Young people who are former members of Kenny Baldwin’s former church are pleading with pastor emeritus Lou Baldwin and the leadership of Crossroads Baptist Church not to restore Kenny Baldwin ever…

Pedophiles Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or No Other Pedophile Pastor Can Ever Be Restored to the Gospel Preaching Ministry. Period. Full Stop! (Part 2) with Daniel Whyte III

Young people who are former members of Kenny Baldwin’s former church are pleading with pastor emeritus Lou Baldwin and the leadership of Crossroads Baptist Church not to restore Kenny Baldwin ever, as they truly fear and believe they are trying to restore this pedophile monster as pastor.

“No Pedophile Pastor Can Be Restored to the Pulpit: The Case of Kenny Baldwin and Robert Morris”

“The Sacred Desk Is Not for Wolves: Why Pedophile Pastors Cannot Return”

“Millstone or Ministry? The Biblical Case Against Restoring Pedophile Pastors”

“Blameless No More: Why Kenny Baldwin and Robert Morris Can Never Preach Again”

“Protecting the Flock: The Unshakable Case Against Pedophile Pastors”

“A Millstone and the Sea: Jesus’ Verdict on Those Who Harm Children”

“Blameless, Not Mostly Blameless: The Standard for Gospel Preaching”

“When the Lambs Cry Out: The Church’s Response to Pedophile Pastors”

“The Wolf and the Shepherd: Why Wolves Are Not Restored to the Pulpit”

“The Sacred Charge: Why Jesus Stands Guard Over Little Children”

“Forgiven but Not Restored: What Pedophile Pastors Need to Hear”

“A Warning to the Church and a Call to the Lost”

“Heaven’s Door Is Open, but the Pulpit Is Closed”

“Truth Tellers and Watchmen: A Prophet’s Plea to the Church”

“The Verdict of the Church and the Mercy of the Cross”

“Pedophile Pastors: Never Restored. Period.”

“One Time, One Strike: The Disqualification of Pedophile Preachers”

“Gifted but Unholy: Why Talent Cannot Override Disqualification”

“Predator, Not Preacher: The Kenny Baldwin Case”

“No More Sacred Desks for Sexual Predators”

Raw Transcript: Pedophiles Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or No Other Pedophile Pastor Can Ever Be Restored to the Gospel Preaching Ministry. Period. Full Stop! (Part 2) with Daniel Whyte III

King David said, “I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.” And that’s how it is for prophets and truth tellers. So, ladies and gentlemen, we do not start with music today because this message is not that kind of message.

Pedophiles: Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or any other pedophile pastor can never be restored to the gospel preaching ministry. Period. Full stop.

Subtitle: Young people who are former members of Kenny Baldwin’s former church. And I do not know how true it is, but it has been reported to me that the church has asked for the resignation of all the Baldwins. That’s how they gave it to me. I would find it shocking that they would ask for the resignation of Dr. Lou Baldwin. That’s how they said it to me, and this comes from a former member. I’m also getting reports that they have not had an official church service in about two weeks.

But be that as it may, young people are online who used to be members of the church, and one young lady is very broken up about it. Another young man claims that they mistreated him, so he is acting like he’s gloating a little bit about the whole situation. He has made it clear he wants them to suffer for what they have done. And these young people, though, no matter what the scenario, they do not want these people to let Kenny Baldwin back into the pulpit because he has sent penis pics to a 15-year-old boy and has also shown his penis to the boy in person in three states. And so young people, even Gen Zers and Millennials, are saying, “No way. He’s a pedophile.” And that’s what they’re calling him. They do not want Kenny Baldwin restored. And I concur.

Just like I insisted in my preaching and writing that Robert Morris should not return to any pulpit anywhere, dot 103. But yet these young people and others fear that something is afoot to try to return Kenny Baldwin back to the pulpit in some way.

The Holy Bible says in Matthew chapter 18, verse 6: “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Ladies and gentlemen, this is part two of this message. Yesterday was part one, about a three-hour message. I do not plan on being here that long this evening. Shall we pray?

Holy Father God, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We come before You with broken hearts and sadness tonight because when a man does this kind of a thing as a preacher, it’s not only bad for him and he loses something that You gave him, but it’s bad for the people because the gift that You gave him was for the people. And one of the things that we know about born-again saved Christians, Lord, is that we love good preaching. We love to hear somebody preach who You have gifted to preach. For many of us, it’s like music to our souls. And so it’s sad all the way around.

And so, Holy Father God, we pray in the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We praise You and we thank You for the message that went out yesterday. We praise You and we thank You for born-again saved believers who are standing strong against this evil and not participating in trying to bring a pedophile pastor back into the pulpit. And we praise You and we thank You that there are young people who are standing firm on Your Word.

For Jesus Christ’s sake this evening, Lord, have mercy and grace upon each and every one of us who are born again saved. Please forgive us all of our sins, our faults, and our failures. Wash our sins away in the blood of Christ and make us to be whiter than snow on the inside. Crush and crucify our flesh and the old man within us. For no doubt 99% of us, 99 and a half of us, are not tempted with what Kenny Baldwin has done, but we are tempted with other things. And so, Lord, forgive us of our sins. Deliver us, Lord, from temptation, evil, and sin ourselves by Your grace.

Grant us, Lord, Your grace and the power of Your Holy Spirit to love right, to live right, to think right, to do right, and to act right. And help us, Lord, to examine ourselves and see whether or not we be in the faith, and help us to pray in such a way, and read Your Holy Word in such a way, and obey Your Holy Word in such a way that we will not sin in any way, shape, form, or fashion against You.

Crush and crucify our flesh and the old man within us. Fill us all afresh and anew with the fullness and the power, the unction and the anointing, the fruit and the liberty of Your Holy Spirit. Let Your will be done because it is Your church.

