So let's read from 2 Timothy chapter 2
and verse 19 Nevertheless
God's solid foundation stands firm.
Sealed with this inscription the Lord knows those
who are his and everyone who confesses the
name of the Lord must turn away from
wickedness.
In a large house there are articles not
only of gold and silver but also of
wood and clay.
Some are for noble purposes and some for
ignoble.
If
a
man cleanses himself from the letter he will
be an instrument for noble purposes made holy
useful to the master and prepared to do
any good work.
Let's pray together.
We pray oh Lord that you would speak
to us through your holy word.
Please help each one of us here Lord
that we would be enlightened that we would
understand that which is important to you.
Now in actual fact I thought I wouldn't
be able to speak today because I was
very tired.
When you travel from here to Europe there
is no jet lag because you just travel
straight north.
And but when you go east you go
against the Sun.
When it's morning here it's already evening there.
And also when you travel in the other
direction towards America your biological clock also gets
totally upset and it's it's really a strain
on the body especially if you're a busy
person.
Now I took Elizabeth along with me my
daughter to Korea and in Australia I met
up with Esther my other daughter was also
there.
But concerning the counseling and the spiritual work
I was alone.
Somebody from Australia had bought Esther a ticket
to come and visit them there.
Now I'd like a part of the message
to be a report to you or to
relate to you as to how I went
and what I met up with along my
journey.
We started in Korea.
They met us at the Now
we were met there by some professors and
two ladies whom they brought with them.
One of the ladies was a Miss Korea
beauty queen and years gone by and after
that she got converted and she was also
there because she was going to be our
hostess to take us around to different places.
Now according to their custom a man can
greet another man by hand but you don't
greet the ladies by hand.
You'll just cordially bow and that is your
way of greeting them.
They are a nation that are extremely that's
extremely respectful.
Now for a long time I've been saying
there's no nation on earth that can respect
as the Zulus can.
But since communism has influenced young people that
has come to an end, young people no
longer know how to respect adults.
I remember the Korean nation was a very
backward nation.
Their toilets were like the Indian toilets.
But in these past years there has been
tremendous progress there.
I could never imagine that a country could
advance so quickly in such a short time
as that nation.
I didn't find one
dirty toilet or even a toilet where there
were drops of water on the ground.
It was absolutely clean.
You could even have your meal there.
Their homes were attractive, well-kept, tidy.
Well I visited the Christians of course and
also the minister's homes.
When you come there it would seem as
if it was the home of a king.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
I don't know how to say it in
Zulu.
Now I don't know what all those buttons
were for.
I think you can let your imagination roam
as to what they might all do for
you but some of it I suppose was
to let the water flush quickly and sometimes
with less force and hot water and cold
water and well I couldn't read the Korean
language so I don't know what all the
others were for but I'll leave it over
to imagination.
They laughing because I said some if you
press the button you'll be washed.
Another button you'll be dried.
Another button
you'll
be dried.
Now that was what the toilets were like.
High tech toilets and I thought my we
here in Africa we are remaining behind because
what are our toilets like in some places
one still doesn't even have toilets and even
when you go to hotels you find that
the toilets are dirty and here are these
Koreans leaving us in the rather in the
dust leaving us behind.
Now for a long time I've been preaching
here even at the mission saying how important
it is to be hygienic and even in
the toilet that that exposes your character and
what you are like and if you find
that place to be dirty or with spots
of water on the ground that you should
leave it spotless when you go out of
there but if you are not spiritually well
and you're not living for the Lord well
the toilet will expose that as well.
We also went to Seoul that is the
capital city of South Korea and we went
That city alone has 12 million inhabitants, and
that's one and a half times the Zulu
population.
It is 20, 30, 40, 50,
65, it is.
That city
is
densely populated with high-rise flats, 20, 40,
50, 60, one building, 65 stories high, and
I thought, is it possible that a nation
can progress at such a rate, so much,
in only 10 years?
There are no flat areas there, plains, it's
just a very hilly area, but the roads
are extremely good.
They have no gold, no diamonds, no
mineral wealth.
Ask them, I said, how is it possible
that you could make so much progress and
go forward to such an extent?
They have no gold, no diamonds, but it's
in the Gospels, in the Gospels.
They
have
no
gold, no diamonds, but it's in the Gospels.
And I said, because you've no gold, you've
no diamonds, how do you do it?
