The King's Highway — Keith Daniel

Father, come in mercy to all of us now and speak to our hearts. Keep us under the blood of Christ, wash me in the blood afresh, fill me with the Holy Spirit. Anoint and unctionize and take thy word and speak to the depth of every heart.

Come now, God, to the hardest heart and break it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. I want you to just listen to this beginning. I'm going to read just a short paragraph or two as a statement, a foundation to the sermon.

The Old Testament as Spiritual Revelation

If you want to put it up ever so slightly, you'll gain my respect. Listen carefully now, the historical context, the historical context of the Old Testament to a staggering degree signifies the outworking of the spiritual work found in the New Testament.

The historical context of the Old Testament to a staggering degree signifies the outworking of the spiritual work found in the New Testament. In other words, the history of the Old Testament is spiritualized again and again in the New Testament.

It is on many occasions the spiritual, practical outworking or explanation of the doctrines, of the experiential doctrines of the New Testament. Nothing was ever meant to be looked upon as history in this book.

Only the theological academic liberal with degrees behind his name or those influenced by him or trying to impress him by emulating him would look upon this Old Testament as history. It's not history.

It's the living, vital, throbbing Word of God. There's not a word here meant to be read as history. Of course, it is history, but the sovereign God was in every word. His sovereignty is seen in history by the very names He gave men.

His sovereignty seen over the plan of God in giving us this holy book. He had you in mind. It was written for you and me to hear His voice. Beloved, I've often thought to myself, why did God make two-thirds of this holy book the Old Testament?

Was it a mistake? Not enough to talk about in the New Testament? No. Don't neglect the Old Testament for the new. But you will be in utter poverty unless you devour and consume the old. For you will be so limited in your understanding of the heart of God, no matter what you read and how many times you read through the New Testament, you'll be literally in poverty in comparison with those who soak themselves looking for God's voice, God's rhema, God's revelation, verse upon verse.

Of course, the words He said in its context were to men, but every warning was for you. Every encouragement, every promise, every guidance for God to take as you open this book to hear His voice. Otherwise, don't open it, open it with the primarily purpose to seek God to speak to your soul.

The sovereign God will concerning what you need to hear, not bursting out every verse. But trust me, the more you go through the book, the more you become conscious. This was written from the heart of God for now for me.

The Old Testament was not history. It's the living, vital word of God, oftentimes spiritualizing the New Testament so often that as you get through this book 400 times, you almost wonder, is there a verse?

Is there a name that hasn't got spiritual significance somehow in the light of the whole New Testament context of the full revelation of God to give us depth and understanding of the heart of God, the mind of Christ.

Deliverance from Egypt and the Christian Life

When God delivered the people who were in slavery and bondage to the Egyptians. It is staggering to what degree it's filled in the New Testament of his deliverance attached to salvation. Of course, God, of course, God looked at these people in love and all the things he did to prove that he wanted to set them free to show his love, his longing, his determination to make them flee from the bondage and slavery of this enemy.

To be deliberate. Oh, they weren't delivered as he showed his desire, his intent on delivering them. They became conscious. God, God is wanting me to be free. Ultimately, the thing that delivered them was when they put their faith in the blood.

That was the ultimate deliverance when they trusted God and his promise. And when I see the blood, my judgment shall pass over. How beloved a babe in Christ can see, well, that's history, but that's the New Testament.

The sovereign God weighing up is in such perfect control. That we just see God's doctrine written in history, verse by verse, literally as vital as the New Testament. That set them free. The enemy took his hands off.

But it doesn't stop there. It doesn't mean the enemy just sat back and said, no more pursuing, no more trying to get their eyes off from God. Oh, no, I don't want to just let them go. Do you think all that was just history that suddenly set free at last?

They were no longer slaves. Go! I have no ownership of you. Go! Don't think the devil, this enemy, is just going to sit back when you're saved. He will come the moment you set free with such venom, with such anger, with such hatred, with such jealousy of what he lost of you in his hatred of God.

But then there's the Red Sea. Wonderful. And read Hebrews to see the significance, the spiritual significance of how they passed through the Red Sea. The doctrine. God was just writing doctrine as history went.

Perfect doctrine of the New Testament. I want to bypass 99 .999 of all this that I'm speaking about to get to this point. The other side of the Red Sea, Moses now takes the people of God. Deliver it.

