The Consequences of Preaching the Truth — Keith Daniel

Father, have mercy on all of us, come, wash me afresh in the holy blood of Jesus, and cleanse me, and fill me afresh with the Holy Spirit, and protect us all from the enemy, thy enemy and ours. And now come by thy mercy and grace, and make thy word living, alive, throbbing, and meaningful to all our hearts, as only God can.

Frighten our thoughts, take away all hardness, cynicism, anger, unbelief, hatred. Come break the heart as that. Shut them, Lord. In Jesus Christ's name, for his glory alone, amen. I'm going to read to you just a few verses.

Ezekiel’s Call to Speak God’s Word

I'm missing a verse here or there for time. In Ezekiel chapter 2, from verse 1,. And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And the Spirit entered into me, when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation. Verse 4,. They are impudent and stiff-hearted, but I send thee to them. Thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God.

And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, that means reject, but I send thee. Whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, they are rebellious, yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

Thou, Son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words. Though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions, be not afraid of their words, nor dismayed at their looks.

Verse 8,. Son of man, hear what I say unto thee,. Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house. Open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me, and lo, a scroll of a book was therein, and he spread it before me.

And it was written within and without, and there was written within lamentations, mourning, woe. Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, eat that thou findest. Eat this scroll, digest it, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll, to digest as I meditate as I digest. And revelation came in my heart, and brokenness, and burden. Oh, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat till thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.

I did eat. It was in my mouth as honey, a sweetness. Verse 10, moreover, he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee, receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears, and go get thee to them of the captivity.

Speak unto them. Tell them, thus saith the Lord God, whether they hear, whether they forbear, reject. Verse 17, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel. Therefore, hear the word of my mouth, and give them warning from me.

When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die. If thou givest them not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from the wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Yet if thou warn the wicked, that he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. Two warnings to the people and to the preacher that God tells to preach faithfully.

The Preacher’s Accountability to Proclaim the Whole Counsel

Preacher, you are not responsible. You are not responsible only for what you say in God's perfect. But you are going to be accountable and held responsible by God for what you do not say in God's perfect.

You are not only held responsible for what you say in God's perfect, preacher, you will be held accountable by God for what you do not say. Preacher, the words of Martin Luther, 1483, from out the millions of the earth, God often calls a man to preach the word, and for the truth to take a loyal stand, it is sad to see him shun his cross, nor stand in its defense between the fields of right and wrong, a preacher on the fence.

Before him are the souls of men destined for heaven or hell, an open Bible in his hand, and yet he dare not tell all of the truth that's written there. He fears the defense, the shame of heaven, the joy of hell, a preacher on the fence.

Most surely God has called that man to battle for the right. It is his to ferret out the wrong and turn on us the light, and yet he dare not tell the facts. He fears the consequence, the most disgusting thing on earth, a preacher on the fence.

If he should stand up for the wrong, the right he would not defend. If he should stand up for the right, the wrong he would all say. His mouth is closed, he cannot speak for freedom or against. Let God deliver us from him, that preacher on the fence.

His better judgment, common sense, they pull him to the right. Behold, and grip the topmost rail and hang with all his might. His love of praise, it holds him back, keeps him from going hence. He's in a most unpleasant plight, that preacher on the fence.

But soon both sides will find him out and brand him as a fraud, a coward. But he who dare not please the devil or his God, his sanctimonial pose, it's all a miserable pretense. And men of zeal will always grieve that preacher on the fence.

That hymn was written over a hundred years ago by a preacher called C .C. Mora. Courageous. The grave fearful warning to all preachers. The grave fearful warning to all preachers. Woe unto you. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you. For so did their fathers to the false prophets, Luke 6, 26. Do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Galatians 1 verse 10. Even so we speak not as pleasing men, but God. 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 4. Verse 6. Nor of men sought we glory. James 3 verse 1. My brethren, brothers, be not many masters, literally teachers of the oracles of God.

Be not many teachers of his people, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. James 3 verse 1. Knowing we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all.

Facing the Consequences of Letting God Speak Through the Preacher

When I was a young preacher with a burning heart, I was staggered by God one day as I walked into a large hall. And unexpectedly of being confronted by God, I looked up at a very large clock on the wall.

Are thou ready, O preacher, to face the consequences of letting the Lord speak through thee as he will? Are thou ready, O preacher, to face the consequences of letting the Lord speak through thee as he will?

