Great joy to be here this morning and
I am so grateful to be part of
all this worshipping God and serving God and
seeking his faith.
Can we bow for a moment of prayer
please.
Father thank thee for this wonderful new day
to serve God, for sparing us all another
day, for giving us another day of life.
All we bless thee for it Lord, thank
thee for life, thank thee for the wonderful
opportunity for all heaven, all angels and God
to watch and to see where we would,
where we would go this day, where we'd
lift up our eyes and look to heaven
and seek our God and seek to worship
him.
Thou art spirit, thou dost seek, thou art
holy in spirit and in truth.
We would worship thee in spirit and truth,
the thing God looks for in our lives.
We would not end one day of 24
hours and not have spent one minute in
true worship to the one thing God seeks.
Oh we worship thee, thou art great and
greatly to be praised.
We worship thee for each other as we
washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, saved
from hell and eternal damnation, repented, Christ dwells
in us, Christ in you, the hope of
glory, that with the temple of the Holy
Spirit we bless and praise thee we have
all here gathered, become the property of Jesus
Christ, bought with a great price.
Thou would not let go of us very
easily, thou art our God, we are thy
responsibility.
Satan has no right to us, for when
every promise in the book is mine, when
I'm washed in the blood, I bless thee
Lord for this lovely day, when the people
of God can sing from their heart.
We thank thee, we thank thee for the
hymns we were able to sing from our
hearts to God.
We thank thee for the Word of God
that came to us through our brother Moses.
We thank thee for his earnest cry to
us from the heart of God to watch.
We bless thee for such a message from
such a man of God.
Bless him for pouring his soul out to
us yesterday, for bringing the Word of God
to us earnestly and truthfully and accurately, with
revelation from the heart of God to his
people.
Oh may that word be imprinted in our
lives, don't let it be lost Lord.
We thank thee for this family singing to
us, bless them, thank thee for each one
of them, for standing up for Jesus as
a family.
Take them, each one that stood and sang
to us, so draw near to them.
Take them by the hand and the heart
and lead them through life to be weapons
in the hand of God, right till their
last day serving God and worshipping God.
We come before thee Lord for these last
moments and ask thee to come and visit
us through thy word, to speak to every
heart, take the hardest heart, take the coldest
heart, do a miracle, change them.
Anyone with bitterness, anyone with criticism, come to
every heart.
By the blood of Jesus, by the Holy
Spirit, break their heart today.
Speak to them, take every one of our
hearts.
Have thy way Lord, have thy way this
morning with every one of us.
This is all our hearts we sing, we'll
obey thee, come what may.
Oh Lord, have thy way.
In mercy stand beside me in this pulpit,
that I don't stand alone in the pulpit
of God.
In mercy wash me in the blood, fill
me with the Holy Spirit, anoint my mind,
my lips, my heart, give unction, give liberty.
In the name of Jesus Christ, in the
name of Jesus Christ, we all are of
thee our Father, Amen.
We read
in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, And God
said, And God said, Let us, let us
make man.
God the Father, God the Son, God the
Holy Spirit, God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness, and
let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God.
Created he him, male and female.
Created he them.
I have a brother three years older than
I, and he also is a priestess.
He emigrated and left our country of South
Africa to live in another country, and somehow
as the years go by with him priesting
and me priesting, we miss each other.
When he comes home to our homeland, I'm
away priesting, and seldom do we find time
to sit together, sometimes the only time in
a matter of sometimes years.
We sit at an airport where we crisscross,
we have a meal or a cup of
tea together, and oh how the years have
flown.
Each time we see each other, we're more
gray, more nearing the end of the road.
One day we were together, my brother said
to me, O'Keefe, I'm so ashamed, how
the years are going, and somehow I haven't
seen your family, I haven't seen Jenny.
It's not right.
What can we do?
You're priesting here, I'm priesting there.
We somehow always miss each other.
When I come to South Africa, you're away.
I don't know what your children look like,
I don't know much about your children.
I pray for them every day.
They don't know much of their uncle, and
I'm so ashamed.
What can we do?
The next time I come to the country,
O'Keefe, I want to look at your
program, I want you to be home, I
want to be able to come home and
see Jenny, see the boys.
I don't want life to go by not
seeing them.
So we sat down carefully at one stage
and worked out that I would be home,
no matter what the cost, when he came.
Lay aside anything on the program, this must
be our priority now.
And he came to our home after years,
years of not being in my home.
We were sitting in the lounge, my brother
and I, talking when my young son, no,
my eldest boy, he came home from school
and heard his uncle was in the house
and ran through into the lounge to see
his uncle.
And he greeted his uncle and talked.
And as my son walked out the door,
I looked at my brother and my brother
began to weep.
He sat down, he wept, wiping the tears
from his face.
I said, why are you crying?
Why are you crying?
He said, O'Keefe, you don't know what
a shock this has been to me.
You don't know what a shock it was
to me when your son walked through that
door.
It was like I was thrown back 30,
40 years to our childhood.
It was like suddenly I was a child
again.
It was like you walked through the door
when we were boys.
It was like he was looking at you.
His mannerisms, the way he spoke, the way
he spoke.
He is the image of his father.
I was a young preacher sent in South
Africa to work with the godly Fani Haramsa.
Oh, what a man of God, I told
you young people of him, the things I
learned as he walked with God, like Enoch
walked with God.
I have no doubt, no less, not one
iota.
His godly wife, Mrs. Haramsa, my district superintendent's
wife.
Oh, how godly she was, how godly she
was.
I was young, young preacher.
She sent me to the center of the
city to go to the post office to
post a parcel.
