There are some staggering promises in this holy
book and staggering warnings in the promises.
Many people love the promises and they don't
realize there's a warning there.
A terrible warning.
Listen to these words you all know.
That God said through his ire, seek ye
the Lord while he may be found.
That's a warning.
Don't doubt it.
He may not always be able to be
found.
Seek ye the Lord while he may be
found.
Call ye upon him while he is near.
That's a warning.
Have you thought of that?
That's a warning.
Call ye upon him while he is near.
God says in the book, whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.
Now that's a promise.
But you only call upon him while he's
near.
Don't take a chance and think he's going
to come again and again if you harden
your heart.
Seek ye the Lord while he may be
found.
Call ye upon him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the
unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return
unto the Lord and he will have mercy
upon him.
To our God for he will abundantly pardon.
What more could God say?
Seek ye the Lord while he may be
found.
Today.
Now.
Now is God's time.
Now is the acceptable time God says.
Today is the day of salvation if you
will harden not your hearts.
What's God saying here?
Can I say no to God?
Now is when I want to save you.
Now.
While I'm near.
While I may be found in your life.
Now is the acceptable time.
Today is the day of salvation if you,
God says, if you will harden not your
hearts.
That's the day of provocation.
Choose you.
This day.
Amazing how God says now.
Choose you this day whom you will serve.
Whether you want to serve God or the
devil.
And here Joshua stands and says, make up
your mind.
But you have to make a choice.
You have to seek the Lord while he
may be found.
Ask and it shall be given you.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
For everyone that asketh receiveth and he that
seeketh findeth.
To him that knocketh it shall be opened.
He will no right turn away.
Anyone who comes to him through Christ Jesus.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
What more can God say but oh the
warning.
The warning.
Choose you this day whom you will serve.
Make a choice now.
Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey.
His servants ye are to whom ye obey.
You make a choice who you obey.
Romans 6 verse 16.
Know ye not that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey.
His servants ye are to whom ye obey.
Whether of sin unto death or of obedience
unto righteousness.
He that committeth sin is the servant of
sin.
You that live on in a life of
sin.
You are the servant of sin.
But if the Son shall set you free
you shall be free indeed.
But you have to choose.
You have to seek him.
You have to call on him while he's
near.
While he may be found.
While the acceptable time.
You won't have chance upon chance upon chance.
God now commanded all men everywhere to repent.
He wouldn't command all men everywhere to repent
if they couldn't.
He tasted death for every man.
I hope you believe that.
I hope you know that.
He's the propitiation for our sins as Christians
and not for ours only but also for
the sins of the whole world.
I believe that.
I believe he tasted death for every man
and he has the right to say to
all men everywhere.
And you have the right to say to
all men everywhere with hope that they choose
and seek him.
While he may be found.
God now commanded all men everywhere to repent.
Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that
your sins may be blotted out.
Your sins can't be blotted out if you
haven't repented for them.
Repent ye therefore and be ye converted that
your sins may be blotted out.
Whoso confesses and forsakes his sins the same
shall have mercy.
Repentance is vital to salvation.
Repent.
Make a choice.
Make a turning choice toward God that God
will save you.
That's the one thing God can't do for
you and me is repent.
That's the one thing he says he commands
you to do.
All men everywhere to repent.
To turn.
That's a turning sir not into believing.
The devils believe that isn't a choice.
Not into accepting.
It's a turning in a way that God
knows you want to turn from a life
of sin.
From being a servant to sin.
Being enslaved to sin.
And if the son shall set you free
you shall be free indeed.
Are you?
When did you repent?
When did God make you free indeed not
just free.
When did you become a new creature in
Christ that all things passed away and all
things became new.
When was God able to say to the
devil look behold.
When was God able to say to your
wife to your children to your father.
When was God able to say to your
enemy look.
If any man be in Christ he's a
new creature.
All things have passed away behold all things
have become new.
That's salvation.
But that's the result of repent.
