Why Great Pastors Have Evil Sons (Part 1), with Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International
When a Great Pastor and Father Raises Sons of the Devil
Why Godly Pastors Have Ungodly Sons (Part 1)
The Tragedy of a Good Father’s Evil Sons
When a Great Father Raises Sons of Belial
Eli vs. Samuel: The Mystery of Wayward Preachers’ Children
The Samuel Syndrome: When Good Fathers Have Bad Sons
Sons of Belial in the Pulpit: A Modern-Day Eli & Samuel
1 Samuel 2 & 8: The Curse of the Pastor’s Children
Gifts, Charisma, and the Judas Spirit
The Baldwin Brothers: A Case Study in Demonic Influence
Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, and the Failure of the Evangelical Church
Protecting the Flock: No Child Molesters in the Pulpit
When Gifts Become a Snare: The Kenny Baldwin Tragedy
Demon Possession and the Modern Preacher
When Your Grown Children Choose Evil: Comfort for Hurting Parents
Let It Be: Trusting God with Your Wayward Children
The Anatomy of a Fall: How Gifted Preachers Are Destroyed
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RAW SERMON TRANSCRIPT: Why Great Pastors Have Evil Sons (Part 1), with Daniel Whyte III
I want to preach in your hearing—or at least start a series in your hearing today—titled, “Why Do Great Pastors, Good Pastors, Have Evil Sons?” I bring this up now. It has always been a question of mine down through the years, particularly when you read the Bible.
I bring it up now because we are dealing with a modern-day situation that, humanly speaking, should not have taken place. It should not be the case. And there are many factors involved. As many of you know, I just wrapped up a four-sermon series titled, “Pedophiles Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris or No Other Pedophile Pastor Should Be Restored to the Pulpit” or to the gospel-preaching ministry.
Behind that, at the beginning of the message series, I had to mention that I do know Kenny Baldwin’s father, Dr. Lou Baldwin, who is a good man. From all accounts, Dr. Lou Baldwin is a great man of God—a great man of God who carried himself with integrity, who helped people whom others would not help, and who is just an all-around good guy. Now, is he perfect? We know that nobody’s perfect, so we are not talking about that. But in recent years and recent months, his two sons, whom he gave the privilege of carrying on his ministry, he set them up perfectly in the ministry, which is a very rare thing today. And they had it all. They were set up with a nice house to live in and a nice car to drive. They had their own families. One son was better known than the other, but they were both pretty well known and given everything they needed.
Their father, Dr. Lou Baldwin, set them up. And now both of them have broken his heart. God is not shocked, but Dr. Lou Baldwin is shocked and hurt and disappointed. None of us see Dr. Lou Baldwin as Eli—a man who failed to raise his children right. We see him more as Samuel, a man who raised his children right and had nothing to do with his sons’ evil. That is how we see Dr. Lou Baldwin.
Dr. Lou Baldwin was a good businessman before he got saved and called to preach, and then God made him a good pastor and a good preacher with a laser focus on the local church. We do praise God for Sister Bliss being here with us today, as well as Mike Hill, Susan, D, and everybody, according to their stats. Agnes is here. Over 2,200 people on a Saturday morning going into Saturday afternoon, and so it is a sad situation and a sad ending of the life. Praise the Lord, Sister Bliss.
She says she is at work listening. God bless you for doing so, Agnes, and thank God for a job that allows you to do that. I had one like that. I prayed and read the Bible on the job, and they did not bother me as long as I did my job. And then when the general came by to see my new office—a computerized office, way back in the 70s—I witnessed to him too. My boss told me, “Don’t you witness to the general.” I witnessed back in those days to everything that moved. I said, “No.” The Lord told me, “The general is coming to your office. Get up and salute, and on their way out, tell them about Jesus.” And that is what I did.
