd like to, I see a lot of folks have put their names down. Thank you, very welcome. If you'd like to, it's your postal address or your email address. This is basically the newsletter. On this 12-week tour that I do every year, I'm very grateful to God. This is the 30th tour I've done in the country, and I've spoken to many hundreds of thousands, quite a number of hundreds of thousands of people over these 30 tours. Sometimes in large auditoriums, sometimes too small, like this, but to me, always a joy. This tour in Washington, I spoke at a Jewish Orthodox synagogue. First time I heard about it in Washington. And there were hundreds of these fellows with all their things, you know, but they're all saved. They're all professed to be born again, but they kept the traditional Orthodox Jewish, and they came to the program, and it's all in the light of the cross, you see. So it's wonderful, and I was really blessed to be there. And other meetings, of course, St. Joseph Baptist Church, quite a few meetings around Washington, which really was a fantastic meeting. It was very blessed. And then we went to Scranton, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Mount Vernon, and then Vineland in Wisconsin, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, New Plymouth, Idaho, Ellensburg, Washington, Houston, Texas, IMI, it's the Theological Institute up in Texas, Burnet, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and now Minneapolis in Paul. And I'm going tomorrow to preach in Minnesota, South Dakota, Madison, Tennessee, Williamsburg, Ohio, Leotona, Ohio, and Milwaukee. So 74th day, flying to the next place, and that has been exciting for me. If you'd like to receive this in my e-mail, I did it to pray, and so many of you would pray. Please don't put your love down. Don't have it in your heart to somehow give me the rush to go around preaching to my wife. There are copies here for those of you who don't want to receive the e-mail. Even if you don't receive it, you can at least pray for this tour. But somehow, the printing press is ready for you in a couple of days. It's coming. Good. And to the man, the gentleman, and his wife who owns the building, over here. Are you the owner with all the children? I'm so grateful. Whatever do you have for them? Yes. Oh, that's kind of him. So he's going to miss the whole service. I think he should say, please come and try it if you want to. I can't tell a man what to do with his own building. But I would like to say thank you to him also. Now, is that all your family? How many grandchildren do you have? Six and one. Isn't that wonderful? And you've got two, and I'm only 17. I blame my wife. The children are so small. It took quite a while for them to find anyone that they could think of being a mother for. Here I am. Only two grandchildren. But others will come. If God spares me, I will see. I don't know what that will be. Because I wake up in the morning and thank God from my heart for sparing me another day. I just can't know if another day is coming. And if God gives you one more day, you'll be young and thank God for it. And you'll have to give your everything you can because you just don't know when the next day you will have where you are. But I wouldn't say thank you now, sweetie. It's the amendment. It's a different thing. I don't know, look around, if we see what's left of all that. There you are. Okay, we have to continue the talk. All right, let's just bow for a moment and pray now. Father, bless you and us. We ask that thou would look upon us in grace because of Jesus Christ's death and blood. We can come over to the throne of grace because of the blood. We enter into the holies. We are no closer in heaven to thee than we are right now because of the blood of Jesus. And our faith and the cleansing and the right we have is for the man. All our shame to approach God. To find through salvation and through faith in the blood of Christ the ability to be right in the Holy of Holies. According to this book, our faith. And so we ask thee because of Jesus Christ's death and his blood, his sacrifice for our lives, for our souls, and for us to have the right to be cleansed to this side of heaven and have God here within us holding our hands and guiding our feet as the children of God born again. Saved for eternity. Now we receive Jesus in the great salvation of God through him. So come, wash me in the blood of Christ in the Holy Spirit and by thy grace and mercy alone speak to our hearts, all of us. Even the children. In Jesus Christ's holy name and for his sake. Amen. In John 15 verse 4 Jesus said And I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide in me. Years ago as a younger preacher I came to America and one of the first tours I did of your country many years ago now I preached in a very large few thousand people convention in Pennsylvania. The man who organized this conference was a man called Denny Kinston. I don't know if anyone here knows Denny Kinston. Could you put your hands up if you do? Ah, whether you are. One of the greatest privileges God ever gave me in my life was to have him as a friend and to be deeply influenced by him. He died last year and the world is poorer without this man. Trust me. Denny Kinston had on his property in the old Pennsylvania he had a workshop that he built on his grounds where his family all unitedly and together as one person they would work with the wood to make garden furniture which they sold in various art beds. That gave them an income. And for three months that little family from the smallest boy up to the largest all the children they had quite a shy workshop but for three months they were required as a little family that's all, three months of every year to work in that workshop to produce this income to garden furniture. Now one of the little boys he was about so tall where did you find that little boy? How old are you? Eleven? You put that on and stand up so we see what an eleven year old boy looks like. Yes. He was eleven for the whole story. All right, you may sit. But he had a son called Shannon. Now that is a good name, isn't it? Of course it's right. His son was a year or so older than he was. But anyway, we'll pretend he's Shannon, OK? He's my father. They look so alike. All right, well look at Shannon. He was working with these strips of wood in his section and that is his little part of the work. He was working with this big churning blade to just take these wooden parts that he would put into this part and eventually it was all assembled and one day as a little boy he was pushing this wood through when suddenly this big churning blade caught hold of his garment and pulled his arm and cut his whole arm off. It was totally severed from the body. Now of course he was flaked out. And the loss of blood within minutes brought him so close to death because they just couldn't stop it. The flow of blood. His little family began to frantically scream and run up to the house weeping and crying out to God. But Jackie and his wife came down rushing with the other older children. Then he was away at that time and they rushed and all of them weeping as they just saw him flaked out with the blood just spreading across the floor. They all panicked and they all frantically just crying and weeping to God to please save him and just save his life. And so Jackie taking the one leg and the other children and the other arms and the legs carried him as he was close to death carried him onto the vehicle. One of the children one of