A Warning To America - Part 5

Do you honestly think they won't land up? And when they dance we'll say, well, it's holy dancing. Be careful. This man, by the way, seeing as I went on a tangent, this man now comes down the street and he looks inside his church and he's weeping now. And what were they doing? Well, they were dancing. You allow dance music in the church, brother, they're going to dance. You want to justify it, fine, but I can't. They were dancing. And it wasn't a holy dance. It was essential dancing of the world. So you want to have it doing in the church so that they stay pure. Oh, since when do we allow sin to come into the church to keep them out of the world, sin? No, they were dancing. He just began to weep aloud and he said, let's just go home. His wife said, no, let's go in. Let's go in. She said, let's just show our face. We've taken over the church. We hear it's the first youth. Let's just show our face. We'll stay for a while and we'll go home and pray. But don't speak. Don't say anything, she said. You're in enough trouble, she said. Listen, the chief elder's son is the youth leader. And you know what the chief elder said to you already? Don't get into trouble with his son now, please. Let's don't say anything. Go and we show our face. We go after a little while. So they walked in. Now he's holding back the tears that he's been flowing out there and trying to not look judgmentally as he sits down now. As he walked in the dancing, he stopped. This minister is different from the rest. We've never had a man preaching like this. So they stopped dancing. Now they all feel a bit uncomfortable. But they didn't put the music off. And it was these big sets, you know, these hi-fi sets. These big loudspeakers, full blast, full blast. It was deafening. Hang on. Well, he sat with his wife and he said he was in such a state, he just got worse and worse and he was shaking as he thought of all the neighbors, all the neighbors listening from the house of God, the world music, what they must be thinking. And he said he looked at this in such desperation in the end as they just stood around looking but let this music just going on. And he cried something he's never cried out before. He said, God, he said in his heart, blow that thing up. Please, God, blow it up in Jesus Christ's name, he said. And suddenly when he said in Jesus Christ's name, there was a bang so loud it was like a bomb. Ba-da-bong! He jumped up. He said smoke and flames. This thing was like a bomb, not like some little electrical machine. He says to his wife, I just prayed for that. Well, the smoke filled the whole place. All the young people screamed. The fire coming, they were all after the building in shock that such an explosion happened. Wow, he was very happy. He was full of joy and faith and stunned, stunned that God answered his prayers. You know, he said to me, they never managed to repair that machine. It was in such a state nobody even thought of repairing it. No one ever gave him another one. Hallelujah, he said. No one ever gave him another one. That was the end of the dance, that prayer in the church. And of course, with his ministry, eventually God did come. God knows how to break down the strongholds of the devil, even in the house of God. And there, there. You want to know who the enemies of the cross are? Preach truth and watch who's the first to fight you. Preach a standard. You name a man in this country that preaches a standard, I guarantee you the church leaders are fighting him. They fight you, Buster, they fight you. No, to pull down the strongholds of the devil in the church should be something we need to begin with. Let these voices just stop and let God deal the devastating blow with the world and the church and the argument. Please do it, God. God, God's more grieved than you are at that music. You think you're grieved when you come into a church and you've got to listen to modern music to sing and they bury the heritages of our faith, of the old sanctified hymns for this rubbish and start throwing... Oh my, I was in a Christian book room in my country and I was looking for something and suddenly they started this music. Gospel rock, okay? You want to... I don't know how you could even dare to say that, let alone sell it. But they started some music, I admit, somewhere in all the din of this modern... rubbish, you heard the word Jesus. I admit that. The moment the music started, it was the end of me. I just turned, I walked out. And of course I'm known in my country, they came, a whole lot of people, and said, Mr. Daniel, is there anything we can help you with? Something you wanted to buy? Something we could help show you? And I said, no. I'll be honest with you, I don't remember why I came in your shop. I came for something. But the music you played is so devilish, so I had to get out. What? I said, listen, it's the closest I think I can ever say I've come to hell listening to that type of music. It's the world's music. I admit I heard the word Jesus there, but you're deceiving yourself. If you think that's God glorifying, that's the devil. It's from the pit. And I can't come back in your shop. I can't stand that music. I can't bear it. I deny anyone who's right with God can. We agonize under it. What are you doing? I said, I just walked away. I don't know what they said. I don't care. Someone had to tell them just once the truth. But oh, what God will do when we pray. What God will do when we pray. A young man came to me and he told me how startled he was, how stunned he was when God answered his prayer against evil. He came, sought me out. He said, you know what happened? He said, I was on the train and I was coming out of the suburbs into the center of the city on this train. And the train pulled up in this one station and I looked out the window and I saw this building. And this building had such defilement on it that I couldn't believe my eyes of advertising what was going on in that building. It was so defiling outside that heaven help us all, let's go on our own side. If it could be so filthy outside. Openly, openly. Oh, this law of freedom of speech has just said to the devil, do what you want to defile us. We can't touch you. That's all it is. I wish you'd get rid of it. If it means defiling a nation, at least get rid of that part. But he looked at this and he said, oh, what's become of our nation? How could they allow us? How could we have stooped to this? It was filth. His heart just sank. He began to weep in shock. And the train started to pull away. And you know what he prayed? He prayed in desperate, righteous indignation. Oh God, it would be wonderful if I would just burn that whole building to the ground, God. Burn it to the ground. In Christ's name. The train pulled away. Later on, three hours later, he said he was coming back from the town, from the city. And as the train pulled into the station, he just looked out and glanced where the building stood. And he stood and he nearly fell out the window. The whole building had burned to the ground. Oh, beloved, that didn't just happen. God's more grieved than you and I are. He's waiting for us to pray. Do you know anything, everything the devil has done can be pulled down if we just started to pray? Don't get me wrong now. Christians are not aggressive. We're not caused to be militant like these other people who think they're serving God and say they're doing it for Allah by bombing people and bombing buildings. Don't get me wrong. That's not Christianity. Beloved, we don't hurt anyone physically. We don't. We're not called to do that to get our way.