Hidden Sin - Part 1 — Joshua Daniel

The one true living and loving Saviour, we are not worthy to name your holy name, the name of Jesus. But in our unworthiness, we come before you. Some of us and most of us must needs cry, unclean, unclean, unclean.

Who is worthy to tread your courts? We humble ourselves before you. Draw near to us and speak to us. In Jesus' holy name. Amen. Please be seated, my dear friends. Now, if you will please turn to 2 Samuel and the 24th chapter and the 17th verse.

David’s Honest Confession and Leadership

And David spoke unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people and said, Lord, I have sinned. I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thou in hand, I pray you, be against me and against my father's house.

My dear friends, that is leadership. Complete honesty. You know, folks, in the beginnings of this work, when we were seeing revival on every hand, you know, we felt that we could not keep anything hidden or in the shadows.

Sin Must Be Exposed

We could not hide anything. Sin would come out. You know, people would say, who went and told brother Joe or the preacher? Somebody, she certainly told him about me. Total strangers who would come to the meetings or come to see me, they would be so shocked that somebody had actually told them about what they were doing.

The Spirit of the Lord Brings Light

Now, that is a very simple thing. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is a light. And sin cannot be hidden. Now, my dear friends, it has given me great sorrow whenever, for any length of time, sin was found hidden without confession or exposure.

The Consequences of Presumption and Hidden Sin

Why now can sin be hidden for so many weeks, so many months? You will see that in the scriptures, neither there was an instant reward for presumption and hiding of sin. Or there was a plague amongst the people.

There was a disastrous outcome. Today, if any preacher dares to say, well, this tragedy or this calamity, natural calamity, is God's intervention or God's reward, there is a hue and cry. One governor of one of the states of the United States happened to say in some speech, this is a Christian nation.

Idolatry and Spiritual Corruption in National Life

And there was a huge outcry. Now, there are fellows who have exported idols from many parts of the world into the U .S. I have already mentioned the dollar hunters. I can't say that people went there with a missionary heart.

The Need for a Missionary Heart

Can you say your son went there with a missionary heart? I say, nobody should go to America without a missionary heart. If he does, he will be corrupted. The outsourcing of jobs into India and the booming economy in China and India.