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the death of

compassion Lord this is a night about

compassion the preaching this afternoon

was about compassion and Lord you’re

speaking to us evidently you’re trying

to say something very strong to us and I

pray for a spirit of anointing and the

unction of the Holy Ghost oh God I don’t

know how to get this out of my heart

unless you pull it out I don’t know how

to speak it unless you speak the words

in and through me sanctify me Purge me

let me stand here as a holy vessel with

Clean Hands and a pure heart Sanctified

by the word and the blood of Jesus I

pray God give us compassion teach us

what it means to be compassionate in

these hard cruel days in Jesus name

amen a cracked addicted

mother killed her six-year-old daughter

Alyssa

suffocated her by putting a pillow over

her

head four-year-old

naen was starved to death in her

mother’s house in the

Bronx did you read about it just a few

weeks

ago I think the child was 7 years old

when the police found her locked in a

bedroom she hadn’t been fed in weeks

starved to death imated and in a fetal

position her cries for food went unheard

heard and unanswered by her crack

addicted

mother a 20-year-old

mother took her three children to the

rooftop 3 weeks ago if you remember

systematically one by one threw them

screaming off the rooftop to their death

then she dumped a man right near who was

having breakfast the window was open

heard the screaming children and the

Daily News caught a picture of the

people who lived in the apartment

complex and some people who had just

passed by and they were doubled up in

agony at the sight they were absolutely

terrified and screaming what are we

coming to what is happening to

America a 16-year-old girl last week

jumped off the elevated train in

Brooklyn 16 years old and she jumped

down and fell on a a little boy little

boy had just been given a toy his mother

had bought was so excited rushing home

to play with his little toy and she fell

on the board and he’s in the hospital in

the coma she’s

dead a mother last

week took her little six-year-old girl

in the bedroom pulled a sweater over her

head went in the kitchen got a butcher

knife came in and stabbed her to

death and she can give no explanation

doesn’t seem to have any

sorrow a distraught mother

two days ago got Stone

drunk got in a car and put her two

little children in the car and began to

crean wildly down the road and while she

was driving she ran into two children

killed them instantly smashed into a

divide and killed herself and her two

four children wiped out suddenly in a

drunken

stuper now I could go on and on these

are just news stories from The Daily

News in the New York Post here in New

York in the past few

months and you could go on and on

there’s no end to

it and I will never believe as long as I

live that our God is some benign Spirit

who’s not moved and not concerned about

what’s happening and I feel in my heart

it’s everything God can do to constrain

himself from moving in before the time

to put an end to it all because we know

the Bible said compassions fail not

Jesus with the embodiment of the

compassion of God he is the the human

form and the essence of God who came and

was moved deeply by compassion for thou

Lord are a God full of compassion and

gracious

longsuffering and plenteous in Mercy and

Truth Now most Christians most of us

would like to believe that we too are

moved like Jesus was with compassion I

would like to think that about myself

when I hear these stories when I see

what’s happening to our society to be

moved with compassion you know even the

worldly the ungodly are moved by

compassion I was driving my car recently

and I listened to some of the radio talk

shows and it’s incredible the calls to

come in and people trembling and weeping

even saying what’s happening to America

they ought to get all these cracked

mothers and lock them up and you should

hear going say our our society’s gone

crazy and and and the concern and the

compassion and one of the radio

