(Covenant Word Ministries) Servant of Sin — Keith Daniel

Thank you. I'm very grateful that the dear Lord has worked it that I can be here. I still don't know altogether how this all worked out, but I'm truly conscious that God's hand was in it. And there was some conference I was at a year ago.

They had crowds from all over the place overlooking this big lake. But somehow that whole convention's collapsed. And reasons that I don't want to share, but we carefully felt to cancel instead of pushing through when we realized there's problems up there that we don't want to go into tonight.

And so I thought, well, I've got three days. And I've got three. They're not going to destroy me as they normally do. They're wiping me out. But this suddenly came. And I'd become conscious the Lord doesn't allow things to cancel in one place and another place opens with such short notice.

There's been no advertising, but I do thank God for that which God knew would be here. And it's a joy to be here. Praise the dear Lord. Even if I can't see you, you're so far back in the auditorium. You must be scared of this old man.

And don't worry. Tomorrow you'll have more confidence and you might come a bit closer. I hope this is okay. Is it not echoing? It's perfect. Is that right? I'm not doing... It's not disappearing. Okay.

Well, let's all be seated, please. Pastor Anthony Stowers. Is that right? Stowers? Stowers? Stowers. All right. Dear Anthony, dear brother, God bless you. And for your kind words, I'm very grateful. I know I'm the most unworthy of all God's servants.

And that's not just falseness. I marvel at His grace. And I'm just grateful to the dear Lord for allowing me the joy of coming so many times to your land in spite of such weakness with which I preach.

Because my heart is burned for Christ. I have no qualifications outside of that. But thank you and thank the dear Lord that I could come to you. If you'd like to walk forward and come to the front, you'd be very brave because most are sitting in the back.

There you are. Welcome. There is a place for babies if there's any noise. That's terrible that they have to say that for this preacher. I don't know if you did that by yourself, brother, but you're very kind.

And I'm grateful they've got all the facilities that they do. If anything goes wrong with this loudspeaker, do tell me because I can hear words echoing, but half of the words I'm saying. So I'm not sure, but if you're sure you can hear everything, unless you can lip-read, then we won't have any trouble.

Good. Now, let's have another short prayer. I'd be very grateful if we could just bow before the Lord, our Father, and thank Thee for the wonderful joy of being able to gather together because of our love for Christ.

Thank Thee for the wonderful salvation Thou hast procured. We thank Thee from our hearts for Jesus, our Savior, for His blood, for the blood of God, God the Son, that cleanses us of sin. We worship Thee for the wonderful salvation plan that was in Thy heart, in a perfect God's heart, with perfect integrity, perfect love, perfect righteousness, no matter how much confused man's mind is of all the state of this world.

The more we soak ourselves in this book, the more we realize we deal with a God of perfect justice, perfect integrity, perfectness, and perfect love. Come in Thy mercy and wash me afresh in the blood of Jesus.

Should there have been the smallest thought, the smallest reaction, that was not utterly Christlike, that I somehow overlooked in my baseness, forgive me, I need the blood. I need to be cleansed. I only have one hope, Lord, in Thy mercy on such a weak man, such a base and worthy man.

That is the blood of Jesus Christ, cleansing me afresh, that I might be a vessel made for the Master's use. Fill me with the Holy Spirit, anoint me, come to each heart, and break down every hardness by the work of the Holy Ghost, that we won't even understand how our hearts can be so, so deeply, deeply open to God's Word, embracing it with every faculty of our being, no matter what the devil's done to harden it to our lives.

Come, protect us from our enemy, the devil. Rebuke thou thyself, Satan, away from this building by the risen, resurrected power of Christ, and protect us, and brood upon this building by the Holy Ghost, to minister to every heart.

Sin's Slavery and Christ's Freedom

Come now, God, and glorify Thy name, in Jesus Christ's name. We all unitedly agree and ask this in faith of our Father in Heaven. Amen. In Romans 6, verse 16, Paul asks this staggering question. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey?

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey? Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness, might God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Being then made free from sin, being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servant ye are to whom ye obey?

Jesus said in John 8, verse 34, He that commiteth sin is the servant of sin. Is the servant of sin. That's not an isolated sin. That's a life of sin. He that commiteth sin is the servant of sin. But, John 8, verse 36, If the Son, capital S, If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed.

