I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 15th of September, 2024 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Matthew 23:24:

”Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!”

Religion is a killer. These are the words of Jesus. Now, do you know what a gnat is? I looked up the Oxford dictionary to find out the exact meaning of a gnat. A gnat is a small two-winged fly, resembling a mosquito. Now Jesus says, you strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel. We need to be so careful on this one. We go to Luke 6:9. Jesus asked the pharisees, the religious people:

Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?”

See, and they never said a word. Now there was a man with a withered hand and Jesus wanted to heal his hand but the religious people said you mustn’t do any work on a Sabbath day, and that is when the Lord asked, “Is it right or wrong to do good on the Sabbath?” We must be very careful that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Now, moms and dads, tell your children what that means.

A few years back, two young women came into our church, and I must be honest with you, they were very skimpily dressed and very suggestively dressed, and there was a visitor that came from overseas. He was clearly a pharisee because after the service he came up to us and he said, ”How can you allow two women, so badly dressed, to come into the church?” and we looked at him and we said, ”But sir, we have never seen those women before. This is the first time they’ve ever come to church.” You see, folks, those two women were obviously seeking the Lord, and they decided to be brave and come to church to meet with Jesus, but if the pharisee had his way, he would have never allowed them in. How many times do we read in the bible that Jesus was eating with the tax collectors, the publicans, the prostitutes. Even the disciples didn’t come into those eating houses. “Lord, do you know who those people are?”

“Yes, I know who they are. I came for the sick, not the healthy.” Be careful today, that we don’t swallow a camel and try and strain out a little mosquito, a gnat, out of our food.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 14th of September, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Ezekiel 3:17:

”…give them warning from Me…”

We need to warn people about the urgency of the hour in which we are living. Folks, we need to warn them in order for their lives to be saved. We have a responsibility, however - and this is very important - we cannot lead a person to Christ ourselves. Only the Holy Spirit can do that in the name of Jesus Christ.

I have got a special horse. His name is Snowy. I think you know him. I can take Snowy down to the water but I can’t make him drink. He only drinks when he wants to drink, and seriously, that is the case with people. We can tell them about the Lord but we can’t make them serve the Lord. There is a terrible urgency in the world at the moment. People need to know the way home. They need to know that they have to be born again. It’s what the Bible says. If we look at John 4:35, Jesus says:

”Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’?

In other words, tomorrow is another day. In Zulu we say, “Kusasa, evuma uNkulunkulu“ Tomorrow, if the Lord wills. And Jesus says,

“Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”
John 4:35

We really need to blow the trumpet and warn the people. You know, I have got a picture, I have had it for many years in my mind, and this is the picture - of a sleeping watchman on top of the wall of an old medieval castle, and all the people sound asleep inside the castle. Now the watchman has a responsibility. When he sees the enemy coming, he has to blow the trumpet and warn the people to wake up and get ready to defend themselves, but he is sound asleep, and the enemy has put ladders on the walls, and they are busy climbing up the ladders to go into the castle and to destroy the people.

You and I are those watchmen. We have a responsibility. “Ja, but they won’t listen to me, Angus”. No, that is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is to tell them, and that is not only by words but by action and lifestyle. It’s not just the responsibility of the evangelist or the minister or the pastor, no! It is every single believer's responsibility, whether at school, at university, in the workplace, in the hospital, wherever you might be. People need to hear that Jesus Christ loves them and that He is coming back very soon and we need to be prepared.

Have a wonderful day and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 13th of September, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Psalm 2:7:

“You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” Then we go straight to Luke 4:41:

“You are the Christ, the Son of God!” And those are demons acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Son of God. “

Then Luke 8:28, the same thing again:

“What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?”

The first people to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Son of God were demons - oh yes! Jesus says that He came into the world, not for those who are healthy but for those who are sick, ordinary people who have never met Jesus Christ in a special way. Folks, I want to tell you, as I record this message, there are Mighty Men Conferences taking place all over the world. Just yesterday I was on a zoom call with men in Australia that will be meeting at Ayers Rock, right in the heart of Australia, to pray for revival for the Mighty Men Conferences coming next year. There has just been one completed in Canada - beautiful! We have got over 20 Mighty Men Conferences happening in South Africa alone, 5 in a row in 5 weeks.. I want to tell you that God is on the move, and I want to tell you that Jesus Christ is the Friend of sinners like you and me.

Now, for the ladies that are listening to this programme, I want to reassure you that the reason why Mighty Men takes place, is to teach men how to love, how to respect, how to honour and how to protect their women and children, how to put bread on the table, how to teach their children how to love Jesus and to stand up and be counted, and the Lord is doing that.

Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector and Jesus went into his house to have a meal with him, the disciples said, “Lord, do you know who that man is?” He said, “Yes, I do know who he is.” I want to tell you that Zacchaeus got converted that day. He was that little short man who climbed up the sycamore tree to see Jesus coming. He gave 400% of everything that he took away from or stole from anybody else.

I have seen letters sent to me from little children, 10 years old, in that big, beautiful handwriting - it makes me want to cry, “Thank you for giving me a new daddy after the Mighty Men weekend.” Women writing beautiful letters to us saying, “the man I fell in love with 20 years ago came back home this weekend.” Jesus is on the move, and He is here for the sinner and He is here for those who will put up their hand and say, “Lord, I will follow You.”

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.