And Holy Father God, help me to make it clear to Lou Baldwin, to Michael Baldwin, to Kenny Baldwin, and to the leadership of the church there and all other churches in this country and around the globe because that’s the assignment that You’ve given to me. We love everybody. We’re not mad at anybody. But it needs to be clear because people are thinking about doing the unthinkable in Your sight. This is Your church. And the last thing on earth we need are homosexual pastors and/or pedophile pastors in the church house.

And so, Lord, I pray that You would cast the devil and the demons of hell and the satanic demonic spirit of Judas, Jezebel, Sanballat, and Tobias not only out of my wife, Mrs. Marika White—so good to see you, Danielle—but out of people in the church everywhere who have allowed the devil and the demons of hell to slip in to their DMs and to their lives. Rebuking and binding the devil, his demons, and his hosts from Mrs. Marika White, and Lord, from our family, from the Baldwin family, from Mrs. Bethany Baldwin—help her, Lord, to navigate this and to do what is right for her and the children.

And Lord, I do pray that You will drive the devil and the demons of hell out of every family that names the name of Christ and give us sweet victory, powerful victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. Not only our immediate families, but Lord, I pray for Mrs. Wright’s mother, aunts, and siblings. Open their blinded eyes and stop their deaf ears. I pray for my own mother and siblings. Open their blinded eyes and stop their deaf ears.

Prepare all of us, Lord, for good days and bad days. Prepare us, Lord, for celebrations, tribulations, and tragedies. Prepare us, Lord, for weddings and funerals. Prepare us, Lord, for life and death.

And Holy Father God, we pray, Lord, and we thank You for Your love, Your grace, and Your mercy. And we thank You, Lord, for the productive years of all Christians who know You as Savior. And Lord, we pray that You would break the band of wickedness in each and every one of our lives. And all of us who are saved, help us to humble ourselves, to pray, to seek Your face, and to turn from our wicked ways and to repent of our sins.

Lord, comfort the heart of Dr. Lew Baldwin, who by Your grace did things the right way. He’s not a perfect man. And help him to understand that he does not have to take responsibility for grown men in their 40s and in their 50s. He did his part. They have to do their part. And now they have to do their part in doing time for crimes and sins—sins that grew into crimes. It is such a tragedy.

And Lord, I do pray that everybody who comes to these services on several platforms, Lord, will not gloat and not judge, but will take heed to themselves and turn away from their sins.

And Lord, I pray for the peace of Jerusalem tonight. I pray for the salvation and the protection of the Israelites and all Gentile nations. And Holy Father God, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that You would bless and protect all Christians across the country and around the globe who are under the threat of persecution as I am, as my children are. Protect us all, Lord, from ourselves, our flesh, and the devil, and from the demons of hell, and from evil people in the family, in the church, and in the world.

And Holy Father God, I pray, Lord, as we’re being constantly attacked online by various and sundry people, I pray, Lord, that You will have Your Word, which is not bound, to continue on, that lost souls will be saved and Christians will be revived, Your holy name glorified, and Jesus Christ exalted.

And Lord, I pray that You will deliver all of us who are saved from ourselves, our flesh, and the devil, and deliver all of us, Lord, from our distresses and afflictions, tribulations and troubles, trials and temptations, tests and tensions.

And Holy Father God, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that You would bless and protect all of my children and everybody else’s children, grown as they are. Protect us all from ourselves, our flesh, and the devil, and the demons of hell, and from evil people in the family, evil people in the church, and evil people in the world.

Lord, continue to speak to our hearts that we would be prayerful and sober-minded, vigilant, and watchful. And Lord God in heaven, thank You for allowing things to be as well as they are. Thank You, Lord, for remembering mercy, love, and grace. We pray, Holy Father God, that all that we do and say tonight and throughout our lives, we would do it for Your glory, Your praise, and Your honor for the glory, praise, and honor of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We pray, Lord, a special prayer for Deacon Moab and his brother. We pray, Lord, for Brother Kakalat, who’s back online. We pray, Lord, for Deacon Atkins and his needs and desires. And, Lord, bless and protect and provide for all of the people that stand with us in the ministry. Have everything, Lord, to go smoothly, decently, and in order. For Your glory, praise, and honor in Jesus Christ’s name we pray and forsake. Amen.

---

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, my beloved, a brief introduction as we have introduced this message already, plus we finished one point, and I’m going straightway to the second point. And it is not my desire to be here tonight as long as I was yesterday.

There are sermons a preacher delights to preach from time to time, and there are sermons a preacher weeps to preach and does not want to preach for various and sundry reasons. This is the latter. But the man of God does not get to choose only the pleasant texts and messages that he delights in preaching. All born-again, saved, God-called preachers have experienced having a sermon planned, and then God right before it was time to preach would change the message. Changes the message. And it’s a hard message and a difficult message.

The watchman on the wall must blow the trumpet, Mrs. White, when he sees the sword coming—Ezekiel 33:6—or the blood of the people will be required at his hand. And make no mistake about it, I know there are people who hate me for doing this. They despise me for doing this. But make no mistake about it, the main point of this message is to absolutely destroy the idea of Kenny Baldwin, or the other preacher who was a pedophile, Mrs. White—Robert Morris—or any other pedophile preacher, to don a pulpit.

We want to disabuse you of that thought. Okay, we don’t want you to think that way. And we want you to think along the lines of some Gen Z’s and Millennials, young people who say, “No, you are not to ever get behind the pulpit again.” And we want to help them with their cause.

The news out of Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, has broken hearts across this nation and around the world. Kenneth “Kenny” Baldwin, a pastor with a national and even global preaching platform, stands accused of sending sexually explicit penis pictures, images to a 15-year-old boy. Sad to say that we’re this far removed from God that it would have been better—and we would have accepted it better, even though it is as wicked as it can be—if he did that with a grown woman that’s not his wife. But this right here is unacceptable and beyond the pale.

