Thank you for those very precious words to
all of our hearts and a very precious
life.
We do bless the Lord for his servant
who so graciously led us in those few
verses.
I think I'm going to put this a
little bit higher.
It's wonderful to see a father and a
son serve God together.
There's the son leading us in singing and
he almost looks like his father, you know.
I have to look twice to be very
sure who I'm speaking to.
Anyway, we bless the Lord.
I cannot tell you how much I have
appreciated being here, especially to have been here
with my wife.
This was a tremendous joy and privilege God
gave me.
I've left her alone so much, so many
years, over the years, and this time the
Lord just brought us together when we were
sort of being apart as normal.
And I think that's very special that he
did that for us as a church, to
bring Jenny and my little boy also came
with us, little Samuel.
I wish my other two boys could be
here to see you godly young people.
Not always the easiest thing to see so
many godly young people seeking God like this,
singing like this, seeking God with all your
heart in these youth meetings, these youth bible
school.
I'd love my boys to have met you,
but you pray for them.
Noel, Noel is in the Bible, you know,
shout of joy to God.
And his great-grandfather's name was Noel.
His great-grandfather was a holy man of
God and loved little Noel.
The only great-grandchild he saw was Noel.
He's my eldest boy, taller than me, only
16, size 12 shoe.
Terrible having him look down at me.
And he's only 16, but he loves God,
and he tries with everything in his heart
to serve God, and we love him for
that.
Then there's Roy, little Roy, he's suddenly becoming
big also.
So different from Noel, but no compromise, just
in his own very special way walks with
God, and we love Roy.
So pray for the two of them.
And for little Samuel who's here, many of
you have seen, he normally falls asleep when
his daddy preaches.
So tonight you look over there, and you'll
be asleep if he's not asleep already.
Is that right, Jenny?
Anyway, please pray for us, also for my
son.
So God bless you.
It's been such a joy to see your
standard.
It's just precious.
I don't know if you people are used
to it so much, that you don't appreciate
what you've got.
But the church across the world today is
in desperate need of revival.
And unless revival comes, I think a wave
of corruption is going to come so swiftly
that you and I are going to be
crying out from our hearts in despair at
what we suddenly see sweeping across the world.
And that's a revival to the people of
God who are the salt of the earth.
They're the only way corruption will stop, through
their prayers, but especially through their lives and
their right with God.
No other way.
And until God comes and gives us revival,
this corrupt avalanche is going to escalate to
such a degree you won't believe what corruption
is going to come flooding, barraging itself against
us to destroy us.
We need revival desperately.
But here, you folks have got a wonderful
standard of separation.
I'm scared of the legalism attached to it,
or the accusation of legalism.
But when it's sanctified by God, and out
of love for God, and it's real, then
it's something precious.
And it's here.
You have it, you young people.
Don't lose it.
Guard it.
Don't compromise like the rest of the world.
Those who name your name of Jesus, of
course they're the holy, the godly across the
world.
God has his faithful people everywhere.
But as a group, as a church, you
have something special.
You live it as examples to the believers,
and I believe the world will start looking
as you grow like this.
God bless you.
It's precious that you love the highest standard
there is, and reach out for nothing less
than that, no matter what the world says.
Bless God.
Something else I'd like just to mention, as
there was a young man, I don't know
how old he would be, 18, 17, 16
maybe, last evening, last night, that was waiting
to speak to me here.
And there were so many of you, one
after the other, that I was speaking to,
and I loved every moment, everything you said.
But I think this little fellow was a
little bit shattered when we had to be
rushing out the door for things waiting for
us.
And I looked back, and I saw a
little grieved face, and I we were grieved
through the night for you, whoever you were.
And I've been praying for you, and so
has our brother Denny, that God will help
you just to not be hurt, that we
rushed off.
But I just saw others all hanging on,
and so did our brother, and he tried
to get me out to the car.
Now if you, that young man, that looked
a little bit hurt as we walked away,
you'd please take away this grief from my
heart.
You come to me and say, I'm the
young man that you hurt last night, sir.
I just love you to do that.
Please don't not do that.
We'd love just to speak to you.
Whatever it was that you were obviously waiting
a long time for, and suddenly found we
were rushing away.
But believe me, we had reasons, and we
didn't all think you would be hurt like
that.
We didn't realize how earnest you were until
I looked back.
Now I needed to say that, and I
hope that young man doesn't feel conspicuous, or
offended, or embarrassed, if anyone else knows he
is.
You just walk up to me, please.
Ask everyone else if there's anyone else tonight,
and just say, I'm the young man.
We're going to speak, you and I, okay?
Please.
Bless you all, for all those who are
seeking God in these days.
Bless you all.
Some of the meetings you've all been seeking
God, all standing, all seeking.
I've watched your faces many times as I've
preached, and I realize there's brokenness here in
seeking after God.
And I thank every one of you that
sought the Lord.
May God protect what you have trusted in
for, and never let it be lost.
That if God tarries, and doesn't come back
for a good while, that what happened in
your heart will never be lost.
The fruit of it will still be going
on right to the end of your life.
God can do that, you know.
You know messages that I heard days after
I was born again, 30 years ago, are
still burning in my heart, as if it
was yesterday I heard them.
I never got over, I never recovered from
them.
I can't say that about every sermon I've
heard.
I wish I could.
But oh, there were certain sermons, God just
came, God just came.
And I never was the same again, ever
to this day.
May God please take these sermons, and never
ever let you be the same again.
Never let you lose the ground you've gained.
Father, we praise thee, that we as thy
people can bow before thee, and worship thee,
and love thee, and adore thee, especially for
the Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son.
Nothing can come near our mind that would
be able to be more worthy, more loved
by us than Jesus Christ.
We praise thee for him above all things,
above every single thing in life.
We praise thee for Jesus.
Oh, we bless thee, that thou didst so
love us, that thou didst give thine own
Son.
We bless thee for that, Father.
Thank thee for Jesus Christ, his blood, that
he rose from the dead, that he ever
liveth to make intercession for us.
That he who said to Peter, Satan is
desired to sit thee, like we would be
of good cheer.
I have prayed for thee, that thy faith
fail not.
The same Jesus prayed for us, no matter
what the devil desires to do to us.
And Lord, while thou art praying for us,
making intercession for us, oh, we believe nothing
can separate us from the love of Christ,
as we look to thee and yield to
thee.
Come thou, Jesus, who ever liveth to make
intercession for us, who serve thee and long
to serve thee.
Intercede for us tonight, thou who does know
our needs.
Thou art a great high priest, that in
all points was tempted like we, yet without
sin, and has told us to come boldly
to the throne of grace, to obtain mercy
and grace to help in time of need.
We bless thee, that we can come to
this, a God who understands, because he knew
and tasted what it is as man to
be tempted.
