Daniel Whyte III Tells Black Progressive Pastors and White Conservative Pastors to Honor Charlie Kirk’s Witness for Christ Now and Address His Sins, Faults, and Failures After His Funeral, But . . .

pictured: The Rev. Dwight McKissic, Lead Pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, pictured with the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (TRR Graphic) Daniel Whyte III Tells Black … Read More

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pictured: The Rev. Dwight McKissic, Lead Pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, pictured with the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (TRR Graphic)

Daniel Whyte III Tells Black Progressive Pastors and White Conservative Pastors Honor Charlie Kirk’s Witness for Christ Now and Address His Sins, Faults, and Failures After His Funeral, But . . .

Whyte: Both Black Progressive and White Conservative Pastors Are Guilty of Political Betrayal

Daniel Whyte III: The Judas-Jezebel-Laodicean Church Is Destroying America

Whyte on Charlie Kirk’s Death: America Is Doomed by Compromised Pastors and Churches

Daniel Whyte III Calls Out Black and White Pastors for Trading the Gospel for Politics

Daniel Whyte III tells black and white pastors and black and white churches that we all should honor the life of Charlie Kirk for his strong stand and witness for Jesus Christ and the Gospel and deal with his sins, faults, and failures after his funeral. But . . .

Daniel Whyte III tells black, liberal, progressive evangelical pastors and white, conservative, MAGA, evangelical pastors and their black and white churches that we all should honor the life of Charlie Kirk for his strong stand and witness for Jesus Christ and the Gospel and deal with his sins, faults, and failures after his funeral, but since black and white pastors and black and white church members have both started some race/homosexual mess regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and what he said or did not say before he died, Whyte says again, as he has said multiple times over the past decade in preaching and writing, both the black progressive pastors and the white conservative pastors and their respective churches are guilty of the sin of becoming the Judas-Jezebel-Laodicean church by actively participating in demonic Democratic politics and demonic Republican politics by allowing President Obama on the Democratic side and President Trump on the Republican side to both become the de facto leaders of the two different churches to lead them all to accept the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality and therefore all of the LGBTQIPF2PPIASS+ agenda, many for filthy lucre sake.

Some of these pastors and churches have taken Judas’ 30 pieces of silver of politics and race baiting, including Al Sharpton, Franklin Graham, Jamal Bryant, Greg Laurie, Frederick Douglass Haynes, Jack Graham, Howard-John Wesley, Jentezen Franklin, Delman Coates, Robert Jeffress, Dwight McKissic, and, yes, even Charlie Kirk took the bait. What these very gifted pastors and preachers instinctively knew for years is that there is more money and fame in race-baiting politics than just serving the Lord in the local church, and what they have done is they took their gifts, talents, and the favor of God on their lives and traded them for Judas’ 30 pieces of silver and submitted to two “Caesars”: President Obama and President Trump to sanction and solidify the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality and all of its demonic LGBTQIPF2PPIASS+ offspring.

America is being destroyed by greedy, black, liberal, progressive pastors and greedy, white, conservative, evangelical pastors who all make up what Whyte calls the Judas-Jezebel-Laodicean church that Jesus predicted. The extraordinarily gifted Charlie Kirk, who tried to save America, compromised like these gifted pastors and preachers, and now nobody can save America. America is doomed to Sodom-Gomorrah-like destruction.

Whyte says he has no fear of successful contradiction from any of these pastors and preachers he has named because they know the Bible — not even from one of the greatest apologists and debaters in American history, Charlie Kirk, who is in Heaven with the Lord and now knows better than ever.

By the way, both the black, liberal, progressive pastors and Christians and white, conservative, evangelical pastors and Christians, the sodomite/homosexual LGBTQIPF2PPIASS+ community and, yes, even some of his Judas family members have tried to cancel the preaching of Daniel Whyte III and the publication Blackchristiannews.com who has preached against both sides and who is not on either side because he has preached against the abomination of sodomy/homosexuality and everything the LGBTQIPF2PPIASS+ stands for, including transgenderism whose proponents ended up taking the life of Charlie Kirk.

Daniel Whyte III says he does not have the time or energy to unpack this in detail again, as he has preached on this and written about this ad nauseam over the past two decades. Suffice it to say, what many people do not understand about Christian persecution and Christian martyrdom is that oftentimes Christians are not persecuted or martyred because of their belief in Christ directly. They are persecuted and killed because Jesus Christ has transformed their lives in such a way that they will stand against the evil that the devil and the world try to put forth, and the world hates them for it, just like they hated Jesus Christ. Whyte says if Jesus Christ came to earth for the first time today, they would try to kill him in six months instead of three and a half years.

As millions worldwide mourned the Sept. 10 murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) issued a statement lamenting his death and praising his message. While saying he believes Kirk’s assassination was “demonic,” the Rev. Dwight McKissic, a prominent Black pastor in the SBC, claims the statement’s omission of Kirk’s demeaning comments about persons of color was glaring and wrong.