Not only is it a child, this is a homosexual sodomite act, which strangely he has been preaching on quite frequently. He sent these to a 15-year-old boy he met after preaching his sermon. A boy he met through—yes—the preaching of the gospel. Through the ministry itself.

According to police, and we thank the Lord for all of you, thank you for your kindness, your gifts, for introducing yourself. However, I can’t talk with you that much at this time. Bruce, thank you for letting us know what church you belong to. We are glad to have you. With over 3,200 with us at this time, according to their stats.

Ladies and gentlemen, according to police, he admitted under questioning to exposing himself to this 15-year-old boy on three separate occasions in three different states. And by the way, I know that we have this strange going on in churches today where nobody should, they say that nobody should talk about these things and speak of these things. I don’t know what in the world you’re talking about. Somebody has to say something. That’s the problem. People want to be hypocrites in the church and cover up things and hide things.

So good to see our sister Aurora with us tonight as well. A little bit different kind of a service, Aurora Lane, tonight, but necessary. This preacher, according to the police, said this pastor exposed himself to this child on three separate occasions in three different states.

And we are making it clear: no matter how gifted the preacher is, no matter how much he knows the Bible, no matter how good he can preach, he is disqualified from preaching anywhere. And shame on the people who still want to go and hear him preach because of his gifts and his charisma. And shame on him if he still wants to preach somewhere after doing this to that child, when Jesus Christ said he ought to have a millstone put around his neck and that he drowned in the sea.

The courts will render their verdict in due time, but the church of the Lord Jesus Christ must render her verdict right now on the principle at stake based upon the Word of God. And here is that principle plainly stated: a man who preys—P-R-E-Y-S—who is a predator sexually upon children, just one time—I don’t care. It’s normally not just one time; that’s the tragedy. But just one time, if you ever had the thought to be a predator of children and to try to homosexualize a boy, if that’s in your thought pattern, you ought to get yourself out of the ministry and stay out of the ministry, see? We don’t even want you in the ministry. God does not want you in the ministry. Even if you have the thought, even if you’re looking at pornography of children one time, you are not to be anywhere near the ministry.

I mentioned in an article, I mentioned to the leadership of Crossroads Baptist Church, especially to the Pastor Emeritus Lou Baldwin, that they need to hire Billy Graham’s grandson to come in and do an investigation to see how many other people have been molested or harmed by this creature. And I tell the church the same thing I told the church where Robert Morris was pastor—the Gateway, I call it the Gateway to Hell Church: everybody in leadership ought to resign immediately. The church ought to be at least temporarily closed down and get the feds in there to investigate because right now it is a crime scene.

A man who preys sexually—P-R-E-Y-S—upon children can never, never be restored to the gospel preaching ministry. Not after counseling, not after tears, not after a season of quiet, not after a restoration process. Never, never, never. Period. Full stop.

Now, dear friends, hear me well, but the devil loves to twist this message. I am not saying such a man cannot be forgiven by God. It’s not even my place to forgive Robert Morris for raping a girl for multiple years—a 12-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl, a 14-year-old. It’s not my place to forgive Kenny Baldwin for raping or molesting a 15-year-old boy. We’re not going to play games with words and semantics here. It is what it is.

We are not saying such a man cannot be forgiven by God. This boy’s parents would have to forgive him. This boy would have to forgive him. I have nothing to do with the forgiveness process, and nobody else does unless those others who were done the same way. If we confess our sins, the Bible says, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness—1 John 1:9. The blood of Jesus Christ will never lose its power, and it can wash away the sins of the vilest sinner clean, and thank God for it. We all need the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it washed all of us who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Heaven’s door remains open to the truly repentant confessor of sin and person who turns away from sin. But the pulpit door is not open to a pedophile—what the young people call a PDF. Forgiveness restores a soul to God through Jesus Christ. It does not restore a wolf to the pulpit. Salvation and qualification are two different things, and we must never confuse them again.

The young people of Crossroads Baptist Church—some who used to be members, former members who sat under this man’s preaching—are pleading with Pastor Emeritus, if you will, and the leadership of Crossroads Baptist Church. The Pastor Emeritus is Kenny’s father, Lou Baldwin, and the church’s leadership to not restore Kenny Baldwin to the pulpit, into the church leadership.

Dear friends, when the lambs cry out, when the children cry out, and the young people cry out—one young lady broke my heart. She reminded me so much of my young daughters. These shepherds had better respond under God.

Let us open the Word of God and see three unshakable reasons why no pedophile pastor can ever stand behind the sacred desk again. We already dealt with point number one: The Sacred Charge. Jesus Christ Himself stands guard over the little children of the world. You mess with the children, you’re in a world of trouble with Jesus, and you’re in a world of trouble with other people in His church. If you’re not careful, you may have hands laid on you in a very real sense.

Point number two—for the sake of time tonight, I would love to go back through number one. But for the sake of time, let’s move on to point number two. Point number one is already up on bcn1.com. Deacon Moab, so good to see you. May God bless you. And thank you for your gifts to God and Jesus Christ. You can go to blackchristiannews.substack.com if you want to hear and see the first message in this series, or blackchristiannews.com, or bcn1.com.

Point number two, Mrs. White: The Settled Standard. The ministry demands a blameless man, and that blamelessness, once shattered by a man being a predator of children, cannot be reassembled. Period.

1 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 7, Titus chapter 1, verses 6 and 7—the Holy Ghost through the Apostle Paul gave us the qualifications for the pastorate. And the very first one settles this question forever: “A bishop, a pastor, an elder then must be blameless.” And if you’re doing something and the police in another state already has the information on you, you’re in a world of trouble. You cannot possibly be blameless.

