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About David Wilkerson David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade. In 1987, David Wilkerson returned to “the crossroads of the world” to establish Times Square Church. As a pastor of the church, he faithfully led this congregation, delivering powerful biblical messages that encourage righteous living and complete reliance on God. David Wilkerson had a strong burden to encourage and strengthen pastors throughout the world. From 1999 to 2008, he traveled around the globe holding conferences for Christian ministers. Posted with written permission of Time Square Church Copyright © 2016 Times Square Church, 1657 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019, USA. T: (212) 541-6300 F: (212) 541-6415 About Ahava Jerusalem The website and the Social Media Channels are a Christian host for devotionals, sermons, and videos with a focus on Jesus Christ and His Word so that the Church may be built up. MISSION: that Christ is formed in you (Gal 4:19) and that you may be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Ro 12:2) so that you may grow to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. (Eph 4:13) Like 👍 & Subscribe – @Ahava Jerusalem today to stay updated. #fyp #forgiveness #salvation #light #heaven #time #Youtube #Google #Internet #home #family #parents #children #sermon #JesusChrist #God #Father #HolySpirit #Faith #Hope #Love #God #Jesus #Christian #Future #people #ahavajerusalem #Truth #Bible #Peace #HolySpirit #World #Word #Love #Grace #joy #future #grace #amazing #best #live #life #bestsermons #home #family #parents #children #sermon #JesusChrist #God #Faith #Hope #Love #sermon #God #Jesus #Christian #Future #people #ahavajerusalem #Truth #Bible #Peace #Kingdom #HolySpirit #JesusChrist #God #Holy Spirit #Bible #Word #Love #Grace
my message tonight a baptism of love God
I need that unique function that unique
anointing that makes a sermon a message
that leaves something in the heart when
they walk out the door
something that people can eat and taste
for the word becomes life and dwells
Among Us
God moved through this message this is
needed it’s vital so speak to us now
amen
you can speak with tongues and still be
a bigot
you can boast about being full of the
Holy Ghost but still be exposed as a
person full of prejudice envy and hatred
you can tell someone to their face that
you love them and be telling the biggest
lie you ever told in your life
if you’re not careful you can hate the
Communists so much that you learn to
despise even the poor lost souls who are
doomed behind the Iron Curtain now
friends it’s one thing to hate communism
it’s another thing to hate the
Communists who have souls that could die
and go to Hell Without Christ
now I love the Communist soul but I hate
communism there is the difference
you can break God’s commandment and
despise and ridicule the authorities
that God has ordained and that includes
the president of the United States you
can make dispersing remarks about those
in authority and God says that that is
not right that is not love
you can go to a polling Booth you can
pull the levers and vote for the
candidate of your choice and carry into
that polling Booth a heart bursting with
hatred for some politician that you
don’t like in fact you can sit in your
front room and call them all kinds of
names and get your blood pressure up
over the boiling point
you can smile while you sit in your
church pew and look like a loving little
cupid doll
and put on an act like you love all your
brothers and sisters but that ain’t
necessarily so
you can carry a grudge against Sunday
school teachers or against the Deacon or
the pastor you can accuse the deacons of
disloyalty the associate pastors of
laziness secretaries for worldliness and
criticize the way the churches run and
how the pastor conducts his meetings you
can say the church is dead or it’s got
too much life and if you tried to please
everybody you couldn’t please anybody
or worse yet you can be so sure of
yourself that you’ve got all the truth
and all the knowledge and you see you’re
not going to study anymore because the
Holy Ghost is going to teach you you’ve
learned it all
and so in your boastful way you talk
about your Liberty from bondage and
legalism and become so dignified and so
precise that you’re able to look down
the end of your nose at the little Holy
Roller group down the road who sing like
Hillbillies and clap their hands like
thunder and dress like Salvation Army
lassies
no there’s nothing wrong with dressing
like a Salvation Army Lassie or you can
be at the Other Extreme vice versa you
can be a member of that big fancy Church
or other of that little church down by
the railroad track you can be a member