the small children picked up the arm and ran off into the vehicle. They went to the closest hospital and just by a matter of either you've got sovereignty or something as you look back in life you just see the hand of God must have been there. Because they just happened to be visiting surgeons. They were able to attempt an uncomprehendable feat to reattach their arm. First they had to get enough blood back in him to keep him from dying. When he was able to be worked upon they these surgeons attempted to reattach the arm. The veins the muscles the bone structure somehow to reattach that arm that was totally severed off. And that to me is uncomprehendable. I would feel that's not possible. But it is. And we never leave God out of anything medical science can do. See God gave men wisdom to do that. Don't leave God out of it. Even if people pray for God's many times God expects us to trust the wisdom he's given to doctors and surgeons. And to acknowledge him especially as Christians. And to pray for wisdom and carefulness and protection as these people use the wisdom they've been given to keep us alive. So that to me is so wonderful that God could do that by giving men wisdom to do that. Now I saw Sam he's a grown man now. And he has children. He's about his age when I saw him. Growing up so far I saw him a year or two ago in some meeting I was preaching at. And Sam's arm can function perfectly though it's totally detached from the body. There's no less strength there. It functions perfectly. And to me that is wonderful. But now I need to ask something of everyone here. I need to ask everyone of you. And I wonder if I could ask you to do something you've never done before. Everyone. I want you to be utterly honest with yourself. And with God as well. I don't care who you are. Have you been saved? Literally cut off from an abiding life in Christ. Which is imperative for your survival as a Christian. I want to repeat that. According to Christ himself in John 15 and many other passages. Have you been saved from an abiding life in Christ outside of which nothing is nothing? Nothing will ever be seen the least of God's redeeming love. You will be a tragedy to those who have been saved. Because your love cannot produce one thing of the fruit of the spirit of Christ like it is outside of abiding in Christ. You cannot have any fruit. You see this abiding in Christ is not an act of faith. At the moment of salvation by faith you are grafted into the body of Christ. You become a member of his body. By grace through faith just an active faith in the shed blood of Christ you are saved. You have become part of the body of Christ. That's faith. But this abiding in Christ has nothing to do with that. This is a discipline that God puts the onus on you. Straighten your hands if you choose. You see the free word doesn't stop when you get saved. It's every day that you have to choose. It's a choice. If you could be a tragedy and bring shame on God's name daily beginning in your own home you could be the reason your children go to hell. No other reason. Shame on Christians telling them to get saved but not having what God says it's impossible. Any fruit could ever amiss if you haven't survived it. In the rest of the scriptures we hear this term abiding that Jesus said in 1 John. Chapter 3 verse 6 Whoso abides, whoso abideth in him sinneth not. John says Whoso abideth in him sinneth not. There's no victory. There's no victory. No victory in Christianity outside of this. There's no possibility of any victory in your life outside of the body. Whoso abideth in him sinneth not. There's victory in Christ but it's through this. 1 John 2.28 Now the children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him that he's coming. I want to repeat that. What John said to all of us. Now the children abide in him. He's not speaking about the little children yet. But everyone that's saved he looks upon them as babes in Christ and as kings in us. Now the children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed as he's coming. This is God's word not mine. It is imperative for your survivor as a Christian not to be ashamed of God's name and whatever that verse means that he's a Christian Christian of Christ the King. Why John 2 verse 4? He that saith he abideth in him he that saith he does the one thing Christ said he had to do to be faithful I'll celebrate you as Christ you won't even recognize people will be shocked to hear you say you're a Christian. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked. There's Christ-likeness in a wife. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked. Christ-like to be like Christ. This is my apology. You ought to know it's the most obnoxious thing you will ever see in your life as you think some wickedness in the street or even pleasure. No. The most obnoxious thing you will ever see in life is a Christian. There is nothing of Christ-likeness in him. There's nothing of Christ-likeness in him. That is the most shattering and obnoxious thing you will ever witness in your life to say that you're saved you're Christ you belong to Jesus as he's in you. This is imperative. It is vital. This abiding life in Christ is a discipline of communion with God. And that costs everything. You say it doesn't well you try to never neglect everything that's needed for you to be abiding in Christ. As a result of a discipline we call it a quiet time in meditation of God's Word. I tell you what a quiet time is it's not having an hour with God's Word and prayer. That's nothing. It's an hour or more or whatever God gives you or requires of you where you don't get up and walk out and say well I've had my quiet time I've done this my concentration that's not a quiet time. You get up if you've had anything in your life you've had a quiet time you've done any load to God or yourself or none. If you're able to get up and as a result of the time you've spent with God you're able to walk with God not leaving behind God for the entire day outside of that you have an hour. I'm not talking about waking yourself up in emotion. I'm talking about the promises that God gives something that you have to do to get with God. The word of God has something without any emotion that is renewing you day by day outside of which you will never know. The meditating of the word of God. This abiding life in Christ. Not a crisis prayer. To me that's a tragedy. Only crisis will make you pray for your soul and the communion with God. That's why God allows so much crisis to come in your life. You think it's the devil when things go wrong? No. It's that the only time God gets from you something from your heart, your whole being, looking in faith earnestly in every facet of your being, responding, committing to meet God. Do you wonder why so much goes wrong in your life? If that's the only time God will ever find anything from you, do you wonder that that's what he's going to have to do with the rest of your life? Crisis is not what I'm speaking about. That is really tragic. That's all God can do to get you from the three in communion with him. I'm talking about an abiding, an abiding communion with God, an abiding communion with Christ, an abiding love with Christ. If Enoch could walk with God soon, it's not in the Bible for our interest to tell you that you can. There's nothing in the Bible that's there just for historical record. From Genesis 1 to the end, it's written for you to have the heart of God and to be able to walk with God. There's nothing, it doesn't even