I literally trembled. And then I said from my soul, yes, I am God. I am God. Proverbs 24 verse 10. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

John Huss and the Cost of Witnessing to God’s Truth

John Huss of Bohemia, today Czech, the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia. John Huss of Bohemia, 1370 to 1450, 1415. As they tied him to the stake, thousands gathered, waiting and watching now. They gave him one last chance to recant of his beliefs that were heretical to Rome and dangerous for Rome.

These beliefs, one last chance to recant and to vow to cease to preach such things, such erroneous, heretical teachings ever again, and his life would be spared. The crowds in silence waited, and the archbishop escaped with a flame.

John Huss cried with a loud voice, To witness to God's truth is more important than life. To witness to God's truth is more important than life. And in anger, the bishop threw the flame as his flesh was melted and they saw his flesh melted.

They heard him singing, praise to God. To witness to God's truth is more important than life. Oh, God, that that were written across and boldly across every pulpit of the fundamental evangelical church worldwide today.

Oh, that that was written boldly across every preacher that stood with the Bible and the pulpit of God to men, as if he's giving the full revelation, having been student of it, and stand before God to be accountable one day as to what he preaches from it and what he does not preach from it.

The fear of the consequences. Oh, God, that it would be written across every preacher's life boldly, unmistakably. To witness to God's truth is more important than life. Oh, God. Oh, God, help us today.

Jeremiah, Prophetic Rebuke, and Retaliation Against Faithfulness

As Daniel's three friends were to be cast in the furnace way back then, they also cried, even if God does not deliver us, we will not compromise over such men today. Even if we die as a result, we will not compromise.

Concerning our God, wicked false prophets defamed and undermined the fearless prophet Jeremiah until he was despised and rejected by all. They cast him into a deep pit. But why? Because he warned of God's judgment, because of their wickedness and their sin.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, Amos 5 verse 10. They hate him to this day that rebuketh in the gate. That's where they talk and discuss the things of God. And abhor him that speaketh uprightly and lay a snare for him that reproveth to this day, sir.

Don't doubt it. Isaiah 29 verse 21. All throughout the centuries from that time to this day, they hate him that rebuketh in the gate. They abhor him that speaketh uprightly concerning God's word. Amos 5 verse 10.

Gracious old priest, they will lay a snare for him that reproveth. Isaiah 29 verse 21. There's no such a thing as your abiding, sir. If you're faithful to this book. They bend their tongues like the bow for lies.

Jeremiah 9 verse 3. Their tongue is as an arrow, shot out, it speaketh deceit. Verse 8. Oh, Jeremiah knew what those old prophets were about in their wickedness. To destroy him and stop God's word and truth being proclaimed.

Proverbs 16 verse 27. The ungodly, the ungodly diggeth up evil. They dig up evil. And in their lips there is a burning fire. Proverbs 16 verse 28. A perverse man showeth strife. The whisperer separateth two friends.

Oh, what the devil can accomplish through a whisperer? A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it. Proverbs 26 verse 28. A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it. But behind their hatred, behind their hatred is always the broader picture.

Satanic Retaliation and the Power of Defamation

You always have to look at the broader picture, whatever comes upon you, preacher. Or faithful Christian. Or you're in trouble. Behind their hatred is always the broader picture. It is satanic retaliation.

Do you honestly believe Satan will let you preach truth? Fearlessly and faithfully and do nothing to stop you? He's a terrible enemy and he never sleeps. It is satanic retaliation against those who dare to preach God's truth uncompromisingly in this apostate age.

When Satan's servants in God's pulpit. I preached that sermon a few years ago in Scotland. And I only quoted scriptures. Satan's servants in God's pulpit. When Satan's servants in God's pulpit are crying out brazenly against this book.

Undermining it. Undermining and attacking the unadulterated word of God throughout the world from pulpits under the banner of Christianity. And we still tolerate them. Our consciences are so defiled. We actually tolerate them.

The satanic orchestration. Or the defamation. Devastation. And destruction of the faithful uncompromising preacher. The satanic orchestration for the defamation, devastation and destruction of the faithful uncompromising teacher.

But how does the devil orchestrate such wickedness? How does the devil orchestrate such wickedness? By seeking out carnal threatened preachers. Who are everywhere. The moment you come with this book in its unadulterated stand.

Men will be threatened by you. Who dare not preach in their situation. This book in its unadulterated stand. By seeking out carnal threatened preachers to launch a smear campaign. He knows they will. Against that preacher.