And you know what my boss and them did? They said, “You must have lost your mind. So we are going to send you to a psychiatrist.” And that is what they did. And the psychiatrist said, “This man is not mad, most noble Festus. He just loves Jesus.” So anyway, he is laughing. I witnessed to the general of the base. I could not let him get out of there. And guess what else I did? I gave him a gospel pamphlet. I gave his entourage a gospel pamphlet. My supervisor was looking at me like I was crazy. And they signed me up to go to a psychiatrist. He was crazy.
But anyway, ladies and gentlemen, turn in your Bibles to 1 Samuel 2, verse 12: “Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial.” And this is basically what I said last night about Kenny Baldwin. You cannot—listen to me—there are things you cannot do unless you are demon-possessed or demon-controlled.
“Preacher, how could you call one of the greatest preachers in the independent Baptist movement demon-possessed?” Very easily. Okay? See, you are doing the stuff that only demons will motivate you to do, and they got control over you. Listen to me. This is one of the worst cases you will ever want to hear of child molestation and attempted child rape or child rape that you will ever hear—not only from a preacher, but from any place else. If you are sending pictures of your penis to a 15-year-old boy and you are a 47-year-old preacher every week, and then showing your penis to the boy at three different locations over three different states—I guess you are trying to avoid detection or arrest or whatever—I don’t know what you are doing. You are not only sick in the head; you are demon-controlled. You are into something that you cannot get out of without God and Jesus casting the legions of demons out of you.
And I am not picking on the Baldwin family. I have some demon-possessed people in my family, and I know how demon-possessed people work, especially when they are in the context of a church. They act worse. If you do not let them do what they want to do and you do not control them, rebuke them, whatever—they get worse. They are hell-bent on doing their evil. Okay? The demon in Kenny—I cannot believe you are calling this great preacher demon-possessed. Believe it. The demon—I said, “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood,” people. Okay? So that is the reason why Mrs. Marika White and I are still married, because I know she has a demon. In fact, she has legions of demons. So does her mother. So does her father. So do other people in their family. They are demon-possessed. Okay?
I know that I was demon-possessed when I was lost, and I was all about getting with those womenfolk, and I hated my dad—who never even hit me, never even threatened to hit me. He scared me one night when I was behind the bathroom door prepping to go out to the club and was going to use his car. And guess what? He still let me use the car. He should not have ever given me any keys to any car in the history of the world. Never. Not me. I took the preacher’s car to the club. That is all. I picked up my entourage and went to the club, and stole some Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull—and I do not even know if they sell Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull anymore. I have never seen it. And the bull would make you act like a bull. That was my favorite drink. And I hated that man like a demon for no reason. As I look at it now, I know I was demon-possessed. I do not think he even knew what was going on, or my mother. I was so demon-possessed that my mother threatened that she was going to put me in a reformatory school.
Okay, so I am not picking on anybody. I got people in my family who are demon-possessed. Mrs. White has been demon-possessed ever since I have known her with legions of demons—so demon-possessed that when she steals something from me, she will be lying about it while the food is in her life, in her mouth. And the other day I told you that she stole something from me, tried to steal it right in front of me off the counter when I was getting ready to preach, and almost died. I mean, how many of you ever had a choking experience on some food? She was trying to wolf it down so quickly she almost died. I had to get up and try and save her life. I had to use the Heimlich maneuver on her, and she was gagging and coughing for at least five minutes, turning red, and the demons of hell were in full activity. You know you are dealing with a demon-possessed person who will steal something from you in front of your face and look at you with a straight face and lie about it. Okay? So her sin is not on the level of his sin, but sin—all sin is bad. Demon-possessed. My children and I both, we have seen the transformation—how she would turn from a devil to an angel of light in front of other people. Okay?
