The Law of God in All the Scriptures! — Keith Daniel

Can we bow in prayer, please? Father, in mercy on all of us, shelter us under the blood of God, the Son, and protect us from the evil powers of darkness. Rebuke thou thyself by the risen, resurrected power of Christ.

Rebuke thou thyself, Satan, and his demonic forces, a third of the angels of heaven. For swift down upon the earth is his tale to rebel against God and our desperate demons. We have thee, for greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

And we worship thee for that. Come thou, our God, and protect us from our enemy and his forces. Surround us with the angels of God, and let them draw swords to do battle with the powers of darkness to keep us safe.

Brood upon this burden by the Holy Ghost. Upon our hearts, take thy holy word in mercy on all of us. We know that the letter killeth, but the Spirit. Come, therefore, by thy Holy Spirit, and make this thy word alive.

To all of our hearts, we ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Exodus 20, verse 1. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

The Ten Commandments as the Summary of God’s Law

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any grave an image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the third and fourth generation of them that I am showing mercy unto, thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. For the Lord will not hold him guiltless, but taketh his name in vain. Remember, the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.

In it, thou shalt not do any work. Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.

Wherefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

Now these ten commandments, these ten commandments found in Exodus 20 verse 1 to 17 are known as the Decalogue, the Decalogue, a Greek word meaning the ten words. Referring to Exodus 34 verse 28, the ten commandments are actually a comprehensive summary of the full law of God.

The ten commandments are actually a comprehensive summary of the full law of God which was given to Moses on Mount Sinai in 1491 B .C. which is recorded in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. The first four of these ten commandments concern our obligation and our duty toward God.

But the last six of these ten commandments concern our obligation and our duty toward our fellow man. In the New Testament, the Lord Jesus condensed these ten commandments into two. In the New Testament, the Lord Jesus condensed the ten commandments into two.

We read in Matthew 22 verse 35,. Then one of them which was a lawyer, meaning a teacher of the law of Moses, then one of them which was a lawyer asked him a question tempting him and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Jesus said unto him, Thou that love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, this is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou should love thy neighbor as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Lastly, Thou should love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, referring to Deuteronomy 6 verse 5.

And secondly, Thou should love thy neighbor as thyself, referring to Leviticus 19 verse 18. On these two commandments hang all the law. In Romans 13 verse 8, the apostle Paul wrote, O no man anything, O no man anything but to love, to love, to love one another.

For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, thou should not commit adultery, thou should not kill, thou should not steal, thou should not bear false witness, thou should not covet, and if there be any other commandment.

It is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou should love thy neighbor. Thou should love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his labor. Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Love worketh no ill to his labor.

Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law, the giving of the law, the comprehensive summary of the law, the condensing of the law, and now the curse, the curse of the law, the curse of the law, cursed, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.

Deuteronomy 27 verse 26,. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. Now this not only means the Ten Commandments, which are merely a comprehensive summary of the law. This not only means the Ten Commandments, but all the rituals, feasts, sacrifices, and all things that are written in the book of the law, which contains 613 commandments comprising a complete system of ethics or moral duties, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.

The Curse of the Law and Redemption in Christ

Not that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident. Not that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident. Galatians 3 verse 11,. For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

James 2 verse 10,. Beloved, the laws of God are so interlocked with one another, the laws of God are so interlocked with one another, that if we offend in one point, we are guilty of all. For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law, all the words of this law, to do them. The curse of the law, the curse of the law, but Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.

For it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Galatians 3 verse 13,. And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Acts 13 verse 39,. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. Romans 3 verse 20,. For Christ is the end of the law. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Romans 10 verse 4,. I do not astray the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Galatians 2 verse 21,. Romans 7 verse 7,. What shall we say then? What shall we say then?

Is the law sin? Is the law sin? God forbid! God forbid! Nay! I had not known sin, but by the law. I had not known sin, but by the law. The purpose of the law. The giving of the law. The comprehensive summary of the law.

The condensing of the law. The curse of the law. And now, the purpose of the law. The purpose of the law. Romans 7 verse 7,. I had not known sin, but by the law. I had not known sin, but by the law. For I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, brought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead. Without the law, sin was dead. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. Romans 3 verse 20.

For where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 4 verse 15. For sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3 verse 4. Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4 verse 17. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster. The law was our schoolmaster. To bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3 verse 24. That we might be justified by faith.

For by grace, by grace are ye saved through faith. And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should fault. Ephesians 2 verse 8 and 9. To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodliness, his faith is counted to him for righteousness.

Romans 4 verse 5. Not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ. The righteousness which is of God, by faith. Philippians 3 verse 9. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster.

To bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. The law of the Lord is perfect. Converting the soul. Converting the soul. Psalm 19 verse 7. In the process of salvation, it is the means through which the Holy Spirit awakens us to our exceeding sinfulness.

And that we face the eternal wrath and judgment of God. And thus, it drives us to toss ourselves upon grace. For the salvation of our souls. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster. To bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

The Law Reveals Sin and Leads to Christ

The purpose of the law. But, the purpose of the law is twofold. The purpose of the law is twofold. Firstly, by the law is the knowledge of sin. But secondly, by the law is the knowledge. By the law comes the knowledge of inbred sin.

And our enslavement. Our enslavement to sin. As a result of our inbred sinful nature. Romans 7 verse 19. For the good that I would. The good that I would. I do not. But the evil which I would not. That I do.

Now if I do that I would not. It is no more I that do it. But sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law. But when I would do good. Evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God. I delight in the law of God after the inward man.

But I see another law in my members. Warning against the law of my mind. And bringing me into captivity. To the law of sin. Which is in my members. Who rescues me. That I have shall deliver me. Who shall deliver me.

Shall deliver me. From the body of this death. I thank God. Jesus Christ. I thank God. Through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. Whosoever. Committed sin. Is the servant of sin. He is enslaved to sin. But. If. The son.

Therefore. Shall make you free. Ye shall be free. Indeed. John 8 verse 34 and 36. The fulfilling of the law. The fulfilling of the law. The giving of the law. The comprehensive summary of the law. The condensing of the law.

Christ Fulfills the Law Through the Spirit

The curse of the law. The purpose of the law. And now. The fulfilling of the law. Hallelujah. The fulfilling. Of the law. Matthew 5 verse 17. Think not. That I am come to destroy the law. Think not. That I am come to destroy the law.

Or the prophets. I am not come to destroy. But to fulfill. The fulfilling of the law. Hallelujah. Do we then. Make void. The law. Through faith. Do we then. Make void. The law. Through faith. God forbid.

God forbid. Yea we establish the law. Romans 3 verse 31. But. While we seek. To be justified. By Christ. We ourselves. Are found. Sinners. Is therefore Christ. The minister of sin. But if. While we. Seek to be justified by Christ.

We ourselves. Are found. Sinners. Is therefore Christ. The minister of sin. God forbid. God forbid. God forbid. Galatians 2 verse 17. Romans 6 verse 1. What. Shall we say then. Shall we. Continue. In sin.

That grace may abound. God forbid. God forbid. God forbid. Romans 6 verse 15. What then. Shall we sin. Because we are not under the law. But under grace. God forbid. God forbid. God. God. Titus 2 verse 11.

For the grace. Of God. That bringeth salvation. Hath appeared to all men. Teaching us. That denying ungodliness. And worldly lust. We should live soberly and righteously and godly. In this present world.

In fulfilling of the law. Christ. Fulfills the law. In and through us. He fulfills the law. In and through us. By the indwelling of his Holy Spirit. Who now writes his laws. Not on tables of stone. But in the fleshly tables.

Of our redeemed hearts. 2 Corinthians 3 verse 3. I will put my law. In their inward paths. And write it. In their hearts. Jeremiah 31 verse 33. But. Don't believe. Don't believe that this means. That whenever we face.

Temptation to sin. Don't believe that this means. That we don't have to choose. To obey. His Holy Spirit's leadings. And caution. And all the light which he has given to us. Who will then. Enable us. To turn away from temptation.

And thus fulfill. The demands of his moral laws. And commandments. Romans 8 verse 1. There is therefore now. No condemnation. To them. Which are in. Christ Jesus. There is therefore now. No condemnation.

To them which are in. Christ Jesus. But wait now. Fool. Walk. Not after the flesh. But after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life. In Christ Jesus. Hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do. In that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own son. In the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin. Condemned sin in the flesh. That the righteousness of the law.

Might be fulfilled in us. Who walk. Not after the flesh. But after the spirit. For they that are after the flesh. Remind the things of the flesh. But they that are after the spirit. The things of the spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind. Is enmity against God. For it is not subject to the law of God. Neither indeed can be. So then they that are.

In the flesh. Cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh. But in the spirit. If so be that the spirit of God. Dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ. He is none of his. Verse 12.

Therefore brethren we are debtors. Not to the flesh. To live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die. But if ye through the spirit. Do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live.

For as many. As are led. By the spirit of God. They are the sons of God. For as many. As are led. By the spirit of God. They. Are the sons of God. Galatians 5 verse 16. This I say then. Walk in the spirit.

And ye shall not. Fulfill the lust of the flesh. This I say then. Walk. In the spirit. And ye shall not. Fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit. And the spirit against the flesh.