Take the word out of the pulpit repent
and you'll have people in their millions receiving
in their sins.
Having a testimony through some prayer but never
turning from a life of sin.
You have to repent and be converted that
your sins have been blotted out.
What drunk will hold a bottle as he
walks into you your church and ministry.
And you say come to Christ and he
walks with a bottle.
And you kneel with him and he has
the bottle.
And he prays for God to save him
and he's still holding the bottle.
And he gets up and he says I'm
my savior.
Yes you receive Christ.
And he walked out of the church with
a bottle.
Will you believe he said no.
What sin sir do you get in your
knees knowing you're not turning.
It's not salvation.
Salvation is when you know you're the servant
of sin.
And you turn you turn from sin in
a way that God knows you're not just
coming for mercy.
For sins you're going to go on in
trampling under the flesh the blood of Christ.
But you're confessing and forsaking and you're looking
and you're turning that the son can set
you free.
He knows you want to come to be
saved from a life of sin.
Not sinless perfection but from a life of
sin.
When did you stop.
When did you repent.
You want revival America.
I dare your evangelical preachers to put this
one word back into the salvation message.
Repent.
You cry out believe.
Receive.
Put it in there sir where you have
millions professing they received and they're going to
hell.
You have to turn.
You have to turn to be set free.
For God to forgive you and to make
you able to have a cock that the
witness of the spirit doesn't condemn you as
you read this book but it confirms.
I'm Christ.
My life has been brought into alignment with
this book.
Oh repent.
Repent.
And that costs.
It costs.
That's why people don't want to preach.
Salvation begins to cost if you have the
word repent.
God may try to intervene in your life.
God may try to intervene in your life
before you destroy your life.
But you could choose to reject God's intervention.
You could choose to reject God's intervention and
your life will forever be destroyed.
But you will remember for all eternity sir.
Lady.
Young boy.
You will remember for all eternity that God
tried to save you.
But you said no.
And you listened to the devil who told
you to not not take heed to God
trying to intervene in your life.
You will remember for all eternity that God
tried to save you but you said no.
I've learned.
I've learned that God brings many people across
my path who are about to destroy their
lives in moments.
In seconds some of them.
I've learned that God brings many people across
my path who are about to destroy their
lives and others with them.
One day I was in a city and
going to see a Christian businessman up on
one of the floors in the big factory
of all the office blocks.
And I was in the factory area waiting
for permission to go through security before I
got permission to go up in this lift.
I had to wait until they had phoned
up and given me clearance.
So I was standing there in the factory
area and suddenly as I looked over there
was a young fellow sitting on a tractor.
These forklift tractors you know that pick up
the big cartridges and put them in the
lorries and move them around.
He was a driver of this little tractor
this forklift tractor in the factory area.
Now he saw me standing there waiting looking
out across the factory.
And I looked at him as he sat
there with the tractor idling.
He didn't work as he just sat there
looking at me smiling.
And I couldn't help but look at him
with a bit of fear.
He had one of these Mohawk hairstyles on
you know.
I don't know if you know what that
is.
I suppose you would know more than anybody
in the world.
But now I looked at him and I
thought and wondered at what he was looking
at and why he had the style you
know.
And he just looked at there not moving
the tractor just smiling with a strange smile.
That isn't a style by the way.
That's a message.
No doubt that most styles today most styles
are messages crying out loud and clear something
to people of like mind.
Let me tell you that.
In fashion most fashions are messages clear clear
messages.
Trust me about stepping the styles today in
the fashion.
That boy was crying out something to the
world of his life loud and clear loud
and clear.
Well I stood there looking at him him
looking at me and suddenly I just found
tears pouring down my face just looking at
him.
And I found my heart just sinking to
such a grief and such a sorrow for
this young fellow.
And he looked at me and he stopped
smiling when he saw these tears just pouring
down my face the grief I felt for
him the compassion.