And I hope to God that the Baldwin family and the Crossroads Baptist Church and all other preacher friends of Kenny Baldwin will not even put up a defense, as one lady who I believe was a former member as well said she can’t even believe they paid the bail. She would rather see him sit in jail, and she said that he should have chosen to sit in jail, Mr. Ruiz. And I concur.

I hope that a legal defense will not drag this out. I hope that since he’s already admitted to doing this, he would go ahead and accept his punishment. Is it sad? Yes. What a wasted gift and talent on loan from God. And see, that’s the thing. I have to bring that up because that’s the thing that people are going to hang on and try to get him off and get him out because we all agree that it will be a wasted gift and a wasted talent.

Why do I say that? Because born-again saved Christians, for some reason, we love when somebody can shuck the corn when it comes down to preaching. Preaching is a very powerful form of communication ordained by God. We love some good old-fashioned, fired up, gifted preaching. We just love it. Say people just love it. We can get into the rhythm of it, and we just love the preaching of the gospel and the preaching of the Word. We will gather in large crowds to hear somebody shuck the corn. Flat, get with it, get with it, get with it. We love it. We love to see it. We love to hear it, see. And when somebody who is extraordinarily gifted and charismatic and just has that “it” thing from God—see, this is the thing that people are hating and that they’re mad about and sad about because they will not be able to partake in that gift anymore. And nor should they. None of us should.

When a child is involved, a person from a man who has—I hope he has not physically raped a child, but he’s certainly trying to. As I said yesterday, I mean, when a man sends a penis pic, picture, to a woman, he’s trying to get into her vagina. You send it to a kid, what are you doing? A boy? A boy? You’re trying to do something sexual. I mean, what? Y’all don’t know that? Huh? Even I know that. No, I have never sent a penis pic to nobody, woman or anybody. Not even you, a doctor. I wouldn’t do that. I don’t even know how to do that. But when you’re doing that, you’re trying to get into somebody’s pants and somebody’s drawers or dress or skirt or something. I mean, you’re not doing that for fun.

Paul gave us the qualifications for the pastorate, and the very first one settles this question forever: a bishop, a pastor then must be blameless. That is not blameless at all. See, that is in fact perverted, see. That is an abomination in God’s sight. We can’t even work with you on that.

And so that’s the purpose of this message. I know there are people who hate me for saying it, and people lying on me saying that you’re not compassionate. You’re not loving. He’s a young man. You ought to give him another chance. It’s not my place to give you another chance. You cannot be in the ministry of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, particularly as an independent Baptist preacher, sending penis pics anywhere. So don’t even put that on me. Don’t even, don’t, don’t even bring that to me. Nowhere, Deacon Steve Bartusik, IDK, Kim. No. Have you, have you people lost your righteous minds? No, no. No.

It’s more loving to say, “No, you need to sit down. You need—I don’t know what you’re going to do, but you need to go someplace else and you need to do something else. Preaching is no longer a part of your life.” If Jesus would rather see you with a millstone—a big old concrete weight around your neck—and you drown in the sea, then dear friends, it’s over.

And some of us, we think that we’re more loving and more patient and more compassionate than God is—and Jesus is—and that’s not the case. A bishop then must be blameless, 1 Timothy 3:2. Not mostly blameless. Not blameless again after a restoration committee signs off. Blameless. A man against whom no charge of gross moral disqualification, unspeakable abominations can be laid hold of.

Paul adds, “Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil”—1 Timothy 3:7. A good report of them which are without, of the unsaved community. You know what Millennials who are lost or halfway lost—you know, in the church halfway and out halfway—you know what they’re saying? This is the first thing that you see. They’re shaking their heads this way right here: “No.”

Even some lost people are saddened by this. Some people are just saying, “Let me go to hell then.” You don’t want people saying that about you as a preacher. With you doing stuff like that. Stuff that they never thought about doing. So I want you to understand what I’m saying here: that nobody ought to even think that way. No preacher ought to even think about wanting another man, much less another boy.

Everybody can understand being tempted with the opposite sex. They are not to commit fornication with the opposite sex or adultery. But everybody in their right mind understands the temptation. We should not act on the temptation, but we understand the temptation, and you’re a liar—your feet ain’t made, and your heart pumps peanut butter—if you don’t know what I’m talking about. You’re a liar. “Well, I’m never tempted by any woman, I don’t care how fine and luscious”—you’re a liar, your feet ain’t made, and your heart pumps peanut butter, or either you are a homosexual.

The unsaved community shaking their heads. And nobody wants to hear you preach if you have sent penis pics to a child. I mean, the most wicked man in jail will shake his own head. And you better be careful because if you go to jail, they’ll try to kill you for doing stuff like that. The criminals will.

Of the neighbors of the news watching world shaking their heads. What report does a man have among them which are without when his name is attached to felony, felony charges involving a 15-year-old boy? You can’t be a pastor of bad English but good truth. You can’t be a pastor of nothing. If you got that. So the question answers itself.

Now, someone will surely raise the familiar objections. So let us deal with them head-on with the book open.

“But what about King David?” David sinned grievously with Bathsheba, a fine, beautiful, fat—P-H-A-T—black woman. I know you may not like for me to put it that way, but that’s what happened. He desired her, and he got her. You say, well, David was forgiven. But mark this: David was a king, not a New Testament pastor under the qualifications of 1 Timothy 3. And even so, the sword never departed from his house. God does not play. 2 Samuel 12:10. Forgiveness did not cancel consequences. Never.

And David’s sin, wicked as it was, was with an adult woman. There is no biblical category in which the predation of children is a fall from which a man just dusts himself off and resumes preaching at the sacred desk. No sir. No ma’am. No way. It’s not the same.

