Christ's Cry to the Church of This Day and Age — Keith Daniel

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them, he taught them, saying, Blessed, blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, theirs, theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed, blessed are they that mourn, that mourn, for they, they shall be comforted. Blessed, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed, blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, obtain mercy, of the pure in heart, for they shall seek, shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted, for righteousness' sake, for righteousness' sake, for theirs, theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall avile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they, the prophets, are before you.

Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the salt of the earth, but the salt hath lost his savour, which shall it be so. It is thence for good, for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye, ye are the light of the world, a city that is separate from him, cannot be his, neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle, shall in no wise past from the Lord shall all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.

But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes, and Pharisees shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Ye have heard, ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not kill, and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. But I say unto you, I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.

And whosoever shall say to his brother, Rucca, that is thy vain fellow, shall be in danger of the council. But whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift for the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath fought against thee, leave there thy gift at the altar, and go thy way.

Go thy way. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out then, till thou pay the uttermost falling. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye do call thee to repent, pluck it out, and cast it from thee.

For it is profitable to me that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand do cause thee to offend, cut it off, cast it from thee. For it is profitable to thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

It hath been said, Whosoever put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say unto you, that whosoever put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.

And whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery. Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not persuade thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths.

But I say unto you, swear not at all, neither by heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Let your communication be yea, yea, nay, nay, yes, or no, for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain, go with him two miles, give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow thee, turn not thou away.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemy, love your enemy, love your enemy. Bless them, bless them, bless them that curse you.

Do good to them, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. For he maketh his Son to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye done even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Take heed, take heed, take heed that ye do not your own, your righteousness, your piety, your religion, take heed that you do not your own before men to be seen of them. Otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father would seeeth in secret himself shall reward thee alms. When thou prayest, thou should not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.

They have their reward, they have their reward. Now when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father that seeth in secret and thy Father would see it in secret shall reward thee openly.

Now when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee open. But when ye pray, use not vain repetition as the heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore likened to them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. After this manner, therefore, pray ye, Our Father, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. As we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us, deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses against you, your heavenly Father, for if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Moreover, when ye fast, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites for the sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Early I say unto you, they have their reward, they have their reward.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father, which is in secret. And thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly, openly.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and wrath doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor wrath doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye.

If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can serve two masters, for either he hateth one and loveth the other, or else he'll hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Ye cannot serve God and be materialistic.

Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat and what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat in the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither they reap nor gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why, why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, take no thought, saying what shall we eat and what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?

For after all these things the Gentiles seek, for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow, take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought to the things of itself, sufficient unto the days of the evil era. Judge not, judge not that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. And with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the most in thy brother's eye, the speck that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

For how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the most out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own eye. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly.

Cast out the most out of thy brother's eye, give not that which is holy unto the dogs. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again, and rend you. And it shall be given you.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

For what man is there of you whom, if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? But if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. For this, this is the law and the prophet. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

For this is the law and the prophet. Enter ye in, enter ye in, enter ye in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.

Because straight is the gate, and narrow, narrow, narrow is the way, narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few, few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, beware, beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, that inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them, ye shall know them by their fruit, by their fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of pursuits? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree, every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire, wherefore by their fruit ye shall know them.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, in thy name have cast out the devil, and in thy name done many wonderful.

Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, I never knew you, I never knew you, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Whosoever heareth, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock, and the rain descend, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand, and the rain descend, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it, great was the fall of it.

And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority and not as a scribe. Not as a scribe, if I were asked what the Lord Jesus Christ would say to the church, to his church in America, if he were to stand in a pulpit for one moment and speak to them right now in their history, without any hesitation, without any doubt, I would say these words, these words, and these words only, ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the salt of the earth, but, and I believe he would weep, I believe he does weep over these words, ye are the salt of the earth, but, but if the salt have lost his sails, wherewith shall it be sold?

It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men. Is it possible something could happen to the church of Jesus Christ that Christ could say these words, my church is good for nothing, could that ever happen, but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men, has that happened?

One of the greatest theologians in the history of the church said that the most accurate interpretation of this verse would read like this, ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost his sails, you are the world's protection, church of Jesus Christ, to make it tolerable to live in.

But if you lose your effectiveness, your vital reality, your impact, what will happen to the world? And you yourselves will eventually be thrown out by them and your religion considered worthless. If you lose your vital reality, church of Jesus Christ, you will be thrown out by the world, your religion will become considered worthless.

You are the world's protection to make it tolerable to live in. But if you lose your effectiveness, your reality, your impact, what will happen to the world? I believe that the church of Christ has come to a horrific crisis, not only in America, but in the West and in the world, a horrific crisis of having lost its effectiveness, of having lost its right to be the salt of the earth, to stop completely the advance of corruption.

