David Wilkerson – The Tender Mercies of God – Full Sermon
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I want to speak to you this morning
about The Tender Mercies of God The
Tender Mercies of the Lord would you uh
go to Psalm 145 let me start there Psalm
145 and let’s go to verses 8 and N Psalm
145
verses the Lord
how many are ready for a message on
Mercy a happy
message Lord thank you for your Tender
Mercies oh God we sit here now in this
house thanking you because none of us
would be here without your mercy if we
got what we deserve we would be in hell
oh thank you Jesus for loving us thank
you for the tenderness of your heart
Lord we pray that many that walked here
in this morning will be encouraged and
many Lord who have have thought only
that you angry with them that you are
have left them and that you are are
chasing them Lord It’s Only in love that
you would Chase anyone it’s only in your
Tender Mercies Lord that you would allow
us to go through any difficulty and
trouble or Despair and many of those
that are going through battles they
explain more of that to them and help
them to understand the purpose of it now
Lord I need a quickening in my physical
body and I need your help Holy Spirit I
acknowledge you in Christ’s name I pray
amen I ask you a question I’ve been
asking
myself are you a merciful
person are you one of those who really
care about the hurts and the needs of
others
uh if I ask your husband or wife what
would they
say if I ask your co-partners or
co-workers on your job what would they
say uh what would you what do you say to
yourself sitting in this congregation
now about your compassion and concern
you say yes I I I think Pastor Dave I
would say that to the best of my
knowledge the best of my ability I I’m a
compassionate person I I am merciful I’m
for forgiving when people hurt me I I
easily forgive I hold no
grudges uh I hope that’s your confession
right now and I ask it again in the
annex and all over the house are you
really a forgiving merciful person are
you tender and which way are you growing
right now are you growing toward
tenderness are you growing a little more
grouchy uh how was it on the way to
church this morning in your car
on the subway with your family how much
uh what kind of looks did you pass
between one
another and and and more than that it’s
a heart issue what is truly in your
heart because whatever in your heart’s
going to come out one way or another you
can’t hide it is going to come out and I
would hope that every Christian here
especially if time sare church is your
home you you you have a good measure of
of loving kindness in your heart heart
but the truth is the word of God
exposes a bias a a a a limited concept
of Mercy Tender Mercies we have a
limited concept many of us have a
Prejudice and a bias in our heart that
we don’t want to admit to but the Bible
lets nothing stay hidden it’s a bous sin
will find you out if it’s not confessed
and forsaken it’ll find you out the
truth of the matter is a lot of people
who preach and talk about the Tender
Mercies of God really don’t uh extend it
to
others let’s talk about denominations
right now I’m I’m leaving in a few weeks
for Uruguay and and in the past five
years I think we’ve covered almost 50
Nations and you you go to sou many South
American countries and you’ll find five
six seven brands of Assemblies of God
you’ll find 15 uh branches of Baptist
different names of them they’ve all
splits from other Ministries and none of
them talk to each other not even those
branches of the Assemblies of God uh and
it’s all over the world it’s in Russia
it it’s in China among Christians those
who talk about The Tender Mercies of God
are not showing it many places not
extending that love and mercy of God to
one another another you you uh there’s
there’s one country that wouldn’t even
allow our advaned team to come into
their office because they they thought I
was turning a little worldly my
preaching wasn’t strong enough and I was
cooperating with other
denominations and so they said we can’t
do that if now if you come exclusively
with us uh you can come but I don’t want
to come exclusively because I believe
the tenderness of Jesus Christ is
extended to all mankind
and we we see a church around the world
divided it it makes me wonder if they
don’t think they’re going to heaven
because if we’re all going to get
together in heaven Under The Tender
Mercies of Christ it better get together
soon time’s running
out you see these tender loving mercies
we talk about you go into many churches
today that are primarily white churches
and and the tender loving mercies are
not extended people of color that’s
that’s not just in the South that’s
right here in New York City there are
some churches that are black if you go
in there is a white group a group of 10
15 20 whites you’re going to get looks
and you’re going to feel
uncomfortable whether it’s black whether
it’s white whether it’s Hispanic I’ve
been in Hispanic churches visiting where
I did not feel
comfortable really was not fully
accepted I wasn’t looking for some kind
of acceptance but the knowledge was
there right in your face that this is
not your
place we do not
