He Was Despised and Rejected of Men — Keith Daniel

Can we bow in prayer, please? Our Father, have mercy. Wash me in the blood of Christ, my only hope of God having mercy on me. As base as I am, and weak as I am, and as despised as I am, and rightly so, Lord, I agree.

At our best, we are just unprofitable, unworthy servants. But we all bow before thee now. And we know that without thee we can do nothing. Our expectation is in thee, and thee only. For no man can change us.

And we can't change ourselves. We've learned that, but we look to God from our hearts that are willing for God to change us. That's repentance, not to change ourselves. That's ridiculous blasphemy, to seek God, to allow God to change us.

Come, oh God, change our hearts to the degree we will allow thee to speak to us. In Jesus Christ's name, amen. Hebrews 9 .27, it is appointed unto men once to die. But after this, the judgment, God promised.

The Certainty of Death and Final Judgment

Oh, God lied. If this doesn't happen to you, if you have not prepared to meet with God, it is appointed unto men once to die. But after this, God says, oh, God lies, the judgment. Judgment, terrifying.

Revelation 20, verse 10, I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.

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

The sea gave up the dead which were in it. Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to his works. Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God, though those hands for all eternity will bear witness that he tasted death for every man, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man who will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth, who gave himself a ransom for all, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

It's a fearful thing to fall into those hands that bear the marks that he tasted death for you. Unless God lied, there's no mercy in those hands that died for you if you have not prepared to meet with God his way.

Once you die, for all eternity, you can scream every second as no human has ever been able to scream because no human has ever known anything of the taste of hell, the sight of hell, that even could compare.

God will show you no mercy. No man can come from there. No one can go to them. There is a gulf fixed. Christ said, oh, Christ lied. The smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever. God promised forever.

I am tormented in this flame. Jesus said, a man cried in hell, and then for eternity in the lake that burneth the fire brimstone, for hell is plunged and all in it. Judgment doesn't start after the great white throne if you're not prepared to meet with God the moment you die.

You're in hell. We're judged. Terrifying. Second Thessalonians 1, verse 8, he will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will return in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction. From the presence of the Lord, from the glory of his power.

Jude 14, behold, the Lord cometh with 10 ,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince and remind and bring to remembrance all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, blasphemous things they said in their arrogance against God, which ungodly sinners have spoken to him.

I saw a wicked man just a few weeks ago doing things and screaming at the top of his voice that people within all the whole circumstances of the neighborhood could hear him in the middle of the night screaming in the most evil, evil thing.

And one of his ungodly friends began to weep and said, have you no fear of God? God, he says, and he began to blaspheme about what he thinks of God and carried on his wickedness that many were aware of brazenly.

Oh, God will remind them of all their ungodly speeches, statements that they have ungodly spoken of him. There is judgment. But wait now, as we read of these fearful things, never forget for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believe within him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Winning Souls Through the Love of Christ

Beloved, it is the love of Christ that constraineth us. 2 Corinthians 514, it is the love of Christ that constraineth us, that drives us. We're driven by the Holy Ghost that constrain. You see, Proverbs 1130 says this, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.

He that winneth souls is wise. There's something of the wisdom of God attached to him. Not if he gets degrees through a university and a faculty of blasphemous people who undermine God's word who will be judged and spend eternity in hell, though it's a theological seminar, the day any man opens his mouth with one statement against this book's authority and divine inspiration, he is going to hell, don't doubt that.

Professor, you're going to hell. The moment you touch this book, you have no right to preach or teach. And any unsaved people will allow you to teach them. But when you write with God, you win souls. This is wisdom, not academic achievements.

This is the wisdom God will not despise, though men esteem you and fear you through all your academic abilities of Hebrew and Greek that sends you to hell, brother. No, sorry, soul, not brother. The fruit, I love that, of the righteous, those who are rightly related to God, the moment they're rightly related to God, God says is a tree of life in this world.

He explains that, he that winneth souls. You cannot be right with God and not be a soul winner. It is utterly obnoxious. You cannot be rightly related to God. The evidence, when you see the word fruit, the closest you will ever come to what God is saying is the evidence that you are right with God.