And if we were what we are to be in God's eyes, believe me, sinners wouldn't stand up so brazenly. They would melt in absolute condemned hearts before they whispered, let alone shouted out the things they're crying for.

If we were right with God, if we were vital in our reality with God, if we were effective as God wants us to be, sin could not advance. I don't blame the politicians, though I weep over them. I don't even blame Hollywood, though I agonize there's such a hell-bent place, tending so many to hell.

We blame everything, don't you? I blame the church of Jesus Christ, and I know that's going to shock you. I blame the church. In the Sermon on the Mount, I believe Jesus Christ speaks to us and gives us the stepping stones to revival.

He lays before the church of Christ, and he agonizes to live this. He said, now, here's the stepping stones to vital reality with God, to become effective so the world will stagger, the world will turn from sin.

Here's the stepping stones to the church of Christ, if you want them, blessed, he says. I love that word. I love the King James Bible. The newer translation says happy. Oh, I know many sinners that are happy, you know.

Don't think they're all unhappy, but I know no sinner that's blessed. Oh, these things, this, my joy, my peace, give I unto you. Knows the world that there is a peace out there, you know, but not God's peace.

It's incomparable joy, unspeakable and full of glory. This blessed is something only comes from God when men take these steps. And what's the first step? Blessed. Oh, I believe this is all my heart. I hope your theology doesn't get stamped on tonight, but blessed.

And this is the step of the poor in spirit, for they that mourn. What a meet. Now, do you know, there's something here, if you study this, not just for one moment or one day, you're going to come to see that this is talking about a brokenness, a brokenness, a brokenness that's so terrible.

Blessed are the poor in spirit. They that mourn, the meek. Now, how can that be blessed, to mourn, to be broken, broken? How can that be blessed? Oh, beloved, because God says these words, to this man will I look.

Oh, God has to look now. God's eyes will look past all the thousands of those walking and leaping and praising God and no burden, and suddenly God will look and the first spark of hope and joy in his heart that anything he sees amongst the millions who worship, not in truth, but to be seen of men.

Oh, God looks and says, will I look, in the middle of a broken spirit, contrite heart. Oh, that's why it's blessed. Blessed, because now God's going to look. God's going to look broken, the church of Jesus Christ, broken and begin to mourn.

All this pride, you know, all this confidence, this confidence in self-sin, I don't know, but I know this God has to break us until we have no confidence in ourselves. When men look at us, they know one thing, this man is nothing.

And if they don't know that, something's wrong, something's wrong. Blessed, oh, it's blessed if the church comes to a place of we as individuals and corporate, if we come to a place of being broken before God, for God will look.

And the first step we take to revival is that we break. If we become broken, if we mourn, if we weep, we become contrite. But it's not very blessed to stay there. We have to take the next step, otherwise it'll become a curse.

What on earth can it be blessed to always be mourning, always be broken about the state of the church and the state of the world? Take the next step now. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.

God, we want to become real again. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. That word means satisfied. Now, beloved, if you find a man in the desert who's hungering and thirsting, and you come across him and you give him a million dollars, that man won't be satisfied.

That man will only be satisfied when you give him what he's thirsting for. And, beloved, if God says you're going to be satisfied if you, you're going to be satisfied because you receive what you're hungering and thirsting after, nothing will satisfy you until God makes you righteous.

You hunger, you thirst, you are going to be made righteous. You will receive the only thing that will quench this thirst, that will take away this hunger, that will satisfy you. God doesn't mock you. Oh, this here, sir, is righteousness imparted by God, not righteousness imputed.

Great difference in its context. This has nothing to do with righteousness imputed, whereby a moment of faith in the blood of Christ. I am imputed. Righteousness is imputed. God declares me righteous as I put nothing, nothing, nothing of myself, just my faith in the blood of Christ.

To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodliest faith is counted to him for righteousness. Just a moment of faith, that's righteousness imputed. This is speaking about righteousness imparted, where God's righteousness is seen in my life, where I'm made righteous.

By God, I'm righteous. Oh, beloved, are we hungering and thirsting after that? To be made righteous by God. When I have been made righteous by God, do you know what will happen? Do you know what will happen to the church?

The first thing I see is you become amazingly able to forgive, so that you can be forgiven. These amazing repercussions are the result of God's righteousness. You are made pure in heart, pure in heart, the result of God's righteousness being imparted unto me.

I am pure in heart suddenly. Do you know what the repercussions of a man pure in heart are upon the world? Pure in heart as a result of God's righteousness imparted unto my life by God, looking at my thirst and my brokenness and coming and meeting the need and making me, giving me the desires of my heart.

