David Wilkerson – The Prodigal – Short Message
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hallelujah
hallelujah it’s all about you
Jesus you promised you would come and
you have come to these
meetings where you sit just raise your
hands and love him just raise your hands
and love him the Lord is here
oh
Jesus
hallelujah
hallelujah oh Jesus
help
us hallelujah
hallelujah may I talk to you
for a few moments as a
father just a heart-to-heart
talk because God’s been dealing with
me in a simple little story from the
Bible the
prodal I don’t have any notes for this I
don’t have
a
sermon just four little words from the
Holy
Spirit I want to talk to you about
alienation
first you see when you talk about the
prodal son we we picture a sinner we
picture a young man that has
a yearning to go out in the world and
spend himself in lust and sin
and we picture him as the drug addict
the
alcoholic if it’s a female The
Prostitute someone going out giving
themselves to sin and lust in the
world and wind winds up an alienation
from the
father but but what if we’re missing the
greater meaning yes it has to do with
Sinners it has to do with backsliders
coming back to Jesus coming back to the
love of the father but suppose we’re
missing the deeper meaning suppose he’s
a
pastor suppose he’s the Christian
sitting here
now that somehow
developed a concept of a hard
father you know the man who hit his
talent said I knew you you were hard man
so I hid he ran from his
responsibilities what if it’s somebody
whose inheritance is salvation that’s
all of our inheritance and and suppose
it’s it’s it’s a pastor sitting here
suppose it’s the pastor of Times Square
Church because this is how the Holy
Spirit has been dealing with
me suppose we’re missing the greater
truth in the
revelation of a grieving
father who who who is giving this story
the whole story having to do with
unbelief unbelief
if you’re going to totem pole sins don’t
talk just about drinking alcoholism
drugs sensuality pornography don’t talk
about that because the number one sin in
the face of God is
unbelief
unbelief and you talk about eating the
husk you talk about spending your life
in rius living what could be more
riotous what could more be a husk
than fear
self-pity
unbelief but fear of
man fear of a heavenly father never
having
somehow this man that I
see got so discouraged he he could not
in spite of all of the reassurances from
his father in spite of everything the
father said and revealed of himself to
this young man he could not really
believe and trust in the love of his
father and he develops this hard feeling
in his heart toward his father there’s a
hardness and there’s an unbelief he
cannot believe and trust in that and
when that happens everything in the
father’s house becomes a task everything
becomes unbearable because we’re not
living in the gracious love of
God and there are many here and I’ve
felt the hurt of the heavenly father
here today
of those that are here and you’re
alienated you see this boy is still
under the love of his father he’s
reconciled he can come at any time the
alienation is
self-inflicted God not mad at father’s
not mad at him he walked out and said
all I need is my inherit all I really
want to do is get to heaven at the end
and you see you can be sitting here as a
pastor right now and be totally
alienated from the love of God you’ve
heard it you may have even preached it
but you can’t bring yourself to believe
that God truly loves you that God truly
has embraced you that that you are to
him everything in the world you’re his
love you’re you’re the very desire of
his heart and he rejoices over
you could could that be
that I can be a pastor of a church
and
successful and still not know the
fullness of his
love I’ve been there for
years never feeling truly loved by
God trying to work so hard to please him
then when it gets so hard and you don’t
feel like you’re pleasing him you
there’s something inside says I can’t go
like this I just I I want to be saved
yes and I’m not going to my heart will
be for him but I can’t I just can’t
sense his love and that alienation
comes and there’s another word it’s
called
access this is the
simplest little talk I’ve ever had in my
life but you see this boy has
access the Bible says we have access to
the father through Jesus Jesus Christ
his
son and but you see even though we have
access to the father and what Jesus is
talking about is the same access that he
had with his
father you see he had times when he
prayed he’d go to the mountain he’d get
alone yes there are times that you have
to go in the secret closet you have to
pour your heart out to God you have to
be be intense and and you have to be
like the woman who said on not that you
go you can wrestle with God there are
times for that but you see there is
access into the throne room there’s
access into the very presence of God and
you have to get up one day and say he
has promised me access we have access to
the father and what that means to me
that any time of the day even though yes
there are I should have a time when I’m
alone with God I seek him with all my
heart I
intercede but I come out of that with
relationship I I come out of that with a
peace in my heart that I can speak to
him at any time because if I am in
Christ Jesus if I am seated in Christ
and this body of mine is the Temple of
the Holy Ghost then he’s available to me
all waking hours and even guarding my
sleep thoughts my subconscious mind I
can pray that God cover my subconscious
mind because I have access to the
father but this boy has to come from his
point of alienation and he has to say I
have access so he gets up and he goes to
the father knowing that he has
access he’s no doubt heard that his
father has been looking for him his
father has sent word out and he Grieves
over you he wants
you and I don’t
think anything Grieves the heart of the
Lord more than our
unbelief and somewhere
a a a a a a measure of faith comes into
his heart I have
access I can go to the
father we will never conquer this sense