So I am not picking on Kenny Baldwin. I hope that somehow he will come to know Christ as Savior. You say, “How can a preacher who preached the gospel so good be lost and on his way to hell?” Judas was in the first church. See, these people are filled with the Judas spirit. And I would venture to say that Dr. Lou Baldwin saw some things along the way. He may not have seen everything. And if he did, he needs to tell somebody. He needs to go to the police and tell them the truth: “Here are some things that I noticed about him. I tried to warn him. I tried to help him.” He needs to go to the investigators and tell the truth as to what he saw. But some of these devils can hide things from their parents, Sister Bliss. Some of these demons, buddy, they can hide stuff. They are young women under the authority of their parents. They can hide things and hide secrets and be doing things, and the mother does not know, the father does not know, nobody knows. And before you know it, she got pregnant and had the baby on the toilet and took some abortion pills, some birth control pills, killed the baby, and had the baby on the toilet because neither one of them wanted to have a baby, the boyfriend or the woman. I am telling you a story that happened within this past week. Some demon-possessed people, they are good at hiding things and lying about things. And they know that you cannot imagine them doing stuff like sending pictures of your penis to a 15-year-old boy. Dr. Lou Baldwin has never thought of anything like that in his life, and most people do not think like that. That is beyond a sickness; that is demon possession. That is what happened to Dr. Lou Baldwin’s boy, his son. And I believe they are going to find this has been going on for many years, and I believe the big brother knew. I hope he did not know, because he is already in trouble. He got into trouble with a business deal, and they got him for fraud. And so these two boys are trying to tear this man’s heart down to the grave, doing foolishness.
And sometimes when children are very gifted and children have everything given to them by their great father, they have a tendency to mess up like this. It is not the father’s fault. The father did right by them, set them up so that they can carry on something meaningful and great. But they messed it up. Sometimes you can be gifted—hear me well—by God, and because you are gifted, everything comes easy to you: fame and fortune and prestige. There are people so charismatic that things come easy to them. And you must understand this now, especially about pastors. Pastors are gifted with multiple gifts. Number one, they have charisma. You cannot fake charisma. And I do not care if y’all like it or not, they have charisma and people are just attracted to them. Listen to me. And it is a gift of God. I am not talking about the charismatic movement foolishness. I am not talking about fake gifts that they talk about. Charisma—real charisma. People just kind of like you. And then especially people with no discernment, they kind of like your hook, line, and sinker; they just like something about you. That is a gift. God uses that gift in pastors to attract people to Him. Some people just have it. I can name—I can reel off a bunch of names—especially pastors. They can go to a desert and build a church. They will have the artworks as deacons and the aunts as witnesses for Christ and everything else. I mean, they attract people. They are just likable. Other gifts they have is they have a more compassionate heart, a more compassionate spirit.
And this is the reason why—right now—I preached that series. I had to preach that series as a prophet because the pastors are so in love with Kenny Baldwin’s gifts that they want to try to figure out a way to try to keep him preaching because he is money, in the words of one great producer, Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones saw Will Smith. Somebody asked him, “What do you think of Will Smith?” He said, “I think of money.” See, some people can see this in people. Quincy was that kind of a guy. And they said, “What do you think of Will Smith?” “I think of money. He’s money.” And in the Independent Baptist Movement, one of the greatest draws to any conference was Kenny Baldwin. And if you have heard him preach, you will know why. But sending pictures of your penis to a 15-year-old boy every week for over a year? That is demon possession. It is demon control. There is no excuse for that. There is no reason—no other reason—why that would happen. You say, “Well, maybe it was pornography addiction.” There is no such thing as pornography addiction, you liars. You are not addicted to pornography, nor are you addicted to sex. It is a lie from hell. Stop lying. You just want to do what you want to do. You are probably not getting sex, and so you are trying to live through some fake video that they made in a studio somewhere, and the woman is fake and the man is fake and everything you see is fake. So it is not that. I believe that he was involved with pornography. I don’t know that to be true, but most people who do stuff like this, their minds have been stretched by the devil by watching child porn and all this. That is what is happening.