And the key thing is that David was tempted by a beautiful grown woman. Is it evil that he fell to that temptation? Yes. Is it wicked? Yes. According to God, it was because God punished him, chastised him without end. Yet God still called him a man after His own heart because David sinned greatly, but he also confessed and repented greatly. If you don’t believe me, read Psalm 51, where most of us have gone when we have confessed our sins and repented of our sins or we were facing temptation. So?

“But what about Peter, preacher? The Apostle Peter.” He sinned greatly as well. And you’re right, he did. Peter denied the Lord in a moment of fear and wept bitterly—Luke chapter 22, verse 62. And Jesus restored him. What great love, what great forgiveness. But we all can get our heads around that because of how gracious God is and Jesus is.

But Peter’s sin was cowardice, not predation—not being a predator of children. Peter did not stalk a little child and send a penis pic to the child. Peter did not meet up with the child behind the barn and then behind the courthouse in three different locations to try to rape the child. He stumbled as a sheep. He was not being a predator of the sheep, the little sheep, like some pastors are today. And there are many pastors out here today looking at child pornography and seeking to rape children. It is a serious problem in the church today. And so we’re not picking on anybody. We’re just making it clear that they cannot continue in the ministry. Period. Full stop.

Peter stumbled as a sheep. He was not trying to have sex with the sheep. The little sheep. There is an ocean of difference between a shepherd, a pastor who falters, and a wolf who feeds.

These pedophile pastors—Robert Morris, and now Kenny Baldwin—they’re wolves in sheep’s clothing. And Jesus warned us. He said, how do you know he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing? “He’ll be all right. He just fell to his flesh.” Please miss me with that foolishness. If somebody told me he fell to a beautiful, voluptuous woman, then I can get my head around it. But not a 15-year-old child. That’s not a fall. They are intentionally plotting to rape a child. They got a demonic spirit in them that’s driving them to molest and rape a child. They want to do that. There’s something in them where they get their demonic kicks for devouring a child. And Satan is in the midst of it.

There is an ocean of difference between a shepherd who falters and a wolf who feeds. Our Lord Himself warned us, ladies and gentlemen: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing. But inwardly, inwardly, inwardly, they are ravening wolves.” And they repeat the action. See, the ravening wolves, they’re bloodthirsty. They repeat the action over and over and over again. It’s not a fall. It is deliberate. Matthew 7:15.

And Paul wept over this very danger at Ephesus. He said, “For I know this, that after my departing, Deacon Moab and Deacon Atkins, Sister Bliss, and others—for I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock”—Acts 20:29.

You do not restore a wolf, ladies and gentlemen, to continue to devour the children. You remove him and you bar the gate and you keep him out. I’ve even stated in the article, not only for Crossroads Baptist Church, but for the Gateway to Hell Church, that Robert Morris should never even visit the church again. He should not be able to be a member of the church there. He can apologize all he wants, but he should not be on the premises. And I even called it a crime scene, and I called Crossroads Baptist Church a crime scene until they are investigated, Manny. And everything in the coast is clear.

And then some say, ladies and gentlemen, “But God is a God of second chances.” Yes, He is. And not when it comes to children. Not when Jesus Christ said Himself, you ought to have some cement wrapped around your neck, and then you ought to drown in the sea for messing with one of these little ones in that way, especially.

Yes, for the soul—second chance—a repentant predator may by grace find mercy at the cross like the thief who died beside Jesus. But that thief went to paradise. He did not come down off the cross and take a pastorate. A man may be forgiven and still forever forfeit the office of the pastorate. And he must. And sometimes some of these pastors, before they even get caught, they ought to resign. May God help them.

A man may be forgiven and still forever forfeit the office. The vessel of public trust once shattered by this particular sin is not mended in this life. It’s over with. And it should be beyond discussion. “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches”—Proverbs 22:1. And when a man trades his good name for the abuse of a child, that trade is permanent as far as the pulpit is concerned. It is over with. That’s right. Even just one time. What do you want? Two times? Three times? Four times? Five? What are you talking about? No, one time. That’s it. In fact, if we are able to find out that you have thought about doing that, you ought not to be in the ministry. Period.

And when a man trades his good name for the abuse of a child, that trade is permanent as far as the pulpit is concerned. Let him sit under the preaching of the word. Let him sit down somewhere. Let him go someplace else. Supervised and accountable. Working out his repentance with fear and trembling. Let him never again stand behind the sacred desk.

And this standard applies to every man and every woman in this day and time. Sad to say. However gifted. However traveled. However well known—whether his name is Kenny Baldwin or Robert Morris or any other name known in heaven or on earth or in hell—the pulpit does not belong to talented men. It belongs only to holy men.

---

Shall we pray?

Holy Father God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy and grace upon all of us who are saved and born again and forgive all of us of our sins, whatever the sin is. And help, Lord, those of us—no doubt 99, 99 and a half of the people in the church have never thought about molesting a child or sending a sexual picture to a child. I hope that’s the percentage, at least. Lord, thank You, whatever the percentage is, that most of us do not think like that by Your grace, Your mercy, and Your love. And Lord, we may think some other things, but not pertaining to a child.

So, Lord, I pray for the salvation of these lost preachers. Open their blinded eyes and stop their deaf ears and truly save their souls if they want to be saved. I also pray, Lord, that You will cast the devil and the demons of hell out of Robert Morris and other pedophiles such as Kenny Baldwin, for the devil is certainly involved. Drive the devil and the demons of hell out of their lives. Rebuke and bind the devil, his demons, and his hosts from their minds.