And therefore, we can come to thee, thou
who does understand, for the devil tells us
that thou would not understand, oh, thou dost
understand.
And we come boldly to thee tonight, every
one of us, and tell thee, come Lord,
oh God our Father, come and visit us
by the Spirit, and meet with us at
the point of our need, that we may
leave this place rejoicing, that Christ, God the
Father, God the Holy Spirit, has come and
visited us in the most wonderful way, to
make His abode with us.
Come Lord, stand beside me in this pulpit,
and speak through me, in Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.
We read in Hebrews 13, verse 4, words
that should stagger this present generation to the
core, words that should stagger this present generation
to the core.
Marriage, marriage is honourable, is
honourable, and the bed, the bed, undefiled, marriage
is honourable in all, in all, and the
bed, the bed, undefiled, but, but,
whoremongers, whoremongers, and adulterers, God
will judge, God will judge, God will judge,
the most accurate interpretation of these words, in
the light of all God says concerning marriage,
would be marriage, when a man, woman, stands
out of fear and reverence to God, and
vows, till death do us part, better, worse,
sickness, in health, bitter, poorer, till death do
us part, and God looks upon them, and
sanctifies their prayer, unites them, makes them one,
honours their vow, marriage is honourable, all in
God's eyes, this is honourable, that these two
would so, vow before me, such a, such
a vow, till death, it's honourable in God's
eyes, and honoured by God, honoured by God,
you are honoured by God, when you do
that, marriage is honourable in all, and the
bed, undefiled, any physical relationship, in God's eyes,
is holy, is holy, that's the closest you
can come to what God is saying, that's
how beautiful it is in God's eyes, nothing
dirty, nothing to be scorned, scoffed at, whispered
about, ashamed about, in marriage, even a dirty
joke about physical relationship would be looked upon
as absolute stupidity and sacrilege, it's holy, nothing
to be ashamed about, the bed, undefiled, but
home-hunger, those who would go from person
to person, for physical relationship, home-hunger, and
adulterers, those who have made such a vow
to God, and then she's not good enough,
so you go outside of marriage, and you
betray her, and your vow to God, and
you betray God, adultery,
marriage is honourable in all, and the bed,
undefiled, undefiled, but home-hungers and adulterers, God
will judge, what more can I say, God
will judge, how do you get around that,
God will judge, don't doubt it, don't doubt
it, sir, don't doubt it, young man, you
don't have any doubts, God will judge you.
I'd like tonight to address this sermon to
those who in this permissive age would still
honour God with a faithful marriage, to those
in spite of the days we're living in,
who would still honour God with a faithful
marriage.
I'd like to address my sermon to such,
we live in a day when marriage is
scoffed at in the world, you know why,
well in some nations they say 80%
of every marriage has been divorced, it's no
wonder, it's no wonder the world scoffs at
marriage and scared of entering into it, there's
a hopelessness about it sweeping the world, how
did the devil ever get that right, that
that which God commanded is now feared, because
it doesn't work, 80% in some nations,
oh it came like an avalanche, didn't it,
when I was a boy, divorce was unheard
of, if anyone in the whole neighbourhood talked
of a divorce, the whole neighbourhood was stunned,
today if you talk about anybody that remains
married, the whole neighbourhood's stunned, things have changed
in such a time since I was a
boy to know what's happening, what will be
left, if the light of the world, the
salt of the earth cannot be looked at,
now we're living in an age when the
church, from the people standing in the pulpit,
marriage is a crumbling in the church and
the world should be able to look at
us and see within us fulfilment and joy,
nothing wanted outside of marriage, complete satisfaction and
love, do they see it, or is it
because the church is falling apart on this
compromising in every issue concerning marriage, from the
pulpit, anything to not lose the crowd, I
think the time has come for us to
ask what's gone wrong, church of Jesus Christ,
where have we gone wrong that the world
can't even look at us, without seeing multitudes
of Christians divorcing, multitudes of families Christians in
misery to the coming to the point of
divorce, at the point of divorce, when we
stand up and become the light of the
world again and the salt of the earth
again in marriage, it'll change, but until then,
oh what will be left in a short
while, it's time for us to ask what
are we doing wrong, it's time for us
to get back to this book, to see
what God says about marriage, it's time for
us to earnestly seek and preach what God
says without any compromise, before nothing is left
for the world to see in us concerning
marriage, and I think as a stepping stone,
perhaps a foundation, I can't think of any
chapters throughout the holy scriptures, it would be
more fitting for earnest seeking of the God,
as to where we've gone wrong, is 1
Peter chapter 3, where Peter says these words,
likewise ye wives, likewise ye wives, be in
subjection to your own husbands, can you believe
that word is still in the dictionary, it
seems they've taken it out, people don't like
the word subjection, even in the church, talk
about subjection and people start laughing, it's a
word unheard of, it's not acceptable in 1997,
even in the church, to talk to a
woman, to look from the pulpit and say
God says, and it's time to listen to
what God says, believe me, and God says
these words, not me, even if the word
is becoming so void of use, that it's
almost unheard of today, because it's unacceptable, God
says, likewise ye wives, be in subjection to
your own husbands, that if any obey not
the word, they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of the wives,
by the life of the wives, while they
behold your taste conversation, coupled with fear, whose
adorning, let it not be that out with
adorning of placing the hair and of wearing
of gold or putting out of apparel, but
let it be the hidden man of the
heart, and that which is not corruptible, even
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of
great price, for after this manner in the
old time, the holy women also who trusted
in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto
their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham,
calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are, as
long as ye do well, and they're not
afraid with any amazement, likewise ye husband, dwell
with them according to knowledge, according to knowledge,
according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wise,
giving honor unto the wise, giving honor, giving
honor, giving honor unto the wise, as unto
the weaker vessels, and being as being heirs
of the grace of life, your prayers be
not hindered, likewise ye wise, be
in subjection to your own husband, when you
see the word likewise, you must always say
like what, what's God meaning here, and so
we have to look at the word preceding
this chapter, just the last few verses, to
see like what, ye wise, like what you
find it's pointing to Jesus, to be like
Jesus, let me tell you something, if anything
points you to anything else but Jesus, don't
listen, it's not worthy of a standard listening
to, everything must point you to be like
Jesus, there's something that must point you, and
when God now looks at you as wise,
he says you must be like Jesus, like
Jesus in your marriage, what about Jesus, does
God mean, as he looks to the wise
and says be in subjection, will it listen
to what about Jesus, what did Jesus do
that you've got to do now in marriage,
what is it God points to like Jesus,
well let's start in 1 Peter 2 verse
19, for this is thankworthy, if a man
for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully,
for what glory is it when you be
buffeted for your faults, you should take it
patiently, but if when you do well and
suffer for it, you take it patiently, this
is acceptable with God, for even here unto
where ye called, because Christ also suffered for