Listen, I am dealing with a man today. I do not even want to be bothered with it—a man today who raped a 14-year-old girl who was a dope smoker and had A’s and did not tell anybody. That is today. I could have run that last night on BCN1.com and BlackChristianNews.Substack. I had to deal with another bad situation, and that is a white church, a Southern Baptist church down in South Carolina, and I titled it “The Tragedy of the Dumbest, Most Sinister Southern Baptist Church in History.” The pastor hired a man who was a child offender—a registered child offender—to work in a place where there were a bunch of children, and they even had a demonic contest: dinner with the child molester. They did not say child molester; they said this nice older man and so forth and so on. He tried to rape the children in the church. And the pastor knew he was a registered child offender. He is going to jail. His wife knew about it; she is going to jail too. And the persons who worked in the school and everything, they are going to jail. Who knew about it? They are going to jail, and they are already in jail. They might have bonded out. You say, “Do you want to see them go to jail?” Yes, I do, because that is stupid and dumb. That is dumb and stupid and sinister. There is something going on somewhere with either the pastor or somebody who liked to see children pummeled by some old child-molesting devil. They are getting their kicks off of this or something for them to do that, to break the law.
And I have said this before. I said it last night. I said it also in my article. Some people in the evangelical Baptist churches and charismatic churches, they think they love people more than God loves people. So they want to show compassion. “Even though he’s a registered child molester, let’s let him work among our almost 150 children. And then let’s even have a contest and invite children to play in the contest so they can have lunch with this registered child rapist.” Have you people lost your minds? You Southern Baptist Church down in South Carolina—are you perverts? And what happened? And right now, I think in the same state or some Southern state right now today, school is starting back up. And one school district hired a teacher, a male teacher, who is claiming to be transgender. Go to Mail Online right now. You can see this joke. And you tell me whether or not you want this joke teaching your little child. And then one of the arguments of the stupid parents—it is good that they are fighting against it—but one of the arguments of the stupid parents is, “Our children are too young for a transgender.” They are too young. All children are too young to have a transgender man—a man claiming to be a woman dressed up in a tight dress with some bunny rabbit ears or meow ears, cat ears. What in the world, people? You have lost your mind. Our children are too young in the elementary schools to have this man dressed up as a woman. No, he should not be in the school, period. And nor should he be teaching your children at the church, people. That is stupid. “See, Pastor Whyte, this is why I hate you. Because you show no compassion.” Because I have not lost my mind. I am not even going to discuss that with you. No transgender so-called male dressed as a woman should be teaching children on any level, even in college. What in the world are you people talking about? You have been bamboozled, and now you have run amok. You have lost your mind.
Thank you, Sister Bliss. Sister Bliss said, “Preach, Pastor.” Gerardo shared this live. Thank you, Gerardo. Deacon Karamba is back with us again as well. What? I am not even going to talk with you about it. I am not going to no parent-teacher meeting to discuss that and hear people talk stupidly about our children in elementary school. Go to the article. They had it on the front page of Mail Online. In America, in a Southern city, you have got to be kidding me. I mean, that does not even make sense, even to some lost people.
But back to the message at hand. “Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial. They knew not the Lord.” See, this is what I am saying. Valentino Messin, thank you so much for sharing this live. May God bless you. “How dare you, preacher, say that Kenny Baldwin is lost, that he does not know the Lord?” The Bible says that. You cannot be saved doing stuff like that. Mm-hmm. See, that is what is wrong with Christianity today. We think that people can continue in their sin and be saved, and that is not the case. And certainly not in abominations. This is a homosexual child molestation situation. That is a double abomination in God’s sight. And Jesus said, “It is better for you to have a millstone wrapped around your neck and cast into the sea.” I cannot imagine a worse death. In other words, that is a death sentence that Jesus meted out—if you mess with children, and especially with this perverted mess you got going on. Okay? So that is one son.