Sir, you will win souls. This will take place in your life. It is sacrilegious to say you're right with God and then to walk past sinners and say Christ dwells in you, who tasted death for them, and he doesn't drive you to speak.

He that winneth souls is wise. Malachi 2, God sends forth preachers who will turn many away from iniquity, or they not send from God. Daniel 12, three, that turn many to righteousness. These are the men who will be honored by God throughout eternity, who handle God's word.

2 Corinthians 5, 20, now then we are ambassadors for Christ. At the moment you are truly right with God, you are given the ministry of reconciliation. Once you reconcile, the next verse cries out, then you have one thing to live for.

You have the ministry of reconciliation once you know how to be reconciled to God, or you've never been reconciled to God, complete grief to God, and need to seek God with Psalm 51 because your life must be sinful in your backslidden evil state.

And then when you have cried to God in repentance, then shall I teach transgressors thy ways. And sinners shall be converted unto thee. But until then you are still in your sin, David. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ.

As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ dead, be ye reconciled to God. Do you know what that means? As though God did beseech you by us. As if God himself is speaking through us. When you're right with God, that happens, sir.

Men become conscious. God is speaking to their hearts and they become fearful. Through you. Oh, you are not right with God. We are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you, beg you, implore you by us, through us.

We pray you in Christ dead. That is staggering. As if it was Jesus Christ himself who died. He had made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God. Don't tell me you're not an ambassador for Christ if you're saved, if you've been reconciled to God.

William Booth, the great general of the Salvation Army. Brother, if you're not in that army, I don't care if you're a Presbyterian or a Baptist or a Mennonite. Not Booth, the man you're following that started this great movement.

But if you're not in the Salvation Army, I doubt you're saved. Booth cried out, oh, God. Oh, that God would hang every Christian over hell for one minute. And I believe the old man, as the old man with flowing gray hair stood saying this toward the end of his life, frail in that last great convention.

He wept aloud as he cried this. Oh, that God would hang every Christian over hell for one minute. The whole world would be evangelized within a few weeks. In 2 Corinthians 5 .11, Paul cried, knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, you know it.

But do you persuade men? When did you last persuade anyone in such a way they had to come? To flee from the wrath to come. Oh, I will become all things toward all men. I'm willing for that, God. If by any means I might win some, I don't care what the cost.

C .T. Studd said, Livingston said, Hudson Taylor said, I will become all things to all men if by any means I may win some for Christ. I would seek the fearful proud with great compassion. Knowing this terror of God, I will persuade, I would seek to reach the fearful proud.

And that is why men are going to hell. I would seek to reach them with great compassion. My wife, Jennifer, her father is one of the godliest men that ever lived in history. Don't ever doubt that. And thousands would say amen across Southern Africa if they were here to hear me.

Who walk with God through his life will stop the way God used to. He said something that is staggering. How as a boy, he suddenly was in a predicament in a lake. And this boy, Jenny's daddy, was drowning, swallowing water and trying everything he could to stay afloat.

He said he became numb or he felt with a numbness in his head and he was about to drown. But he would not cry for anyone to help him, to save him. And he said through pride, even if he died, he was conscious that he was not going to cry for help, to be saved, through pride.

Someone became aware that this boy is going and somehow got to him. But he said for years, daily, he would remember somehow the fear gripping his heart that through pride, he was willing to die rather than cry for help.

Not everyone about to spend eternity in hell will ever cry for help. Be careful. I will seek the fearful proud with great consternation and compassion because I know the terror of the Lord, I will persuade them somehow.

Or Jude 22, of some have compassion making a difference. Others say with fear, pulling them out of the fire, have compassion. Others say with fear, pulling them out of the fire. I would study to show myself approved when I'm right with God.

I would study this book from that moment to show myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. That I might win any, I will do anything. I will become anything.

I will go to any means. If I may win some, I will study to show a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. We knew a lovely family, seven boys, but the youngest was the darling of the home, Philip, Peter, Jenny and I loved them as a family.

On Christmas day, he decided, because they were having this time around the lake on their farm, all the brothers and everything, the grown up brothers with their wives, but Philip decided to dive into that lake to swim to the other side.