And these are contrary to one to the other. So that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But. If ye be led of the spirit. Ye are not. Under the law. Now the works of the flesh. Are manifest. Which are these.

Adultery. Fornication. Uncleanness. Viscidiousness. Idolatry. Witchcraft. Hatred. Variance. Emulations. Wrath. Strife. Seditions. Heresies. Envies. Murders. Junkiness. Rebellings. And such like. Of the which I tell you before.

As I have also told you in time past. That they which do such things. Shall not inherit the kingdom of God. They which do such things. Shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But. The fruit of the spirit.

What does that mean? The evidence. That the Holy Spirit dwells in you. The fruit of the spirit. Is. Love. Joy. Peace. Longsuffering. Gentleness. Goodness. Faith. Neatness. Temperance. Self-control. Against.

Such. There is no law. And they that are Christ's. Have crucified the flesh. With the affections. And lusts. With the passions and lusts. If we. Live. In the spirit. Let us also walk. In the spirit. In the spirit.

These last two verses are vitally linked to each other. And they that are Christ's. In this building. Have crucified the flesh. With the affections. And lusts. With the passions and lusts. What does that mean?

If we. Live. In the spirit. Let us also. Walk. In the spirit. What does that mean? Enoch. Walked. With. God. Genesis 5 verse 22. Can two. Walk together. Except they be agreed. Amos 3 verse 3. This I say then.

Walk. In the spirit. And you shall not. Recruit the lusts of the flesh. Galatians 5 verse 16. Whosoever abideth in him. Sinneth not. 1 John 3 verse 6. He that saith. He abideth in him. Ought himself also so to walk.

Even as he walked. 1 John 2 verse 6. And now little children. Abide in him. That when he shall appear. We may have confidence. And not be ashamed. Before him at his coming. 1 John 2 verse 28. Abide in me.

And I in you. As the branch. Cannot bear fruit. Of itself. Except it abide in the vine. No more can he. Except ye. Abide in me. John 15 verse 4. Truly. Our fellowship is with the father. And with his son Jesus Christ.

1 John. 1 verse 3. Whosoever abideth. In him. Sinneth not. 1 John 3 verse 6. The giving of the law. The comprehensive summary of the law. The condensing of the law. The curse of the law. The purpose of the law.

The fulfilling of the law. And now. The burying of the law. And its tragic consequences. Psalm 119. Verse 126. They have made void. Thy law. They have cancelled out the necessity of the law. They have.

Tragically. In the evangelical church. Throughout the world today. And its tragic consequences. We need to look at it. In John 16 .7. The Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus said when he is come. That is the Holy Spirit.

He will convince. The world. Of sin. And of righteousness and of judgment. He will convict literally. The world of sin. Of righteousness and of judgment. The Holy Spirit. Shall convince this world of sin.

The Holy Spirit, Conviction, and the Preaching of the Law

The sword of the spirit. God says is the word of God. The word of God is quick. And powerful and sharper than any. Two edged sword. That you could ever find in Roman times. Or any times. As the most feared weapon on earth.

Oh. The sword of the spirit is. This word beloved. But the New Testament. Continually refers. To the law. By the law is the knowledge. Of sin. How does the Holy Spirit convince the world of sin. Oh. He falls on you and you know you are a sinner.

No sir. D .L. Moody. Said. The first work of the Holy Spirit. In a person's heart. Is to convince him. Of his sin. Of righteousness and of judgment. If that work is bypassed. Then nothing you claim. Is a work of the Holy Spirit.

Is the Holy Spirit. It's the devil. I want to repeat it. The first work of the Holy Spirit. In a person's life. Is to convict him of sin. How do you seek God to save you. If you don't know you are a sinner.

How do you seek God to save you. If you don't know you are going to hell. What do you seek God to save you from. His first work. And if that work is bypassed. Then nothing you claim. Is a work of the Holy Spirit.

If that work is bypassed. Then nothing you claim. Is the Holy Spirit. It's the devil. That's a radical statement. But someone needs to repeat such things. In today's world. Mr. Will Macfarlane. Was the godliest man I ever knew in my life.

Certainly the most anointed life I ever knew. I was honored to know him. Oh what anointed preaching. I still remember. With fear. Sitting under that man the first time. When I saw little children. Unable to hardly breathe.

Have you ever been in a meeting where the oldest saint. Preachers sit there unable to move. In fear. Under the holy word of God. Such anointing we see that man's life. He once said with me. When we were young preachers.

He. Like you. The world wasn't so busy. Drunk with tiredness. Because they're busy with 90 of what they shouldn't be doing. There's no time. For long. Outreaches or conventions. Very rare thing you'll allow in your busy, busy life.

