A Warning To America - Part 6

But the male side, so that those souls can be saved, is nothing God won't do. We need to get into warfare to do it. Leave the religions of the other worlds and say they serve God by bombing up people. Oh, and if any of you of that other religion are listening to me, get out of that religion. Use your brains. It's deranged. How can you believe it's God to put a bomb on a child's body and say you can be a suicidal bomb and you're serving Allah by killing other people? Just use yourself. Turn from that and turn to Jesus fast. How can your mind reconcile that God could want you to do that, to justify your political reasons or your Christian or your religious reasons? Get out of it for God's sake. Use your brains. We're not called to hurt people. That's not our aggressiveness. We're called to fight the devil on our knees, to put on his strongholds that keep people from God or hurt people morally and other ways. Let me tell you something in passing. No, I won't. Let's leave that till the end. I've been to America thirteen times. This is my thirteenth visit from the other side of the world. And I know God has privileged me. I have nothing in my heart to preach in other lands apart from my land. I'm not like some preachers who regard it as a great honor. There's nothing in me that wants to go all over the world. I would never have come back to America if you had invited me to the liberal churches, the liberal evangelical churches. I would have run and never stopped running. I have nothing. Why I love America is because you people brought me to the conservative Christianity, and I want to thank you for that, America. I don't know if there's a man so privileged as this poor man to be given the conservative pulpits as I have been given, and I thank God for your Bogotas and your Denny Kennistons and Harold Vaughans and the Soterra Twins and other men who have a standard, who have a fruit. As I look at the fruit of these men's ministry, across your land I see the Church of Christ as God meant it to be. There's a fruit in your young people. Look at them, noble and pure and unspoiled by the world. Thank God they don't love the world's music. They play godly instruments that can bring godly beauty. I do thank God for the church that I've been brought to. This is the thirteenth time, and I love to come to America. I've come to be as burdened for this land as I am for my own land. No less, I love it so, because God gave me the privilege of meeting the godliest of the godly through your land, and there are many, there are many more than you believe, beloved. God has a people who love him and who do not compromise with the devil, even today. And I thank God that's where I'm preaching. And I thank you for letting me come to your country to know that such a people exists and to love you and to preach to you. I am privileged for that. About the third time I came to America, I was invited by a church. I think it was the fourth time, to be honest, sorry. And this particular church was a very, very big church, oh, it had a great influence. In the morning, in my quiet time, I said to the Lord, Lord, I leave my family alone most of their lives for thee. And they know it, and I know that I would never leave them for a million dollars. Not once like I leave them, not once. For a million dollars I wouldn't God. The only reason I leave them is to fulfill the call of God in my life, and the only reason they're willing to let me go. And to do it with joy. You know, my wife has never complained when I've left her. And I've left her most of her married life to preach. She's never, ever, ever said one word of complaint. She stood with tears in her eyes and she said, we do it for Jesus. As I look back at her tears, she just says, we do it for Jesus. And we do it with all our hearts willingly, kid. Oh, I have a jewel of a wife from God's heart to me. Next to the Lord Jesus, she's the most precious gift God ever gave to me. And I love her that she didn't bury my ministry. She made me fulfill it. My children and my wife will be the most shattered people if I gave up leaving them, though it costs them. I've never, ever heard them speak of the cost, but I know they want me to win the world to God if I can. They so love God. But I said to God that morning in my quiet time, God, I leave them so often alone. They never complain. They've never stopped me. Wouldn't it be wonderful, God, if one day they could come to America too, now that I've brought me to these conservative pulpits? A missionary in South Africa cannot afford to fly his children across. Only wealthy people will fly your family to America, let me tell you. But I said, Lord, I would never ask a man that I would ask thee, God. Wouldn't it be wonderful if my children and my wife knew they were not just left behind, but they could come with me when I come here again one day? I'd love them to meet the conservative people of this land, to see something of this land as I'm seeing it. Not my will, though, Lord. I won't argue with thee if it doesn't happen, but thy will be done. That night, the preacher of the church stood up before I was to preach. I was sitting behind him, and he stood up and he said, This morning in my quiet time, I was praying, and God suddenly whispered something in my heart so deeply, he's so impressed with me, that we should ask this man to bring his family, that we as a church, bring his whole family with him the next time. He leads them along so much to preach. He's coming to our continent more and more. I believe God wants us to bring his whole family with him the next time we pray for them to come. He said within an hour of God impressing him in my heart, ten people, nine other people, ten of us, had phoned me saying in their knees, in their quiet time, they had deeply been spoken to by God that we as a congregation bring this man's family to America the next time he comes. Oh, he turned to me and he said, Mr. Daniel, would you give us the honor of bringing your family with you next time? And I smiled. He didn't know I prayed for that. Isn't God good? I don't think there is a man on earth that God is so good to do as he is this man. I would be stunned, brother, if in heaven God ever shows me another man that he was ever so tender with him, so good as he is to this man, and I'd love him for that. Well, I flew from that church and a few other things. I went back to New York, and I had three days in New York where they put me in an old missionary home overlooking Central Park. It had antique furniture, and you've got to be a millionaire to stay in any of those lofts, but the old missionaries... Become a missionary and you become a millionaire sometimes, you know. Without a few, I think it's $20 a night, they actually apologized to charge me. That's not bad, I said. Lovely people. But anyway, I was in this missionary home, and I looked at New York through different eyes suddenly, you know. I looked through the eyes of a tourist. I thought, well, we're going to be with God's people, but we're going to be... they said they're going to give us a little time in this missionary home, the whole family for, I think, six days we were going to be... just to be able to meet Christians in New York and see New York. Now, I'm not a tourist, and some people are devastated by that. I'm so anti-tourism. You can't believe it. Poor old Mr. Gothard's friend, Brother Otto Koenig. How many of you know him? Put your hands up. Oh, my. I'm in trouble if I say the wrong thing here tonight. He took me under his wing, you know. Mr. Gothard said when I was with him preaching last year, this time in the center in Chicago, just to get videos of messages from Mr. Gothard there, well, Mr. Gothard said to Mr. Koenig, you take him around, show him Chicago, anything he wants, just a little space here and there. So, Otto Koenig took me down to the center of Chicago, and he said, you see that building there? It was this big, serious building, you know, the tallest now that the Twin Towers have come down, that's the tallest building in America, I believe. He said, do you want to go up there? There's a deck at the top for tourists to see. I said, no. He said, no. Where do you want to go? Oh, Terry will not be a tourist type of a person, you know. I said, I want to go and see Moody's Pulpit. Moody preached in Chicago. He said, Moody's Pulpit? Well, let's go and see. He said, that's the Moody Bible Institute, and then there's a Moody Memorial Church where this fellow Irwin Mitzer is. So we go inside, and I said, he said he wants to see Moody's Church and Moody's Pulpit. So they said, oh, do you want to see Mr. Lutz? I said, no, I don't think he wants to see me. I just want to see Moody's Pulpit. Is that where he preaches? He said, no. No, this is all new. This is Mr. Lutz's Pulpit. And she said, don't you want to tour around the church? I said, no, I don't want to.