“We need to lament his death,” McKissic, senior pastor of the SBC-affiliated Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, told The Roys Report (TRR). “It was senseless. I believe it was demonic. At the same time, can we acknowledge where Charlie Kirk went wrong?”

Published on Sept. 13, the SBC’s 300-word “Statement of Lament and a Call for Justice” has so far garnered more than 5,000 signatures. It states in part that SBC leaders “lament the assassination of Charlie Kirk and we mourn his death. Political violence is a grave sin and it represents a threat to our nation and its government.”

But the statement, with the denomination’s president Clint Pressley listed as the first signatory, adds: “We rightly appreciate the profound impact Charlie Kirk has had on our young people, inspiring them to live with bold conviction and take righteous action.”

McKissic said this blanket endorsement of Kirk is inappropriate, given some of his comments on race, which have been shared widely on social posts and in articles.

Some of the quotes that set McKissic off included one at AmericaFest in December 2023, where Kirk reportedly labeled Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “awful” and “not a good person.” He later added, “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.”

Some of the meaning behind Kirk’s more outrageous comments have been lost in the translation. For instance, Kirk’s on-air Jan. 23, 2024, quote, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified,’” has been widely disseminated with little explanation that it’s part of a mock dialogue between several panelists. Two sentences later, Kirk qualifies that statement, explaining, “That’s not who I am. That’s not what I believe.”

When he spoke last May of how “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people,” it was in response to a video showing a pregnant white woman being terrorized by a group of Black men.

Still, there was enough vitriol to prompt McKissic to speak out online.

“Everything I’ve heard him say about race—and I mean everything—I disagree with,” said McKissic. “By Charlie Kirk having those kinds of attitudes, it attacks the imago dei, the image of God that’s stamped over each one of us.”

He added: “So I’m appalled that Southern Baptists would only mention the lament and not mention the false doctrine.”

McKissic also shared on X a TikTok video from a Black Christian woman, who said she walked out of her church last Sunday because of comments made about Charlie Kirk.

“I genuinely don’t understand how Christians are pushing this man as though hate didn’t come out of his mouth and heart on a consistent basis,” she said. “And I’m genuinely sitting here saying, ‘If this is the God that we serve, if this is the reflection of the God we serve, do I want to be a part of it?’”

TRR reached out to the SBC national office but did not receive any specific comment by publication time.

Dan Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) in Ft. Worth, Texas, who signed the statement, called its wording “appropriate to the moment.”

“I think it’s appropriate to honor his life for the areas where we agreed and for his courage to speak up for the truth and for his desire to point people to the love of Christ.”

Horror and shock among diverse voices

Ideologically diverse scholars contacted for this story expressed their shock at Kirk’s death.

Matthew Boedy, a professor at University of North Georgia, who studies religious trends including among Christian conservatives, said the shooting of Kirk “shook him to the core.”

“We crossed a line as a nation when that shot was taken,” he told TRR. “It was a brutal event that not only disrupted the peace of that campus but all of them. It concerns me that open spaces are now open to assassination and people who are not elected officials . . . are targets.”

Boedy praised the SBC statement as a “heartfelt call for peace,” but added, “What stands out to me is the timing. No statement was put out like this for the murder of Melissa Hortman, for instance, or other incidents of violence.” Hortman was speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2019 until her assassination on June 14, along with her husband.

Daniel Darling. (Photo © Chinsop Chong/SWBTS)

Darling, who teaches at the seminary’s north Texas campus, said his students have been “shocked and stunned.”

“My son, who is 17, was particularly shook by this, as were his classmates,” he said. “Thousands of young people looked up to Charlie. I am grieving for my country, that there are people who believe violence is the way to refute ideas they disagree with, rather than debate and discourse.”

McKissic, who has preached at the SWBTS chapel, agreed that Kirk was “a public figure with enormous influence” particularly among conservative evangelicals.

“The first tweet I did on this was to say, ‘Hey, I was blown away by some of the things Charlie said about Christ.’ He was on point,” said McKissic. “His proud, uncompromising views on the deity and exclusivity of Christ, pro-life advocacy, pro traditional marriage, I applaud all of it.”

But he added: “It’s a misrepresentation of his message, and the totality of who he was, if his proud, uncompromising, views on race are not reported.”

Disparaging remarks about Black women, affirmative action

Among the examples of racially charged remarks said by Kirk, McKissic pointed to a particular segment on ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ on July 13, 2023, about the issue of affirmative action.

Kirk listed four Black women leaders: First Lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and political commentator Joy Reid — all of whom graduated from Harvard – as well as Yale graduate Sheila Jackson Lee, a retired U.S representative from Texas who died in 2024.

In the segment, Kirk called the women “affirmative action picks.” Then he said, “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

Dwight McKissic (Courtesy Photo)

McKissic said he considered that “an insult” to his wife and two daughters — each of whom have earned master’s degrees — and “by extension, any Black woman, whether with a degree or not.”

