Well, how to say thank you, I really
don't know, but I'm going to try in
a very brief minute to from my heart
say thank you to a number of people.
Firstly, to thank the dear Lord Jesus for
His great privilege of coming from the other
side of the world all the way to
your lovely country.
And remember, although I and my wife and
children are the other side of the world,
we're only one prayer away, so we're just
a prayer away, and if you pray for
us, straight away at that moment, God is
going to move in our lives and answer
your prayers if you're godly.
So please pray for us.
But I do thank the dear Lord for
the great privilege He's given, and I've sensed
what a privilege it is as I've been
here meeting after meeting and mingled and had
fellowship with such godly people.
You have a wonderful, wonderful heritage, your standard
is high, you have wonderful elders who are
examples to the believers, and you as young
people, like young Timothy, are examples of the
believers.
Believe me, I respect you and I worship
God for your stand, your standard, your separation,
your lack of legalism in your separation, but
it's from the heart to glorify Christ.
And even that you didn't have applause tonight,
that is a stand in this world today,
and in the church today.
Thank you.
What you've got, hold on to.
You've got something.
Hold on to it, don't let the standard
go, not for anything on earth.
Keep it high, as high as you have
it now, and God is going to honour
you, I guarantee you.
Deep in my heart I sense something wonderful
through you will happen in this land.
You can't bury reality or such a light.
In the darkness, oh, such a light is
seen from a terrible distance.
Keep the light burning now, that men may
see all the good in you, that God
has performed and worked, and glorify your Father
in heaven.
Thank you also to your ministers.
I've got their names because sometimes I I
get a little bit mixed up, but there's
Moes, and Rick, and Emmanuel, and Aaron, your
ministers, your preachers.
I bless God for the fellowship I've had
with them in their lives, and the ministry
they perform here.
It's been a great joy just to sense
how God is with them, and their high
standard, and their integrity with the scriptures.
Thank you for your lives, dear godly men,
and the godly wives that stand alongside of
you, so nobly and so true.
I do bless very much for our brother
Denny, and his lovely wife, his godly wife,
Jackie, and their lovely, lovely children, each one
serving God from the heart, and the joy.
Oh, what a home it's been to stay
in.
My wife and I have been staggered at
times, not just blessed, staggered at times, at
what we've sensed in that home.
And if that's something of the example of
all of your homes, then I tell you,
you're a very special people, a very special
people.
Thank you for the ministry to my wife,
and myself, and my baby boy, what I
have seen in your home, sir, and from
your godly wife.
Thank you from my heart to all the
leaders, the two especially that led in the
night, young Daniel, who I believe God has
his hand on, and I say it carefully,
and prayerfully, that he'll never lose courage, and
never listen to the accusations of the devil
who'd like to accuse him for making you
stand for God so young, the way he
led the meetings was a blessing to see
your face in the transparency, young Daniel.
And also Moses' son now, I don't know
your son's name.
Myron, that's my old age.
You can be forgiven for a lot when
you get a bit older.
You've just got to say something about the
oldedom.
In South Africa, the word is oldedom.
If you make any mistake, and you just
say it's the oldedom, everybody forgives you.
That means my old age, creeping on.
Everybody immediately forgives you.
Well, Myron, bless you.
What you have put your heart and soul
into, just in this, what we have heard
tonight, shows your caliber of what a man
of God you are, Myron, wherever you're sitting.
I say it carefully, but not to flatter
you, but to encourage you.
Obviously, whatever you do, you do with the
same zeal.
Whatever you do for the Lord, you do
it for the Lord with all your might.
And brother, you led us tonight into the
presence of God through these young people.
We were lifted up into the realms of
high.
I wonder if the singing in heaven will
be any different.
I doubt it.
Oh, I'm sure the angels sing with us,
sing with us, and worship God as they
hear such singing from the hearts of those
who've been washed in the blood, which the
angels haven't been.
We've got something to sing about the angels
can't sing about.
We've got something to worship God from the
heart the angels can't, though they worship Him
too.
Oh, bless God for you young people singing
like this tonight.
I shall never forget it.
Thank you for the little parcel someone handed
to my wife, our brother Paul, Lapp and
his wife.
I just thought to say thank you.
I hope I don't embarrass you.
Those little things in there, we treasure.
Thank you.
Thank you for Dave and our lean ass
for the Snuggle Inn.
Have you ever heard of the Snuggle Inn?
I never saw my wife so overjoyed as
that time in the Snuggle Inn.
I would love to live there.
And I saw what it did to my
wife.
She was so overjoyed, so full of joy.
She just bubbled over, just all the flowing
with praise and worship as she saw the
little things.
And every little thing, she didn't want to
miss a thing, every little book.
You young people have never been there, your
turn's coming.
But go there, I can recommend it with
all my heart.
It is a lovely blessing.
And I thank God just for the one
night.
Dear brother Dave and sister Erin, thank you
for that night you gave us.
We will never forget it.
I mean that.
I don't think we'll ever, ever forget that.
Then I also want to say thank you
to, oh I have a little list here,
Nancy Welch.
To single out one person and say thank
you for traveling so far to these meetings
is perhaps not the right thing, but I
felt just to say thank you to that
dear lady for coming up here and joining
us.
And thank you for the work you do
for Christ, Nancy.
For all of you who've traveled so far
for the Lord Jesus to be here, thank
you.
Thank you for bringing my wife and myself
and our little boy over from the other
side of the world to be with you.
