Don't Say No to God — Keith Daniel

There are some staggering promises in this holy book, and staggering warnings in the promises. Many people love the promises and they don't realize there's a warning there. A terrible warning. Listen to these words you all know.

That God said through Isaiah, Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. That's a warning. Don't doubt that. He may not always be able to be found. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

That's a warning. Have you thought of that? That's a warning. Call ye upon him while he is near. God says in the book, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now that's a promise.

But you only call upon him while he's near. Don't take a chance and think he's going to come again and again if you harden your hearts. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. To our God, for he will abundantly pardon. What more could God say?

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Today. Today. Now. Now is God's time. Now is the acceptable time, God says. Today is the day of salvation, if you will harden not your hearts. What's God saying here?

Choosing Whether to Say Yes to God

Can I say no to God? Now is when I want to save you. Now. While I'm near. While I may be found in your life. Now is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation, if you, God says, if you will harden not your hearts.

That's the day of provocation. Choose you this day. Amazing how God says, Now. Choose you this day whom you will serve, whether you want to serve God or the devil. And here Joshua stands and says, Make up your mind.

But you have to make a choice. You have to seek the Lord while he may be found. Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

He will in no right turn away anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. What more can God say but oh the warning. The warning. Choose you this day whom you will serve.

Sin's Enslavement and Christ's Freedom

Make a choice now. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey. His servants ye are to whom ye obey. You make a choice who you obey. Romans 6 verse 16. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey.

His servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. He that commiteth sin is the servant of sin. You that live on in a life of sin, you are the servant of sin.

But if the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed. But you have to choose. You have to seek him. You have to call on him while he's near, while he may be found, while the acceptable time. You won't have chance upon chance upon chance.

Repentance as a Condition of Salvation

God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. He wouldn't command all men everywhere to repent if they couldn't. He tasted death for every man. I hope you believe that. I hope you know that. He's the propitiation for our sins as Christians and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

I believe that. I believe He tasted death for every man and He has the right to say to all men everywhere. And you have the right to say to all men everywhere with hope that they choose and seek Him while He may be found.

God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out. Your sins can't be blotted out if you haven't repented from them. Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that your sins may be blotted out.

Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have mercy. Repentance is vital to salvation. Repent. Make a choice. Make a turning choice toward God that God will save you. That's the one thing God can't do for you and me is repent.

That's the one thing He says He commands you to do. He says to all men everywhere to repent. To turn. That's a turning, sir, not into believing. The devils believe that isn't a choice. Not into accepting.

It's a turning in the way that God knows you want to turn from a life of sin, from being a servant to sin, being enslaved to sin. And if the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed. Are you? When did you repent?

When did God make you free? Indeed! Not just free. When did you become a new creature in Christ that all things passed away and all things became new? When was God able to say to the devil, Look! Behold!

When was God able to say to your wife, to your children, to your father? When was God able to say to your enemy, Look! If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things have passed away. Behold!

All things have become new. That's salvation. But that's the result of repent. Take the word out of the pulpit, repent, and you'll have people in their millions receiving in their sins. Having a testimony through some prayer, but never turning from a life of sin.

You have to repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. What drunk will hold a bottle if he walks into your church and ministry and you say, Come to Christ, and he walks with a bottle. And you're near with him and he has the bottle.

And he prays for God to save him and he's still holding the bottle. And he gets up and he says, I'm my Saviour. And you say, Yes, you receive Christ. And he walks out of the church with a bottle. Will you believe he said?

No! What sin, sir, do you get on your knees knowing you're not turning from salvation? Salvation is when you know you're the servant of sin and you turn from sin in a way that God knows you're not just coming for mercy, for sins you're going to go on in, trampling under the flesh the blood of Christ.

But you're confessing and forsaking and you're looking and you're turning that the Son can set you free. He knows you want to come to be saved from a life of sin, not sinless perfection, but from a life of sin.