The first thing I really see here is there's peace comes between God's people, peacemakers. Oh, the ability I've lacked to go to my worst enemy, embrace him, fall at my knees and beg him. Everything was in my power to be at peace with every man, no matter what it costs me.

Oh, as God sees us being merciful and making peace. Do you know what else I see here? The first things that will come upon us, God's righteousness imparted unto us. Do you know what comes suddenly? Persecution.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake. You won't be persecuted for righteousness' imputed. That will make no difference to anyone. They'll be impressed by a little testimony, but all righteousness imparted to you will have persecution.

All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, God says. Oh, you can't escape it now. Do you know why? Because you're the salt of the earth. You condemn everyone right in your home.

A man's family, children, become his enemies. His wife becomes his enemy. Her husband becomes her enemy. Your father becomes your enemy. Do you know why? Because of the righteousness. Everyone's condemned in that house.

Everyone's heart is condemned at your work. Everyone's heart is condemning as you are standing up and living righteous, holy life. Suddenly, in the home, they don't need a message, it's in the home. And as the salt of the earth, sir, as the salt of the earth, as the light of the world, that men see your good works, it doesn't matter that you're persecuted.

Do you know why? Because they're eventually going to get saved because their heart is so condemned. And they're going to come, no matter what they're saying right now everywhere in the world, no matter what they're going to do to us initially, believe me, they're going to come.

They're going to come. They're going to come in our homes. They're going to come in the whole world. They're going to start coming when our life demands that their hearts are condemned being in our presence.

With the salt of the earth, they can't go on with sin. I can't enjoy my sin anymore because of your life. Oh, the world's going to start writhing in your company and not sleeping at night because there's something crying out in their company.

Oh, this is the salt of the earth. Every one year you will not be able to go on with sin and enjoy it. Believe you me. They'll persecute you, but they'll come. They'll see your good works. You're the light of the world.

You're showing the way now, men. See your good works and come to glorify your Father which is in heaven. They'll come. They'll come. They'll come. You see, as a result of righteousness imparted by God, you're now able to fulfill this amazing standard.

You are now able to fulfill the law in your life. You realize that Jesus didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it in your life. You wouldn't stoop to those theologians' level who say, you know, I'm not under the law, I'm under grace.

Suddenly you wouldn't stoop to such stupid words. You couldn't stoop because you know that's not true. You know, most people I've heard who've said, I'm not under the law, but under grace. You're under the law, he's Daniel, and I'm under grace.

This is a dispensation of grace. Most people have ever said that to me who say, I'm not under the law, but under grace they'll end up in disgrace. You wouldn't stoop to such a level because you realize Christ says, I haven't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it in you.

You're the most least unworthy servant of God if you don't allow me to. You're preaching, hating and living. I haven't come to destroy it, but to fulfill it through God's righteousness imparted into my life.

God's righteousness imparted by His grace and mercy in and through me, the law of God through me, not by rigid discipline, you know, but by Him writing the law of God upon my heart and by the Holy Spirit, beloved, I spontaneously live the standard.

I don't memorize and think, thou shalt not, and I minister, thou shalt not do this. No, I just don't do it without any effort. This is God's righteousness imparted. This is God's liberty. The liberty of the law in Christ Jesus is an amazing liberty, not a bondage of the law, you fulfill it.

When you find God's righteousness imparted into you, imparted through you, lived out, not your own, in every circumstance spontaneously seen is the fruit of the Spirit. No matter how trying the circumstances, it's there, the law fulfilled, even if you haven't memorized it.

It's written in your heart by God. You're vitally real, you're fulfilling the law of God. You realize something. You wouldn't go and break the law and kill, thou shalt not kill. You wouldn't do that. So in case you think the law is destroyed through Christianity, we without the bondage of the law are, let me tell you, the bondage is gone, but let me tell you something about the law.

The standard, sir, is ten times higher than the Old Testament. And you can live it. It isn't that you have no standard. Oh, then you've really missed the whole Bible and the whole of the purpose of Christ.

Standard here, he tells us. Look how high. I think maybe, let's be honest, a hundred times higher than the Old Testament. But he puts it there. You've heard that it said you mustn't kill, but I want you to live this.

And you're going to live it. You mustn't be angry anymore. Whosoever hated his brother is a murderer in my eyes. I don't want you to be angry anymore without any cause. Any anger that can come in your life must be such a righteous indignation that nobody that watches you could see anything else but holiness in your reaction, no matter what you're offended at, that your deepest offense would be so Christ-like toward anyone that it's caused by that any righteous indignation could never, ever, ever be seen as anything but a holiness that would condemn hearts and not condemn you.

And you know it, and everyone knows it, and God knows it. Oh, this righteousness imparted by God gives you the ability to leave anything you want to do for God the moment you remember or realize someone has something against you.

