Shortcuts to Holiness 
by Daniel Rosenblit

Greetings brethren, the name of this show is "Shortcuts to holiness" and I am your host Daniel Rosenblit. I was a full-time street minister in the red-light district of Amsterdam Holland for the last four years and the L-d sent me back to America and to Virginia beach for a extremely important reason. I’m in this area and on the radio now because the L-d wanted me to discuss a matter that is so important to Him that He desires it discussed on the 700 Club. . . before the entire body. On this program today I’m going to speak of things that you probably never heard discussed on Christian radio or over any pulpit for that matter. . .I certainly haven’t.

The matter to be discussed is sanctity or inner purity and the means to attain it in the fastest possible fashion.

As we know the scriptures state, "Though your sins be as red as scarlet, I will make them white as snow". But in practice our red sins don’t become white as snow, but pink. . . please ponder this truth. . .

In this discussion I will speak of how to make these red sins white as snow. So, I will be speaking about wisdom, if applied by many in the Church, will facilitate a very great spiritual revival. . . so please give me your undivided attention!

This wisdom is all contained within the Bible, but it has become overlooked as it involves suffering on our part!

And we know most Christians want to put all the suffering on the back of Jesus.

But I’m here to inform you today that suffering for God’s sake is a sacred matter.

Any Christian knows that by obeying the laws of Christ we develop virtues such as humility, compassion, patience, love, courage, etc.

But the issue of SANCTITY (becoming pure at heart) is mentioned, but then quickly skipped over in favor of other spiritual concerns. But, in the eyes of the L-d this issue is of paramount importance; I say PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE! The L-d has made me an authority on this subject.

Now, I will give you my testimony, then you will understand the reason that I am exceptionally qualified to be worthy to be listened to on this subject.

Back in 1978 I had one of those near–death experiences that seem to have become more commonplace in these last days. I died, experienced a Judgment Day Experience, then the L-d allowed me to live again! In that experience I was literally baptized by that same intensity of spiritual fire as the Apostles experienced at Pentecost; when the Holy Spirit descended on them in the form of tongues of fire. During that experience I encountered that very same blinding light brighter than the sun, that blinded Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. By 1980 because of that blessed experience plus another grace I was given, I attained a very great level of inner purity (sanctity). . . and thus closeness to G-d.

Now, here comes the embarrassing parts.

Then, through wrong relationships with a certain women I backslid. . . .and backslid badly. A few years later I returned back to G-d (but not as anointed as the first time), but then for that same reason I backslid yet again, but this time I backslid much, much worse than before. In fact this second time I descended into darkness so far that I almost attained hell prior to bodily death.

By 1987 I hated my wife so badly that I not only wanted to kill her, but to slowly slice her up into little pieces. I not only wanted to do this, but yearned to do so. It was a seething hate. Just as there are different levels of love there are also different levels of hate. . . and mine was the worse.

(Through the worse of this ordeal I always had some relationship with God. This relationship with God gave me the anchor to prevent me carrying out the violence of what my heart was conceiving).

To me it looked like it would be glory to do these terrible things to her. . .that is how far I had descended into the abyss.

I’m sure that every now and then you read in the newspapers a story of how someone commits an especially grizzly murder against their wife and you think. . . how can anyone even think of such a thing???? I’m a person who knows.

Anyways, back at that time I was working a certain job and a lady at work invited me to her church.

I felt the hand of the Lord reach through her to me and I readily accepted her kind offer.

Then she exclaimed. . . "Now I know the reason that the L-d led me to take this job!"

Her church was a spirit filled church with an exceptionally powerfully anointed praise and worship service. I recall after I started going there that that light gave me the spiritual strength within myself to withstand the fiery darts emanating from my darling wife, so I would be able to overlook her abuse and not hate her for it.

The people I met at the church were slapping me on the back and encouraging me to keep coming back (their services were 3 times/ week). Actually in hindsight I realized it was the L-d who wanted me to keep going 3 times/ week.