Pilgrims Seeking the Promised Land

Oh, what a blow to the enemy. He so delivered them. Now he takes them and leads them through the wilderness. For 40 years through the wilderness to the promised land. Of course, Hebrews tells us spiritualizing it.

And he does that the promised land is heaven. And we are strangers and pilgrims here. This is not our home. Hebrews says we seek another country. We're passing through. We don't want to hold on to this.

Oh, God, don't let this be heaven. Don't let this be eternity. Who wants it? No, God, no. I don't want to put my roots down here. There's nothing to hold me to it. I don't want anything. I don't even want to leave anything but only what's done for Christ for life.

There's nothing here that I hold on to. There's nothing, nothing. This is not my territory. This is not my place for eternity. This is not where my heart is. I set my affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

I lay up my treasures and things in heaven, never on earth. I seek another country. Now, Moses, Moses. As he led God's people, did something staggering for you and me. He didn't know it, but he was writing to you.

God had you in mind that this was being written. The mind of God, the heart, the throbbing heart of God, for you to hear his voice, as you would be in poverty if you were just stuck with the New Testament.

Poverty in comparison, the voice of God, the rhema page by page. If you're in touch with God for once, the Holy Spirit is there. That's all you need. Oh, Moses, as he leads the people of God now through this, which is not their home, not their land, not their goal.

They didn't want to put down roots, not one step. No, Moses. Now, as he leads the people of God, he sends messages to the godless kings. As the people of God were to pass through this godless territory of these godless people, he sends messages.

Listen. Listen to what these messages are. Numbers 20 verse 17. Let us pass. I pray thee through thy country. We will not pass through thy fields or thy vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of thy wells.

We will go by the king's highway. We will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed by borders. Oh, by the way, there was the king's highway literally historically, but that was a sovereign God that made them name it, by the way, the king's highway.

In case you think it just happened by coincidence, nothing, nothing is coincidence. God wanted to speak to you and me. We won't divert into the enemy's territory unless our pathway to the celestial city.

We have no intention of drinking from their water wells, going into their territory, sitting at their tables, fellowshipping with them, doing their things. No, we will not turn from the king's highway to the right hand to the left until we passed right through.

Hallelujah. Judges 11 verse 19. Let us pass, he writes to another godless king. Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land and to my place, which is, of course, the promised land. We seek another country.

We have nothing in our hearts for this. We're just passing through with strangers till we die, beloved, on this earth. And we have nothing holding us. But we've got nothing, nothing that we put down as an anchor, nothing that holds us and says, oh, we want to hold on to this because this is where our treasures are.

We obeyed God in the light of the New Testament and the old. Oh, Moses then cried out earnestly to God's people. In Deuteronomy 28 verse 14, thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day to the right hand, to the left, to go after the other gods, to serve them.

In Proverbs 5, in Proverbs 5 verse 25, God says to all of us, let thine eyes look right on, let thine eyelids look straight before thee, ponder, be careful, watch God, ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways, all thy ways be established.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil. Keep thy foot, remove thy foot, or thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil. They always will, but not you, child, not you.

Psalm 1 and Delight in the Law of the Lord

Psalm 1. Have you ever asked yourself, why did God write Psalm 1? At the beginning of the Psalm, just let's just throw it into a nice order. Oh, no. Every word is weighed and weighed and weighed and weighed by a holy God.

That's why you need to read this book in the order God put it. Psalm 1 is there for a reason. Read it, obey it, or don't read Psalm 2. It will judge you. Don't read Psalm 2, young boy, until you know you've obeyed Psalm 1.

God will grieve at you getting to 2 before this. That's why he puts it right at the beginning of Psalm 1. Blessed is the man, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. I love the word blessed.

The new versions, all of them say happy, is the literal translation to today's languages. If we're even allowed to talk about the new versions and stay alive. I like the word blessed. Sorry, I know many sinners who are happy.

Don't believe sinners are all out there miserable, weeping in their sin, you know. Going to the nightclubs and the drugs and the drink and the filth and the moral decadence and the sensuality. No one thinks they're all there, oh woe is me that I'm here in this atmosphere.

No. They're happy, but their happiness is nothing. They're in such poverty of happiness in comparison with God's happiness. And I just thank God I've got a version that gives me another word, blessed.

Because I don't know a sinner on earth that's blessed in his sin. My peace give I unto you, not as the world giveth. Oh, you get a peace from the world, of course you do. Some fulfillment, but in comparison with God's peace, it's poverty, it's agony, it's suffering.