commentators said America is still full

of compassion but folks pity and

sympathy is not compassion that may be a

part of that those are ingredients of

compassion but that’s not what

compassion is at all

compassion is very simply it is pity and

mercy for the hurting accompanied by a

desire to change things it has to be

accompanied by a desire to do something

about it and not just declaim disclaim

it not to to uh uh talk about it and not

to mourn about it but saying God what

can I do about

it this is Illustrated in The Compassion

of Jesus all through the New

Testament Jesus remember one day retired

Into the Wilderness to pray and the

multitudes discovered where his his

whereabouts and so the scripture says

and Jesus went forth and saw a great

multitude and was moved with compassion

toward them they had brought the

scripture said their cripples they’re

lame they’re blind they’re dying they

brought the demon possessed they brought

him to Jesus and the Bible said he was

moved with compassion toward them now if

Jesus had our modern mindset when that

great multitude gathered around him

cripples and demonics frothing at the

mouth children that were being dragged

to him because they couldn’t walk if

Jesus had been hampered by our modern

theology he would have gathered his

disciples together for a committee

meeting and he would have discussed how

Wicked Judean Society had become and he

would have pointed out to his disciples

I want you to come to me to the edge of

this CR I want to show you what I’ve

been teaching you that the wages of sin

are death now look at that demoniac over

there and I want you to see the wages

look what sin does gentlemen keep this

in mind that’s what sin does he could

have analyzed the problem he would have

talked about the sins that brought this

Society to the place where so many

demoniacs were uh frothing and and and

uh running around in the tombs and

chained he could have talked about the

poverty how it happened he could have

stood like so many sanctimonious people

and said he could have still the crowd

and he stood there maybe on an elevated

stone or something so ladies and

gentlemen look I I I’m am tired I’m

weary I’ve worked hard I’ve ministered

to you but I came here to pray I came

here to talk to my father I feel your

pain but I’ll tell you what I’ll do I I

don’t have strengthen up but I’ll tell

you what to do I will I we will call a

special prayer meeting we will intercede

you I’ll go to my father for you and

I’ll pray about it that’s modern

theology I I I’ve worked too hard I’m at

the end of my rope I’m stretched out

uh there’s not much I can do about it I

will pray everybody’s willing to

pray no Jesus had a consuming desire it

was not only being moved and stirred in

his heart at what he saw it’s not just

his bowels turning in compassion he’s

the scripture said he was moving with

compassion toward them and and and he

healed them he was moved to

action he he said I want to make a

difference you see it in Matthew 9 we

hear it said of Jesus when he saw the

multitude he was moved with compassion

on them because they fainted and they

were scattered about like sheep having

no

Shepherd but see with Jesus being moved

with compassion means I’ve got to do

something about it and the scripture

said then he went all about their cities

and Villages teaching and preaching and

healing every sickness and every disease

among the people this was not some uh

vain

theology this was not some just getting

along with the father and say Lord God

send labors into your Harvest field

Jesus went himself Jesus laid their

hands on the lepers and he got

involved in Matthew 15 great multitudes

again came to him having with them the

lame the blind the dumb the crippled and

they cast them down at the feet of Jesus

they cast them down I don’t think we can

appreciate that scene like we ought can

you imagine this scene they they have

brought them from all surrounding towns

and Villages can you imagine the the

literally thousands of people there are

5,000 in

fact in this crowd and they have brought

