Glue pages together if it doesn't go with you, I care about everyone's soul, I care about everyone's walk, I'm not talking about your eternal destination, I'm talking about what God says can happen, they sleep not, except they have done mischief, their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall, Proverbs 4 verse 14, fools make a mock at sin, Proverbs 14 verse 9, and a companion of fools shall be destroyed, God says, Proverbs 13 verse 20, a companion of fools, you choose your friends, you say you're there to win them, be careful, you see there's a thin line once you're saved, when you're dealing with old friends and people of the world, there's a thin line that God will make you know when you've crossed, that you're not there to win them, they're winning you, and do you think all these verses are inappropriate, not to be mentioned, to safeguard us, a companion of fools God says will be destroyed, God's word warns us, be not deceived, evil communications, evil company, corrupt good manners, 1 Corinthians 15, 33, I went to a lot of research here, to the greatest teachers of our faith from right the beginning, of the great reformers, evil company undermines and cripples and destroys, godliness and pursuit of holy living, oh yes, have compassion on them, but considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted, Galatians 6 verse 1, and God have mercy on the man that thinks this isn't for him, it's not necessary, keep thyself unspotted from the world, James 1 verse 27, that's our terrible warning, that means you can be terribly, terribly discredited, and bring shame on God's name, keep thyself pure, 1 Timothy 5 verse 22, it's a lot to do with you, I kept myself from iniquity, I have kept myself from my iniquity, 2 Samuel 22 verse 24, when I was saved, a good while now, this is many years back, 50 something years, I said to every friend I had on earth, it's like it was yesterday, I still want to weep, I said I've come to Christ, I've given my life to God, in a way I'll never take it back, and I want you to come to Christ with me, every one of you, but if you don't, I want you to walk away from me and never come near me again till the day I die, I want you to be saved, but I don't want to ever see you again, not one of you, because I'm scared you might throw me back, and I will not tolerate that, I don't want to go back, God set me free, I want you to walk away, if you don't want God, but if you want God, I'll die for you, you know that, you know me, I'll die for you, and die with you if necessary, I'll be your friend, we've been since I, but I don't want to see you again, I'm begging you, if you don't come to Christ, walk away from me, because I don't want to ever be near you again, not one of you, I lost every friend I had on earth, but I had to, my common sense told me that, one boy eventually followed me and got gloriously saved, of my childhood friends, who I had to walk away from, well, I don't know how many years it was, this boy walks up to me, this man, and a couple of others, and I just looked at them, Keith, you know how angry everyone is at you, and Christianity, becoming a Christian means you're too good for anyone else on earth, you look down at everybody, you separate yourself, everybody's dirt and filth, you throw away every friend, do you know what's been said about you, because you should have done things differently, there's anger against God, there's anger against Christianity, you didn't have to do that, come just once, show them that we're not filth, dirt, thrown away after all the years, just because you become saved, that we're not regarded as dirt and filth, contaminate you, show them, show everyone that you just have respect enough through all the years, I just wonder, it's the right thing to do, a lot of other persuasion going on from the others, I said, okay, well, they arranged some day for me to be there, I got in my car, daddy mother's home was up there in the hills, 20 kilometers, so I'm coming down again, as I'm driving on the freeway toward the city, I could hardly believe it, there was a rain like, like a waterfall, windscreen wipers, I couldn't see him, I saw all the cars pulling off, they couldn't take a chance, they couldn't see a thing, so anyway, he's pulling off to stay alive, and I went slowly and slowly, slowly, through the storm, lightning, thunder, wind, pouring, oh God, I've never seen a storm like this in my life, I get down to the city, the storm's raging, I see this apartment, this big building where I, so I push the door open, the wind hardly let me get up, I get out, hardly able to stand, it just came, the wind held on to the car, what am I doing, God, this is the worst storm, this is you speaking to me, and suddenly I started walking, shopping, with nothing, got halfway through the road, and I looked up, and I saw steel, these corrugated irons, sweep up one of these little restaurants on the side of one of the old buildings, and it started coming to me, I just saw, right to, it would have cut me in half, I just fell to the ground, within a second, I'd been chopped in half, and there on the ground, I said, God, you're stopping me, this couldn't be just happening, I've never seen anything in my life, God, forgive me, God, I crawled back to the car, I got in the car and started driving, do you know that within about three minutes, the storm was gone, not a drop of rain, no wind, no lightning thunder, I drive home, trembling, you shot me, I got on my knees, I was so fearful, I was shaking like a leaf at home, weeping in fear, and I opened my Bible, and I read these words, just open, I withheld thee from sinning against me, God alone knew what was going to happen there, I still can't work out, but I've since learned over the years, what old friends can stoop to in the hands of Satan, if you get saved, you're looked upon as insane, God says, the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but be careful, 2 Peter 2 verse 9, don't tempt God, you see a magnet, only has power when it gets close enough, here it has no power, here it has no power, get close enough where you shouldn't be, don't tell me you won't be drawn in, you remember in the Old Testament, God said to Pharaoh through Moses, let my people go, slaves for hundreds of years, Exodus 5 verse 1, let my people go, but he wouldn't, he hardened his heart, and hardened his heart, and then God sealed his choice, and God hardened his heart, after everything, he still hardened his heart, be careful God doesn't seal your choice, everything's a warning to us, everything, these things were written as warnings and admonition to become careful to be able to live, everything was there, don't tell me two -thirds of the Bible is dispensational, dispense of it, no, it's written every page, sir, if you're saved or