Lord, we thank you for keeping us so
that we can meet together again.
Some, Lord, have arrived yesterday, some through the
afternoon, and some at night.
And we ask you to work in each
and every heart.
And let your name be glorified, amen.
I'd like to read for you from Deuteronomy,
chapter 13.
And we're going to read from verse 19.
I call heaven and earth to witness against
you today that I have set before you
life and death, the blessing and the curse.
So choose life in order that you may
live, you and your descendants.
By loving the Lord your God, by obeying
his voice, and by holding fast to him,
for this is your life and the length
of your days, that
you may live in the land which the
Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, to give them.
We'll read this far.
Now, Moses spoke this speech as he said
goodbye to the children of Israel.
This was his final farewell as God was
about to take him from earth.
And he said, I testify before you with
heaven and earth as my witness that
I have set before you life and death,
the blessing and the curse, therefore choose.
One day this auditorium will witness.
One day the bench you're sitting on will
testify.
I wonder what that day will be like,
but the Bible does already declare that it
will burn like a furnace.
Just being one day, but being like 10
,000 years.
And this auditorium, this hall, will witness regarding
your choosing.
It says, behold, I set before you life,
blessing, and the curse.
Life and death.
So choose life in order that you may
live.
You can't get your friends to choose for
you that you may live.
The question on the lips of many across
the world is, why do I suffer so?
Why am I in such trouble?
Why are things so difficult and so hard?
You know why?
Because you've chosen the curse for yourself.
And by doing that, choosing for yourself, you
choose for your children as well the curse.
Just look at not listening to the Lord
and disobeying him, you become sexually immoral.
You get AIDS.
Not only do you die from it, but
your direct descendants too.
For God says, I will visit the sins
of the fathers upon the third and fourth
generations.
If you smoke, you're cursing your child as
well.
Because that child is cursed in the womb.
Just two days ago, I was in Durban.
As we were going into the pavilion, I
saw two girls sitting down sharing
a cigarette.
One smoking and then passing it to the
other.
I thought, now let me speak to them.
We may have finished.
They said, I was indicating, I just showed
with my hands, throw it away.
One saw me and asked, are you asking
for a puff?
I said, no.
I said, throw that away, it's awful.
If you smoke as a girl, remember that
the child that you are pregnant with smokes
too and is born with that curse.
There was a certain lady who gave birth.
She was a smoker.
She gave birth in hospital.
When the child was born, it would cry
incessantly.
Nothing the nurses or any of them could
do would pacify the child.
The doctor on duty eventually didn't know what
to do and in desperation he called a
colleague.
He then called another one and a third
and a specialist till there were five
doctors all gathered around the screaming baby.
Then the final doctor came and
said, hold on a moment, I'm coming back.
Went out into the corridor, asked somebody walking
by, who's got a cigarette, got hold of
one and matches, came back, lit the cigarette,
had a puff and then blew the smoke
over the child.
Instantly, the child was quiet and it had
been craving.
Then they realized the addiction, how it has
passed down the generation.
And you're pregnant, you're passing that on to
your child.
God takes the sins of the parents upon
the children as well.
A certain child of only two years of
age DX walked
around in the house searching for tobacco, trying
to pick up bits of cigarets.
Why?
Because it was craving for this nicotine, because
the mother was a smoker.
And so girls, for eternity in hell, your
children can curse you and say, Mother, you
led us into the sin, the curse.
You drink.
You have a child and that poison is
in the child too.
And you use all sorts of occult things
at the birth of the child and different
rituals, but what happens is you open the
door to demon possession.
To the third and fourth generation, going down
to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Why?
Because of that adult who had those children
who did not obey the word of the
Lord.
But to
those
who believe and who love and obey the
Lord, God says, I will bless to the
thousandth generation.
Look at the blessing upon the Jewish people
today, even though many of them are not
believers, but they inherit blessings of their forefathers,
Abraham and them.
Recently, we had a special ceremony or inauguration
of a palace of His Majesty the King.
There were many parliamentarians and ministers, Indians
of Muslim background, and a certain person got
up, a doctor, a Jewish man, said,
I am Jewish, but I want to tell
you that I am a Jew who believes
in Jesus Christ.
I got converted.