the fevered and they brought their

elderly parents they had brought the

diseased and the crippled and they’re

all cast at the feet of Jesus each one

trying to get a little spot closer and

with every healing they try to get

somebody close can you you see them

picking up their child moving in pushing

the disciples trying to keep some

order and the Bible says they were

healed and the Lord healed all of them

the scripture

says but then Jesus looks out upon the

crowd and they’ve been there three days

and they’re fainting literally fainting

they’re passing

out for

hunger and Jesus Saidi have compassion

on this multitude

I will not send them

away now I could stop right there and

that would be the message on compassion

I have compassion I will not send them

away lest fainting lest they faint in

the way now here’s the heart and soul of

the meaning compassion according to the

scripture I have compassion I will not

send them away now let me stop right

here and change course America as far as

I’m concerned is

changing this once caring compassion the

nation is slowly but surely losing its

heart the compassion for the poor and

the needy right here in our Harbor

there’s a Statute of Liberty and at the

Beast there’s uh some writing that says

send us your poor and your needy our

arms are

open not so anymore

State Governors all the way from the

White House Down to the state Governors

to the counties and the

cities they are competing with one

another to see who can cut the most off

the welfare

roles who can give out as few food

stamps as

possible the president just this past

week uh talked about the many many

thousands that they have succeeded in

getting off the welfare rules

now here in New York City all of the the

food distribution centers are drying up

the food is no longer available our

ministry’s been getting food for

survival and some of these others and

you go in and out and they say there’s

nothing left very little left because

all the funds are drying up all of the

programs that were ministering to the

the needies the the funds are drying up

they’re not there

anymore now I don’t want to get tonight

into a political I don’t want to make a

political statement about the rights and

the wrongs of welf

yes I know there’s a lot of cheating in

the welfare system and I’m not a

politician and and and I I know that

there needs to be some changes i’ I’ve

preached this before from this Pulpit

I’ve seen some well I I I have some men

that have been thrown out of this church

because they’re they they don’t want God

and they’re mockers and they come in

here just to try to steal money from

people and I walk to my apartment and

there’s a guy down there that just calls

me every kind of name calls me phony

spits and everything else and that guy

gets $600 a month and he’s healthy

healthier than I

am and I got to tell you it bothers

me and if I wanted to get even with him

when he’s cursing me i’ just say your

600 bucks is in jeopardy

I believe that every able-bodied man

should work the Bible say if you don’t

work you don’t

eat and we’ve got a lot of lazy people

getting government money there’s no

question about that but folks what we’re

doing now we’re cutting off Mothers

we’re cutting off food stands from

children and I what I don’t like what

bothers me is the mean spiritedness

behind it there’s a meanness there’s a

hardness creeping into the American

system you hear it from politicians you

hear it everywhere and now absolute

hardness is sweeping the

country all the rhetoric is

mean-spirited and I want to tell you

something God will not stand by and let

the richest nation in the world put its

mothers and children on the streets and

we’re only two years away from having

hundreds of families on the streets in

New York I’m not talking about men I’m

talking about mothers and children on

the

streets when I’m done tonight you’ll

understand a little more what I’m

talking

about but God will not allow us to spend

billions of dollars to research the moon

and

space and take food stamps away from our

[Applause]