state this. God gives it to you like Enoch. I would ask you again, have you been cut off from an abiding love with Christ? Have somehow, through all the things that you Though you're saved, there's nothing, nothing in you, that you must have desired. Even if you're a tragedy, and the only thing that will make you see God desperately and willingly, is if everything collapses in life. And that's tragic. That is tragedy. Christianity is tragic. It is tragedy. It's not a joy to someone who doesn't put God first. Who doesn't find this life, because other things matter more than God. And I'm imploring you, don't leave yourself in that condition for the rest of your life. I'm imploring you from my soul to leave you in that condition for the rest of your life. I'm imploring you, don't leave yourself in that rest of your I'm imploring you, don't yourself in that rest of your life. I'm you, in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, don't leave yourself in that life. I'm imploring you, don't leave yourself in that rest I'm imploring you, yourself in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself in that rest life. I'm don't leave yourself in that rest of your I'm imploring yourself in that rest of your life. I'm don't leave yourself in that rest of your life. I'm leave yourself in that rest of your I'm imploring you, don't leave yourself in that rest I'm imploring yourself in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself I'm imploring you, in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself in that rest I'm imploring you, in that rest life. I'm imploring in that rest of your I'm imploring in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself in that of your life. I'm imploring you, yourself in that rest of your life. I'm imploring you, in that rest I'm imploring you, in that rest of your life. God, as our Heavenly Father, exhorts us, as these children, the children of the family of God, in Scriptures, in Galatians 6 verse 1, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one. That's a staggering statement. If a man, brethren, brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one. In the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. You've got to be careful. I know many a preacher going to help someone who's fallen to sin, fallen to the same sin. Be careful, preacher, if you're alone with a lady, vice-versa. I know some of the greatest preachers in this world, it was the end of their ministry, and they went to help, and they were tempted to be alone. There's some who really, they said, may I be anointed. He professed to be saved. He did that to us. Martyrs, you'd be stung, because he did so many. If a man be overtaken in a fault, literally, in its context, tragedy falls into sin. Ye which are spiritual, restore such a one. You want to know who's spiritual? It is the pastor, the elders, the youth leaders. No. Just let someone fall into sin, and you'll find out who is spiritual in 30 seconds. No one's there to condemn. Get her out, shake her out. Nothing to do with that. No. God looks to those that are spiritual, the address of sin, I'm looking to you, God says. And you will find out who's spiritual in a moment, someone falls, no matter who it is, that falls into sin, that's a saved man. Be careful how you relate to God's children, with another one of God's children. I understand your lies and tragedies. Be careful. Don't stand there condemning. Be careful. Ye which are spiritual, restore, how will we know who God looks to? How will we even know who's spiritual when this happens? Well, in 1 John, John tells us twice, in the same letter, what we must do if sin comes in a Christian's life. Firstly, 1 John 2 verse 1, what we must do if sin comes in our life. My little children, he's not writing to little children, but to you. The age of John to everyone, whether you're 90 years old or 60 years old, or 20 years old. Your name is in Christ when you come, so my little children, he says, I'm a spiritual man. These things write I unto you, that you sin not. Now preach that, or leave the book. There's victory in Christ, and you've got to preach it. These things write I unto you that you sin not. That's half a verse. Be careful, don't be like a Jehovah's Witness. You can only quote half a verse, but you can't have it with the other half, because it cancels out what he says, the meaning. So, he's half a verse. Don't do that. The next half is a verse. These things write I unto you that you sin not. I don't want it, God says. But if any man, any Christian in his context, sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins. Take him from Leviticus 16, he's the mercy seeker, where the high priest would go and sprinkle the blood of the mercy seeker. It's just a picture right now of what Christ is doing. But he has his blood, that he shows the Father, and he never limits to make intercession for us. He never limits to make intercession for us, whereby he's able to save you to the uttermost, to come to him through God, to come to God through him. You see, he stands there with his blood, and he makes a decision. We have not a high priest, which cannot be moved with the feeling of our infirmities, in all points tempted like as we yet without sin. Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of Christ to obtain mercy, and grace to help in times of need. You see, you don't come praising him. You come in shame, he says. But come boldly. Don't let the devil keep you down, because you fell and fell into sin. No! Brother and sister, you have no right to give up if you're saved. You have no right. Let me tell you why. Because the same God, that we put our faith into the promises he gave concerning the saved blood of Christ, and for the forgiveness of sins to be saved, he knew. He knew that there's a possibility that you could fall. He knew, don't you see, if you turn off the broad road, you turn here on the narrow road, which leads to life, which is the exact opposite. You're facing everybody, beginning in your own home. The members of a man's home have become the enemies. All who live in God and in Christ Jesus shall suffer the consequences, and he knew all the power he had against you is the possibility of falling. And God says, get up. If you fall, don't give up! Get up! That's staggering, whatever the Bible says. You have no right to give up. The same God that promised you forgiveness, saved you in your blood, when you were saved, he has other promises to you if sin comes, not whenever. If you just go on sinning, you'll read 1 John 3, two chapters later, the next chapter, that says you're not saved. If you just sin, you'll be turned from it, and God make you a new Christian, set you free from the slavery of sin. No, but if, on your road to the celestial city, with all the power he had against you, God knew the possibility you could fall, then God gives you promises, promising you that the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, comes with us, gives you continuous death and salvation, the right to eternal life is there. As he stands at the mercy seat and makes a decision for you, you get up and remember, if any man sin, every Christian must confess. We have an advocate in the Father of Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus. He is the propitiation for our sins. Christians, enough for ours, only brought to the sins of the whole world, that's why they come to repentance, and Satan cuts blood. Yes. But then John doesn't only speak once about a Christian's