Jewish people are brave.
They are brave, not like us who are
so easily embarrassed and intimidated.
We say, oh, let's just stop prayer in
school completely because it might offend a few
children who are from another faith.
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ,
then let your stand for Jesus be strong
and evident and open.
Tell your principal that we should not stop
with prayer, otherwise we are cursed in our
school.
If you are ashamed of Jesus Christ, He
too will be ashamed of you.
If you brush aside prayer in schools, it
will be darker in South Africa than it
is already.
Where will education degenerate down into?
Already it is going down.
What will become of it?
It will be a curse in Africa.
And so today they have an enormous irrigated
farm and during the last youth conference there
was a huge massive load of vegetables and
this time as well beetroot, onions that they
have brought for you.
And so they have an enormous fleet of
these extra heavy vehicles as well delivering vegetables
all the time.
They are blessed not because of them being
Afrikaners but because of having chosen life instead
of death.
And so today they have an enormous load
of vegetables and during the last youth conference
Even if you had to go and occupy
their farms and say we'll just take it
and do it ourselves, because curses follow you,
you will not prosper, but wherever they go
because they have chosen the Lord, they have
chosen life, blessings will overtake them.
Some farmers go into liquidation, but they have
been blessed.
But the father said, I'm not going to
plant tobacco anymore even if it means us
starving, I choose life.
They called me recently and said come and
look at this marvelous thing.
Nations who choose Jesus advance and progress.
Those who reject Christ go backwards.
We applaud their father.
So we are applauding their father, he who
chose the Lord.
Cursed is the one who chooses death, but
if you find that your parents or in
your previous generations they had chosen death and
the curse, you now choose life.
God has no apartheid.
I've been preaching that right through the apartheid
days.
But in all nations, he
who fears the Lord, choosing Jesus Christ is
acceptable to God.
God is no respecter of persons, whether you're
a black or an Indian or colored or
white or whoever you are, God says here
is the blessing, here is the curse.
Don't be deceived by politicians.
Always examine even politics in the light of
the word.
If they do not go according to the
word, it is accursed.
And you who support them by voting for
them, you too.
Here is the daily news.
Here on the front page, it's the heading,
the title article is South African sex slaves
in Ireland.
That means South African women who are on
prostitution slavery in Ireland.
It's written here that 26 Cape Town girls
accepted being sex workers in Ireland when they
were offered the job.
Because there is a certain escort agency in
Ireland, then did a recruitment drive here in
South Africa for girls over there.
They offered 6,000 euros.
They offered 10 rand, 1 euro.
They offered 6,000 euros, 51
,000 rand.
They offered that the girls could earn up
to 6,000 euros a day.
Remember euros are worth almost about 10 rand
per euro.
That's 51,000 rand a day.
There was an enthusiastic response from South African
girls who said, what, 51,000 rand a
day, for a three week's trip we can
come back being rich.
They made it as if they were just
going on a holiday, but they were actually
going to prostitute themselves for a lot of
money.
Subsequently, 27
South
African women accepted the offer and went overseas.
Now, it's three weeks later.
One girl escaped.
And she said that since we arrived, we've
been fed with crack cocaine and heroin.
And we've been beaten.
And we haven't been paid for one single
day.
They've also confiscated our passports to stop us
from returning.
And our return tickets have expired.
And apparently one of that group has also
disappeared.
I don't know where she's landed.
Antoinette, who was the girl between contracted by
the escort agency to recruit these women, and
was promised that for each girl she would
get 1,000 euros, she was promised 8
,600 rand.
So she was promised 8
,600 rand for every girl that she recruited
to be a prostitute overseas.
She says, for six years I've been busy
with this recruiting work.
She said, I admit that I jumped at
this money-making opportunity and that I was
greedy.
She said, I'm so sorry for these girls
who are now in slavery.
She said, we've contacted them overseas and asked,
why are our girls being so abused?
And she was told, rubbish.
The man refused to answer any further questions.
He just...
The man simply slammed down the phone and
said, no further discussion.
You see, choose the curse and the curse
you get.
Today those girls cannot live without their drugs.
They are beaten.
And their relatives and families here are very
worried about them.
I set before you today the curse and
the blessing.