us, leaving us an example that ye should
follow his step, who did no sin, neither
was guile found in his mouth, who when
he was reviled, reviled not again, when he
suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to
him that judges righteously, likewise ye wise, he
comes now, like Jesus, likewise ye wise, be
in subjection to your own husbands, that if
any obey not the word, they also may
without the word be one, here he's speaking
in its context literally about a man who's
treating you not rightly, but wrongfully, the most
unjust person who you're married to, you've come
to Christ, how are you going to win
him, God says, do what Christ did, when
unjustness was brought to him, when wrong was
held out to him, he left you an
example to follow his steps, who when he
was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered,
he threatened not, now you must do this,
ye wise, likewise ye wise, be in subjection
to your own husbands, that if any obey
not the word, they also may without the
word be one, don't think it's only when
you get him to the church, to hear
the word of God, that he can be
one, no, he may never come to church,
don't leave him, win him through your life,
don't you leave him, win him through your
life, that's what God's saying to you, it
isn't when Billy Graham comes, it isn't when
these different great preachers come along to some
city, that your husband might at last come
to Christ, he can come now, if you
obey me, God cries, I expected of you,
I looked to you, but do what I
say, be in subjection to such a man,
is that possible, don't you leave him now,
you win him, I was once preaching in
South Africa, when I was a young preacher,
probably about 26, 25 years ago, now I'm
speaking, and I was speaking in a town
called Amkama, in the Tel, close to Zululand,
and God was working, we were there, we
were young, and as I said before, full
of fire, very little wisdom, and all the
fire was there, and one night I gave
my testimony, to all the people gathered, I
said these words, when I talked of what
God did in my home, I told them
of how God came to my home, to
my mother and father, who were going through
with a divorce, a smashed marriage, smashed lives,
and how God took hold of our home,
saving my brother, and through that, saving me,
and through our lives, saving my father, and
then through us three, saving my mother, all
of us, as we saw what God did,
we just came, and then how they're married,
how they're married, oh God didn't come a
moment too late, if he hadn't come right
then, they would have divorced, but he came,
in a way they had to listen, when
they saw their sons transformed, God came, as
my mother was going through with the divorce,
she couldn't take any more, God saved them,
and oh the healing, the moment mummy and
daddy were saved, the love, they always loved
each other, but there was all this forgiveness
to give, everything that was held against through
the years, suddenly there was total forgiveness, never
to be mentioned again, anything of the past,
not once, totally wiped out of their hearts,
and memory, and the love, and the unity,
and the oneness is so beautiful, it was
unbelievable that God could do that in one
moment, when they were saved, I remember taking
my brother by the hand, and I was
weeping, and I said to my brother, as
we looked at my mother and father, in
love with each other, loving each other, able
to do what we'd longed all the years
to see, and I said to my brother,
look, oh Dudley, look at what we could
have had, if only God had saved them
from the beginning, look at what we could
have known, if only God had saved them
from the beginning, as we looked at my
mother and father, and then I made this
statement, that night in Amkhamas, as I was
sharing about my mummy and daddy, I said,
I do not believe that it is possible,
for a marriage to be truly happy, if
a man and woman are not born again
of God, hey, right with God, I do
not believe it's possible, for such a thing
as a happy marriage, unless you're born of
God, hey, right with God, where after that
sermon, after that meeting, as I stood at
the door of the church, and we were
saying good night to all the people that
had come, there was a very elegant lady,
an English-speaking lady, very wealthy woman obviously,
what a lady, she walked in dignity, and
I saw her, she stood out from the
others, but as he got to me, she
put her hand out and she said, Keith,
you will be at my house tomorrow at
one o'clock for lunch, now when an
elegant English lady talks to you like that,
you don't argue, I arrived at one o
'clock in obedience for lunch, she sat me
down, we had lunch and fellowship, and she
said, you know I asked you to come
here, she said, Keith, you made a terrible
mistake what you preached last night, you were
wrong what you preached last night, and I
need to tell you that, someone has to
tell you, I know you were utterly sincere,
and Keith, I worship God with you, at
what Christ can do in a marriage that's
destroyed in one moment, I worship God with
you, what he did for mommy, your mommy
and daddy, but you were wrong when you
said that you do not believe it's possible
for a marriage to be happy, unless a
person is born of God and saved, you
do not believe that such a thing as
a happy marriage, there is possible for a
marriage to be truly happy, unless you're born
again and saved, like your mother and father
were, you were wrong, Keith, I'll tell you
why, I can take you to Christian homes
that are going through hell on earth, right
now, that's the words he used to give
me, I can take you to Christian homes
across this land, to ministers, people who in
the pulpit, who are preachers of the gospel,
whose homes, whose marriages are hell on earth,
and I can take you to unsaved homes,
people who don't know God, who have happy
marriages, and let me tell you why, Keith,
why some Christian homes go through hell on
earth, and why some unsaved homes go through
such joy and love, when I was a
young girl, I met this young fellow in
our hometown, who was the most good-looking
boy in town, all of the girls just
dreamed about getting him, you know, and I,
oh, my heart just went when he was
even near me, and as he grew up,
this fellow decided he wanted me, I won
him, oh, I thought I got the catch
of the century, I was so thrilled at
getting this fellow, to me he was perfect,
absolutely perfect man, there was nothing wrong, he
was the most perfect human alive, I just
adored him, and so we got married, and
Keith, do you know on our honeymoon, on
our honeymoon, not a couple of months into
marriage, on our honeymoon, my heart just sank,
and I thought, what have I done, he
isn't perfect, this man was a monster, he
was so unreasonable, so bordering on cruelness, I
realized we're in terrible troubles, we were just
fighting, I fought back, there was this glassing
on our honeymoon, like I couldn't believe, could
be in a marriage, we were in a
terrible state, and I sat down, and I
in despair looked at him, and I thought
to myself, I have to face divorce, oh,
I have to have the scar of divorce
upon my life, I have to be at
the scar of divorce across me for the
rest of my life, unless, unless one
of us submits, totally, unless one of us
doesn't answer back, gives in the fight, obey,
it's not going to be him, it'll have
to be me, if I'm not going to
have the scar of divorce across me, and
Keith, I was unsaved, totally unsaved, but I
tried, everything in me tried, just to not
answer back, to do whatever he wanted, not
to fight, not even to reason, how he
could be so unreasonable, I just obeyed, I
just, I was unsaved, and I did it,
it wasn't easy, it was hard, but I
just did it, one night I was sitting,
looking at him, wondering about him, when suddenly
I saw tears coming down his face, and
I stood up and walked over to him,
and I said, what is it, what is
it, and he fell on his knees, and
he sobbed, and he groaned so loud, as
if in agony of heart, weeping, and he
said, I, I'm so sorry, forgive me, and
he held me, forgive me, and he wept,
and I got down, and put my arms
around, and we both wept together, do you
know Keith, from that day, we never once
had an argument, we may have differed, but
there was no argument, from that day, unsaved,