sin. If sin comes in a Christian, what do you do? May he deal with it, you. If you fall into sin, what do you do? Don't give up, give up, confess your sin, your blood confess. But then he also speaks about if you receive another Christian's sin. One times I could find, 20th, if any man see his brother sin, if any man see his brother sin, a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. What does it mean to sin not unto death? Oh, well that's speaking about the blessing of the Holy Ghost, the unpardonable sin. How it comes into this context, no one's going to explain. So I'm not going to. But, the only time you ever commit an unpardonable, unforgivable sin in this world, is the blessing of the Holy Ghost. And that is the only occasion in the entire Bible where this is mentioned, is when the Pharisees in their anger, in their evil heart, knowing that he was good, wanted to cancel his word, wanted him dead. They were serving God, they believed. In your danger God manifested in their flesh, they were so wicked they wanted him dead. They were so angry, they were so jealous, they were so full of anger at the rebuke of their capricious and violent word. Oh, my brother. They said, the spirit that works in me to perform all these miracles that are turning the world upside down, is the spirit of Jezebel, the devil. To say that the Holy Spirit that performed the miracles and the power of God through me to perform the great miracles that turned the world upside down at that time, to say that that is the devil, Satan working through Christ, is the only unpardonable sin in life. Be careful you don't turn that into another category. I know many people who think they did commit the unpardonable sin, they didn't. The fact that they have any desire, any fear means they haven't. Trust me. And I have other sayings on the internet or all these websites that I deal with that, but not tonight. But to get back to this, if any man sees his brother saved, what does he do? What does she do? There's a terrible problem. I saw him with my own eyes. I saw him save that hypocrite, this damn beautiful Bible creature, that hypocrite. I saw him with my own eyes. I saw him. What sort of a woman is this? What? How dare she accuse me? I saw her. I saw her. Oh, what? In the book? I don't know. Let me tell you something shocking. You understand the news in this world fostered by the terrorism newscasts of America? Just tell a Christian. Just tell a Christian. And the news will spread like fire. Let me tell you why. Because there's such sermons today. And I've been reading this across the world. All the devil needs to do is to show a Christian somewhere for himself. No. If any man sees his brother sin, a sin, it is a problem that he shall ask. And he shall give him life. For then let sin not begin. Yes, God is saying, if a man sees, you come to God. And you cry, oh God, what I've seen, please don't let anybody else see. Please protect this person, this preacher. Please protect this woman, protect this man. Because if anyone sees God, he will never be trusted again. His children will never look at him again with trust or love. Only fear. His wife will never be trusted again. He loses everything in life. If this is seen by others, what I've seen, oh God, protect that no one ever sees you. And this doesn't destroy you. Oh God, in thy mercy, come upon him and show him. Show him the dangerous. Show him the wrong. Come upon him in a way that will unnerve him and make him seek thee God. Oh, let me stop, Scott. And you cry. Do you know what God says? I believe heaven stands if there is such a person on earth left. I believe God puts himself in a holy obligation because of such integrity and such compassion, such a heart after God's heart. And God promises, he shall ask his cry of compassion and integrity for this man to not be destroyed but protected in this world. If God promises you, he shall ask you in such a way that he shall give him life for them that sin against him. God will restore them. And that's the first thing you're required to do. You know how spiritual you are. If someone falls into sin, by how you pass it on or how you keep it and protect it and only pass it on to God with such a desperation that God and heaven want to intervene and will because he put himself in a holy obligation. Let me stop you. God will only bring that person right up to you to be the means to restore. If you pray like that. I can't tell you how many preachers and Christians across this world that God shall not let you know or find out that came straight as soon as I began to cry. I remember reading a newspaper one night. I had a cup of tea or a cup of coffee waiting for people to fetch me back in my country. And on the front page of the newspaper, there was a big writing about a man who killed his children and his wife. The whole family was dead. My heart just sank to know a man couldn't mind because he sure could not believe he's dead. So the gift of God had given him knowledges of death to kill you all. And I remember weeping. I just died weeping in my yeshiva with such a broken soul. I began to pray for him. In spite of what he did, my heart broke and I just broke. I said, God, this could be from a Christian home. Just before you come a godly home, does that mean that will never happen in your life? Trust me. I've seen that on more than one occasion here in your country. I've sat in a godly home. God, there might be godly people who love you and are even now. But I must say in your imagination, within two hours, it's all gone. I did not miss one. I did notice godly family. Godly mother and father, and other brothers and sisters. And they asked me to go to the prison, the psychiatric section, trying to observe this man, if he was able to stand any trial. Even if he had the ability to be able to stand a trial, to be judged. So he was put in this prison, this psychologist, all these workers. But he was in prison, trying to assess whether he was able to be judged. And so I walked in, I shouted at him, he's sitting there, a wreck of a human being. The police were all standing around the building watching. Psychologists, all the warden. It was a large group, but they wouldn't say one word without standing right next to me and listening to what I say and what he's going to say to me. He looked at me, and he began to sob, and he said, don't tell me that there's any forgiveness from god for this. God will never ever be able to show me this is what I've done. Don't tell me, don't come and tell me, that I'm to see god for the last time. There's no such thing as forgiveness. I had a Bible, and I began to speak to him with such compassion as I would because he was weak. You know, suddenly the police, the psychologists, the warden, all started sobbing, every one. The one who was sobbing so violently that he had to walk out. You see, I suddenly realized god was a mischievous man. I ran to him to show him there is mercy, and what a man does, you've got to go to him. You dare not give up anyone, and god never gave me a power, what right have I to give up anyone in this world and say there's no worth, no use, and that he's worthless. No. No. I give up on no one. I have no right to. God never gave up on me. You've been speaking to me, speaking of god more than you've been speaking of life to me. I've seen that again and again, and again and again and again and again and again. Now, beloved, we dare not be saved from abiding life in Christ, which is imperative for our survival as a Christian. A