of that small group and you look at that
church and the people going in it and
you can accuse them of worldliness you
can talk about their lipstick you can
talk about their earrings and their
short dresses and you could even say
isn’t it terrible their choir even sings
in robes
when I was a boy in my dad’s church that
was the very height of worldliness that
a choir should ever sing in ropes
I’ve heard I’ve heard sermon after
sermons about the mark of the beast
wearing robes
you can talk about love you can sing
about it and still not have it
because we’re not to love in word or
indeed or in song or rather in mouth but
we’re to love indeed and in truth
now what is the truth about love
let’s look into it
I say that love is the most important
evidence of the baptism of the Holy
Ghost the most important
I have said it once if I’ve said it once
I’ve said it a thousand times the
baptism of the Holy Ghost is a baptism
of love
the baptismal Holy Ghost is a baptism of
love
God actually is instructing the wild
tongue in the knowledge of Love he’s
taking the hatred out of the Heart by
way of the tongue for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh now the moment you stand up and
testify to the world that you’ve
received the baptism of the Holy Ghost
you say I’ve been filled with the
baptism the Holy Ghost have been
baptized then you must also be able to
quote Isaiah 50 verse 4. the Lord hath
now given me the tongue of the learned
that I should know how to speak a word
in season to him that is weary
he awaketh me morning by morning he
awaketh mine ear to hear as the Learned
once you’ve received the baptism the
Holy Ghost you should know what it’s
like to be awakened by the Holy Spirit
you should know what it’s like to be
instructed in the ways of knowledge in
calling a person in need
spreading a word of Love here and there
how easy it seems to be for some quote
Spirit-filled end of quote Christians
who are able to lash out with tongues of
bitterness and stripe look here and look
there and like a machine gun their
tongues mow down all the opposition and
everything that they don’t like or that
which they deem to be ungodly or
unnecessary
how easy it is for some Spirit-filled
Christians to have holiers and thou
attitude
how much disgrace has been brought upon
the charismatic experience through some
people who have never understood this
marvelous truth of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost being a baptism of love
I would be awake in morning by morning
he waketheth mine ear to hear as the
Learned now which is more pleasing to
the Lord to use that gifted tongue that
is now baptized only to edify a man’s
own soul
or to dedicate that tongue to seeking
out weary friends and edifying them in
the spirit
and all friends if there was ever a need
today for people who knew how to say the
right word at the right time it’s now
you’d be surprised I’ll just sometimes
just one single word of encouragement
means so much to a man I remember a
minister a friend of mine recently going
through a terrible time his church had
persecuted him and and he was having
personal problems in his family and in
his home
and all I did was put a hand on his
shoulder and say past it I’m still your
friend and no matter what happens you’ll
always be a friend he broke down and
began to weep it was the only word of
encouragement he’d had and he moved on
to Victory and God brought him through
on that word of encouragement
how seldom do we go to the pastor
when he pours his heart out and just
take him by the hand warmly and say
Pastor that was a message from God
I’m praying for you I’m standing with
you it’s all he knows that well that’s
just the reason you don’t tell your wife
you love her sir because you say well
she should know it
go to that individual the Sunday school
teacher I’m talking about spreading that
love that God fills us with
sadly too many baptized tongues have
been used to stir up strife
the Bible says proverbs 10 12 hatred
stirth up straight but love covereth all
sins I was never able to understand that
verse until last night
in fact early this morning in prayer God
began to speak very clearly to me about
this verse if you look at it at face
value this verse seems to be saying that
love covers all sins in other words love
would dismiss all the wrongdoing that’s
not what it means at all
interpreted
this means love gets over all sin it
gets over things it doesn’t hold The
Grudge
love is able to Fly Above It
love is able to get through love is
there when lust is conceived and love is
still there when it brings forth death
now I covered 3 000 miles today to get
here I covered 3 000 measured surface
miles
now how did I cover those miles I flew
over them I Rose above them I got here
in five hours