And I just walked over to him he
put the tractor off to listen to me
and I looked up at him and my
heart was so broken I could never put
into words how God does this or why
God does this to a Christian when he's
confronted with a wicked boy.
I looked up at him and I said
to him you need God you need Jesus
Christ to save your soul you need to
seek God to save your soul through Christ
before you do something terrible in this world.
That boy suddenly the tears just came down
his face the shock of someone confronting him
like that and suddenly they called for me
and I couldn't say another word to him
I never saw him again.
I went in the lift and went up.
A few weeks later I picked up the
newspaper.
Now I don't read the newspaper you may
but I haven't got time.
I saved the strength of my eyes for
this book.
To read all the junk in the paper
is just a waste of strength and vanity
makes faith in the spirit.
I do this though my children say but
daddy you didn't read the newspaper before.
Well I thought about it and I said
well boys I only read the headlines through
the years because daddy's just living out of
his suitcase so much.
In case something's happened in the world that
I need to pray about and if the
Holy Ghost says to me this you need
to know about it.
20,000 families are wiped out in some
terrible tragedy.
You need to as a Christian to pray
not to be ignorant and say I cut
myself off for more news.
You need to pray for those who survived
the families that are wounded some are God
in mercy.
What's going on you just so I only
read and only what the Holy Ghost seems
to put in my heart you need to
read this.
I read the rest is junk it's defiling
many of it.
Well I opened the newspaper a few weeks
after I saw that boy and my heart
just sank.
There on the front page of the newspaper
as I put it down was a big
photograph of this boy you couldn't miss him
and my heart just sank as I read
and I worked up the day I stood
with him and said those words.
That night that boy went out with a
friend in their car and there in the
city along the beachfront they pulled a young
girl off the streets.
They drove her into the field away from
where there was any sight of cars and
I won't tell you what they did to
her I haven't got it in me to
stand in the pulpit of God and name
such things.
Forgive me I don't want to defile you
children I went into Christ and I'm scared
what some preachers have the liberty to tell
us details about.
They did terrible things and then in their
wickedness it wasn't enough they took a knife
and 40 times stabbed her.
Forgive me I'm not trying to wound your
heart and mind to make sure she's dead
that she could never ever tell on them.
After their wickedness they left her dead in
their eyes drove off can you believe it
to try and find more wickedness no concept.
That girl I don't know how she did
it she pulled parts of her stomach that
were all over and she crawled for hours
to get back to the main street.
How she lived no one knows no one
knows doctors can't work out how she's been
a lot.
They found this girl's body after hours getting
back to the road and people rushed her
to the hospital.
The doctors and all the knowledge God has
allowed us to have in these days somehow
put this girl's body together and she survived.
The police of course took a report of
the identification of these fellows it didn't take
long to find that fellow the description she
gave him not many boys are like that
at the age of 20.
They went to him got him and his
friends and in the back of this police
car as they drove them the policemen overheard
them saying she can't be alive she can't
have lived through this she can't be alive
no one could live.