And Lord, I pray that You will heal the 15-year-old boy who has been involved with something that he will never forget. I pray for his family. I fear that it may be a single mother situation, and this preacher took advantage of it, or holy, even worse, orphanage type situation or something along those lines, whatever the case. Lord, heal this child’s heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

I pray, Lord, that even preachers who have not been caught as pedophiles—if they’ve ever thought about it, if they are plotting it—I pray that they would self-resign. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that this church and this church leadership would do the right thing and insist on all of the other preachers that they may know across the nation do the right thing as well.

Save the soul of this little boy and save the souls of all of the people here tonight and in this country and around the globe. I pray, Lord, that the power of Your Holy Spirit would fall. And Lord, help every saved person to confess their sins and repent. And not walk and not gloat about the awful, tragic failure of a man who claimed to be a preacher. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray and for His sake. Amen.

---

Now, dear friend of mine, if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, please do so tonight. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and you shall be saved.” But Jesus Christ said it first and best when He said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Understand that you are a wicked and evil sinner. We all are evil and wicked sinners. The Pope is a wicked and evil sinner. So is the Dalai Lama, and so is even Joel Osteen. And you are too. And I am as well. I’m the chief of sinners. So nobody’s better than anybody else. The Bible says we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Secondly, understand that you’re going to die because of your sins. Don’t worry about people getting away with sin. Nobody will get away with sin. Nobody does. The Bible says the wages of sin is death, and you will die one day as well. And you need to prepare for that. God is showing you great mercy by allowing you to hear this truth tonight, allowing you to live as many days as you have. Because you will die one day, and you need to be ready for that. And the only way to get ready for that is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou you shall be saved.

Pray and ask Him to save you. For the Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Don’t worry about the hypocrites in the church. Don’t let them stand between you and God.

Follow me in the sinner’s prayer. Repeat after me phrase by phrase and mean it from your heart:

Holy Father God, have mercy and grace upon my soul and please forgive me of all of my sins as I now believe in You, Lord Jesus Christ. I believe with all of my heart that You suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried, and rose on the third day. Lord Jesus Christ, please come into my heart and into my spirit and save my soul from the burning hell that I deserve. That I deserve. And save my soul to the beautiful heaven that I do not deserve. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Help me to change. Help me to repent of my sins. And help me to follow You in the newness of life. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray and for His sake. Amen.

---

And ladies and gentlemen, may God bless you for being with us this evening. We’re closing out with over 4,400 with us according to their stats. And we thank God for your being here.

If you trusted Christ as your Savior today, if you believed in the Lord Jesus Christ so that you could be saved from the burning hell, you prayed the sinner’s prayer—congratulations on doing the most important thing in life. And that is believing in Jesus Christ and praying and asking Him to have mercy upon you and save your soul from the burning hell.

And so here are a few things that God wants you to do going forward:

1. Get baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost as soon as possible at a Bible-believing church in your community.
2. Start praying and don’t stop. Pray without ceasing. Learn the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew chapter 6. Pray like King David and the prophet Daniel three times a day: morning, noon, afternoon, and night.
3. Read the Bible around the same time you pray in the morning. Start your day with prayer and reading the Bible for the rest of your life. Start in the Gospel of John and read the entire New Testament at your pace, and then read the entire Old Testament.
4. Obey the Bible, for Jesus Christ said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
5. Be a witness for the Lord. Freely you have received, freely you give. Tell other people how to get saved. Get some free gospel pamphlets from fellowshiptrackleague.org and pass them out. Be like Johnny Appleseed and plant the gospel seed everywhere you go—in bathrooms, and airports, and bus stations, and taxis, and Ubers, and restaurants when you give a good tip.

All right, God bless you, dear friends. Until next time, pray for me as I pray for thee. And remember the motto of the Marines: Semper Fidelis—Be always faithful to the Lord in this case. And remember the motto of the Space Force and the Air Force: Semper Supra—Always Above. Keep your heart and mind stayed on the Lord above, and He’ll keep you in perfect peace. God bless you, dear friends. Until next time, God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you. And because God through Christ has shed His love abroad in my heart, I love you too in the Lord. May God bless you, dear friends. Until next time.

Glory be to God in the house.

https://blackchristiannews.substack.com/p/pedophiles-kenny-baldwin-robert-morris?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

_________________________

Daniel Whyte III has been preaching the Gospel for over 46 years and is the founder and President of the over 42-year-old Gospel Light Evangelistic Society International, Pastor of the over 38-year-old Gospel Light House of Prayer International, and Founder, President, and Editor-in-Chief of the over 22-year-old Black Christian News One (BCNN1.com)—reaching millions with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, discipleship preaching, and the whole counsel of God around the world by any means necessary — “Crying in the Wilderness” and “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos.”

Daniel Whyte III was honored by being named one of the 17 most notable alumni in the history of the 134-year-old Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, and one of the 69 most notable alumni in the history of the 53-year-old Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Daniel Whyte III holds the following degrees from these universities:

• Doctor of Ministry (D.Min., in progress) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
• Master of Theology (Th.M.) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
• Master of Divinity (M.Div.) – Liberty University John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg, VA
• Bachelor of Arts in Religion (B.A.) – Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
• Bachelor of Theological Studies – Bethany Divinity College and Seminary, Dothan, Alabama (Honors: Summa Cum Laude)

Daniel Whyte III was also honored to sit with presidents and world leaders by being invited by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to attend the homegoing of Dr. Billy Graham.

He is the Essence national best-selling author of Letters to Young Black Men and the Amazon best-selling author of Letters to Young Black Women (African-American category). He has authored over 100 books.

He is also the founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the 20-year-old BlackChristianNews.com (BCNN1.com), which has impacted every denomination in the evangelical and Christian world and has influenced presidents, the U.S. government, governments around the world, and the public square. BlackChristianNews.com has been named the #1 Black Christian website and blog in the world for four years running by the independent Feedspot and is on the list of the top 60 Christian news sites in the world—red, yellow, black, or white.

