Marriage — Keith Daniel

This morning with the ministry of our brother Keith Daniels, Keith is an evangelist from South Africa. He is here for the week with us. Tomorrow night and Tuesday night some of the men will be up at the Conference Center for the annual prayer advance, and then Wednesday night through next Sunday night Brother Keith will be back in this worship center as we come back for the rest of our spiritual life crusade.

Some of you experienced this morning what it's like to crusade for spiritual living, and you are going to be blessed again tonight as our brother comes to share with us out of that which our Lord has filled his life with.

So Brother Keith you come tonight and minister to us. Thank you Brother.

Thank you again for the privilege given to me to come to this lovely church, and just by the way you sing, people who are very precious to Jesus Christ, and indeed I sense it and enjoyed very much the singing of your hearts and the way you were led in the song tonight by this very godly young man.

And I was hoping the choir would sing, I was so blessed this morning so I've been deprived of a blessing. Wonderful, and what a blessing it is to have such a wonderful choir. You could be taken around South Africa, the churches of the Tokyo around you, you're very very blessed indeed.

Everyone who has instruments playing from their hearts, for God's glory, wonderful. Thank you to your pastor also, a very godly, very dear man. I hope you pray for him, oh I hope you pray for him. Father thank thee that we are thine, thy responsibility, thy property, weak as we are, weak as we are, we are thine.

We pray that this night, Lord have mercy, would come to every heart in a way they will never ever forget. And Lord we know no man could ever do that for us, so we look away, we look away from man in his frailty, in his weakness, and every one of us, especially me, honestly, honestly, God look at our hearts as we pray this.

We know nothing can happen tonight of any value at all unless God, in mercy, speak my God, wash me in the blood, fill me with the Holy Spirit, anoint my lips, my heart with God's love, look through me God, my love is not good enough to reach this people, love them through me.

In Jesus Christ's name, come visit us now, for his sake. And we all ask these things desperately because we love thee, and long to be what God wants us to be. Have thy way Lord, have thy way, in Jesus Christ's name.

Marriage as a Holy Covenant Before God

There is a verse in the Bible, found in Hebrews 13 verse 4, that should stagger this present day world to the core. You all know the verse, I hope you do, marriage, marriage, marriage, marriage is honorable, is honorable in all, in all, in all, and the bed undefiled, undefiled, but, but, whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge, God will judge, God will judge, God will judge.

I would say, in the light of all the verses of this holy book that I have ever read or pondered, the most accurate interpretation of what God is saying in this verse is marriage, is honorable in all. Man, woman, who in integrity and because of integrity and fear of God, will stand before the living God and from their heart bow, till death us do part, on every issue, physically, for better, worse, richer, poorer, this woman I will never leave for another, I will never touch another, I will never love another, I will never look at another, till my death is all I will desire, no matter what comes from this moment, God.

And through that bow, God honors the fear of God in that heart, and honors that marriage, in all, in the bed undefiled, sexually. It's not a dirty word, young person, you don't have to be educated, you don't have to have these things taught to you at school, that's rubbish, forgive me, pretending.

Between that man and woman is pure, not a dirty joke, it's twisted, all in God's eyes it's pure, it's holy, it's holy, holy, holy, nothing dirty, don't ever allow yourself to think it's dirty, that's the devil, pure, holy, noble, one version will bring out, noble, in God's eyes, but whoremongers, men, women, who will not, in integrity, allow themselves to be committed by vowing to God from the depth of their hearts, and endeavoring to keep us through death, through death, no matter what the cost, and because of that lack of fear of God, will allow themselves to go to other women, not just one, as chances avail.

And adulterers, those who are married, stood before God and vowed, and now found themselves betraying God and their wife. And outside of the vow, outside of the marriage, will go to someone else. God will judge, God will, he will, don't doubt it, he will judge you, he will judge you, don't doubt it.

The Church Must Model Faithfulness in Marriage

I'd like to address the sermon tonight to the Church of Jesus Christ with this verse. You see, in the past, the lost, the unsaved, have somehow, like an avalanche to the corruption that's taken over the world, allowed themselves to look upon marriage as a joke.

Faithfulness in marriage is something looked upon as a joke, almost, through the avalanche of corruption. But what staggers me, and breaks my heart, and I hope yours, I'm sure yours, is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Evangelical, the born-again, those who profess to have turned from sin, and Christ dwells in them, the Holy Ghost, they're the temple of the Holy Ghost, from the pilfered down into the congregations throughout our world, that which was to be by God the salt of the earth, the light of the world, that men may see, and eventually through that be drawn.