expend extend the loving mercies we we
have these cultural biases we have these
things that in our heart that run in
deep rivers that have been and and and
borders that have been carved over
centuries and and it it comes out even
among the best and holiest of Christians
when it comes to a bias against certain
kinds of
Sinners this merciful loving kindness of
the Lord is not extended by some people
to homosexuals for example and and uh I
I tell you right off I believe
homosexuality is antis scriptural I
believe the scriptures clearly against
homosexuality against marriages between
gays but you see sometimes we get such
wrath we we get so angry angry at at the
sin we Mark The Sinner himself and there
are many homosexuals now the that when
you get one to one with some that are
going through the trial of their life
and and they’ve had uh all kinds of of
heartaches and difficulties and drinking
to cover pain and and then you hear a
cry and I can’t believe that my savior
who who is is full of tender mercies
would turn down the Cry of a prostitute
a drug addict alcoholic homosexual I’m
not trying to list with all all
others or anything else I’m making no
statement but I’m saying I don’t believe
the Church of Jesus Christ or a True
Believer can cut off anybody I don’t
believe we have that right and I don’t
believe the Tender Mercies of Christ cut
off anybody from the cross and from
salvation from from faith in Jesus
Christ but there is a bias there’s a
bias against AIDS I I can take you to
churches primarily in Deep South and I
say this as kindly as I can I could
never get up and talk about dying babies
dying of AIDS in Africa I could not tell
what we’re doing in helping uh orphans
that have been orphaned who have
no their parents have died of AIDS and
and this cry against the sin
you know well age is tied to certain
kinds of sexual behavior and so they tie
everyone and including the Assembly of
God Pastor who died recently in Africa
of AIDS and he he picked it up from
earlier before he was ever saved and and
and uh there’s still that that bias in
many people where they can’t break
through with a Tender Mercies of God
they can’t believe God for these people
God forbid that be ever in this church
God forbid it be anything in your heart
the mercies of God are
unlimited there are unlimited there is
no limit to the mercy of
God but the truth is there are there is
some of this bias in many hearts the
truth is folks this we we the world now
has come to The Perfect
Storm we don’t know how to handle the
news anymore we can’t keep up with the
sudden fears the fires the floods the
Hurricanes the tornadoes the terrorism
the genocides Islamic jihads the wars
and rumors of wars Nation Rising against
Nation a world and a society who’s
waiting just waiting on pins and needles
for that one end all scenario some
nuclear explosion either in the United
States or somewhere else an endof
scenario and people are living in
constant fear around the world we don’t
know how to handle the news many people
say I don’t turn on the news anymore
can’t handle it and we’re becoming numb
it’s just a numbing thing because every
day there’s something new breaking out
and finally we back off we we we back
off completely because we don’t know how
to
handle and you see in this perfect storm
we we find a tragic situation we find
for the most part a powerless
church that cannot withstand the tides
that are coming you can be sure that
we’re just very close to uh probably
four or five major
denominations ordaining or or rather
marrying homosexuals in their churches
ordaining priest ordaining ministers as
homosexuals that is coming it’s a tithe
that can’t seem to be stopped there are
tithes of sin and iniquity that are
coming and I want you to know that the
old dead
Prejudice uh a a
disunited church that has turned away
from the birth the Divinity of Jesus
Christ the Virgin birth and and now have
blessed homosexuality is as a not only
accepted but often a preferred way of
life folks we don’t rail against
homosexuals in this church we we have
numbers in this church that know the
power of Christ the forgiving power and
have come under the Tender Mercies of
Christ and have been delivered from that
kind of
Lifestyle but you see where is that the
church folks let me tell you God is
finished with what he calls the Shiloh
Church that church that lost the
anointing that church upon which he has
written IAB the glory of the Lord has
departed that includes many in the
Episcopal movement church now that is
being split wide open it’s not just the
Episcopalian Church it’s creeping into
the Evangelical circles as well more and
more tolerance they call it tolerance is
not the tender mercy of God tolerance
can be
blindness yes we need to be tolerant but
that’s only under the banner of The
Tender Love of Jesus Jesus Christ and
the limitations of the precious holy
word of God the boundaries of the word
of
God but see where is the church God God
has nothing to do with this
dead biased
church he he he is moving on he’s not
going to work through it he’s not going
to resurrect that now God’s mercies
God’s Tender Mercies are extended to the
dead dry formal Church his his Mercy is
