This Sacred Book — Keith Daniel

Can we bow for a moment of prayer, please? Father, take this last message in this town here in Florida and speak to the depth of every single heart, as only God can. Come wash me in the blood, fill me with the Holy Spirit, protect us from Satan, and by thy Holy Spirit come minister to our hearts, every heart.

The Bible as the Inspired Word of God

In Jesus Christ's sacred name, Amen. The Bible, the Bible, the Bible refers to itself, the Bible refers to itself as the Word of God. The Bible refers to itself as the Word of God. In Hebrews 6 verse 5 and in 2 Timothy 3 verse 16 we read that all scripture, all scripture is given by inspiration of God.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God for instruction in righteousness, for instruction in righteousness. Verse 17, that the man of God may be complete, that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped, thoroughly equipped.

Now tonight I want us to carefully consider 16 facets of this book, which is the sacred Word of God. Tonight I want us to carefully consider 16 facets, 16 facets of this book, which is the sacred Word of God.

The Word as the Source of Salvation

The first thing, the first thing we must realize, the first thing we must realize is that it is, it is the source of our salvation. It is the source of our salvation. James tells us in chapter 1 verse 21, to receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls.

Receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls. Being born again, being born again by the Word of God, by the Word of God. 1 Peter 1 verse 23 and in 2 Timothy 3 verse 15, Paul refers to the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.

The Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith. Ephesians 2 verse 8 and faith cometh by the Word of God.

Faith cometh by the Word of God. Romans 10 verse 17 tells us and so firstly, firstly we see that it is, it is the source of our salvation. It is the source of our salvation. But secondly, secondly, the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved.

Obedience as Evidence of True Salvation

The keeping of it is the evidence, the evidence that I am truly saved. Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, receiving your own selves. James warned in chapter 1 verse 22, and hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments.

He that sayeth I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar. A liar and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2 verse 3. 1 Peter 2 verse 23 says being born again, being born again, not of corruptible seed, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God.

Now the seed, the seed is the Word of God. Jesus said in Luke 8 verse 11, but, but in the next verse he gave a fearful warning. In the next verse he gave a fearful warning. Then cometh the devil. Then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Then cometh the devil, Christ said, and taketh away. Satan can do that. Taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. O soul, soul, whatever the devil does, whoever the devil uses, be careful what you do when you hear or read the Word of God.

Whatever the devil does, whoever the devil uses, be careful what you do when you hear or read the Word of God. For we are warned that we are warned that it will one day judge us. It will one day judge us.

Judgment by the Rejected Word

In John 12 verse 18, Christ declared, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath one that judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him. In the last day, whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 13 verse 13. And so firstly we see that it is the source of our salvation. It is the source of our salvation. And secondly, that the keeping of it, the keeping of it is the evidence that we have been truly saved.

But thirdly, the rejecting of it, the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it. But if, if and when I am truly saved, if and when I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth.

Spiritual Growth Through the Word

If and when I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth. 1 Peter 2 verse 2 says, As newborn babes, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

That ye may grow thereby, beloved. This book is the source of our salvation. And the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved. But the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it.

But if and when I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth. It immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth. And fifthly, fifthly, it is our source of daily renewal. It is our source of daily renewal.

Daily Renewal and Spiritual Survival

In 2 Corinthians 4 verse 16, we read that the inward man is renewed. The inward man is renewed day by day, morning by morning. He wakeneth mine ear to hear, Isaiah 50 verse 4, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man.

To be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man, Ephesians 3 verse 16 tells us, the inward man, the inward man is renewed day by day, God says. Beloved, it is the source of daily renewal.

And it ultimately becomes, it ultimately becomes our source of survival. It ultimately becomes our source of survival. Man doth not live, literally man cannot live by bread only, by eating food only, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deuteronomy 8 verse 3, I have esteemed the word of his mouth more than my necessary food. I have esteemed the word of his mouth more than my necessary food, Job 23 verse 12. It ultimately is our source, our source of survival, beloved.