He seeks for a whisperer. The biblical terminology for a defamer. Not someone who just whispers about the weather. But against God's faithful. A whisperer. That's all he needs. A defamer. A whisperer loud enough for it to be taken by Satan across the country possibly in the national news broadcast.

So long as he can find a whisperer who will say it just loud enough for one. It seems most Christians are always so gullible. They'll believe anything but whispers. And it'll be across the world. You see.

He knows the power of suggestion. He doesn't need truth. He just needs someone in the cloth. In the pulpit. In the Lord's ministry. Who's threatened carnal enough. And so out of touch with God that he's threatened by this book and anyone who dares to preach it uncompromisingly.

He just needs someone who will stoop to be a whisperer. Because he knows that the power of suggestion is all he needs even if it's a fabricated lie. That man will be branded till the day he dies if he can find a whisperer that will just say one sentence.

We're all so gullible you see. He'll be branded. Till he dies. Even if there's no truth in it. Even if it's a total lie. He's branded. Discredited. Wounded. Crippled. And destroyed. In his ministry. And his integrity in the eyes of most people.

Who when they look at him or listen to him from that day. All the devil needed was a whisperer. You stoop to that. He only needs you to whisper one sentence and you can destroy him. Because he will go like fire.

In this gullible. Undiscerning age. In Psalm 35 verse 26. David cries out fearfully of those that rejoice at mine hurt. Those that rejoice at mine hurt. And Satan finds such people. Oh yes. Soon the faithful preacher will groan before God.

Oh how they. How are they increased that seek my hurt. How are they increased that seek my hurt. But listen carefully preacher. Listen carefully preacher. If the world hate you. Ye know that it hated me.

Before it hated you. John 15 18. The servant. Is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me. Christ said. They will also persecute you. John 15 verse 20. But Christ is tragically speaking about.

The threatened. Carnal. Jealous. Religious leaders of the ordained religion of God upon earth. That's the tragedy. If they hate you. They hate me. They hate you. He was speaking about the threatened. Carnal.

Jealous. Religious leaders of the ordained religion of God upon earth. Who honestly. Christ said. They believe they're doing a Godless service. By destroying you. By putting you to death. They're so out of touch with God.

Christ’s Rejection by Jealous Religious Leaders

Jesus said in John 15 25. They hated me. Without a cause. Without a just cause. It was carnality. It was. Because they were jealous and threatened. They had to. Find something. But you know they could find nothing.

And when they became really how deeply their wickedness was. These religious leaders and teachers and examples. Of what God's original religion was. And they could find nothing. What did they do? They tried to catch him.

At his words. They wouldn't rest until they find something. There was nothing. That could condemn this man. But they had to condemn him. And that's the wickedness. Of a man. In the ministry. You will have to find something.

So he tries every day. Even fabricated lies. And the power of suggestion. Because he knows like the devil knows. That's all he needs to brand a man for life. No it's a total lie. Just the power of suggestion.

Oh. Without cause. They have hid for me. Their necks. In a pit. Without cause. They have digged for my soul. You know. So. If you allow the devil to do this to you preachers. And he does it to multitudes.

You'll be threatened by others who God uses. Because you haven't been used like that. You don't hold the attention of the crowd. You don't draw the crowds. You haven't got the affection of the crowd like this.

Oh. You allow the devil to do this to you. They looked at God. Manifest in the flesh. They didn't know it was God. The God they thought they were serving. And believed they were serving. And they accused him of being of the devil.

That's what jealousy can do to these eyes. They said that God was of the devil. And builds a bump. The power of Satan. He performs his miracle. You will stoop to look at God himself. And say he's of the devil.

And you believe you're serving that God. And you'll put him to death. And hate him. You can be so used by the devil. You can stoop to that. In your deception. If you listen to Satan's lies. Oh preachers.

You will face the jealousies. Don't doubt this. You will face their anger. Their smear campaigns. It will come at you that you won't believe. That people could stoop to such lies. Or even more worse. That people could listen.

They will stoop to anything. To sabotage your life and ministry. And your honor. If they stoop. To let Satan make them a whisperer. A defamer. Because of their carnality. Because of their threatenedness.

Their jealousies. The Pharisees are alive and well on planet earth. Today. Everywhere. Everywhere. So brace yourself. Even in your own church. George Whitefield. One of the most greatly used men in the history of the church.