there there and it can be just like God
it can just be like the Holy Spirit to
come down in these last days in one of
the deadest churches in the world
whatever that may be and send a holy
ghost Revival Stir It and shake it and
surprise all of
us how many believe he’s able to do
that but you see God God has a plan God
has something in his
mind in this perfect storm that we’re
living in
now you see I’m really not interested in
bringing to you this morning some great
news of an incredible move of God that’s
going to come and sweep uh thousands and
millions into his
kingdom that may be I hope and I pray
that I’m not here to tell you about some
great Army God’s raising up now that are
they they’re going to be uh they’re
going to take on Islam and they’re going
to take on the powers of hell and
everything’s going to change and
everything’s going to be shaken by a
people that rise up uh as an
army I’m I’m I’m not interested this
morning in talking about some great new
Revival
movement that’s not my purpose this
morning I see something different I see
something entirely different I believe
the holy spirit is going to move in
these last days he is moving now he’s
moving in China he’s moving in South
America he’s moving in many countries
and he’s not finished with his work here
in the United States but see I see
something different I see God preparing
a people by breaking them by breaking
their will by
by bringing to a people to a place where
they need a miracle to get out to
survive and this is happening in the
Church of Jesus Christ never in history
has there been such intense testing and
trials never all over the world
everywhere I go you hear the same thing
the same thing that’s happening in your
life and the suffering and and and the
distress and the afflictions not only
are they many are the afflictions of the
righteous but me very intense are the
afflictions of the
righteous I’m telling you I can look you
in the face this morning and I can tell
you without maybe even knowing your name
you may be a visitor but I can look you
in the face and say if you love Jesus if
you’ve been walking with God with all
your heart you’re in a test like you’ve
never been in your life you’re going
through things that are overwhelming
you’re going through things that only
God can do something about only he can
bring it through is that why you’re
quiet is there anybody here is there
anybody here that sees nothing but blue
skies and everything is a okay and you
don’t have any
problems I I can’t have you raise your
hand I really don’t want you to tell a
fit we are being tested we’re being
tried because you see God’s trying to
produce something in his church you see
the jihadists now have training camps
all over the world and in these training
camps they’re training into hatred into
bitterness into Terror the
beheading the The Chopping of fingers
the the the the absolute Merc un
mercifulness the the bitterness not only
in Islam but other major religions but
the jihadists now are are planning they
say this is the final Jihad and we’re
taking over the world for Allah and even
the president of Iran remember has built
a great
10 uh Lane highway right down the middle
of teron to bring back the 12th Iman
he’s coming down that Avenue and they’re
getting ready and he says it’s within
two
years and you see that in this
time is is the Lord just sitting back
letting the devil have his
way are the flood Tides going to rise in
the Church of Jesus Christ is is
sticking somewhere in a corner hiding
with with without power without
anointing without
unction that could never be but you see
our Lord doesn’t fight with the weapons
the enemy fights our God is going to
combat the hatred and bitterness of
these of of these religions he going to
do it with his love and tender Mercy our
God is a god of love the Lord had a plan
all along he would come down and take on
the form of man and the condition of
humanity
and he would take the
abuse our sa Our God came in flesh and
this was his plan he would take all the
abuse he would get to know our feelings
our
infirmities our sufferings he would
endure the terror and the
mockery he would allow them to take his
body and abuse it and and destroy it he
would be cast in the grave and he would
come out as the first born of a new kind
of church another church another people
out of every race there would be no Jew
in it there would be no Gentile there be
they were Jews Gentiles muhammadans
islamics all who came under the
knowledge of the Saving Grace of Jesus
Christ and were all by faith brought
into one body into one man that’s what
the Bible says in the last day God’s
raising up one man everyone of us in
Jesus Christ I don’t care what your
background is I don’t care if you’re
Baptist Methodist Pentecostal catholic
whatever you be if you know Jesus Christ
as your lord and savior if you’ve been
born again through his blood you and
you’re walking in the power and the
anointing of the Holy Spirit and Jesus
alone is Lord in your life then you’re a
part of this body you’re a part of what
God is doing in the last day it has
always been
Jesus would come as an expression of the
mercy and the love of God he was love