They said, we've got the Gospel, that's what
we have got, that's our precious commodity, and
that's also what we export, it's our main
export product, or that's what we export, it's
an export product that we have.
Last year alone, 12,300 Korean missionaries went
out to spread the Gospel across the whole
world.
I think 13,200.
That's what we all along have been telling
you, that it is the Gospel that raises
the people up, but if the people turn
their back upon the Gospel and upon the
Lord, then they go backward, and in the
end, they find themselves in the muck.
And I said, because of me being tired,
they've booked a place for me in a
hotel.
And I said, because of me being
tired, they've booked
a
place for me in a hotel.
When I went into my hotel room, they
said, no, no, you can't come in here
with your shoes on, you don't go into
a room with your shoes, you leave them
outside.
I said, oh, so I went outside and
I took my shoes off.
I said, my, you know, I really did
myself in by taking my lace-up shoes
along, because every time you've got to take
them off and put them on, take them
off and put them on, all the time.
Eventually, I had the way of not tying
my shoelaces any longer, anymore, I would just
push them in at the sides, so that
I had my own slip-on shoes.
Now, I asked myself, I wonder why they
don't wear shoes inside, but I did notice
that it was extremely clean, polished, and the
floor was sparkling, you could eat from it.
And they said they would take me to
an American hotel, but when I came in
there, I saw it was like any other
hotel I knew, and we had a meal
there.
Sat on chairs.
Certain days, we went to the own hotels.
Now, the tables are only that high.
I went to the hotel, and there was
a table, and there was a table, and
there was a table, and
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table, and there was a table, and there
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table, and there was a table, and there
was a table, and there was a table
And while the tables were only that high
from the ground, and then they had little
mats on which you sat.
And these were the top hotels!
and then the men would come and sit
there and just cross their legs like that,
quite easily.
Well, my legs are quite stiff.
I couldn't get that right.
So what I did, I would sit against
the wall and lean with my one elbow
on the table and then stretch my legs
or direct my legs to the side and
Elizabeth would sit next to me and I
said to her, well look Elizabeth, my legs
are coming in your direction, I'm glad that
you're sitting there.
When you eat, eat with sticks, chop sticks.
That's quite difficult.
You've got to eat even your rice with
those sticks, chop sticks.
Well, I said to her, look Elizabeth, my
legs are coming in your direction, I'm glad
that you're sitting there.
When you eat, eat with sticks, chop sticks.
Well, they taught us how you have to
do it, that you've got the two sticks,
the bottom one and the top one and
the bottom one should always be stationary, it
shouldn't move, whereas the top one would be
flexible and you put the bottom one underneath
the food and with the top one you
pinch it and then you eat in that
way and then it's much easier.
The food is also different to our food,
even though it might be the same foodstuffs
but it's prepared in a different way.
In all our trip, I didn't come across
one person who was overweight.
Not one Korean person.
If you come across anybody that's overweight to
anybody, with a belly, then you'd know that's
a foreign person, it's a foreigner.
But no Korean person would be overweight or
fat.
Well, now I'm just pre-warning you, any
of you that have any intention of ever
going along with us there, you need to
start dieting now because if you're overweight and
you go there, you'll be embarrassed.
Well, those who are overweight, well, they can
go to Greece because there's a saying that
a man without a belly is the heaven
without stars.
But in Korea, there is no problem with
being overweight.
Why not?
Because all their food is prepared without fat.
They don't use any oil in their cooking,
no fat.
Even when they fry their meat, they do
it without oil or fat.
Their vegetables, whatever they prepare, they never put
in any butter or anything else like that.
Sugar is not used in the food.
There was one type of sweet which we
got, which they said, well, this is extremely
sweet.
It's made from pumpkin which they grind and
cook and boil and eventually they make these
sweets.
But when we ate it, we couldn't taste
that it was sweet.
But to them, it's very sweet.
Well, that's
according to their custom.
But you can eat and really have your
full of that meal and eat enough, yet
you do not become fat.
Nevertheless, their food is very tasty.
However, there is one type of dish which
is very bitter.
Now, the one professor who would always accompany
me, he was the same professor who visited
us here at the mission.
He would always take a spoon and a
fork along as eating utensils for me so
that I wouldn't have any problems with the
sticks.
When they were here, they said that they
would invite me to come and address and
speak at certain universities.
However, when I was there, they said, would
it also be possible for me to go
to certain congregations and preach there?
