======================================================================== ANOINTED LIFE OR WASTED LIFE by Keith Daniel ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon emphasizes the vital evidences of an anointed life and the tragic evidences of a wasted life, focusing on the power of the gospel of Christ unto salvation. It highlights the importance of being driven by compassion to reach the lost, the consciousness of the incomprehensible power of the gospel, the staggering faith in the saving power of the gospel, and the experience of fear, grief, and sorrow for the unsaved souls' eternal judgment and suffering. Duration: 45:27 Topics: "Anointed Life", "Compassion for the Lost" Scripture References: Romans 1:16, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Colossians 1:27, Psalms 142:4, Matthew 9:36, Mark 16:15, Luke 15:7, John 3:16, Acts 1:8, 1 Peter 3:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon emphasizes the vital evidences of an anointed life and the tragic evidences of a wasted life, focusing on the power of the gospel of Christ unto salvation. It highlights the importance of being driven by compassion to reach the lost, the consciousness of the incomprehensible power of the gospel, the staggering faith in the saving power of the gospel, and the experience of fear, grief, and sorrow for the unsaved souls' eternal judgment and suffering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I want to move you now to the conclusion of my talk. In God, the Father, the King, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Bible. The way I believe. In Jesus, the Christ, the Savior and the Lord. Amen. There are ten vital evidences There are ten vital evidences of an anointed life, and there are ten tragic evidences of a wasted life, of a Christian whose life was tragically wasted. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1 verse 16, I am not the same, I am not the same of the gospel of Christ, for it, it is the power of God, it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. I am not the same with the gospel of Christ, for it, it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. The power of God, the power of God the Holy Ghost is unleashed, is unleashed in an uncomprehendable way as an anointed Christian says the gospel of Christ to lost souls. I want to repeat that, the power of God the Holy Ghost is unleashed in an uncomprehendable way as an anointed Christian says the gospel of Christ to lost souls, as though God did beseech you by us, 2 Corinthians 5 verse 24, as though God did beseech you, plead with you, reach out to you through us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God, we stand in the place of Christ as Christ himself through us cries to be reconciled to God, the one who died, the one who died cried out through us to lost souls that he died for, if we are truly anointed. Christ in you is the hope of glory, the hope of eternal life, Colossians 1 verse 27 says, Christ in you is the hope of glory, but Christ in you is not only our hope of glory beloved, it is the only hope the lost have, who would otherwise cry out for all eternity, no man cared for my soul. Christ in you is not only our hope of glory beloved, of eternal life, it is the only hope lost sinners have, who would otherwise cry out for all eternity, no man cared for my soul, Psalm 1 verse 24 says. Now, firstly, an anointed Christian, an anointed Christian is driven with compassion by the Holy Spirit to reach the lost, and an anointed Christian is driven, I love that word, driven with compassion by the Holy Spirit to reach the lost, to reach the lost. I was saved 50 years ago this year, July the 28th, as a very young person, and the man who led me to Christ instructed me on many things, and I realized as the year turned by it wasn't for me God intended those things to be said, and I have said those things almost word perfect, to literally a few hundred thousand people, from my soul, as I realized how God was in the words that man said, after he had spent a long, long time with me. As I left the mass, and I was going out the door with my brother, the whole crowd of people who had prayed for the anointing for a long time and I walked out the door and he shouted, this priest, Keith, Keith, one last thing, one last thing I need to tell you, if you have been truly saved yet in the name of Keith, if God has truly saved your soul, baby, you will be a soul man. From the next step you take to the last step you take in life, you will be a soul man. To be called a Christian means nothing today. You will be a soul man no matter what you have to face, as a consequence in faith and truth. Keith, beginning at your home tonight, my boy, the last thing you are going to do, you will be unable to keep quiet. You will be unable to let go of your soul, to then be saved. And the first step you take tomorrow, to the last step you take coming at all, you will be a soul man. For I doubt that you can say, I doubt that you can say, you will be known as a soul man. To profess to have experiential knowledge of God's eternal salvation from eternal damnation and hellfire. To profess to have found and experienced the knowledge in God's salvation from eternal suffering and damnation. And to withhold it from people who you could speak to is paramount blasphemy, is sacrilege. It is paramount blasphemy to say you have been saved, you passed the boss and came. If you have been saved, you will be a soul man primarily in life from this day to the day you die. I was staggered by that statement, and it set me off on a road, and drew me to my lock. To this day, it has