deep discipline of communion with god is our greatest discipline in life, at the beginning of our life, and the day we're saved and the day we die is the greatest priority and responsibility of every one of you, all of you who have been slain on god's name. There's nothing of Christ you'll be seeing anymore. You'll send your children to hell, sir, telling them about hell, because you're a life-worshipper. Always remember that any relationship with god of any meaningfulness is obtained and maintained primarily through the meditating of the sacred book. I want to repeat that. If you forget everything in the sermon, Christian, don't forget this, I'm begging you. Always remember, any relationship with god that's meaningful is obtained and maintained primarily through the unhurried meditation of the sacred pages of this book daily. Outside there's no such a thing, sir. You can watch a billion films on Christianity and be ungodly, but this book, this book, primarily, it's obtained primarily and maintained through the meditating of the sacred pages of this book. But how, why would this be so? Well, I remember preaching over 47 years of preaching now, but I remember how people would arrange meetings up to seven in a day, and up to the next point. Whoa. And so I'm living now in this one town where I've preached from one school to the other. There used to be seven meetings, I could have a thousand, sometimes more children, half an hour, 40 minutes. And the privileges they've given me. And then to the prisons, and then to the old age homes, and then to these, whoa, seven meetings in one day. So I'm driving now, after all this, we're driving now 50, 60 miles to get to the next town, because the next morning we had to be up early to go and preach in a breakfast service in one of the big restaurants in the next town. So, we get to the next place, we're going to stay in a farm for the night, which is about 10 miles outside of the town, a very godly farm, his wife and son. And I sit with this man who was driving with the other workers in other cars, all his convoy of cars, all those that arranged all the meetings I said to him, listen, you've only killed me, you've only murdered me today. He says, what, what, what? He was really upset, shocked. I said, yes, you've tried to preach seven times a day. I said, listen, don't worry, it's a good way to die. I said, don't you tell me to go and hear you say, come here, what's it like to be late? I said, I'm not going out of service, I'm going to sit in the morning, I'm going to just stand and sit and pray. Now I was going to sit in the restaurant, and I was saying, well, you go, you sit. I'm going for a walk, or I'm going to die. So, I left him to take my bag, and I just walked before I could see anybody that could sit me down or talk. Oh, I need to walk. You see, that's how I stayed alive. That's why most preachers, if they do stay alive, most die young, because they forget they're human. But I go for walks. There's a discipline. So, I walk, and I walk, and I walk. On this farm, which is perhaps the most prosperous farm in Southern Africa, I have doubts anyone could have made. He has proved it on government-level discussion, and how the farm can affect the nation. This is a godly man, who owns his farm. He's going over the hill, down the valleys, over the lakes, and all the beauty of the mountains. So, once, it's this farm road, this track road that the implements have made to get all these farming implements every part of the country. I walked over the hill, and I looked down at this massive lake, with all these wonderful birds, and all the ducks, and the geese, and all these birds of food being done. It was a mountain, and then a hill, and a hole, and then there's the cliffs. And I walked, and I walked, and I was frisky. Oh, and I was enjoying my mind cleared up. I'm getting back oxygen to my brain, and I'm getting communion with God. And I'm worshipping the creator. I'm worshipping the God of creation. All these beautiful mountains, and valleys, and cliffs, and water. It went on and on walking, but I made a mistake. You see, I wasn't thinking of the time. And suddenly, I thought to myself, oh, I've walked a long way. You know, it's getting dark. How am I going to find my way back to the farm? If I look down the mountain, I can hardly see the road. Winter just gets up. There's no road like this. There's no road anywhere. There's this track, and I have walked a long, long way. Now, I thought, oh my, look how dark it's getting. I can hardly see anywhere now. So I started to run. I do this on every Saturday, OK? Trust me, I run. No one look at me. In my suit, many times, I want to stay alive. I've ran, I've ran all these runners. We don't have time for that. I didn't know I was doing this, by the way. I'm trying to keep up with this old man. I run. So I start running. I can't see the road. You know, suddenly, it was so dark. I honestly couldn't see my hand. The pit's dark. What's going to happen? I'm going to fall off the cliff. I'm going to roll down the edge of here. Now, I looked down, and I was wondering into the future. Where is the road? Now, I really began to panic. Anyway, shout at me. The most amazing thing ever. There were rocks all over this road, this ground road. It began to illuminate, like a golden ray. It was geographically in that area. I don't know what it was, but these rocks, on the road, because the road had been leveled off, and there was no vegetation, just ground. It was illuminating, because of the stars and the moon. But they were like bright lights. So I stood there, and I looked, and over the hill, I could see the road, the lights. It was like a lit-up road. Over the next hill, up the next mountain, over, down. I couldn't see what was going on. I thought, what am I running for? The whole road is illuminated by these rocks. It's because of the stars and the moon. So I began to walk and praise the Lord. I walked over the hill. Now, this is what God's Word is to us in this dark world. These rocks. The Word of God is full of commandments and promises. But you can't just take the promises. You've got to take these rocks as well. These. You've got to embrace by faith the promises and the commandments, and as you obey and embrace them, it doesn't matter how dark this world is. It doesn't matter how dark this world is going to become before Christ has gotten here. Immorality gives every evil that's going to rise up. It doesn't matter. You are safe. You have peace that passes without understanding. Why? Because my Word is a lamp unto my feet. And a light unto my path. It's this. The promises. The commandments. They're a lamp unto our feet. A light unto our path. Now, beloved, there's so many promises telling us this. This is the only life we've got, Proverbs 6, 23. The commandment is a lamp. The law is a light. You see, that's what they had when they wrote this. We have the whole Bible. Wherever you go, I sure remember the young Christian, oh, twenty-what-two when I was a preacher, twenty-just, well, I remember how I would wear out. I don't wear out so fast these days because God told me what to do and shouldn't do. Those days I did everything, all I thought. So, I would stop the car. I would look at these valleys, and I'd say, I'm going for a walk before I get to the next town. I needed those young Andrew Murray to work with me. Not the old Andrew Murray, I'm not that old, okay? But his great-grandson. He was my best man, and we worked together for a long, long time, many parts