unsaved, God speaks to you, and we're in poverty without the Old Testament, it was written for us, it wasn't just there for a historical record, this is for us, let my people go, yes, well God sent plagues, incomprehensible plagues, never before imagined or since, that could come upon a land, and then of course, the final one, when Pharaoh still hardened his heart, and said no, was the blood, you think that's just a record, no, when I see the blood, I will pass over, no judgment there, Pharaoh's son, throughout the whole of Egypt, every family with children, death, wailing, including Pharaoh, but God passes over, that's the blood of Jesus Christ, sir, to this moment, the only hope you have is when you come with nothing but the blood of Jesus, nothing in my hands, I bring simply to the cross, that's the first moment God can save you, don't bring anything else but the blood, that's what God waits for, and that's what God waited for there, and Pharaoh says these words, I will let you go, I will let you go, but be careful, that doesn't stop there, you think the fight stops when you get saved, oh brother, sister, it starts, then you become aware of Satan, and fearful of him, oh, I will let you go only, you shall not go very far away, don't go too far, as God set you free from slavery, but don't go too far now, don't go too far now, you think that was just history, that's you and me after they, everything is to us, everything is written for us as warnings, it wouldn't be in his book, don't go too far, well, that's what happens when you get saved, the devil will tell you the same, you used to be his servant, under his slave bond, you were set free, but if the son will set you free from slavery, enslavement to Satan and sin, you shall be gloriously freed, but be careful, Satan doesn't stand back and say, fine, don't go too far, we'll come straight away, mostly through old friends, don't doubt this now, there's a man sitting in his building, at least I hope he hasn't run away yet, I better not run him down in case he's still sitting here, my word, he's left, can you believe it, I haven't even preached to the end, all right, I think I see him, all right, his name is Tom Schultz, from Fulton, South Dakota, just snow every time, okay, I've been in his home a number of times, him and his lovely wife and lovely children, he gave his testimony, I said, I want to preach on that, I was saved on August 15, 1997, I immediately was aware of the leadings of the Holy Spirit and my entire life began to transform more and more daily, my speech had to change, my clothes had to change, then something happened to me as I was changing, everything was changing, I felt in my heart that I should never go to the old places, the dance floor where I drank, I used to serve in a bar, in this pub or nightclub, whatever it was, and I said, never again, well, my cousin arrived with friends, a girlfriend and another girlfriend for me, I hadn't seen him for a long time and of course they came and they decided they wanted to go soon afterwards to the dance and get drink, I said, no, I can't, never again, I never touched alcohol, I never, I was in that pub, I even sold the liquor, landed up doing terrible, terrible things that got me into terrible trouble and disrepute, as I grew up, I can't go back there, I'm saved now, I've given my life to God, oh, after a good while of strong persuasion and a bit of anger, this cousin who hadn't seen him for a long time had brought this girl for him and brought his own girl and they want to go off dancing now and drinking alcohol, he said, listen, you don't have to drink, you can just take a coca -cola, you don't have to dance, just be there with us, let's just don't ruin the night, man, well, they went on and so he said, okay, goes there, sits there, there he's with his coca -cola but you see, the trouble is, he says, you don't know it's coca -cola, those who see it, it just looks like drink, unless you put a big signboard up there, listen, I haven't touched drink, it's coca -cola, well, he says, a young man who I had tried to witness to, who was shaken by the transformation of my life was there in that pub, in that dance hall, where I had spent all my weekends before God saved me and others who I testified and spoken to about God but this one particular fellow I'd known, I tried to bring him to God, he walked up to the table, he looks at me and he smiles, he said, oh, Tom, glad to see you back, you see, the whole thing is glad to see you haven't gone that far, you see, I was worried about you, I'm glad to see some of the old Tom is still there, you're back, and Tom said these words to me, I could never witness to him again and others, they just destroyed my credibility, my opportunity, my right to speak to them, didn't want to hear again, God cries out to us in the sacred book, abstain from all appearance of evil, 1 Thessalonians 5 .22, that's warning that you've got to make a choice, walk circumspectly before the lost, that's carefully, you've got a common sense quickened by the Holy Ghost, don't tell me, oh, the old godly man led me to Christ said, listen boy, if there's a question mark, don't, full stop, no matter what anybody tells you, I've kept that till this day, walk carefully, circumspectly, Ephesians 5 .15, walk in wisdom toward them that are without before the unsaved, Colossians 4 .5, make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof, God warns Christians, born again Christians, you can, Romans 13 .14, make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof, walk in the spirit and that's only possible by devouring the Bible as your main throbbing goal in life daily and you can, don't you tell me you can't, you read 15 minutes and 24 hours in one year, you threw the whole book, don't tell me you've meant business with God, if you haven't been through this book in one year, how many years you sit there, you haven't been through the book, you didn't give God 15 minutes, oh, you can't, don't tell me that, no wonder you mean nothing for God, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, it's a promise to a holy God that's holding on to us and you can if you devour the Bible, you commune with God, don't give place to the devil, neither give place, don't do it, don't give him opportunity, don't go against your God -given conscience and it's quickened to a million, billion miles to somebody unsaved that has a conscience left that you hear the voice immediately saying, no, don't do this, don't go there, don't be with this person, turn, run now, we sat with a man, my wife and I, last year when we went back to New York, people even flow across the world, can you believe it, this fellow tells us that he always fails, if he goes to the nightclubs and lands up in sin, failure, what is he going to do about it?