of alienation until
we lay hold by faith of our access to
the father see even though Jesus went
alone to pray with the father he didn’t
have to run away to a secret closet he
didn’t have to go Mountaintop when he’s
face to face with the devil when he’s
face to face with the lame and the Blind
and the Halt and the Pharisee there was
an instant word that
came and that’s what access is all about
that that finally you come in you know
that there’s a place of community and
he’s going back to a place of communion
he’s lost communion he’s lost that
closeness with his
father folks say it ever dawned on you
the meaning of act
access that the father desires of us
this this constant faith that no matter
what I face at any hour of the day no
matter what comes against me that I can
hear from the Holy Spirit the Holy
Spirit In Me will speak and guide me and
give me a word but that requires faith
and we have unbelief in our hearts we
don’t believe God speaks to us like he
did to the apostles that he did in the
early church church we don’t believe
that the Lord can speak and say to a man
there’s a brother named Saul and he’s at
a street called straight and he knows
your name and all the details and the
addresses and everything that God spoke
because of
access I believe that more and more at
my
age total
dependency on on this act access that we
have with the heavenly father and that
the Holy Spirit
abides folks if if you’re going to say
that we’re seated at the right hand of
the father where is that I don’t have to
go into the heavens I don’t have to go
off this Earth my Bible says I’ll
manifest myself in you God the Father
God the son the Holy Ghost lives and
abides right here he’s available at any
time and I believe that God is bringing
the church the place where men and women
step out by faith and lay hold of their
access with
God there’s another word called
acceptance you see
this this young man gets up and he
leaves the point of
alienation and
he is on the road of
access the father you know the story
comes and and Embraces him and kisses
him not one pointed finger not one word
of
rebuke not one word if I told you so not
one
word not one word of about his
sins no
rebuke but a tearful father
embracing an unbelieving
son and you see you can have access and
you can know it and you you can go to
God and you can say Lord thank you for
embracing me thank you for forgiveness
but folks some people go that far and
they go no further if all you have is
you have moved away from the unbe uh see
we compartmentalize our our faith we’ll
have faith in this compartment for
salvation maybe over here for
healing and folks some people never even
pastors never get beyond heaven and
forgiveness but until you know you’re
accepted you’re still in
unbelief until you take advantage of
your acceptance now he stands outside
the father’s house and the father says
no he’s standing out I’m unworthy you
don’t know what I’ve done sinned against
light I’ve sinned against uh I’ve sinned
against such truth I’m not worthy I’m
come to be your servant I’m not coming
in the
house course you know the robe of
righteousness was put on him and his
ministry was restored because that’s the
gospel of peace he has no shoes and and
but the Lord the father says that’s not
enough you have to believe that you’re
accepted accepted in the
Beloved that there’s no
controversy and the Lord says
no I’m not going to have you as my
servant you’re my son you’ve always been
my son you were a son when you were in
the worst unbelief and now that you’re
coming I’m going to ask you to take the
ultimate step of Faith now I want you to
believe that I have accepted you there
is no
controversy you are truly loved but I
want you in the
house and not only do I want you in the
house I’m going to have a
festival and folks there’s not one out
of a hundred Believers ever get to the
festival and that’s a spirit of
rejoicing and so the father says no kill
the fatted calf get the orchestra we’re
going to sing and we’re going to
dance because I have accepted and he is
not in acceptance till he’s in the house
convinced of his father’s love
till the joy begins to
flow have you do you really
believe that you’re accepted before the
father accepted in the
Beloved for years I I labored under
this I think some
sometimes in my early days especially my
messages got very hard because I was
going through something with the Lord
trying to find that place of acceptance
of the father
forgiven believing in
forgiveness but you
see the real issue of unbelief is my
relationship with a
father how I view
God I can preach about his attributes
I can preach marvelous about what he has
done in giving salvation to the world
I’ve preached to drug addicts and
alcoholics the love of God I’ve been on
street corners around the world and told
them how much God loved them I would
kneel with Nikki Cruz and Israel and all
these boys and weep and pray with them
saying God loves you even though they
had done everything including murder
some of these drug addicts for years and
they go
home I feel unloved
and so oh God I I’ll work my fingers to
the Bone I’ll do anything but it’s this
sense of never having come into this
Glory of
acceptance but there’s another word and
even though I believe I’m accepted
there’s another word it’s called
appropriation and that’s when the father
says now remember that everything I have
is yours now take advantage of it
appropriate I want you to Rejoice now I
want you to forget your past I’m not
going to dig it up I’m not going to let
anybody expose
you if you will come now in acceptance
and cast aside your
unbelief and folks that’s what the Holy
Spirit told me to do today to come
against this unbelief that I am accepted
in this unbelief that hinders us from
appropriating the fullness of God and
the blessings of Jesus Jesus
Christ so we walk around we walk around
and say like David why am I cast down
you don’t say that now because David
didn’t have a crucified savior he saw
him in the future but we have a
crucified risen father and we are accept