kids I know the feelings of middle

American hard

workers all across the nation they

struggling to survive there are people

in the suburbs that have good jobs but

they’re being taxed to death they don’t

have money even to get their children

vaccinated and then they hear about

people on in the ghettos that that are

able to get free clinic and and one

hardworking mother said recently says I

might as well go on welfare at least my

kids would get some medical attention

but don’t let that fool you even that’s

being

changed even here on the streets of New

York many Suburban America middle

American class people are going bankrupt

and th this economic pressure is growing

all across the country and I understand

those pressures but beloved we as

Christians dare not allow that hard

coldness get into our Spirits against

the poor against the needy and against

the

hurting the former Governor

is calling for legalized euthanasia now

the killing of the old and the infirm he

says America can no longer afford to

waste its resources on the

elderly he said the best thing that they

could do would be to die and save the

resources for the

young and I want to tell you something

that it shocks me Beyond Comprehension

that a man Dr

Death Dr Goran who goes around helping

people it’s murder it’s plain

murder and now he’s a hero he’s being

called a compassionate loving man trying

to get people out of their

pain but now they say you can do it even

if you have an emotional

pain emotional pain you have a nervous

breakdown you don’t want to face life

called Dr Death

folks we’re going to legalize you can be

sure America is going to legalize youth

in Asia we’re going to cut off more and

more food stamps to the poor and more

and more people are going to wind up on

our streets especially in our cities but

folks what shocks me more than anything

else is the

spreading the lack of compassion that’s

spreading through the Church of Jesus

Christ many of God’s people are getting

coldhearted and

uncaring denominations are saying that

their missions money their missions

money is dwindling people are not giving

to missions

anymore folks I have almost 800,000

people on my mailing list and a few

months ago I sent out a letter and just

just a little cover letter expressing to

the people and I thought they would be

so thankful and I just said we want you

to know that at least 10% or more of

your money that you send us every dollar

you send to us we tithe it to missions

to or orphanages and to Latin American

child care and I just listed a group of

the foreign missions that we were

involved in helping that they were

helping and I was so excited I thought

and I didn’t do it to boost the

finances I was shocked the number of

letters I got you know what they were

saying dear brother Dave take me off

your mailing list I didn’t give you

permission to spend any of my money on

the foreign field I want all my money

here in

America others say I don’t want any of

my money going to foreign missions we

will support your work in New York but

nowhere else or else take us off your

mailing list I was shocked to

tears in fact my next newsletter that

goes out I’m going to mention this in in

a nice way I’m saying if you can’t

handle this the best thing to do is to

drop off I don’t care if it cost

thousands and thousands of dollars God

will not endure that kind of

attitude now thank God the majority of

people were

[Applause]

grateful let’s talk about us let’s talk

about Times Square Church and and the

staff here and we as Times Square Church

people we we minister in one of the

neediest cities on the face of the Earth

spiritually speaking and and very soon

economically a city with over uh 2

million people getting government money

and and many many on

welfare a city flooded with drug

addiction and despair and

homelessness I just read to you what it

said about Jesus and they cast down at

the feet at his feet the lame the blind

the dumb the maed and the crippled they

cast down at his feet and I see that

beginning to happen now and it’s going

to happen more and more to the Church of

Jesus Christ because the government has

failed every every institution

everything in society is

fulfilling what is the Last Hope for

mankind it’s supposed to be the Church

of Jesus Christ and more and more we’re

going to have the poor and the lame and

the Man cast at our

feet they’re going to be cast right at

our

doorstep and what do we do if we don’t

have the compassion of Jesus Christ do

we come in and we pray for that

Revival that’s supposed to be

coming do we have all night prayer

meetings and then walk wi by them and do

nothing about

it last Sunday

night I didn’t sleep from midnight till

7 in the morning and I didn’t sleep at

all I tried and I couldn’t because my

bows were in turmoil my spiritual bowels

because I couldn’t get out the mind out

of my mind

um mother

backstage she I don’t know if she’s here

tonight or not but she had a 5-day old

baby in one hand and a little boy in the

other

her husband lost a job and couldn’t uh

find work and evident he just left but

she was alone living in a apartment with

10 other people sleeping on the floor

and they want her out because the baby’s

cry money for milk no place to go no

relatives

nothing and I I I had some money and I

give her money in our health

department we started working with her

but that that wasn’t it there was

another woman her husband has left her

she’s uh he’s on drugs and she’s in a

pitiful situation she has no skills and

she said brother Dave I’m just a week or

two from in on

streets and then there were two other

ladies their husbands are beating them

and they’re afraid for themselves and

for their children and they try to get

in the safe hous and the safe houses

have waiting

lists so I I I lay

down

[Music]

and pity yes sympathy yes but the whole

night something else was going on Lord

what do we do

I said’ Lord I’m 65 and I’m tired you

see I’ve spent enough time with drug

addicts alcoholics and everything else

not another

program but then you see the little

fiveyear old five day old

baby and you say we’re the Church of

Jesus

Christ and we we’re just opening Timothy

house rather Isaiah house down here as

being open in just about 2 3 weeks and

we’re moving Timothy house down there

and suddenly there it was where you’re

going to have 10

Apartments moving Timothy house out

we’re going to have a house for

abandoned battered women and

[Applause]