And only once you experience God's peace, the joy of the Lord, you want to know the joy the world gives? It's a billion zillion miles into poverty in comparison with what you experience once you know what the joy of the Lord is.

My blessed, my happiness, the result of what God says this man must do. This happiness that will be attached only to such a man. Blessed is the man that comes out of the meeting. And kneels and seeks God to save his soul.

And stands up and testifies. And comes to meeting and wants to grow in the faith. No, the majority of people who have that only, looking at them, you think they cursed. This blessedness that is written by God, the Holy Spirit upon the man who does this.

Will only be written by the Holy Spirit. If you obey this. Outside of that. You haven't got this written across your life beginning in the home. Your children won't want what you've got. For what they see in you.

Will not be something that draws them. Oh, God writes this word across the life beginning in the home and every step you take. People become conscious. God has written this word across your life. Only if you have done this.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. He never will allow the ungodly to influence him. Never will he be influenced by the ungodly again. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.

Nor standeth in the way of sinners. He will never go. Where sinners go. Or sin. He will never go. Where sinners go for their happiness. Never. Never. Oh, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.

Nor standeth in the way of sinners. Nor sits in the seat of the scornful. He'll never ever attach himself or associate with those who scorn the godly. The godly young man who separates himself from God.

From all that is even slightly attached to evil. No matter what the cost or consequences. No matter how many friends he loses. Or what scorn is brought upon him from the compromising Christians. And they're the first to condemn you.

And scorn when you become godly. Or those who profess Christianity. Who don't want to be anything like Christianity of this book. But want to be like the world. While they have a profession of salvation for eternal life.

No. He doesn't go. He doesn't allow sinners to influence him. He won't go where sinners go. He won't attach himself or associate with those who scorn. A young person who gives up filth and depravity. And even dress like the fashions of the world.

Or his god. No wonder the world can't believe it if he says anything one day that he belongs to Jesus. But his delight. Is not in what the ungodly delight. Never. He can't. His delight is in the law of the Lord.

And in his law doth he meditate day and night. I love that. This word delight in the Hebrew. To those of you that have made a study. It's a singular word here. It's a word that is staggering. It's his only delight.

God's saying. Any other interest. Any other thing that you might say gives him a bit of encouragement or excitement. Just fades into significance. Into meaninglessness. In comparison to what God says.

This is his singular light that consumes his whole life. His delight. Is in the law of the Lord. In his law. Doth he meditate. That takes away all hurry. Cancels out. Don't expect God's blessing. For a quick five minutes.

So that you have a conscience. That you can go to sleep with. After you spent hours watching some filthy box. That's demoralizing and decadent. And blasphemous and profanity. And then you want to come to this.

Give God five minutes. No there's no hurry here. Because there's nothing to hurry to. There's nothing. That delights you like this. So there's nothing the devil can present on any box. No matter how advanced technically.

Hollywood can become. With its impact. Nothing. Is even a temptation. When you're right with God. To neglect this. For this is his singular delight. When you're right with God. You want the pulse right now.

Of how right you are with God young man. Not ten things. I know people like Spurgeon. Could give you ten things. And their wonderful homiletical abilities. But every single one of them. Is the result of this one thing.

You want to know your pulse. Doctors used to do this you know. Something's wrong. Just to know how the pulse. You want to just right now. Put your finger in the pulse. And know just how right you are with God.

There's one thing. Is this. Your greatest love. In life. Now. Answer God. Be careful of God's listening. Watching. Your heart. You love God. As much as you love this book. Now. We'll stop. Nothing more to say.

His delight. Is in the law of the Lord. In his law doth he meditate. Day and night. But you redeem the time. There's time young man. What do you do? I can do this. Of course there's legitimate things.

Of course there's legitimate things. That are needful to be addressed. In life daily. But if that isn't essential. And your heart doesn't. Just thirst. For the taking advantage. Of the moments God's giving you.

Just to have another few moments. Even if it's minutes. You are not right with God. I guarantee you. This is the one thing. Day and night you redeem the time. To attach yourself to. To disregard any other voice.

Any other thing. No matter how important it is. But it isn't vital. This is vital. If you're right with God. Don't doubt it. Day and night. He shall be. Like a tree. Planted by the rivers of water. And bringeth forth his fruit.

In his season. His leaf also shall not wither. Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. He shall be like a tree. Planted by the rivers of water. Or you can go through deserts. Semi-deserts right across southern Africa.