She couldn't get to do herself, so I
took this parcel, went to the main post
office in the center of the city where
they dealt with such parcels, and I went
to the particular department in the post office
where they would do the special post that
she wanted, and I stood in the queue,
and there in the queue, waiting patiently for
my turn, I looked at the people working
behind the counter who spent hours and hours
and hours and hours every day doing the
same things, right through the day, right through
the year, year after year, sitting there, and
I looked at this lady doing the parcels.
Oh, I thought to myself, imagine being unsaved
and working like this.
Look at that poor lady.
She's miserable.
She's so unhappy.
Just look at that face.
Imagine sitting there and doing this all day
with these parcels.
She looks in misery.
She looks so unhappy.
My heart just went out to her.
Finally, I got to her, and she took
the parcel, and she looked at the name
of the sender, Mrs. Haramsa, the address.
She looked up at me carefully, and then
she stood, and she walked around and spoke
to the others sitting and doing their work
behind her in this little department of the
post office, and they all looked at me
carefully, and then they all came and stood,
and I wondered what I'd done wrong.
She said, Do you know this lady, Mrs.
Haramsa?
I said, Yes, it's my district superintendent's wife.
I'm a missionary.
I'm a priestess, and I work under them.
Oh, she said, that's a name I won't
forget.
She looked at it, and she said, I
sit here, you know, and I look at
the queues of people all day, and I
look at their faces as they get impatient,
and they come bare waiting, and I think
to myself, is anybody happy in this world?
Look at them, they all look so miserable,
and so unhappy.
Is anybody happy in this world?
Suddenly, one day, a while back, I looked
up at all the faces, just expecting another
miserable face and patience to join the queue,
and this lady joined the queue, and I
looked at her face, and I could hardly
work.
I couldn't concentrate.
Eventually, she got to me, as I looked
at the peace, as I looked at the
joy, so soon and written on that face
that I had never seen on a face,
the purity.
When she stood in front of me, I
started weeping.
When I had finally finished, and she turned
and walked, I looked around, and each person,
here they were standing, every one of us,
tears were coming down their face, not a
word, just tears on each face, and this
lady said to me, what is it about
that woman that's done this to us?
What is it about this woman that's so
different?
And we stood in silence, and after a
while, I said, this is surely what a
real Christian looks like.
This must be what a real Christian looks
like.
I have seen hundreds of people walk through
that door, and that was the first face
in all these years that I can say
that of, that I can honestly say that
of.
This is surely what a real Christian looks
like.
I was living in a home of a
very sick lady in South Africa, and when
she heard that I was from the Faith
Mission work, and I was a worker on
the Faith Mission of South Africa, I saw
a tear come down her face.
She looked at me, and she said, oh,
the Faith Mission, I'll never forget the first
time, she said, I ever saw a Faith
Mission worker.
I'll never forget the first time as a
young Christian, I was taking as a young
girl, a young lady, to a convention, a
conference, and I'd never known there were so
many Christians in the world.
And I stood there watching the car loads
coming from all over the country, and how
they just streamed down to all the tents
those days, they weren't the buildings, thousand, two
thousand people, all the tents as far as
the eye could see, for the people to
be in, the great big tent, and I
stood there overwhelmed as I saw the crowds
that's coming from all over the country, to
be together as the people of God, in
the convention, meetings upon meetings.
And I was so full of joy, as
I looked at the way they were embracing
each other, as family, I'd never seen this
in my life.
And then suddenly, I saw the face of
a man, embracing the people, welcoming the people,
I watched in the way he spoke, I
looked at his face, his eyes, his gentleness,
there was something I, I just couldn't look
away, I, I just stood looking at this
man, and I burst into tears, and I
began to weep, I began to weep aloud.
The people who brought me said, what is
it, what is it?
I said, this man, look at this man,
his name was Ethel Bertschmidt, the most loved
Faith Mission Worker in the history of the
Faith Mission Worker of South Africa, thousands and
thousands and thousands across my land, walk with
God to this day, through his life and
ministry, loved across our land, and here she
sees him, the young preacher of those days,
there he was, a young man, weeping, just
looking at him, look at this man, this
man, they all looked at him, he said,
this, this must surely be what Jesus is
like, this must surely be the closest I
will ever see in a man, of what
Jesus Christ is like, and they all just
stood and looked at this man, and they
all, all stood weeping, just watching a man,
his reactions, his face, this is surely what
Jesus looks like, this is surely the closest
I will ever see in a man, of
what Christ is like, what Christ looks like,
that was the greatest testimony ever given to
a Faith Mission Worker in the history of
the work of South Africa, never has the
greatest testimony ever been given to one worker
than those words, others built convention centers, till
blood was in their hands, others burned their
souls out, but no greater testimony was ever
said or given to anyone that ever worked
in the Faith Mission's history of our country
than those words, this is surely what Jesus
is like, 2nd
Corinthians 3 verse 18, but we all, with
unveiled faith, reflecting, reflecting as a mirror, the
glory of the Lord are transformed into the
same image, from glory to glory, even as
from the Lord the Spirit, the Revised Standard
Version has it this way, we all, with
unveiled faith, reflecting, as a mirror, the glory
of the Lord are transformed into the same
image, from glory to glory, even as from
the Lord the Spirit, Romans 8 verse 29,
we were predestined to be conformed into the
image of the Son, predestined, you may say,
how does an ominous theologian stand up in
a pulpit and even dare to mention the
word, predestined, I know some priests back home,
of our school of thought, who when they
come to a verse that has the word
predestined, they skip the whole verse, they can't
even read it, they so against the idea,
I have no fear of the word predestined,
predestined, you say, predestined to what, I ask
you, predestined to heaven, predestined to hell, no
sir, no sir, that's not what God wants
you to tell men, predestined to be conformed
into the image of His Son, that is
what is in the heart of God, before
the foundations of the earth, men would be