“I know Charlie Kirk only referred to those four Black ladies,” he said. “But you have to be very naive to believe that didn’t extend to other Black women. I don’t recall him saying similar things about white women. Or white students at Harvard admitted under the legacy program.”

He concluded: “He had the right to disagree with their policies or politics. But if you’re going to question somebody’s intellectual capacity, you need proof beyond just not liking their politics.”

Affirmative action policies, championed by Black civil rights advocate Arthur Fletcher, who served in several Republican administrations, seek to ensure fairness for disadvantaged communities in jobs, education, and other sectors.

“In the 1950s, white people had economic advantages that we did not have,” said McKissic, sharing an example from his childhood.

“My mother taught school for about $250 a month, in the same school district and with the same accredited degree as her white peers. But they made a couple hundred dollars more than her.”

Author Darling, often on podcasts and talk shows, explained that radio host Kirk, with hours to fill each day in an often-incendiary format, likely “said some words he’d prefer to take back.”

“That’s the hazard of what we do. Charlie wasn’t perfect in this.”

“However, he seemed to be a work in progress and was growing as a man,” added Darling. “He was only 31. In the last few weeks of his life, he was increasingly pointing young men away from rage and urging them to channel their passions toward family and toward God.”

Kirk’s views on race opposed to past SBC statements

McKissic is not alone in his concerns.

In a Tuesday post, historian Jemar Tisby excerpted Sunday sermons from three Black pastors — Virginia Baptist Pastor John Howard Wesley, Dallas-area pastor Frederick Haynes, and Georgia minister Jamal Bryant. Each of them condemned the assassin’s violence along with rhetoric “rooted in white supremacy,” to quote Haynes.

“I respectfully disagree with those brothers,” Darling told TRR. “I didn’t agree with everything Charlie said or every single way he said it. But that’s not the point at this moment.”

Karen Swallow Prior (Courtesy Photo)

Karen Swallow Prior, a best-selling author who recently left the SBC after two decades of affiliation, commented to TRR about the lack of diversity among those who drafted the denomination’s statement.

“It is lamentable that almost all of the initial signatories on this statement are white men,” she said. “Especially as Christians, we must be a body in which each part recognizes and honors the other parts. It is essential for majority peoples to listen to and learn from the experiences of minorities.”

McKissic put a finer point on it, referring to the top leaders of official SBC entities.

“These entity heads, none of whom are Black or Hispanic, crafted and approved this statement, telling all Black Southern Baptists how they ought to think about this issue,” he said.

The pastor also stated that Kirk’s views on racial issues “conflict with every resolution the Southern Baptist Convention has adopted since the 1950s on race.”

Recent notable resolutions include a 1995 statement on racial reconciliation, a 2016 resolution repudiating displays of the Confederate battle flag, and a carefully worded 2019 statement on how critical theory must be subordinate to Scripture.

He concluded: “I don’t think the statement as it is, an unqualified endorsement of Kirk, would pass an SBC convention vote.”

Seeking a full, truthful accounting

For decades, McKissic has been a force seeking to see greater racial representation in the SBC, often through the National African American Fellowship (NAAF) of the SBC.

At the SBC’s 2009 annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, McKissic introduced a resolution to recognize the significance of Barack Obama’s election as a signal of “racial reconciliation.” The resolution passed, though it was redrafted to include language speaking against President Obama’s pro-choice and LGBTQ rights positions.

“They added those denotations, but the historic value and the fact that he overcame all odds to be elected president came through,” said McKissic. “It should be the same with Charlie Kirk. Lament his death, praise his Gospel views, and point out his anti-biblical racial views.”

TRR reached out to leaders of the NAAF about the recent statement but did not receive a response.

Long known as a conservative Republican, the pastor recently registered as an independent with the rise of MAGA ideology in the party. In 2021, Cornerstone Baptist Church disaffiliated from one state-level Baptist convention but stopped short of full withdrawal from the SBC.

Dwight McKissic preaches on June 6 at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas (File Photo Photo/AP/Richard W. Rodriguez)

This past June, with the annual meeting only miles away, McKissic spoke at a breakout event for NAAF and received an award for his past efforts but avoided the larger gathering.

Despite his years of connection to the SBC, McKissic said a full break from the SBC may be in his church’s future. “I’m waiting on a green light from God to leave the SBC,” he said. “At the moment, I’m trying to live with where they are.”

The interest in racial justice issues among Southern Baptists seems to have ebbed from its peak in the early 2020s, when the death of George Floyd sparked a wave of education and action initiatives.

For his part, McKissic said he’s done trying to drum up believers who are apathetic.

“I’m not trying to persuade anybody. Jesus put it this way: ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’ That’s all I’m trying to say.”

source: https://julieroys.com/sbc-statement-charlie-kirk-exposes-racial-divide-mckissic-denomination/

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DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT EVANGELISTIC SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL AND FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF BLACK CHRISTIAN NEWS

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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