When did you stop? When did you repent? Repent? You want revival, America? I dare your evangelical preachers to put this one word back into the salvation message, repent. You cry out believe, receive.

Put it in there, sir, or you will have millions professing they received and they're going to hell. You have to turn. You have to turn to be set free for God to forgive you and to make you able to have a heart that the witness of the Spirit doesn't condemn you as you read this book, but it confirms, I'm Christ.

God's Intervention Before Destruction

My life has been brought into alignment with this book. Repent. Repent. Salvation begins to cost if you have the word repent. God may try to intervene in your life. God may try to intervene in your life before you destroy your life.

But you could choose to reject God's intervention. You could choose to reject God's intervention and your life will forever be destroyed. But you will remember for all eternity, sir, lady, young boy, you will remember for all eternity that God tried to save you, but you said no.

And you listened to the devil who told you to not take heed to God's trying to intervene in your life. You will remember for all eternity that God tried to save you, but you said no. I've learned. I've learned that God brings many people across my path who are about to destroy their lives in moments.

In seconds, some of them. I've learned that God brings many people across my path who are about to destroy their lives and others with them. One day I was in a city and going to see a Christian businessman up on one of the floors in this big factory of all the office block.

And I was in the factory area waiting for permission to go through security. Before I got permission to go up in this lift I had to wait until they had phoned up and given me clearance. So I was standing there in the factory area and suddenly as I looked over there was a young fellow sitting on a tractor.

These forklift tractors you know that pick up the big cartridges and put them in the lorries and move them around. He was a driver of this little tractor, this forklift tractor in the factory area. Now he saw me standing there waiting looking out across the factory and I looked at him as he sat there with the tractor idling.

He didn't work as he just sat there looking at me smiling. And I couldn't help but look at him with a bit of fear. He had one of these mohawk hairstyles on you know. I don't know if you know what that is.

I suppose you would know more than anybody in the world. But now I looked at him and I thought and just wondered at what he was looking at and why he had this style you know. And he just looked at there not moving the tractor just smiling with a strange smile.

That isn't a style by the way. That's a message. No doubt that most styles today, most styles are messages crying out loud and clear something to people of like mind. Let me tell you that. In case you think there's styles and fashions.

Most fashions are messages. Clear, clear messages. Trust me about that and the styles today and the fashions. That boy was crying out something to the world of his life. Loud and clear. Loud and clear.

Well, I stood there looking at him. Him looking at me and suddenly I just found tears pouring down my face just looking at him. And I found my heart just sinking to such a grief and such a sorrow for this young fellow.

And he looked at me and he stopped smiling when he saw these tears just pouring down my face. The grief I felt for him. The compassion. And I just walked over to him. He put the tractor off to listen to me and I looked up at him and my heart was so broken I could never put into words how God does this or why God does this to a Christian when he's confronted with a wicked boy.

I looked up at him and I said to him, you need God. You need Jesus Christ to save your soul. You need to seek God to save your soul through Christ before you do something terrible in this world. And that boy, suddenly the tears just came down his face.

The shock of someone confronting him like that. And suddenly they called for me and I couldn't say another word to them. I never saw them again. I went in the lift and went up. A few weeks later I picked up the newspaper.

Now I don't read the newspaper. You may, but I haven't got time. I saved the strength of my eyes for this book. To read all the junk in the paper is just a waste of strength and vanity. Vexation of spirit.

I do this though. My children say, but Daddy, you didn't read the newspaper. What did you buy it for? Well, I thought about it and I said, well boys, I only read the headlines through the years because Daddy's just living out of his suitcase so much.

In case something's happened in the world that I need to pray about. And if the Holy Ghost says to me this, you need to know about it. 20 ,000 families or white doctrine, some terrible tragedy. You need to, as a Christian, to pray, not to be ignorant and say I cut myself for more news.

You need to pray for those who survived, the families that are wounded, somehow God in mercy. What's going on? You just, so I only read and only what the Holy Ghost seems to put in my heart. You need to read this.