Thank you especially for bringing my wife.
Brother I have left her so many times.
And this time God brought Jenny with me.
And I'm so grateful for that.
You have no idea what it means to
me and my wife and family.
We bless the Lord for that.
Thank you to my wife for coming and
standing with me.
It's the first time in all these years
of marriage, 18 years of marriage, that Jenny
ever was willing to leave her children.
Nothing ever parted her from her boys.
But she was determined to bring the youngest.
She said she wouldn't leave Samuel.
So she brought Samuel to be able to
come here.
Thank you to my wife for leaving our
children behind.
And so I think I've said thank you
to all of you for everything.
One other thing, of course, is the goodness
you've shown to us and that which has
been given to me and Jenny for coming
here.
I don't know how to thank you for
that.
In South Africa you never ever speak if
you're from most of the churches anyway, about
anything like what's been given or what your
needs are.
I think the American culture allow you to
know all your needs.
But in South Africa you just don't do
that.
We're not even allowed to speak about money
from the pulpit.
So I'm saying thank you from my heart
tonight for the wonderful love.
My payment was to be here and that
was payment enough.
And I mean that with all my heart.
Just to be part of you, to have
this privilege was all I wanted.
And I would have been overjoyed with nothing
more.
But you, as a people, have handed something
to Jenny and I that we, we don't
know how to put into words.
Thank you that you even thought of that.
We take it from God's hand, though we
never expected it, never asked for it, and
would have been overjoyed even without it.
But thank you from our hearts for the
goodness you've shown us in that which has
been handed from your church.
For Jenny and I and to go back
to South Africa and do God's work.
Bless you for that.
I hope I've worded that right.
I'm not too good at saying thank you
about things like that.
Haven't had that much practice.
But thank you very, very much to you
Americans for this goodness to such unworthy people.
If I have not said thank you to
anyone that really needs to be said thank
you, forgive me.
Perhaps of all the people who've come out
to the Lord and gotten saved, thank you
for giving your life to Jesus.
And all those who've responded and sought God
with all your heart in brokenness, thank you
for doing that.
That meant so much to me.
And your niece, what's her name again?
Robin.
Don't know where you are now.
Robin won't like this, so don't look at
her.
Pretend you don't see her.
And Robin, thank you for giving your life
to Jesus.
You were in the house with us.
When I saw what a joy it meant
to your uncle and your auntie and your
cousins, it was just something I shall remember.
The joy.
Oh, something like the joy of the angels
in heaven when one sinner repents.
I think I saw from these angels when
they saw this girl in their home, who
they love.
Now Robin, you have a responsibility.
You've got to sow us something that written
across your life is that you're a woman
of God.
A woman of God that will mean much
for Christ in every step you take in
integrity and godliness.
We're all going to pray for that, aren't
we?
Bless you as we pray for you, Robin.
Now that was going to be a minute,
and it took a five minutes or ten
minutes, forgive me, okay?
Let's have a pray.
Our Father, we praise thee from the depth
of our hearts for this lovely week.
For being together, for sharing fellowship and tasting
something of heaven.
In worshiping God together, in singing praises to
God together, in glorifying the Lamb of God,
in song and praise and worship.
In our lives, laying our lives before thee
in adoration and saying, have thy way.
Oh, thou art good and worthy to be
praised for such a week.
That we could separate from this world and
all the pace of life and the atmosphere
that's destroying millions.
We could come apart and be bathed in
the Word of God and speak the language
of those who love Christ.
Every conversation is to be lifted up, Lord,
and encouraged to go on with God.
Oh, we bless thee for this week.
We bless thee for everyone who gave of
any of themselves, anything of themselves, to make
this week something of a possibility.
Honour them, bless them, thank thee for them,
Lord, from the ministers, to those who cooked,
to those who organised, to those who taught.
Every one, Lord, thank you for every young
person who came and longed to be here,
for Jesus, out of love for Christ, to
be with God's people.
We choose to be with God's people.
We travel across the land, across the world.
We know we could just be together with
God's people who are like-minded, who'd want
nothing but the best, nothing but God's best
resting on our lives.
So, we praise thee for each other.
We pray for each other that thou would
keep us till the end safe from Satan
and from all the demons of hell and
from all those who would serve Satan.
Keep us safe, close to the heart of
God, with our hand firmly in God's hand,
and help all the things that we've listened
to and learned, help us to apply it
diligently, with all of our hearts, and to
walk with God through this world.
No matter what the rest of the world
does, we know thou art able to help
us to do just that, to walk with
God.
No matter what men do to us or
of us, help us to walk with God
every step till the last step we take
in life, and use this week, Lord, to
enable us to do just that and nothing
less.
Now, come in this last meeting, in these
last moments, and speak to all of our
hearts in a way that will just echo
on and on, something we learn that will
help us never to give up.
We ask it all together in the name
that we love and live for and would
gladly die for, in the name of Jesus
Christ, God, Saviour, King of kings, Lord of
lords, and dearest friend.
Amen.
You all know the lovely verse, that is
so loved by God's people above all verses,
for God so loved the world, you and
me, that he gave his only begotten Son
for you and me, he so loved you,
that whosoever in this building, in this world,
believeth in him, should not perish, but have
everlasting life, everlasting life.
What a verse, in this holy book, that
God holds out and says, believe in him,
and you'll have everlasting life, you won't perish,
your soul won't perish, your soul will have
everlasting life, if you just believe in him.
