Hell! — Keith Daniel

Now, let's have a short prayer. Father, in mercy on all of us, come visit us tonight. For Thy glory is that as look at my heart and all of our hearts, the motive. Not for the glory of men, or a congregation, or a denomination.

Not for anyone's glory, but just for Christ's glory. And our hearts have one thing, one desire, to glorify Jesus Christ. Outside of that, I don't care about a single thing on this earth. In truth. And so, please, glorify Thy name through a very base and weak man who longs to be used of God while he still has a breath in his body.

By the blood of Christ, cleanse me, should there have been the smallest reaction that is not utterly Christ-like. The smallest thought, the smallest reaction or word that is not utterly holy and Christ-like.

Forgive me for my baseness and weakness. Wash me in the blood afresh of Jesus Christ. Fill me with the Holy Spirit afresh in grace and mercy. And glorify Thy name through the weakest of vessels here tonight, the basest of men, a man despised by many.

That Thou hast chosen the weak things of the world, the foolish things, the things despised. That no flesh could glory or should glory in Thy presence. None of us can glory. We live to glorify Christ and are humbled at the thought that He can take such unworthy vessels to do that.

But come, God, glorify Thy name now through Thy Word in all of our hearts. In Jesus Christ's lovely name. Amen. He will return in flaming fire. He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God.

Taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will return in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction.

Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. Check in Thessalonians. Check in Thessalonians 1 verse 9. In Revelation 20 verse 10, John records the revelation given to him by Jesus of mankind's destination.

The Great White Throne and the Lake of Fire

And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it. I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And it was found no place to them. And I saw the dead.

I saw the dead, small and great, stand. I saw the dead, small children and great grown-ups stand before God. And the books were opened. And another book was opened which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged. They were judged every man according to their works. Every man according to their works.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast. Cast into the lake of fire.

No Mercy After Death

There is no mercy after death. The hands that will bear the marks for all eternity in all eternity, those marks this book declares will be there of the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Those hands that bear the marks for all eternity as a witness that he tasted death for every man for every man it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God this book says.

Though those marks will be there for eternity and as this happens with those marks in those hands it's a fearful thing to fall into those hands the hands of the living God if you have not prepared to meet with God before you die there is no mercy from that God though he died for you.

If you have not prepared to meet with God before death it is appointed unto men once to die. Hebrews 9 verse 27 it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment there is nothing else you are going to have opportunity to make up your mind or change your mind.

There is no words you will utter to God that will change his mind after death. There is no such a thing even if one comes from the dead to warn them they deserve what they face. God says there is a gulf fixed from the moment you die not only at the great white throne but no one can leave that place to help.

No one can leave heaven to go and assist you though you may cry I am tormented in this flame staggering. Isn't it how Christ says this. You die only to find you are not dead. So a soul will never ever die the second death.

That first death is not the end. The second death doesn't involve flesh but you can still feel according to this book you can see. You can think. You can speak. You can scream. You can suffer. I am tormented or did Christ lie.

Did he get a little bit exaggerated or fanatical warning men of what eternity is. Do you deny. Does it offend you. What Christ says the soul will face. He will feel after death without a physical body.

He will see. He will remember. He will see what he's missed. Can you imagine the torment of what you will recognize. Or did Christ lie. And no preacher has the right to preach what Jesus said because it was a lie.

You choose if you are offended at what Christ said. So in Ezekiel 33 verse 7 staggering words. Shall thou oh son of man he cries out to this prophet I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.

The Watchman's Responsibility to Warn

Therefore thou shalt hear the word of mine mouth and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked oh wicked man thou shalt surely die. If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way to that wicked man shall die.

That wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand. If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way to turn from it that wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity. But thou hast delivered thyself. I want to ask you a question. If you stumble over verses throughout the rest of the scriptures here do you think that God would only say that to that one man if he failed to warn men he should have warned.

Do you think that God's judgment would only come upon that one man and not you and me. Tonight I'd like to ask two fearful questions. Two fearful questions concerning the warnings of God of judgment and hell that are strewn across the pages of this holy book.