Hallelujah. A servant of sin. It literally means a slave. To the most precise word you and I would use in our English language today. A slave doesn't choose when to obey. He just obeys. A man who loses his children because of his sin, loses his honor, loses his health, loses his integrity, loses his work, loses his friends, loses his self-respect and respect from everybody on earth, including his children, who look with disdain and contempt.

A man who loses everything, doesn't want to lose his children's respect, doesn't want to lose his health, doesn't want to lose his integrity or his honor, or his mother and father's love. Do you honestly think he chooses?

When you're enslaved, even if you are losing everything in life, you have no choice. You go back to the things you're enslaved to, even if it's destroying everything in life. And set yourself free when you're a slave.

And you know you can't. You try. Oh, the promises you make to your children. Oh, the promises you make to your own conscience. But you're back. Sometimes, moments after you've made the resolutions to change forever, with every faculty of your being, you find you haven't got any say.

Whosoever commits that word, it's a staggering word if you go and make research into enslaved, that he can't. He can't stop. Sin is the servant, the slave of sin. But, if the Son, Jesus Christ, God's Son, shall set you free, you shall be free.

Indeed. Indeed. As many as received Him, John 1 verse 10, to them gave He the power to become the sons of God. To them gave He the power to become the sons of God. Therefore, if, you must put a circle around that word now, if.

Don't forget it now. You don't know what's being said. The magnanimity of what's being said. Therefore, if, if. Remember now, any man in this building, in this world. Therefore, if, any man be in Christ, he is.

Put a circle around that. Don't forget it. A new creature. Old things, old things are passed away. Behold, look, God says. To everyone that knows you, beginning in your home. Look. If you've been saved, God can say this to anyone in the world that knows you.

Look. All things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5 .17. Therefore, if, if, if any man be in Christ, he is. He is. Don't argue with God and say salvation doesn't work like that. He is. A new creature. Old things are passed away.

Behold, all things, all things call God a liar. If you say salvation isn't that radical. Become new. Do you know I didn't know that verse was in the Bible? But I said those words. Yes. Almost word perfect.

A Changed Life as a Living Witness

It wasn't the King James graphic language. When my brother turned to Jesus, three years older than me, I looked at this life. I could hardly breathe, let alone speak. I knew no one, no one on earth could change to this degree in his own strength.

I knew that without having heard the gospel once in my life, in truth. By looking at a life, I knew, by looking at my brother's life, that if any man be in Christ, this is what happened. He is a new creature.

Old things are passed away. Look, behold, all things are become new. That didn't take a year. That took one night. And our home was in dead silence and shock from that night until we began to seek God ourselves.

By his life. The life of my brother made me seek Christ. Before I heard the gospel of Christ preached from any pulpit or any preacher, I was desperate for God to save me. And I believed God could save me.

Because of a life. Because that verse was written, not with ink, but by the Spirit of God. Epistle known and read of all men. The living epistles. Do you think God waits for people to get under the preaching of this book?

No! The power of the outworking of the scriptures through a life is as dynamic in the hands of the Holy Spirit as reading this book to people that the Holy Spirit can predict. I was desperate and I believed God could save me through that verse being written across a life.

But I knew that life, God, now, commandeth all men everywhere to repent. I believe that. God, hallelujah, now, commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out.

That your sins, Acts 3 verse 19, may be blotted out. God, now, commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out. Your sins cannot be blotted out if you didn't repent from them.

Your sins can't be blotted out if you're still living a life of sin. Who shall confesseth and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have mercy. This holy book says in Proverbs 28 verse 13, Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out.

The one thing God cannot do for you is repent. That's the one thing God commands from you. And the one thing God cannot do for you. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Repent ye. This is your side.

This is the one thing in salvation God cannot do for you. The one thing you cannot do is set yourself free. You know it. You know it. But He can set you free. And when you come to God for salvation and you repent, the thing God is waiting for, it involves more than just faith.

The devils believe and tremble, but wilt thou know, vain man, that faith without works is dead. It involves more than just faith in his death. To believe that Jesus died, put your faith in his blood, the blood of Jesus Christ, that cleanseth us from all sin, being justified freely by grace through faith in his blood, Romans says.

