WATCH! Pedophiles Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or No Other Pedophile Pastor Can Ever Be Restored to the Gospel Preaching Ministry. Period. Full Stop! (Part 4) 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.
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“Predator, Not Preacher: The Kenny Baldwin Case”
“Gifted but Unholy: Why Talent Cannot Override Disqualification”
“One Time, One Strike: The Disqualification of Pedophile Preachers”
“Pedophile Pastors: Never Restored. Period.”
“The Verdict of the Church and the Mercy of the Cross”
“Truth Tellers and Watchmen: A Prophet’s Plea to the Church”
“Heaven’s Door Is Open, but the Pulpit Is Closed”
“A Warning to the Church and a Call to the Lost”
“Forgiven but Not Restored: What Pedophile Pastors Need to Hear”
“The Sacred Charge: Why Jesus Stands Guard Over Little Children”
“The Wolf and the Shepherd: Why Wolves Are Not Restored to the Pulpit”
“When the Lambs Cry Out: The Church’s Response to Pedophile Pastors”
“Blameless, Not Mostly Blameless: The Standard for Gospel Preaching”
“A Millstone and the Sea: Jesus’ Verdict on Those Who Harm Children”
“Protecting the Flock: The Unshakable Case Against Pedophile Pastors”
“Blameless No More: Why Kenny Baldwin and Robert Morris Can Never Preach Again”
“Millstone or Ministry? The Biblical Case Against Restoring Pedophile Pastors”
“The Sacred Desk Is Not for Wolves: Why Pedophile Pastors Cannot Return”
“No Pedophile Pastor Can Be Restored to the Pulpit: The Case of Kenny Baldwin and Robert Morris”
Pedophiles Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or no Other Pedophile Pastor Can Ever Be Restored to the Gospel Preaching Ministry. Period. Full Stop!
SUBTITLE: 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.
TEXT: “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.” — Matthew 18:6 (KJV)
INTRODUCTION
Beloved, there are sermons a preacher delights to preach, and there are sermons a preacher weeps to preach. This is the latter. But the man of God does not get to choose only the pleasant texts. The watchman on the wall must blow the trumpet when he sees the sword coming (Ezekiel 33:6), or the blood of the people will be required at his hand.
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 images to a fifteen-year-old boy he met after preaching a sermon — a boy he met through the ministry itself. According to police, he admitted under questioning to exposing himself to this child on three separate occasions in three different states. The courts will render their verdict in due time, but the church of the Lord Jesus Christ must render hers now on the principle at stake. And here is that principle, plainly stated:
A man who preys sexually 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. Period. Full stop.
Now hear me carefully, for the devil loves to twist this message. We are not saying such a man cannot be forgiven by God. “If we confess our sins, 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 can wash the vilest sinner clean, and thank God for it, for it washed you and me. Heaven’s door remains open to the truly repentant. But the pulpit door does not. Forgiveness restores a soul to God; it does not restore a wolf to the sheepfold. Salvation and qualification are two different things, and we must never confuse them again.
The young people of Crossroads Baptist Church — former members who sat under this man’s ministry — are pleading with pastor emeritus Lou Baldwin and the church leadership: do not restore him. Church, when the lambs cry out, the shepherds had better listen. Let us open the Word of God and see three unshakable reasons why no pedophile pastor can ever stand behind the sacred desk again.
POINT I: THE SACRED CHARGE — CHRIST HIMSELF STANDS GUARD OVER THE LITTLE ONES (Matthew 18:1–6, 10)
When the disciples asked the Lord Jesus who was greatest in the kingdom of heaven, He “called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:2). Think of it — the Son of the living God, with a child standing at His side, looked His preachers in the eye and said: “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” (Matthew 18:6).
That is the most terrifying warning that ever fell from the lips of the gentle Saviour. Jesus did not speak this way about tax collectors, or Roman soldiers, or even the woman taken in adultery. He reserved the millstone for those who harm children. The word “offend” here means to cause to stumble, to entrap, to ensnare. And what is a predator who uses the ministry — uses a sermon, of all things — as his hunting ground, but a man who has set a snare for a lamb of God?
Notice, beloved: Jesus said it would be better for such a man to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Better than what? Better than facing what awaits him at the judgment seat of God. “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 18:10). Every child has heaven’s attention. When a man in a clergyman’s clothing touches a child in wickedness, he is not merely committing a crime against the state of Pennsylvania or the Commonwealth of Virginia — he is committing an outrage against the throne of God.
Now I ask you plainly: shall the church hand the millstone-deserving man a microphone? Shall we place back into the shepherd’s hand the very staff he used to strike the lambs? God forbid. The One who set the child in the midst has already ruled on this matter, and His ruling is final.
POINT II: THE SETTLED STANDARD — THE MINISTRY DEMANDS A BLAMELESS MAN, AND THAT BLAMELESSNESS, ONCE SHATTERED BY PREDATION, CANNOT BE REASSEMBLED (1 Timothy 3:1–7; Titus 1:6–7)
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 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 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, of the neighbors, of the news-watching world. What report does a man have among them which are without when his name is attached to felony charges involving a fifteen-year-old boy? 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 David?” David sinned grievously with Bathsheba and 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 (2 Samuel 12:10). Forgiveness did not cancel consequence. And David’s sin, wicked as it was, was with an adult. There is no biblical category in which the predation of children is a “fall” from which a man dusts himself off and resumes the sacred office.