I have a brother, who I've spoken of
before in the meetings, his first son, when
his little son was a baby, he was
toddling along, hardly able to walk, up in
Rhodesia, which we call Zimbabwe in Africa now,
in the old days of the colony, it
was Rhodesia, and my brother was a young
preacher those days, when his son was just
a little toddler, and while my brother was
doing missionary work in Rhodesia, he was in
the home of some rather wealthy people, and
there was a swimming pool, a swimming bath,
in these large gardens, the wealthy homes, and
there my brother was sitting, having tea and
fellowship with these wealthy Christians, trying to get
to know them, and while they were speaking
and having fellowship over tea and cake, suddenly
he glanced at the pool, the swimming pool,
and there was the body of his son,
his only son, sinking under the water, just
disappearing, he didn't register, it just didn't register,
he just talked on, suddenly, suddenly he went
cold, the anguish, the pain, as he just,
in grief, stood up screaming, bursting into tears,
as he fell into the pool and went
under, and somehow got his little son's body,
and they brought it up, and they put
it beside the pool, and weeping and groaning
and crying to God, help me, somehow they
got that little boy to cup up the
water and to breathe again, and sobbing, sobbing
at nearly losing that child, the story of
his heart, his only son, he held this
boy, weeping loud, thanking God for not taking
this boy, for sparing him this grief, and
as he held the boy, suddenly in his
heart and mind echoed a verse so loud,
that he burst into worship, from tears of
grief, suddenly into worship, as the verse just
echoed in his heart, for God so loved
the world, he gave his only begotten son,
he saw his son about to die, and
in his grief, more grief than my brother
ever felt as a human, in his grief
and anguish, he turned his face away, and
he let him die, he so loved me,
he so loved you, he so loved you,
no matter how much you've sinned, no matter
how far you've gone into sin, and served
the devil and satan, God so loved you
boy, he let his son go, and turned
his face, that you could live, that you
could be reconciled to God, and washed in
the blood of Jesus Christ, for God so
loved the world, he gave his only begotten
son, he gave him, he gave him, that
whosoever of you believeth in him, should not
perish, but have everlasting life, whosoever believeth in
him, being
justified freely by faith in his blood, by
grace are you saved through faith, not of
works, it's the gift of God, it's the
gift of God, to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifies the ungodliest
faith, is counted to him for righteousness, in
one moment God declares you righteous, as you
put your faith in the blood of Christ,
being justified freely by faith in his blood,
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, in one moment God declares
you righteous, utterly righteous, cleansed in the blood,
if you look to the blood of Christ,
to the death of Christ, to that offering,
to that sacrifice, God so loved you, that
you put your faith in the blood of
Christ, and he declares you right, as far
as the east is from the west, so
far does he remove your iniquities of the
thick cloud, he blots them out, he forgets
them, is it possible an eternal God can
forget, so as that sacrifice God looks at
you and blots them out, he won't declare
any of them to you, he won't remind
you of one, for God so loved you,
he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever
you with this tonight, come and believe on
his blood, you won't perish, you won't perish,
but have everlasting life, God says everlasting life,
but do you know that many people believe
in the blood of Jesus Christ, that he
was wounded for our transgressions, they believe it
with all their hearts, they don't doubt it,
he was bruised for our iniquities, we don't
have to be wounded for our transgressions, he
wasn't bruised for certain iniquities, for 90 percent
of your iniquities, for all of your sins
he died, he paid totally, there's not one
sin he didn't wash out, he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised, we don't
have to be wounded, we won't have to
be bruised, for our iniquities, the chastisement of
our peace was upon him with his stripes,
we are healed, all we like sheep have
gone astray, we've turned everyone to his own
way, and the Lord laid on him the
iniquity of us all, somehow God took all
of your sins and plunged it on Christ,
it wasn't just the physical death, men have
died a deeper physical, a worse physical death
than what we see there, men have been
ripped apart, but there was something about the
death of Christ that no man could ever
have taken upon such anguish, such awful, awful
consequence, the whole judgment of eternity for all
mankind, for he tasted death of all men,
was plunged upon Christ, don't believe it was
just the physical suffering, there was something there
of a suffering, that was the eternal cry
of billions of souls, he took the total
payment that God looks upon that awful, awful
thing he endured, and he justifies you and
I freely, he will in no wise turn
away anyone who comes to him through Christ
Jesus, he can't look at that death, how
could he turn you away, no matter what
sin you've done, nothing will make him turn
you away, come, he will in no wise
turn away anyone who comes to him through
Christ Jesus, what more could God ask of
you, what more could God do, were there
a multitude to believe with all their hearts
that Jesus Christ died for their sins, they're
going to hell, believing just in the death
of Christ is not enough on a human
level, the devils believe, they tremble, but they're
not saved, they know he died, you know
he died, there's far more here, there's far
more here, you see God now commanded all
men everywhere to repent, repent ye therefore and
be ye converted that your sins may be
blotted out, here's your side, God can't do
that for you, you have to repent and
turn to God, if the son shall set
you free, you shall be free indeed, but
he sets you free when you repent, now
God now commandeth you, the one thing he
reminds you and calls upon you as you
come believing is to repent from your sins,
repent ye therefore, God now commandeth all men
everywhere, I love that, not some men here
and there, Celeste did you know, all men
everywhere, God now commandeth all men everywhere to
repent, repent ye therefore and be ye converted
that your sins may be blotted out, unless
you repent from them and be converted from