I read the rest is junk. It's defiling many of it. Well, I opened the newspaper a few weeks after I saw that boy and my heart just sank. There on the front page of the newspaper as I put it down was a big photograph of this boy.

You couldn't miss it. And my heart just sank as I read. And I worked up the day I stood with him and said those words. Went out with a friend in their car and there in the city along the beach front they pulled a young girl off the street.

They drove her into the field away from where there was any sight of cars and I won't tell you what they did to her. I haven't got it in me to stand in the pulpit of God in name. Forgive me. I don't want to defile your children.

I went into Christ and I'm scared what some preachers have the liberty to tell. And then in their wickedness it wasn't enough. They took a knife and 40 times stabbed her. Forgive me. I'm not trying to wound your heart and mind to make sure she's dead that she could never ever tell on them.

After their wickedness they left her dead in their eyes. Drove off. Can you believe it? To try and find more wickedness. No concept. That girl she did it. She pulled parts of her stomach that were all over.

She crawled for hours to get back to the main street. How she lived no one knows. No one knows. Doctors can't work out how she stayed alive. They found this girl's body after hours of getting back to the road and people rushed her to the doctors in all the knowledge God has allowed us to have in these days.

Somehow put this girl's body together and she survived. The police of course took a report of the identification of these fellows. It didn't take long to find that fellow the description she gave him not many boys are like that at the age of 20.

They went to him got him and his friends and in the back of this police car as they drove them the policeman overheard them saying she can't be alive. She can't be alive. No one could lift her. Then the court case started and I bought the papers daily whenever the court was proceeding to follow what was going on.

They got this young fellow up and they asked him to give some account and he said when he was a boy his home was a poorly home had no love sad situation of where he came no real love in that home real sorrows and grief through the sin and the lust of the parents but as a boy he somehow was drawn into a little group at schooling the Satanist of the school it seems these are all over the schools across the western world drawing children in and especially those children with a gap in their heart a wound in their home and he said from the time he was drawn because he felt he belonged to the group belonged to something he somehow identified this with belonging and suddenly he found himself demon possessed he said and he said voices in his head from a boy started crying out to do terrible things and all of this voices cried out telling him to do this this day the days before even well they got a Christian evangelist to testify.

They asked him questions and he said it's true we put our heads in the sand and say there's no such thing as Satan and we don't want to hear about it. We don't want to hear what's going on. We're scared but it's everywhere and it is so boys girls normally involve themselves in Satanism.

They become possessed by evil spirits and these things do cry out voices are in their heads and they do land up doing things. Well they called a psychologist a psychiatrist of high repute in my land also to stand there and also give witness who had spoken to these boys for hours.

And then he said no no I'm not contending that there's a devil and that there's Satanist and that there's demonology he said. But you don't blame the devil to get off from what you did. You chose it was a premeditated act and you won't get off by saying it was the devil's fault.

Who made you do it. You did it don't blame the devil boy and he walked off. Eventually they got that young boy up that young man up and he said these words. And this was the end of the case. He said it is true.

It was a premeditated decision. For days we knew we were going to do it that night. And the weekend came. It was my own choice. Now I have to pay I know. But then he said these words. But God God sent a man to warn me on that day when we knew what we were going to do that night God sent someone to tell me to seek Jesus that I needed God.

I needed God's salvation before I do something terrible. And I was shaken that that man said that but I rejected that. I said no to God though he tried to stop me. Two life sentences were given him. He won't ever walk out of the prison.

Nor that other boy. God tried to intervene. Don't you dare believe a Christian stands there waiting and looking at him and moved by God to cry out those words. The day that boy knew what he was about to do.

God tried. God may try to intervene before you destroy your life and others with you. But you could choose to reject God's intervention and your life forever will be ruined. But you will remember for all eternity that God tried.