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. To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness.

His faith in the blood, being justified freely by grace through faith in his blood, is grace. It's not works, but hang on. It's far more than just faith in his blood. Because you don't only need to look to God for forgiveness from the consequences of sin, to escape damnation and judgment, to believe you've been forgiven, you need deliverance.

A dead Savior cannot do that for you. You have to believe. No, not only confess with your lips in this book and this Savior, but believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead and his men has received this risen Savior and all his resurrected power.

Oh, Christ in you is the hope of glory. Unless Christ is in you, you have no hope of eternal life, according to this book. We have this treasure within earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God, not of us.

You can't set yourself free. To them give you the power to become the sons of God, to set us free, and free indeed. A Savior must do that. Your faith is not only in the death of Christ when you come to salvation, it's in a risen Christ to deliver you.

Repentance, Deliverance, and the Need for New Birth

What drunk, what drunk, will walk through that door and hear the gospel being preached and you say, come, come to Jesus? And he comes with his bottle. This is obnoxious, isn't it? But he's got his bottle.

He came in as a sinner. Maybe people don't know what you came in as, what's in your life, but outwardly this man walks in with his bottle, his sin. He comes out, he kneels, but he's still holding the bottle.

He cries a sinner's prayer. He's looking to God. Oh, you point him to Christ's blood for forgiveness, but he's still holding his bottle. He gets up, walks out that door. What drunk in his right mind, what person in his right mind, would say that man's saved because he came out in a meeting and looked to the blood of Jesus for forgiveness, when he holds on, walks out, as he walked in.

Now, what do you walk out with when you pray for God to save your soul, knowing you're not turning? You have to turn to God. You have to repent. You have to do what God can't do for you. You have to turn to Him in a way that He can set you free, that allows Him to set you free, that believes not only in His forgiveness, but looks by faith for Him to set you free, that you can be forgiven by His blood.

You can be forgiven. You can be washed. One word that tragically lacks in the gospel presentation across the world today, in most evangelical churches, the one word that tragically lacks is repent. So we have people in their millions, worldwide, beginning in your land, because we're here, that have never repented, but they've got a testament.

We cry out, receive, accept, believe, come, but not repent. Oh, they don't know about that. So we've got millions and millions and millions who received, who believed, who accepted, but who never repented.

And that is tragic. That is so tragic. It's beyond comprehension that we are not on our faces weeping for what we've done. Preachers, if you're guilty, what are you, angry at me? Be angry with God. He said it.

That your sin may be blotted out, repentance is required, sir. Deliverance from being a slave, because to whom your people have yielded themselves when they walk out of that door with a testimony, but without deliverance you're in trouble, because you gave them the false message.

And maybe there's no preacher on earth that'll say it, but I'm saying it while you let me live. The most important chapter in the whole Bible, Isaiah 53. Don't doubt this. Get through the book a few hundred times, and you'll come to the conclusion, I have no doubt, that this book revolves around the actual, that the whole scripture revolves around Isaiah 53.

Isaiah 53, why he died, what was behind that death, what the whole Old Testament was about, and what the whole New Testament was being pointed to. And he says in this magnificent chapter that I don't know how you could possibly be saved if you haven't wept over it.

Wait, I better take that back. Sometimes tears are not the outward evidence as much as the heart weeping. But I wept when I realized what God had done for me after I was saved, and I read that chapter.

And God says, All, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. That's beyond comprehension. He tasted death for every man, the holy book says.

He tasted death for every man, I believe that, with all my heart, sir. He is the propitiation for our sins, not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. I believe that. 1 John 2 verse 2.

He is, that word propitiation comes from Leviticus 16, where the high priest Aaron went in once a year and scattered blood, sprinkled blood on the altar. But there was the mercy seat on the altar, and he covered the mercy seat with blood, as he confessed the sins and asked God for the sins of the nation, of God's people.

Now, he is, John says, the mercy seat. His blood covered. Everything was pointing to his blood in the Old Testament. He is the propitiation, the way to God for mercy, not for our sins only, in its context to Christians who fail afterwards, isolated faiths, but also for the sins of the whole world.

He tasted death for every man. Oh, brother, I get excited about this book. I don't know about you. Survive. This morning you should have seen me trying to sleep late. Oh, you know why I couldn't? I couldn't bear not getting out of bed, opening this book, as verses started coming to me, and revelation, right lying in bed.