The warnings of God of judgment and hell upon the unrepentant souls that are strewn throughout this book. Firstly I'd like to ask the saved. Do you warn men to flee from the wrath to come as God has compelled us to do.

How many men have you passed in your life since you've been saved brother. That you could have warned. That you should have warned. How many men and women and children have you passed in your life since you've been saved.

That you could have warned. That you should have warned. And although God has saved your soul from hell you didn't care. You didn't care that they were going to hell. That's the only reason. That's the only reason there's no such a thing as another reason.

It might as well have been dirt passing through your fingers. You cared so little though you knew what God says concerning all men their plight without having found what you found. The second question to the unsaved.

Whether the Warning of Judgment Offends the Unsaved

Does it offend you. I want you to answer your heart and God tonight. Does it offend you. If a man from the pulpit or anywhere in life confronts you with these scriptures and warns you and pleads with you that you know it's you.

It's you God speaking to through them whether preacher or friend or family. Does it offend you. If someone warns you. Or could I rephrase it if God warns you through someone who's willing to be used of God with the preachers who know that'll close a thousand pulpits the day.

He mentions the word hell but he still does. Does it offend you. Is it offense to you. My mother had nine brothers and sisters. Her elder brother. His name was Peter. Uncle Peter. Amazing sort of a person excelled to the degree that he was South African champion in different sports in the newspapers.

Oh what he didn't do. The leading soccer team football team of the country. He was the trainer. He was the manager the leading life-saving club. He was the one who founded. He was just something. Uncle Peter.

A Father’s Conversion and Passion to Warn

My Uncle Peter from when they were little boys like this he befriended my father. My father was his closest dearest friend. From a little boy as they kicked ball together as they went to school together.

My mother came into my father's life through Peter and my father's friendship they were inseparable. He loved my father like a brother more than his own brothers. He was always there Uncle Peter always there.

All I remember is Uncle Peter at the door he's come wants to be with Daddy way. Until my father was 51 years of age and my father an alcoholic his life virtually destroyed. Repented from his life of sin in one moment never to touch and not drink again till he died.

Never to touch a cigarette though he smoked over 20 a day for over 20 years 60 a day for over 20 years. My father threw these things down in such a way that he staggered everybody that knew him on this earth was staggered many to total silence and shock.

He so turned to God. The first thing that happened to Daddy was the desperate compassion not compassion, no the desperate compassion to warn everyone he loved on earth. First of all he had heard from this book or read concerning the judgments of God upon their souls if they don't repent from a life of sin and find forgiveness through the shed blood of Christ and deliverance by the resurrected power of Christ and faith in it alone.

My father went to every friend to every relative and weeping sobbing on occasions. Begging begging. He went to Peter and weeping. He begged Peter to repent to turn from his sin or to go to hell. As he was sitting there pleading and pleading.

Peter trembled. Uncle Peter trembled. He shook and he said these words stop now or I will hate you. I will hate you. My father was silent for a while and we hardly breathed as we waited. My father said I would hate you if I stopped now.

I can't. Uncle Peter walked out that door and never saw my father till my father died. He would not come to my father's funeral. Everyone came in their hundreds. There was no place to sit but that he was so revered and loved by so many when he died.

Uncle Peter would not come to his funeral. He so hated him for having warned him of what God says in this book that he will face judgment and hell unless he repents. My Uncle Peter died in shame in such terrifying shame that it was on the newspapers the front pages of virtually every newspaper in our country with his photographs.

And the family had great shame the way he died in his sin though his closest friend that he loved more than anyone in the world it seems had warned him weeping and begging. Does it offend you. So if someone loves you enough to warn you what God assures you of certainty every soul will face for eternity.

Does it offend you. So if someone warns you from a pulpit of what Christ told us their blood is on your hands if you don't warn them. I don't know how ministers can walk from the pulpit if they haven't tried to warn men of hell.

I don't know how they can go to sleep. I don't know how they can think of what they're going to say to Jesus Christ if they never ever warned a congregation though they knew what is in his book. I was preaching about two years ago in a town stayed in the home of a very godly man small town but the church was full.