conformed into the image of His Son, nothing
else, John George Govan,
the founder of the faith mission work, which
I work in, in Scotland, over a hundred
years ago, John George Govan, had a son
called Ellis Govan, young Ellis Govan as a
boy, gave his life to Jesus Christ, following
the God of his father, and he served
the Lord for a number of years, as
a boy, with all his heart, and then
somehow he backslid, I don't know how that's
possible, it's the most grievous thing you could
ever, ever imagine, that could ever happen to
a Christian, to backslide, he backslid right into
the world, he began the grief of his
father, his godly parents, greatest grief, greatest sorrow
was their son, that they had such expectations,
and this boy that so served God, suddenly
back in the world, turning his back on
God, didn't want to go to Christian meetings,
how's that possible, how's that possible from such
a home, it is possible, it's staggering, there's
no answer to it, there's no way of
reasoning, the mind just wants to reject that
it's possible, but it happened, and they become
the grief, the greatest grief of their godly
parents, the son that once followed God, and
now turns, and wants to taste the things
of Satan, taste the world, to find fulfillment,
not in Christ any longer, but in God's
Word, oh what a grief he became, the
leader of our work, in those days in
England, all British young fellows would want to
go to the Empire, you know, anywhere Africa
was being taken over, and all young Englishmen
and Scottish men of England, Britain, would want
to go on safari, those days that was
the done thing, I don't know how much
interest is shown these days by young Englishmen,
or Scottish men, but young Ellis Govan now,
grown up to be a young man, in
the world, still following the world, with worldly
friends, decides he wants to go to Africa
on safari, the done thing, he wants a
chance at it also, so the day came,
he went off to Africa, those days he
didn't fly across like we do, he went
by boat, we always went to Cape Town,
and then went into Africa, and there in
Cape Town, John George Govan, sworn, sent message
through to the work, the Faithless and Work
in Africa, and said, my son who's backslidden,
is going to be arriving at the harbour
of Cape Town, on this day, and that's
it, I want one of you to meet
him, send someone to meet him, say something
to him, try and somehow speak it, send
someone that might be able to reach him,
he's in the world, I'm so fearful for
him, he's such a grief to our hearts,
send one of the workers of the Faithless
to meet him, please, and so they chose
the man I've spoken a number of times,
in these, this week of meetings, Mr. Will
Macfarlane, young, young for God, wanting to give
his life for God, he joins the Faith
Mission, they sent him to meet the young
Ellis Govan, as the ship pulled in, when
Ellis Govan realised this was a Faith Mission
worker, he became angry, he knew his father
had arranged this, he was so indignant, his
anger just boiled up, and he began to
get so angry, he wanted to get out,
he wanted this man ready to know, he
better get away from him, but in his
anger, suddenly this man, Will Macfarlane, began to
speak, and with a few minutes, Ellis Govan
burst into tears and sobbed, looking at this
man, the way he spoke, looking at his
eyes, looking at his face, after about ten
minutes of just looking at this man, and
this man speaking, Ellis Govan said, my heart
was crying out to God, to make me
like this, years of backslidden, a few minutes
with a Christ-like man, and the hardest,
hardest heart melts, oh you can't fight Christ
-likeness, you can fight messages, but the greatest
message God has on earth is not a
sermon or a preacher, it's a life, one
reflection of Christ, and a man will never
forget till the day he dies, he'll forget
any sermon, he'll forget any sermon, I guarantee
you, but you will never find a man
who will forget something of Christ, revealed to
him through a life you can't forget, it'll
eat you like cancer, oh he saw Christ,
he said, I looked at this man, and
I was convinced as watching this man, that
God, God can make a man holy, a
young man holy, just looking at him, I
believed holiness was attainable, even to a young
man, he was holy, and I found myself
standing there, crying out from my heart, just
looking at this man, God make me holy,
I want to be holy, and God met
with him there, as he was crying out,
weeping, looking at his life, crying from his
soul, God met with him, that he was
totally restored to God, and set afire for
God, he went back home, to go through
the Bible school of his father's, he went
out into Africa to serve God, right through
to his dying day, and he met with
God, not in the meeting, he met with
God after a few minutes of standing with
a man, who looked like Jesus, who showed
him what Christ is like, Will Macfarlane, I
guarantee you, was the holiest man of God
I ever saw in my life, I never
knew, that such Christ-like niceness could be
seen in a man's face, until I saw
Will Macfarlane, three months after I was born
of God, I wept when I saw Will
Macfarlane, I wept, I wept, all
this holy, inner glow, coming through a face,
through words, through reactions, that made me weep.
1 John, chapter 3, behold what manner of
love the Father has bestowed upon us, behold
what manner of love the Father has bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God, therefore the world know us
not, because it knew him not, beloved now
are we the sons of God, and it
does not yet appear what we shall be,
but we know that when he shall appear,
we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is, and every man
that hath this hope in him, purifies himself,
even as he is pure, every man that
hath this hope of being like Jesus, when
he appears, purifies himself, even as he is
pure, you can't purify yourself, even as he
is pure, if you had one million years
to try, but you can do that in
one moment, through faith in the blood, in
longing that God will fill you with his
Spirit, and take control of your life, in
one dedication, one mighty moment, with God, where
you lay your life on the altar, and
allow the blood to cleanse you through and
through, and they were filled with the Spirit,
their hearts being cleansed by faith, faith in
nothing else but the blood, beloved, nothing could
purify you in God's eyes, as he is
pure, nothing you do, but by faith in
the holy blood of the Lord, every man
that hath this hope in him, of being
like him, when he appears, purifies himself, even
as he is pure, is a longing, a
thirst.
I have one deep burning desire, that I
may be like Jesus.
To this, I fervently aspire, that I may
be like Jesus.
I want my heart, his throne to be,
so that a watching world may see his
likeness, shining forth from me.
I want to be like Jesus.
I want to be nothing
that I long for more, nothing that I
desire more, than to be like Jesus.