Oh, isn't this wonderful? Let me say this. 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 1, I exhort, therefore, that supplications, prayers, intercessions be made for all men. Hallelujah. I love the word all. You're in trouble if you don't believe it, because you have to cut a lot of this book out with scissors, brother, to hold it and say you believe everything you've got in your hands.

I, therefore, will that exhorts, prayers, intercessions be made for all men. Now he goes on, verse 4, who will have all men to be saved. Verse 6, who gave himself a ransom for all. Now I love these words, and I'm not ashamed to preach them, sir, even if you are.

He tasted death for every man. I believe that. Well, how can I be driven by the love of Christ constraining me to every man? I come near. Whosoever will. Does that offend you? Sorry. Jesus, the gospel of Christ.

Let him come. He will in no wise turn away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus. Why? Because he tasted death for every man. Do you know what one of the greatest theologians in the history of our church said this literally means to his closest access, and he was really something.

He cannot. He is incapable of turning away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus in the light of the rest of the scriptures because he tasted death for every man. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, God promises.

Whosoever will, he will in no wise turn away anyone. Now that, that is beyond comprehension, but it gives me faith not to pass anyone in this earth. Sir, without believing, God can save him if I try. If God has some instrument that won't pass, a soul on earth that others give up on.

Evangelism for Those Others Have Given Up On

I was preaching as a young preacher in a very large convention. They opened this denomination across southern Africa, their annual big event. Many preachers, many people, and they asked this young fellow, full of fire, not much wisdom, but the fire is what they wanted, a little girl, a little girl.

I don't remember her age, but I remember looking down at this little girl, long blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes. She was one of those that all responded to seek God to save. And she somehow made her way to me and she said, Sir, my father is an alcoholic, like your father was.

And when I listened to you preach, Sir, I believe God wanted me to hear that, so I could tell my father, and I'm going to tell my father, that your daddy was an alcoholic like him. He's not allowed to see me.

I haven't seen my father for a long time. The police will put him in jail if he comes within a 50 mile radius of us. He's not allowed to make contact with me, because he so hurt us, under the influence of drink.

But I'm going to get hold of my father of what I've heard today, that Jesus Christ can set you free. Your daddy heard that, and in one moment, your daddy broke all the bottles, and never touched a drink till he died.

Sir, I'm going to tell my father that, but I want you to pray, that God will save him, and set him free, like he set your father free. Now that isn't word perfect, but that's the closest I can come to what that little girl said to me.

Many years ago. I did pray. Now a few years passed. I'm not sure how many, so I won't lie. If you dare not lie in the pulpit, it's the end of you. The most dangerous thing on earth is a preacher in the pulpit without God.

I don't know how exactly how many years afterwards, I was preaching in a town where this man said to me at the back of the church, very big man, reddish type of hair, and he said, Keith Daniel, would you come with me in my car?

And I want to drive around, and I want to be alone with you, and I want to share with you something I need to share with you. So I spoke to a few people, and I went with this man who had this Bible in his hand, and a smiling face.

We drove. He said, Do you remember a little girl asking you to pray for her father that's an alcoholic? A few years ago, that was my daughter, and it came back to me, that little girl's face. He said, Sir, when I woke up out of my stupor of drunkenness, and I looked at my children and wife, what I had done to them physically, because I became aggressive, I didn't know I'd done it.

When I looked at them, I used to fall on my face and sob, and sob like a baby, that I could have done such things to the people I love more than anything on earth. And I would say, I'm going to stop, but I couldn't stop.

And I tried to stop for days, and it was like spiders, these big, gigantic spiders, I don't know how, my eyes, my mind, crawling over me, until I was going insane. I was going totally insane. And I used to, in desperation, go back, grab a bottle, and just lie there drinking, and all these terrible things would just disappear.

My only way of escaping was happening to me mentally. That's what drink does to you, after years and years of abusing it. He said, Sir, my daughter phoned me. She wasn't supposed to, but she phoned me.

Her mother didn't know she phoned me. And she said, Daddy, I heard a preacher preaching that Jesus Christ can save you, that Jesus Christ can set you free. She told me a testimony, how she had come, how you had prayed.