manifested the Bible says blessed be God
even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ
the father of mercies and the God of all
comfort you see God’s taking a people
through hard times that they may learn
the the consoling power of the Holy
Spirit they’re going to be brought to
places where only a miracle can bring
them out where they become totally
dependent on God all their resources and
they they cry out God if you don’t come
if you don’t do it it can’t be done so
live or die I am yours I’m going to
trust you and these are attested people
because uh darker the times get the more
intense the battle becomes the more
people are going to need consolation
they’re going to need hope they’re going
to need to look at somebody that’s been
through the hell and the battle they’re
going to have to know somebody and
that’s the testimony of the last day he
said our weapons are not carnal But
Mighty through God in pulling down
strongholds not with bombs not with
swords but by the love of Jesus Christ
and The Tender Mercies of the Cross and
the blood of Jesus no other battle no
other battle plan one body one man
against all the forces of Hell one man
let them gather their armies let them
build their nuclear AR
arals all it takes from God is one word
now he could end it at any time he could
Lord could call leads and of Angel right
now move into
Iran save people touch people destroy
the leadership that wants to bring chaos
to the world he’s got a legion of angel
in fact by the way he’s got an angel
standing by it’s still on call who
killed 185 foreign troops at one time in
Israel he’s still on call he didn’t
die if the Lord wants to deal with Sodom
nature Sodom Nations all he has to do
call those two angels that did a job
overnight on Sodom uh that destroyed
Sodom he could call down far from Heaven
God could end it just one word from
Heaven could end it
all but you see that’s not the spirit of
nature of our loving God he’s not like
the apostles who when they in those in
Samar rejected the Lord then uh they saw
that and the disciples turned and said
Lord can we call fire down at Heaven
consum
him folks that’s not the battlecry of
the Church of Jesus Christ that may be
the jihadist but not the Church of Jesus
Christ no the Lord said you don’t know
what your spir What Spirit you’re of
folks I’m going to ask you do you know
what Spirit you are of and what are the
headlines doing to you what what are the
news reports doing to your heart do do
you listen on radio to these they call
them Talking
Heads I don’t know what that means these
are men that can’t talking I mean for
hours and hours and and they get into
your system they get into your hearing
and it gets into your heart and plans
the seed oh Church of Jesus Christ turn
it
off don’t get down into some political
mud
bath don’t get into stuff that’s going
to end up nothing but
race that has no place in the Church of
Jesus Christ I want no part of it
because Jesus is coming and I don’t want
any mud on my hands or on my
feet you can clap that’s all
[Applause]
right I’m going to take you into the
word
I have time
yes there’s there’s a book in the Bible
that explains everything I’m trying to
talk to you about this morning it’s
called The Book of
Jonah the Book of Jonah can you turn to
Jonah going talk about Jonah for the
next 15 minutes I’m not going to preach
long but I want you to
see something about The Tender Mercies
of go our God
now while you’re finding that let me let
me tell you about the Book of Jonah it’s
it is accepted by Bible scholars most
Bible scholars that Jonah wrote this
book now this this is an unvarnished
confession of a man who admits that he
is biased concerning the mercy of
God now he’s called by God now we we we
he first comes up in the
scripture uh in a prophecy in in Kings
and it was fulfilled a prophecy of Jonah
was fulfilled by jeroboam years after
his prophecy he he
followed
uh not Isaiah Isaiah but I who followed
Isaiah he he was a contemporary of that
that time and he he made a loving
prophecy a heeding prophecy God was
going to take away the bitterness uh of
the enemies of Israel formed against it
so we we know that he was a revered
prophet in Israel and God calls him to
go against the wicked city of Nineveh
now Nineveh was the Iran of his time
that that’s like saying to to me or
someone a pastor this church to go to
Iran and prophesy 40 days from now this
is all over it’s coming
down because Nineveh was a bitter enemy
against Israel wanting the destruction
of Israel it was a wicked vile City now
Noah or Jonah grows up with this with
this in his heart and in his mind he’s
trained that way Nineveh of anything
should be destroyed and God why would I
go and and preach Deliverance to them
why are preach uh this to them because
they are our
enemy and and Jonah you remember takes a
boat he turns from the presence of God
and takes gets on a boat going in the
opposite
direction now remember this is his own
confession it’s unvarnished he he
Reveals His heart as having a bias a
Prejudice concerning the mercy of God he
believed in the mercy of God for Israel
and you will find all through that
prophetic time that they say oh God let