that man treated me like a queen, I
don't know if I've ever seen a Christian
home, where a husband so treated his wife,
his wife so rightly, so kindly, so gently,
so considerably, as that unsaved man did, because
I submitted, yielded, subjected myself, didn't fight back,
had I known what would happen, I would
have willingly done it, I didn't know how
long, I thought this was forever, but I
didn't want divorce, but look what happened, you
see Keith, I fulfilled what I didn't even
know was in the Bible, what God says
a woman should do, what God says a
woman can do, later on he became saved,
I became saved, and the marriage was even
more beautiful, if it's possible, but it was,
but Keith you're wrong, when you think that
being a Christian makes a happy home, it
doesn't, being a Christian, obeying the word of
God, and the principles God lays down in
his words, will make a happy home, but
how many Christian homes, the woman will never
subject herself, even at the cost of going
through hell on earth, to the bitter end,
there's war to the end, and be careful
here, God doesn't say, and he doesn't mean,
you subject yourselves to unreasonable cruel men, that's
all I want of you, that's your part,
that isn't what God's saying, God is saying
to you something more noble, something that's a
rebuke to men, God is saying to woman,
you are able to do what the man
can't do, you have a grace in you
that the man hasn't got, you are capable
of doing something that isn't capable normally in
a man, you have something, and so I
look to you, not to him, I look
to you, if he's unsaved, if he's unreasonable,
I look to you, for there's something in
you, that can win him, and make him
love you, and I look to you, to
subject yourself to him, that's all I'm asking
of you, not to let him trample all
over you, till the day you die, no,
no, no, but to change him, because that
is what is going to change him, if
he's unreasonable and cruel, I was preaching in
another town, numbers of years later, and God
was working, and the Christians began to go
to all the houses, visiting everywhere across the
town, inviting people to come to the meetings,
there was a little army going out, the
meetings gathering momentum, people coming from everywhere, and
so I went out, I was visiting in
that town, during the meetings, and I came
to a house, where there was a little
lady, in the garden, with a hose pipe,
now I could tell you stories about ladies
with hose pipes, it's a bit dangerous, if
you're a preacher, to go into a house,
or to home, if you see a lady
standing with a hose pipe in the garden,
I could tell you stories, you wouldn't believe,
what ladies have done with hose pipes to
us, when they think we're Jehovah Witnesses, here
she was with a hose pipe, and I
called out from the gate to her, and
I said, would you take this notice, it's
an invitation to some meetings we're having here,
and people are coming from everywhere in your
town, won't you come along, just take this
pamphlet please, and she said, that's the Afrikaans
speaking language, that means, go away, I have
my church, that's something we hear quite often
in South Africa, get away please, I have
my church, so I said, what church is
that, she looked at me now a little
bit angrily, and she said, I'm a doper,
well that's some reformed church, a very large
church in South Africa, Afrikaans speaking, so I
in my ignorance said, what does a doper
mean, so she says, oh yellow angle, you
English, you're so ignorant, she says, you know
nothing, she carried on, she said, we believe
only reading the scripture, we believe only singing
the psalms, you don't believe in fairy stories,
that you people preach, she said, I've heard
all about you young man, don't worry about
it, my neighbors, both sides have been telling
me to come every day, I know all
about what you're preaching, oh, but we've been
warned against you, all these emotional things, that
you try and work up people emotionally, you
tell fairy stories about how they can be
saved, and know that they're Christians, as we
preach just the scriptures, we only read the
scriptures, we only sing the psalms, we don't
listen to fairy stories, now go away, so
I said to her, listen lady, you get
your bible, and give me 15 minutes, and
I'll show you just reading the scriptures, that
you must be saved, how you can be
saved, and you'll know you're saved, and I
won't say a word outside of the word
of God, so she put the whole pipe
off, she said, all right come inside, so
I walked inside, she got this big old
Afrikaans bible, old family bible, I sat with
this big thing, and I did my best
in Afrikaans, just to turn to read exactly
the portions of God's word, that show how
a person can be saved, and what God
promises He will do, bearing witness with their
spirit, that they are saved, we know we've
passed from death unto life, we know, and
so I was reading all the portions of
God's word concerning salvation, and suddenly I looked
up, and she was on her knees, sobbing,
crying, groaning, and she cried out so loud,
my God, how is it I have never
heard, how is it I've never heard, and
she screamed loud, oh God save me, save
me, she looked to the blood of Christ,
she cried out for Christ to be received
into her heart, and do you know that
woman stood up, and I looked in her
eyes, and it was a peace that flooded
her, a peace that passes all understanding, a
joy welling up within her, she knew as
she stood from her knees, she was born
of God, and there was no doubt, she
just began to worship, and then I said
to her, listen, come to the rest of
the meetings, get built up, get fellowship, get
to know who's truly born of God, and
all the different churches, since you can know
who to go to for help, and have
true fellowship, come and get built up in
the messages, come tonight, she said, oh, you
don't know what you're asking me, my husband
is an elder in Oderland, in the Doppelganger,
if he knows you were in my house,
he'll murder me, he'll murder you, you want
me to come to your meetings, no, no,
no, she said, you just pray for me,
and if you ever come back here, you
come and visit me, have a cup of
tea, come and see how things are going,
so we sat and talked a little bit,
and then I went off, it was a
few months later, I was driving past the
town, and in my heart was to go
and see her, so I drove, there she
was in her garden with the horse pipe,
she said, oh Englishman, Englishman, I've been waiting
for you, come in, so I went inside,
we had tea, she said, Keith, my boy,
I didn't tell you the truth, when you
came and stood at the gate, my bags
were packed at the door, there they were
standing at the door, and I was leaving
him, he's an elder in Oderland, but oh,
so cruel to me and the children, when
he comes home drinking, the things he did,
I couldn't take another day, I couldn't bear
one more day, so hard, I was leaving
him, I was standing in the garden fighting,
we're going to lose the house, everything we've
put in, all that we've built up in
life, the children won't know where they belong,
for the rest of our lives, our children
won't know where they belong, and I was
fighting, what am I going to do, and
I was praying, help me God, what am
I going to do, help me God, and
you came and stood there at the gate,
and when you talked of the scriptures, just
reading the scriptures, I wondered, did God send
you, and I let you into my home,
I've never let a man in my house,
I let you in, when you said, you
just read the scriptures, because I've been crying
out to God to help me, before I
lost everything in life, and I was about
to leave him, and when I heard what
you told me, I knew God had sent
you, I knew God had sent you, and
Keith, I said to you before you left,
we've got troubles in our marriage, I've got
real trouble, you said to me these words,
if anything happens, don't answer back, flee, get
somewhere you can get on your knees, and
speak to God, before you answer, and then
come out and answer, do that, and you'll
win him, well he came home that night,
and straight away the drink comes out, and
then the fighting, oh here he comes with
all his statements, and all his, and so
I ran into the bathroom, shut the door,
got on my knees, and prayed, after a
while I came out, and I didn't answer
back, he looked at me, and I did