As well.
When we went to some universities, we found
that there were only girl students.
We also went to a Christian university where
the students were studying for the ministry.
And many other places.
The revival in Korea started in 1907.
It's not even a hundred years that it
started.
But such a great work has been accomplished
in this short time.
And they told me that the revival started
in this way.
They were together with some missionaries.
And one missionary got up.
And he wept.
And he said, this was a white missionary
who stood up and he wept.
And he said, you know, I'm living amongst
you.
And I'm preaching the gospel to you.
But God has convicted me that I don't
really have a love for you.
And he said, please forgive me.
Because I don't have that love of God
that I'm supposed to have for you.
I don't have it.
And then another missionary was convicted when he
heard that.
And he also stood up.
And he said, please forgive me as well.
Because I've also left my home country, my
people.
I've come here to work amongst you.
And I don't have God's love in my
heart for you.
And then there was also a Korean minister
in that service.
And when his white brethren and colleagues got
up and confessed their sin openly in that
way.
He got
up
and he was also convicted.
And he said, I've sinned.
And he said, my brother gave me money
to bring to you, to give to you.
But then I wasn't faithful.
I took some of that money and used
it for myself.
I stole it.
And then a fire was kindled.
And the revival started.
And that happened, which Dr. Edwin Oh says,
is the secret to revival.
He said, revival begins when Christians start confessing
their sin.
And he said, revival comes to an end
as well when Christians stop doing that.
He made a study of revivals.
He was a specialist on that.
He said, every revival started with confession.
Not in your bedroom.
Confessing sins.
If you've confessed Christ, you don't go in
the bedroom and close the door and say
you confess.
You bring it to light.
In John 4, Jesus said, you hate the
light because your works are evil.
You don't come to the light so that
those works of evil will be judged.
In John 4, Jesus said, you hate the
light because your works are evil.
You don't come to the light so that
those works of evil will be judged.
In John 4, Jesus said, you hate the
light because your works are evil.
You don't come to the light so that
those works of evil will be judged.
Now the Koreans don't have any problem with
the confession of sin.
They do it.
They practice it.
They say that's what brought them revival.
That's what changed those people who were Buddhists
into Christians.
I was very sad.
One day, we traveled from the eastern shore
to the western shore in Korea.
We traveled for a whole seven hours by
car.
Actually, from the western to the eastern shore.
And then they phoned us and said, where
are you?
The service was starting at 7 o'clock,
but the journey took a long time.
It was starting at 8.
The service was starting at 8 o'clock,
but the journey took a long time.
It was starting at 8.
The service was starting at 8.
That was a training college, training people to
go out into the ministry to propagate the
gospel.
And as we preached there, they really drank
in God's word.
And they accepted God's word.
And just remember that Korea is divided into
two.
There's northern Korea and southern Korea.
Northern being communist country.
There's no progress there.
People are suffering famine.
In the south, there's a lot of progress.
And so these people are trained to reach
those places where the gospel hasn't entered yet
or penetrated as much.
And the communists have set up a barrier,
cutting that country in two.
And at the time when it happened, it
might have been that your wife was on
the other side and you were on this
side.
There's nothing that you could do about that.
Afterwards, there could be no contact or any
communication.
You wouldn't know even if she's still alive.
And it's very similar to the Berlin Wall
that the communists put up as well.
So they've been praying for 40 years that
the Lord would demolish that barrier and remove
that barrier.
That the door can be opened to spread
the gospel amongst them.
And they've got that hope that it's very
soon going to happen.
So in anticipation for that, these ministers are
training at this college so that when that
would happen, they'd be able to spread the
gospel there.
And some even expressed the hope that maybe
America would be able to help them as
they did in Iraq.
One man told me that.
One person expressed the hope that maybe America
could help them as they did in Iraq
to topple that regime, as they toppled the
regime there, to do it as well in
northern Korea.
Now that service was a long service, really
long.
When we came to the end of it,
nobody went out of the service.
One person came to me and said, Would
you please give us the opportunity that each
one could come to you for counseling, confessing
their sin, and cleansing their lives?
One by one.
But I was drained of all my strength.
And I said, sorry, I don't have any
energy left.
As I'm sitting here, I feel as if
I can faint any moment.
And they were very disappointed.
But they really drank in the word of
God and accepted it in a wonderful way.
They said the revival is busy declining.