George Whitefield and Enduring Attacks on a Fruitful Ministry

Fearless in the pulpit. Men would fall in their thousands. As he preached onto the ground. Weeping and sobbing in a conviction. There's no preacher on earth. That has happened since then. The great George Whitefield.

Was fearless. But hated. Who by? Oh wait a minute. This is obvious. Who did the most damage against him? It was even Johnathan Edwards. That would rise up to try and defend him. And stop him from throwing him out of America.

There was so much awe of the religious leaders. George Whitefield. So mightily used by God. Returned back to England. On one of the seven occasions. That he toured this country. Not by airplanes. He spoke more than I've ever spoken.

How God did it to him. I don't know. No wonder he died so young. Pouring himself out to America. And returning sick. Against all the pleas of even John Wilson. He goes back to die. Coming back to London on one occasion.

Which we have heard. That another well known. And esteemed preacher. In London. At that time. Had launched a scathing attack. Upon his character. He was greatly grieved. And shaken. The great George Whitefield.

He was greatly grieved and shaken. That his good name. Should suffer thus. But he made no effort. To defend it. As in carefully preaching. He made no effort to defend it. Instead. He uttered these sentiments.

I am content. To wait. Till the judgment day. For the clearing up of my name. And honor and character. Outside of that. He did nothing publicly. Though he wept. Greatly at his knees. As these stories spread and were embraced.

By many Christians. His enemies. Suggested. Strongly that he had taken monies. For his personal. But the man. Who was revered and known across the world. As Dr. Franklin. Defended him. He knew every sin to take.

After which he is death he said. There was not one penny. Every one of you are mine. Pity it had to be said after his death. The great watchman Eve. In the book. Against the tide. By Angus Kinney. Of what we need life.

Watchman Nee and Refusing to Defend Oneself

He spoke of how the church in Shanghai. Faced astonishing. Criticism. From other religious. And respected. Leaders of the church throughout China. One man attacked. His doctrines. And then felt led to publish.

A scathing attack. In a book. Of all the heretical preachings. And then. Devoted. A great part of the book. Claiming that. He had inside knowledge. Watchman he had misused foreign funds. Which were meant for God's work.

And he attacked. Watchman he's integrity. In the use of these funds. Thatcher. As a leader seemed to. But invoke the proverb. He who raises his head above others. He who raises his head. Above the heads of others.

Will sooner or later be decapitated. That's true. But watchman he kept quiet. And never once. Never once. Defended himself. To try and justify himself. Never once. That is the man of God. Oh he aged. Before they cut his tongue out.

In the injustices and cruelty. Of fellow preachers. Sir. We're not immune to her. At injustices. And lies. And the shock of whom it will come to. Through the devil. The anguish of Charles Spurgeon. A book written by.

Gerald W. Emonson. He routes of the slander. That came against this spruce of preachers. During his years in London. Spurgeon received such intense slander. And scorn. Of other religious leaders. All the evil.

That they began. To produce. As evidence against his integrity. At that time. Spurgeon. Wavered between rejoicing. At his persecution. But also. Being utterly crushed. On his knees. He said. I have often.

Melt with sweat. Hot sweat rising from my brow. At the slander. As I have wept. In grief. Agony and grief. And was well nigh broken. Under such injustices. And slanders. Even if you regarded as the greatest preacher.

In earth. You find yourself weeping. And Satan finds a whisperer. Again. No matter what Satan. No matter what Satan orchestrates. Through such threatened. Carnal preachers. Against you to destroy you.

God’s Sovereignty in Suffering and Persecution

We dare not lose sight. Of the broader picture. As to why God. Allowed such injustices. And evils to come upon us. We need to look at the broader picture. Always. Never just at the circumstance. Or we think.

As to why God is allowing this. Injustice. These lies. These things that are defaming me. And making me age and groan. And come nigh well death. The broader picture. You see God is still in control. Beloved.

And if Satan is orchestrating. Something of God's allowing. Satan to orchestrate such circumstances. God has something bigger. In allowing it. Orchestration. That God allows. For he is still God. You see.

In orchestrating and allowing these circumstances. Sent by the devil to destroy us. It's allowed by God to make us. It's allowed by God to make us. To bring out of you. And your life. And your ministry.

What God would have you to preach. That you would never ever preach. Had you not been in such circumstances. Or known such injustices. And not wept with hot sweat. Falling from your gown. Thinking you're going to die under the grief.

Of such wrongs. And evils like that. Oh he knows how. They meant it. For evil. But God meant it. For good. It also shows a broader picture. God allowed that evil. He hated what they would do. He hated their evil.