He tried to save you but you said no. And you obeyed the devil who told you not to obey God not to listen to God's intervention to reject it. I have learned that God brings many people along my path who are about to destroy their lives and others with them.

A Family Tragedy and God's Prompting

I was preaching in a conference in our country and as I was pouring my heart out a few messages each day by the end of the conference I was so tired my mind just became like numb. And the last message well I just got ready to pack up and go with a fellow that had invited me and I sat in the backseat of the car and he said Keith we know you're tired but there's people we are so burdened for in the town just outside of where the convention centre is.

And before we leave this town we just know we've got to go. Their lives are in trouble Keith and we'd like you to speak to them. So I said brother I haven't got anything left. You go in though I'm going to sleep.

I don't want to stop you but I won't be any blessing to those people you go. So they left me and I fell asleep. Suddenly God woke me up. I suddenly but I was woken up in the strangest way. I was weeping as I woke up.

Now think about that in case you think that's emotional. My heart just sank to such a despair and I I just knew God was crying out to me get in that house fast and I got out and ran to the door. These people who invited me when they come in they were just leaving and I said wait just a few minutes just wait.

I should have come in here brother. I didn't know these people and I began to plead with them to say things from my heart. All when I pled they just sat looking at me. The family we left. The next thing I heard of him is he took a gun.

He shot his wife dead his children dead and himself. Do you think God didn't try to intervene. Do you think God put such a broken groan and compassion in someone who knows nothing about them and drives them into there to plead.

God tries to intervene but you can say no and destroy everything. But forever you will remember destroy it. You rejected his intervention. You can you know don't doubt it now. You can you think tomorrow.

You can seek. Be careful. God might know today's the last thing. You don't know what you're capable of having tomorrow. He said no. I was preaching in a hall and the place was filled to capacity. There was no way for people to sit.

It was just overflowing with people. And suddenly while I was preaching this fellow starts weeping. And so loud was he weeping as he shook violently just sobbing that I had to stop preaching. Everybody was upset and hurting.

The whole atmosphere just changed to grief as they looked at this man crumbling broke and sobbing and they had to take him out before I could carry on preaching. Some evangelical ministers. Most of the ministers of the town were in that meeting and two of the evangelical fellows three or so took him out to pray with him in some of the rooms.

Back in the halls behind the building. I battled to finish preaching but afterwards I went to find out and I walked in and there was this fellow sitting and they shared about what he said. He had gone home walked to the desk weeping broken.

Life was so destroyed. He took a gun started loading the bullets. He was going to kill his wife his children himself. You think people don't do this. Why are we sitting here. Do you know how many are thinking of these things.

Life is so crumbled and crushed. This man was loading the bullets. His mind just collapsed through the hardships of life. The hopelessness of life of any survival was gone. He just gave in and there he was going to wipe out everybody to the hopelessness of life.

And as he was loading these bullets he sees a piece of paper right there on the desk. There's advertising the meeting tonight the place the time. And as he looked something in his heart just cried out go there now.

That's what he said. Go there now he put this down. He's so shaken by this inner voice crying such words to him not understanding what was going on. He just put it down unloaded the bullets got in the car and raced to get to this building came in.

I was preaching half way through my sermon. He shut down. After about 10 minutes he just broke when he realized no man knows anything about his life. But he has this man crying out everything about his life.

Do you think that was just a mistake. That he came and that God put that pamphlet there. Do you think that wasn't God brother. And when he walked in I was crying out the things about his life. Oh God.

He broke when he realized what God was saying to him that it must be God. Well that man gave his life to Jesus. And I can't understand this. You can't understand this. But it's true in one moment that man suddenly found peace that passes all understanding.

I'm glad God says there's no way of understanding how God can give a man who wants to kill everything in life and himself he has no hope. And in the next moment after receiving Christ salvation he has a peace that passes understanding flooding his heart.

Do you know he so met with God that he walked with God to this day a long long time. Now since that happened he never ever was given to despair and God gave him work. God healed all the circumstances.