this day after day, in the bathroom, shut
the door, get on my knees, in the
end he came to the bathroom, he started
banging on the door, he says, what are
you doing in there, why don't you fight
me anymore, what's wrong with you, and I
opened the door, and I looked at him,
I said my man, I'm saved, I've become
a Christian, I told him about you Keith,
I told him how I was leaving him,
how my baptism were passed, I was leaving
him, and God sent you, and I said
my man, my husband, I'll never fight you
again, because I want you to come to
Jesus through me, I want you to come
to Christ also, do you know what he
did Keith, he looked at me, he put
down his drink, and he fell down on
his knees, and he sobbed like a baby,
I'd never seen him once in all these
years, not a tear in his eyes, he's
so hot, he sobbed like a baby, he
got rid of the drink that night, there
hasn't been one argument in this home, from
that night to this day, he is not
saved yet Keith, but he's coming, and he
came, and their marriage is one to this
day, in Christ, and beautiful, so you see
here it is ladies, God isn't saying to
you, I want you for the rest of
your lives to accept this treatment from cruel
people, but I want to win him through
you, if you'll only allow me to, if
you'll only listen to me, if you only
take to heart what seems unjust of me
to hold out and say you do this,
believe me I weep with you, I don't
look and say that's her lot, no it
hurts, but I allow it because I know
this will make him treat you like a
queen, this will make him love you, this
will make all the fights and the bitterness
go out of his heart, whatever's wrong, and
begin to reveal you, when you do something
he can't do, that he's not good or
great enough to do, as an unsaved man,
terrible thing you know, when it has to
be the man who submits, I've seen that
sometimes, that's really something hard to look at,
but God looks to the woman, now in
case all you ladies are despairing, there's another
verse after that, likewise he husband, here's your
turn, likewise he husband, what does God say,
thank God for that word likewise, I hope
you like Christ, and I hope your wife
is somewhere in a long line, looked at
you and said, I see Jesus in you,
oh I hope you have heard those words
from your wife, I hope you've heard those
words yet from your wife, what a shame
that he hasn't, what a shame, likewise, likewise
he husband, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honor unto the wifers, unto the weaker
vessel, likewise he husband, dwell with them, there's
something about this word dwell, that isn't just
stay with them, live with them, it means
remain faithful to them, even if it's difficult,
that's actually what it's saying, in its context,
in its truth, remain with them, be faithful
to them, don't leave them, remain with them,
in spite of difficulties in marriage, but how
do you face these difficulties, how do you
overcome them, remain with them, dwell with them,
likewise he husbands, dwell with them, according to
knowledge, using your common sense, literally, some translations
have it literally, using your common sense, which
is quickened by the Holy Ghost, the one
version has it, you've a headlong start if
you're saved, you don't only have a good
conscience God gave you, a common sense, you
have the quickening of the Holy Ghost, to
say, this is the way, when there's difficulties,
and he always does, if you're open to
God, use your common sense in difficulties, don't
become bitter against them, be not bitter against
your wives, husbands, use the common sense, which
is quickened and led by God, the Holy
Ghost, to know how to heal any wound,
anything that goes wrong, that could cause a
division or hurt in your marriage, you don't
have to do that, use your common sense
man, according to knowledge, you can stay with
them and be all you should be, like
Christ to them, use your common sense, I
was once sitting in a home of a
man and woman of God, and we were
sitting at this big table in this farm,
and here are these people who had served
the Lord for a long long time, revered,
it seems this lady was going through a
difficult stage in life, I don't understand everything,
people say to me, every lady comes to
a place where there's some change and they
need a little bit of extra grace, you
know, from everyone, they say, it's coming Keith,
it's going to happen to Jenny, it hasn't
happened yet, but it's coming and you're going
to have to find extra grace, it happens
to all ladies, it seems, I'm very ignorant
about what I'm speaking about, by the way,
but you might know what I'm speaking about,
well this lady, I think, was going through
that, that day we were visiting, she really
needed extra grace, she was sitting at the
table, this lady who had a lovely testimony,
believe me, her godly husband, the most fitting
with all us, preachers around the table, and
he was quite innocent, perfect in what he
was saying, nothing, she decided she was declaring
war, and I've never seen that, you know,
have you seen suddenly war is declared in
a home, when visitors are there, between husband
and wife, she decided she humiliated him, she
just turned on him and began to belittle
him, so unjustly, for no reason, he said
nothing wrong, she just pulled out the cannon
on the table, boom, war is declared, with
the visitors there, you know, my word, and
she puts the bomb on the table and
lights the fuse, we're having war here, no
matter who's here, well we just sat there,
I sat back, I put my knife and
fork, and I thought, oh my, we're in
for it now, we sat there holding our
breath, as we looked over to him now,
what he's going to do, you know what
he did, the way this woman humiliated, you
couldn't believe what she said, when he looked
over and he took her by the hand
and he said, my darling, how long has
it been since I told you how much
I love you, how long has it been
since I told you how beautiful you are,
and how I love you, he forgot about
us, by the way, he didn't do it
for us, he really meant it, you know,
she just melted, we all melted actually, I
melted, yes, he set the time, the fuse
on for the bomb, he just diffused it,
you know, you can diffuse the bombs, by
the way, it's so easy, just use your
common sense, you don't have to defend yourself,
you have to keep your testimony, that's all
you have to do, and using your common
sense, cooking by the Holy Ghost, you don't
have to declare war, and lose your testimony,
in the eyes of all those priests, who
were visiting, when your wife, as the weaker
vessel, you don't know what she's going through,
and her weaknesses, you don't know what frustrations,
or tiredness, or weariness, and suddenly there's visitors,
and everything might have been wrong about that
meal, I don't know, and suddenly she just
snapped, but you don't have to ruin everything,
and lose everything, because see, as a weaker
vessel, you now need to use your common
sense, to keep that home won, you can
just diffuse the bomb, in a moment, you
know, that Richard Birnbrandt, Tortured for Christ, was
his book, when the communists left him out,
they didn't know what they were doing, somehow
that was a miracle of God, he got
out, they still don't know how he got
out, in truth, but he was the one,
who came to the West, and told us,
of what the true evils of communism were,
how there was wicked men, and even political
prisoners, were Christians, the only reason they suffered,
was because they loved Christ, and professed Christ,
and so they were imprisoned, and here this
man was taken, Birnbrandt came to South Africa,
he stood up in the old Dutch Reformed
church, and I, as a young Christian, went
to hear him, dragged along to hear this
man of God, telling the Christian world, of
the evils of communism, there he was proven,
don't doubt this, we made lots of inquiries,
because people began to undermine him, believe me,
there were a number of doctors, who were
even unsaved, that can verify to this day,
that that man's bones were broken so many
times, that he, in length, is a few
inches, than what he is recorded on his
identity documents, the cruelness of what they did
to him, he took his first office, in
the pulpit there, there was a hole, burned
into his back, you could put your whole
hand, communism is evil, and they did that