That's why we're the salt, we affect, we're the cleansing, we're the purifying aspect, every one around us, and now the Church, the Church throughout the world, whom God is wanting to hold up to the corrupt world, to the unsaved, with all the godlessness that's breaking down young children through the media, from every level of life, crying out that marriage is a joke, faithfulness is a joke, filth, depravity, looseness, and the child is the thing, and the salt now, suddenly, suddenly, marriages are crumbling throughout the world in the world, and the world can no longer genuinely look at the Church, and their conscience cry out, it can work, Christ in my heart, and I'd like to look at the Church of Jesus Christ tonight, from the pulpit, to the elders, to those of you who have walked with God for many years, who have led people to Christ, your marriage, sir, your marriage is in danger.

I think the time has come for us desperately to say, what are we doing wrong? I think the time has come for us desperately to open the pages of this holy book and seek what God says to us must be in marriage, and I think the time has come, no matter what the cost, lady, man, to desperately apply our lives before our marriage is ruined.

In this world, in this atmosphere that's swept across the world, that just destroys lives in their millions, it's so destructive, it's so evil. Get back to the book, for God's sake, swiftly, I'd like tonight, as a basis, as a foundation, to all I'd like to say, from this book, as a stepping stone to take this chapter, you need not look it up, you know it, I hope you know these chapters, listen carefully to this as a stepping stone into the sermon, as we look through the scriptures.

Wives’ Submission and the Witness of a Godly Life

What are you doing wrong, lady, man, 1 Peter 3, listen to these holy words, every word, likewise, a very important word, we'll come back to it, likewise ye wives, God says, likewise ye wives, be in subjection, oh my, 1997, is that word still in the English dictionary?

Dare we even say it to a church, to the church, the evangelical church, without women smiling can this word make it acceptable any more, even if it's God's word, is there such a word existent to a wife in 1997 when the whole world cries out, no, that's gone, that's out of the English language, no, God says, I hope you're doing it, lady, because if you're not, you are the cause.

God says, likewise ye wives, be in subjection, to your own husband, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation, coupled with fear, whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of placing the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting out of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

For after this manner, in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and not afraid of any amazement.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them, according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker, basically, and as being heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. Let's go back here.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection. What an amazing word, to your own husband. Likewise is very important. When you read that word, you say, like what? Well, obviously, the verses that precede, the verses of the last chapter.

Let's just look at it, what God is saying, ye wives must be like. Like what? Then you'll find he's saying, like Jesus. Everything throughout the book, from Old Testament to New, points to Christ, otherwise it isn't scripture.

Nothing, no standard, no law, nothing isn't like Christ, God pointing us to be like Christ. Any other standard is not holiness, it's heresy, it's worthless, it's not worth seeking. In marriage, be like Jesus.

You'll be like Christ, God says. How like Christ? Well, this word, subjection, I don't think that anything could ever be so subject as Christ about himself to become, to evil people. Why? You find the word in this chapter, verse 13, submit yourselves, the word submit.

Verse 18, servant, be subject to your masters, with all fear, not only to good and gentle, but also to those who are not good and gentle, those who are unjust. Be subject, be subject, always with one reason, to win them, to win them.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word. Here, God is saying that if your husband is godless, that if any obey not the word, they may also, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wife, by your life.

While they behold, while they look at your chaste conversation, full of fear that comes upon them, as they look at your godliness, win them. Be in subjection to them, to win them, to win them, to win them.

Don't leave him if he's godless, don't leave him if he's cruel. And in its context, you'll see right now what God's saying. He's speaking here of a man who's totally unreasonable, totally cruel, totally unjust to you.

Don't leave him. Listen to the marriage counsellors. Read these books by Christian psychologists. Win him! You can! Likewise, let's look back to what he's saying, the verses right up. Verse 19, for this is stank-worthy.

If a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully, for what glory is it that when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

But even so, unto when ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, reviled not again.

When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. Likewise ye wives, he says now, be in subjection to your own husbands, to win him. Like Christ, who leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, reviled not again.

When you're reviled, don't revile back. When you suffer, don't threaten. Do what Christ did, and you'll win him. Likewise ye wives, be in subjection to win him. I was once, when I was young, I think that was long ago, I don't know, I remember as a young fellow preaching, I had more fire than wisdom.