A loved name in South Africa is a
man who still lives, he's in his 80s,
still preaches, when he preaches, so the people
of God come.
Reverend Stafford Finneymore, Reverend Stafford Finneymore got hold
of me one day, and he told me
of the first faith mission worker he ever
saw in his life.
He was a Methodist minister, a young Methodist
minister, serving God with all his heart as
best as he could.
These two young men from the faith mission
come to his door for accommodation.
He looked strangely at them.
They had nowhere else to go.
They wanted to win the town for Christ,
so he admired them at their zeal, younger
than he.
They wanted a church, so he gave them
his church.
They went from home to home, inviting everyone.
The people came, he was staggered at these
total strangers, with a name he hadn't heard
much about, or anything at all really.
Suddenly his church was filled out through these
young people's zeal, their zealousness, and they stood
there pouring their lives out, and people started
coming to Christ through these two young men
that he hadn't seen in all the years
there that he had been given.
Even though he was still a young man,
he had been there quite a few years.
God came through these two young men.
He began to take note.
He listened to their message, crying out a
message of holiness, holy living, crying out a
message that he had rejected doctrinally, whereby you
lay your life, you dedicate yourself to God.
You present your body, a living sacrifice, wholly
acceptable to God, and what you dedicate, God
concentrates.
When you dedicate yourself, and you look to
God to cleanse you from all failure, and
to cleanse you through and through with the
blood, to take complete control of you by
the Holy Spirit.
That's all.
It's not just a little glass of water,
you know, half filled.
Now you fill the other half.
No, the Holy Spirit's a person.
He's in you.
You can't only have half of Him in
you, but what does it mean to be
filled with the Spirit?
Oh, when you lay yourself, when you dedicate
yourselves, when the fight is over, you lay
your life on the altar, and the Holy
Spirit takes control of you.
That's all.
He takes complete control of you.
That's what it means to be filled.
It's in you.
You can't have more of Him in you,
but He's not in control, and the grief
in your heart is His grief, until, and
He drives you to brokenness, and your broken
heart of your inconsistencies, and your compromises, and
your lack of zeal for God is God's
brokenness in you, His grief, because He's in
you.
It's His Holy Spirit longing to have control,
and the moment comes when you lay your
life before God, the fight is over, like
Jacob, where he fights, he's gone, given over,
he yields to God, and he claims, and
says, I won't let thee go now, except
thou dost do a work in me that
will make me real.
And God comes, and the vital proof that
you are filled with God, the Holy Ghost,
is this, beloved, not gifts, and not tongues.
The vital proof, and you know it, and
nothing will make you believe or rest until
this is the evidence and vital proof that
you're filled with God, the Holy Ghost, the
fruit of the Spirit, not the gift.
And the fruit of the Spirit spontaneously reacting
in all circumstances, not your struggles to react,
but Him reacting through, not your struggling to
attain a standard, but Him reacting through, because
He's got complete control of you now, because
you laid your life down there at the
ocean, you dedicated your body to living sacrifice,
He sanctifies you through and through, and He
fills you with the Spirit, He takes complete
control of what you've allowed, now He's in
control, and the fruit of the Spirit is
seen through your life.
Oh, these two young fellows were preaching this,
this great message of the Holy Life.
It doesn't make you perfect, it just means
a consistent growth from that time on to
more and more Christ-likeness.
But until that dedication, you're up and down,
more down than up.
But from there, there will be a consistent
growth.
No such a thing as ultimate perfection until
you see Him face to face.
But until then, you'll conform more and more
into His image.
And so, they were preaching, for them, the
Christians, to dedicate their lives down to God,
to be sanctified and filled with the Spirit
of God.
He didn't believe the message, though.
He said he was impressed by it, but
he didn't quite accept this doctrine, that there
is such a thing as victory and consistent
growth as a result of this dedicating your
life to God, that He can consecrate you.
And the week went, of meetings, and suddenly,
these young fellows were going to leave.
Ethelbert Smith, Ethelbert Smith, the man that woman
wept at, he was one of them, and
Francois de Toy.
And there they were, the end came.
He was impressed, but not, not given over
to the message they preached, ultimately, until the
day they left.
And then he said, there they were, they
had to go from there to some big
convention with tents, so they went and got
a lorry somewhere along the line, back from
their headquarters with beds and tents and all
sorts of equipment.
And as they were pulling off, going straight
from this town, off to where the convention
was to be held, the lorry caught hold
of a tree, and all these beds and
all the chairs and all the equipment started
falling as they drove down, everything just smashing
everywhere.
He was screaming.
He said, I screamed, and I, I just
lost it, you know, running, screaming.
I was in such a state.
And eventually, they stopped, they got out, they
saw the state I was in.
I was just beside myself.
I couldn't believe what they did, though.
They looked at me.
He said, we won't let the devil disappoint
us.
We won't let the devil disillusion us.
Hallelujah!
He said, what?
He said, it wasn't the slightest anger, not
the slightest anger.
All these things, tombs, mass, all the work
now involved, not the slightest surge of worry.
Just joy.
They began to sing.
He said, they sang, we won't let the
devil get us down.
So they're singing, they're picking everything up.
I couldn't help, I just looked at them.
And he said, suddenly it dawned on me,
God allowed this.
He told me that the message they preached
worked.
Let me tell you, if you're going to
preach the high standard, beloved, God's going to
allow it.
To show the people, you preachers wonder why
things go wrong, it's to show the people
it worked.
What you preach worked in your life, otherwise
you can't preach it.
And he became convinced as he saw them,
as he watched their lives now, he realized
God had allowed this.
To show him it worked, it worked.
I don't have this.
And he stood there watching them and began
to weep there on his feet.
And without any counseling, he sought God to
take his life.
He laid his life before God in desperation
that God could sanctify him and take complete
control by his spirit.