children folks I’m not boasting

in I’m not boasting at

all because I didn’t want to do anything

like

that but you see the Church of Jesus

Christ is going to have the poor cast

their feet and Jesus I have compassion I

will not turn them away I will not put

them aside he says I’ll do something

about it now folks we’re only going to

be able to deal with maybe putting two

mothers and their children in in a

single two-bedroom apartment we may be

able to take care of 18 we kept 6 months

maybe 36 women and and maybe 50 to 100

children in a year that’s just a drop in

a bucket but something has to be

done we’re talking about the meaning of

compassion is not sympathy and pity in

itself it’s that but it’s what can I do

not just as a church but as an

individual what do I do God what do you

want me to do

let me tell

you about the kind of outpouring of the

Holy Ghost I’d like to see in this

church and in New York

City we spent a lot of time in prayer in

this church we’ve just concluded a

24hour day 30-day prayer chain if you

know and in January we go back into a

prayer mode and fasting we’re adding

fasting to it and and brother Carter has

had this burden and I I shared his

burden on that and we’re going to go

into to prayer and fasting but exactly

what are we praying about what are we

asking God to

do I have a wonderful friend the late uh

Leonard Raven Hill great prophet of God

wrote why revival terries and other

books he used to work for me and with me

here in New York City great man of God

written many books Sodom had no Bible a

prophet true prophet and he he died in

his late 7s didn’t he the CR around 75

or 80 85 and gray-haired wonderful

Prophet but I’d sit for hours talking to

Lyn and he was talking for 60 years

about a great Revival coming and he he

died not seeing that Revival he preached

about all his life I was born and raised

in Pentecost that’s all I heard my

father talk my grandfather this great

Revival that’s coming it was always

coming you go to camp meeting the

Evangelist talk about there’s a Revival

coming God’s going to sweep multitudes

into the kingdom and basically behind it

is this idea we won’t have to go out in

the streets we don’t have to get our

hands dirty we can just stay here and

pray and God through prayer is going to

send this great Revival folks I’ve been

I’ve been hearing about Revival I’m 65

I’ve been and and called to preach when

I was 8 years old so that’s over 50

years of hearing about that Revival down

there

somewhere the definition of Revival is

the Awakening or resurrection of that

which threatens to become a

corpse but that’s not what the church is

supposed to be the church is not

supposed to have to be resurrected from

the

dead we shouldn’t have to be praying for

Revival in fact as of tonight God

helping me I jettison from my vocabulary

the word

Revival now don’t get shocked let me

tell you what I’m talking about not

prove it to you from the scripture and

that’s exactly where we’re going to

go while we’re talking about

Revival and while we’re praying for

Revival in the past 10 years one half of

our teenagers now smoke

pot over a third of our teenagers drink

12 yearolds are indulg in

sex 14-year-old girls are having

babies we’ve lost an entire generation

of cynical hard disillusioned young

people we’ve lost that whole generation

while we’ve been praying for

Revival American cities are about to

burst into

flames our nation is sated with sex

pleasure the idolatry is

Sports One of every two marriages now

end in divorce

the sobbing sounds of hungry battered

children now rise like Thunder from our

streets homosexuals are demanding rights

for marriage desperate fathers are

roaming the streets by the hundreds

looking for jobs if you’re a black man

you can’t get a job in most cities now

they won’t even interview you if you

don’t have any kind of skill they won’t

even interview you for a job and you see

all of this happening we’re heading for

a new century the year 2000 and the

church is going to face a crisis of

human need unknown in all

history we’re facing

it now if you tended to come just shout

here tonight you you you go and miss

it God’s speaking to me and I want him

to speak to

you we’re going to have human need cast

at our

feet that is indescribable

you’re going to have it in your

neighborhood you’re going to have it

everywhere I received a letter this past

week from somebody who attends this

church and the letter went like this

times brother Dave Times Square Church

is too

stiff we need healing lines we need

miracle meetings we need more signs and

wonders like brother so and so on

television she named the

Evangelist I’d like to answer that

lovingly but

publicly sister let me tell you how you

can help us Create A great

miracle how you can produce a great sign

and wonder to your whole neighborhood

and to every sinner that knows

you this young lady that I talked about

needs a

place she’s

single she’s willing to work how about

taking her into your extra bedroom

[Applause]

a

miracle oh yes a sign a Wonder oh yes to

every unbeliever says that’s what Christ

is about that’s what Christianity ought

to be

[Applause]

