The word says, you are the God who
sees and I have seen.
I'm going to ask you to pay special
attention as you listen very carefully.
Nothing in this world can be compared to
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is the light.
It is the salt.
If there is no light, there is pitch
darkness.
If there is no salt, the food isn't
seasoned.
You need just a little bit of salt
in the food and the seasoning is tasted
and appreciated by all.
I was asked these days by somebody as
to what I should do to remain spiritually
alive.
Let me explain to you tonight about what
you need to do.
If you've taken the step of giving your
life to the Lord Jesus, you've confessed your
sins, in other words, you've made that decision.
Now, you must watch and pray that Satan
doesn't get you.
Watch that Satan finds no room in your
life through sin.
A certain congregation in Malawi, it
had been really blessed and their pastor was
a man who really preached the gospel.
But he was disturbed as he noticed the
dwindling numbers in his church on Sundays.
There was no interest.
The members were not going forward.
There were 40 or 50 every Sunday.
If a child is born and doesn't grow,
things have gone wrong.
There's something unhealthy about the child and the
church.
If it stands still and doesn't grow, there
is something wrong and unhealthy with it.
This preacher then gathered his members together.
He said, brethren, I'm disturbed by our lack
of growth.
Look at the empty benches.
Then he said, how about us meeting every
Sunday morning early to pray for the congregation?
That is what they did.
Time went on and things began to move
in the church.
People would come.
Until the church was packed full, there wasn't
any more space.
They praised God for His working.
But from
a certain Sunday, they began to notice that
there were gaps again in the congregation.
The next Sunday, more gaps.
One of the elders said, preacher, can't we
meet once a week to pray?
Instead of as had been arranged before, they
would get up every morning at five and
he said, we get tired.
We have to go to work.
The preacher said, instead of meeting just once
a week, let's meet every day.
Let's seek fervently the Lord in prayer because
we have gaps in the church.
Our members are falling asleep.
That elder was disappointed because the pastor said
we cannot slacken in prayer.
So they began to pray on a daily
basis.
After just two or three days, the
very elder who had asked them to slacken
in prayer, said, brethren
and pastor, there is something which I have
fallen into.
My neighbor had become
diseased.
He passed away.
But just before his death, he called him
and said, brother, because you are a believer
and you are upright in the Lord, I
fully trust you.
I have a lot of livestock, goats, sheep
and cattle.
And as you can see, I am about
to die.
My wife and children will be orphaned.
But I don't want them to be distressed.
So brother, help me because there is a
lot of cattle theft around.
When my wife is a widow and my
children are orphaned, the neighbors will take advantage
and start stealing and then leave my family
in financial distress.
So I want you to help me.
Wouldn't you please, as soon as I pass
away, take all my livestock and sell it?
So I want you to help me.
Wouldn't you please, as
soon as I pass away, take all my
livestock and sell it?
My wife is unsophisticated with regards to finances.
I want you, brother, to see to it.
So sell all the livestock, put the money
in the bank and let them live off
the interest.
And the elder said, no problem, I'll do
it for you.
And indeed, the man passed away, he was
buried.
And indeed, the man
passed
away, he was buried.
The church elder then revealed the instructions of
the deceased husband and father and said, he's
instructed me to sell all the livestock, to
put the money in the bank where no
robbers can get at it.
That's what he did.
He sold the cattle and that.
He went to the bank in order to
put the money into an account.
But on the way, with the lump sum
of money, he
went
to the bank in order to put the
money into an account.
He thought to himself, well, look, I've worked
so hard to sell all this and to
do all the financial arrangements, I deserve a
slice.
So nobody will notice and they won't suffer
anything if I just take a little bit.
And it was that very Sunday when the
congregation began to declare, through the sin of
one person who was in the church, If
you are busy with sin, giving room to
the devil in your life, don't expect the
Lord to work in your denomination and your
congregation or in your life.
In 1966, as we sought God earnestly, pleading
and crying to God, we confessed our sin,
we were reconciled.
Revival began, God poured out His Holy Spirit,
which continues till today.
We would go around holding services, starting at
Mapumulo.
We'd hold services on local farms.
One day, we were due to begin the
service at two or one in the afternoon,
but the people had arrived from six in
the morning already.
One day, we arrived at that place and
we found an Indian lady with her little
child.
She said, Pastor, I gave birth to this
child in very painful circumstances.
The head had been deformed as she gave
birth and it had an elongated abnormal shape.
The doctors said that this child is deformed
and brain damaged and it's irreversibly damaged.
She said, the child is sixteen now.