them, they cannot be blotted out, whoso confesseth
and forsaketh his sins, the same shall have
mercy, this book says, now repentance is what
God wants from you, but you can't set
yourself free, you see there's a verse in
the Bible that's rather staggering and rather confusing,
Romans 10 verse 9, that if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and
shall believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, shall believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved, you see
you can't set yourself free and a dead
savior can't set you free, believing in the
death of Christ is not enough, you must
believe in a risen resurrected Christ and you
must look to this Christ to set you
free and if the Son shall set you
free, he shall set you free indeed, you
shall be free indeed, oh God holds out
to you one thing, believe, repent, put your
trust in the blood, but come to the
blood to be delivered from the things you've
been washed from, don't come to the blood
to live on in the things you're trusting
to be washed from, the spirit won't bear
witness with your spirit at all that you're
the child of God, your heart will just
condemn you with a testimony, oh let the
Son set you free and free indeed, if
you believe in your heart that God has
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved, I was once preaching in a Salvation
Army core, they don't like to call themselves
a Salvation Army church, so you dare not
say a Salvation Army church, you call them
a core, wherever they are, the building, the
gathering, that's a Salvation Army core, back at
home in South Africa, I went to preach
one night in many, many churches all in
that particular town that had been arranged and
one of the meetings one night was the
Salvation Army of Jerviston in South Africa, and
it was a very big man, who was
the captain of that Salvation Army core, his
name was Captain Kerwin, I don't know if
I ever saw such a large man, Captain
Kerwin in his army uniform, oh but how
he loved God, he came to God when
a little girl, a Salvation Army girl, walked
into a pub, now that's something I can't
grasp, but she did, she didn't walk in
there dressed like the world by the way
and she didn't take a chance with her
testimony, she walked with a Bible trembling in
a Salvation Army uniform and everyone just looked
at her and men began to curse and
tell her to get out, she stood there
and tried to speak and the more she
tried to speak, the more cursing and swearing
at her, get out, and Captain Kerwin was
an alcoholic, gripped by drink, his home destroyed,
his family destroyed, fearing when he came home
that he staggered in, oh drink is a
curse, and there he was standing drinking and
he looked at this little Salvation Army girl
who dared to stand and step into the
pub, she didn't dress like the world to
win the world, you know, she walked in
there, the world knew just what she was
there for, and so they're cursing and swearing
at her and she started to have tears
in her eyes as he tried to speak
on, she was brave this little girl for
some reason, and so he took heart and
he said to all the men, stop, he's
a big man, and so he took her
by the hand and said, come he put
her on the pub counter, can you believe
it, there this girl stood up now looking
down at everybody, sneers and tears going on,
he said, you say a word and I'll
beat you up, and he turned to her
and said, you speak what you came in
here for, and he's under the influence a
bit, this girl now saw a whole lot
of audience, and so she started to talk
about Jesus, she started to talk about Jesus
as the silence as they all just stood
there, scared not to speak, listening, and she
just spoke and spoke about all that Jesus
could do, and this man Captain Kerwin looked
up at her and he fell on his
knees under such awful conviction of sin through
this young girl, and he came to Christ,
he led her back to his home, his
wife came to Christ, his children came to
Christ, they turned to God, they went into
the Salvation Army to serve the Lord, well
I went to preach there, had the joy
sitting with this man having a meal before
I went over to the Salvationary Corps, it
was this before, sorry, just after Easter, quite
a number of years ago now, but it
was just after Easter that I was to
speak there that one night to his, to
this meeting arranged in the Corps, and he
was telling me, he said, when you go
down there tonight, you see it's a strange
situation, the Salvation Army down there, when you
walk out of the Salvation Army door, you
look straight at the mortuary, that's where you
keep all the dead bodies, all the bodies
of the dead go straight to the mortuary,
so every time they walk out of their
church, they have to look at the mortuary,
that's quite a thing, and he says, on
top of the mortuary is the undertaker's flat,
a terrible place to live on top of
a mortuary, that's the undertaker, every time Captain
Kerwin would see this undertaker, he'd go off
and try and speak to him about God,
so every time this undertaker saw Captain Kerwin
coming, he tried to avoid him, you know,
he'd go over there and say, when are
you going to give your life to God,
so this fellow knew all about Captain Kerwin,
who he had to face every time he
looked out of his door, well, he said,
a strange thing happened the other night, Keith,
I was, we were holding what we call
a sunrise service, an Easter Sunday, where before
the sun comes up, we all, as the
people of God, would gather in the darkness,
and as the sun rises, we sing the
praise of God for the risen Christ, they
do that a lot in South Africa, having
a sunrise service on Easter Sunday, as we
worship God as the sun rises, on the
Easter Sunday morning, well, he said, he went
down to open up the building, and there
was no traffic in the road, it was
still dark, just the lights shining, only car
going down, he opened up the core, got
all the lights on, got everything ready for
when the people were going to come, now
the world remembers Christ died on Friday, but
come Sunday now, when Christ was to rise,
here Captain Kerwin was looking and waiting for
the people, and he saw he had good
time, and so he did something rather strange,
he crossed the street, went up to the
undertaker's flat, walked up the steps, and he
knocked, and he kept on knocking, until the
undertaker woke up, and came through in his
dressing gown, half asleep, opened the door, and
he sees big, fat Captain Kerwin standing there,
with the Bible in his hand, army uniform,
a soldier for God, in battle for God,
and this man looks at Captain Kerwin and
says, what is it, what is it?