Then the court case started and I bought
the papers daily whenever the court was proceeding
to follow what was going on they got
this young fellow up and they asked him
to give some account and he said when
he was a boy his home was a
poorly home had no love a sad situation
of where he came no real love in
that home real sorrows and grief through the
sin and the lust of the parents but
as a boy he somehow was drawn into
a little group at schooling the Satanists of
the school it seems these are all over
the schools across the western world drawing children
in and especially those children with a gap
in their heart a wound in their home
and he said from the time he was
drawn because he felt he belonged as a
group he belonged to something he somehow identified
this with belonging and suddenly he found himself
deep in possession and he said voices in
his head from a boy started crying out
to do terrible things and how this voice
has cried out telling him to do this
this day for days before even well they
got a Christian evangelist to testify they asked
him questions and he said it's true we
put our heads in the sand and say
there's no such a thing as Satanism we
don't want to hear about it we don't
want to hear what's going on we're scared
but it's everywhere and it is so boys
girls normally involve themselves in Satanism they become
possessed by evil spirits and these things do
cry out voices on their heads and they
do land up doing things well they called
a psychologist a psychiatrist of high repute in
my land also to stand there and also
give witness who had spoken to these boys
for hours and he said no no I'm
not contending that there's a devil and that
there's Satanist and that there's demonology but you
don't blame the devil to get off from
what you did you chose it was a
premeditated act and you won't get off by
saying it was the devil's fault who made
you do it you did it don't blame
the devil boy and he walked off eventually
they got that young boy up that young
man up and he said these words and
this was the end of the case he
said it is true it was a premeditated
decision for days we knew we were gonna
do it that night and the weekend came
it was my own choice now I have
to pay I know but then he said
these words but God God sent a man
to warn me on that day when we
knew what we were gonna do that night
God sent someone to tell me to seek
Jesus but I needed God I needed God's
salvation before I do something terrible and I
was shaken that that man did that but
I rejected God's intention I said no to
God though he tried to stop me now
I have to pay he did two life
sentences were given him he won't ever walk
out of the prison nor that other boy
God tried to intervene don't you dare believe
a Christian stands there waiting and looking at
him and move my God to cry out
those words the day that boy knew what
he was about to do God tried God
may try to intervene before you destroy your
life and others with you but you could
choose to reject God's intervention and your life
forever will be ruined but you will remember
for all eternity that God tried he tried
to save you but you said no and
you obeyed the devil who told you not
to obey God not to listen to God's
intervention to reject it I have learned that
God brings many people along my path who
are about to destroy their lives and others
with them I was preaching in a conference
in our country and as I was pouring
my heart out two messages each day by
the end of the conference I was so
tired my mind just became like numb and
the last message well I just got ready
to pack up and go with a fellow
that had invited me and I sat in
the back seat of the car and he
said Keith we know you're tired but there's
there's people we are so burdened for in
the town just outside of where the convention
center is and before we leave this town
we just know we've got to go their
lives are in trouble Keith and we'd like
you to speak to them so I said
brother I haven't got anything left you go
in though I'm gonna sleep I don't want
to stop you but I won't be any
blessing to those people you go so they
left me and I fell asleep suddenly God
woke me up I suddenly but I was
woken up in this phase where I was
weeping as I woke up now think about
that in case you think that's emotionalism my
heart just sank to such a despair and
I I just knew God was crying out
to me get in that house fast and
I got out and ran to the door
these people who invited me to come in
they were just leaving and I said wait
just a few minutes just wait I should
have come in here brother I didn't know
these people and I began to plead with
them to say things from my heart oh
when I pled they just sat looking at
me as a family we left the next
thing I heard of him was he took
a gun he shot his wife dead his
children dead in himself do you think God
didn't try to intervene do you think God
puts such a broken groan and compassion in
someone who knows nothing about them and drives
them into there to plead God tries to
intervene but you can say no and destroy
everything but forever you will remember he tried
you rejected his intervention you can you know
don't doubt it now you can you think
tomorrow you can seek be careful God might
know today's the last thing you don't know
what you're capable of having tomorrow he said