Oh he says. We used to have. Meetings that went on and on. Every town even in the cities. The first week. We only preached the law. In the light of the rest of the scriptures. Because the new testament.

Is. Thrilled. With the law of God. Only the full revelation of what God. Because of the fall of man. The new testament. Brings the law. Only a hundred times higher. In standard than the old testament.

In its full revelation of what God meant. As it was said. By them of old time. I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman. To lust after hath committed adultery. Already within his heart. Will not be angry.

Oh I say that he should. He's angry with his brother. Don't kill but if you're angry. You're a murderer God says. He that loveth not his brother is a murderer. Then law is strewn through this book. For the moral conviction of man.

The new testament. Don't tell me God buried the law sir. For the purpose of the law. Has to be there. And it's through the whole new testament. Oh. Mrs. Wheelback-Pond said the first week. We just preach the law.

In the light of the rest of the scriptures. And the light of the new testament. Until every single person not believing. They were sinners. And then the second week. We preach judgment. Until everybody trembled.

At where they knew they were going. The last week we preach grace. And Keith. They came to God in a stream. They flocked to God. As young preachers. We didn't have these mass. Mega churches. Auditorium.

No. But they came. In an incomprehensible way. In every community. They flocked to hear these young fellows preach. They flocked. And listen Keith. Many many many many came to God. Under such preachers.

I don't know of one. That ever back slid. Or went back into the world under that preacher. I fear what they preach today. And it's tragic consequences. I don't know of one Keith. As we went back. To follow up.

To all follow up meetings over the years. That ever fell away. Hallelujah. For such men. With such convictions. Charles Finney. Great revivalist. Charles Finney. All America had 123 years. Non-stop. Waves of revival.

No wonder you became. The greatest nation in the history. Of this world. The way your land sought God. For no other land. Not even England. For 123 years. Jonathan Edwards. New England. Brought with him.

Sweeping across. The early settlers of this dream. And coming to God in their masks. Then Charles Finney. In the prayer revival. Where 50 ,000. Were known to be converted. Every week across this land.

And that was one incredible amount of your population. Which was very small. You had no idea how your land sought God. And any greatness you have. Is because of the way they sought God. And all that greatness.

Will be taken from you. If you don't seek God again. I guarantee. I'm not angry sir. When I preach. Oh I know I'm in trouble. Charles Finney. 1821. He was a studying law. God took hold of this young man.

When he did something remarkable. In the law books of America. Everything was from the Bible. He was stunned to what degree. The laws of America. Were founded upon the laws of the mosaic. You see. Right through all the social laws.

Ceremonial laws. It was just amazing. Ethical laws. He was so taken that he went out. And bought himself something he didn't have. A Bible. And so he started studying. But he really began to study. And making reference across to all the New Testaments.

He came under the awful conviction of sin. So desperate was he. He went out into the fields. Of the days and nights. Roaming and weeping and feeling of judgment. Which he now knew was his. As he realized what a wicked sinner he was.

And there in the fields. He knelt down. And wept in desperation. And God brought him. Stabbing him there. I am doing that. I take thee at thy word. God. And as he said those words. Peace flooded his heart in an incomprehensible way.

He was so stunned. That he couldn't agonize. He couldn't cry that God would save him anymore from hell. There was this joy. Flooding his heart. Peace that passes all understanding. He got up. He said if I am saved.

If I am truly saved. I will give my life. To bring this world to God. Do you think God turns his face away from such a man? Such a prayer? No. Back in the town. After the night of disregards. Curses sweeping it off.

The joy. He went out the next day. He left law forever. Hallelujah. Or America wouldn't have the same history. Oh. He went to every single soul he could. Telling them of excitement and joy. Everything he had learned about their service.

People were stunned. Staggered. And deeply convicted. This could have happened to them. Eventually. Because he so desperately longed to share. His preachers had come. Let me at least teach you a bit of theology.

So he did. It was a theological seminar. Eventually they gave him a task to preach. So anointed was that young man. His first sermon. He said that the entire community was shaken to deadly silence across the town.

In shock at the consciousness of the presence of God working in the heart. Oh, he was asked to speak in another town. It was so wicked, that town. Far bigger than his community. More industry. And as he walked through the town, listen to this blasphemous, morally decadent, evil, wicked, brazen wickedness.

Oh. He stood up in the pulpit. The first meeting. And he said, you're like hell hounds. Pursuing hell. With your vile language. Your blasphemy. Brazen wickedness. I feel defiled. Just walking through your town.