of Africa, the two of us. Oh, God, we were young then. But the two of us were very young, and I would fire up my window the day off. The firewood wouldn't be needed. So, this never gave up. To go. And I wanted to get into the next town. It was so short. Preaching every night. I don't know. I would stop the car many times and say, give me no objection. Listen, we're not going to the next town. We're nearly there. We soak, pour our shelter into all these chachikos, and all these people, and all of these. We're going to stop the car. We're going to climb that mountain. He says, what? We've got to preach, I said, no. We'll get there in time. We've got to stay alive, Andrew. Let's climb that mountain and stay alive. Okay. So, he's guilty. We'll be plodding along. Climbing the mountain. We got up the top after about three hours or something. And what did we find? We found a soul. We stopped once an hour, once in front of the fire. We were all at mountains and hills and fields. And we did it to Christ. Hallelujah. And we knew why we were in a bad time. We were sitting here for weeks, waiting for the next person to come. This is radio. We're in control. It's warm. Definitely, it's a job. Anyway, we did it to Christ. But nonetheless, I had stopped so many times in so many valleys. And I walked down these valleys. But you know, every single path in Africa that I've walked on, I can't think of one that didn't come up to a river. Whoever made that path, here it comes to a river. And the track, the path continues the other side of the river. But here there's water. Deep water. And here's the path going on there. But the person who made, the people who made the track on the path. Always put stepping stones. It doesn't matter how deep. There are stones. I've always learned. It's learned. It is to cross the waters. You cross with your feet in faith on those stepping stones. You take it to go through the deepest, most dangerous rapids sometimes. I've done it. And it always was there. No one's jumped out there. Isaiah 43 verse 2. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, saith the Lord. Through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. This is not speaking about waters physically or fires physically. This is speaking about the waters. God never says you're not going to go through deep waters, Christopher. Or face fires. He actually tells you, in this world, it's a tribulation. You know what that is? Total onslaught. He said it. The temptation is physical. It's going to be total onslaught. God promises you, God. When you go through the deep waters, you're going to. He doesn't say you won't go through deep fires. He tells you. But they won't harm you. Faith comes by the word of God. We take the stepping stone, like the promise in the commandments, over any water. Anything that you face. And you're not going to be harmed, sir. God has a holy obligation. That's where faith comes from. That we don't live in fear. As you face all these things in this world. The first thing we dare not neglect. Or cut ourselves off from a vital relationship. And communion with God. But secondly. We dare not neglect. Or cut ourselves off from a vital relationship. From a vital fellowship with the God we live. Firstly with God. And now. We dare not neglect. Or cut ourselves off from vital fellowship with the God we live. In the scripture. In 1 John 1 verse 7. John says. If we walk in the light. You can. For God has no right to ask of us. Then he's mocking us. The light you've been given. Doesn't mean you've got all the light. The path of the just. Those who have arrived at the roof of the goddess. And shined more and more. Unto the perfect day. Not one of us. You can attain that until you die. The perfectness. Not as though I've already attained even really perfect. But a portion of it. We're not perfect. But the light we've given. We can walk in the light. That God gives us. Or God can't ask it of us. Right. That's why we need the blood. The blood of Jesus Christ. Receive sins committed in ignorance. To him that knoweth that he couldn't do it. Not to him that sinned. We need the blood. No matter how much victory God gives us. It's come at the end of the day. So don't say thank you God that I didn't sin. Say thank you God for the victory. Thank you for the light. Because of the light that's still coming. I'm walking in light. If we walk in the light. As he is in the light. We have fellowship. One with another. Now that's not speaking about fellowship with God. That's speaking about fellowship with himself. If you're walking in the light God's given you. You have genuine, meaningful fellowship. With the God in you. Or you're not walking in the light. Then you're in danger. You have fellowship. Hebrews 10 verse 25. Not forsaking. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. As the manner of some is. But exhorting. That's encouraging one another. And so much more as we see the day approaching. It doesn't necessarily mean. That you stop going to church. No. That doesn't mean anything about that. You can attend a godly church with the best preacher on earth. With the godliest end. You can cut yourself off. Because you're there just out of obligation to your parents. You're not there to. You're there to say thanks. It doesn't mean that you stop going to church. It means that you don't have meaningful fellowship. With each other as Bible. And imperative for your survival. As a Christian. You can close your heart. You can as a young person. Look at the godliness of the godliness. And simply say no. Look who's playing the fool. That's what. I'm not interested in going all the way like this. Every aspect of Christianity. You can close your heart. You can be the greatest preacher in your community. And close your heart. You can go to church. And cut yourself off. You don't have to stop going to church. Beloved. Be careful. You will suffer the consequences. You will become a living tragedy. I guarantee you. Because that's your heart. And your heart in every aspect of Christianity doesn't want God. In truth. It doesn't want what it costs. It doesn't want it. Be careful now. Why do we have to? Seek out the godliest place. And the godliest people. You know my wife and I. Had an incredible experience. A little while ago. I was touring our country. Part of Africa. That was arranged by a whole lot of people. It was a great privilege. Many thousands of people. A long period of time. Six week tour. The telephone goes. Mr. Daniel. Sure there is a very grave situation. And we need you. Desperately. I said. Can you give me a ticket? All I'm asking. It is a critical. It is a crisis. It is critical. And I'm asking you Mr. Daniel. We see on your new letter. Your program is six weeks touring. But in the middle. It is five days. It is open. And those five days are so critical. We want you to attend the first one. Those five days. Please come sir. And we also require your wife. Because. She is really needed in this situation. So I said. We'll fly her. We'll fly her from Cape Town. 2,000 miles. We'll fly you. But please come to this place. It is a rave. We want you to be. So what we do. I called Jenny. I said Jenny it must be the leaders of the movement. The mission society. Some of you probably didn't know. And some of us have come because they want you. It must be a marriage or something. But we better go. So they flew Jenny. They fly me in a helicopter. Get me there in time. Where I was. To the border of our country. And we drive there. I see Jenny. Beautiful. Magnificent