influenced my life, that I get up and beg every single morning, and as I go to bed every single night. The words of that man, who dies in the afternoon, and then he comes and asks, will you believe in God? Those words stagger me. Secondly, an anointed Christian swiftly becomes conscious of the uncomprehendable power of the gospel. An anointed Christian swiftly becomes conscious, staggered at it. The uncomprehendable power of the gospel. Before I went to the Bible school, I used to go to a meeting, I had been touted in Johannesburg. She had a big hall at the top of the city hall in Johannesburg, and she had a meeting. But I went down the stairs, after helping her with the books and making sure I was clean. And I heard loud speakers in the scene, so I pushed the door open, and there was a mass, a big hall, probably the main hall of the city hall. And there were hound dogs, too. And they were singing to Mother of Jesus. I didn't know at that time that I was to meet the babies. Two child-advancers of America who came to claim Mother Nature, godly people. They were the only people conducting the child-advancing crusade. And I cautiously looked back and slowly sat down and listened. And I went in, thronged, tried my way, and they reached into the nocturnal crypt. A few hundred of them, if I can remember right, had walked through it. The way they shed pity, and God, the Holy Ghost, spoke into all their hearts. And suddenly, the door opened, and I had come through, and the child went slowly into the room. And I thronged the preacher, the front-stop preacher, and told him all to run. And he walked in trance. Down amongst me, he stood up, dressed like trance, and obviously in the middle of nowhere. So they looked around, and he could hear them. And everybody looked at him. So they sat down, and they were making noises. And they were talking, and giggling a bit. I sat there, and I thought, the devil's in you. To disrupt and destroy what God was doing, to shame and sin. I was angry. But then God appealed to me, because that man, eventually, cried out to the children of the world to give their lives to Christ, to be saved for eternity, to become a child of God, to be born again, and to become God's child. Now, many of the children seemed forlorn. And all got down on their knees in the front. I had looked at these two men for a while. Suddenly, I saw them standing. And there were tears coming down their faces. And this family, when they walked together down the main road, he had all these children in him. And this man, who was preaching, looked at them compassionately and with smiles. He saw the tears. And he looked at them with smiles, and he laughed, and all of a sudden, he said, I shall be with you. Now, it might be hard for you to comprehend, but those two men, who might have been saved, formed as kids. And somehow, God brought them to their knees. I, the entirety, followed them up. And those two men said, you will always see, to the last of my life, it's unpredictable, that they had come from a bad background, to be laughing about the matter. They were mightily saved, and were kept by the power of God from that day. They both found workplaces. They both went to Bible studies and prayer meetings. And right through the years, until I was touched, those two men, went through with God. The power of the gospel. An anointed Christian swiftly becomes conscious of the uncomparable heaven of them. It's uncomparable heaven, that God could save two men like that, in two weeks' time. I was preaching. Many years had gone by, and the town was so soaked with rain, that nobody wanted to come to the meetings. People just couldn't get there, from all the farmlands and all the roads. And I was disillusioned, deeply disillusioned. And last night came, and I even said to the Lord, Oh Lord, I went in, I went to the college, I did everything. And so few had come. And now, it's the worst of all the last night's rain. It's the worst of the whole week. Why? And I was really disillusioned. So I walked to the meeting room, and I invited them in. I opened the door, and they took me in. I couldn't believe it. The whole church was full. So now what do you do? Do you argue with God in the morning? How do you accept that he's not preaching? Oh, how do you know God? Isn't that wonderful? You see, I think they decided that, right, they made a show of this fellow from the R.E.B., that there are Christians in this town, who are willing to break the rain. So they filled the whole place. Nonetheless, while I was preaching, suddenly there was a commotion in the back, and this man was screaming, and the elders there pushed him out the door. They pushed him into trouble. You're not proving this meeting. Get out. We're not letting you in. Out. They didn't hit you. They pushed him. They pushed him around. And then this man screamed. But he screamed so loud, the whole church screamed. God! Help me. And I had to leave this meeting to do that. When you argue with God, there was a lady sitting in front of me. She was with me. People came. But there was a man who had never argued. And I realized, God be with me. It's a lady. It's the wife of this fellow. And the man went to him, and he brought him in and put him in the back row. While he was in the back row, he stopped his arms behind his ears. He was under the age of 15. And so I preached. But eventually I said, I can't go on like this. I don't think I can continue with this message any longer. But just before I closed, in case anyone had a problem, I spoke to him. And God wants to save you. And you don't. And I asked him to come forward now. He didn't want to. He