And do you know what rose up out
of that man?
A man that the whole of South Africa
staggered over.
He went into the prison and he won
more souls in prisons than any other man
in the history of South Africa.
In one prison, over 1,000 men came
to Christ through this one man.
That's one of the prisons he worked in.
And not one person backslid.
Now you might think that's taking a chance.
That's according to all the authorities who had
to watch and monitor things.
His name is so revered in South Africa.
Other preachers went, other preachers had people responding.
But it can't be said of their ministry.
What was the difference?
Well, the difference was that this man had
compassion.
He didn't just want to get numbers out
and say, so many came to the Lord
in this prison through me.
This man had nothing of numbers in his
mind.
He walked through and walked up and sat
and wept.
And showed such compassion and such love and
such tenderness and such gentleness that he brought
the hardest of these criminals to Christ.
No other man did that.
They stood there preaching, scared to go near
the criminal, but preaching at them and hoping
they'd respond.
And they came to Christ.
He stood there at the door of the
prison as they were released, every one of
them.
He took them.
He clothed them.
He got them a home, a place to
stay.
He took them to Christian businessmen he had
sought out who would give them another chance
in life and not judge them and keep
them away.
No, people would give them a chance.
He prayed them through, going back all the
time to them.
Not one backspread.
Oh, to reveal Jesus.
Sirs, we would see Jesus, they asked the
disciples.
We would see Jesus.
Do you know that's what the world is
asking us today?
That's the only question I think I can
hear the world saying now.
We hear about Jesus.
We've heard enough.
All your different churches with your different standards
and your different interpretations and doctrines and this
and this.
It's a bit confusing.
We heard we would see Jesus.
Can you hear the world crying it out,
Jesus Christ, the disciples of Christ?
Two thousand years later, the only question the
disciples are being asked now who say name
the name of Jesus is, sirs, show us
Jesus.
We would see Jesus in you.
They might not be saying it with their
lips, but it's a heart crying.
Show us someone like Christ and within minutes
we'll be weeping.
We'll come one thousand and one prison to
a man who shows us Christ in his
life.
We'll stop fighting your doctrines of ministers.
We just see in your life, not share
your doctrine.
Oh, we would see Jesus.
Please, Christians, we would see Jesus.
Show us Christ.
We're sick of you crying out and telling
us about him, but we don't see him
in the workplace of those who profess his
name.
Beloved, you have only one thing that you
have the right to ask of your ministers.
You haven't got two things.
You haven't got three things.
You have no right to ask further than
this one thing of their lives.
We would see Jesus.
That's the only thing you have the right
to ask your ministers, but you have that
right.
Your ministers have only one question.
They have the right to ask you from
the depth of their soul and expect of
you.
If you could name yourself by the name
of Christ in this church, we would see
Jesus.
We would see Jesus in you.
Let me talk to you about this man
Fani Harimsa again, whose wife I spoke to
you.
Listen carefully here.
This is going to hurt a lot of
you what I'm about to say.
It's going to hurt a lot of you,
but let God do it.
When I first heard of Fani Harimsa, this
godly man that walked, I always thought of
Enoch, who walked with God when I saw
Fani Harimsa.
When I first heard of Fani Harimsa, it
was through my brother, who had gone to
Bible college, and the students were expected to
go and help with conventions, and every quarter
all across the country of the multitudes of
conventions of the AEB, the faith missing hole
there, across our land.
And Dudley, my brother as a student, went
down to Mattel to help Mr. Fani Harimsa
with his convention.
He said, okay, he told me, I've seen
something I never knew.
Okay, wait till you see this man.
Wait till you see this man.
He said, I arrived to help.
He said, everything went wrong.
Every single thing there was that could go
wrong went wrong.
And I looked at this man and said,
oh my, how could so much go wrong
against such a good man?
The day the convention was to be a
busy day for all the workers, to make
sure they get out there to the convention
in time, open all the buildings.
They've got the big centers now.
Take all the equipment, different things they can't
store there.
Everything, everything all piled up in this lorry,
and all the workers in their vehicles.
Well, finally, with all of their setbacks that
were going on, my brother said, they sent
off the workers.
There's one car, just got out the gate,
just down about a block away, and these
little lady missionaries run back and said, Mr.
Harimsa, the car's broken down now.
Now they're getting late.
People are coming from all over the country
to this convention, and the buildings aren't even
open.
Mr. Harimsa, our car's broken down now.
Mr. Harimsa walked down to the car, blocked
down, fixed up the car, eventually off they
went to go ahead to the convention, and
finally they got back into the big lorry,
my brother and Mr. Harimsa.
They've sent the other workers ahead now, and
as they pulled off, he said, something's wrong.
They got out of the puncture.
Now, you know, a puncture in a lorry
is not easy when the tire slaps.
Dudley said, oh my, here's the next thing.
Can anything else go wrong?
But he looked at Mr. Harimsa's face, not
a surge of worry.
No anger, no tenseness, you know, getting a
little bit losing it.
He looked at his eyes, peace, and he
looked carefully as he changed that tire.
Carefully he looked at that Mr. Harimsa.
Now he has one flat tire.
They finally get in the car, and they
drive off.
Just a minute later, another tire slaps.
Can you believe this?
It happens, you know, to God's choicest people.
It happens so that a person like my
brother could never forget what's real.
So now they get out.
They haven't got a spare, both tires.
They can't drive off.
Nowhere to help them.
All the cars have gone, so they had
to push the tires down and find a
garage.
Now they really are late.
This convention should have been well on the
way to getting ready to start meetings, let
alone get everybody organized, and finally they got
the tires back, and Mr. Harimsa's putting, and
he looked again at Mr. Harimsa's face, the
peace.
He couldn't believe the peace.
There was no anger.
There was just this joy on his face,
just a peace.