about if I read my Bible right

Christians should not have to be in a

place where they have to be

revived the Bible says if you are

meeting human need if you’re obeying the

command of Jesus to be compassion in the

world and you’re giving yourself to the

needs of others that you’re going to be

a wellwater

garden let me show that to you go to

Psalm go to Isaiah 58 you know it

Isaiah

58 begin to read verse

5 is it such a fast that I’ve chosen a

day for a man to afflict his soul is it

to bow down his head as a bull rush and

to spread sackcloth and Ashes under him

will they not call this a fast an

acceptable day to the Lord is not this

the fast that I’ve chosen loose the

bands of wickedness undo the heavy

burdens let the oppressed Go free that

they may break every yoke

is it not to deal thy bread to the

hungry that thou bring the poor that are

cast out to thy house when thou seest

the naked that you cover them him that

thou not hide thyself from thy own flesh

then shall thy light Break Forth as the

morning thy Health shall spring forth

speedily thy righteousness shall go

before Thee the glory of the Lord shall

be thy re reward then shall thou call

and the Lord shall answer thou sht cry

and he shall say here I am if you take

away from the midst of Thee the Yoke

that put forth to the finger and

speaking vanity and if thou draw out thy

soul to the hungry and satisfy The

Afflicted Soul then shall thy light rise

and obscurity and thy Darkness be as the

noon day now listen verse 11 and the

Lord shall guide thee continually

satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat

thy bones and thou shall be like a

well-watered garden like a spring of

water whose Waters fail not and they

that shall be of thee shall build the

old waste places thou shall raise up the

foundation of many gener ations and thou

shall be called the repair of the breach

the restore of passed the dwell in now

look this way

please I I had a minister friend

acquaintance who was trying to explain

to me a a tape that I saw of what was

being called a great Revival and I saw

the strangest manifestations I’ve ever

seen in my life now folks I’ve born and

raised in Pentecost and camp meetings

and I’ve seen almost everything the

laughter that we see today is not new

folks I had holy laughter on me when I

was 10 years old laughed for hours and

then wept for hours and it was all

because of conviction of the Holy Ghost

there’s nothing new to that I’ve seen

men uh jump and run over in Old camp

meetings down the the tops of chairs and

not miss a chair I I’ve seen things but

this that I didn’t sit it was there was

something in my spirit that didn’t it

was just grinding inside and I I he was

trying to

explain why the Evangelist there was a

man laying there and he’s pumping him

say pump up old Joy pump up old joy and

I saying explain that to me explain that

to me because here’s another man started

to weep he said no crying here this not

prayer meeting this is laughter time and

I was so grieved I said explain that to

me he said but in essence the

explanation goes something like this

where you see that Christians have

become so empty and so dry

that God’s trying to bring back Joy

they’ve lost their

Joy they don’t get any good preaching

anymore and so the Lord had to come and

wake up his church with

joy let me ask you how they got that

way how did it come to the

church because they didn’t deal with

God’s word in Isaiah 58 no burden for

Missions no burden for the people on the

streets no burden for the poor but sit

around and complain about the how money

is going here and money going there

complain and talk about it walk right

past the poor and the needy churches

that have no

outreaches no Outreach no feeding

program

nothing somebody asked one of our elders

recent ly uh what’s going on at Times

Square Church is some new teaching

series any new kind of

Revival what’s the new truth coming

out said well we’re opening Isaiah house

and Timothy house is full and God’s

blessing Sarah house and our food truck

and you know what One Pastor said we’re

not into that kind of stuff

got 100 people sitting there for 5

years rolling on the floor and having a

great

Revival God help

us what are we going to do we’re going

to pump these people up listen to me pre

we’re going to keep uh first of all

where where are the Shepherds that are

there feeding them where are those

leading people into human needs so that

when they come to church Church they

have a well-watered garden there’s a

spring springing up because the Lord

said I’ll do that for you I’ll do that

for the church I’ll do it for any Prayer

church minist I’ll do it for

anybody you know that the the the the

moravians came to this city with the

Dutch over 300 almost 300 years and they

got interested first of all they had a

church but they reached out to the poor

the moravians had that Ministry to the

poor do you know that all the churches

are gone that were here but the