Lots of fire, very little wisdom. The little bit of wisdom I had with all the fire, the people still came to hear me. When I think of some of the things I said with all my fire and so little wisdom, I wonder why they never came back.

But God honors the little bit of wisdom with their fire, don't worry. That was me when I first went out to preach, ah, full of fire. I remember preaching in a place called Mkanath in South Africa, and God did something very unique in that town.

A Marriage Transformed by Submission

With all the little wisdom I had, somehow God swept into that town in the most precious way. I remember one night testifying about my life, my mother and father, my brother, how we turned to God as a family, and how my father turned to Christ one night.

And what happened in their marriage from that moment, though mummy was still unsaved. And what happened when mummy was saved. And I said how my brother and I stood one night looking at daddy and mummy, having forgiven each other of everything that they didn't remember, and the love that I stood weeping.

And I said, Dudley, if only, if only they had found Christ from the beginning, what we would have known. Look what we would have known. And I said in that town, I do not believe it's possible for a marriage to know happiness, to not go through hell on earth, unless Christ is in your heart.

As God came into my father and mother's heart to heal them, with all their differences, as much as they loved each other, to make them able to be one, and love, and function, and care, and forgive, and forget any differences.

After that testimony I gave that night, a very elegant English woman in South Africa, she was in the meetings, her name was Mrs. Alkins, so she's dead now, but she loved Christ, but oh, she was elegant.

And she walked to the door and she looked at me, I didn't know her of course, the first night I ever met her, she said to me, Chief, you will be at my house tomorrow for lunch, at one o 'clock. I have something I need to speak to you about.

Now, you don't say no to an English lady who invites you like that. I had to be there. The next day I arrived at her home, she sat me down and began to talk, and she said, I want to tell you something now, Chief.

You were wrong what you said last night in the pulpit. You were wrong! You made a terrible mistake. I said, oh, what? She said, you said, and I understand why you said it, and I worship God with you, what he did to your mother and father, and how Christ was needed in their marriage, and it was Christ that healed their marriage.

I understand that, I believe with all my heart, but you said this statement, you do not believe it's possible for a marriage to be happy, to not go through hell on earth, unless Christ is in your heart, but I want to tell you, you're wrong.

Because I know many Christian marriages who have Christ in their heart that are going through hell on earth, and I know unsaved people whose marriages are so precious, it's a taste of heaven. She said, when I was a young lady, I was deeply in love with this young man.

He was in the town, the one man that all the girls wanted, and he wanted me, and I thought, I've got the cats of the town. I adored him, I dreamed of him for years, and this fellow wanted me. I thought he was perfect, and we got married, and I looked at him adoringly, thinking, this is going to be heaven on earth.

On our honeymoon, Keith, all hell broke out. Oh, she used that word. On our honeymoon. She said, I looked at this fellow, and I thought, what have I done? What a fool I've been. To think I'm going to live with this.

I suddenly realized this man was cruel. This man was so unjust in his demands upon me, and I thought, this is what I've landed for life. I couldn't believe. Suddenly the fights were starting. We were standing up.

We began to fight with bitterness. It all welled up. On our honeymoon, I looked on my honeymoon, and I thought, I'm looking for divorce. On my honeymoon, I'm facing divorce. I am going to have the scar of divorce written across my life.

Unless, unless one of us stops fighting. Unless one of us gives in. I knew he wouldn't give in. It wasn't going to be him, so it had to be me. So I kept quiet. Whatever he did, no matter how unjust, no matter what the demands were, no matter how cruel, whatever he did, I didn't answer back.

I obeyed. I obeyed. I didn't find it easy, Keith. I went on like this, no matter what he did. I didn't answer back. I didn't fight back. I just submitted. And do you know, a few days, just a few days, I looked across at him, and he was sitting, and I saw tears coming down his face.

I was unsaved, Keith. I saw tears coming down his face. And I stood up and walked over, and I said, why are you crying? And he began to sob. He sobbed, and he sobbed, and he sobbed, and he sobbed. And he put his arms around me as he was kneeling on the floor.

And he looked up, and he cried out, forgive me. And Keith, we were unsaved, but my husband never, ever was unjust to me again. Not once in his life. He treated me like a queen. I don't know if there's such a thing as a Christian marriage that was more happy than my marriage, though I was unsaved, he was unsaved.