The Holy Spirit Gives Life and Revelation

The seventh, the seventh vital facet we must realize, the seventh vital facet we must realize is that it, it is given life. It is given life and revelation. It is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit.

It is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit. At salvation, at salvation, the Holy Spirit of God possesses me. At salvation, the Holy Spirit of God possesses me. Ye, ye are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 3 verse 16. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you. 1 Corinthians 6 verse 19. Christ in you is the hope of glory. Colossians 1 verse 27. You have no hope of eternal life.

There's no possibility of eternal life unless Christ dwells in you. Christ in you is the hope of glory. But, but if any man have not the spirit of Christ, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

He is none of his. Romans 8 verse 9. And from the moment, from the moment of our salvation, from the moment of our salvation, the word of God is given revelation and life by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us.

From the moment, beloved, of our salvation, the word of God is given revelation and life by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us. But the natural man, the natural man, that is the unsaved, unregenerate man, receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him.

They're meaningless to him. Neither can he know them. He can't understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14 tells us, for the letter, the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Corinthians 3 verse 6 tells us, in Luke, in Luke chapter 24, Christ appeared to two of his sorrowing disciples on the Emmaus road. In Luke chapter 24, Christ appeared suddenly to two of his sorrowing disciples on the Emmaus road.

And verse 27 says, beginning at Moses, that is the first five books of the Bible, beginning at Moses and all the prophets, that's virtually the entire Old Testament, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself.

He expounded unto them in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. Then suddenly, verse 31, he vanished out of their sight. Verse 32, and they said one to another, did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us?

By the way, did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us? By the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures, while he opened to us the scriptures, and Christ promised his disciples, and us that the Holy Spirit, when he is come would do the same.

John 14, verse 26, he shall teach you all things, but without the Holy Spirit, this book is dead of any spiritual value in the light of eternity. Without the Holy Spirit, this book is dead. 2 Corinthians 3, verse 6 tells us the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

The Psalmist prayed, open thou mine eyes, open thou mine eyes. Literally in the Hebrew, give revelation that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119, verse 18, then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures.

Luke 24, verse 45 recorded the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened. Ephesians 1, verse 18, that our God, that our God may lighten, that is open our eyes. Ezra 7, verse 8, those disciples, those disciples had cried to each other, did not our hearts burn?

Did not our hearts burn within us? While, while he opened to us the scriptures, and our hearts, our hearts will burn within us. Also beloved, our hearts will burn within us. Also beloved, as the Holy Spirit of God opens the word of God to us daily, our hearts will burn within us.

Also beloved, as the Holy Spirit of God opens the word of God to us daily. But, but how tragic, how tragic it would be. If a Christian sits before an open Bible and, like a blind man, sees nothing, to give him a burning heart daily, how tragic it would be if a Christian sits before an open Bible and, like a blind man, sees nothing, to give him a burning heart daily.

Neglecting Scripture and the Danger of Backsliding

O Christian, beware. Beware, for the neglect of this book, the neglect of this book, is the first evidence that I am in the tragic process of backsliding. The neglect of this book is the first evidence that I am in the tragic process of backsliding, the first indication that you have backslidden is if you lose appetite for the Scriptures, but instead your appetite increases more and more for things that are not related to God or His Word.

But these things, these things will leave you empty spiritually. These things will leave you empty spiritually, and you will experience that even in laughter, the heart will be sorrowful. That's tragic.

You will experience that even in laughter, the heart will be sorrowful. Proverbs 14 verse 13 warns us. Who is he speaking of here in this context? The next verse clearly tells us, backslider, the backslider in heart.

That's a tragic state to be. Can you believe that you're laughing while you're crying, that you're trying to convince yourself and lying to such a degree that these things are fulfilling you that have made you bury this book, put this book aside, and the devil has thousands of things, legitimate technical advancement knowledge that Christians are so drowned in that they can't do without.

Let me tell you, you can do without those things, sir, but you can't do without this. And you may laugh, even when you laugh at these things, pretending you're enjoying it and through your crying, God says, even in laughter, the heart will be sorrowful.