And she said, Daddy, this man's father was like you. And in one moment, one night, he asked God to save him and set him free, and he was set free. It's not like the Alcoholics Anonymous, who say, you stand up in the first step to victory, and say, I am an alcoholic.

This man stood up and said, I was an alcoholic, but Jesus set me free in one moment, as I looked to him to save my soul from hell, and from the sin that would take it. Daddy, Jesus can set you free. You've just got to want it.

You've got to ask him. You've got to cry out to him to set you free, and he will set you free. Jesus can set you free, Daddy. I know it, but you've got to want it. You've got to ask him. So I was broken, listening to my daughter, but it didn't help me.

I just went back slave, just lying, drunk, the same night. Done. I so came to the end of myself that I got in my vehicle, my car, and I drove toward the town where my children and my wife were, that I wasn't allowed.

And I put my foot flat on the accelerator, on the petrol, until that car could go no faster. The whole thing was vibrating as I was breaking some incredible speed. And as I got to the peak pitch of the speed this car, this vehicle could reach, I tried to turn the wheel so that I could turn and roll off where these hills would go down.

But something staggering happened. I couldn't turn the wheel. I tried. I couldn't understand it. I struggled to turn the wheel, and suddenly, as I really didn't want to turn, I realized something miraculous was happening.

And I was so staggered, so undone, as I couldn't turn this vehicle, that I slowed the car down, pulled off, got on my knees as I got out of that car, and fell down on the side of the road. And I looked up in brokenness, under the influence, I was under the influence.

And I screamed as I heard these voices, my daughter's voice coming back in my heart, Daddy, Jesus can set you free. You've got to want, you've got to ask him, you've got to put your faith. That's all I could hear, Jesus can set you free.

Her voice is echoing, echoing, as I'm on my knees. And I screamed. Brother, I screamed. Screamed in brokenness, Jesus Christ, set me free. That's all he prayed. He never touched another drink in his life.

He didn't go through withdrawal stages, he didn't go through medication. You say this is impossible? Sure! It's a godly impossible you're dealing with. And if you don't know that, then you limit God to man.

And that is a deep, deep sin, and offense to God, and the promises he gave. That man never went to drink again. He became a preacher. Hallelujah! And I spent many nights praying with that man for souls.

A Drunk Man Desperate to Enter the Church

I was preaching in a town in South Africa years ago. All I do remember is how much it rained. It was so pouring with rain, that I just couldn't, I couldn't understand why God would send so much rain. We couldn't even go to the houses, and the souls we wanted to, as we normally do, running soul after soul, home after home, inviting them to the meetings, as young preachers.

But I was preaching in this town, and I got into this church, drenched, wet through, soaked, no possibility of getting from the vehicle to the church doors without being soaked. But I was surprised the whole church was full.

Full of people, all willing to brave the rain. So my heart lifted up. I stood in the pulpit and I began to preach. I don't know how many minutes, perhaps five, ten minutes, when suddenly there was a shoe melt at the door.

At the church there was a man, drunk, totally drunk, screaming, screaming, offensively, in his desperation to get into the building. The elders, the deacons were there, physically, doing everything they could to keep him out of that door, because obviously he had destroyed, disrupted services before.

But this man was screaming, in desperation. And they were saying, no, no, the whole church, just all taking their minds off me, preaching and looking. And I stopped. And there was a little lady, sitting in the front row.

Now this was a lady. This was a lady, I looked at. As I saw different people coming forward, kneeling in front of her, putting their arms around her, comforting her, she just sat there sobbing aloud. Sobbing.

And I realized, this is your husband, this drunk, shaming you. He loved the Lord, that woman. Eventually, he said these words, screaming, God, told me, I have to be in this meeting. Nothing you do will keep me out.

They let him sit in the very back row, in some little section. And I looked at him, and I was unnerved. He put his arm behind his head, held himself up. He was drunk. Don't ask me how God does this. But some people can't sober up.

So God does something beyond comprehension, to human understanding. I struggled to preach that sermon that night. I didn't finish. It wasn't the end of a prepared sermon. I just quoted many scriptures.

It was on God's salvation. There were a few illustrations. But about three-quarters way through what I should deliver, I stopped because the whole atmosphere was so destroyed by this man. People unbroken, just broken all over the place.