your mercy come to to me the prophets PR
cried that David cried that let your
mercies come to me they believed in the
mercies of God upon the individual they
believed in the mercy of God for Israel
for people like us and they said come oh
God and bless our land send your Tender
Mercies upon Israel but see they could
not extend
the loving mercy of God against their
enemies and this was the bias that was
in Jonah he runs from God’s presence
gets on the boat and heads in the
opposite direction of course God raises
up a great storm a great Fury in the
sea Jonah is fast asleep in in in the
lower
deck of course you know the story he’s
awakened and they they find out that
he’s the cause of the storm they asked
what can we do and under his own
Direction Jonah said uh throw me in the
sea and the your problems will be over I
I don’t know why he just didn’t
jump I I’m never figured the Theology of
it but the Bible says God prepared a
great
fish now I was amused when I was doing
some background study on this and uh a
modern commentator who doesn’t believe
in in Miracles and said that that’s not
the way it happened they threw him
overboard and and a passing fishing tler
picked him up and the name of the tler
was sea
monster that’s they said that’s where
the monster comes from that’s where the
big fish it was a boat like they he
never explain how that boat vomited Joan
Under gr
land but you see that God had prepared a
fish and he says out of the belly of
hell I cried out of the belly of hell
you see Jonah re wasn’t ready to go to
Nineveh now this was not God’s divine
plan God never intended that he run
because I believe God before he ever got
to Nineveh would have dealt with Joseph
or Jonah there would have been a trial
there would have been something come to
try to expose what was in the heart of
this man so so God takes him down into
an experience
job or Jonah himself said this is God’s
doing God has brought these waves over
my head God has has done this in my life
the suffering that I’m going through now
I know is God at work in me now you may
be sitting here now and you say well
brother Wilson I I’m going through a
great trial I’m going through a test of
my life and and I’m not running from God
I’m not a Jonah and I can’t say that I
believe that God is doing this to me or
in me or putting me through this but the
Bible still says many are the
afflictions of the
righteous and and E even if we call it
the chastening of the Lord you can be
assured that it’s in love because he
said whom the Lord loves he chastens so
any way you look at it God is at work
somewhere trying to accomplish
something and the older I get and the
longer I walk with God the more I cease
something clear and clear about what God
is trying to do in Jonah’s life before
he gets to Nineveh and what he’s trying
to do in my life when I go through
trials that are
overwhelming I I begin to see more and
more that God has a
purpose there there’s something God is
trying to do and I say this with all
love and consideration for everybody in
this congregation whatever you’re going
through there is a Divine
Purpose and and I see more and more one
single Divine Purpose upon which all
other works
Depend and it’s done through the Tender
Mercies of the
Lord Jonah comes out of this having not
learned his lesson and I’ll tell you
what it is right off God’s trying to
soften
him he’s trying to bring forth the
tender Spirit he doesn’t want him to go
in
anger because what job did before or
what Jonah did before he he left and
fled he argued with the Lord he said I
know you you’re gracious you’re
tenderhearted you’re forgiving and I
know that at the first impulse of
repentance in
Nineveh you’re going to lift your hand
and I’m going to be the biggest fool in
the
land that going to laugh me out of ninev
I won’t be able to go back to that City
it’ll spread all through the
Mediterranean every sailor will know
nobody in isra is going to listen to
another prophecy I make nobody because
I’m going to be a reproach
now now folks I I believe more than ever
and this this has put a fear gu in my
heart I’ve made a number of prophetic
utterances in my lifetime but you see
God God’s saying to Jonah you just do
what I told you to do and walk away and
don’t worry about the results and be
willing to be made a
reproach I have been talking about a
thousand fires coming to New York City
for a number of
years if that prophecy is truly from God
then something has to happen in my heart
I have to be willing to pray and believe
and hope it never
happens I have and I believe God’s
brought that worked that in my heart I
don’t want to see it because of all of
those who now I love and appreciate and
and and other churches and all the great
work of God here in this city I don’t
want to see
it because you see I’m I’m seeing
something of his Tender Mercies because
God never does bring his servants into
reproach he would not reproach me he
would not reproach anybody but right now
prophecies are going all over the land
they’re they’re coming by the hundred
prophecies and this little town over
here watch out they they have just uh
they’ve just passed the a law that you
can get married there I don’t want to be