I covered three thousand miles this is
really the interpretation of this verse
that love gets over sin it mounts up
like wings of an eagle it’ll last no
stumbling blocks to hinder it no grudges
to ground it then no Winds of adversity
to stop it love is not stopped by what
people say or do love keeps on going
I say that it’s absolutely impossible to
be baptized with the Holy Ghost and
still be prejudiced
Prejudice I think is a childish thing
the Bible said when I was a child I
speak as a child I understood as a child
I thought as a child when I became a man
I put away childish things
that I witnessed a very tragic brand of
childishness when we were conducting
Crusades in South Africa they call it
apartheid these good Dutch reformed and
other Protestant Christians refused to
sit in my meetings anywhere near a black
man
in fact in Johannesburg in the stadium
meetings there the blacks had to sit in
a special stand outside I fenced they
weren’t even allowed inside the fence
and it bothered me I tried to preach and
before I preached one night I said
pastor what would happen tonight if I’d
opened that gate over there and let all
the blacks come in and sit with us Lily
white people
he said Mr Wilkerson 80 percent of your
crowd would leave and 80 percent of the
pulpit would leave too
can imagine my surprise when we got at
the airport and one of the ministers
who’d invited us to South Africa as well
as informed us that the black man in
Africa South Africa didn’t even have a
soul
yes
and you know
that same brand of childishness
is still existing in America today if
you know something the most prejudiced
in Alabama Southern Texas Tennessee or
Southern Baptist Pentecostals and other
Protestants
who don’t even allow black men to sit in
their Church
can you imagine the hypocrisy of can you
imagine why the hippies run out on our
religion you don’t wonder why they walk
out on us and say it’s phony because we
sit in our church and we sing give me
that all-time religion makes me love
everybody
except the blacks
bring them in bring them in just so
they’re not black
send out the lifeline
just watch who gets it
yeah
you see the other hypocrisy none of our
songs make sense none of our worship
makes sense at all if we carry hypocrisy
and all my friends this political
program or what do you call this
campaign that we’ve got now it is
pregnant with all kinds of racism and
talk about violence and and this is
going to be one of the most hotly
contested campaigns of all times but I
want you to know that I personally
believe and I believe the scripture
backs me up that it’s impossible for a
Spirit-filled Christian to carry any
Prejudice through any election I don’t
care who you’re for all I’m saying is
that this is the time my brother’s
sister we need to pray for this election
and keep Prejudice out of our heart and
ask God for his Divine will for this
nation
and I I believe it’s impossible for you
to maintain a true relationship a warm
Godly relationship with your heavenly
father and still carry Prejudice of any
kind
let me have a little amen out of that
what furthermore
Christians charismatic Christians are
supposed to love the Jews the Japs the
Italians the Pollocks the hippies
the masses at Red China Czechoslovakian
even in Russia
that’s right
how wonderful it was for me to sit in
Helsinki there was a man who was a car
dealer a good Christian man who read my
book in The Finnish language and he had
a sauna in his home a finished son and
they wanted me to try a sauna bath
and I’ll tell you it how I lived through
it I don’t know
they stuck me in this little thing and
burned me up and then he took me out and
threw me into snow and it put me back in
that thing
and I was pleading the blood the whole
time
they kept telling me you’ll feel better
you’ll feel better you’ll feel better
well I kept feeling worse
that after the sauna
we were having a nice finished lunch
and he began to tell us about his trips
to Moscow he sold moscovitch automobiles
the Moskowitz
one beautiful pile of junk
I mean that sincerely he said that
himself
that he would go to Moscow and he’d
smuggle my books into Leningrad in
Moscow
and he told me of people who were
worshiping the Lord in Russia he said
there are literally thousands of
Christians that are serving the lord and
saved and filled with the Holy Spirit
and we talk about communism friends and
often we forget that behind this
Communist front that there are literally
thousands of young people who are and
adults over there who need our prayers
our love and our compassion
I say maintain your strong stand my
brother sister gets communism but don’t
forget God is called upon us to love The
Souls of the Lost there
behind the Iron Curtain
secondly love makes you go out of your
way
love helps you to stick your neck out