That's a tragic condition to be. That's a tragic, tragic condition to be. Let me shock you. It is a hundred times more difficult for someone who is backslidden to ever find a vital walk with God again than for a pervert or a drunk to come to Christ the first time and find a relationship with God that's consistent and enthralling.

It is a hundred times more difficult for a Christian who is backslidden to ever find a consistent vital reality with God that thrills him more than anything in life than it is for a pervert or a drunk to come in simple childlike faith and repentance and experience the reality of God's salvation that enthralls him and every word he reads.

Nothing can keep him from. You don't want to go that way, beloved. You don't want to experience that, sir. Don't go there. Don't go there. My heart breaks as I warn you. You won't believe how difficult it is for a backslider to truly walk with God again and have God first and enthralling his heart daily through this book because when God's first, this book is first, sir, in your choice when you have a choice because nothing enthralls you.

It's not even the discipline. Nothing the devil can give cannot do the thrill of someone rightly related to God in this book, so there is nothing Satan can draw you away with other things when God is first.

Don't go into a backslidden state, child of God. You don't want to go there. Beloved, the word of God, the word of God is the source of our salvation and the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved, but the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it.

Christ said that once I am truly saved, once I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth and our source of daily renewal, daily renewal. It ultimately becomes our source of survival and we know it.

It is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us, but the neglect of it is the first evidence that I am in the dangerous and tragic process of backsliding. It is also our moral compass, beloved.

Scripture as the Moral Compass

It is also our moral compass. In John 17, verse 15, Jesus prayed, Father, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Verse 17, sanctify them, that is keep them from the evil through thy truth. Thy word is truth. Beloved, this is our moral compass. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?

By taking heed thereto according to thy word, do what God says. Psalm 119, verse 9, thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee. It is our moral compass, beloved. It is our moral compass.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Stay clean in this filthy world by taking heed, by opening your heart to every instruction in God's word, soaking yourself, by taking heed thereto according to thy word, you will stay pure, young man.

Soaking in Scripture for Purity

Psalm 119, verse 9, I have three sons, Norley, Roy, and Samuel. They're all big now, but when they still went to school as young teenagers, my son Noel, he came home one day. There was no homeschooling allowed in our country.

It was against the law. Only our third son had the privilege of having Jenny doing homeschooling with him because the law changed when they saw the advantages of it and the protection and that it does have a wonderful achievement if a child is trained rightly.

But before homeschooling became legitimate in our country, my two eldest boys had to go to schooling. Now, they went to a very good school because very godly people said to us, just because you're missionaries doesn't mean your children have to go to the worst.

And so they were willing, and I thank God, to send our sons to one of the ten best schools on earth that's voted across the world. One of the ten best academically and in every way is all traditional school from the British Empire days.

We had the privilege of sending our children. Now, one day, Norley came home, and I looked there, and I heard him weeping. He was really weeping. So I walked in, and I said, what happened? What went wrong?

Did something happen to you today? What went wrong, my boy? Why are you weeping? So he wept a bit more, and eventually he said, Daddy, how am I going to stay pure, Daddy, in this world? Daddy, you don't know what I have to face.

From the day I went to school, every single day, Daddy, I go, I try and befriend, and there's not one single person, Daddy, that doesn't hold out sin. Within moments, Daddy, I've got to turn and walk away from person after person and think, who else can I try to befriend?

Daddy, drugs every single day are held out to me. Things that I never knew people could be so evil and filthy are shown to me, Daddy, that I didn't want to ever see, that I didn't even know humans were capable of stooping to such filth.

But, Daddy, things are held out to me everywhere I turn, Daddy. Daddy, I don't want to hurt you or Mommy, I love you so much, but Daddy, how am I going to stay clean? How am I going to stay pure in this wicked world, Daddy?

What hope is there for me, Daddy? And he sobbed. He sobbed. I sobbed. I just broke down sobbing as I looked at my child. And then when he quieted, I said, my boy, listen very carefully to Daddy, so I never have to tell you this again in your life, but listen carefully now.