moravians are still feeding the poor

here in the city they have one of the

great feeding programs in New York and

the Moravian thing is still gone after

all these years do you know that down at

the bowry they’re still going after 150

years Jerry mcau after 160

years and God’s meeting the need while

all the churches of those days are gone

they the

dust do you know why this church is debt

free this church paid $16 million for

this theater without taking an offering

or making an

appeal folks no clapping

please God has entrusted through this

church millions of

dollars because God showed us a long

time ago where his heart

was and when you do that in your own

life when you start giving when you

start spending less for yourself

yourself and you begin to give to human

need you start taking people in here

here’s an elder one of our elders he’s

got 11 people in his house he picks up

every stray he can find I I mean good

Strays forgive me I’m I’m talking about

homeless he’s got some of them here I’m

not trying to call you

Strays I’m sorry I made a mistake on

that but needy people hungry people

thirsty people for

God one of our brothers came back last

night he said brother da I saw a

homeless young man he said do you mind

if I take him into my house do I mind he

said you think it’s okay for me to take

him in and minister to him I said oh

yes if if you will deal your bread to

the hungry if you bring the poor that

are cast out to your house if you will

cover the

naked if you don’t hide from the poor

you draw out your soul to the and

satisfy the suffering Soul then the Lord

shall guide you continually he satisfy

your soul thou shall be like a water

garden uh uh and like a spring of water

whose Waters fail

not you should never have to go

anywhere you should not have to travel

by bus plane or anywhere you shouldn’t

have to travel any farther than your

neighborhood to have the greatest kind

of Revival that you could ever imagine

you can be a well-watered garden where

you don’t have to end up dry and what

what bothers me are we going to get all

these people

resurrected and what are you going to do

with them then send them back and let

them die

again no the Lord says go out and meet

the needs you around you say brother I’d

like to be compassionate I want to help

what can I do how can I make a change

let me tell you what I’m praying about I

don’t know I you see one thing I do know

God answers prayer and if there’s any

prayer he’s going to answer it’s this

prayer when you and I as Christians say

oh God I see what’s happening and the

only Jesus this city going to see is

what they see through US Lord there’s

all kinds of human need around me you’re

going to have to direct me you’re going

to have to show me I am ready I’m

willing with my pocketbook I’m willing

with my house I’m willing with my time

lord show me and I tell you he will this

church has so many Ministries you can

get involved in all you have to do is

call our church office we’ll direct you

to Ministry you can get on the food

truck you you can go down and help at

the upper room with our feeding programs

there are all kinds of Ministries the

the Hospital visitation all kinds and

and if you’re if this is what bothered

me I’m going to close in just a few

minutes all I see today when I

travel what I hear from those who travel

and the little bit of traveling I’ve

done is the church is so introspected

now everybody’s into their own headaches

and their problems and and Elder

preaching is how to cope with loneliness

and

fear what’s happened to the church that

we’re so introspective and everything

now is span on

ourselves are you lonely volunteer to go

in the hospital and sit with somebody

you won’t be lonely before that night is

over got take all your Lon this out of

you you need a

friend pick somebody off the street and

say we’re going to McDonald’s and just

sit there get him a hamburger and talk

to him about

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Jesus

Hallelujah I was

hungry but you gave me no food now for

those who don’t you’re not comfortable

the Old Testament let me make you

comfortable in the new or uncomfortable

in the

new well this I close I was hungry you

gave me no food I was thirsty you gave

me no drink I was a stranger you didn’t

take me in I was naked you didn’t clothe

me I was sick you didn’t visit me I was

in prison you didn’t visit me verily I

son to you as you did it not to one of

the east of these you did it not unto me

these shall go into Everlasting ing

punishment in J 1 John 3:17 whosoever ha

this world’s good sees his brother have

a need and shuts up his bows and

compassion him how dwelleth the love of

God in

him I know one thing I’m on my face I

heard brother Carter say the same thing

I heard his cry this afternoon oh God

how can I make a difference show me

how I I tell you and I I promise you

this the leadership of this church is

praying is diligently it’s ever prayed

on any matter in the history of this