You see, the principle of the Bible, the principle that God laid out in this book, though I didn't know it, I fulfilled, I applied to my life, and I won the respect of this man after a few days that he never, ever, ever, ever treated me wrong again.

Our marriage was beautiful. I could never have wanted anything more in a husband than what he began to be through my a few days submitting and not fighting back. He loved me for those few days. He respected me.

Later on, I was born again, he was born again, and our marriage became even more beautiful. But you were wrong when you said that unless Christ is in a person's heart, there's no hope of happiness in marriage.

Because many, many, many Christian marriages go through hell on earth. Those are the words he used. Hell on earth because a woman, though she knows it's in the Bible, will not, cannot, even at the cost of losing marriage and children and home, and having the scar of divorce, will not submit.

Salvation, Scripture, and the Witness of Conversion

I was in a town, pouring my heart out. God seemed to come and visit that town, and a whole group of people began to go from home to home through the day, all everyone that could, personally inviting people all across the town, begging them to come.

I joined them. I loved that, you know. Not only the Jehovah Witnesses that go from door to door. It ruined things for us, though, because when people think Jehovah Witnesses we're in for trouble sometimes.

But I loved to go around, and in that particular town I went around with all the others, with all these pamphlets, these invitations for this crusade that was going on. I was out there in the mornings, joining them to invite, home upon home, come to the meeting.

I saw a lady standing in a garden with a hosepipe, and that's dangerous. If you're a Christian worker and you see a lady with a hosepipe, you know there are two dangerous things. Dogs, or women with hosepipes.

I've learned my lesson. I won't tell you about those things. But there she was with a hosepipe. So I said, from the other side of the gate, of course, I said to her, you should come to these meetings, lady.

And I tried to hold out a pamphlet to her, and I told her who I was. And she was Afrikaans speaking in English. In South Africa there's English and Afrikaans languages, and she was Afrikaans speaking.

And she said, as I was trying to get her to take the pamphlet and to come to the meetings, she said, Those of you that know South African language, that means get away. I have my own church, thank you very much.

Basically that's what she shouted to me. So I looked at her and I said, What church is that? She looked at me, she says, I said, what's a dopper? She said, you don't know what a dopper is. You English don't even know anything.

The dopper church is a good church. I said, oh. She said, yes, don't think I don't know about you, sir. She said, both neighbours have been trying to get me to come night after night to hear you preaching, but I won't come.

I know all about you. Our ministers talked about you. Yes, you tell fairy stories and get people all worked up emotionally that believe they can be saved. Is that the word? They can know they're Christians.

We don't tell fairy stories. We stick to the scriptures. We read nothing but the word of God. The scriptures is the only thing allowed in the pulpit. We only sing the songs. You people should get back to the scriptures rather than all these fairy stories and lies you tell people.

Oh. I said, have you got a Bible here? Yes. I said, well, you get your Bible and I won't read one verse. I won't say one word apart from the scriptures. I'll just read your Bible and show you that you can be saved, that you can know you're saved, that God tells you how to be saved, and the Spirit will bear witness with your spirit that you are saved, that you must know you're saved.

Everything in the Bible. She said, all right, come inside. She put her hosepipe open and locked me in doors. She got out this big old Dutch Bible. The Dutch, the Afrikaans is very much like the Dutch.

Very old, big, hard-covered thing sat down and there I looked at it. So I read verses here and verses there. After about ten minutes of reading, fifteen minutes, suddenly I began consciousness. This woman is weeping and groaning and suddenly on her knees.

And I looked up and she sobbed and she cried as if in an awful agony, like a groan from within. She just screamed out, God, my God, how is it I have never known this? How is it I don't know these things?

And she cried out from the depths of her soul to God to save her soul by the blood of Christ. Oh, she called on God. Eventually she stood up and I was weeping. I just broke at this woman's agony before God to be saved.

And suddenly I looked at her face. There was an inward joy and peace that just flooded across her face and in her eyes. She knew she was saved. She knew she was born of God. It just shone through her eyes.

Something so wonderful. I began to worship God with her. I said, you know, you must come now to the meetings. There's quite a few more meetings left. Come, bring your husband, bring your children. Come and get built up in the faith now that you've given your life to God.

Come tonight. Don't miss these meetings. Come and learn who are the true Christians of the town, those who are born again of all the churches, who are the true church of Christ. That you can get to know them and have fellowship with them and they can nurture you and take care of you.