no I was preaching in a hall and
the place was filled to capacity with no
way for people to sit it was just
overflowing with people and suddenly while I was
preaching this fellow starts weeping and so loud
was he weeping as he shook violently just
sobbing but I had to stop preaching everybody
was upset and hurting the whole atmosphere just
changed to grief as they looked at this
man crumbling broke and sobbing and they had
to take him out before I could carry
on preaching some evangelical ministers most of the
ministers of the town were in that meeting
and two of the evangelical fellows here saw
when he took him out to pray with
him in some of the rooms back in
the halls behind the building I battled to
finish preaching but afterwards I went to find
out and I walked in and there was
this fellow sitting and they shared about what
he said he had gone home walked to
the desk weeping broken life was so destroyed
he took a gun started loading the bullet
he was going to kill his wife his
children and so you think people don't do
this why are we sitting here do you
know how many are thinking of these things
life is so crumbled and crushed this man
was loading the bullets his mind just collapsed
through the hardships of life the hopelessness of
life of any survival was gone he just
gave him and there he was going to
wipe out everybody to the hopelessness of life
and as he was loading these bullets he
sees a piece of paper right there on
the desk there's advertising the meeting tonight the
place the time and as he looked something
in his heart just cried out go there
now that's what he said go there now
he put this down he's so shaken by
this inner voice crying such words to him
not understanding what was going on he just
put it down unloaded the bullets got in
the car and raced to get to this
building came in i was preaching halfway through
my sermon he shut down after about 10
minutes he just broke when he realized no
man knows anything about his life but he
has this man crying out everything about his
life do you think that was just a
mistake that he came and that god put
that pamphlet there do you think that wasn't
god and when he walked and i was
crying out the things about his life oh
god god loves so he broke when he
realized what god was saying to him that
it must be god well that man gave
his life to jesus and i can't understand
this you can't understand it but it's true
in one moment that man suddenly found peace
that passes all understanding i'm glad god says
there's no way of understanding how god can
give a man who wants to kill everything
in life and himself he has no hope
and in the next moment after receiving christ
salvation he has a peace that passes understanding
flooding his heart do you know he's so
met with god that he walks with god
to this day a long long time now
since that happened he never ever was listened
to the fair and god gave him work
god healed all the circumstances but somehow god
put hope and all this hopelessness was taken
away in one moment when god saves your
soul you become conscious that second you are
now his responsibility that's a wonderful thing to
know you know imagine the peace that floods
in your heart when you know take no
thought for tomorrow jesus said no don't even
think about it i'll close you you just
seek first the kingdom of god and his
righteousness and all these things up and jesus
said oh you don't worry about tomorrow suddenly
all the fears are gone one day at
a time and i'm jesus christ's prophet peace
that passes all understanding and he walks with
god now because he said yes you see
god tried to intervene before he destroyed his
life and he listened and he trusted god's
intervention and voice and god saved his soul
for all eternity for all eternity he's gone
oh that's precious i
was standing with my wife and suddenly i
started weeping my heart just down and i
ran down to the door and i started
banging on this door and i my wife
came and said are you mad keith you'd
be in trouble you don't bang what's wrong
with you i don't know and i pulled
up the window along the side of the
wall and pulled myself in these pipes and
shouted through this window can you hear me
give god a chance what makes a man
do that when he doesn't think about how
god how desperate god is when people are
in trouble what do you take if you
just stay available give god a chance i
don't care how hopeless life is i don't
care i'll destroy your life as sweet as
canary and i carried on and on while
i stood there there was a woman in
that room in the lounge standing she just
put a rope around her neck and standing
on her leg she heard this banging shaking
as long as he put the rope around
her neck what made god do that god
loves souls god cares more than you and
i and suddenly she hears his voice screaming
give god a chance he can hear she
thinks this is who is this man i
he doesn't know me i don't know he
doesn't know what i'm doing anyone this must
be god who sent this man it must
be god god must want to do something
for me you know she she gave her
life to be and god took that broken
soul and healed her life beyond measure she
became a woman of god as the years
went by she listened to god's intervention before
she destroyed her life she believed god could