And Africa itself. Where everything that tried to make an attempt. To survive in the conditions. The terrifying conditions they had to survive. Drought. Famine. Years and not a cloud. But they tried. Most.

As you drive millions dead. They couldn't survive. Though they tried. In this place. But then suddenly. You see a long row. Of high green trees. It doesn't take much intelligence to know why. There's a river.

He. Now the God puts himself at a holy obligation. He cannot deny himself. This is God's blessing. This is God's guarantee. Spiritually. Full stop. Beginning and end. Nothing else attached. Listen. He shall be like a tree.

Planted by the rivers of water. Your fruit. The fruit expected. The fruit desired. Everything you could long for. Is going to be there. Outside of that you're not blessed. You're cursed. In the eyes of the world.

Because you're going to be miserable. And scared to even say you're saved. In certain company. Oh beloved. The ungodly are not so. I don't want to speak about the ungodly. He cannot breathe. It's like someone who's found oxygen.

When he got right with God. And he suffocated all his life. Spiritually. Meaningful purpose. And peace. It's like a man suddenly found oxygen. He can survive. And if he's detached from it. He begins to suffocate again.

If he's right with God. He can't bear it. It's like suffocating. Trying to attach himself to other things. Other time consuming things. If you're right with God that is. Isaiah 30 verse 21. Isaiah 30 verse 21.

Thine ears. Shall hear a word. Behind thee. None of you sitting here will know what God's speaking about. Unless you've lived it. You see in the school of God. When you recognize these words. Of what God has done.

That's when you go through with God. Otherwise it's just dead doctrine. Listen. Every one of you that loved this book. More than anything in life. Because this brings you. Into fellowship. And communion with the God you profess you.

Will know. Exactly what God. Is speaking of here. Thine ears shall hear a word. Behind thee. Saying this is. The way. Thine ears. Not ten minutes after you divert. The moment. There's even the slightest.

Diversion. Thine ears that moment. Will hear a word behind thee. In the innermost being of thy conscience. But it'll be there saying no child. This is the way. You're as safe as you are devoured. In this book.

You are as safe as you soak yourself in the word of God. As your greatest delight. And love and protection. As you guard yourself. To not be diverted from this book. You are as safe. As this book consumes your life.

Sir. That doesn't mean you will neglect anything on earth. That God expects your conscience to fulfill. That means. Every single moment. On earth. That you have the choice. Between things that really don't matter.

For your survival. Even if they're religious. You go to this. You will hear a word behind you. The moment you are tempted to divert. Or the devil tries or man tries. Or anybody in any level of spirituality.

To divert from God's way. This is the way God will say no child. This is the way. When you turn to the right hand. When you turn to the left. You hear this is the way. Walk ye in it. God says. That only those who soak themselves in the scriptures.

Will hear that voice. Anyone sitting in this building. With a testimony of salvation. That does not consume. And whose life is not consumed. By this book. In this book. Will never ever hear that voice.

Ever. Until it's too late. Though you're saved. You say that's wrong. Let's go a bit further. There are many road maps. That have assisted all of us in our lifetime. When we didn't know the way. But on the king's way.

There is one. Only one road map. Beloved. Psalm 119 verse 105. Thy word. Is a lamp. A lamp unto my feet. A light unto my path. Take this away. You don't know where to take the next step. God says. The more.

We have of God's word. In our minds. And in our hearts. The more discerning we will be. The more swiftly we will hear his voice. Calling out to our conscience. Not to go to the right or left. Stop child.

This is the way. Be careful about this word discernment. Everything is a gift. Discernment is a gift. Of course it is. But I hate the word gift. Because it is instantaneous. I have a gift. The preacher must keep quiet.

I have a gift. A gift has to be developed. Has to be nurtured. And guarded. On every level. Discernment. Is to the degree. You soak yourself in the word of God. God wants you saved. That God gives you discernment.

You have no discernment being saved. So little. That it is not worth mentioning. In comparison with the discernment. You will have within seconds. No matter what circumstance you are in. No matter what heresies you are listening to.

No matter who and how forceful other doctrines are. That are not of God. You will know. No. This is not the way. Why? Because you soak yourself in this book. You are as protected doctrinally. As you soak yourself in this book.

Of course God will protect you. Until you get into it. But watch out if you neglect it. Listen carefully now beloved. God's word. Strongly challenges. Those who have diverted from the king's way. God's word.

Strongly challenges. Those who have diverted from the king's way. Who tragically have diverted. And I want to ask every one of you here tonight. To be careful not to be offended. By the challenges or the confrontation.