She said, you don't know what you're asking me. She said, I can't come to your meeting. My husband is an older one. My husband is an elder in the Doppelkirche. Do you know what that means? He'll kill you if he knew you were in the house.

He'll kill me if he knew I left you in the house and prayed with you. I dare not tell him. I dare not ask him to the meeting. We don't go to other meetings. Not Doppelkirche. She said, you pray for me.

I'm having deep troubles with my marriage. I want you to pray for me. And when you come back to this town, you come. Come. Come and see me. And help me a bit further. I said, OK. So I left her. Three months later, I was driving along the National Road and something in my heart just impressed me to go in.

I drove in. There she was as I pulled up with a hosepipe in the garden. Oh, Englishman. Englishman, I'm so glad you've come back. Come inside. I've got lots to tell you. So we marched indoors and we sat and she said, Keith, my boy, I didn't tell you the truth when you came into my home.

I didn't tell you the truth. When you came to my gate, I was standing in the garden fighting. I was leaving him right there. I didn't know what you saw, but I hoped you didn't. My bags were packed at the door, at the open door.

And I stood there. I was going to rush away. Something made me look and I put on the hosepipe and I stood there in agony. And I realized I'm leaving him. I'm going to lose. We're going to lose the home we fought for, we agonized and worked for so hard to get.

The children, we're going to lose this of children knowing a mother and father together. They're going to be pulled, torn for the rest of their lives between a mother and father who aren't together. They're never going to know a home that's together.

And I stand there agonized, realizing what I was about to lose. But I couldn't go on. He was too unjust. He was so cruel. I couldn't stand what he was doing to me and the children anymore. I couldn't take another moment.

I was standing in the garden and I began to cry to my heart and my heart. God, help me. God, help me to know what to do. And suddenly I heard your voice. And after a few brief moments of your speaking, I said to myself, God sent this man.

God has sent someone here to help me. That's why I listened to you. I never allowed a man in my home. I would never. But I loved you because I knew God had sent you. And as you read the scriptures, I knew what God was saying.

That's why I didn't argue. You said to me that whenever an argument starts, you said to me, don't answer back. You said to me as swiftly as you can, no matter what it costs, get alone, get alone and pray for grace not to answer back, but to submit.

I didn't understand that fully. But he came home, the bottle came out. Elder and all, the bottle came out. After a little while, it stopped. All his swearing and cursing and the atmosphere and starting.

And me and the children, I knew it was coming. And I ran into the bathroom. I shut the door. I got on my knees and I called out from my heart, God, help me not to fight back, no matter what he does to me or the children.

Give me the grace not to fight back. Please, God, save my marriage. And I walked out and he looked at me. He said nothing, just sat down. Next time, the next night, I ran into the bathroom and shut the door on my knees.

A few days of running into the bathroom, he ran out and began to bang on the door, kick the door, screaming, swearing, cursing, filthy language. What's wrong with you? Why don't you fight me anymore? What's wrong with you?

Why do you bang the door? What are you doing in there? What's happened to you? So I opened the door and looked at him. And I said to him, my man, I have become a Christian. I have been saved. I have been born again of God.

And I told him about you, Keith. I told him everything, how I stood in the garden fighting, begging, crying out to God to help me because I didn't know what I looked at, what we were about to lose. I was leaving you when that man came.

I told him how God sent you when I was leaving you, my bags packed. And I told him what you said and I told him I'm doing it. And I said, my husband, I will never ever fight you again. No matter what you do to me, I'm never going to answer you back again because I want you to come to Christ also, that our marriage can be saved.

He looked at me and suddenly he fell. He fell so hard, I screamed. And on the floor like a baby in agony, he screamed, cried. Keith, that was a few months ago. He stopped drinking that night. He hadn't touched alcohol.

From that night to this, there has not been one word, not one word from him that's unjust, not one argument, not one tense moment from that night to this. He's not saved yet, but he's coming. She was right.

He did come to know Christ. And to this day, to this day, their marriage is intact and beautiful, beautiful. Do you think God is unjust when he says to you, wives, be subject, be in subjection, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chaste with fear.

Husbands Must Honor Their Wives

Do you know why God says that, in case you think that's quite cruel of God? I'll tell you why. Now, this is going to shock you, because he knows that a woman, a woman is capable of this and a man is not.