who tried to stop her she obeyed god
a woman phoned me up and said she's
my husband has been involved in much wickedness
and i've packed my bags and i've taken
the children away from him and i said
he will never see the children till the
day he dies legally i'll get that right
unless he's willing to speak to you and
i said to him if you're willing to
speak to this man who i heard preach
one ago and to do exactly what he
said i'll never let you and your children
again on me but if you do everything
that man says i may be able to
forgive you and trust you again in life
and he wants to see you would you
be willing to see him i said yes
lady so i went to this home and
there was this man broken his family gone
here he sits with an empty house now
he had the internet you know the internet
and he says to me i had to
get the internet because it's tomorrow's way of
work we're not going to go through the
traffic anymore and all the cars and all
we can work from our homes as if
we're together we're just communicating as if we're
sitting in the same office we don't walk
out the door the internet's going to change
the whole business world one day we started
to save enormous amount of cost and so
i had to get the internet but i
started fiddling around he said on the internet
he said i didn't mean to and suddenly
i stumbled upon such indecency such depravity i
couldn't believe what i'd seen how is this
he'd never thought of these things in his
life once never occurred to him oh the
devil's powerfully alone suddenly the image is put
in his mind now he goes on with
his work but that night he couldn't sleep
he comes back feeds these same words and
then he stumbles and there's all this and
he thought to himself well let me feed
in another dirty thing whatever depravity he could
possibly imagine he just said it was all
there unimaginable resources for your children isn't that
wicked of the world to do the danger
you have no idea you have no idea
and you know how many children know all
governments of the world what are you going
to do about it sit back and say
we can't do anything about it god will
judge you can do something where's your strength
that man said he became addicted he couldn't
understand that he'd never thought these evil things
before he'd never ever had these temptations before
and here he was slaying as soon as
the children his wife asleep he would come
thinking everybody's asleep he would just feed his
mind more and more couldn't get enough hating
what he was scared of what he was
becoming and one night he said suddenly he
heard his little daughter she had woken up
and stood watch for a long while and
watched what he was doing she went mental
she went berserk she went just i don't
know it'll ever become that child's mind i
mean the daddy of everything his wife had
to be told why this girl she fled
took the children of the house and he
said my wife said if i listen to
you and do just what you say she
might come back i said would you do
anything i say he said anything i said
there's a word called repentance i want you
to take that thing and throw it throw
it out do you know what that's called
i said throw it out yes but i
lose my work i can't get my job
you know what it is to get work
in this country we have 40 percent of
the population without work in the recession you
want me to stop i said sir i
won't pray with you you're wasting my time
you're saying to a drunk come to jesus
and put him behind a bottle still do
you honestly believe you're charlie your wife will
trust you with that in the house still
do you think you can trust yourself i
said sir lose your job but don't lose
your soul lose your job but don't lose
your family she's giving you a chance you
can't come to god unless you throw out
what you know you might go back to
throw it out of his house you're not
strong enough don't you dare believe you'll be
strong enough when you get saved you don't
get saved you sit in front of your
temptation and she let me test it now
no you stay away from it what did
he do oh he threw it out by
the way i was ignorant i didn't know
all these technical things and it seemed something
called a modem or something not the whole
thing that i thought he had to throw
out here he got rid of the modem
he lost his job but he came to
christ and god came in his heart and
purified his mind that he soaked himself in
the word of god god gave him a
better job by the way god honors them
that honor him don't doubt that the devil
tells you you're in trouble god honors them
that honor him his wife came back eventually
as children we're all praying for the girls
too but she'll come to full healing i
believe and trust again you see god tried
to intervene before he destroyed his life oh
he was well on the way to it
when he did that but he could have
chosen to say no but he didn't he
he obeyed he embraced what god was holding
out another chance before everything went wrong he
said yes to god what makes a man
a woman a child say no to god
trying to intervene before they destroy everything for
eternity and they're conscious there's something about eternity
in my choice now don't say they're not
what makes a man or a child willing
to say no to god have you thought
of that oh so many reasons fear of
man is perhaps the worst reason of all