He has preached the Gospel and the Word of God in person across America and in over 24 countries to thousands of people. He has preached the Gospel and the Word of God to millions of people around the world with the help of the internet, preaching live and on-demand multiple times a day for over eight years, to this very day. His mottoes are “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any means necessary,” all for the glory of God and Jesus Christ.

Daniel Whyte III is the president of the over-40-year-old Gospel Light Evangelistic Society International and the over-37-year-old Gospel Light House of Prayer International. He is known worldwide as the prophet who predicted the Coronavirus Plague over 10 years before it hit in recorded preaching and writing. God also led him to guide thousands through the Coronavirus Plague that killed over 20 million people because of the sins in the Judas-Laodicean church.

Daniel Whyte III’s greatest blessing in this life is his “quiver full” of 10 children—Daniella (Danni), Daniel IV, Danita Evangeline, Danae Mary-Louise, Daniqua Grace, Danyel Ezekiel, Danyelle Elizabeth Breedlove, Danielle Tekeela, Duran-Daniel, and the first Daniel IV (deceased and in heaven with the Lord)—along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Daniel Whyte III has been unblissfully but sexually satisfyingly married to his first and only wife, Meriqua Whyte of Christiana, Jamaica, for over 37 years since December 19, 1987. Jesus Christ said: “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” Even though many evangelicals, charismatics, and Protestants try to act as if these words of Jesus Christ are not a reality in our modern Christianity—primarily because of the Satanic-driven prosperity gospel and an over-positive philosophy, which is a lie not based in reality or biblical truth—the words of Jesus Christ are true for every person who preaches the Gospel. The outcomes of the Gospel are a changed life and opposition from family, lukewarm Christians, Laodicean-Judas pastors and churches, the world, and the devil. This is a reality in our present evil world.

While Daniel Whyte III thoroughly enjoys his married life because he did not allow his wife to have her way at any point and was and is solidly and biblically the head of his household throughout the marriage—often quoting Joshua, “As for me and my house, we’re going to serve the Lord” “up in here!”—and because his wife never failed in the very important area of sex, which he got married for in the first place to avoid sinning against God, he has especially enjoyed the privilege and joy of raising his children in the Lord virtually by himself. He served the Lord with them every day of their lives, from the time they were born until they graduated from college, became adults, and moved on.

However, his wife, Meriqua Whyte—motivated by Satan, with a Pharaoh-style pride mixed with the well-known female Jamaican-style pride, stubbornness, rebelliousness, and witchcraft—has been his greatest Judas enemy in the world and has been what Paul spoke of: a “messenger of Satan” and a “thorn in the flesh.” Amazingly, and by the grace of God, that Satanic evil opposition has spurred Daniel Whyte III on to preach the Gospel probably more times than any man on record. God has honored him because he did not “hearken to the voice of his wife.” Whyte tells other Christian men to only hearken to the voice of God and Jesus Christ—not to their wives, as so many thousands of church men have been taught by pastors and other older men throughout the years. Remember, we are in this worldwide, multi-generational mess because Adam hearkened to the voice of his wife and not to the voice of God.

Before they were married, Daniel Whyte III told his wife Meriqua Whyte that they would not do family life as her parents did, because their married life was hellacious and ended in divorce, as did some of her other family members, including the aunt she was living with. He also told his wife they would not do family life as his parents did, because it was also hellacious and out of order since his mother was the head of the household, not his father. But thanks be to God, they never got a divorce. Whyte told his wife before they got married that they were going to do it God’s way according to Ephesians chapters 5 and 6, or no way at all. And then he asked his wife, “Are you willing to do marriage God’s way according to Ephesians chapters 5 and 6?” And she said yes. Whyte told her before they got married that if she did not live up to her end of the deal, all bets were off.

Because Daniel Whyte III’s wife, Meriqua Whyte, was so proud, unsubmissive, stubborn, and rebellious after they got married, God led him to read Ephesians chapters 5 and 6 every day in their family devotions throughout their marriage. In the first year of their marriage, Daniel Whyte III also gave his wife a list of verses for women from the Word of God for her to read, which she still reads to this day. He also bought her many books to read to help her be the wife God wanted her to be.

Whyte realized early in the marriage that his wife was not a born-again, saved person even though she lied and said she was before they got married. After over 37 years of marriage, she is still not saved, never bearing any fruit of a saved person, to the point of not even wanting to tell her children, “I love you” and not wanting to hug them when they were little children, even after her husband told her to do so. She also hated the daily family devotions that her husband led and tried to hinder them. She also demonically hated and tried to hinder every Gospel preaching service to this very day.

However, only by the grace of God, they are still married, and despite the devil constantly working through his wife to try to hinder him from preaching the Word of God, he is still preaching the Gospel and the Word of God live and on-demand. His ministry reaches over 148,800 people per month with over 21,000 unique views per month, reaching 149 countries, preaching the Gospel and the Word of God in 2 to 3 services a day, 7 days a week. Glory be to God!

Mrs. Meriqua Whyte’s Apology to her Husband and Their 7 Children for not Being a Biblical Wife or Mother

Mrs. Meriqua Whyte, the Wife of Daniel Whyte III, Gave him the Best Father’s Day Gift Ever About 10 Years Ago When She Unexpectedly and Voluntarily Apologized for the First Time to Him and Their 7 Children for Not Being the Wife, Mother, and Christian Example of the Woman She Should Have Been Over the Past 37 Years of Marriage

Here is what Mrs. Meriqua Whyte wrote ten years ago after verbally apologizing to the entire family on Father’s Day, right before church service:

Over thirty years of marriage. Over thirty years of ups and downs. Over thirty years of trying to make our problems a personal thing between my husband and me. Thankfully, he did not allow me to do that and kept telling me it was between God and me—over thirty years of acting on my feelings and not on what the Bible says. Over thirty years of refusing to obey God’s simple command to a wife—to be obedient to your husband in all things. Over thirty years of disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty, all rooted in pride. Over thirty years of simply not choosing to mature as a Christian.