A False Funeral Consolation and the Reality of Hell

They just came from everywhere. And this man shared something that he had done just recently at that time his brother had died. And at the funeral in this big church in this community with all the farms around at the funeral the minister, the preacher stood up and said he has been released from his sufferings.

God has taken him from his long sufferings and sickness and he is now at peace with God in heaven. He even quoted scriptures about death and heaven. He of course was trying to comfort those that loved the deceased.

And this man, this godly man said it was up to him at the end of that service to do the eulogy how he stood and thanked the various people that had any part of this service or those who had come from near and far.

And then he turned and said to this minister who sat behind him behind the pulpit Sir, you are wrong. My brother has not been released from his suffering and pain. God has not taken him from his suffering.

And now he is at peace with God. My brother is in hell. My brother has never ever experienced pain. No human has ever comprehended what sufferings there are until he faces them. My brother faces now the screaming and the torment of his pain physically.

There is no scream he ever did on earth in his pain and sickness that could compare with the shouts that he has now shouted. And Sir, it is for all eternity that my brother is in the suffering according to this book.

Sir do we preach that men are at peace when God says those men are in torment. And although God assures us that those men are in torment do we preach against what God says. Sir everyone in this building knows that my brother lived in sin.

Everyone in this building knows that my brother died in sin. I pled with him through the years. I pled with him through days before he died when he was still conscious to turn to Christ in repentance.

But he never ever turned from a life of sin. He never ever repented or showed remorse for what he was and what he was. And I quoted his sin in this book that God assured him he would be damned. There is no possibility of him having eternal life.

My brother died in his sin. Sir. And as he spoke this minister began to groan and shake his head in anger what he was saying. Angry at truth or anyone who dared to say it in a pulpit. Angry at anyone who dared to quote what God or believe what God says enough to quote it even if he was ostracized and offended.

Everyone thereafter others groaning in anger and offense. And he said these words. I know you're offended and I don't know the full consequences of what I've done yet yet today. But I did it because I didn't want my brother's death to be a lie or sin.

And if his death could just bring someone to repentance because of truth truth then it's worth any offense that has been taken or anything I'm going to face as a result of what I've said here today. If there's just one person in this whole building that's willing to believe this book and knows and accepts that my brother and you know it was in sin as he died he never turned.

That accepts truth and turns to God that it's worth what I'm going to face. Does it offend you. If someone speaks the truth from this book does it offend you. So staggering question staggering answers.

Persuading People in Light of the Terror of the Lord

Heavens hearing now from your thoughts souls knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. Paul says knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. We persuade man. Tell me. Do you knowing who did you last persuade in your whole life.

Sir when when did you persuade anyone knowing the terror of the Lord. Answer. God. You have nothing to do with this old man but it's God you have to do with him. You listen to this book. You will be judged by what you did when you heard the words from this book.

God says this book will judge you. God says by what you did as you heard even these words I'm saying now. Or does God lie about that too. And it won't happen. And you're not going to lose any sleep about it.

Are you knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. We persuade you. When daddy looked at his mother aged and frail sickly already we thought she was going to go. Somehow she lingered. Daddy went to my grandmother and in desperation he begged her.

He begged her until my grandmother couldn't bear it. She was so offended. She was so offended. She got hold of me one day and said you speak to your father. I thank God. What's happened to you Keith. You see the change in your life.

Don't think I'm against it. You see the change in your father's life. Don't think I'm against it. But don't you dare tell me I'm going to hell. Your father tells me I'm going to hell. Dare he. How dare he.

When my husband walked out of our lives I had three children and I had no education. And there was a depression across this world. There was no work. I had to wash clothes and sheets and weep as I agonized for money to survive.

And at times I couldn't. And I used to cry out to God help me to stay alive. And Keith people came to my door with food. When I prayed God answered my prayers. My boy since you've been born there hasn't been a day I haven't prayed for you.

When you went astray I was praying for you. When your father was all the problems I was praying weeping to God. You tell me I'm going to hell now that you people have been saved. You say don't you dare after the way you live.