church we’ve been praying God show us

how to meet the need of those that are

cast at our feet you don’t have to go

out and look even it comes if you want

it folks it comes to us it comes to us

but would you reach out and ask God how

you can make a difference

God wants every one of us to be a part

of those 880,000 huers of out in the

quaries those Stone quaries where they

were cutting the

stones we heard about this

afternoon I want you to

stand may I ask you a question a balcony

in the main floor I know most of you

when you hear what’s happening to our

country and you see the children

children and the neglect and the

abuse you see all these things that are

happening to our land and especially if

you’re a New Yorker and what you see we

have people come all the United States

and uh they just shake their head

they’ll come backstage and shake their

head said oh man we see what you’re up

against now they just shake their head

and one man I just can’t wait to get out

of here he said I’ve been here three

days he I don’t know how you do it you

know how you do it through the power of

the Holy Ghost the power of the Holy

Spirit but how many of you tonight would

like to make a difference in your

neighborhood and in this city I mean

personally you want to make a difference

raise your hand High come on raise it up

before the Lord father I want you to

look at these hands tonight balcony in

this main floor right now hands of your

children Lord who want to make a

difference Lord you’re going to have to

as they pray about it as they’re

diligent about it as they’re honest with

you about it you’ll open doors that no

man can shut you’ll bring the human need

right to their doorstep Jesus you didn’t

have to go they came and cast it at your

feet it and Lord you’re going to cast

these needs right at our feet let us be

ready and willing to help in any way

possible to a Loving Heart of Jesus we

don’t have it in ourselves Lord but you

have it to give to us you have all the

compassion that we need you can put your

hands down

uh before I close before we close I came

to this

city uh 35 years

ago brother crle I think is probably 50

years ago I don’t know how long ago you

heard him preach with this PO the times

he just wed these streets and

weep and I’ve wept a lot

too and sometimes I feel like my heart I

I I’ve gotten a little used to it and I

i’ like to I would like to just gush out

a River of Tears now that would make me

feel great it would make me feel very

compassionate but you see God doesn’t

work on

feelings I would rather people do it

even if they did it without feelings so

that the needs were met and if you go

out and do it without feelings once you

do it he’ll give you the

feelings but if you do it only on

feelings you do it once satisfy that

emotion then you’re gone back to your

old ways so we need to be praying in

January especially that everybody that

attends this church would become a soul

winner everybody here would would be

somebody who is willing to get involved

in any way the Holy Ghost leads them and

and uh even if you if you volunteer to

teach these little children we’ve got so

many children that come to this church

from ghetto areas and and only they have

no fathers and so many many troubled

little children and you can offer

yourselves we need dozens more of

workers we need volunteers now to go to

mosambique we we we need over 100

volunteers to go short missions term to

Russia there’s all kinds of

opportunities if you’re willing and open

before the Lord to ask for that

Compassionate Heart of Jesus I don’t

worry about my tears anymore I just say

Lord show me what to do I’ll do it just

talk to me I’ll do it Hallelujah and

then you know what happens there’s such

a joy that comes there’s a joy that

comes with it Heavenly

Father we’ve seen the needs of mosm Beek

tonight we spent so many Sundays in this

church worshiping praising the Lord and

getting blessed but Lord I think you’re

building a fire under us now and when we

start praying again in in January

there’s going to be a different

direction we’re going to fast but we’re

going to add to that fast Lord all that

you said in Isaiah

58 thank you Lord that Isaiah house is

opening now thank you Lord that we’re

going to have a place for women and Lord

soon the farm opens up for the children

we thank you for all of these but Lord

most of all we thank you for your giving

Christ to us giving your own son and

giving us hope we love you Jesus

Hallelujah Lord send the poor to this

church send the poorest to this church

send the neediest to this church and

help us not to just ring our hands and

say it’s too much let us do what we can

with your help oh God let timecar Church

be a loving Church an Evangelistic

Church a missions Church a giving church

not just our money but our time and our

very houses is in our very Apartments

everything oh God to

you Hallelujah this is the conclusion of

the

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