for others Paul speaking of Priscilla
and Aquila said of them who have for my
life laid down their own necks unto whom
I give thanks Romans 16 4. now Paul the
Apostle knew something of that love that
was willing to give without getting
anything in return
because speaking to the Corinthians Paul
said and I will very gladly spend and be
spent for you though the more abundantly
I love you the less I Be Loved now
friends let’s start with you dear wife
can you say that in your home when you
honestly have to look yourself in the
mirror and say my husband no longer
deeply loves me he’s lost his first love
can you say that when you feel that
others around you your innermost circle
of loved ones have lost their love for
you can you say I will gladly spend and
be spent for you though the more
abundantly I love you the less I Be
Loved
and I can’t understand that kind of
human love we’ve seen it at teen
challenge for the past 10 years I’ll
take a drug addict and he’s been in jail
maybe 10 15 times
and he’s never home but once every five
or six months and sometimes he’s gone
two years at a time but he’s got a
little wife
who lives on relief
and she’s faithful to him she waits year
after year hoping against hope that
someday somehow a miracle will happen
I’ve seen them sit in my office and cry
like little babies she said I’ve waited
for him for 10 years she’ll go to jail
every time he’s in jail every day she’s
there
she’s there to talk to him and comfort
him and she’ll maintain that love he’ll
abuse her he’ll cheat on her he’ll curse
her he’ll beat her and yet she’ll stand
there Faithful Little Puerto Rican girl
little negro girl or little white girl
just waiting for that man to straighten
out and friends is someone human without
the real love of Jesus Christ can sow so
much love without getting anything in
return
I’ve often thought how much more should
Christians give out of their love in
spite of the fact that people Grudge you
in spite of the fact that people talk
about your misuse you or mishandle you
to love even though you’re despitefully
used without getting anything in return
I love you even though the more I love
you the less I Be Loved
that’s the baptism of the Holy Ghost
now answer this when certain individuals
really hurt you and say and do unloving
things what kind of reaction do you have
you still spend your love on them or you
take it back
the Lord himself
revealed a great truth he said that love
is better when given than when received
love is much tastier it’s much better to
give it than to receive it I’ve heard
saying that love is give and take
not according to the scripture love is a
process of giving with no concern about
receiving now you young couples that
want to know about real love if each
individual determines in his own mind to
get nothing back but just to give
imagine what kind of love we would have
in our homes
I have showed you all things how that
laboring you ought to support the weak
and to remember the words of the Lord
Jesus how he said listen to the words of
our Master it is more blessed to give
than to receive
charismatic Christians are commanded to
love even their enemies
love your enemies bless them that curse
you now this is hard to take friends but
you better take it it’s his word do good
to them that hate you and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute
you
think of that one person in your life
who has misused you and persecuted you
and troubled you think of the one person
you may consider an enemy the Bible says
love them
bless them
love your enemies
I want to move on because
isn’t it really true that we would
rather rejoice when we seem to be
justified and our enemy Falls the Bible
said Rejoice not
when thine enemy falleth and let not
thine heart be glad when he stumble it
what happens in your mind and in your
heart and in your spirit is a baptized
person
when somebody
Falls and stumbles too often it goes
like this well I could have told you
that
if they would have just listened I knew
that I expected it what do you expect
they’re reaping just what they sowed
in the handbags Clinton it wouldn’t have
happened
you see that’s what you get
if you heard that kind of language we’ve
all used it
the Bible said Rejoice not when thine
enemies stumbleth Rejoice not when they
fall
if you’re going to follow that through
to the logical conclusion that means
that even when government officials
politicians that you despise Paul you’re
not to rejoice in it
you’re not to gloat over these things
that take it to the Lord in prayer and
say Lord lift me give me a heart of
compassion give me a Heart of Love I
want to tell you something I’ve
disagreed many times with some of the
policies of Mr Lyndon Baines Johnson
but I’ll tell you something
when I found out this man’s popularity