I can't guarantee you much in life, no, I haven't got the right to. There's very little I can guarantee you, my boy, but this I can guarantee you, my son, this Daddy guarantees you. Soak yourself in the Bible as your greatest discipline in life daily, Noli.

Soak yourself in the Bible as your most guarded, nurtured, treasured moment daily that nothing the devil does or humans do will ever divert you no matter what they try to do. And the devil cannot touch you, no.

He can tempt you, but he cannot touch you, my boy. Noli, you have to be saved or going through the scriptures 24 times like Voltaire won't even get you to heaven. But if you're truly saved, my boy, and the Holy Spirit of God is in you, this book will keep you.

The devil can tempt you, but he can't touch you. Let me tell you why, Noli. God tells us to hate evil and love good, but being saved doesn't do that, no. I know preachers that love evil. I know preachers whose wives have taken guns and shot themselves dead when they found out how evil their husband is who preaches across two multitudes of people, but they're in sin.

It wasn't that they hated sin, they loved sin and they chose it, though they saved. And being preachers, my boy, being saved doesn't make you hate evil. But if you're saved and to the degree you soak yourself in the scriptures as your greatest discipline in life daily that nothing will hurry you through or from, if you do that, my Noli, to the degree you soak yourself in the Bible and that only as a person to that degree you will hate evil.

You will be repulsed by it. You will reject it. Of course, temptation will come, but it will repulse you to the degree you have soaked yourself in the Bible, my boy. Your only danger, my boy, in life as a Christian is if you don't, otherwise you're not facing another danger in life, my boy.

Daddy guarantees you that, boy. Don't ever forget it till the day you die. I beg you, wherewithal to the young man, your age, Noli, cleanse, stay clean in this wicked world, his way. And God answers by taking heed there to according.

You don't just read, you do. You seek grace as you read to embrace it and let God fulfill. But my boy, if you fulfill God's word to the degree you soak yourself in it once you're saved, there's something here.

It's a sacred book, Noli. It's not just an ordinary book. Sin will keep me from the Bible, but the Bible will keep me from sin. Sin will keep me from the Bible, Noli, but the Bible will keep me from sin.

Don't ever forget that. I once stood with one of the most revered theologians in the history of this generation, and I only had one moment with him, lectured at Oxford, your Yale and the theological. This man is revered as academic in Hebrew, Old Testament Hebrew, New Testament Greeks, as one of the greatest scholars of this generation.

His writings are in NIV commentary, not New International, but NVI. These commentaries, these wonderful commentaries of our fundamental faith, you find great portions, some of them, almost the entire commentary is this man.

He's so revered, his understanding, his exposition, his interpretation. Now listen, this man I had the privilege of listening to once, and I was so in awe of the simplicity with which he spoke that a child could grasp what he was speaking about, and the deepest, godliest, academically-minded saint would be enthralled with.

Very few people can do that. And I didn't mean to search him out and have a moment with him, just somehow to say I've met him and spoken to him, no. But suddenly, circumstances, the man was standing right there, I wasn't trying to impose myself on him, and he looked at me and began to speak, and he saw the fire just pouring out of me.

The fire of God was in my heart. He saw, and he looked at me smiling, and he said, what's your name? So I said, Keith Daniel. He said, listen carefully to me, young Keith Daniel. What I say to you now, don't ever forget till the day you die, okay?

He said, within the covers of the sacred book, my boy, I have found myself capable of only writing one statement. I've never found myself, this is so sacred to me, I haven't been able to write another statement between the covers of the words that are in this book between these covers.

I have found myself, since I've been saved to this old age, that only one statement I was able to write in this book within the covers. I want you to look at it. And he opened his Bible, and there was these words that I'd never heard before.

Sin will keep me from the Bible, but the Bible will keep me from sin. And then he said these words, Keith, this is the greatest lesson you will ever learn in your entire life of Christianity once you're saved.