God has been dealing with me for over thirty years now about changing my attitude and behavior as a wife, which has manifested itself in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, dishonesty, having an ungodly attitude and spirit, and simply not being the wife, mother, or example of a Christian woman that I should have been throughout the years. (By the way, for those of you who may be thinking that my disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, lying, and dishonesty have resulted in adultery, I will say here that I have never committed any adultery or had sex with another man besides my husband, Daniel Whyte III, since I was born.)

God kept telling me I needed to stop my rebellious and stubborn behavior, apologize to my husband and children, and get my heart right with him, my husband, and my children. He sent others my way to tell me how to behave:

• My husband, but I didn’t want to hear it from him
• Other Christian women speakers
• Other preachers
• Books and other materials, but I would not take heed

I knew what to do, but I chose not to do it. The devil had me thinking and believing—as he is having a lot of wives and mothers think and believe—that your relationship with your husband and how you respond to him, whether positive or negative, will not affect your relationship with your children or your relationship with God. I say without hesitation that this is one of the devil’s lies, and sad to say, many wives and mothers are falling for this lie.

Another lie of the devil that Christian wives are falling for is that you can still have a strong relationship with God without being submissive to your husband. Lie! Lie! Lie! There is no truth to this. I know because I have experienced this and am still experiencing this as I am going through this breaking process, which is not happening overnight.

Even throughout my years of rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride, I still kept praying the prayer I used to pray daily before I got married: “Lord, make me be exactly what You want me to be. Lord, break, make, and mold me into what you want me to be.” Well, God took that prayer seriously, and once you accept Him, He will begin the breaking process. It’s up to us how long that breaking process will take. For me, sad to say, it has taken over 30 years, and the breaking is not complete. In what way is God breaking me down right now? Well, our children have grown up. The three oldest have gone through and are still going through college, have gotten their degrees, and some are working on their second, third, and fourth degrees, launching their careers and moving out. God slapped me into reality and truly intensified the breaking process. My husband told me before our first child was born and repeatedly while the children were young that my job was to love our children and make positive memories with them and that if I did that, I would have a wonderful relationship with them as adults in the time to come. Well, I disobeyed God and my husband, who did not let up on his duties. And he has a wonderful relationship with our children, even the girls, and I don’t. However, God led me to finally break the day before Father’s Day, and while I was helping my husband get dressed to preach, I asked him if I could apologize to him and the entire family. That’s the first time I ever did that on my own. Throughout the years, he has always told me that I needed to get my heart right with God, him, and my children; otherwise, I would never have the joy and peace of the Lord in my life. However, I kept on lying and denying that I was the problem.

Here is what I said to my husband and children on Saturday afternoon, June 17, 2017, the day before Father’s Day. My husband told the entire family that this was the best Father’s Day gift I have ever given to him:

“Daddy, children, I apologize for not being the wife, mother, and example of a Christian woman I should have been throughout the years. I have shown nothing but pride, disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and a bad attitude and spirit toward God and my husband in front of you. My disobedience and rebelliousness have caused much unnecessary unrest and upheaval in the family. As my husband told me, things could have gone much better if I had obeyed God’s word from the beginning. Please accept my apology, and I am asking you to forgive me.”

The diminishing of peace and joy in my life throughout the years I brought on myself. Not having a proper relationship with God, my husband, and my children, I brought on myself—all because I chose the disobedient route. My number one desire is to live a life of peace—peace with God, my husband, and my children. I have learned that peace will not come as long as I live in disobedience, rebelliousness, stubbornness, and pride.

I will end this with two notes: (1) Happy Father’s Day to my husband: you have been a great husband and father. (2) Happy Children’s Day to my children: You all have been great children. I have no complaints whatsoever against my husband and, of course, children; you have never been at fault. My bad behavior is all on me, and I’m sorry I put you through this. May God bless your lives, and I love you.

---

Ephesians 5:22 – 6:20 (KJV)

Below is the passage in the Bible that Daniel Whyte III read in their family devotions every day for decades. It covers the biblical duties of the husband, the wife, and the children, and includes how to fight against the devil who is seeking to destroy the family.

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

---

The Gospel in a Nutshell

If you were to die today, where would you go: Heaven or Hell? If you’re not sure, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

Jesus Christ said the most important words ever spoken in the history of the world when He said, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Read further right here:

The Most Important Question in the World: Have You Been Twice Born?

This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447, titled, “The Big Question.” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says: that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.

“Have You Been Born Again?”

The question is not, “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but, “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life, likewise, is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

A New Nature Needed

By physical birth, we become partakers of human nature; by being born again, we become “partakers of the divine nature.” A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting.” The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.”

Not “Trying” But “Trusting”

“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ; it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ, who has done it all! He has “finished the work,” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross, and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.

What Must I Do To Be Saved?

Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.” The Bible states in John 1:12-13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!

What Is Meant By “Believe”?

To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God… now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.”

The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent and to receive Christ as Savior and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!

May I Know That I Am Born Again?

This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!

One Final Word

You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again,” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again,” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead, and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer:

Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried, and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.

SUPPORT THIS GREAT MINISTRY BY PURCHASING THE BOOKS BELOW: BESTSELLING BOOK LETTERS TO YOUNG BLACK MEN AND LETTERS TO YOUNG BLACK WOMEN BY DANIEL WHYTE III. ORDER IT FOR AS MANY YOUNG BLACK MEN IN YOUR LIFE AS POSSIBLE FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Black-Women-Daniel-ebook/dp/B001EQ61PC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?