The other son was convicted for stealing almost a million dollars from Christian people to help build some kind of business called the Magic Mansion or something. I do not think the word is “magic,” but now they are saying that he had to sell the house to his dad to pay these people back. Some other kind of mess is going on. So now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial. You say, “Well, what are the sons of Eli?” They are the sons of the devil. That is what we are talking about. Y’all don’t know that? “Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial.” They were the sons of the devil, Mr. Daraz. And you know why? Because they knew not the Lord. See, if you know the Lord, you are going to act differently. See, this is why I do not worry about true born-again saved Christians, because I do not have to try to keep you in line. I am going to do my job and preach the Word to you and pray for you. But born-again saved Christians—you do not have to watch them and hound them. They are going to do right. You know why? Because they know the Lord. The Lord is in their lives. See? I cannot depend upon Mrs. White to do what she is supposed to do for the Lord because she does not know the Lord. That is my wife. I am not picking on anybody. And you better not depend on somebody. Do not depend on a pastor. Do not depend on a preacher. Do not depend on anybody if they do not know the Lord. If you detect that they do not know the Lord, you better run away from them. In my case, I am married to her, and I am praying. I am not trying to make her get saved; I am praying that she will get saved for her own good. See? People who know the Lord act differently. They do not do stupid stuff like Eli’s sons were doing—raping the women at the door of the church, bringing them into the foyer and raping them, and then taking the people’s money. These boys were doing both of what the Baldwin boys are doing: stealing money that does not belong to them and raping the women. In this case, this man is trying to rape a boy, which is far worse to me. “Preacher, you think that’s far worse?” Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Okay, so we are not having a conversation about that.
1 Samuel chapter 8, verses 1, 2, and 3—and I am pretty much going to have to cut it off at this point because I have to preach again later. “And it came to pass when Samuel was old”—and now this is Samuel’s sons—”that he made his sons judges over Israel.” He set them up. Just like Dr. Lou Baldwin set up his boys. That is what every good father wants to do: set them up, carrying on the work for the glory of God, and with them having way more benefits than Dr. Lou Baldwin ever had. And by the way, all of the doors were opened up for the Baldwin boys through their father, Dr. Lou Baldwin—a man of honor, a man of respect, a man who was faithful. “Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abiah; they were judges in Beersheba. And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, money.” And that is what the second son did. Dr. Lou Baldwin’s second son got caught up in money—trying to get rich or die trying. “But turned aside after lucre”—the New Testament calls it filthy lucre—”and took bribes.” And by the way, most preachers—let me see, let me back up—probably 30 to 40 percent of evangelical preachers who have certain abilities and who have had influence have taken 30 million pieces of silver over the past 20 years. They are Judases. They have betrayed God and they have betrayed Jesus Christ. And they are caught up in politicians and they are caught up in politics and money. See, the evangelicals used a good name and jumped into politics to try to make politics Christian years ago. And they found out, both black and white, there is a whole lot of money in politics. There is a whole lot of money in taking bribes. And they have even used the church or a new project like a church education building or a fellowship hall or the building of a school to get millions of dollars under the cover of the church—if you would sway people to vote for me, to follow me, or to let ride the abomination of homosexuality. Just do not preach against it. Do not say anything about it, and we will make sure, Pastor, that that education building is built, paid for in full. We don’t want to put it in your hands, but you’ll get some of it. And some have been approached by the evangelical branch of the Illuminati. Don’t tell me because I know. And some of them who did so, they are out of the ministry now because, see, if you are a born-again saved preacher, you can go but so far. And when they want you to go further, they are going to take that money from you and they are going to take your fake social media numbers from you, which they help you to build up. Because they control things. They can make Facebook, they can make Instagram, they can make YouTube give you a million followers in a short amount of time—a bunch of bots, in most cases.
“And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment.” They were sitting in judgment, but they took money instead of doing the right thing. And so we have Eli, who did not raise his boys right, and we have the great Samuel, who did raise his boys right, and they chose to take advantage of their privileges and defile it. That is what you got going on, I believe, with Dr. Lou Baldwin. And I do not think he has anything to do with either one of these crimes, but he does love his boys. And I am sure he has some element of family pride, but he is going to have to let all of that go. These boys have messed up on their own as grown men and parents.