hotel. They are going to meet a lot of people. And. I asked the people. We've been asked to come. Everything flying in. It's some crisis. Because this man didn't know what I was talking about. He didn't know who I was. I said surely after all this don't tell me. I said this thing is being moved. Some people are coming. They bring others in. I said it's some crisis. Wait till they've got the owners of this hotel. And this lady. Oh. Are you Mr. Daniel. Yes. Oh no. Is. You the crisis. What? It's critical. You leave your wife alone for six weeks. Preaching. They say. And these people. They will never know who they are. This is critical. We've got to get them together. So what have they done. They've brought you to the best hotel. With only wealthy people. From across the world. To the Kruger National Park. Which is the best game reserve in the world. Trust me. Five nations. This is where no one goes. You see all the animals. And you see hounds. And as you see. So they have five star hotels. Four star hotels. Three star hotels. Two star hotels. No star hotels. For the poor. And they have tents. And trust me. When you read the things that happen. I would avoid those. The roaring. You don't want to stay in tents. Things that happen. Remember this year. We ordered a five star hotel. And we are given five days. In the best hotel. Where millionaires come. So I look at Jenny. She looks at me. And these people are looking at me. I'm in a crisis. With my marriage. So I smile at them. Honeymoon. So we walk to the bedroom. Trust me. The bedroom is double the size. No decoration. With a wall to wall bed. I say. Who in their right mind. Would want a bed like this. Unless you have fifty children. With all the shits. I'm sleeping with. Anyway. We jump in the bed. We have a wonderful time. We search in the house. We find things to do. If someone told us. Anyway. There we are. Now I go to the bathroom. Trust me. You will not believe it. I say. What for? You know. You dive on the deep end. They have this. Evening room. It's open here in Africa. It's fun to the ears. And it's just like. Coming along. This seven course meal. Oh. The entertainment. Has gone to the point. But still. There you are. This man says. To me. Who is the guide. He says. Mrs. Daniel. I require that you be ready. At five o'clock in the morning. Can you? We want to take you out. To see all the big fire. The lions. The elephants. The apotemuses. The rhinos. We want to show you so much. In the morning. Very few gamers get up. We are not going to be at five. We get back at two o'clock. In the afternoon. We have to leave early. Okay. We get on this big tank. Half a tank. Like this high. And lovely. Cushion seats. No covering. No protection. And the lions. Suddenly surrounding. Looking. And I said. Don't they jump up. Because there is no protection. You know they will never jump up. It's unheard of. They will never jump up onto such a vehicle. You say. We don't have to have protection. I hope you are right. We are going to change now. So the lions. We are driving. Oh look down there. Elephants. The ones holding the mummies tail. They are just coming together. Families. All down. Oh look up there. There is a tiger. Watching us. Looking down at us. This big thing. Cheetahs. The fastest animal in the world. Taking a chance like some of these people do. They get out of the vehicle. They think he is far away. But he is a full force within a second. People have been killed. Going on. Buffalo. One thing after the other. Then he says. Look down there in the valley. Let's go down there. There is a little track. Down there is an armored tent. Down. Here is giraffes. Tall magnificent creatures. Taller than this. The other animals have to eat the giraffe. Let's go down. I don't know how many hundred giraffes. Beautiful. Magnificent things. So high. So beautiful, so graceful. Driving around. They look at us. Under the giraffes. There were hundreds. And hundreds. Of deer. All walking the giraffe. Hundreds. Following the giraffe. You know what it is. You know what a zebra is. Like a horse. White stripes. Death basically. Zebra. Suddenly the giraffe stops. They look like they are going gracefully. All the zebras. Hundreds of them. Trying to keep up with them. You try to keep up with them in the vehicle. You can't believe how these graceful things are going. Wonderful. Zebras running. When the giraffe stops. The zebra stops. They all start gracefully. And I said to him. How come. All these zebras. Giraffes. When the giraffes run. You see that they all run after them. So he turned around. He stopped the vehicle. What? What did you just say? He was looking at me. I said. How come the zebras follow the giraffes? He said. Goodness me. There is someone intelligent in this world. You know I am a sheep. Everybody is looking at you. He said. I have been a long enough. I wore it. No going around the game. He said. I have longed for someone to ask me. Why. Does zebra follow the giraffe? I said. Why do you think. Does zebra follow. Someone actually ask me. He said. I am shocked you know. Let me tell you why. Because. Giraffes. They can see far over. Predators. Me. They have these eyes. They can see so far. It is something like a magnifier. They see danger coming. Where other animals don't. Predators. Come through the ground. You don't even know they are there. These. The moment they realize. They turn. They go at such a speed. These zebras are intelligent. They know. They can't see far. They know. And they are safe. When a giraffe runs. They run. When a giraffe stops. They know they are safe. They don't have to. Let me tell you. That is why we cannot forsake this. And move ourselves together. As God says. We cannot dare. To become ourselves. On some stage. Because there is safety. Go to the godliest. Of the godliest you will ever find. Don't go to these megachurches. Where there is this young people. They want to change anything. So there is nothing. Grace. Find the godliest. Of the godliest. Because there is a safety. They know you are in danger. They can warn you. And these young people can't. 1 Peter 5 verse 1. The elders. Which are among you. I exhort. Feed the flock of God. Literally shepherd. Watch over. Guide the flock of God. Which is among you. Taking the oversight thereof. Watch over. Watch out for them. Neither as being lords. Over God's heritage. But being examples of the flock. It doesn't end there. The next verse is likewise. Be younger. Submit yourselves to the elders. Those. Jeopards didn't say. Oh hang on. They just ran. They didn't ask questions. They fought. Submit yourselves to the elders. Hebrews 13 verse 17. Obey them. That have the rule over you. And submit yourselves. For they watch. For your souls. As they that must give account. They may give you a little joy. And not with grief. For that is unprofitable to you. Ezekiel 3 verse 17. Son of man. I have made thee a watchman. Unto the house of Israel. Therefore thou shalt hear the word of my mouth. And warn them from me. The preachers say. This is to preach the unsaid. To warn the unsaid. No. In its context. It's to the people of God. I have made thee a watchman. Unto the house of Israel. To my people. Therefore thou shalt hear the word of my mouth. And warn them. From me. The elders are there. Like those in your house. For us to be watched over. That they warn us of the dangers. That they know. Because they preach spiritual ideas that you have as young people. We have to. There's a man sitting here last night. In the meeting. His