The mother said, no, he'll never make it. She commanded one of her sons to go in and help him, fetch him. He dived in, he tried to catch up, he did, and Philip couldn't make it. And as he was sinking, the brother tried to redeem him, to save him, but Philip was fighting.

You see, you fight people who are closest to you, even if they're trying to save you. You put them in danger. And that boy, because he would have drowned with his brother, Philip, he never recovered in his sadness that came on him, that he had to let his brother drown.

You see, we need to study this book desperately to show ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. When people would pull you down, Jehovah's Witnesses would destroy your statements and everything you stand for, and others in this world with all the intellectualism.

You need the answers, you need. You see, the righteous studyeth to give an answer that's from God. You study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, that has to withdraw, drown, because you don't have the answers.

So you let them go to hell because you couldn't, you aren't prepared, you aren't strong enough. Oh, be careful, soul winner. Be careful that you're ready, that you don't waste time with rubbish and trash.

Oh, if a blind man was walking toward the edge of a cliff, any person with any sense of responsibility or conscience would cry out to him to stop. If a blind man was walking toward the edge of a treacherous cliff, any person with any sense of responsibility or decency or conscience would cry out earnestly to stop him.

The blind leaders of the blind won't, though, if they're going the same way. If a professing Christian, even if he is an ordained preacher, has no urgency and compassion to the lost, it is tragic evidence that he himself is lost.

A lost soul. How can you believe souls everywhere around you are going to hell and not warn them and retain your testimony, actually retain your sensibilities? I'm not going to read out of the book. David Livingston, he cried, you're either a missionary or a mission field, I believe him.

Charles Spurgeon cried, every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter, I believe him. I believe him. Spurgeon cried from his pulpit in London, I would count it a high privilege if I might die this morning in this pulpit, if that death could redeem your souls from hell.

Paul said the same in Romans 9, verse 1, I say the truth in Christ I lie not, my conscience bearing witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continued sorrow in my heart, for I would wish that myself were accursed from Christ, I'm willing to be cursed by God for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh for Israel, there is such a compassion that drives you to souls, brother, that it is uncomprehendable what you will become for God, for souls like Moses crying out when God would strike his people dead, blot me out of thy book that may be perishing for eternity.

If you would do that, have you any sense of responsibility, have you any sense of compassion that drives you, that drives you to souls? Oh John Wesley, the evangel of a burning heart, was asked by some preacher, why does God use you so great?

Looked at him for a long time and then said if a preacher is ablaze and burning for God, others will come to see the fire. Of Wesley's biographers called him a man out of breath pursuing souls. Would anyone say that of you before you die?

On the grave of Adam Clark, an early Methodist scholar and prodigy of Wesley are the words in living for others, I am burned away. These men died in their 30s, Whitfield, you can't believe how they poured themselves out for Christ, even for your land, for souls.

The word sacrifice is not in the vocabulary of someone who is right with God, it is privilege to give your life for the lost if you're right with God. Whitfield, Whitfield cried out, it is a mercy we have not seen hell, it is a mercy you blame us for calling after you, for spending and being spent for your souls.

It is easy for you to come and hear the gospel but you do not know what nights and days we have with pangs in our hearts as we travail in prayer till Christ be formed in your souls. Oh men, hearken to God to save you from the hell you face.

No wonder God used this amazing Calvinist, I would bypass a million Wesleyan ominous to hear that Calvinist. Why aren't you all like that? You fight for doctrines and for God's sake will you fight for songs?

Oh wasn't he a good man? Your adversary lays the chains of death upon you, you are every moment in danger of being seized by the formidable justice of God in eternal burnings. If you die unpardoned you are sent among devils and demons, damned unto torments for eternity.

You will undergo this punishment, oh God is what I do to be saved. Knowing the terror of the Lord I persuade you. Believe on the Lord Jesus. All he stands for, Cotton Mather, 1615 to 1691, a mighty Protestant.

Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can dismay, the hope no disappointments tire, the passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sink to be a clod, make me thy fuel flame of God, Amy Carmichael.