Captain Kerwin said, do you remember who died?
Someone died on Friday, do you remember?
The man, the undertaker looks at him and
says, yes, I remember, and Captain Kerwin says,
he's not dead anymore, he's alive, the man
said, what?
Yes, Jesus died for you, he died in
such a way that you can be forgiven
of all your sins in one moment, but
he didn't just die, he rose from the
dead, and ascended into heaven, and all is
risen in glory, he says, as many as
received him, to them gave you the power
to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe in his name, Christ in
you is the hope of glory, we have
the treasure within earthen vessels of the excellency
of power, maybe of God, not of us,
he sets you free, if you receive him
in your heart as risen Savior, oh, the
man said, you shouldn't do this sort of
thing to me, I thought you were speaking
about this, oh, tell the world that someone
died, you can prove it, prove it medically,
and then you cry to them and say,
he rose from the dead, you'll have the
whole world coming to see, you'll have reporters
from all over the world to come and
see that you could prove it scientifically, medically,
that it really happened, but tell them Jesus
died for their sins, that they can be
utterly forgiven in one moment, that they put
their faith in his blood, and that he
rose from the dead, and he waits and
longs in his risen resurrected glory, for any
man, any woman, any child to receive him,
and he promises, as many as received him,
to them gave he the power to become
the sons of God, oh, it's precious that
Christ waits to set you free from judgment
through his blood, but believing in your heart,
not only his blood, but that God has
raised him from the dead, so he can
set you free, you look to a living
Savior, he waits, he longs, and he has
the wonderful promise held out from God the
Father, that no one will be turned away
who comes, he's paid such a wonderful death,
and that God knows he can set any
sinner free, any sinner free, no matter what
your sin, I guarantee you that, but I've
learned something, I've learned that there is something
vital for us to do, for the full
resurrected power of Christ to be manifested in
our lives once we're saved, I've learned that
there's something vital for us to do, for
the full resurrected power of Christ to be
manifested in our lives once we're saved, and
I'd like to read you one verse, you
need not look it up, you all know
it, in Romans chapter 4, verse 20, in
the amplified version, please forgive me for referring
to the amplified, I always use the King
James, no unbelief or distrust, only
questions concerning the promise of God, but he
grew strong and was empowered by faith as
he gave praise and glory to God, listen
carefully, child of God, he grew strong and
was empowered by faith as he gave praise,
as he gave praise, he grew strong and
was empowered by faith as he gave praise,
as he gave praise and glory to God,
Bertram Friend was one of the most loved
priests in South Africa's history, Bertram Friend led
multitudes to God, and God's people were lifted
up in the great conventions of our land
as man priests across our land and across
other lands, he was an amazing man, he
went to Japan and in a matter of
a few months, something like three months, he
preached in Japanese, he had an ability given
by God that staggered the Christians of Japan,
as they sat there in awe at this
man who could come and in a few
months have mastered their language without reading, just
speaking, all God was with him, he read
the New Testament Greek for his quiet time,
languages just became part of his life, whatever
language he tackled, oh he was a brilliant
man, but a humble and a broken man,
Bertram Friend loved across our land, I heard
so much of him, when I was first
saved and then one night, I remember sitting
at a convention, the great Bertram Friend was
to preach and I was staggered at what
I saw, I'd never seen such a strange
little man in my life, he walked up
into the pulpit and I just saw this
little strange looking man in the squeaky little
voice, I said this couldn't be him, and
I saw the young people begin to laugh,
now that's something in our country, you just
don't do that in church, but they couldn't
refrain, they started laughing at this funny little
man, he was so funny, he had no
abilities, no great personality, no dynamic voice, he
stood there, he didn't lift his hands up,
he just stood, there was nothing of self
in the man, nothing of gift, you can't
say he was gifted to speak in a
way that others, there was a squeaky little
voice, oh I saw them laughing and you
know I battled, the only time I ever
battled not to laugh, he was so funny
to look at, the great Bertram Friend, this
is him, well I noticed something five minutes
on while he spoke, there was a huff,
five minutes on after the huff came, I
found tears welling up in my eyes and
I looked around and I saw the whole
congregation, every face was weeping, ten minutes, God
was it this man in a way that
I don't know, you just don't see such
preaching, no great charismatic personality that grips the
crowds, he had nothing to offer, he stood
there and God swept, you see he was
someone that couldn't glory in God's presence, so
God could trust him in a way he
perhaps doesn't trust most of us preachers, God
just swept in there through the sweet face
despised man, that you stunned to realize God's
using him, oh the great Bertram Friend, he
loved Jenny, his wife later on died in
his old age, he would come for tea
in our little flat that we had when
we first got married, he stayed in for
a few months there, he loved to come
and have tea with Jenny, he really loved
her, I don't think he came there for
me much, but he loved to sit and
talk to my wife, this old godly man
and he used to love to walk all
over and in his walks as he walked
talking to God you know, he would just
suddenly pop in and say, is there tea
for me Jenny?