name was Sam Gerber. He's gone. He has to go back to the National Fort in Canada. But he was in the first two meetings. Sam Gerber is a very godly man. Last year. I think you all went down there to where it was. And Sam Gerber came. And I preached. And he came up to me after one of the meetings. And he said. Brother Daniel. I have an illustration for you. That I want you to preach. I haven't told other preachers. I don't believe this is happening. Does this really happen? And I want you to preach. But I don't know what to say to you. He said. OK. He said. You should go. He was in a situation. There were two little boys. Playing up in the hills. Laughing. Jumping over the rocks. And they picked up these things. And they found. Strange things you know. Standing and laughing. And throwing them to each other. But there were men. Coming down the valley. Who were screaming. Frantic. To these young boys. Screaming. The young boys said. What are they doing? They are speaking to us. What is this? You see. Those men wore gloves. With dynamite. It was ignitable. And these boys didn't see the signs warning. They were all over. They came over the other side of the hill. Strange. And they found these dynamite sticks. All these things. Holding them. Laughing. And these men down there realised. These boys were about to be killed. They were being blown to pieces. And there were military. And sailors. They were crying. Screaming. Screaming. When they realised. These boys. The wind blew away. What they were saying. They must be screaming. But they couldn't realise. They were all screaming. In unison. What are you saying? Suddenly the wind died. The boys escaped. Blow it away. Blow it away. And they decided. That they needed. All the things. Throw it away. Suddenly. They heard. A scream. They threw. Obelisk. Part of the obelisk. To one boy. He remained for life. Like a dead stick. The other was. Burned. But he eventually. Through operation. Therapy he was able to recover. And meet. Almost a normal life. Our brothers. Young people. That is what the elders. Are required by God to do. Or they will give account. To warn. Of the dangers. To warn. In such a way. That the young people will realise. They are in danger. They will be unnerved. Because we will give account. We don't do with all our heart and soul. Our harshest words from Him. If it's such urgency. Blow it away. We have to warn. As elders. No matter what offence comes. We have to. We will give account. If we don't stand where ever we can. To protect the young. In such a way. They know. Know ye not. That even a little. Lemon. Lemon is the whole life. Doesn't matter. That's going to happen. Falls away. What perishes. As light with dark. Falls away. Know ye not. That the friendship of the world. Is enmity with God. Whosoever. Therefore will be a friend of the world. Is the enemy of God. Throw it away. Abstain. From what appears. So evil young man. Appearance. In your heart. Throw it away. God says. Change your mind. Be whole. Be separate. Be separate. Throw this away. You've been damned. You're losing everything. In the name of God. God says. We watch over your soul. Throw it away. We as preachers. We as elders. Know who you are. Don't. Born to unnerve them. And place fear in their hearts. Because of the love attached to the throbbing love of God in our words. Not as man may stand the servant of God's word. To tell them with no compromise. We will give account to God. We dare not. Cut ourselves off. Or shatter ourselves. In the Bible relationship with Christ. We believe communion with Christ. Which is imperative. For our survival. As a Christian according to this book of Christ's words. And we dare not. By God. Cut ourselves off. From communion. Fellowship. Allowing it to mold us. To emulate us. To stay safe. For they watch over your soul. As they may give account if they don't. Can we stand for it? Well. Who would shock you most of all in every dimension? What do we do with this good life we want? From God. To the rest of your life. And if you don't stop now. I guarantee you. There's no chance you're going to get anything out of it. Because you don't want to change it. So what do you don't see God to do now? I doubt you'll ever know. No matter what. You become. Tragedy. To everyone they know. You do. Be careful. I doubt if you don't stop seeking God for those two things. Yes. He's the greatest disciple. In your life days. Wherever you go. I doubt if you ever will. Though he will be a living tragedy. I guarantee you. Young boy. Young man. I guarantee you. He will be a living tragedy. Jesus Christ. Be careful now. Be careful young lady. God's looking at your heart. We don't see it. God's looking at your mind. Your heart. You know. God will make you a new disciple. As I was going to preach to a sermon just close to 200 verses that I memorized in the Bible. Which is my ministry. 70% of every sermon I've preached It's just having memorized the books of the Bible and the passages of every facet, which is the only reason we've got to open the door to cross this nation and other nations, otherwise I would never have ever left my nation for no reason, because I've got nothing. But he honors his word above all. Now, I have preached many sermons of the Scriptures. They've been downloaded and viewed across the whole world. And I thank God that I didn't bring this sermon that particularly God burned in my heart tonight for circumstances that I know God knew would happen. But, I leave you with all of this stuff. But I want to ask you something. Many, many websites, 7index.org and many others, they send us around the websites, many, many websites with most of my messages over many years. I want you to go and hear, it will be on there soon. I've been mistaken to think that the main problem, the burden of my heart is here. I doubt they'll ever allow me back in your country, because of that sermon. But I want you to listen to it. So don't forget now, because that has been what's really driven me this year, driven me on my knees and will pray, desperation to be anointed by God to bring these words which have been most remarkable. Please, just google the old man's name and look to this Torah, 2004. Look to what sermons there are, including this one. You'll find a lot. One, which is the Scriptures. On a topic that I don't think any other preacher on earth has ever preached on, maybe he has. It hasn't been the Scriptures, which is why people are being very, very unheard of. The most unexpected source of shame is rising up against us. But my faith is God's Word. If God's Word is allowed in a book, then that's its damage. You're not saved. Trust me, eternity will never cease. In all your torment, if you've made a fool of yourself, you know through this message that I address to say that you need to seek God desperately for true salvation, and then do what I preach to do. I'm not saying you're dead, but I'm telling you now. If you don't, there's no chance of eternity. You'll never forgive yourself. I guarantee it to you right now. You'll never, ever cease. The Word of God. God's Father. He came to examine you. He's a Christian. These two things, God, as God said, they're both Christian. I'd love to come to this church and chant with you. Brother, would you commit us to go? Do something. No fear. I come back. That would be amazing. I hope I do. Let's see. Otherwise, pray for me. Where's your prayers, brothers? I'm going to come back. Thanks. You're so wonderful. You're a man of the Lord. You can take this. Leave.