It is impossible to evangelize the world, it is possible to evangelize the world in this generation if the will but do her duty. The trouble is not with the heathen, a dead church will prevent it. If it is prevented why should it not be accomplished?

God will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth. The resources of the church are boundless. Let the will of God be brought into line with the will of, let the church be brought into line with the will of God and nothing will be impossible.

Preaching Christ Amid Opposition and False Prophets

You're now reaching the last of this world, Griffith John, the great man of God who staggered that continent where there's such darkness. Oh, God give us preachers again, God give us preachers again who are men of old, men wondered at, men wondered at, Zechariah 3 verse 8, men valiant for the truth, men who have hazarded their lives for Christ, God give us such men, preachers.

Jesus said these staggering words to his disciples, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. What a warning, Luke 10 3, be ye therefore wise as serpents but harmless as doves. That is something we need to all pray about, be ye therefore wise as serpents, but harmless as doves.

Isaiah 50 verse 4, the Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned. That's when you have been given anointing by God that I should know how to speak. A word in season to him that is weary. Oh, listen to these words, not like Job's three theological friends, the doctrine was perfect, utterly amazing.

I mean, you wouldn't get anybody that knows more about the mind, the understanding, the things of God, you couldn't really touch them on anything they said. Doctrinally, they were absolutely geniuses, people who really had pondered and meditated and discussed in length through life to come to the conclusions they knew about God in that time.

The first book ever written in the Bible was not Genesis, this was written before Moses, Job. These men had theological understanding that is staggering. The tragedy is it was correct doctrine but wrong address, and so the wrath of God hovered over them.

You can have every answer in the Bible, but if it isn't in season, be careful. That I should know how to speak and have the discernment to know when to not rebuke a man, that God will rebuke you, and if you don't stop, he'll serve you and bury you.

A word in season, he had given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.

Oh, that's someone who really does ponder the word of God and ponder the heart of God. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, that's revelation. He revealed his secret to the servants, the prophets, God says.

He gives revelation, he gives discernment, he gives understanding, he gives his heart, for his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him as I, 28 verse 26. This word discretion is something that unless you learn it from God, I don't care if you can quote the entire Bible backwards, you will be used of the devil.

Discretion, sir, takes away the sharp edge of your tongue when it isn't meant to be sharp by God, makes you shut your eyes and your lips concerning all the hundreds and thousands of scriptures you can quote to a man if that isn't what that man needs to hear.

If you lack this discernment, if you lack this discretion that God only can give you, you will do damage to every soul you come near and God forgive you if you're unteachable. You will make people run to hell from you rather than be confronted by you.

With all your knowledge, his God doth instruct him to discretion, you lack that, every soul that comes near you is in trouble, in trouble. Christ warned his disciples, I send you, oh let me tell you something.

I worked with a young man, he's dead now, and I've never said it before his death, an evangelist who could have turned this world back to God. Don't doubt this, his knowledge of this book, the giftedness he had, that perhaps Whitfield was the last human on earth that had such a voice, that boomed.

He needed no microphone, the oratory ability, the charismatic personality, whatever it was, this man had it, but as the people just fled from him, whether he was in a home, whether he was in a convention, whether he was in a pulpit, just flee, disgusted at his unethicalness, at his lack of discernment or even decency, the way he's preached.

He could have turned the world back to God. I said to him with tears one day, don't you think you need to reconsider what you're doing? Brother, if everyone's fleeing from you, everyone, even the godly are grieved, isn't it time to seek God that you might be doing something too harsh, too cruel, too unethical with all your knowledge, all your giftedness?

No, don't ask me to compromise. If people are offended, it's impossible, but their offense will come. So he quotes a lot of scriptures to defend himself. What happened to him? Well, he was thrown out of our mission.

He did such damage. And let me tell you something, you have to be pretty bad to be thrown out of our mission. As a preacher, because they have incredible patience, people like me. What did he do? Every movement he went to, threw him out of the pulpit.

Why? Because he destroyed every church he went near. They threw him out. He was run out of one movement after the other, whether it was a church or a political movement, even if they were conservative.

