Our Need for a New Heart - Part 1 — Joshua Daniel

Welcome to the Lord's Challenge with Joshua Daniel. The Layman's Evangelical Fellowship International is a ministry reaching people from all walks of life since 1935. After a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ at the age of 16, Joshua Daniel has been declaring the marvelous deliverance from sin, which is freely given to all those who turn to the loving Savior.

From small villages to large cities, in many parts of the globe, through revival meetings, literature, radio, internet, and television, Joshua Daniel has been tirelessly laboring, trusting God to supply all that is needed.

Wherever this message has gone out, broken relationships have been restored, sickness healed, ill-gotten money returned, and thieves turn into givers. We now invite you to watch and receive the invaluable blessing.

Personal Responsibility and the Perversion of Conscience

That God has for you. Now, dear friends, here is something which we all love to escape. We love to sidestep and bypass personal blame or guilt or responsibility. When you are not ready to admit what is blatantly a failure or a flaw, my dear friends, that cultivates in your mind a crookedness, a perversion.

David's Abuse of Royal Power

Now, here was a king, King David. He was ruling a nation. He was leading them in battle. He was also their judge. Now, one day when he saw, as he walked up on his terrace, his neighbor's wife, a beautiful woman, and as he looked on her, he said, I must get her.

And by a stratagem, seeing that her husband was out on the front fighting for the king, he made sure that that man would be put in the forefront of the battle where he would be killed. He took the woman and the prophet Nathan came to him and said, O king, there is a wealthy man in your kingdom.

Nathan's Parable and David's Blind Judgment

And besides him was a poor man who had a ewe lamb, which lay in his bosom like a daughter. Now the wealthy man had an abundance of flocks and herds. But when he had a guest, he went and plucked that ewe lamb out of his neighbor's bosom and dressed it and fed his guest.

Oh, the king was outraged. His sense of right and wrong was so aroused that he said, that man shall surely die. What was the answer of Nathan? Nathan said, you are that man. You precisely did what that man in my parable did.

And moreover, you were one who conspired to see her husband dead. By a stratagem, you made sure that he would not come back alive. Well, my dear friends, and the king said, I have sinned. I have sinned against the Lord.

David's Repentance and Plea for Deliverance

You'll find that in the book of 2 Samuel 12 chapter and the 13th verse. And Nathan said unto David, the Lord also has put away your sin. Thou shalt not die. The Lord has given you a reprieve, a pardon.

But mark you, if you read Psalm 51, you will read how David humbled himself. He repented and he cried, deliver me from blood guiltiness, O Lord. Why don't we see more people crying that way today? Blood, blood flowing everywhere.

Violence, Tribal Enmity, and an Unforgiving Spirit

Today, I had an email from an area where tribes are called headhunters, certain tribes, and they vow to kill a man, dispossess him of his lands, and they will carry out that threat. Some 70 houses, homes, were set on fire as one of my assistants wrote me.

Out of an old enmity, born through the years. You know, an unforgiving spirit is everywhere. Some years ago, someone with whom I was driving said to me, look at that city and its skyscrapers. You can buy a woman in that city for $5.

Commercial Exploitation and the Justification of Sin

I was shocked. Yes, for a market share, people will whine and dine and lead their buyers into far worse sins of all sorts. Okay, and they think this is for the market share. We've got to do it. Well, my dear friends, you can justify murder like so many are doing today.

Religious Manipulation and the Perversion of Worship

Can you think of a religious preacher employing his prayer meeting or worship or whatever you call it to rouse people, to recruit people, to be murderers? So that is the God whom you preach? Oh, my dear friends, come, let us face this.

This is perversion of the religion.