Okay, you must understand. See, this is a big problem today, not only in the church but even in society. People think that you raised your children, then somehow in your mind everything is going to be fixed like it was, and your children are going to respond to you and do what they ought to do like you want them to do. But I am here to tell you something about grown folks. And that is grown folks—I don’t care what kind of home they were raised in—they are grown folks, and they are going to do what grown folks want to do when they want to do it, without any consideration about how you raised them or what you told them. That is why I think parents ought to leave grown children alone, pray for them, send them a little text letting them know that God loves them and you love them, and send them a little passage of scripture to encourage them, to remind them. And they can receive it or reject it. I thank God my children receive it, but I know as grown people, they do not have to receive it. You understand me? But I do want everybody to understand me very well: they are not your little children anymore, man, woman. Oh, get that out of your mind. Praise the Lord, Sister Bliss. God bless you. Ladies and gentlemen, they are not your little boys and your little girls anymore, and they never will be again. Thank God for a good family life that you had before while you were raising them—that is gone by-bye. If something happens, and I believe God has a lot to do with the breaking away of children from their parents to become independent grown folks, they think differently because they are of another generation. They can be influenced by their friends, their newfound friends, yeah, their newfound family—people around them. And that is what I believe happened to Lou Baldwin’s boys. He set them up beautifully, and thank God for how long some things lasted that were good, seemingly good. But your children are really not your children after they hit a certain age. It is over with, and they are really not connected to you like that. And you need to let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be, Lord. Let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be. And you embrace the separation because there is no telling what your children might do. Even though you told them right, even though you raised them up, even though you set them up for success, there is no telling what they might do. So your trust needs to be in God. As long as you did your part under God, you need to pray to God for your children and let it be.
So we have two fathers: one a total failure, Eli; and one a success, Samuel. Samuel was a bad man—I mean, in a good way—but his children, after a while, turned against God and became hypocrites and became phonies and wanted to get rich or die trying. So they used the ministry to try to get rich, as so many preachers have done today. And so ladies and gentlemen, I am going to leave it at that point and at that junction.
Shall we pray?
Holy Father God, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the good pastor, Dr. Lou Baldwin, a man of integrity, a man of character, a man who helped other people who were not even in his group, and a man who evidently raised his sons well, raised his children well, with discipline and tough love. We pray for him that You would comfort his heart because not only does he have a loving father’s heart, he has a loving pastor’s heart. He is that kind of a man. And this is very painful for men like Lou Baldwin—very painful. So comfort his heart. Give him the courage, as You have in recent weeks, to fire his sons, get them out of the church, and let them face the consequences of their crimes. And Lord, if need be, I pray that You give him the energy and the strength in his old age to carry the church and to be faithful and to not look back, but to go forward. Save those who are lost. Pray for the salvation of Kenny Baldwin. Pray that You cast the devil and the demons of hell out of his life. I do not know what is going on with Michael, but I pray for his salvation as well. Cast the devil and the demons of hell out of his life. Help them not to continue to be sons of Belial, but to get born again saved and to do the right thing. I pray for the families involved—the hurt children, the people who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars because they believed in what Michael said because of his father. And Lord, help people to recover what they have invested, and help everybody—all of the hurt people—to recover and to recover what they lost. Save that soul that is near to hell, reclaim the backslidden, and revive the saved. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray and forsake. Amen.
And dear friends, if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Jesus Christ 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.” And understand with me, dear friends, that you are a sinner like everybody else. The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Understand that you are going to die because of your sins. The Bible says, “The wages of sin is death.” And understand that after you die, you will go to hell if you reject Jesus Christ as your Savior. So believe in Him as Jesus Christ said. The Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Pray. Ask God to save you. “Holy Father God, have mercy upon me, a sinner. Please forgive me of my sins and save my soul from the burning hell as I now believe in You, Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that You suffered, You bled, and You died on the cross for my sins, was buried, and rose on the third day. Please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life forever. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray and for His sake. Amen.” God bless you, dear friends. Until next time, pray for me as I pray for thee. Lord willing, I’ll see you soon. God bless you, everybody.
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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)
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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.
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