But somehow God put hope and all this hopelessness was taken away. In one moment when God saved your soul you become conscious that God has taken you on now his responsibility. It's a wonderful thing to know.

You know imagine the peace that floods in your heart when you know. Take no thought for tomorrow. Jesus said don't even think about it. I'll close you just seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall.

And Jesus said oh you don't worry about tomorrow. Suddenly all the fears are gone one day at a time and on Jesus Christ's property and responsibility peace that passes all understanding. And he walks with God now because he said yes you see God tried to intervene before he destroyed his life.

And he listened and he trusted God's intervention and voice. And God saved his soul for all eternity for all eternity. He's God. Oh that's precious. Standing with my wife. And suddenly I started weeping my heart just down and I ran down to this door and I started banging on this door and I my wife came and said are you mad.

Keep you in trouble. You don't bang. What's wrong with you. I said I don't know. And I pulled up the window along the side of the wall and pulled myself through these pipes and shouted through this window.

Can you hear me. Give God a chance. What makes a man do that when he doesn't even know the person inside. Think about how God how desperate God is when people are in trouble. What do you take if you just stay available.

Give God a chance. I don't care how hopeless life is. I don't care how destroyed your life is. Jesus can hear you. And I carried on and on while I stood there there was a woman in that room in the lounge standing she had just put a rope around her neck.

Standing on a ledge. She heard this banging seconds after she put the rope around her neck. What made God do that. God loves souls. God cares more than you and I. And suddenly she hears this voice screaming.

Give God a chance. He can hear. She thinks who is this man. He doesn't know me. I don't know. He doesn't know what I'm doing. This must be God who saved this man. It must be God. God must want to do something for me.

You know she gave her life to Jesus and God took that broken soul and healed her life beyond measure. She became a woman of God as the years went by. What can do that. She listened to God's intervention before she destroyed her life.

She believed God could. Who tried to stop her. She obeyed God. A woman of God. Her who saved her life. Who saved that. God was there and God was there. She heard God what he and to do exactly what he said.

Deliverance from Internet Addiction

I'll never let you and your children again on me, but if you do everything that man says, I may be able to forgive you and trust you again in life. And he wanted to see you. Would you be willing to see him?

I said, yes, lady. So I went to his home, and there was this man broken, his family gone, and there he sits with an empty house now. He had the Internet. You know the Internet? And he says to me, I had to get the Internet because it's tomorrow's way of work.

We're not going to go through the traffic anymore and all the cars and all. We can work from our homes as if we're together. We're just communicating as if we're sitting in the same office. We don't walk out the door.

The Internet's going to change the whole business world one day. And we've started to save an enormous amount of cost. And so I had to get the Internet, but I started fiddling around, he said, on the Internet.

He said, I didn't mean to, and suddenly I stumbled upon such indecency, such depravity. I couldn't believe what I'd seen. How is this possible? He'd never thought of these things in his life once. Never occurred to him.

Oh, the devil's powerful, you know. Suddenly the image is put in his mind. Now he goes on with his work, but that night he couldn't sleep. He comes back, feeds these same words, and he stumbles, and there's all this.

And he thought to himself, well, let me feed in another dirty thing. Whatever depravity he could possibly imagine, he just said, it was all there. Unimaginable resources for your children. Isn't that wicked of the world to do?

It's a danger. You have no idea. You have no idea. And do you know how many children know? Oh, governments of the world, what are you going to do about it? Sit back and say, we can't do anything about it?

God will judge you on that alone, government. The man said he became addicted. He couldn't understand it. He'd never thought these evil things before. He'd never, ever had these temptations before. And here he was, slain.

As soon as the children, his wife, asleep, he would come thinking everybody's asleep. He would just feed his mind more and more. Couldn't get enough. Hating what he was. Scared of what he was becoming.