as much as listen to me now as much as
the father accepts Christ his
son I am accepted in the same power and
Majesty God only sees one man
now he doesn’t see but one man and this
was the Covenant that God made there
will be one man I’ll send a redeemer and
I will see one man in his seed and we
are the seed of Christ and we are in
Jesus Christ we are our position is in
Christ that’s what God views of us when
the blood is come and I’m accepted by
that blood and I appropriate that by
faith I’m telling you that God sees me
just as he sees his own
son righteous holy unblamable not by any
works that I’ve done but I have
appropriated by faith the promises of
God
[Applause]
God doesn’t want you to leave this
meeting with the
unbelief and the fear and the fear of
man he wants you to leave this place
with that steady quiet faith and when I
say rejoice it’s getting up in the
morning and suddenly feeling a sense of
unworthiness come upon you a sense of
Despair or a sense of dep ression or the
blues and and there’s no reason for it
you don’t know where it came from but
folks there’s such a thing as
appropriation where you appropriate by
faith and say there is no controversy I
am in Christ I don’t have to take this I
don’t have to prove anything to
anybody oh folks the end result of
appropriating the fullness of Christ and
all of his promises and believing in our
acceptance is that you get up and say I
don’t have to prove any to
anybody I am his and he is mine I am
seated with Christ in a Heavenly
place and my Bible said he sings over
his people he rejoices over his people
and when the what I’m talking about in
appropriation is a spirit of rejoicing
that you allow to Spring forth by faith
and that Spirit of rejoicing will cast
out every every downcast Spirit
everything that comes out of your flesh
or Out of Hell the only antidote I know
the only Victory is to stand up and say
I rejoice in you Jesus I glorify your
name just start worshiping him and
rejoice in the Lord he said rejoice and
be
glad and the only reason we don’t have
this Spirit of rejoicing is because of
unbelief 37th Psalm there’s a scripture
that says we read Rejoice because we
trust
him if I’m not
rejoicing it’s because of
unbelief now we’ve talked a little bit
about P pornography we’ve talked about
prayerlessness we’ve talked about some
of these things but now this before I
close at the heart of the
issue it’s
unbelief now folks I’ve not arrived
but I’ve got the secret
now I know I know I have access I know
I’m no longer alienated from his love I
walk from day every waking hour I walk
in the love of God I have to remind
myself about it the enemy will come and
attack that that’s one thing he wants
you to to jettison get out of your life
this sense of being totally loved by the
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
abides as
the
essence the love this is my last
statement to you the evidence of faith
is
rest
quiet unassuming
reassuring childlike
Faith want you to stand
Lord speak to
us help us to be
honest
Lord I was the prodical son even though
I was a
pastor because I
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not because I’ve been so
faithful not because I’ve been so
good you’ve always been there for me
provide my every need you were there
when I was
lonely you were there in all my
pain guiding my
footsteps Shelter From the
rain and it was
you made my life
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complete you are to me my everything
that is why I
sing Jesus I love
you because you
care couldn’t
imagine if you weren’t
there Jesus I love
you because you
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care couldn’t imagine
if you were in
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there you are the joy of my
salvation you’re my peace in my
stars your loving arms protect me and
shelter me from
harm you are Al for and
Omega the beginning and the
end you’re my strong
Tower dearest and best
friend it was
you made my life
complete you are to me my
everything that is why I
sing Jesus I love
you because you care
couldn’t
imagine if you were in
there Jesus I love
you because you
care couldn’t
imagine if you were in
there you are the joy and my
salvation you’re my peace to in my storm
your loving arms protect me and you
shelter me from har and you are Alpha
and
Omega the beginning and the
end my strong
tower dearest and best
friend and it was
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you made my life complete
you are to me my
everything that is why I
sing Jesus I love
you because you
care couldn’t
imagine if you are in
there Jesus I love you
because you
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can couldn’t
imagine if you wer in
there Jesus I love you love you Jesus I
love you love you Jesus I love
you you love me
first Jesus I love you love you
Jesus I love
you Jesus I love
you you love me first
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when you get to
heaven after the trumpet
sounds if you decide to look me up W you
TI looking
around I won’t be at my Mansion you
won’t find me by the sea
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find
Jesus there I’ll
be I want to see the Unseen n that H me
through my
skull I want to touch the hands that
touch and completely change my
world I want to hear and speak the words
that brought such peace to me
just find
Jesus there I
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be when I step through those ply games
will be so much to
see I’ll behold manions tall and stroll
down golden
streams though the Splender will be a
mean amazing there only one attraction
for
me just find
Jesus there I
me I want to see the
on that H me through my
St I want to touch the hands that touch
and completely change my
heart want to hear and speak the words
that brought such peace to
me just find
Jesus there I
be I want to hear and speak the words
that brought such peace to
me just find
Jesus where I
w
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all I can say is I thank you Lord for
all that you done