This was the heavenly prescription that was required of me to break the newly formed chains of hate that had not yet strongly entrenched themselves within my temple.

Sadly, at the time I didn’t realize this fact, so instead I would go to church only once or twice/week.

The anointing of once or twice/week wasn’t strong enough to break the most powerful yokes of sin within me.

Like a woman who conceives a child, because of those prior deep hating spores I conceived and did not get purified of, an evil alien thing began growing up within me. As this evil was growing I was rapidly sliding deeper and deeper into darkness. Instead of going from glory to glory, I was growing in the opposite direction! I became like Darth Vader from the famous star wars movie (For those of you unfamiliar with the movie, Darth Vader represented the prince of darkness). I had a black shadow that followed me wherever I went. Through this deep hate of mine entered demonic spirits. I was once almost as pure as an angel and now I was thoroughly filthy within; I became inhabited by a legion of demons. I was on my way to attaining hell. . . and attaining hell prior to bodily death and I knew it. . .but there seemed to be nothing I could do to stop it. I became a hopeless case. . . no mortal understood me. But thankfully, the L-d understood me!

It may sound hard from you to believe, but the Lord insists that I say it. Next to Adam (from the garden) no man in history has experienced the terrible fall from grace that I had, or returned has returned from the dark-place which I have come out of. If not for applying the spiritual practices which I am going to be speaking of, I never would have made it back to the land of the sane (The spiritual practices to which I am referring all involve suffering).

During that time I was in and out of mental institutions for 1 ½ years. As the Word states, "God’s mercy is greater than our sins. . . and I discovered the truth of those words. As my spiritual state had been worsening, the L-d’s way to deal with my worsening condition was changing. Now, God began asking me to do some very unusual things. . . very humiliating things. . . many in public. I would have doubted this was of G-d, but at about that time my younger brother handed me a book entitled, The Little Flowers of St. Francis by Raphael Brown. (Actually, my brother was being used as an instrument of the L-d).

I started reading about the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and his companions (the early Franciscans-Christians. . . 13^th century Saints). They were some of the greatest Christians who ever lived. Those men. . . not today's Franciscans, attained the radiance of the original Apostles . and some of them did similar types of things as the Lord was asking of me. . . so I knew it was G-d who was speaking to me, not the enemy! When I started doing enough of these types of things, I started coming out of my sins. . . where the most powerful praise and worship hadn’t the power anymore to make me free of those now deeply imbedded sins.

(Note: The difference between me and someone like Nicky Cruz is that my temple became even more polluted by sin than his, because I was a backslider and he was not).

To digress one minute I want to state the fact that those who teach that in the eyes of God that all sin is the same is false teaching for sure. You are hearing this from the lips of an authority on this subject. When the apostle Paul called himself chief among sinners he wasn’t being humble, he was telling the truth about himself! Not all sin is the same.

Now, by speaking of the early Franciscans I’m not trying to make anyone a Catholic here, as I’m not one, nor do I have any desire to be. . . but I’ve discovered that some of the practices that the early Franciscan did were special holy things. . . and sadly these things are not preached over any pulpit, nor even understood. The Lord desires to change all that!

Many of you have heard of St. Francis and the early friars and you may believe that their secret to sanctity was their asceticism. That is but part of it, and not all of them were ascetics. I’ve discovered that a more powerful part of what they did was that they were masters at humiliating themselves, please listen-

When someone lives a humble life for years it has the power to restore purity and humility to that soul. The good that takes many years of humility to accomplish for our soul, can be accomplished with humiliation in but a few months. Why? Because humiliation is lower, understand?

Doesn’t the Word admonish us to join in or be partakers in the sufferings of Christ ?? stating that those who suffer with Him will be glorified with Him???

Humiliation was an important aspect of His passions.

When you read of Paul, you read of a man who suffered a whole lot for the gospels.