I feel defiled and need a cleansing by God just listening to you. Oh, they were angry. Oh. They were angry with such a preacher. How dare he. But they all came back to the next meeting. It's amazing. Anger doesn't make you run away.

Even if you come back to find something to crucify the man with, you're still back. What did he do? He preached in the Ten Commandments. In the light of the rest of the scriptures. Because he was a lawyer.

Very methodical. And so with all he had learned, and the anointing of God upon him, his second sermon. In this land. When he got to the Sixth Commandment. Thou shalt not commit adultery. And he started looking and expounding in the light of the rest of the scriptures, the New Testament.

He had to stop preaching. Why? Because there was wailing from these wicked people. Men falling down in the yard. Men falling down. Sobbing. A loud sobbing in conviction of sin and fear of judgment of God.

Within a few days, that town came to such a standstill and they just began to seek God. After a few weeks they couldn't find one single person that hadn't sought God to save their soul. With all their heart.

Oh, they said Finnish converts didn't survive. Let me tell you something. Go back to the details. That town, not one ever was known to have backstabbed them. Ten years later, 1 ,500 towns and cities across America had turned to God.

Mostly in their entirety. And what did he preach? The law. The law. Until men trembled and wept. And then he brought Christ. Grace. For salvation from the judgment that the law makes you know you will face because you are convinced of sin through it.

So did Whitefield preach the law and judgment. And so did Jonathan Edwards. God's not just hell. He preached the law. Oh, they tell me this one man. Oh, most of Moody's converts didn't last. It wasn't really a work of God.

I say, sir, I don't know what history books you read or how biased you are through your background and doctrine or things that you differ from. Finny, that's why you're against him, sir. You're listening to lies.

Let me tell you something. Where does 250 ,000 people cry to God in the prayer revivals? Finny couldn't preach anymore. In Philadelphia, 250. You know what percentage of the population that was in those days?

Where is 15 ,000 people eventually 25 and then 35, 40, 50 in New York Central Manhattan, gathering around a little Dutch reformed church in Fulton Street. Jeremiah, see a lamp here. A Dutch man who came to God through Finny.

Where did all those people come from crying to God across the land and then 50 ,000 a week right through this civil war, turning to God not for a few months for years. Over a third, between a third and a half of the Confederate army had been professed to be saved as these men were crying to God out in the field around churches that couldn't hold 500, not even 200.

Here's 15 ,000 within a week. No, within a month, sorry, when it started, the prayer revival there in Fulton Street, Dutch reformed church. Oh, they were Finny's converts, man. Why did they lie? Where did they just come from?

Whitfield, he was dead. So was that generation. God used him mightily. And yes, he was even surprised at some that fell back and in one particular place, but the masses went through with, God, what history books are you reading?

Maybe he made a few mistakes in Aaron's turn. Who didn't, including me? That doesn't cancel out what God did through you and the truth you did preach and he came back with a vengeance of the truth after a little diversion that he always wept about after you.

Through wrong doctrines that came with, oh no. But he preached the law. Charles Finney believed that any preaching without moral application will result in injury for eternity to those you're preaching to.

You're not there to stand up and preach doctrine, see? If it doesn't reach the hearts and turn men, get out of the pulpit. That's not anger. That's compassion in those that are going to hell through your preaching.

Because they never come under conviction of sin. I was in the meeting as a young preacher. Now the Lord had put on my heart, long before that even, to memorize this book. Why, not the whole book, but whatever God burned, whatever burned from these pages and burned into my heart, I marked for whatever burned from these pages into my heart, burned from my lips, and whatever burned from my lips from this book burned into the hearts of those that heard.

That's the great spurges. Believed that and experienced that. Whatever burned and it continued. Things that didn't burn. Forty years ago when I started memorizing passages and books of the Bible. Oh, so God eventually gives more and more light and I'm learning things now from cover to cover of every doctrine there is while I still have breath.

Every single version of this book about that particular facet or doctrine that's vital to our faith. And bring it back to the purpose of God. Just unadulterated, the word of God. Oh, it's been my greatest honor.

The Word of God, Conviction, and Christian Ministry

But I was in this meeting now, just as I ended, this woman gets up in a big auditorium and she screams. The whole place was shaking. She was so undone, so unnerved by the word of God. How dare you? She screams in a way that I honestly thought she was going to get violent physically.

I looked in fear as this woman marched down the aisle and she was some size. How dare you? Everybody stood up in shock and fear the way she was screaming. She was undone. How dare you preach such things to people?

How dare you put fear in people's hearts? All the children. How dare you? Look at them. Look at this place. All shocked. God is a God of love. How dare you? Listen, sir. I don't know if somebody needs to tell you, but you haven't heard.