But they had the hope that with our
coming there, that maybe that would rekindle it,
that God would work afresh again in their
midst.
Many of them are determined to live for
the Lord with the gospel.
And they are praying that God would once
again kindle His fire.
Now our text says that the Lord knows
those who are His.
Do you hear that?
Jesus knows those who are His.
In Matthew, we read where the Lord said
many will come to Him and say, Lord,
Lord.
Now in the Greek language, Lord means we
are His.
But He'll shake His head and He'll say,
I never knew you, go away from me.
So you see, the important issue is not
whether you confess that you know the Lord,
but whether He confesses that He knows you.
Now Paul told Timothy in this letter that
there were many people that had a lot
to say.
They were busy with godless chatter, saying this
and saying that.
And then Paul came to this conclusion saying,
it doesn't matter what people say, whether they
stand on this or that, or they admit
it, or they deny it.
But the foundation is sure, God knows those
who are His.
What does it say in chapter 2 verse
19, how does it start?
God's solid foundation stands firm.
In Zulu it says, but in spite of
that.
Sorry, it says here the first word, nevertheless.
In other words, in spite of that, it
also says that in Zulu.
In spite of all that which people say,
this foundation of God stands firm.
The Lord knows those who are His.
And we need to ask ourselves that question.
When I meet with the Lord, will He
acknowledge that He knows me?
And everyone who confesses the name of the
Lord must turn away from wickedness.
Have you parted from wickedness and turned away
from it?
Or is there any wickedness, iniquity remaining in
your life?
I remember that minister, that missionary in Korea.
He preached, he sang, he did everything, and
yet he didn't have God's love in his
heart towards those people.
That was the evil.
That's why I ask you, is there nothing
in your life that's not right before God?
If there is, you've got to cleanse yourself
of that sin.
And when in Korea, the missionaries got converted,
the missionary realized there is something that's not
right.
They confessed it, and God started working.
The Lord knows those who confess the name
of the Lord.
And we need to ask ourselves that question.
When I meet with the Lord, will He
acknowledge that He knows me?
Or is there any wickedness, iniquity remaining in
your life?
He preached, he sang, he did everything, and
yet he didn't have God's love in his
heart towards those people.
If we cleanse our lives, then we'll be
instruments that are useful to the Master, and
where God can work through us and use
us.
Now, each
one of us need to be busy with
that ministry.
We need to be busy with it, searching
and examining our lives and our hearts.
Asking God the Holy Spirit to reveal to
us, should there still be any iniquity, any
wickedness in our lives.
And even if it should only be one
thing, that we'll repent from it, that we'll
confess it, and turn away from it.
Now, there's still so much more that I
could say, but I see that time has
run out, so I need to draw to
a close, or start drawing to a close.
But I'd be very happy if this which
has been spoken, if you take it to
heart.
That's the secret, whether God will use you
or not.
God will use you, whether you're a man
or a woman, whether you're a man or
a woman, whether you're a man or a
woman, whether you're a man or a woman,
whether you're a man or a woman, whether
you're a man or a woman, whether you're
a man or a woman, whether you're a
man or a woman, whether you're a man
or a woman, whether you're a man or
a woman, And
Italy, there's a world famous singer, he doesn't
sing pop and all of that kind of
music, that which is not good, even though
he's not saved, but nevertheless, he sings good
music.
Now, some would know his name, Pavarotti.
When he was still a child, his father
spoke to him and said, my son, Luciano,
I want you to learn the skills of
good singing.
He said, work hard to train your voice.
He said he then went to somebody else
from the same village or town, and he
then taught him and trained him.
And after he finished that training, he then
went to a teacher's university or a university
of education.
On the day of his graduation, he went
to his father and he asked his father,
shall I become a teacher or a singer?
His father replied, he says, my boy, Luciano,
if you try to sit on two chairs,
you will fall between them.
Shall I repeat that so that you won't
forget it for the rest of your life?
If you try to sit on two chairs,
you will fall between them.
And the father said to his young son,
for life, you must choose only one chair.
For life, you must choose one chair.
If you try to sit on two chairs,
you will fall between them.
And the father said to his young son,
for life, you must choose only one chair.
Have you chosen that one chair?
And Pavarotti says, I chose one chair.
I forgot about being a teacher.
And I chose singing.