From God's word itself. From God himself. To those who have diverted. Off the king's way. James chapter 4. Know ye not. That the friendship of the world. Is enmity with God. Whosoever. Therefore will be a friend of the world.

Is the enemy of God. Can I repeat that? Because you preachers will even be worse. Will be willing to even quote it once. In your whole lifetime. They'll be so scared. There's such compromise today. That you don't know the difference.

Between the world and the church in most places. That say that the church. Know ye not. That the friendship of the world. Is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world. Is the enemy.

Of God. Listen. God does not mince words. God does not say something. That is in weight a thousand times. And unless you're willing to embrace. Every word in this book. You're in trouble. Including this word.

Including this word right now. Tragically proverbs warns us all. It warns us all. Correction. Correction. Is grievous. Unto him that forsaketh the way. Correction. Even if it's from God. Is grievous to him.

That forsaketh the way. And he that hateth reproof. He that hateth reproof shall die. What a terrifying warning. In the old testament. It's grievous. Beloved. I call on every one of you today. To embrace correction.

If you have diverted in this apostate. Compromising age and generation. Will you be grieved. Here tonight. If you have diverted from the king's way. Into the world. Into compromise of the world. Will you be grieved at any preacher.

That dares to preach. Of this. In this generation. In any pulpit left on earth. To confront such a person. God pleads with all. Who have diverted. From his way. In Jeremiah 31. Verse 21. Set thine heart toward the highway.

Even the way which thou wentest. Turn again. Who do you think he wrote that to? To them? No. Of course to them. In its context. But you. You. The sovereign God wanted you. Tonight. To hear from his heart.

Set thine heart. Toward the highway. Even the way which thou wentest. Turn again. Oh beloved. As you travel on the king's highway. As you travel on the king's highway. You will see tragic warning signs.

Of lives who diverted. Off the safety of the king's highway. Into the territory of the godless. You will see. On the king's highway. Again and again and again. Tragic warning signs. Of lives who diverted.

Off the safety of the king's highway. Into the territories of the godless. Firstly. People who left the king's way. For financial gain. Matthew 6. Verse 33. Seek ye first. The kingdom of God. And his righteousness.

Not just. The safety of saying I'm saved. By the way in this context righteousness. Not imputed but imparted. God's righteousness. Seek ye first. The kingdom of God. And his righteousness. And all. These things shall be added unto you.

God puts himself in a holy obligation. He cannot deny himself. Every need you have in life. God will provide in faithfulness. If you're right with him. But. Be careful now not. Your wants. Your needs.

And let me tell you something. You're going to be shocked how little you need sir. That you think you have to have. I would say most of what Christians today. Think they have to have to survive. That think God is failing them.

They got to find some means. By which to survive. Most. 99%. You don't need. Let me tell you something that's going to shock you young man. The more you've got. The more you've got to worry about. The more you've got to worry about losing.

And so you're so busy with insurances about this and that. That you die. Worry about how to pay the insurances off. Oh. Many preachers. Have buried God's way. The king's way. To make financial gain. Of things they didn't need.

For their church. The building. Even God's work. What they felt they had to. So they diverted off the king's way. Concerning how to get funds. The devil told them. That God's way doesn't work. As far as prospering financially enough.

To do what they think they have to do. So they venture into the territory of the godless. To seek to survive financially. In the ways of the godless. Because they stoop to. The godless have stooped to these ways.

They stooped to them. Because the godless have no knowledge of God's way. Or of his promises. Be careful. All you need child. And you'll be stunned. How little you need. I don't say God leaves you in poverty.

He loves to spoil us sometimes. He loves to really honor us sometimes. In a staggering way. Some people he can trust. Are looked upon as wealthy. But if that gets in your way rich man. You have no hope of following me.

Until you throw the whole lot away. Give it to the poor. Not every rich man does God say that to. But those who cannot walk with God. It's impossible. You might as well try and get a camel. To go through the eye of a needle.

And to try and get saved. If you don't get rid of the things. That keep you from God himself. He that will be rich. Oh your whole life will be a snare. God says sorrows. That you can't believe. Will come upon you.

If that's your goal. Wealth. Even if you're in the religion. Even if you're in the pulpit. Be careful. What you need. Is not what you want. You wouldn't need to use those cards. You know. So that the devil holds out and says.