He was angry. Don't think God asked them to. God meant it for good. The broader picture. The injustices. The cruelties you have faced. The hardships. The storms you've endured. God always was looking at the broader picture as God.

Who never loses control. Who in your every crisis. In your every crisis. That God allows you to face in life. His word. Suddenly becomes his voice. Outside of crisis. There's very little of this that isn't just.

The Bible. Doctrine. Oh preacher. God's word ceases to be your source of doctrine and theology. It becomes your source of survival. And your preaching becomes a source of survival. To those you preach.

Once you have experienced. The God of all comfort. And his healing word. You're able to comfort. The comfort where we were comforted. Only when God has to comfort us that we survive. Can we preach. Can we weep for them that weep.

Only then can we identify as not just heavy doctrine. Defending a doctrine of our church. A doctrine that we're biased to. We don't care about that. We care about. The survival of the souls. And go against the tide.

Then this becomes our source of survival. God knows it becomes a source of survival. Not doctrine. Not survival of doctrine. Yes everything is doctrine. But hallelujah. If you all don't only get stuck on one but look at everything in the Bible.

God can use you. Outside of which I doubt God will ever use you. Those who want a biased doctrine but don't care about souls. Spurgeon cried. If it wasn't for the finance. If it wasn't for the injustices.

If it wasn't for the cruelties. If it wasn't for the storms. The triumphs of God permitted in my life. I would have been poor as a preacher. I would have been poverty stricken as a preacher with the Bible in my hand.

If it wasn't for these things. You see God knew what would make him. Not only the great known preacher of history as far as homiletical or oratory ability under the anointing of God. But to reach the hearts of children that grip the hearts of the godly that to this day influence us.

God knew what to do. If it wasn't for these things. Oh the Lord had given me the tongue of the learned. It doesn't just boom I give it to you. But I should know how to speak the word and cease and say oh let it be as I forgive us for.

Comfort in Affliction and the Sufficient Grace of Christ

Oh see what 2 Corinthians 1 .3 refers to the God of all comfort. Comfort us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

2 Corinthians 1 .3. The preacher sought to find out acceptable words. Ecclesiastes 11 verse 10. Suddenly you know God's using you and you take this book not to give a four point message. That's correct doctrinally.

That doesn't matter to you anymore. All homiletics become part of your nature. But you get something from the heart of God that you know you have to go against the tide no matter what the consequences for the survival of the church.

Let alone the individual. 2 Corinthians 12 .7. Lest I should be exalted above measure. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me. You know what that word means? To literally punch.

God said to literally punch me that I stagger and lose balance. I literally stagger. Why would God do that? Lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord Christ. Not three little prayers.

Three times he stopped life and he sought God with his soul in grief at these things the devil was doing. That he felt were hindering him in every way from being what God wanted him to be. But he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee.

For my strength is made perfect in weakness. I suppose gladly. Therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, my weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest upon me. We come to accept though we age that the broader picture the persecutions, the necessities the distresses that Christ saith that we suffer make in us and make of us people we know we're nothing.

Especially the picture apart from God's grace giving me many times that I felt I couldn't stand again. I couldn't get up and face another day in life. And then God lifts you up. It's very different when you get up, you know.

And God has to lift you up with all that strength that you used to fight back in the battle no matter what the devil did. Now you've got nothing of yourself left to do that. All you have is grace. Knowing how weak, becoming so conscious that apart from God's grace you now look to just to stand again.

Oh, you preach so differently. You preach so differently. And you know you wouldn't be in the pulpit apart from the grace of God let alone survive. Yes. These things were sent by the devil to destroy us.

And they can destroy us. Don't think the devil's just some fool. Some manipulated thing that God allowed. No. It was sent by the devil to destroy us but allowed by God to make us. So your darkest moment God is doing His greatest work or otherwise it wouldn't be allowed.

The darkest moment you ever face in life God is accomplishing His greatest work in you or it wouldn't be happening. He's God. The devil's not God. But don't take your eyes off of God, preacher. You see, Peter did the miraculous.

Keeping One’s Eyes on Christ in the Storm

He survived in a storm Satan created. The Bible's careful to say this. Nothing's in the Bible just to tickle your ears, just to make you interested in lovely story notes, or for you to survive. There's nothing in this book that isn't here for your survivor to know the full revelation in the heart of God for your survivor.