ostracization rejection mocking losing all your friends
you'll be amazed at that how much that
reason is used by people to say no
to god almighty in his intervention for their
lives but the devil's a liar you know
you don't lose you gain you get such
friends that you can't imagine i remember preaching
in a reformatory what do we call a
correctional school these young fellows some of them
were murderers some had killed their own father
and i remember standing there preaching and they
began to mock me this lot whoa such
mockery and laughter and suddenly god came oh
i'll never forget how god came that day
swept across that building and suddenly they're all
weeping sobbing in seconds when god comes when
you're suddenly conscious you're not mocking a man
you have to deal with god and people
become conscious within seconds when the holy ghost
come in that they have some fraternity going
on here these boys started weeping i said
these words to those boys it's gonna cost
you to come out in front of all
these people they're watching you and those who
are weak won't come but those who have
courage will come to jesus no matter what
it's gonna cost you being seen because when
you get up they're gonna watch you you
who have courage you weaklings sit down you
who have courage come to jesus now it'll
take courage but come don't lose your soul
six of them came six of them came
hell before god two of them couldn't even
pray they were so broken on their faces
i had to pray for them that god
saved them those six met with christ all
the devil probably told them now you're in
for it in this place with these people
you're in for it now but you know
what happened within three weeks two hundred of
those boys sought god to follow those boys
they thought they were going to be rejected
in the end there were more saved people
in the reformatory than they were unsaved the
whole place is prayer meetings for years god
just swept back and forth across to six
boys the devil says now you're in for
it but what were they in for revival
virtually in that place oh don't listen to
the devil my minister said to me when
i stood before him please count the cost
you're going to lose every friend you've got
in life you will lose every friend you
have in life i guarantee you boy will
you come to christ are you willing for
that i thought to myself he doesn't know
my life i don't care what i lose
i want god i know i gave my
life to god on my knees that night
i gave my life to god so unreservedly
and i thought well now i lost every
friend well it started you know the first
friend phoned we're going to do this and
this tonight we meet up here i said
no i'm not coming with you he said
why i said i'm not coming ever again
he said why i said just trust me
i'm not coming again dead silence you stay
where you are he said don't move after
a while he comes he looks at me
and says why why are you never coming
again i said because i've given my life
to christ and i'm never taking it and
i'll never be able to go with you
people again never again he looked at me
and i looked at him and he says
well if you give your life to christ
i'm giving mine isn't that lovely oh god
is good god on his knees you pray
for me he says i don't know how
to pray tell me what you said god
saved him he still walks with god to
this day 33 years later a few days
after that another one phones i've heard you've
become a religious nut a terrible word he
says uh everybody's laughing everybody's joking with you
men what's wrong with you we know we're
good enough for you now you've given us
all up i said no you've given me
up but i said i'll be honest with
you i can't ever come with you again
he said no please i've got to speak
to you but i don't want anybody to
see me with you oh what friend has
put you through so we decided to meet
at this model dairy we used to have
all milkshakes as we grew up you know
no one would go there anymore so he's
sitting there he said tell me i want
to know everything about this christianity but why
why would someone like you give your life
to god and what made you so i
said he said and said and sat there
with tears and i said listen you know
he was the hollywood film star type of
the group we were in all our friends
he was the boy that should have been
in films i suppose he was pathetic actually
it was sad when he walked into a
party all the girls just smelt it you
know nice i used to walk away and
just not all girls are like that i
know that but you can't believe what happened
when this boy walked in a room it
was terrible he was the one that all
of us just said oh no now here
he's sitting there tears coming down his eyes
and i said why don't you come to
me come serve god with me he got
up and he walked out i had to
pay so we walked out and he just
walked and i kept walking after him and
all the people were coming out it was
right in the center of the city and
he stood by these road bars as the
traffic was waiting to change for the pedestrians
to walk across the road in the center
of the big city so i looked at
him and i said listen david came please
come with me to christ we'll be friends
forever i'll never be able to see you
again i don't want to ever see you
again till the day i die if you
don't come to christ i won't allow you