There's no greater lesson, no more important lesson, my boy. This is the greatest lesson you will ever learn in your life, so don't forget it now. Don't ever forget it, my boy. Oh, I fear for you, even though you're so full of fire, young Keith Daniel.

I'd never heard those words. I was so stunned, I went and wrote it in my Bible, and I had not found myself capable at that stage to write another thing. Sin will keep me from the Bible, but the Bible will keep me from sin.

Don't forget this, Noly. Don't ever forget it, my boy, or I fear, I fear for you, my boy. It is our moral compass, and it is also the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us from all wrong influences we face in the sinful world daily.

It is also the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us from all wrong influences we face in this sinful world daily. We read in Ephesians 5 verse 25 that Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

You and I need to cleanse our hands, we wash our hands in water, God knows that. He cleanses us with the washing of water, God terms it, by the word. It is the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us from all wrong influences we all face in this world daily.

The Word Fortifies the Mind

Beloved, the blood, the blood cleanses us from sin, but we are cleansed from the world's wrong and warped influences with the washing of the water by the word daily, daily. It also fortifies, it also fortifies and keeps my mind from vain worthless thoughts.

It also fortifies and keeps my mind from vain worthless thoughts and from thoughts of evil. I hate vain thoughts, that's love thy law, O God. Psalm 119 verse 130, a very godly young man in Africa, a young missionary in our mission, his name is Jan Haram Labaskagni, what a godly boy.

He said to me over a meal recently, the Bible, Mr. Daniel, the Bible gets our minds off things that don't matter, onto God's priorities and values. The Bible, he said, gets our minds off things that don't matter onto God's priorities and values.

I hate vain thoughts, wrong worthless thoughts, but I love thy law. The thought of foolishness is sin. The thought of foolishness is sin. Proverbs 24 verse 9, for as he thinketh, as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

What you allow here, eventually you are. Don't doubt this, you will do. The thought of foolishness is sin. For as a man, as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23 verse 7, bringing every thought into captivity, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10 verse 5, you can, child of God, you can.

Oh, God has no right to ask if we can't by his grace. Bringing every thought, child, into captivity, you can, to the obedience of Christ. There are evil thoughts, beloved. Every single child of God has that.

Right through life, you're going to have evil thoughts, thoughts of evil. There are thoughts of evil. They are not sin. They are not sin. You don't have to confess thoughts of evil to God and look for cleansing, because memory is not sin.

And the devil knows what you've seen in the past and tasted in the past and he orchestrates things that he knows your mind knows to try and tempt you. That he knows your mind will go because of memory, but you didn't want to be in suddenly in that circumstance.

Yes, memory can bring thoughts of evil, but they're not evil thoughts yet. They're not evil thoughts. They become evil thoughts if you allow them to. You can't help what you see, you can't help it if you go into a supermarket or a store to buy a loaf of bread.

You pass today what 50 years ago, 40 years ago, they put people in a straitjacket in jail or in a mental asylum as pornography and degrading and defiling. Today, it's freedom of speech. Anything goes.

You're in troubles with the law if you challenge these people because they're protected by the law, no matter how defiling. What 50, 40 years ago was called pornography and defiling and derogatory to children.

Today, even 10-year-old children are defiled across the whole world because of this law. That 1 of it I think was right, but 99 defiles the whole world. You can't help it. You go, you send your 10-year-old boy to get a loaf of bread.

He can't help it. Isn't his choice to see these things, the covers, the conditioned minds now of a defiled world and accept it, but you didn't want to see it. To the degree, Noli, that you're soaked in the scriptures, you will hate that.

Your first impulsive reaction will be to hate and be shocked and rejected, but you go along through the day and suddenly memory brings it back. The devil has some uncanny way, uncomprehendable way of saying, well, why are you thinking about that now?

Why are you bringing this back to thinking? Listen, beloved, that thought of evil hasn't become an evil thought yet. They say you can't help the birds flying over your head, but you had something to do with it.

If they lay a nest and they have eggs on your head, there's a point. There's a point that lust conceives, James says, and bringeth forth sin. There's a point that you allow, but if you say, no God, I didn't want to see that photograph on the way to work.