in that town judgment’s coming on you
and and be careful folks
I there has to be something in behind
the prophetic voice there has to be
something there Brokenness and tears
there has to be something that says I I
would rather be made the fool of the
world
world than for this to
happen you
see Jonah knew the word he’s a good man
he’s a righteous man he walks in prayer
he knows how to pray he knows how to
touch God but there’s a problem in his
life so God takes him down into the pit
and he says I’m going to strip this man
of all hope there’s not going to be any
human person that can touch his heart no
one no counselor no Prophet I’m going to
strip him of all hope I’m going to bring
him down to the end of himself where he
can only say thy will be done and then
I’m going to per pour personal Mercy all
my tender mercy upon him I’m going to
deliver him and I’m going to recall him
and I’m going to anoint him again
because I love this
man I love my church
so he brings him out hoping that he’s
tender hoping that when he stands there
and
tells the ninevites 40
days and it’s all
over and I
think it should have been something like
this and this is just my own
thought that The Closer it
got that Jonah could be up on the
hillside after he’s made his his
prophetic word known and go up on the
hillside and fall before God’s face and
say oh God you showed me tender Mercy
you showed me love when I was rebellious
I was running from
you I’ve had an expression I’ve had a
manifestation of your personal tender
loving mercy God can’t you do it for
this city especially the children won’t
you have Mercy on them like you had on
me but that’s not what
happened he went through this without
learning the lesson folks don’t go
through it that’s what Jonah is
confessing Jon Jonah is saying right out
I’m telling you I failed the
test because the 40th Day came and the
Sun was
shining day 41 comes and nothing happens
a total wave of repentance had swept
through this City the animals are
covered with cloth repentance children
are crying they’re weeping on the
streets the king is sitting on an ash
Heap and the Bible
says and
Jonah was exceedingly
angry and
displeased and said to the Lord kill me
take my life
what kind of spirit is
that and it’s as if Jonah writes his
confession see this not written just for
the Old Testament it’s written for every
Christian every believer in all ages
it’s recorded here as if Jan is saying
can you believe what I was like can can
can you believe I did such a thing can
you believe that after God showed me all
this mercy and the tender
kindness I want God to kill these
people I got angry at God because those
who stood against me are not being
judged they’re getting away with it has
that ever been in your heart someone
hurt you and grieved you you were
divorced your husband mistreated you or
your wife or people in your uh some
family turned against you and and you
don’t see them paying a price is there
something in your heart wants to see God
get
them oh folks I tremble in my heart to
think over my past oh God had there been
times and I’m sure there were nobody on
this Earth has been shown more tender
loving Mercy than I have how H how many
Tender Mercies have you had extended to
you how many sins have has the Lord
covered how how many times could you
have been
uh
destroyed what kind of awful
thoughts has he
forgiven what kind of tender Mercy is he
shown and how hard has your heart
become how do you take it out on
others and this is the story of Jonah
Jonah says look at
me he’s there’s no White Horse no
varnishing he said that’s me
you know what God did for me you know
how I should have been in hell and cut
off and I had more pity for a little
green plant I have more pity for the
ecology I’d rather save
plants I’d rather save the ecology
than the
soul that’s where the world
is now don’t go out here I’m against
global warming or whatever it
is not at
all but this is what the message is all
about The Tender Mercies of God that
have been shown to you and me should
break us down you see he despised the
mercy that God showed him he didn’t
allow it to register in his heart he
didn’t take it seriously
I have to move on because this has been
bro breaking my spirit my heart and any
kind of unforgiveness if there is an
ounce of unforgiveness in you if if your
trial isn’t softening you and making you
more patient toward the sufferings of
others if if if if you can’t look at
sinners now without that uh well but for
the grace of God there’s me no no no
no God forgive us you see God loved
Jonah and Jonah doesn’t white Worship in
he he he doesn’t concoct or invent a
nice story to cover everything up and
and give us a victory report no he
leaves us uh
with himself under a loving rebuke of
God and so what he’s trying to say look
I didn’t learn my lesson then but I’m a
work under
progress that’s what he’s saying he
closes his chapter I’m a work under
progress folks that’s what we all are
God hadn’t been God’s not done with you
he’s not done with me so many things
he’s done but I have a confidence right
now whatever he’s doing in my heart it
has to do with God’s Eternal purpose
bringing me in to the Oneness and the
