Cannon Hill, Brisbane
A Call to Awakening
This church service was recorded in Cannon Hill, Brisbane. Pastor Don Shepherd speaks about the conditions that signal a nation is ripe for awakening. Noel Shaw then delivers his own call to repentance.
Cannon Hill Church Service · Audio Recording
Pastor Don Shepherd and Noel Shaw
What follows is a church service recorded in Cannon Hill, Brisbane. I include it because every word spoken mirrors my own life and calling. Pastor Don Shepherd draws from Hosea, Habakkuk, and the Psalms and lists the conditions that signal a nation is ripe for awakening: sin abounds, righteousness has vanished, the church has grown lax. Every one of those conditions was present in my own household and in the courtroom on the 1st of June 1997. The years of suffering I endured — the accident, the false accusations, the proceedings on this very tape — they were the preparation, not the end.
I have lived that urgency my entire adult life. On the 16th of March 2001, I met Jesus in person — not in a dream, not in a vision, but face to face. From that moment my role became undeniable: I have been given a new identity — to spread the word of Jesus Christ to the world before it is too late, to give people the opportunity to hear the truth so that they may be raptured — caught up — before what is coming. There will be seven years of great tribulation before Jesus returns. The conditions Don described that night have only deepened in the decades since.
The tape finishes with Don. The sermon closes on Hebrews 12:25 — the Lord told Don that morning to put it in. That same scripture was being lived out in my own life. On the 1st of June 1997 I stood in that courtroom being pounded by lies — and God was already preparing me for what was to come. Everything I endured was the refining. Hebrews 12:25 is not just a verse Don preached — it is the warning I now carry to you: repent and be empowered, or refuse — “See to it that you do not refuse Him who warns you from Heaven.”
SO HERE I AM. I'M HERE. I'M GOD HERE TO SAVE YOU. LISTEN, REPENT AND BE SAVED OR BE CAST INTO HELL FOR ETERNITY.
After Don speaks, Noel Shaw takes the floor — visibly carrying grief over the recent passing of Don's son-in-law Michael, killed in a pushbike accident. Out of that grief, Noel delivers an explosive call to repentance. It is Noel — not Don — who speaks of David and Goliath: a man with no standing in the eyes of the world who stepped forward in faith alone. He warns that a church which tolerates sin is a church crying out for revival whether it knows it or not. William Booth of the Salvation Army said he wished he could hold every complacent Christian over the mouth of hell so they could watch the lost descend into eternity. What you hear on this tape is not history. It is a warning that is more relevant today than the night it was spoken. The choice is in front of you — life or death.