Get today and pay tomorrow. You'll find you can't pay tomorrow. So what do you do? You just get headaches and heartaches. Your eyes are of God. You despair and you start diverting away from God's way.

Of being content with such things as you have. Whether God gives you much abundance. Or whether God gives you little. In the school of God. If Paul had to learn. How to be content with such things as he had.

Whether he had little or much. Do you think you're going to bypass that school sir? God doesn't worry about you. Paul yes. But not you. You are going to prosper and prosper and prosper. I wonder how many people will never say hallelujah again.

In their life. If God takes away everything. Oh be careful. I have had 14 cars. I want to write a book about them one day. The missionaries cars. Old faithful we used to call it. The one car I had. The old head of the A .B.

The mission I'm in. He said don't get in that until we prayed. You're in danger. Some of them used to hang on you know. Oh this one missionary in our work said. Darling. There's somebody's wheels. Flying down there off the cliff.

He said it's ours. Are we going to heaven? She said not if I can help it. That literally happened. The cars our mission have had. Have been worth writing about. Believe me I want to write one. Oh my I had cars.

Some wonderful condition. But we drove them into the ground. We drove them. So they blew up. Two of my cars blew up. And that's when we got out. And said. We need another car. Terrible to have to drive them.

To such a condition you know. But anyway. I was in a car once. It was a nice old car. It wasn't brand new. That doesn't mean God's failing you. No. You've got to learn to pray. And learn how to appreciate things.

You don't start with the wrong choices you know. Well I was in this car. This fellow comes to me and shouts. Shame on you Keith Daniel. What a disgrace you are. To the kingdom. You're a child of the king.

You're a servant of God. And look at this car. So I looked at it. I thought is it dirty? He said. You should trust God for a better car than this. I said. But I'm happy with this car. I don't need a better car than this.

This is what God gave me. I love it. I enjoy it. I don't feel inferior. No he says. And he mentions one of the greatest. Most famous names on earth. At that time. Preacher here in America. And he says.

This man. On the television. He said he's trusting God for a Rolls Royce. Calling the people to give. This man of God. And he got a Rolls Royce. Why don't you ask God for something better than this. When you have faith like him.

And don't drive around like this. A servant of the king of kings. I said you know. Quite honestly. If I got a Rolls Royce. And drove into a town or a place to preach. No one would give me anything. I would starve.

I have a Rolls Royce and a skeleton. Because no one. He's got more than us. I dare not have a Rolls Royce. It will be the end of me. We moan and groan. I said listen. And I'm sorry I said this. I really.

Regret that I said this. From my heart. God knows. I said this man you're speaking of. If that is what he thinks. He is finished. He will be destroyed. And bring shame on God's name. Across this world.

Soon. Because then that's the tip of the iceberg. Of how far he is from God. If that's his understanding. Of God's provision. Of his needs. Two weeks later. The whole world. The whole world staggered.

Over this man's sin. And shame. And that man. Probably will never forget. For eternity what I said. Two weeks before it happened. Oh be careful. Be careful. Don't join. The preachers who have diverted.

From their holy calling. To make money. When I was a young preacher in my country. A young evangelist. There was a young fellow with me. Many of them who were young with me in the faith. Are now the church leaders of Africa.

Blaze for God. This one young fellow is. One of the moderators of a great church. Leader today. You know it breaks my heart. And I know he's going to hear this. I know he's going to hear this. I used to remember how he and I wept.

For souls only. How we groaned into the nights. For souls. And our God gave us what we desired. But now I don't know. For the last couple of years. I've never heard anything about him. Apart from one thing.

How he's making money. For the church. Still a leader but. Oh the money he's making. He's got a business mind you know. Oh yeah you might say. Well it's needed you know. For the missionaries. No sir. I'd love to hear the day again.

That somebody says. Our souls are coming to God. Through his life. Just his life. You judge me. Careful. Just wait now. Just wait now. To see where we're at. Moses warned. The people. That if they choose a king.

And he didn't know it. But God knew they would. So God had to give through Moses. Faithfully to record now. What he really wanted the people to take note of. To the end. If they ever choose a king one day.

He shall not multiply horses. To himself. Nor cause the people to return to Egypt. To the end that they should multiply horses. For as much as the Lord has said unto you. Ye shall henceforth. Return no more that way.

Don't go back to Egypt. To it's way of prosperity. To it's values. Of what true prosperity is. Or wealth. Oh how many people were tempted. To get off the king's highway. To survive financially. So many full time workers for God.