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we see here who kata is it shallow
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I get no more musha no more dollar
we saw a cat I in less a
salon ah when you have heard and know
the right way commit yourself to it with
all your heart and let that be your
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who saw as well again Jaila a clean
is a Yona Yona he can't lay on
Jaila basically we need a long walk parallel
a yo-yo Humber Goulion Jaila who's okay
till he's done Osaka we say kapapa roti
what him to him
with your son I assume you may see
me let's stand to our feet Nitanda oh
woody nigga tuba Nina and in a cocky
t-style ocean oh good one is Katie
I want to do something today you who
haven't chosen your tree I'm giving you an
opportunity right now to choose your chain if
you say I want Jesus and his way
of holiness if you haven't chosen that tree
choose that chain now and I asked those
that want to do it who haven't done
it who haven't lived it that they come
forward to show us that they are choosing
the one tree guitar I
received a phone call just now from overseas
is somebody whom we preach with overseas he
was in Russia well she was in Russia
two men surrendered their life to Christ
but the last couple of months the two
wives noticed that their husbands were compromising
they sent word it said please
pray for our husbands and
now this morning we heard that those two
men were in a car involved in X
in an accident the car caught fire and
they were burnt alive they did both of
them and
both of them have lived behind their wives
and young children and they are dead they
didn't choose one tree they tried to sit
on two chairs we're
not who's who katie list I lost a
corner no more who's up on really still
pursue was in the way shall it be
Mundo Moosha who's who katie no dada who's
who katie who good ticks together and I'm
Sanjay it's not a Sotra okay now before
I pray I'm giving you one last opportunity
have you chosen your chair have you made
your choice young person have you chosen to
serve the Lord Jesus or where are you
standing today shall we pray them must cool
a posy chase Lord Jesus here are your
children but she I'm up in trouble there's
a lot they have left their benches and
they've come forward who's Vasella Gucci but Katie
Stalin's Sotra to have a funeral party Zito
I'll be when I wait who's a basic
feenie to show openly Lord that they have
chosen you as that one chair for the
rest of their lives forgive them Lord for
allowing other things other thoughts but
recording your books Oh Lord that today they
have made that choice that one choice that
one tree so that they would never fall
again and perish this by sample Lula was
a stance a uber um Lilo was a
saloon who was he who who potentials and
saw help them Lord to cleanse themselves cleanse
their lives that your heavenly fire would burn
amongst them and in them now for those
that came forward and all those that have
chosen that for the rest of their life
they'll only be one chair and that is
the chair we've spoken about Caesar
a figure Oh Queenie gas and land a
figure namabuto aka onki he took a bold
and decisive step to ensure the success of
his military venture what is in your tail
or a basic visa how a footy who
is Miss Ella Oguba logo class in a
walkie England good in a pool LL he
ordered his men to march up the mountain
to the edge to the edge of the
cliffs of Dover why Allah I'm about to
argue Guba I'm I say I couldn't obey
me I elopper Nassima Nassima weenie I said
Dover a figure Lapo good color corner I'm
our they should march right to the edge
of the cliff then he said now you
look down into the water to the water
to the sea why said he will run
parts managing over they're gonna say not so
long day parts and then to the shock
and amazement they saw that every ship was
in flames all
this the ships which way with which they
crossed the channel engulfed in flames then
they found out that Julius Caesar had set
those ships alight there's why get we Anna
because yabba okay la let's wake up Guba
Zeesh he deliberately set them alight what wins
a numbers boom to cut off any possibility
of retreat and going back there
was no way to go back again all
the ships were burning now
his soldiers every one of them was unable
to return to the continent there
was now nothing left for them to do
but to advance and to conquer exactly
what they did
to fight for their life there was no
turning back just going on and conquering and
conquered they did now all of you came
forward don't forget what Julius Caesar did and
may God grant that every ship will be
burnt that you'll never be able to backslide
or going backwards only one way for him
to and conquer only
one way for him to and conquer only
one way
for
him to and conquer only one way for
choosing one tree and anybody else who tries
to do it another way remember you Pavarotti's
father you can't sit on two chairs you'll
fall in between let's
close and pray Lord
please help each one that came forward today
and before heaven and earth gave this public
testimony where they said we are choosing the
Lord Jesus and him alone help them
Lord to continue and to remain faithful until
death Lord
may your grace be with him and the
love of the Father and may the Holy
Spirit lead and guide them until that last
trumpet shall sound and you come back again
Lord Jesus