There this little frail funny looking man with
a squeaky voice would walk in and sit
down and he always sat like he was
looking scared you know, well Jenny went through
this particular day to the kitchen and I
sat there in the lounge and I was
always in awe of him for what he
was, for the way he had led so
many multitudes to God despite his weakness, I
just sat there looking at him in apprehension
that he had come to visit and I
was home for a change and he jumped
up as Jenny walked out to the kitchen
and he came over to me and his
eyes filled with tears and they came down
his face and I stood and I found
tears welling up in my eyes, though he
hadn't said a word and he says, Keith
boy, listen carefully to me, God spoke to
me, God spoke to me this morning about
you and I've come to tell you what
God told me to tell you, I've never
ever said this in my life, I've never
said this and God's asked me to say
it to you, Keith, when I got saved
and suddenly I realized God was leading me
to be a preacher, I fought against it,
I fought with my whole heart, I said
never, I was the most self-destructive man
on earth even though I was saved, I
was so negative, so fearful because people laughed
at me when I had to go and
finally stand in the pulpit, I couldn't bear
it when I saw people laughing at me,
I thought it was cruel that I had
to be fulfilling a call now in obedience
to God that he put me up there
and I knew people would now laugh at
me, I hated to be looked at because
people just laughed at me, look at me
Keith, look at me, men just laugh at
me for my boy, they just laugh at
me, now when God saves me, he puts
me up in the pulpit that men look
at me and they start laughing, they can't
help it, I hated it, I despised it,
I didn't want to be there, I was
arguing with God, I was groaning, I was
so self-destructive Keith, so negative with all
my setbacks in life, with all the setbacks
of me, my personality, my physical state, I
used to be scared to get out of
bed in the morning and face another day,
oh I was saved but I had this
heavy heart because of what I was, now
God was putting me in the pulpit and
I hated it and one night God spoke
to me, he spoke in a way I
never knew God would speak to a man,
I never knew God spoke like that to
men, like that these days, God said to
me Bertram, your testimony, your ministry is about
to be destroyed forever by the devil, unless
you do one thing, unless you begin to
offer the sacrifice of praise daily, but if
you do this one thing you won't be
destroyed, you'll become strong, no matter what problems
you face or setbacks in life you have,
begin to praise now, he said I was
so staggered at the voice of God that
I slung myself down on my face and
I began to do something I hadn't done,
though I was saved from hell, I began
to offer the sacrifice of praise, it was
a hard thing to do but I started
praising God, thank you Lord that thou has
saved my soul, thank you I'm not going
to hell where millions and millions and millions
are going to hell, millions and millions and
millions for all eternity will be crying out
in hell the smoke of their torment ascending
up forever and ever, oh thank thee Lord
I won't be with them, I'm going to
heaven, I'm washed in the blood, thank you
for saving my soul God, thank thee Lord,
he thought thank thee that I am not
starving, where millions, not thousands, millions, millions right
now are starving, millions of homes, their children,
little tummies, the bones, all you see is
blowing up, swelling from the agony of no
food, thank thee God I'm not starving, that
I have food to eat, that I'm not
in a country without food, thank thee Lord
that I can see where millions, millions, not
thousands, right now in this world were born
blind, they never saw light, they never saw
the face of their father and mother, they
never saw anything in life, thank thee God
I can see, that I can see, thank
thee God I can hear, where millions, millions
were born deaf, millions alive right now while
we sit here are deaf, never ever heard
the sound of a bird, never heard singing,
just saw lips, silence, thank thee God I
can hear, thank thee God, I have a
roof over my head, where millions, not thousands,
millions have never once slept in their own
home, go to India, watch them, not thousands,
go and see the millions, you know what
home is, newspaper and a box, it's their
only covering, they never, ever slept under a
roof of their own, thank thee God I
have a roof over my head, thank thee
God I have a car, where millions, millions
have never, ever sat in a car, they
walk from boys to old men in Africa,
miles walking to work, miles walking in their
old age back, never did they have a
car to drive, thank thee God I have
a car, a vehicle, thank thee I have
clothes God, thank thee I have a suit,
where millions in this country of South Africa
have never, ever worn a decent suit, never,
ever once had a brand new pair of
shoes, never once been in a brand new
shirt, not once in their life from birth
to death, thank thee God I have clothes,
he said Keith, I went on, whatever came
in my mind, it was legitimate to thank
God for, do you know Keith, after 10,
15 minutes of the saying, the sacrifice, the
sacrifice, when it wasn't just coming, it was,
it was a sacrifice, after 10, 15 minutes,
I was lifted into the realm of worship,
I began to pour out worship that I
didn't know a human was capable of doing,
I didn't speak in tongues, he said I
just was worshiping God from the soul that
I couldn't stop, I was just pouring out
praise to God for all the goodness, I
was lifted into worship, I said okay, it's
so effective me, you know what I did,
because I'm such a negative self-destructive creature,
I didn't get out of bed not one
minute, not once for 40 years since that
happened, not once that I didn't, that I
dared to get out of bed, that I
didn't spend 10 minutes before I dared to
put my foot out of bed, that I
didn't say thank you, I woke up thanking
God for 10 minutes, and after 10 minutes
of lying there, not daring to get out
of bed and do anything until I've got
through, he said 10 minutes that I'm praising
God, I'm lifted into the realm of faith,
and peace, and joy, oh it deals a
death blow to negativeness, it deals a death
blow no matter what's against you, no matter
what setbacks you have in life, no matter
how hard it is, he said when I
see people laughing at me, you know what
I do Keith, right from that time to
this day, I see them laughing, I don't
listen to the devil and look at them
and say, oh here they go again laughing
at me, he says the moment I see