He was beaten, stoned, whipped, hated, persecuted, etc. In that way he shared in the sufferings of Christ.

The other type of suffering that happened to Jesus on the Cross was humiliation. Its been said that He was crucified naked; He became as a leper for our sake! Thus, humiliations are the other side of the coin of the sufferings of Christ.

This sharing in the sufferings of Christ is what has the power to make the sins snow white. . .and faster than any other means. Even for someone as red as I was.

I don’t have the purity of Mother Teresa, but I’m certainly not nearly a Darth Vader anymore either. What has the power to transform a Darth Vader like myself, can make a nominally polluted believer, probably like yourself, into a pure vessel faster than any other means. . . much faster than even prayer and fasting.

Instead of me continuing on this path of purification plus standard street ministry which I was doing, the L-d insisted I bring this matter before the entire church now, since we are living in the last days and there is not much time left. The L-d desires to resurrect this lost wisdom in these end times. . . so those believers who desire to go all the way with Jesus will have a clear roadmap.

Another matter I want to bring to your attention is another holy spiritual group. . . the modern-day persecuted church.

From their ranks I want to quote two modern-day Pauls: Richard Wurmbrand and Wang Ming Tao.

Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Pastor during the communist era. He was coined, "The Paul of the iron curtain". In his book entitled Tortured for Christ he stated, "I only saw the glory of the early church in Christians who were jailed for their faith in the communist countries".

Now, we go to China. . . the Bamboo curtain and hear from a man called the Father of the Chinese church; a man named Wang Ming Tao. In his book entitled, Walking the Hard Road; the Wang Ming Tao Story at the conclusion of his interview he was asked by the western Christian journalist to give some advice to us western Christians. His answer was these 4 words, "Walk the Hard Road".

I hope you are learning something. The first church attained that special glory because of the radiance from those 120 who experienced the fullness of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, plus the radiance of the holy Apostles. . . people who were partakers of Pentecost plus being in close communion with the L-d for three years. Their radiance illumined and inspired the early church. For us to attain that same glory that the early church possessed from grace. . . we must pay a price for it. The persecuted church has suffering knock at their door. . . that is the price they paid. The early Franciscans were birthed in a spiritually safe environment, similar to what we enjoy in America and Europe. These disciples paid their price for their glory through humiliations and other means (read the book and find out these means).

The Franciscan book that I mentioned is an introductory book on humiliations (especially the chapter on Bro. Juniper). . . and this servant has written an advanced manual on the subject from what I have learned through self- application. . . as I had to do many of these things for the good of my own soul.

So, if you want to learn much of this fast-tract to sanctity please read that book first, then contact me and I’ll be glad to share a more in-depth wisdom on that subject. . . but I must insist that you read the book first. Again, the name is, The Little Flowers of St. Francis by Raphael Brown.

Another important matter I am going to divulge is that since my hate was so intense at that time, that the repressed hate that was not purified out of me, after a few years,. something most odd started to happen to me. At the times the L-d sanctifies me I began to know it, because it would make a grunting-like sound. Thus, by the volume and depth of this sound, I developed unmatched wisdom on the sanctification process.

Now I am going to make a bold statement that will make me look vain; but I am just speaking the truth -- Because of my unusual credentials there is no person in the world who has the depth of understanding on this subject matter (the sanctification process) as I have (You are hearing this from the lips of ex- demonically possessed mental patient).

I need help getting this entire matter addressed on the 700 Club. . .before the entire body.

If you would like to share in this holy enterprise or you would like me to share the good things that I have learned with your church, by all means contact me, but please read that book first. . . otherwise you will not understand many of the things I will be addressing.

If you want to see an example of someone who has real sanctity obtain and watch the documentary video entitled Mother Teresa directed by Petrie. While you are at the Google search engine why not look me up, again Dan Rosenblit, as I have posted yet another essay I have written on this subject matter which I have spoken of today.

Sincerely, Dan Rosenblit