people to draw me back and i'm not
giving you a chance i've got to cut
ties you boys are some such wickedness you
fellas i'm not going to give you a
chance come to christ we serve the devil
together come let's serve god together you know
i saw sweat pouring up his face i
saw him shaking so violently that i couldn't
believe the value of decision is a terrible
thing you know it costs to follow christ
don't say it doesn't but it costs you
four more if you don't and this fellow
stood there sweating shivering his eyes his little
lips and suddenly he did something that i'll
never forget for all eternity he shouted as
if he was in pain as he made
his choice all the choice for eternity he
cried with a loud voice so loud that
people stopped in their scores and couldn't no
it cost too much and he turned and
he ran like he was running for his
life from god for fear of god saving
him he ran as if he's scared being
near me might make him come to jesus
and turned on the light of sin he
ran in fear two years later he lay
dead ten years later i walked in those
same streets of that city fellow pulled me
off into this lane i thought he was
going to hurt me i said what do
you want me you don't you know who
i am the tears just poured out he
told me he had been the one who
had this little angel's face you know ten
years and he stood there ruined destroyed you
can't believe what will be left of you
in ten years from now you think you've
got forever to enjoy this youth and a
sparkle of do what you want to you
know you can't nobody gets away with he
stood there weeping and he said oh please
look at you you look the same the
other day he said look at me he
said we mocked you we joked and everybody
laughed every day we laughed about you we
joked you were a joke when you started
preaching we stand there saying i'm keith daniel
the preacher you know mocking oh we laughed
at you but keith you were right we
were wrong not one of us not one
of us hasn't been destroyed you know strive
as he could try as he would he
couldn't find jesus when
you said no so many times god tries
to intervene remember for all eternity that he
tried to say while he could be found
while he's near is he near tonight he
can be found tonight don't doubt that if
you will harden not your heart i'm not
asking you to all sit there and say
only the wicked need to listen to this
message i know perhaps you haven't done wickedness
where you take guns and you're going to
kill your wife we've watched defilement i know
you might not have lived in sin and
depravity and done what that boy did to
sitting with two life sentences now i know
your wickedness may be nowhere near that but
i want to ask every one of you
sitting here tonight every one of you no
matter how your lives are when did you
repent because you have to repent like they
have to that's the one thing god way
when did you turn and become a new
creature in christ not only those people have
to when did you repent i'm not asking
you when you became religious when did you
change and start serving god and not the
devil when did you repent i don't care
how clean your life may be even you
have sin and you know it when did
you repent when did you turn to christ
to transform your life and become a servant
of god and not of sin the sin
of your life when did you repent when
did you come to christ by repenting from
the life of sin and become a new
creature in god wait i'd like to ask
every one of you sitting here tonight right
now and this will cost you in a
group like this it'll cost you but oh
what it'll cost you if you say no
i'm gonna ask you those of you that
will repent tonight and say god i'm not
saved i've never become a new creature in
christ i've never repented that thou can save
me from sin not just the consequence and
i want to repent i want to turn
in the way that god sees i'm turning
from sin for him to set me free
i can't set myself free but thou can
set me free if i turn in a
way that thou does see i want to
be free i want to turn that's repent
i want god to set me free from
these things i want to tonight god i
want day to come and make me a
new creature in christ that i'm truly saved
by repentance i want those of you who've
never repented no matter who you are i
want you to seek god tonight i want
to ask you to do something that's going
to cost you i want you to stand
right now i know this will cost perhaps
you're all sitting here and thinking to yourself
everyone's saved here trust me everyone's not saved
here and you will not say no now
is the acceptable time today is the day
of salvation if you will harden not your
heart as in the day of provocation seek
ye the lord while he may be sound
don't take a chance with your soul call
upon him while he is near he'll save
you but if he's near call upon him
don't don't
fear that i'm gonna grieve if you don't
stand it's god's grief i worry about not
mine he's all i care of standing here
i'm nothing my opinion is nothing but i
care of god's heart and you rejecting it
i'm only asking you once if you want
to seek christ tonight this being a servant
it's a value to see when you stay
standing now i know what it costs to
stand not in secrecy but like this that
god loves you we all have to stand
we all have to repent we're no better
than you i'm giving you another moment of
peace