to him, because he loved Christ, that's Satan,
nothing else that would do that, against God's
people, they took his wife away, his son,
his little boy, he was telling us, how
when he came out, he didn't know, whether
they were dead or alive, he suddenly found
his wife, grey now, 23 years later, his
boy, a man, robbed of life, because of
communism, hating God, no other sin within his
life, to be jailed, and persecuted, and tortured,
and robbed of his children, robbed of his
wife, all the evils of communism, and he
said to us, as he stood there, you
know, something happened, when I got out of
that jail, and came back to my wife,
I had to learn, how to be married
all over again, and he said, you know,
it isn't all that easy, just suddenly married
again, he said, there's really something to apply
your life to, he told us a story,
he said, you know, you can find great
difficulties, unless you use your, your brain, he
said, when I came out there, my wife
made soup, he said, I dreamed about my
wife's soup for so many years, now she
made me soup, and he said, there comes
the soup, my wife had put her loving
heart into making me, that she knew I
wanted, after all, well, in the soup, there
was a long hair, and I looked at
this hair, and I, I could have said,
what some of you would say, you know,
what's wrong with you, what's the hair doing
in the soup, can't you keep your hair
out of the soup, you know, no, but
you don't have to, he says, you don't
have to be like that, he said, I
looked at my wife, and I said, my
darling, you know, I love you, you know,
I love every hair in your head, but
it's not necessary for you to put it
in the soup, you know, you could have
laughed your way through marriage, sir, you could
have, you didn't have to fight about the
little mistakes, or the imperfections, or you could
have diffused the bombs, and moments in her
weakness, anything she did wrong, you could have
kept the testimony, if you just used your
common sense, for one thing, the glory of
God, to be like Christ now, not become
bitter to the weaker vessel, she is the
weaker vessel, she must be the weaker vessel,
you need to be the stronger one, she
needs you to be the stronger one, and
in her weakness, you need to care, and
help her, and encourage her, though she's weak,
she needs that, it'd be terrible if the
other way around, you know, you're so weak,
she needs to condone you, console you, encourage
you all the time, you're so timid, no,
that's how God wants it, she's the weaker
vessel, you could diffuse the bomb, you don't
have to go through fighting, that your children,
your testimony, hear you fighting about everything there
is she does wrong, you don't have to
do that, you know, I've been called in
so many Christian homes, where marriages were falling
apart, and I can't believe how they all
stumbled over the same things, they were all
fighting about the same things, you can't believe
the things they fought about, the first time
I heard it, I was stunned after a
few numbers, and numbers of houses that I
was called to drag through, and I heard
the same things caused the fights, I thought,
my word, is it possible such little things
could cause such unhappiness, you won't believe the
things, I was called into a Christian's home,
a young fellow with a testimony, he was
a deacon in a church, the evangelical church,
I was called along to his home, there
he was, they pushed me in, they all
escaped, and I looked at what he did
to his wife, this fellow professing to know
Christ, what he did to her, and his
anger, I looked at her, and I looked
at him, and said, what sort of a
man are you, that you could do this,
what could have driven you to do this,
you've got a testimony man, that you belong
to Jesus, how could you have done this,
he says, he drove me to it, I
can't take any more, he says, you married
to an angel, everybody knows Denny's an angel,
he says, if you were married to this,
you would have done the same, I said,
sit down, I want you to tell me
in front of her, what you think you
have the right to do this to her,
as a Christian, I want to hear in
front of her, what you think justifies you
to sit there and say, that you have
the right to do this as a Christian
to her, I want to know exactly, name
the things, name it, oh, there are many
things that just got over, name the things,
tell me, so he thinks, now don't laugh
please, you won't believe what he said, the
first thing, so he didn't put the toothpaste
lid on the toothpaste, I said, come again,
I don't understand, you did this to her
because of that, no, that was the last
straw, I come home, I'm tired, the place
isn't ready, the children aren't ready for bed,
the place is untidy, I've got to come
home and start working in the house, her
work, I can't take it anymore, I said,
oh, so because of that, you did this
to her, listen, do you think it's easy
having three little children like this, while you
go in your hard day's work, she just
sits down, she's got three children, she's got
to do your washing, your ironing, your cooking,
keep this house perfect with three children this
age, do you think that's easy, let me
tell you something, sir, you'll be in her
shoes one week, you'll be begging to get
back in your own shoes, you'll come home
with no criticism, you'll help her wash the
dishes and help her tidy the place, I'm
willing if you knew what it's like, and
I said, you fool, he's the only man
I ever said that to, I never ever
said it to another man, you fool, you're
going to lose her, and when you lose
her, you're going to weep for the rest
of your life, a few years later, I
was preaching, and there was people lingering, and
one was lingering, and the lights would be
put out by the people who wanted to
close up, and here this lost fellow comes
out of the darkness, and I looked who
it was, and he says, do you remember
me, Keith, there he was, aged, black rings
under his eyes, thin, I said, oh my,
oh my, and he began to weep, he
said, Keith, you were right, I lost her,
I lost her, and the children, and you
were right about something else, I weep every
day of my life, and she won't come
back to me, no matter what I promise
her now, every day, all I do is
weep, oh God, you're
married, a great preacher stood with me before
I got married to this darling woman, and
he looked me in the eyes, he's a
household name, and he looked me in the
eyes and said, Keith, don't make the mistake
I made, I didn't guard my words, I
allowed unkind words in my marriage, I didn't
have to, but I allowed them, soon they
became cruel words, my marriage has never ever
healed, just through unkind words that I once
allowed, the tenderness, the respect, gone, it's gone,
I remember once when I was married to
Jenny a little while, my Uncle Roy, godly
Uncle Roy, wouldn't let one soul pass, you
wouldn't believe him, he wouldn't let a soul
pass without trying to tell them about Christ,
people just fled in the end, Uncle Roy,
the godly Uncle Roy, here he was in
our home, and I was joking, I used
to joke a bit too much those days,
there's such a thing as laughter, but foolish
jesting, oh no, I remember in my youngness,
when I first married to Jenny, Uncle Roy
and others in the lounge of our home,
and I was joking with Jenny, and Uncle
Roy stood up, this godly man, and he
had tears coming down his face, he said,
don't you speak to her like that, boy,
don't you dare speak to her like that,
you know, I stood up and I started
crying, I said, Uncle Roy, everyone in this
room knows I was joking, I would never
speak to Jenny like that, please, I don't
care if you were joking, kid, even in
a joke, don't you speak to her with
disrespect, because soon it will come naturally, you
guard your word, you speak to her with
respect, kid, what you and Jenny have got
is precious, don't lose it, it's very precious
what you two have got, don't you lose
it now, boy, with your words, you speak
to her with respect, and you know what
I said to Uncle Roy, Uncle Roy, I
take it from God, I accept it from
God, I won't ever speak to her like
that again, even in a joke, likewise the
husband, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving
honor unto the wife, giving honor unto the
wife, giving honor unto the wife, as unto
the week of Ethel, how do you do
that?