Eventually they got off.
They arrived at the convention.
Dudley says when they pulled up the convention,
there were people that were a bit angry.
I mean the heat of Africa is something
to endure, and you can't get into the
buildings, and you've traveled all over.
The ablution blocks weren't even open.
The washroom.
Mr. Harimsa had all the keys, didn't realize
it was going to be this late, and
one woman snapped.
She started screaming in front of all the
people that were gathering there, knowing Mr. Harimsa's
finally arrived.
All these crowds were coming up, because everything
had been locked up, and there was a
bit of chaos, things we needed.
Well this woman started screaming.
She just lost it, and everybody looked at
the way.
This woman was screaming, this godly man.
She'd just scream, what sort of people are
you?
How could you do this?
We're all tired.
We've come all this way, and nothing.
What are you?
What's with your organization?
She's screaming at this man, but she already
screamed.
She was angry, and everybody just looked at
her, and then everybody looked at Mr. Harimsa.
Dudley stood next to Mr. Harimsa and looked
at him, and then she stopped speaking.
She said, is there nothing more you have
to say?
She said, uh, I'd just like to say
to you lady, may God bless you.
No telling, oh we were late, we're tired.
May God bless you.
You know that woman burst into tears at
that man.
My brother said he, she stood there, and
she suddenly started weeping, her heart condemning her,
as she just saw Christ.
No matter what, she just shouts in anger.
She just saw Christ in a man.
You know, as she stood there weeping, a
lot of people started weeping.
My brother said before the first message, conviction
of sin had ridden across that convention center
to a life, to a man's reaction.
No good getting priests in there, so God
chose them before your priest.
It worked.
You know, I couldn't wait, you know.
I couldn't wait to get to Mr. Harimsa.
They sent me there my first year, sorry,
my second year.
Oh, I finally arrived in the town to
this godly man, longing to work with him,
and I soon saw, there came my first
convention.
You couldn't believe what happened.
There was some charismatics arrived.
Goodness knows why they came to a holiness
convention.
There they were, and the moment they heard
that the vital evidence that you're filled with
God the Holy Spirit is the fruit, spontaneously
reacting in all circumstances, otherwise you're not filled
with God the Holy Spirit.
He's not in control of your life.
Even if you have gifts, you're not filled
with the Spirit loud and clear.
These people took exception.
One man particularly, he was so angry, he
began to declare war right there in the
center.
He started holding his own meetings in our
convention center, calling on the young people.
These people are preaching heresy.
They're wrong.
They're fighting against the Spirit of God.
They're grieving.
They're quenching the moving of the Spirit of
God.
You must speak in tongues, they said.
That's the evidence, and giving their scriptures everywhere
they could find.
Tongues, tongues.
They're putting their hands on the young people,
and all carrying on until young people started,
oh my.
They went on and on.
Some of the parents came to Mr. Harms.
I was standing with Mr. Harms, and they
said, we're leaving your convention, sir.
I didn't bring my children to have these
people get them to speak in tongues and
get gifts.
We didn't bring them all the way here
to hear all this emotionalism and awkward things.
Either you do something about that crowd down
there with what they're doing in this convention,
and all the influence they're having, or we're
leaving right now with our young people.
Mr. Harms looked at me and said, come
with me, Keith.
So we walked down to this one room,
and there was this crowd of young people
all on their knees, and these people in
a frenzy, you know, trying to get them
to speak in tongues.
Don't fight, just open your mouth.
Say, you know, I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe a man would say such
words.
I might find a reverend now, but I
was so sickened, I actually felt bilious.
I said, what is he saying?
I couldn't imagine Paul standing and saying, you
want us to be filled with the Spirit?
Say, don't fight now, just open your mouth
and just say, just give it a try.
I couldn't believe it.
Mr. Harms, who looked at it all, they
didn't even know we were standing in the
room.
They were so in, in a state of
emotion and frenzy.
And there we stood looking, and I said
loud, all you young people, and they all
looked up, you get out of this room
now.
And they all ran.
And there was this man and a few
of his other little leaders.
He's charismatic, angry with me.
What are you doing?
Why are you telling him to get out
of our room?
I said, you have no right.
You have no right to do this.
This is not your convention.
Why did you come here in the first
place?
Is that your conviction?
And this man let rip.
Oh, he let rip.
He started to curse.
He started to scream, the veins sticking up
on his head and the sweat as he
was screaming, and you're fighting God.
You're grieving the Spirit.
You people are fighting against God, blaspheming the
Spirit, he said.
I just looked at him, and he turned
on Mr. Harms, and Mr. Harms said, listen,
sir, this is our convention.
You cannot organize other meetings outside of the
program.
To push your conviction.
And then this man let loose.
I couldn't believe what he did.
He started to come with Mr. Harms, and
I knew he was going to hit him.
He was going to hit Mr. Harms in
his anger.
And I just stopped him, and I said,
just you touch.
And Mr. Harms burst into tears, not of
this man, but of me.
He said, Keith, oh, Keith, boy, that's not
the way.
That's not the way, boy.
And he came and stood in front of
me.
The tears streaming down his face, and the
love in his eyes.
I still remember the love as he put
his arms around this man, and he said,
brother, you pray for us.
Ask God.
Ask God to show us here who's right.
You ask God to show us all who's
right, and what to do there.
But the way he said it, you know,
this man couldn't pray.
He just burst into tears.
He couldn't pray.
He sobbed, and he sobbed, and he sobbed,
and he sobbed, broken and smashed, that someone
didn't stand there and punch him back, because
he was punched.
Oh, that man went through with God in
that convention.
He didn't leave and go back to his
charismatic church.
He left with these words in the testimony
meeting.
I came here convinced that speaking in tongues
is the vital evidence that you're filled with
God, the Holy Spirit.