No one could survive him. In the end, what happens? Divorce, remarriage, children, Satanists. His son didn't want the God of this father. You see, he lacked one thing. He couldn't be taught by God how to say something in the right time to the right person in the right way.

He didn't know how to keep quiet. Everybody was in the same category as far as he was concerned, and it was his God-given duty. And do you know what he did? Destroyed himself, destroyed his ministry, and I believe sent people to hell.

Be careful. His God doth instruct him if he allows him to discretion. If he can't, heaven help anyone who comes near you. I send you out as sheep among wolves, God says. Beware, beware, he says, of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are revenging wolves.

Now, this in the religious sense really places a person in a terrible category. They don't only teach error, they oppose you vehemently as enemies of God and the cross if you preach truth. They oppose you and try to destroy you.

This is what God is speaking about. Not everybody in the ordained religion of God then or now with sheep's clothing. Oh, they just dress perfectly. You know, this is the real thing. No, is a prophet from God.

Trust me, ravening wolves that will hurt you. Jesus was despised, the Bible says. That's staggering. He was rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He was despised, he was rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

The Preacher Must Expect Rejection and Persecution

Now, Christ said to his disciples and therefore to us who would follow him, if they did it to me, they would do it to you if you preached my words. My father-in-law once looked at me when I was being exalted.

Please don't think I'm proud of people who do that. You want to see I've agonized at some of the things people say before I stand up and I look up and say, who is he talking about that he says it's about?

That's not true. Don't blame me. But my father-in-law, when I was a younger preacher many years ago now, looked at me and said, beware, today they cry hell, tomorrow they cry crucified. I'm so glad he warned me because it came.

If they did it to Christ, you think they're not going to do it to you? If you're faithful, if you do what he said, you must do preach what he said. Preach Christ in truth, not just the crucifixion, but his words that embrace the crucifixion as a result.

Oh, you will be always stunned who will turn on you. You will always be stunned. The most unexpected sources will turn against you. Today, oh, wonderful. Tomorrow, crucify him. It happens. Despised and objected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

We hid that were our faces from him. He was despised. You think that isn't going to be you? Preachers, brace yourself. If you follow him in truth, oh God, give us preachers who are willing to take up the cross and follow him, who will not run from rejection if men despise you moments later after they have been praising you to the hilt.

C .H. Spurgeon cried to his students, any one of you who is not willing for and ready for persecution, rejection, undermining, cruelty, get up now, leave the lecture room, pack your bags and go home because that's all you're going to know if you're true to God.

He was the prince of preachers, the greatest preacher that ever lived, oratory wise or homiletically anyway, according to his generation of which two million copies of his sermons were spread. Every sermon he preached the day after throughout the world.

Those days, no radios, no internet to think about the impact of that man upon this world. Amazing how God honored him and he said these words, brace yourself preacher to face a life of being despised, hated, rejected of men, but always from the most unexpected sources.

It is not only in Christ's time that the time will come when they think they do God a service to put you out of the synagogues and persecute you. Jesus sent his servants to go into all the world to preach the gospel to every creature, to every living being he cried out, and don't spare yourself in the light of the rest of the scriptures to do that while you have breath, but Satan sends forth his counterfeit servants into pulpits, false prophets to go into all the world and they're everywhere sent by Satan.

Don't doubt this to preach deliberate calculated denial of this book, diversions of this book, underminings of this book, and they're in every pulpit. They're in pulpits in their masses across the world denying this book, rejecting it.

You know how you really want to reject it preacher, just don't even preach it. Have you ever preached on hell sir? What are you doing in the pulpit? Who put you there, God or Satan? Sir, brace yourself preacher.

Because of raging jealousy of the king Saul, David cried out in fear, there's one step between me and death. Trust me, jealous people will do that to you. You'll become conscious. There's one step between me and death.

Oh the jealousy of carnal preachers. I want to write a book on that one day. Uncomprehendable and when I even with some of your greatest preachers in America stood, people just turned to me and said, don't worry brother Keith, it's jealousy, nothing else.

They're so carnal that would make them so turn on you. The jealousy of carnal preachers, they drove the Pharisees to want Christ dead. Oh by the way, the only reason was jealousy. Not that they thought he was, they had to try and catch him at his words.