Imagine the church like this, fleeing, I don't want to give out a cheque, I don't want to give tithes, I don't want to give anything. God, I know thou would not receive it if I don't go fast and get right.

Then come and offer thy gift. Get right quickly. Would anyone while you're with him? Oh, this righteousness imparted gives you the ability, beloved, to not look at woman with lust. You don't have to. God condemns...

And your wife, sir, Mr. Kinlaw, Mrs. Kinlaw, is all you see and it's all you want, can be holy by God's grace. This righteousness imparted as a result of this purity of life and thought and even what my eyes behold will mean all this divorce won't come.

It won't be just putting away your wife, marrying someone else that you find better than the old one you know. Oh, no, no, no. It won't go on. Divorce will stop. Ninety percent of it. Perhaps a hundred percent.

I hope when revival comes and the church will live the message and be able to preach it again, not write volumes trying to deny it and explain it away and find psychologists to deal with it. No, God deals with it.

When we find God's righteousness, we don't have to swear just your yes as all men, every man just looking at you with your integrity wouldn't require more than yes. They would feel deeply ashamed to say I want more than that.

In fact, you don't have to swear by anything if you're holy. Not one man looking at you would require it. Never. If the church is the salt of the earth, this holy righteousness imparted by God to give us holy living will help us, dearly beloved, to turn the other cheek.

Have you ever seen someone do that? I'd like to ask you. Have you seen a Christian, not physically, oh my, touch a man's theology and watch a man's enemy, just watch him and see how he doesn't turn the other cheek.

There's this self and even his doctrine. There's something sinful in the way he defends it. It can't be edifying. It's just I'm here to defend my doctrine. I don't care about a soul. Oh, how terrible it is to hear men like that and to see them like that.

Sir, there's half the Bible I wouldn't quote sometimes that uncertain people just to win them. I might quote the other half if that's what's needed. Am I a Calvinist? Am I a Wesleyan Arminian? Oh my, I don't know.

When I need to be a Calvinist, I am. When I need to be a Wesleyan Arminian, I am. And I'm not compromising because both have such an amount of scriptures yet I don't stumble and I don't see them as contradicting each other.

I see a blending, a harmony here in something from God that makes one thing cry out from everything I believe in, that I love the soul I'm speaking to, not the doctrine I'm defending. It was given to me to reach a soul, to heal a hurting, broken, wounded spirit, to break a man who thinks he can live in sin because he had some experience back there, to break him that he wore a wound and a woeing of his sin.

And now I take any doctrine, any verse, because I care when I'm righteous about the soul, not about defending a doctrine. I know some people, you know, I actually heard a preacher preaching. He has a reading here and he came to the verse about predestination.

He skipped the verse and he read on. He didn't want to admit it's there, so he just skipped it and hoped we'd all shut their eyes. I'm not scared of predestination. Predestined to what? To heaven? To hell?

No, predestined to be conformed into the image of his son Jesus Christ. That's a wonderful thing God had in his heart for me. But this God is sovereign and His sovereignty, beloved, is not static. That makes Him very different, very different to your idea of sovereignty, maybe.

I believe everything, but I don't allow it to keep me from compassion to every single soul I come to and every single soul I preach to. Where am I at now? This righteousness imparted helps us to be able to turn the other cheek.

I saw a man hurting my daddy. My daddy was one of the holiest men of God that ever lived. I know five men that I have come close to in this life who I have become conscious were the holiest men of God I've ever been with in my life.

I trembled, I wept in some of their presence. One of them was my daddy. I'll never, ever, ever, ever be able to stand in my daddy's shadow. But I thank God he was mine. I saw a man hurting my daddy for righteousness.

Before we could all jump up, before we could stop, before we could do anything. What my daddy did made everybody in that room unable to move. No matter what that man was doing to him in his anger, he was such a righteous man.

My daddy just looked at him and with such love that I've never seen in my life, let me turn the other cheek. Have you ever turned the other cheek? Do you know that man? Melted, he crumbled onto the floor.

Do you know what sinners will do when we live this? Do you know what sinners will do if you can do that? If you become the salt of the earth, do you know what it is? By God's righteousness imparted to love your enemies.

To bless them that curse you, to do good to them. How can a man carry on hating you if you do good to him? What good did you do to your enemy to win him? But you will win him. Turn the other cheek. You can.

As a result of God's righteousness imparted to the church of Jesus Christ, we will find a revival, a revival into vital reality, into the standard of this Word, the Scriptures. By God's grace alone, fulfilling the law, we'll find the ability, beloved, to not do our righteousness before men.

Do you know what it is that your left hand doesn't know what your right hand does? Do you know what that is? Tell me, how many of you are hypocrites? How many of you are as the hypocrite when you give?