laughing faces, I just turn and I don't
care what the world thinks, I start praising
God aloud, I walk in the streets, I
walk anywhere, in buildings, anywhere, I just start
thanking God, you know Keith, for 40 years
I have not once been depressed, not once
have I been depressed, no matter what came
against me, no matter what men did or
said to me, I have not known depression
where there was a slightest temptation to be
depressed, I did what God told me and
every single time I was lifted in the
realm of worship, oh bless God, then he
looked at me and said, Keith do you
know, God spoke to me this morning and
said, go and tell Keith Daniel what you've
done all these years, he needs to know,
now Keith, God said to me, you boys
are going to be destroyed, your ministry and
your destiny is going to be so, unless
you start now offering the sacrifice of praise
every day of your life, you know I
so took that to heart that I couldn't
speak, as he sat there with Denny, so
I knew God had surely sent him, I
remember the first time I had occasion to
put that to practice, I went off to
speak in a town where God began to
work, God began to save souls all over
that town, the Christians began to rejoice and
then suddenly, the devil had one or two
things that came against me, of criticism, Spurgeon
said, if you're going to preach and you're
not expecting criticism, get out of the pulpit
now, it's going to come, if you're going
to be faithful, it's going to come from
least expected sources, oh, I suddenly had these,
with all the good things that were happening,
that the Christians rejoicing, these two or three
voices, suddenly against us, standing up and my
heart just sank, you know, oh, I went
into the darkness, I went down to the
beach front and I walked along the beach
and I said, oh God, why, why let
these people now do these things, why does
this have to happen and the Lord said
to me, what did I send Bertram's friend
to tell you to do, when you feel
you're going to get depressed, I said, pray
and God said, pray, so I started to
pray and I said, Lord, thank thee for
all the souls that have been saved, for
all the Christians that have come, for all
the multitudes that are there with me, in
spite of the little thing now the devil's
done and said, lose all your joy just
because of this, forget all the good things,
oh, I went on praising God, you know,
from a heavy heart, I was thanking God
and thanking God and about five, ten minutes
later, I was worse at being God, I
was in such worship, I didn't know I
could worship like that, the sight of heaven,
I was lifted into joy, there was no
negativeness, no depression, as I just carried on
thinking of all the multitude of good things
God has given to us, laid upon my
life, and here the devil had me losing
sight of them because of one or two
things, oh, after the sacrifice of praise, after
the sacrifice of praise, he grew strong and
when endued, was endued from heaven, he grew
strong, was empowered by faith as he gave
praise to God, as God says, he grew
strong and was empowered by faith as he
gave praise and glory to God, but be
careful now, there's so much superficial praise, be
careful you don't fall into that category, Bill
Peasley, and I end with this, is another
great godly man in South Africa, he's dead
now, but he was something to behold, nothing
stopped him, he had such zeal that you
couldn't believe, he looked at what he was
going to do and he charged and anybody
that got in his way, well, they would
just bowl over, he was going to do
what he was going to do for God
and no one was going to stop him,
he had such zeal, it was unbelievable, he
was zealous about everything, but he needed a
wife to keep him from being shipwrecked, you
see, he had so much zeal, he had
very little wisdom, they said that about me
when I was first preaching, not a fire
there, not much wisdom, but there was Bill
Peasley right through into the years, this was
being said about him, oh the fire's there,
but not much wisdom, and his wife was
given to him for an anchor, it's terrible
to call your wife an anchor, but that
was what his wife was, an anchor to
keep him back in all his zeal, she
wouldn't budge, you know, not a bomb would
move her on anything, doctrines, all the new
movements, oh no, don't get excited about new
movements, things that come with a bang, go
with a bang, stick to just what we
have learned to walk with God, and don't
go excited about these things, they'll soon be
gone, oh nothing could excite her about anything
apart, apart from God and the things that
have proven themselves over and over through, well
there she was, this godly, godly woman, I
was in their home, one night I was
preaching in their town and I heard this
hallelujah, now in South Africa you just don't
say that, apart from the extreme Pentecostal churches,
but the bulk, 90% of our ministry,
people don't shout hallelujah, sitting quiet, it's a
very conservative country, and their form of religion,
form of service is very, very conservative and
orderly, and this man was shouted hallelujah, and
I tell you I nearly fell over, someone
shouted so loud while I was preaching, it
was Mr. Peasley, now he was the only
one I knew that got away with it,
you can get thrown out of the building,
you know, you do that, I've seen the
preacher actually stopping a man and saying, just
you try it, when this man tried to
get a bit excited, well Bill Peasley used
to shout hallelujah, and everybody forgave him, because
there was something from the heart, that everyone
sensed God, it didn't distract from the message,
it didn't say here am I, look at
me, take attention of me, not just the
preacher, you know, I once heard a man
shouting hallelujah in one of the countries like
that, he was shouting this hallelujah all the
time while I was preaching, and suddenly I
looked at him and I couldn't stop myself,
I said is there sin in your life,
and you know there was, and God had
to confront him, in an awful way like
that, you can be shouting hallelujah while you're
full of sin, you know, it's just something
carnal, be careful, be careful, but this man
when he shouted hallelujah, it was a phrase
of God no one was offended, and I
said this must be somebody special, it was
Bill Peasley, that godly Bill Peasley, well I
went up to his home, and there he
was sitting, and I soon realized all the
things I heard about him, about the fire,
oh how he needed his wife as an
anchor to stop him from saying anything, to
hold him back and say no, no you
don't go this far, you stop now, it's
far enough, he came through with a book