Not by my message, but by what he was doing to his wife. He was the only one, of the whole building, came forward, staggering. Now, sobbing. While his wife sat there looking at him. I prayed with him.

I didn't say, sir, you can't pray to God in this state. I can't stoop and degrade the gospel, and cast my pearls before swine. I didn't say that. Verses rang through my mind. He's a people I know. Echoing in my heart.

That man stood up. Never again to touch alcohol till he died. Not once till he died. But from the moment he stood, he sobered later. He had been saved. I don't say to you, go out and get drunks, and say, now look, let's prove a point, let's get them drunks.

That doesn't work. But there's no one God can't save, if that man desperately looks in his state. That's the best he can get. I believe that with all my heart. He was set free. You should have seen what a soul winner he became.

Especially to drunks and alcoholics in that town. He had been the magistrate of that town, that whole county. Before, through socializing, he became an alcoholic and destroyed everything. But Christ set him free.

We had two American missionaries, a man and wife, when I was just saved, in our city hall in Johannesburg. They were having what they call a child evangelism outreach. And there were many different sections of the city hall that had different convention halls, I suppose you could call them.

And I came out of one meeting, of the gospel, young in the faith, and I saw through the doors all these crowds of young children. And these people in the front with all their things they were doing to reach the children for Christ.

They had American accents, broad accents, probably from Alabama. I'm not too sure, but I'm learning. But they were a joy to listen to. I just sat there listening. But then I became conscious of something that disturbed me.

Two drunks were sitting in the back, a few children around them, but they plonked themselves. They were reeking, they were drunk. They weren't pretending. They weren't there seeking God. They just happened to hear and they came in.

I felt uncomfortable with them. I felt this was wrong. Because they were making a few comments and things. But then this man of God, this American missionary, child evangelism missionary, he just went on with such zeal, such joy, such simplicity in the graphic way he would explain to the children the salvation plan of God.

And then he made an appeal. Now a number of those children responded. But what shook me was those two men got up with tears running down their faces. They were drunk. I admit, I wish I could say they weren't, just for integrity's sake.

But I'm going to be honest, for God's glory's sake. These men knelt there. What shook me and the other grown-ups of that place that were sitting there was this man, this American missionary. He didn't look at them unnerved.

He didn't look at them scolding them and grieved that they were there drunk and mocking the gospel and the love that shone through that man's eyes and in his face as he looked at these two men reeking with alcohol, wanting God to save their souls.

They were vagrants from the streets, not just drunks. He put his arms around them and with love that you cannot... I thought to myself, that's what Jesus must look... It was like God was looking at them with love.

He tasted death. I hope you can grasp that and what it means to me and to you that the love of Christ can constrain us, drives us to every man no matter what hopelessness there is, brother, sister, if it's God's time.

Those men were saved. One went out into a child of angels. They never touched another drink. Now, I don't want to lie and say I've watched them to this day many, many years later because that was 30 something years ago.

Nearly 40. But I do know this. Until I left and went to theological seminar, until I left and stopped going to all the meetings, those men were in the meetings of the conservative evangelicals with Bibles still looking roughened, but God refining them more and more.

Hallelujah for such a God that looks differently at men as you and I do with love, knowing our sins, knowing before He died, while He died, knowing your sin, He died for you. Why would we get sinners placed to death for every man?

Oh, hallelujah for such a Savior that didn't give up on anyone but placed to death for every man and God now commanded all men can you comprehend what I'm trying to in my limited state and weakness to comprehend of God and act on it and preach it without being offended by God's love that I see.

A Missed Opportunity and a Warning to Never Neglect a Soul

I was in a town where God did something that I still I still haven't recovered that God could do such a thing. It was like the whole community came to a total standstill because God was so sweeping across that town.

Through a young fellow full of fire I had met so little wisdom but the fire of God driving me many came to Christ many, many multitudes came to Christ in that community and then came the last day. I was going to drive that night back to our headquarters our missionary headquarters and I stood in the pulpit that afternoon my custom for many, many, many years was to stand in the pulpit I'm going to preach and when no one was in that church and go over the whole sermon especially scriptures because 90 of my sermons over these nearly 40 years have been just quoting God's word that's what God gave me.