You have more grace. Something in the nature and the character of a lady is so precious in God's sight that made man that he looks to you and he says, you can do what he can't. I'm looking to you. You have the grace.

He hasn't. You're the one that I know can submit. You can save this marriage. You, I look to. It isn't a cruel command from God to let your husband trample upon you. He agonizes with you as he tramples on you, but he knows, he knows if you'll just do this.

You're women, you're women to Christ, to reality, to a beautiful, beautiful respect that will make you taste heaven on earth, heaven on earth in your marriage. He looks to you. He says to you what he cannot say to the man.

Don't leave him. Don't leave him, child. Come now. You can do it for me. It's going to cost, but look what it'll cost you if you don't. Now, in case the men are sitting here and looking across at your wives, God says something to you.

Likewise, I'm glad he says this to the men. Likewise, we won't say what you know. Likewise, ye husbands, likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor, giving honor, giving honor.

Don't believe this gives you the right to trample upon a woman, to dominate over her, to expect from her silence, no reaction, no retaliation, whatever you do, whatever your demands are, no, no, no. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge.

Now, that means according to common sense. That brings us down to earth, doesn't it? Use your common sense, man, is literally what God's saying to you. Use your common sense. That your marriage can survive, start using your common sense now.

Ye husbands, dwell with them. Do you know what that word means? It's the closest you're going to get to it. It means remain faithful to them no matter what happens that disappoints you. That's the closest you'll get to the full meaning of what God says in those few words.

Remain faithful to them. Don't leave them. Using your common sense, quickened by the Holy Ghost, quickened by the Holy Ghost, you have an advantage from the normal man who's not saved. Your common sense can be quickened and guided by the Holy Ghost.

But use it now, and listen to the Holy Ghost now. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, according to knowledge, giving honour, giving honour unto the wife as unto the weak of Esau.

I was once in a house where there was suddenly war declared at the table. I don't know if you've ever been like that. We were in a Christian home. Now, this is a very godly man in South Africa, and the woman of God.

It was his wife, by the way, who was about to fail terribly. I believe a lady reaches a certain age. I don't know exactly what you talk about medically, or you women would know the terms, but you reach a certain age where things are not all that easy for you, and from what I can gather, you need a lot of patience at a certain stage, and that all of them go, they tell me, Jenny's going to go through it.

You know I don't, she hasn't gone through it yet. Maybe Jenny's unique, but it's coming, they say, it's coming. You've got to show real patience. This is a real upheaval going on at some point, even if you're godly.

I think this lady was going through that, I'm not sure. She sat there at the table, and we were all having lovely fellowships, quite a few preachers, and this godly man and this godly woman, and suddenly it was like she'd pulled out a cannon, you know, boom, put it on the table and aimed it at him, and declared war.

Ladies can do that so diplomatically. She sat there, I couldn't believe what she did, for no reason. He was absolutely innocent. He didn't deserve it. He had said not one word, inviting, or that he deserved it.

She just decided, this man deserves to be blasted and really embarrassed, and she really said the most humiliating, horrific, just blasting this poor fellow. I looked and I said, oh my, you know, it's like she put a bomb on the table and lit the fuse.

We were about to have war, what have we come into? And I sat and I looked at him and I said, oh, we're in for it. We're in for it. And there she sat, glaring at him, looking with her mouth open, trembling.

You know what he did? He looked at her, leaned across the table, it didn't take much effort, it was just spontaneous. He took her by the hand and he smiled and said, my darling, how long has it been since I told you how beautiful you are, how much I love you.

And there it was, the bomb, he sees the tickling and says, here it is. Explodes and he just defused the bomb in one second. You can do it, you know. Richard Wittenbrand came out of communist prison. Twenty-three years in the communist prison, hadn't seen his wife, suddenly robbed of a wife, robbed of life.

For one reason, thrown into prison to be tortured. For one reason, his faith in Christ. He wouldn't deny Christ. No robbery, no theft, no crime. His crime was he loved Christ, he would not denounce Christ, so he was taken away from society because he was a force of God.

They imprisoned him, they tortured him, they broke his bones so many times. By the way, this isn't wrong. Some people said you mustn't believe Wittenbrand. Let me tell you something. This has been proved by so many doctors that there's no doubt it happened.

They broke his bones so many times that he grew six inches. Now, I didn't believe it was possible, but doctors say it is possible. Every time you break a man's bones, if he survives it and he keeps going, he grows.