Tell me I'm going to hell. Your father's gone too far. He tells preachers to come to my door here. This is a very exclusive home for the aged. They care for them in such a way that he put my granny. He sends preachers who are going to preach.

And I've got to go and sit on my back and I've got to suffer. You tell him to stop sending these preachers. And he comes to me and there's all these markings all over the Bible and says to me now look you read these.

I'm coming back and I'm going to speak to you about them. So you read them. And then he comes the next day he's got more things to mark and I've got to read. So I said I can't read. My eyes are so sore.

Look at my eyes Keith they were bloodshot. I can't read. So your father goes and gets this Bible. It's so big with such big print. He says now you've got no excuse. He's marked them with highlighted pen.

All of this I've got to read about hell and damnation and judgment. Everything's about me going to hell unless I do these things. You tell your father to stop now. I've had enough but daddy didn't stop.

I went to him and said daddy you know you need to be careful now you're going to close granny's heart. I understand you're compassionate and you care for her soul and I respect you daddy for that. But I think you're going too far now you've got to just lay off a bit before you really make her hardened.

My father looked at me in such shock that I was shocked by how he looked at me and he sobbed. Oh Keith I stood and watched my father die. And I didn't have the gospel. And he died in sin. Keith and I it haunts me the way he died with such fear with such torment of dying in his sin.

And I didn't have. Don't you tell me not to do everything I can to reach your granny that I don't see her die. It haunts me the same way I cannot face that Keith. Don't you dare tell me to slow down, to lay off.

She came to Christ. How could she not with a son like that. She was so gloriously saved it was beyond comprehension. Instead of dying God gave her better health than she'd had for about 20 years. Why.

Because daddy said I want to see her live at God before she dies. So I'm sure. And she died leaving a world behind that knew she truly was born again. She had no doubt. Oh suddenly there were no pains in her back.

She was in every meeting dragging everybody. And did she devour this book and in her own sweet way witnessed to everybody of her son's salvation her grandson's salvation and her salvation for eternity.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. We persuade men. Did your mother have such a son. Or is she in hell. Could you have warned her. Could you have warned her. But you didn't for fear of offending.

You let them go to hell. When my brother three years older than I turned to Jesus Christ. He didn't want to go to church. But he was dragged some of them. You've got to snatch from hell from the flames pulses with fear and trembling.

Snatching Souls from the Wrath to Come

You've got to take them and drag them through hell. My brother sat in this building and he was determined to switch off to all his fanaticism. He went there just to pacify these people who just couldn't bear him not hearing this godly preacher.

The godliest man I've ever knew in my life Will MacFarlane. And they dragged him, begged him and he went. But he didn't go to seek God. Amazing how you can be in meetings and you haven't got one iota of a thing in your heart to seek God.

Have you young man. You're here for others but not for God. My brother had nothing in his heart for God. But he was there. And he heard a man for the first time in his life from the pulpit speak about hell.

Judgments quoting passages upon passages upon passages. How few knew the Bible like Will MacFarlane. This man wept. He so believed. He had never heard a man once in a pulpit in his life speak about hell.

We used to change churches as we changed girlfriends in our unsafe state. We had never heard one preacher in our life. In any denomination in any congregation we went ever talk about repent. Ever talk about hell.

Ever talk about judgment or being born again. He'd never heard the word hell in his life in a pulpit from a pulpit the only time he'd ever heard that word was in blasphemous jokes. Here was a man he didn't only believe it but he wept at the prospect of those he's preaching to not knowing about it and not repenting from it.

My brother trembled. He shook in shock and fear that someone quoted the scriptures that he'd never heard in his life from a pulpit. And my brother led on the wrath to come. Because one man was faithful he fled pushing his way through the people as they left that building.

He pushed and fell to seek God because someone preached of judgment. You say it's love that reaches them. Of course it is. But show me how few ever came to that love unless they knew that that love had laid a way for them to escape eternal damnation.

Show me how few would flee to love and from sin if they didn't know there's judgment. It is love sir. But don't you dare preach about God's grace and love if they don't know what sin is. And judgment is how few will truly turn from it.