Oh, my word, when I first started courting
Jenny, you should have seen her father, when
he saw me looking at Jenny, oh my,
he started preaching at me, you know, he
is a preacher, he hasn't stopped preaching at
me, every time I see him, he starts
a sermon, making sure I never let him
down, concerning the daughter, his jewel, Jenny, you
should see him, I was there in the
house, and his wife arrived home from shopping,
in the car, on the farm, they're on
a farm, even though he's a farmer, he's
a preacher, he's known across South Africa by
preaching, but he's a great farmer, and there,
when his wife, Jenny's mommy, arrived home in
the car, suddenly he heard the car coming
up, and there's Jenny's daddy up running, and
I started running, I didn't quite know what
we were running for, what is it?
My wife, you know, he was really sincere,
he didn't do it for me, I saw
through the years, when she arrives home, he's
out, doesn't matter who's there, doesn't matter what
business, my wife, she feels like a queen,
you know, as he grabs hold of her,
all the packages, doesn't want to look at
the packages, but takes her by the arm,
and walks singing along, talking, excited, she just
feels, you want to see the joy in
that woman's face, by the way, this man
loves her, you want to see the occasions,
breakfast is an occasion, lunch is a, you
can't believe the occasion, Jenny has had at
lunchtime in her own home, it's an occasion,
they get excited, it's lunchtime, I'm going back
to my wife, oh my, she feels like
a queen, love, I was sitting in the
car when I was courting Jenny, I went
through quite a lot of things courting Jenny,
before they finally let me take her, you
know, I thought, well now he might be
able to trust this fellow with her, I
sat in the car there with her sisters,
and her mummy and Jenny, and we were,
her mummy was sitting in the car next
to me, I had driven the car to
the town, for shopping and all this, and
we come home now, back to the farm,
we're sitting in the car, outside of the,
outside of the farmhouse, and we're talking, and
talking, and talking, and talking, and in the
end, I thought, this is lovely, you know,
her mummy says, Keith, do you know why
we're sitting here talking so long?
I said, no, it's just because we were
brought up that a lady doesn't get out
of a car unless a gentleman opens the
door, I said, oh, well, I thank God
she told me, I never opened the door
before for any lady in a car, I
said, no, I thank God I do know,
because from that day to this, I opened
my wife's door, and I thank God for
it, tell me, how do you give honor
unto your wife, if you think I'm going
too far, tell me how you do it,
how does your wife know, how do your
children, how does the world know you honor
her, how does she feel honored, it isn't
a little thing, giving honor unto the wife,
giving honor unto the wife, that your children
can see you honor her, I was in
the great Captain Dobby's home, one of the
greatest preachers the world ever knew, in his
old age, there in South Africa, loved by
the theologians across the land, I don't know
of any man that could stand the scriptures
like he stood up there, no matter who
challenged him, he just wiped the floor, a
great godly man who knew the scriptures, as
this poor soul in his old age, when
he walked in the church in South Africa,
the whole church rose, Captain Dobby's walked in,
no matter what sir, love, one day I
had the privilege of being in his home,
and there we were having tea as young
theologians, theological students, there was this great scholar
of the Bible, and you know what, every
controversy is such a lovely thing to speak
now, to such a godly man, we're just
speaking of theology, doctrines, all us young students
sitting there, he had been the principal of
the Bible school many years before, he still
lectured to us, and in walks his wife,
I'll never forget that, his old lady walking
in to the door, with her daughter leading
her, and as his wife walked in the
door of their home, Captain Dobby stood, I'd
never seen that before in my life, he
stood, but the way he stood, all of
us stood, he stood, and the way she
was dressed as he came in for these
little visitors, no wonder he stood, in her
old age he dressed, that he would stand,
he led her to the seat, he sat
her down, and you know what that man
did, he said, my darling, we were discussing
this, he brought her up to date with
the conversation, he said, what is your opinion,
what is your opinion, and he let her
talk, he looked to her genuinely for what
she thought, and everything we talked about right
through till we left, he turned to his
wife and said, what do you say darling,
she genuinely felt honoured, I've been in so
many Christians homes, you know if the wife
opens her mouth, the man's talking and talking,
you know, suddenly the wife in a moment
of quietness decides, she'll say something, you know
the man is so threatened, that she's actually
talking, he turns to someone, starts another conversation,
he won't let her dominate, though he dominates,
here was a man who turned to his
wife and allowed her to be joining in,
he revered her, she wasn't supposed to be
keeping quiet there, that is in subjection, that
is in modesty, silence, out of sight, don't
open your mouth, that's not true, honour her,
she knows she's honoured, she knows she's respected,
even her opinion of understanding, you know, I
preached on the radio back home, about this
and Captain Dobby's daughter phoned me and said,
I heard of that message, I want to
tell you something Keith, what Captain Dobby did
that day, he did from when I was
a young girl, when my mummy walked in
the door, daddy stood, my mother knew nothing
but being honoured and revered and respected from
my father, he loved her, he honoured her,
I was so blessed to hear that, do
you know that the holiest man of God,
that I ever knew in my life, was
a man called Will Macfarlane, I never ever
knew that a man could be so holy
as Will Macfarlane, he shone, I never understood
what it meant, Moses shining, until I looked
at this man and from within came a
glow of holiness, he was certainly the holiest
man I ever knew in my life, I
trembled in his presence, I began to weep
looking at this man, when I realised how
holy God could make a man this side
of eternity, and I froze, when I looked
at his life, for God, please God, let
something written on this man's life, be written
in my life, it's possible for God to
make you holy, when I looked at that
man, do you know Will Macfarlane, when his
wife died, he was driving the car, we
tried to stop him driving the car in
his older age and it was an accident,
his wife was killed, he woke up in
hospital, they said to us, don't tell him,
don't tell him, he won't be able to
take the shock, that his wife is gone,
the first thing he did, as he woke
up in the hospital, where's my wife, where's
my wife, and they had to tell her,
he's gone, she's gone, she's gone, Mr Macfarlane,
he lifted up his hands, oh, oh, next
to the Lord Jesus, she was the most
precious gift God ever gave me in my
life, next to the Lord Jesus, she was
the most precious gift God ever gave me
in my life, she was the noblest of
all women, and God gave her to me,
and he wept, tell me, have your children
heard you say that of your wife sir,
do your children know you give honour to
her, that you honour her and love her,
as the weaker vessel in all her perfections,
imperfections, in spite of them, do you honour
her, does she know by the way you
welcome her at home, by the way you
allow her to speak, take part in the
conversation, do your children know what God says
they should see in your life, can I
read to you in closing, and if you
forget the whole sermon, don't forget these last
words please, I've been asked to write down