I didn't want that and now memory brings it back. It's not me wanting, I reject. You have to then, before that thought of evil becomes an evil thought, which it can, you have to bring every thought into captivity, every thought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ and you can, you can, but be careful.

You think you can and you can't for one reason. If you haven't soaked yourself in the Bible, now I guarantee you this, I guarantee you this. It is the Bible that fortifies and keeps my mind from vain thoughts, from worthless thoughts, and from thoughts of evil becoming evil thoughts.

To the degree I'm soaked in this book, beloved, you will find something of a strength. You will find a fortification that God has given you that no other book in the world will be able to give you. Trust me about that.

Don't waste your life and you've only got a short moment. Don't waste it in defeat of what, just something God expects you to bring into captivity. You're fortified. Let me shock you also. A thousand Christian films made today by sincere evangelical fundamental Christians.

One thousand Christian films will not do for you spiritually what one hour of this holy book will do. Now, many people are going to be angry. I don't care. I care about your soul, not about the isolated few that will be angry with such a statement about God's word.

Listen, I agree. Christian films, they must be an element and they are a people reached. But I guarantee you, there is no substitute to the reading of God's sacred word. There's no substitute. You try a thousand films.

All it is, they're so good, they're as good as Hollywood. Hollywood's left behind a little bit by the good, I mean, the acting and it's all a quality now. But what made Hollywood, what made us addicted to Hollywood?

Have you ever thought about it? Depravity? No. It's the emotional rollercoaster of our sensual beings that we're gripped. We become addicted. An emotional rollercoaster that Hollywood films generally ever from the beginning right through to this day.

And all Christian films, even though there's good in so many of them, I believe there is some element. I don't judge you people. It's just an emotional rollercoaster we're getting addicted to. That's all.

And we say we're blessed. I guarantee you from my soul, you sit through a hundred even of these films, as brilliant as they are, as fundamentally accurate as they are. I guarantee you they won't do for you spiritually what one hour of intense reading of this book with an open heart, embracing with your soul, every faculty of your being, God's word daily will do.

Safe Navigation Through God’s Word

To keep you from sin, to equip you to be fortified against sin and to enable you to reject thoughts of evil before they become evil thoughts. Beloved, it is our source of safe navigation. It becomes our source of safe navigation.

Order my steps in your word. Psalm 119 verse 133. It becomes our source of safe navigation. Literally this is saying, direct me God, direct my steps by means of your word. Order my steps in your word.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. It's a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path. Psalm 119 verse 105. It is our source of safe navigation. Jesus, savior, pilot me over life's tempestuous sea.

Unknown waves before me roll, hiding rocks, treacherous soul, chart and compass come from thee. Jesus, savior, pilot me. Beloved, it is our source of safe navigation. It gives you the power to see in the darkest of circumstances you will ever face in life.

Nothing else will, nothing. Listen, I was in a restaurant a little while ago in Southern Africa. That is, you don't have to be a millionaire to be able to go there, you have to be a billionaire. So unfortunately, those who go there are either invited by very wealthy people, which was the case with me, but it's very known as the novelty of going to this incredible restaurant.

Now, trust me, it is unbelievable. It is unbelievable. You walk in there, you can't believe you're in there, you know, chandeliers and the carpets that are softer than most of our beds. Oh my, the beautiful sofas and the beauty of these paintings, Renaissance, you can't believe it.

And the waiters, I mean, you feel you've got to stand for them, you know. They belong in Buckingham Palace. They kind of look down their nose at you as a butler, you know. You're not really worth being served.

But anyway, that's the basic, you know, this is really a restaurant, I tell you. Now people really want to go there. And of course, a lot of money is generated, but they are so wise, these rich people.

You know, you've got to be very wise to get rich, unless you inherited it. But these rich people know how to get rich, trust me. Now, before you can go into this amazing restaurant that is like a privileged once in a lifetime, somebody actually is going to take you in, and the rich are really there waiting, you know, reserved tables and all.