didn't want to be here with that man. And he watched under the influence of him. He fell. They helped him up. He knelt down on his side. And I had been down. I didn't approach him. He was standing in his seat. He was standing there. And he put his hands up to me and screamed, Help me. Please just help me. Thank God. Help. So I bowed my knees. And I said this prayer to God. God, I don't know what to do now. Please give me hope. This can't be the same. This might be the only opportunity I've asked for. But please God, do not make it beyond my comprehension to say this to you. You, that man, would you mind to be saved at night? He had been a magistrate for the entire community. A mistake for many years. But it was so sufficiently special that he became a Macaulay. He mentioned the shame of his wife and children and the bark of the serpents. Imagine. Many years later, his family told me that he showed himself in the Bible as few have ever. In days which are so close to life. And then he died. Walked and he'd gone. He never touched another lady in his life. And that man's a little like me. I know that sounds unbelievable, uncomprehendable, but we deal with the uncomprehendable. The power. Don't look across. I'm saying this to you who have children, who are coveted, who are drugged, who think that's not possible. Oh, see the place you live in. You don't find children. You don't. God, the reason is God can save a million people. Don't ever underestimate an anointed Christian swiftly becomes conscious of the uncomprehendable power of the gospel. Thirdly, an anointed soul an anointed soul swiftly finds staggering faith in the saving power of the gospel. What do you think? I would say from the moment salvation was lost suddenly there's a staggering faith. I'm not joking. I've come to believe that a person is saved not if I lay a finger on him. I know many of you disagree with me. I don't care. But I have felt and have said often times it has a lot to do with your faith. It's a great blessing when you've asked for Christ. An anointed an anointed soul an anointed Christian swiftly finds staggering faith it's staggering in the saving power of the gospel. I never forget a little girl one day that's why I remember her so well. I don't think her mother would even have been there. The white of her body had gone to the place in which she died. And she didn't try to complain. She didn't lie. She gave her life to the Lord and preached and some missionary lady in the town prayed for her to the needs of the world. And said that if a girl wants to speak to you before she died she gave her life to Christ which was what it is. Certainly my death is another one but my death is so abusive that the government police only allowed me 55 minutes to ask for her or they would take a million dollars for her without even trying. They never allowed me because they so deeply loved my mother and my mother. I teemed with her for a long time but certainly many of her tears I gave my life to Jesus I'm saved I became a son of God and so I believe God is going to save me and make me true. I want you to pray for me please because I'm on the phone right now with my mother. My mother doesn't know that I've got the telephone and I'm about to call her and tell her that I'm on the phone with her. I want you to pray so I pray that she will come and show me the way and when she says now please help me the verses that you quoted either give me as a servant as a slave as a slave to someone who can't give me is a conscious act but if the stubborn can't give me they should set me free they should set me free from me and she would quote the verses always with her also have a little stumbling where I do it in stumbling she asked me show me the place she made for the mortuary because she saw my mother for the mortuary mortuary another day that little girl called me and I I met him, I think it was about a year later, as she was watching him perform, that man was so staggered by the gospel of Christ, and a few verses a little ago, said in faith, and the Holy Spirit was reaching her in a compassionate way, to come back, to get her to come back, and I wanted my hand to go there, and she did, and a man, on his knees, screamed out from his feet, I'm starting to cry, for God's sake, should you have been there just another day from that day, all the other verses, I'm starting to cry, that is, Jesus Christ can't save you, Jesus Christ can't save you from me, you can't save yourself, Jesus Christ can't save you, and that little girl became a listener, many years ago now, and around her soul did she find, truthfully, the staggering faith, the will to be God, in the same power of the gospel, in the same power of the gospel of Christ, and fourthly, when a soul experiences fear, and grief, and sorrow, and the awareness of the eternal judgment and suffering of an unsaved soul, he experiences fear, and grief, and sorrow, by the working of the Holy Spirit, if he's anointed, and the awareness of the, oh no, oh no, oh no, you know that soul, became one of the great sovereigns, of Jehoshaphat, I don't know how long he lived, but I think it was, he was known, as a man who didn't give a s**t about anything, he became sovereign, as he experienced fear, and grief, and sorrow, of the awareness of eternal suffering, and the judgment, and the judgment, and the judgment, and the judgment, and the judgment, and the ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/ffT4b_1ScQg.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/keith-daniel/anointed-life-or-wasted-life/ ========================================================================