Death and life.
What will those girls, what will happen to
them, what will become of them?
You'll find that wherever there is sexual promiscuity
in any nation in history and today, that
nation will go down and will be dismantled.
Look at even the great Roman Empire that
ruled the whole world.
It fell and went down because of immorality.
When you go home after these services, take
special note of those who are promiscuous and
then note also their end.
Their future is...
is one of a curse only.
But there is life through the Lord Jesus
which we receive in heaven.
Unless you are set free by the Son
of God, there is no freedom.
Today you find that there are in jail
some top government officials who had been in
those exalted positions but were then caught in
promiscuity or in corruption.
They were caught in corruption.
One who steals, lies or fights has no
blossoming future.
Young people, listen to this.
These men stand here today and say thank
you.
The prophets say that you should say thank
you.
What about these men?
They say you should leave this country, whatever
you do, you should leave.
No one should say to
you that you should go away from this
country.
I don't
know
what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do, I don't know what to
do, I don't know what to do, I
don't know what to do, I don't know
what to do.
You put your hope in education, don't think
that that will save you.
You might dream of becoming a doctor.
All that will become nothing.
You can get AIDS even as a doctor
and all your dreams are smashed into smitherenes.
But only through the gospel and I say
this in all nations not here in Africa
over in Europe as well Also, it's the
same message.
Only the one who has the Lord Jesus
and chooses him has life Africa,
Africa, Africa, Africa,
Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa, Africa,
Africa, Africa, Africa warmly embraced the Lord Jesus.
Remember when Herod wanted to kill him and
the children, how Africa received him as a
baby.
And then when the Lord was carrying the
cross, it was an African who helped him.
But the times come when Africa has rejected
the gospel.
Ethiopia
was
the first nation to accept Christendom and have
a Christian country.
But then what has happened?
It is now destroyed.
Communism grabbed hold of it.
But I say
to
you, girls and boys, young people, let's take
Africa back again for the Lord.
Let's choose the blessing and not the curse.
Let me end with this story.
Let me tell you about Roger Sims.
He had been in the military.
He finished his duty.
This was in America.
The day came when he was to return
back home.
And he was delighted that his conscription was
over and that was the end of the
military for him.
He put all his things together and he
hitchhiked.
As he stood there hitchhiking a lift, a
black, new, very expensive type of car stopped
for him.
A shiny, expensive car.
He thought, no, it won't stop for me.
He lost hope.
But to his amazement, the car stopped and
the passenger door opened.
And he ran toward the car and got
in.
It was an older, graying man who was
the owner.
He said, hello, son.
Leave or are you going home for good?
He said, you're in luck if you're on
the way to Chicago because that's where I'm
going.
That's towards the northerly parts of USA.
He said, well, you can call me by
Hanover.
And the man said, I have business there
in Chicago.
And Roger said, I'm not going to Chicago.
I'm going to be a little bit further
south if you can drop me there.
They chatted about things and they discussed things
on the way, the older man and this
young man.
On the way, Roger felt strongly compelled inside
him to share Christ with this older man,
to ask him whether he was saved.
But then he said to himself, no, I
couldn't do that.
This is an older man.
How can I, as a young person, do
that?
He was embarrassed and afraid.
But he felt that his heart was pounding,
hearing the voice of the Lord saying, now
is the time.
Now is the time.
It's the Lord.
Watch Mr. Hanover.
And finally, he said, Mr. Hanover, I'd like
to talk to you about something very important.
Have you received Christ as your Savior?
And he shared the gospel with him.
He said to him, wouldn't you like to
receive the Lord Jesus Christ and choose Him?
Roger noticed that he slowed down the car
and stopped it to one side.
Roger thought that he was going to be
chucked out of the car.
But when he stopped, the older man switched
off the engine and laid his head, his
forehead, on his hands on the steering wheel.
He began to cry, a cry from the
heart, like one who's lost a child.
And he said, Roger, I want to choose
Jesus now.
He said, son, I want to choose Christ
and surrender to Him right now.
He forgot about the fact that he was
such a much younger person.
But he said unashamedly, I want to choose
Christ now.
And he prayed together with him.
He also prayed.
Afterwards, he said, Roger, this
is the most important thing that I've met
up in my life.