union with Jesus Christ and bringing me
hope and consolation so that I can give
it to others and showing me mercy and
tender
kindness so that that could flow out of
me to islamics to Sinners of all kinds
and that I could have a
tender
Gentle Spirit I don’t want to close up
my Ministry
with a
hardness I don’t want to close up my
years without my wife
knowing a tender
heart and my
children God make this church make
everyone in this
house give us a soft heartart
soften my heart oh
God would you
stand did you get
this I said I’m not trying to work this
something do you really get it in the
heart Jesus we thank you this
morning for the word that changes Our
Lives Lord how you convict Us in such
tenderness you you you you point out
things in your word to us
and Lord we thank you for the lessons
you’re teaching
us some of us are learning them late in
life but Lord thank you nevertheless
that we have Open Hearts to receive from
you I pray for those going through a
trial or an Affliction they don’t
understand or something distress in
their life or home or family and Lord
It’s just almost too much to
bear Lord help them to realize right now
that you’re going to bring them
out Lord with a sweetness Lord it it’s
so important how we respond to your work
in our lives it’s it’s so important how
we respond we either become bitter or
become
sweeter oh God bring out the sweet of
Christ bring out the tender loving mercy
of your own heart in all of
us could we could you lead in a in a in
a course while I find out what God wants
us to
do I was asking the Holy Spirit what I
was to say in the close of the service
and it’s
this and it’s a word that the Holy
Spirit planted in my heart are
burdened I’m going to give an invitation
to those who are that’s in the sound of
my voice and you’re here you came
perhaps with a burdened
heart weighted down and it’s a heavy
weight and you’re you’re carrying a very
heavy bird I believe the Lord wants to
lift that burden invite you to come this
is called the altar area it’s just where
we come to bring our needs and our hurts
and desires of the Lord if you don’t
know know
Christ if if you’ve never taken that
stand maybe you’re visiting here first
time and this is new to you invite you
to follow the those that are coming and
come to stand here and give your life to
Christ and let him lift this heavy
burden he wants to extend these his
loving tender Mercy to you and if you
have backslidden or turned your back on
the Lord You’ve drifted away you just
drifted away and that’s part of your
burden or maybe be the whole of your
burden upstairs in the balcony go to the
stairs on either sides steps and you can
come down here in the man Auditorium and
uh we’ll wait even for those in the uh
overflow if uh you want to just stand
between the screams or if you feel you
want to come down here for prayer the
Astros will show you how to get down
here the main Auditorium walk down the
aisle please move in close make room for
those will be coming those who carrying
a heavy burden you want to leave with
the spirit of God lifting and change and
if the message dealt with something in
your life follow these that are coming
here and lay it before the Lord As we
sing you still come while I’m talking
and praying Heavenly Father send the
Holy Spirit now in grace and
mercy and do a work in the hearts of
those who have come burdened and
weighted down either by an
Affliction or something of the word that
has wrought something in their heart
Lord a battle they’re going through a
test a Temptation whatever it may be
Lord we all are standing before you
open-faced
openhearted you’re always ready to meet
the need of those who come humbly before
your throne you said come boldly now to
the throne of grace you may obtain mercy
and Grace to help in your time of need
this is that time of need we need Mercy
we need Grace
we need your tender loving touch and
your
Embrace now I I want everyone that’s
come forward right now to pray this
prayer with me quickly Lord Jesus Jes my
heart is
burdened and I am weighted
down and I can’t get out and I can’t
deliver Myself by My Own Strength I come
to you now and I’ve walked down this
aisle and I’ve come to you
to you believing and trusting and TR
That You Hear My Cry My Cry Oh Lord Oh
Lord by your spirit By and By Your Love
forgive me for cleanse me and help
me oh God oh God deliver me according to
your promise ACC to your promise now I
want to pray for you again father in
jesus’ name we come against every
principality and power of Darkness we
come against the enemy that would plot
lies and implant lies into the heart and
into the Mind Lord we will not repeat
these lies we will not listen to them we
deny them we cast them out of our minds
in Jesus name Lord bring your people
through the fire bring them through the
flood and bring victory in the lives of
everyone in this house Lord we stand
Victorious the Church of Jesus Christ is
a Victorious church it’s a triumphant
church and we are not going down lord
we’re going up we thank you Lord for
your presence raise your hands and give
them thanks right now just say thank you
Lord we give you
praise we give you thanks
Hallelujah this is the conclusion of the
message