And I thought sincerely, these men are fighting
against God, and I fought against them.
But when I saw this man's life, when
I saw his reaction, I realized this is
what it means to be filled with the
Spirit, not what I've got.
And I began to seek God, and he
says, I sought God to take my life,
and to truly, truly sanctify me, and to
truly fill me with the Holy Spirit.
I don't want gifts.
I want the fruit.
Has this man's life of God spontaneously reacting
without any struggle?
Just Christ living his life through you, to
those who would wound him, forgiving him.
Oh, one Peter, chapter 2, verse 19, for
this is thankworthy.
This is thankworthy of a man for conscience
toward God, in due grief, suffering wrongfully.
For what glory that 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 call, because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example that he
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.
1 John 2, verse 6, whosoever sayeth he
abideth in him ought himself ought to so
walk even as he walked.
If you're right with God, you're like Jesus.
Ought himself also so to walk even as
he walked.
Do you?
Do you know when my father was saved,
my mother was staggered.
She was so staggered, she couldn't speak.
Think of that.
My mother couldn't speak when my father was
saved.
She just looked stunned, days and days and
days.
She was so staggered, my mommy couldn't speak.
When my father was saved, my mother was
so staggered.
But when my father was sanctified unto the
Holy Spirit, my mother wept uncontrollably, uncontrollably.
I walked home.
I walked and I looked at my mother
standing with the flowers, weeping.
I looked in the kitchen, weeping.
Eventually, I couldn't take it.
I said, Mommy, what is it?
You're weeping.
What's wrong?
Why are you weeping?
She looked at me and she said, Oh,
Keith, it's your father.
I don't know this man I'm living with.
I fell in love with your daddy when
I was a little girl.
I never loved another man in my life.
I never knew another man.
I was a girl.
I know your father backwards.
I know every single thing about him as
I know of no other person.
I know your father through and through, but
I'm standing with your father.
I look at him and I can't speak
to him because it's a stranger.
I feel a total stranger has moved in
this house.
I look at him and I say to
myself, Who is this man?
Who is this man?
And I thought when my mommy said that,
Who is this man?
Christ.
Written across your life when you're sanctified and
filled with the spirit of these words.
Otherwise, you're not sanctified and filled with the
spirit.
Written across your life when you're sanctified of
these words.
I am crucified.
I am crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me.
Christ liveth in me.
Do you know?
Do you know what the fruit of the
Spirit is, beloved?
Have any of you thought of that?
Do you know what the fruit of the
Spirit is?
Christ.
Nothing else.
Do you know what holiness is?
Christ.
Otherwise, it's heresy.
If it's anything other than Christ, it's heresy.
Not worth seeking after.
Behold what manner of love the Father has
bestowed upon us that we should be called
the sons of God.
Therefore, the world knows us not because it
knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God.
It does not yet appear what we shall
be.
It does not yet appear what we shall
be, but we know that when we shall
see him, we shall be like him.
For we shall see him as he is,
and every man that has this hope in
him purifies himself even as he is pure.
Every man that has the hope that they
will be like Jesus, that they'll recognize him
by what's in themselves, what's in each other's
faces and eyes and reactions.
We know we will be like him.
Every man that has this hope in him
purifies himself even as he is pure.
Purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Purify your hearts by faith, God said.
They were filled, taken complete control by the
Spirit, their hearts being cleansed by faith.
Only the blood can do in one moment
for you.
Through and through, Andrew Murray says, not just
forgive me with the blood of Christ, but
cleanse me, create in me a clean heart,
O God, and take complete control of me
by thy Spirit.
Take complete control of me by thy Spirit.
When you're saved, you know Christ is in
you.
When you're sanctified, the world sees Christ in
you.
And as you grow consistently, day by day,
they see more and more of one thing
as you conform more and more into the
image of Jesus.
Until one day people look at you and
they say, this is what Jesus will surely
be like.
This is surely the closest I will ever
see in a man of what Christ is.
We've had so many appeals, one more to
all of you, to all of you.
You may have sought God, you may have
come out, but if this message, all of
you who haven't come out, all of you
here for the first time with your testimony,
but not with Christ-likeness, all of you
who would let God have his way so
that Christ can start being seen in you
by the world, by your enemies, by those
that fight you, by those who rebuke you.
When things go wrong, all of you who
don't reveal Christ, when things go wrong, all
of you in your home who don't reveal
Christ to your children and your husband and
your wife and your father and when things
go wrong, all of you who don't reveal
Christ to charismatics who say you're fighting the
Holy Spirit, all of you who don't reveal
Christ lay your life before God today.
Dedicate your bodies, dedicate so he can consecrate
and sanctify you through and through to be
holy, not ultimately perfect, but that the fruit
of the Spirit in the life you've been
given can be seen spontaneously reacting, not by
your struggles but because you gave over and
the Holy Spirit takes complete control and the
fruit of the Spirit seen in you is
Christ and the world sees Christ.
Love, suffereth long and is kind.
Love, envyeth not, is not wrath, is not
puffed up as not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth, the fruit of the Spirit
is love.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, pray
for them to spitefully use you and persecute
you.
You can do that not by struggling to
love your enemy.
I saw a man once standing there, I
said, I do love you, I said, I
said, quickly look in the mirror, he looked,
I said, is that the love that God
wants you to love people with who disagrees
with you?
That poor charismatic fellow taking the, I do
love you, and I said, where's love, where's
the fruit, sir?