He said, I've met with many important things,
but nothing as important as this day of
meeting with Jesus Christ today.
When they got to the town of Roger
Sims, Hanover, drove him right
to his very home.
He said, son, this
is the greatest day of my life.
This is the greatest thing that could have
happened to me.
Thank you that you as a young man
helped me in this way.
He took out his business card.
It was gold embossed.
And he said, boy, I want you to
take this.
And they parted.
The boy got married, started a business, which
prospered.
Five years later, he needed to go to
Chicago on a business trip.
When he was there in Chicago, he took
out the card.
And he looked up the address.
And then he arrived at the address.
It was a massive mansion.
He went in.
He asked if this was the business of
Mr. Hanover.
The secretary replied in the affirmative.
And he asked to see him.
But he was told, I'm sorry, but you
can't see Mr. Hanover himself.
They asked the young man, where do you
know him from anyway?
He said, he's my friend.
And so they said, if you are his
friend, well, although you can't see Mr. Hanover,
you may see his wife.
And so they went into an office.
And they called his wife.
As he went into the office, he noticed
the poshly decorated decor and a very posh
wooden desk.
Mrs. Hanover shook hands in greeting and said,
did you know my husband?
And he said, yes.
And asked, well, where did you know him
from?
Then he related the story that he had
been in the military five years ago.
And he had got a lift from him.
And that's where he got to know him.
She asked, did anything happen when he gave
you that lift?
He was very afraid to tell her what
really happened and that he had spoken of
Jesus and had led him to the Lord.
In case he had gone back and preached
his wife and maybe she had divorced him,
he didn't know where she stood.
She said, don't be afraid.
Tell me the whole truth.
She said, now is the time.
He said, Mrs. Hanover, excuse me, but this
is what happened.
When I got into the car and we
had chatted, I felt prompted.
I felt that I had to tell him
about Jesus, that now is the time, now
or never.
and felt strongly prompted to ask him the
question have you chosen Christ and he had
surrendered to the Lord.
The lady asked, young man what was the
date when did it happen?
He said five years ago.
On what day was it?
May the seventh he said.
She began to sob uncontrollably.
The boy didn't know how to respond.
When she gained control she said please excuse
me for crying so much.
She said I grew up in a Christian
home knowing the Lord, living for Jesus.
I didn't go in the ways of the
world I lived for the Lord.
But then I met Hanover and I married
him though he wasn't saved.
And she said I had prayed for my
husband's life.
Save him Lord.
But he never got converted.
She said Roger I want you to know
that when he dropped you on that day
of May the 7th he went back onto
the highway and he met up with a
collision where he died.
She said Roger thank you for being obedient
to the Lord and for responding to the
Lord's directing you that he was able to
be saved at that time.
She said Roger I must tell you that
I'd been praying for his salvation but when
I got the news that he was killed
in that accident I blamed God for it
that he hadn't kept his promise that what
you ask for you shall receive and I
hardened my heart that day but now I
say oh Lord may you forgive me.
Now the theme is now is the time
that can mean your time to come to
the Lord to get converted it also could
mean that you are prompted as a Christian
to go and share with somebody maybe to
to say sorry to apologize.
Mario sit next to the man after the
service you bring him to me.
Now is the time to either choose for
heaven or for hell, for blessing or for
curse.
You choose what you want
and
Moses said I call upon heaven and earth
to witness your decision.
Let us stand to our feet.
If you haven't yet chosen for the Lord
let this be your day of choosing.
This is an opportunity if you haven't yet
come to the Lord let this auditorium let
this audience be your witness.
Lord Jesus you've heard the cry of each
and everyone and you promised that the one
who comes to you you will never cast
out.
Lord as they come to you asking for
your blessing remove the curse.
They ask for life and not death.
Lord show them mercy.
Deliver them from slavery, from the smoking, drinking,
immorality, all sexual immorality.
Lord Jesus help each one Lord save them
from their slavery.
Lord you've said that the one whom the
Son sets free will be free indeed and
then help them Lord not to be ashamed
of you.
For you've said the one who confesses you
will you will confess before your Father and
the Holy Angels.
Be merciful to them Lord and help them
in your grace.
Amen.