They didn't have anything. They couldn't find anything. So they had to just keep seeking to try to get anything to catch him at his word. That's an, oh that's evil. When a man has nothing but you still try to find something to destroy him, you jealous carnal preacher.

And what else would you like to call yourself if you have common sense left? It was jealousy of carnal preachers that drove the Pharisees to want to kill Christ alone, nothing else. Just as Cain killed Abel, the same reason.

Many preachers even though brothers who reek of carnality, filled with jealousy if another preacher is honored by God and men above them. The preacher whom God has blessed and who men somehow revere though he's base and weak, will swiftly become conscious that he is one step between death, me and death.

Not physical death, but to be murdered by the tongues of the raging jealousies of carnal preachers around him. Jealousy in a preacher can drive him to murder, not by taking a rock like Cain to kill Abel out of jealousy, but taking the tongue which is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.

It's as good as taking a knife sir and stabbing a man in the back. You may as well take a gun and point it at him and pow, pow, pow. You may lose your testimony doing that, but God says this does the same thing, not physically.

You murder a man's character, you murder a man's ministry, you murder his credibility. Do you know how? Just suggestion, pow. Just suggest something. Christians are so gullible worldwide, tragically, that just the power of suggestion makes a man guilty.

Full stop, pow. You want to destroy me? Just suggest what isn't even there. I guarantee you the whole world will say it's true. Oh, why do I know that? Because some of your greatest preachers in your land in our lifetime have been so destroyed that I know one who died in the gutter, who was once one of the greatest huge preachers in the, in this generation in America.

And what happened? Ah, they whispered, whisperers. Just whisper loud enough for someone to hear. That's when a whisperer really is of the devil's tongue, you see. Ah, two young Christians who were offended at his confrontation of their carnality and sin.

You know what they did? They whispered something that wasn't true. When he was destroyed totally as a human, they couldn't live with their conscience as they came back to one of the greatest theological seminars in this nation and confessed.

Now one of them did. It was a lie. Oh, just suggest something. That's all. Go on. If you want to destroy me, just lie. Brace yourself, preacher. Brace yourself always from the most unexpected sources.

Always from the most unexpected sources. Bill Gothard. Here I'm telling on territory, aren't I? Wow. When I first sat with him, he gave me the honor of preaching to 27 ,000 people in one meeting, the sermon in the mountain.

Then he spread that sermon around the world in an unusual, uncomprehendable way, to be honest with you, but he did it. I'm honored. But when I sat with him, there were these other people, Otto Kooning, the pineapple story, and all these men sitting there.

When I first met Bill Gothard, he had heard me preaching on videos and things like that, so now he calls me, flies me across in my family, the whole world to preach for him. We're sitting there in Chicago.

He said this as he sat with me. First question, brother Keith, do you face any persecution because of what you preach? I said, yes. Then I added these words, always so from the most unexpected sources.

Oh, he says, what do you mean? Always from the evangelical leaders who don't want that book, that standard. I've never known persecution in truth from an unsaved wicked man, but have I got it from the liberal church leaders of the so-called evangelical church of this day.

Gothard pulled his back up. Tears welled up in his eyes. He said, do you hear that, Otto? Brother, I'm not the only one that the evangelical leaders want to destroy because of what I preach. Brace yourself, preachers.

It's always from the most unexpected source. One of the godliest leaders in this world. I've had privileges to sit with many, many men whose books you've read, whose sermons you've listened to. Many dead.

Stephen Olfert, one of the greatest preachers in the world. I prayed with, for some reason, took me aside and wept with me. One of the greatest leaders in the world. Leaders of the true evangelical church said recently these words to me, brother, when you refuse to compromise your stand on the doctrine and the practice of the holiness that is presented to us in this book, when you refuse to compromise your stand on the doctrine and the practice of holiness, you will face persecution from the liberal church of our day.

I have had to sadly face this in my own denomination. They have turned against me. The most hate me and also for many professedly evangelical churches that once honored me. It is going to increase, brother Keith, so we better brace ourselves and be prepared for it.