Oh no, love your enemy, bless them that
curse you, do it spontaneously, do good to
them, do it spontaneously, let Christ reach out
through you, when he's absolutely in control, when
you're dedicated, when you're consecrated, when you're sanctified,
when you're filled with God the Holy, when
you're in complete control, God has complete control,
oh God, may every one of you not
go through life with a testimony not revealing
Christ to the world, not standing in a
queue and making people look at your face
and see with all the horror and the
worry and the fears and the anger and
anxiety to see this one face in his
once-in-a-lifetime, just with joy and
peace and purity, with Christ, all of you
that need to seek God today, for him
to take complete control of you by the
Holy Spirit, and you need it with all
your hearts, I want all of you who
need that, you stand up right now, please,
where you're sitting, please stand, in desperation you
need God, oh, there's so many, we can
never deal with you as individuals, I'd love
to put the counselors and say, hear, pray,
one after the other, we can't do that,
can we, but we thank God he's good
enough and great enough not to turn you
away, though you haven't got a counselor, let
him counsel you today, look him in the
face, believe he's great enough to take your
need right now and lead you right through,
I want every one of you, I can't
ask you to kneel because there's no place
there, all of you standing, I want you,
pray aloud, not loud frantically to be heard,
but aloud, even though you are heard, you
pray for God now, and I'm going to
pray afterwards for you and lead you so
that you don't make any mistake about what
you pray, but I want you to get
a chance to pray by yourself here, to
ask God from your soul, Lord, I want
to be like Jesus, I want to be
holy, I want the fruit of the Spirit
to be seen in my life spontaneously reacting,
I want, Lord, to give myself over to
thee, to dedicate my life to thee, to
let thee take complete control by the Spirit
of God, wash me through and through with
the blood, Lord, make me clean, I want
to purify myself by the blood, I have
nothing else that can do it, create in
me a clean heart, God, fill me with
the Holy Spirit, so what that is cleansed,
that is filled, what that is filled, that
is used in that order never differently, oh,
you pray from all your heart now, ask
God for forgiveness for all your failures, that
the blood washes it, everything of unchristlikeness, anything,
any reaction, any word that was not utterly
Christlike to your wife, your children, to the
world, that isn't confessed as sin, as failure,
confess it, say, God, everything that wasn't utterly
Christlike, wash me in the blood, Lord, forgive
me, let the blood go deeper, Lord, create
in me a clean heart, God, I want
to be taken complete control of by the
Holy Spirit, Lord, I don't want gifts, they'll
come, anything, any ability God wants me to
have specifically, I don't have to seek him
now, I want the fruit, I want the
fruit, I want Christlikeness, do it, Lord, and
in my home, I can live it to
my children, when things go wrong, I can
live it to my enemy, when he rebukes
me, to people who differ with me in
doctrine and standard, I can reveal Christ to
them, not condemnation, you pray, you have time
to pray, amen,
now can you all be silent in prayer
as I lead us all?
God, take this people who have bowed before
thee, take their lives, their heart cry, that
thou will take complete control, that thou will
sanctify them through and through, as they make
this dedication of their lives to God, as
they lay their lives before God and say,
have thy way, have thy way, oh my
God, take such control of every life that
sought thee here, by thy Spirit, that without
emotion or feeling, they may go out there
and find that they reveal Christ spontaneously, where
they didn't before, not by struggling to be
like Christ, but Christ living through them, because
he's got control now, that they're crucified with
Christ, nevertheless live, that Christ lives in them,
through them, reveal thy life within me, reveal
thy life through me, take them Lord, may
people see Christ in their lives, may it
so transform them, as they go from glory
to glory, from the Spirit of God, into
more and more Christ-likeness, that it'll be
like a mirror, as they behold thy face
daily, and get up and walk with God,
as they walk, people will look at them,
it's like a mirror reflecting Christ to the
world, that all people will see is Christ
through them, reflecting just like a mirror, nothing
less as the work of the Holy Spirit
has his way to conform us into the
image of Jesus, bless them Lord, bless them,
they remain more powerful in the hand of
God than any preacher who isn't Christ-like,
their message will have more effect than the
greatest of orators in the world, for there's
no message so great as a Christ-like
one, and no message that's going to be
accepted by those who sincerely want to hear,
only what they seek will make them seek
in all this chaos, reveal Christ in Jesus
Christ, we all ask thee, I'm going to
ask the leader of the meeting to come
up, the singer, the leader, sorry, I want
him to sing for us a song to
lead us in brother Denny, have thine own
way that I told you, could you come
please, no further appeal, oh perhaps I should
say this, there are those rooms there, where
are they, over there, and you unsaved, if
there are, I don't know for sure, perhaps
you're still unsaved, oh imagine going through another
day of life, not being God's responsibility, imagine
that, what folly, a day lost, without walking
with God, give your life to Jesus, if
you want Christ, you make your way as
the others mingle, straight back to there, and
you stand at one of those little petitions
in the back, and there will be people
looking, and they will be swiftly to you,
to help you through to find Christ if
you're not saved, or any other difficulty, any
other real problem, that you perhaps need to
speak about, that this perhaps wasn't enough, that
you just have a little confusion, if this
is enough, praise God, I believe it is
to the bulk of you, but perhaps there's
those with some specific thing that are the
real stuff, go back there, there's counsellors here
that will spend time, we've got the whole
day here, no hurry, the others eat food,
doesn't matter, you sit there, and you sort
out your problems, there's counsellors waiting and will
see you go, make your way through the
crowds immediately, as soon as we close, that's
why we're even singing, even if it's after
we've closed in prayer, go, stand there, there'll
be people watching, get through to God if
you're not saved, if you've got real problems,
that this prayer has ultimately helped you to
find through to God, but all of you,
I say again from my heart, when you
give your life like this to Jesus, there's
one way to keep it, and not lose,
don't neglect the quiet time, make it the
most precious thing, and the most guarded moment
of your life, every day of your life,
that nothing comes near it for importance, nothing
will keep you from it, and I guarantee
you, you won't lose ground, you'll just gain
ground, I guarantee you that if you don't
neglect the quiet time, our brother will lead
us in a hymn, that we will all
pray to God from our hearts now.