so much of what I've preached to put
into books, and I'm so busy that I
just can't get to it, but I'm writing
things down these days, heading for that, I've
written this, and I'd like you to hear
these words I've written, carefully listen, what fruit,
what fruit is usually expected from marriage, what
fruit is usually expected from marriage, and I
would say, I would say children, perhaps I
should reword this question, what fruit can be
expected from a happy marriage, I would say
stable, happy children, what fruit is usually expected
from an unhappy marriage, well usually unstable, unhappy,
complex, hurt, scarred children, the greatest gift you
could give your child is not a good
education, is not a beautiful home, is not
a wonderful inheritance, these things will make him
curse you, if one thing lacks, though you
give him all those things, these things will
make him curse you one day, if one
thing lacks, the greatest gift you can give
your child is a happy marriage, a child's
stability is gained more from seeing his parents
truly love each other, than anything else he
sees them achieve in life, a child's stability
is gained more from seeing his parents truly
love each other, than anything else he sees
them achieve in life, someone once said to
me they believe that a child's security comes
more from being disciplined than any other thing,
someone once said to me they believe that
a child's security comes from being disciplined more
than any other thing, I disagreed with him,
you won't believe who this person was, who
said this to me, I disagreed strongly with
him, I believe that a child's greatest source
of security is from seeing and witnessing true
love between its parents, not from discipline, discipline
is needed, but that's not the greatest source
of security, that a child's security doesn't come
more from being disciplined, I believe a child's
greatest source of security is seeing and witnessing
true love between its parents, most problems in
the character of anyone's life stem normally from
an unhappy home, the major problem in our
society today across the world is homosexuality, lesbianism,
something we're scared to mention from the pulpit
of God, I think it was George Ferber
who said you can be sure wherever you
preach there's a great amount of people there
with this problem, be careful, they have to
repent, such were some of you, be careful
they don't feel that they can't be reached
by God, you cry out with compassion and
they'll come because such were some of you,
but you're what?
You're sanctified, you're justified, preach with love, they
have to repent from their sin like everyone
else has to repent from their sins, but
here we have one of the great problems
of our society today is this terrible thing,
this terrible tragedy, I have spoken to so
many of these young people, sometimes little girls
and boys, so many now I've lost track,
I would say hundreds, and the bulk of
them that I spoke to came to Christ
and walked with Christ to this day, got
married, had normal lives, that's what God can
do, don't undermine God's deliverance of any sin,
your sin's no different sir, no greater for
God to deliver from as theirs, but I
have been stunned as I sat with them
and learned what's the first question I normally
ask them, did you come from a very
unhappy home?
And every single time tears well up straight
away, it was war in the home, there's
a small percentage of people I've met in
this earth who came from happy home, who
turned out with this problem of sin, but
99 point something percent of everyone I ever
prayed with or led to Christ with this
problem, when you mentioned the home they wept,
it was war, you see they have to
identify with one parent, there's no such a
thing as not you forcing them to identify
who's right, and if they have to identify
with the wrong person that they need to
identify, whether it's a male or female in
the family, you find incredible problems for the
rest of their lives towards their sex, don't
doubt that, they tell me it's the genes
now you know, oh our scientists are quite
incredible, everything's blamed on the genes, I disagree
with you sir, it's not the genes, though
I don't understand how one percent of those
I've ever spoken to came from really happy
homes, that God will have to answer, I
have no doubt what is breeding such destroyed
lives, suicidal lives, most of them, no matter
what they say, no matter what you believe
of them, most are suicidal, I have no
doubt what bred them, so that they're strewn
across our society, sometimes I'm stunned if I
find a home without the problem these days,
that's how far it's gone.
Last night, last night, you young people stood
concerning the home, concerning your relationship with your
parents, seeking God for forgiveness and to be
all God wanted, you older people, numbers and
numbers of you thought God concerning a spiritual
life in your home, between your husband and
wife, between you as a husband and wife,
for the sake of your children, that they
don't go to hell through you, who tell
them to come to heaven, and the only
way you have the right to expect them
to come to God, is through a life
that's spirit controlled in the home, toward your
life partner, that you can bring forth godly
seed, numbers of you thought God, and I
believe it was utterly sincere and utterly wonderful,
I believe God's going to honor all of
you who stood here last night, but I
went further tonight, and I brought practical illustrations
of things I know needed to be cried
out loud and clear, to give understanding of
what God means now, when you say I'm
going to live a spiritual life, to take
and use the common sense, to obey God
in every aspect, and I want all husbands
and wives tonight, who know you're guilty, and
you're longing that you will be able to
apply your life to the things that God
has said here tonight to you, and brought
you here to hear, I want all of
you who really desperately need to say God,
I will give my life, to applying my
life to the things I've heard by thy
grace, I look to thee for grace tonight
Lord, and I want to, and I want
to tell you with all my heart, I'm
going to apply my life God, from this
night, from this night I'm going to, give
me grace God, give me grace, but I
would do these things in obedience, as a
child of God, to God's word, concerning those
of you that desperately need to say that
to God, will you stand please, will you
stand, and say God it's me, I will
give my life, to these things, I desperately
need to apply my life to these principles,
yes, come forward you that stand, let's make
an utter consecration to this vow to God,
when I say vow, this committing yourself to
God, and asking him to give you the
grace that you will apply your life, I
don't know how hurting your homes are, but
I'm going to make it something of a
deep consecration yeah, so that it's not just
walking out, with it all ringing in your
ears, but you said to God from your
heart, what you're going to do here, let's
all bow in prayer please, will every one
of you standing in front, please pray aloud
with me, oh father, forgive me, for
so much wasted time, in my marriage, where
I should have obeyed thee, and known such
a different home, if only I had, wash
me in the blood, cleanse me by the
blood of Jesus, for going on so long,
by thy grace, enable me, to apply my
life, in every circumstance I face, in my
home, till the day I die, to the
things I've heard from thy words, in
the time left, that I can influence my
children, may they see, in
my marriage, what will make them stable, and
choose to serve my God, help them to
forgive me, for anything they've known, that they
shouldn't have endured, through me, up to now,
and make them love me, and respect me,
and follow me to thee, by what they
see in my marriage from this day.