And one night, he said, suddenly he heard his little daughter. She had woken up and stood behind him and watched. Watched for a long while and watched what he was doing. She went mental. She went berserk.

She went hysteric. I don't know what will ever become of that child's mind. I mean, the daddy is everything. His wife had to be told why this girl, she fled, took the children out of the house. And he said, my wife said, if I listen to you and do just what you say, she might come back.

I said, would you do anything I say? He said, anything. I said, there's a word called repent. I want you to take that thing and throw it. I said, throw it out. He said, but I lose my work. I can't get my job.

Do you know what it is to get work in this country where 40 of the population is without work in the recession? Do you want me to starve? I said, sir, I won't pray with you. You're wasting my time. You're wasting your time.

You're wasting God's time. You can't say to a drunk, come to Jesus and put him behind a bottle. Do you honestly believe your child and your wife will trust you with that in the house? Do you think you can trust yourself?

I said, sir, lose your job, but don't lose your soul. Lose your job, but don't lose your family. She's giving you a chance. You can't come to God unless you throw out what you know you might go back to throw it out of his house.

You're not strong enough. Don't you dare believe you'll be strong enough when you get saved. You don't get saved just sitting in front of your temptation. And she let me test it. Now, no, you stay away from it.

What did he do? Oh, he threw it out. By the way, I was ignorant. I didn't know all these technical things, and it seemed something called a modem or something, not the whole thing that I thought he had to throw out there.

He got rid of the modem. He lost his job, but he came to Christ, and God came in his heart and purified his mind as he soaked himself in the Word of God. God gave him a better job, by the way. God honors them that honor him.

Don't doubt that. The devil tells you you're in trouble. God honors them that honor him. His wife came back eventually as children. We're all praying for the girl still, but she'll come to full healing, I believe, and trust again.

You see, God tried to intervene before he destroyed his life. Oh, he was well on the way to it when he did that, but he could have chosen to say no, but he didn't. He obeyed. He embraced what God was holding out another chance before everything lay in ruins.

Counting the Cost of Following Christ

He said yes to God. What makes a man, a woman, a child say no to God trying to intervene before they destroy everything for eternity? And they're conscious there's something about eternity in my choice now.

Don't say they're not. What makes a man, a woman, a child willing to say no to God? Have you thought of that? Oh, so many reasons. Fear of man is perhaps the worst reason of all. Ostracization, rejection, mocking, losing all your friends.

You'd be amazed at how much that reason is used by people to say no to God Almighty in his intervention for their life. But the devil's a liar, you know. You don't lose, you gain. You get such friends as you can't imagine.

I remember preaching in a reformatory. What do we call a correctional school? These young fellows, some of them were murderers, some had killed their own father. And I remember standing there preaching and they began to mock me this lot.

Whoa, such mockery and laughter and suddenly God came. Oh, I'll never forget how God came that day. Swept across that building and suddenly they're all weeping, sobbing in seconds when God comes. When you're suddenly conscious you're not mocking a man, you have to deal with God and people become conscious within seconds when the Holy Ghost comes.

They have some fraternity going on here. These boys started weeping. I said these words to those boys, it's going to cost you to come out in front of all these people. They're watching you. And those who are weak won't come, but those who have courage will come to Jesus.

No matter what it's going to cost you being seen because they're watching. The moment you get up they're going to watch you. You who have courage, you weaklings, sit down. You who have courage, come to Jesus now.

It'll take courage, but come, don't lose your soul. Six of them came. Six of them came, fell before God. Two of them couldn't even pray, they were so broken on their faces. I had to pray for them, but God saved them.

Those six met with Christ. Oh, the devil probably told them, now you're in for it. In this place, with these people, you're in for it now. But you know what happened? Within three weeks, two hundred of those boys sought God to follow those boys.

They thought they were going to be rejected. In the end, they were more saved people in the whole reformatory than they were unsaved. The whole place was prayer meetings. For years, God just swept back and forth across to six boys.