“But what about Peter?” Peter denied the Lord in a moment of fear and wept bitterly (Luke 22:62), and Jesus restored him. But Peter’s sin was cowardice, not predation. Peter did not stalk a lamb; he stumbled as a sheep. There is an ocean of difference between a shepherd who falters and a wolf who feeds. Our Lord Himself warned us: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). And Paul wept over this very danger at Ephesus: “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. You remove him, and you bar the gate.
“But God is a God of second chances!” Yes — for the soul. 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. The vessel of public trust, once shattered by this particular sin, is not mended in this life. “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. Let him sit under the preaching of the Word, supervised and accountable, working out his repentance with fear and trembling — but let him never again stand behind the sacred desk. And this standard applies to every man, however gifted, however traveled, however famous — whether his name is Kenny Baldwin, Robert Morris, or any other name known in heaven or on earth. The pulpit does not belong to talented men; it belongs to a holy God.
POINT III: THE SOLEMN DUTY — THE CHURCH MUST PROTECT THE FLOCK, TELL THE TRUTH, AND HEAR THE CRIES OF THE LAMBS (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 5:6–13; Ephesians 5:11–12; Ezekiel 34:1–10)
In Acts 20:28, Paul charged the elders: “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” The church was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ. Those young people pleading with the leadership of Crossroads Baptist Church are blood-bought lambs, and their plea is not rebellion — it is righteousness. When the young people say, “We are afraid; do not bring this man back,” the leadership must not see troublemakers. They must see the very flock God will hold them accountable for. God thundered against the shepherds of Israel: “Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?… The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick… Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand” (Ezekiel 34:2, 4, 10).
The duty of the church in this dark hour is threefold:
First, purge, do not protect. “Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven” (1 Corinthians 5:6–7). Paul commanded the church at Corinth concerning the immoral man: “Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person” (1 Corinthians 5:13). Restoration committees for predators are leaven-keeping societies. Purge it out.
Second, expose, do not excuse. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11). Cover-ups are fellowship with darkness. Every church must cooperate fully with law enforcement, for “the powers that be are ordained of God” and the magistrate “beareth not the sword in vain” (Romans 13:1, 4). Police believe there may be additional victims. If anyone hearing this knows anything — speak. Report. The truth is the friend of the innocent and the terror of the guilty only.
Third, comfort the wounded. To every victim — to that brave fifteen-year-old boy who told the truth, and to any other young person carrying this secret in the dark — hear the Word of the Lord: “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit” (Psalm 34:18). “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds” (Psalm 147:3). What was done to you was not your fault. It was not God’s will, and it was not God’s character. The God of the Bible is the millstone-warning Defender of children, and He saw everything.
CONCLUSION AND APPEAL
Let the word go out from this sermon to every pulpit committee, every board of deacons, every pastor emeritus, and every denominational leader in America and around the world: the restoration of a pedophile to the pastorate is not mercy — it is malpractice against the Lamb’s little lambs. Real mercy protects children. Real repentance in a fallen man accepts his permanent disqualification without complaint, as the fruit of a genuinely broken heart. Any man who fights and schemes to get his pulpit back has shown you by that very fight that his heart is not broken over his sin — it is broken over his loss of position. “Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death” (2 Corinthians 7:10).
And to any man reading these words who is hiding this sin right now behind a pulpit somewhere: God sees you. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23). Step down today. Turn yourself in to the authorities today. Cast yourself on the mercy of God today — for your soul may yet be saved, though your ministry is over. Better to enter into life having lost everything than, having kept your pulpit, to be cast into hell with a millstone’s judgment awaiting you (Mark 9:43–48).
And to every sinner under the sound of this message: the same holy God who judges sin so severely is the God who “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). Come to Christ today. He will in no wise cast you out (John 6:37).
May God protect the little ones, comfort the wounded, embolden the truth-tellers, and purify His church. Amen.
POEM: “The Millstone and the Lamb”
Based on Matthew 18:6
The Saviour set a child in place Before the Twelve that day, And warned with thunder in His grace: “Cause not this one to stray.
“For he who harms a little lamb That doth believe on Me — ‘Twere better that a millstone hang And drown him in the sea.”
O wolves who wear the shepherd’s cloak And prowl the sacred ground, The words that gentle Jesus spoke Shall one day thee confound.
No pulpit can be handed back, No sacred desk regained; The office lost stays ever lack’d Where lambs were caught and pained.
Yet mercy’s door still open stands For souls that truly grieve — The cross receives with nail-scarred hands All those who will believe.
But hear it plain, and hear it well, Ye churches of the Lord: Guard ye the lambs from wolves of hell, And trust the written Word.
For angels of the little ones Behold the Father’s face, And He who gave His only Son Keeps watch o’er every place.
So let the plea of youth be heard, Let truth and justice stand; God’s flock is bought by blood, and stirred — The Lamb protects the lamb.
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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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