It cannot speak.
Deformed.
Abnormal.
She said, just
recently
some Zulus came to me and one Zulu
man said, The Lord has begun working at
Mapumulo.
If only you'll take your child there, that
child will be healed.
But when I was about to take the
child, I got the news that you were
going to come to this farm to preach.
And I decided I'd go with my child.
When I heard from these black people that
the Living God has poured out His Spirit
there and there are people who serve the
Living God, I
made the decision right there and then that
this is the God whom I will serve.
And she said, at the very instant that
I made that decision, right there and then
my child began to speak.
She said, the
Lord has begun working at Mapumulo.
If only you'll take your child there, that
child will be healed.
But when I was about to take the
child, I got the news that
you
were going to come to this
farm
to preach.
Do you understand now why I say that
the Gospel is incomparable?
The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, as
Paul said, is the power of God and
I'm not ashamed of it.
Visiting other people.
Avoiding bad company.
You get some boys who use an excuse
for playing around and flirting with girls saying
we're going to have fellowship.
They're not having fellowship, they're flirting.
Then you sometimes find that there's even sexual
perversion among boys.
There's homosexuality and you avoid any such bad
company.
Seek those who know the Lord.
Here at the mission, we practice apartheid.
Not racial apartheid, but between girls and boys.
You watch out for those who are trying
to cheat up the opposite sex.
They are cheap.
In their promiscuity, they seek an early death.
They bring their tombstone closer.
Nations of Africa, stand up, arise and depart
from evil and bring forth light.
Let your homes be a bright outshining, not
a nest of the devil, but let it
be seen that this is where the Lord
resides.
Bring the gospel to your schools, your churches,
your homes.
Stop completely with sleeping around.
Let there be an utter stop to promiscuity.
Animals do that, not living, healthy human beings.
The nation where there are just children who
it's not known who the fathers are, well,
that nation is a fallen nation.
We can't progress.
We can't go anywhere.
And we are so clever in wickedness, but
foolish regarding righteousness.
But not so with you who have surrendered
to the Lord.
But not so with you who have surrendered
to the Lord.
Let your life be a bright outshining.
Any sin that needs to be dealt with,
confess it, go home fully in the light
and then spread the gospel.
You're welcome to write to us.
We'd love to receive letters from you hearing
how your progress is and how things are
going with you.
Be a light, be a witness to the
nations and all the different types of people
and cultures around you, to the Indian people,
to the white people, to the Muslims, to
whoever it is.
And
don't
wear promiscuous clothing that only arouses lusts in
the opposite sex.
Boys who are attracted to you when you
dress promiscuously, they are worth nothing.
They are cheap.
They are just flies attracted to you.
Don't cry when you get raped and destroyed
by them.
I was behind two
people
and I wasn't sure are they male or
female.
Don't be like that.
Don't be like those who try and be
effeminate.
There are some boys who actually try and
cross-dress.
There are some who are transsexuals.
They cross-dress and pretend to be girls.
Come for prayer if you're troubled by that.
You find that even homosexuals ignore you.
Where a boy will arrive with another boy.
That shows utter depravity.
You're fallen like Lucifer fell.
Come to the Lord Jesus.
I invite you to come to him.
Come and seek counselling that you'll be prayed
for, that you'll get rid of this terrible
thing.
So young people go home and be a
witness, be a light.
Win others to the Lord.
Next time when we have the July Youth
Conference, bring others along.
Let the gospel consume every other power.
Don't be consumed, but rather let the power
of this gospel destroy other things.
And show its superiority in being victorious over
other things.
Where are the young people, the young girls
and the boys will go out and win
others.
If you go to university, remember to go
with the Lord.
Remember that you have praying parents and we
also pray for you.
Let the gospel be victorious.
Let its victory be shown.
Remember if you do not spread the gospel,
there are others who will spread their message
like the Muslims.
You've seen in that film these days what
they are busy with.
Let's bow and pray.
We can stand to our feet as we
pray.
We ask you Lord that you would work
by your Holy Spirit in the heart of
each and every one.
Increase the knowledge of you.
That your people would part from Satan and
live for you.
Thank you for bringing us the gospel.
This gospel which is the power of God
to save people is able to wash a
person from their sins.
Work Lord in those who have surrendered their
lives to you that they would go being
a light and truly living for you.
Reading the Bible daily.
Having their quiet time in prayer.
Being able to win others and evangelizing.
Work Lord in a marvelous way
that
Africa might repent and that it might be
the source of spreading this living gospel to
the whole world.
Amen.