Otherwise it wouldn't be in this book. Genesis 1 to Revelation. So Peter the Bible says the storm was created by Satan, clearly. He creates storms. And his eyes on Christ, he survived. It was like something that was beyond credibility, beyond all comprehension, that a human could survive this and walk in an impossible way through faith.

But God was careful to note this. When he took his eyes off Jesus and he began to look at the storm and what Satan, as he took his eyes off God, he began to sink. He began to sink. Wherefore it is not doubt.

Why didn't you just keep your eyes on me and not doubt that I've lost control because of the storm of Satan? Oh! We may be consumed with grief, anger, bitterness, fear, sorrow, self-pity, negativeness.

This can happen to a preacher. This can happen if he's not careful to keep his eyes on God. We may be devoured by fear, devoured by hurt, devoured by wounds, injustices. The fear of man, God says, created a snare that can destroy the preacher.

Jealousy, Defamation, and the Destruction of Christian Ministry

God warns us. God warns us. Oh! Through insane jealousy came murdered Abel. Many Christians through insane jealousy of other Christians, of preachers, maybe not physically, but it led them to destroy him.

You may as well have murdered him. Yes, you'll destroy him. Through your insane jealousy people are not necessarily martyred physically or burned at the stake in this time, but by cruel defamation, lies, smear campaigns, and hatred they can destroy the ministry, the honor, the integrity, the credibility of every preacher that they desire to destroy.

If that preacher takes his eyes off God, they are cruelly put to death for one reason. They preach without compromise, everything. I mean everything. You go against the time. No matter what movement you go, no matter what the consequences, there's always consequences.

That's all. We talk about physical death. I read this in the newspaper 9th of August this year. One of the great newspapers of the world. An 82-year-old man and his poofy one-year-old son have been found living in a forest in central Vietnam after they went missing during the war with the United States, 40 years later.

The last time Ho Phan Thanh was seen, he was running into the woods with his infant son Ho Phan Lan. After a bomb had exploded in his home, killing his wife and his other children in 1973. He was never seen again for 40 years.

They had no contact with the outside world. His son was illiterate. He lived like animals. You see, you kill a human. It can happen in creatures' lives. If the mind crumbles, the ability to function is destroyed.

They're so filled with fear at the devastation of what they've done. The hurting cause that they've run off God's service. Where are they? How many people have run from you, sir? They're still in hiding.

No one knows where they are. Why? You broke them down. You destroyed them. You may as well have burned them at the stake. A missing soldier found after 33 years. A former Soviet soldier went missing more than three decades ago during Moscow's invasion of Afghanistan.

It was also this year he had served in a unit and was seriously wounded in September 1980. Former soldiers of the Soviet Union return to Afghanistan annually to try and find missing soldiers whose minds have been totally destroyed by the war.

And see why it was written how many they found in one year. 29 soldiers have been able to be returned and rehabilitated to a degree in Russia, though most of them mentally will never recover. They were destroyed by the attacks that left them devastated and full of fear that they just withdrew into oblivion and lived as if the war still on.

Fearful to come back to any meaningful life. A Japanese soldier was found in his dugout trench, believe this or not, after the Second World War. Fifty years after the war had ended, he was still there in that trench, living like an animal trying to stay alive.

He was still believing his mind had so collapsed at the devastation of war that the missiles hurled and the fears that gripped him or the fear of man created a snare so he could destroy his people and people are fearful.

He was still in hiding, still in the trench, believing the war was still going on and he could not leave his position. His mind, of course, was gone. He was totally mental. The battle can do that to you.

Many a soldier has been on the battlefield gravely wounded. Many have died on the battlefield of wars. This war between God and Satan is the most intense and the most casualties of any war in history, multiplied by a billion of any war.

The casualties of war against the saints, the casualties of a war from Satan's orchestration through other Christians to destroy, they literally burned you at the stake because you refused to compromise on what you were doing in their denomination, in their movement.

Surviving Attacks Through God’s Word and Prayer

How not to be destroyed by the cruel attacks of the messengers sent by the devil to destroy me? Well, as an angel opened the gates of prison for the imprisoned Peter, so we must look to God to open the gates that imprison you if you have withdrawn or your mind has collapsed and you have no faith left.

You've been destroyed. You're busy being destroyed through the fear of man. The snare has been created upon your life. There's one way to survive. Unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 119, verse 92. Unless this was my delight, my greatest discipline in life, I would have perished. Great peace have they which love thy law. Nothing shall offend them. Nothing shall cause them to stumble.