Would you? Would you turn from sin just because of love that had no judgment if you didn't come. Oh beloved. Do we have compassion among souls. John Wesley said staggering words. Words I've never recovered from.

The World as a Parish and a Burden for Souls

I'm so sensitive with Christ's things. The world. The world is my parish. Think of those words now if you say it if you find one soul in a hundred or two hundred years that says it from his soul not to impress anyone.

The world is my parish. I don't have a burden or an ability to have a burden just for this little four walls and this congregation this denomination those who agree with me doctrinally that I have some form of responsibility.

The world is my responsibility. And John Wesley shook this world to this day as someone who was a bit unrealistic sir he shook the world. The king of England said Wesley lies in Westminster Abbey with the monarchy right from the year 18 880 90.

Some of the sins of every monarch lies there. The king said John Wesley lies in this burial with the kings and our queens. For no man ever did a greater service to England in our history than Wesley. And there he is his remains out of respect turning a nation to God when it was about to follow France that killed royalty that slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands in those days.

That was something everyone that had nobility. God saved England through that from a blood bath because the world was his parish. America shook through that influence of that man. And to this day men are staggered and unable to be quiet when they read of his life and his statements and his compassion.

And how God honors those who want to be used to the degree they want to be used or dare to want God to use them. He still shakes our heart. Oh there are many men in this world. I have met many godly men and women who have the world in their heart.

I believe that I have sat with some that it is beyond all human comprehension to what degree they want, believe, trust and endeavor to win every soul on this earth even if it's impossible they try and I love them for it.

And I have sat with some of the greatest preachers on this earth and the greatest soul winners have walked up to me that I couldn't believe who God sent right up to me whose books I read. Suddenly they walk up to me.

I want to pray with you young man. I just trembled, I wasn't even able to pray. Oh I thank God for such men who God honored in our mission in South Africa. I never had the privilege of meeting the most fruitful preacher the most used man of God in the history of our mission which is one of the two oldest missions in Africa and many, many, many, many hundreds and hundreds of godly have served God in that land and in that continent, in our mission.

Many died in their forties, some in their thirties burnt out for Christ through diseases in the Congo and throughout Africa but thank God for them, but the most fruitful of all of them was Ethelbert Smith.

No doubt of that I never met him, the day I was saved he died but I heard of him and I trembled and I was affected for good by all. I heard of that man from the smallest detail his reactions and his sense of responsibility to souls and the way he preached affected and influenced me.

And when I listened to his tapes my heart trembled and longed to be like this man. I never had the privilege of meeting him but his family took me under the wing and loved me and prayed me through to this day.

And when I was just saved his daughter, Heta when she was very young and I was very young she shared with me about her father those I asked questions and they said I was so interested, because everywhere everywhere, they would talk it was like a silence.

First when you talked about Ethelbert Smith in homes, in congregations and then when they talked and so I sat with his family now trying to just get everything I could about his life and she told me he had a sense of humor.

Witnessing Through Public Symbols and Provocation

I don't think sense of humor is sin. Continue joking is ridiculous. You want to break fellowship with God, there's nothing that will do it as fast and swiftly and completely as just joking all the time.

But a sense of humor is different when something really is just humanly naturally funny that happens. We laugh because we have been made in the image of God. It's not sin to laugh. See the funny. He had a sense of humor it seems, this godly man and his daughter Heta said how he took her to school in this car.

Now the AAB has this tendency, especially in our old days to take old vehicles, and oh, they were old but they would paint all over the car scriptures of hell and damnation. Oh, white paint careful, they didn't want to anywhere not to be preaching as you pass people on the road flee from the wrath to come.

It's the points that men wants to die after this judgment. Where will you spend eternity. They were all over, this big it was a van by the way it was the best he could do, he never had the privilege of having a small little decent car, but there it was on this black thing that he would use to cart all the pilgrims around all the young workers.

So, she said he would take her to school every morning and she would get out in front of all these children, who would always stop in dead silence. Great crowds just shocked as she got out looking at this car and she would look at the crowds and oh shambles as she walked and they just looked at her in silence.