that those days when we were young Christians,
it was taking the world by storm, and
it's called prison to pray, by some American
man, Carruthers or something, well he had hold
of this book, and he came through, he
said listen to what this man says, he
says whatever happens pray, doesn't matter what happened,
anything, whatever it is, just give praise and
thank God for it, and he started naming
the things, and I'm going to do it,
he said, and his wife said oh no
you're not, like a cold icicle, suddenly all
the heat was gone, he said why not,
he said oh that man is so wrong,
God forgive him, that man is so wrong,
you don't praise God for everything, you don't
praise God for tragedy, you don't praise God
for sin, there's so many things you don't
praise God for, you praise him in spite
of them, but not for them, there's a
great difference he said, there's a great difference,
don't go overboard, don't lose sight of common
sense, and conscience, and what's right and wrong,
you praise God, but praise God in spite
of the wrong, not for them, beloved
I dare to tell you this, you can
apply your life to all the things we've
preached this week, with all your heart, but
for the full resurrected power of Christ to
be manifested in your life like you want
it, you need all these things, you need
to be dedicated, to be consecrated, you need
to apply yourself to the quiet time as
the greatest thing in your life, the most
preserved, guarded moment of life every day, you
need to apply your life to all the
things you've heard, to the discipline of the
tongue, you need to apply yourself to soul,
when you need to please apply yourself to
all the things we've heard, and preached, and
reached out to God to enable us to
fulfill, but you want the full resurrected power
of Christ in your life, you'll never know
it, until you learn to offer the sacrifice
of praise, until you learn to get before
God, sometimes for 10 minutes before you get
out of bed, if you're a negative person,
and in 40 years time you look at
the world and say, for 40 years I
have not been depressed, only once I sank
from the time God sent Bertram Friend to
me with those words, only once that I
sank, that the whole world looked as everything
came against me, the whole world looked at
me sinking, and wondered if I'd ever rise
again, and that once was the only time
I forgot to praise, when everything came against
me, outside of that, God has kept me
full of joy, no matter what went wrong,
and peace, you praise, you praise, and be
endued by God empowered with faith, and peace,
as you give praise and glory, no matter
what's wrong, no matter what the devil's trying
to do, brother, will you come and give
us to God in prayer, I don't want
an appeal tonight please, you're unsaved, this is
the last night, there are prayer rooms at
the back, people will be watching for you
immediately, but I want our brother to lead
us, as the people of God, in the
bulk of you have sought God in these
days, again and again, to commit us to
God in prayer, please, God bless you, let's
stand before the Lord, I know
we are many, we reach all the way
to the back of this building, but I
want us to stand before the Lord in
prayer, and bless God, I
want you to forget about your neighbor, forget
about the person in front of you, behind
you, and just stand before the Lord, and
let's commit our lives to into God's hand,
as we close these meetings, this last night,
as we respond to God, concerning the things
we've heard tonight, how many of you would
say you needed to hear that message tonight,
because of your own negativism, that's right, let's
stand before the Lord, bow our heads, our
Father in heaven, we, we stand before you
in Jesus name, God we know that in
spirit, we are made to sit together in
heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, Lord we know
the atmosphere of heaven tonight, is one of
worship, one of praise, one of honor to
you, and so God we enter in, we
give our hearts to thee tonight, Father, we
thank you, thank you Lord that we, we
can see, Lord we heard the message tonight,
thank you Father for all you've done for
us through this week, how you've blessed us
God, you have gifted us, oh Father, in
so many ways, we are here tonight, we're
on our feet, we have strength, oh God,
you've given us the revelation of your Son,
there are millions and millions, yea billions, who
do not know the Lord Jesus, who have
not even heard his name, we know his
name, and we know him, oh Father, we
thank you for that, glory, praise, and honor
to you Father, thank you for your Son
Jesus, thank you for so loving the world,
that you gave your only begotten Son, oh
God, we worship you tonight, we honor you
with the fruit of our lips, glory, praise,
and honor be to you Lord, and only
to you, oh Father I pray, tonight God
take this message and burn it in our
hearts, Lord we face these very discouragements, and
it's hurting your testimony, the testimony of God,
oh Father, you didn't send a man with
a special message to each one of us
privately, but you sent a man with a
message to us tonight, may we respond to
it just like brother Keith did when it
came his way, and just like that little
man did when it came his way, Father
we open our hearts to this message, we
would praise you, we would find those multitude
of things to bless you for every day,
yes even as the scripture says, enter into
his courts with praise, and into his gates
with thanksgiving, and we would remember that the
Lord inhabits the praises of his people, oh
Father, forgive us, forgive us, oh God, for
our negativism, our negative attitudes, God, we look
at life through our own eyes instead of
through yours, oh Father forgive us, and wash
us in the blood, dear God, you give
our lives again to you tonight, all of
us Lord, we stand before you, we offer
our lives to you God, our hands, our
feet, our lips, our eyes, our ears, our
bodies, Father, we give them to you, oh
take us and use us, fill us and
use us Lord for your honor and your
glory, we pray for the young people Lord,
we send them home by the grace of
God, as a mighty army, oh Father use
every one of them as they go home,
to their parents may there be a blessing,
to their churches may there be a blessing,
to their community also, now God, you go
with each one of us, as we dismiss
this meeting Father, grace each heart with thy
blessing, as we share with one another, oh
God, and we do pray for any who
are not right, oh Lord would you deal
with them yet through this evening, in
Jesus precious name, are there any other
announcements?