Oh my she said she dreaded her father, well she says to daddy won't you drop me off just a little bit before the school gate. Why Heta, I want to walk just a little walk. It's not necessary cars always, just a bit before.

Oh ok. Heta so, she got out of the car and she walked with human dignity with her head up high not crawling in shame with smiles. She was going to the gates and as she walked past and going up the steps.

Baaap she knows that Huta baaap you don't say Huta, what do you say horn, baaap. Ok. So, eventually. Alright and there he was. Everybody looking now never before Heta, have to do with such people. I suppose I thought to myself that was cruel and she said no, it was daddy.

He had a sense of humour. He thought that would be really funny because he knew why I asked to get out of the car. One of my great joys in your country has to be the fellowship with Otto Kuhning the pineapple story.

I made the terrible mistake of saying the pineapple man when he was sitting in my meeting once and he just looked at me, you know, it wasn't really the right title. But Otto Kuhning has become a dear friend of mine and an honour God gave me of knowing this dear man.

What a blessing he's been. Oh my, have we had times together that man and I, don't want to go into those times. The moments we've had they've been genuinely exciting. Oh, I wish I could share with you things the braveness of that man and the things we did anyway, I have been so grateful how he comes even last year, travelling hours to get to where I preach.

And then they say to me, do you mind if Mr Kuhning, who's here in your meetings if we ask him to preach also how could they not? Such a godly man, I've just been delighted. Oh please, don't deprive the people of such an amazing blessing, Otto Kuhning in Africa, the young people just want to hear Otto Kuhning his tapes have taken off, you can't believe, Jenny says it's amazing.

They're these teenage boys from small to big all lying on their backs in the lounge, in the dark listening to 2 o 'clock in the morning screaming with laughter roars, no one can sleep. She says, you've got to sleep.

No, no where do you hear young people 2 o 'clock in the morning say, no please, don't tell us this stuff. Give them Otto Kuhning's tapes. Trust me you'll have to try and put them to bed. But they don't want to, and very few preachers can do that.

Hallelujah for such a man. Well he travels in a hearse a black hearse that's got a coffin in it and there he is with his white mop-up hair like the real thing laughter. And on the hearse there's this big sign, not just painted in cheap painting like us you know, where will you spend eternity and all sorts of other things.

Dramatic Methods for Awakening Sinners

Now he comes along to the meetings last year, or the year before anyway, and there he's in his hearse and I said, what do people do? I mean, what do people do as you're driving down the streets all through America with this?

He says you want to see these big trucks. They're all there, these guys with their muscles in the truck and as they're passing you think it's something like, you can't believe the noise the horn okay.

And they put their fist out the window and scream obscene offensive language, cursing and horrible evil signs with their fingers. And he says, others come past with their little hooters hallelujah brother praise him.

And I said, you don't mind when people shout obscenities and give horrible obscene signs gestures with their fingers. No, he says then we know who's unsaved. And as they're giving those signs and screaming you're going to hell.

Oh God save his soul. We know to pray for everyone that passes us just you can be sure. Well not everybody's like Otto Kuhn but hallelujah for such a man in our country when we were first saved there was a man who preached the truth.

But he became so frustrated because so few came to Christ in this rather strange area won't go into the details. But so few had really responded that he became desperate. And one day they walked into church and there was a coffin in the front of the church under the pulpit.

Flowers, all these floral things little cards on it, all over it was something and the lid was off the case. There was deadly silence as everybody looked deadly silence. He walked up in gravity to that pulpit and he said I suppose you're all sitting there saying who could this be.

What has happened. I'm going to let every single one of you fire past this coffin before I preach this morning in the face. You see in that coffin I guarantee you will face eternity in hell, damnation.

Never repentant though. They heard the gospel front row come and they came stunned silence. Nobody hardly breathing. He looks in oh oh oh. He put a mirror in there. Do you know that within weeks that congregation had turned to Christ because a man resorted to something utterly offensive shocking but desperate enough to do it anything to get the message home.