went down to 28 percent
and I thought of this man carrying the
weight and the burden of a Nation on his
back and having to pick up the
newspapers and read of all the criticism
in spite of all the mistakes I could
have nothing but compassion and pity in
my heart
and I wonder sometimes friends if we as
charismatic Christians think that it’s
all right to to to spend our bitterness
or our hatred not so much our hatred but
our ill feeling as long as we don’t do
it toward a Christian brother that we
can spend any kind of uh of emotion as
long as it’s not among our own brother
and sister
this says all our enemies
Holy Ghost love will take you out of
your way to be kind to your enemies
therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him
if he’s thirsty give him drink for in so
doing thou so he pulls a fire on his
head
there’s
recalling this evening
a number of years ago having to deal
with a young lady one of my workers
she found it convenient to break our
rules and counsel with the boys now we
have a rule at Teen Challenge the girls
work with the girls and the boys of the
boys and every time somebody breaks that
rule there’s always been trouble and
thank God it we’ve had very little of
only three or four cases and it’s been
tragic we had one girl run off with a
drug addict at one time she broke that
rule she had an illegitimate child with
him he went to jail for murder and that
little child was taken from her and I
saw her a few years ago she was working
for the Salvation Army in New York and
was totally cold in her heart
and and she was afraid ashamed to even
look me in the face
another Preacher’s Daughter The
Minister’s daughter broke that rule went
out with a drug addict fell in love with
him broke the rule and they’ve both been
living a life of hell and misery ever
since
but this young lady
was sneaking out the back porch against
all the rules
and she was counseling with this boy he
would tell her all her troubles and this
boy was a con artist this boy was there
just to to play on our emotions he had
never really surrendered his heart to
the Lord he was still possessed With the
Enemy this boy had ruined numbers of
young ladies and made prostitutes out
into support his habit boy’s name was
Angelo
one day she came to me and said Mr
Wilkerson I’m in love with Angelo I want
to marry him
it’s frightened me
I called her in my office I said now
look
Betty I’ve told you once I’ve told you
twice and I’ve told you over and over
again that we don’t allow you to talk to
any of the boys here you’re supposed to
stick with the girls and I told you
there’d be trouble that boy is really
unconverted I’m going to make him leave
this Center that boy’s still full of the
Devil he’s just going to get you make a
prostitute out of you and damn your soul
I got on a telephone call her mother in
Virginia and I told her the story and I
said I want her to come home tonight I
had the secretary call the bus company
she was to leave that night at six
o’clock I gave her the bus fare she had
her bags packed I’d already asked Angelo
to leave he had left an hour or so
before
I thought she went home
imagine how surprised there was a week
or two later when one of my associates
came and said Mr Wilkerson you know that
Betty is living in a hotel just two
blocks from the center
and Angelo’s visiting her in her hotel
rooms
I got the name I got the number of the
room
and the associate went with me we
knocked on the door
and nobody answered for about five
minutes I could hear somebody screwing
around inside
and then in about five minutes she came
to the door and opened it sheepishly her
face was burning red
she said what do you want Mr looks and I
said I thought I told you to go home
she said well you’re not my boss anymore
I said well I want to come in and I
pushed my way in with my associate and I
said is Angelo visiting you she said oh
no no I said is he in the apartment
right now so he said no
and I went in the bedroom and I looked
in the closet and I looked behind the
chair and I looked everywhere I went all
over the apartment looked everywhere
except under the bed
I should have
I went into the living room
satisfied that he wasn’t there and I sat
down for the next 15 minutes and I told
her what I thought I said this boy is
full of the devil this boy is going to
make a prostitute out of you this boy
has he can’t possibly love you because
you’re unequally yoked together with an
unbeliever it’s unscriptural it’ll never
work and I said that boy is no good yet
until Christ can get a hold of him
there’s just no hope for you
and I noticed my associate trying to get
my attention he was shaking his hand and
and I couldn’t understand
in any most important I walked over
toward the door I looked in the bedroom
there I saw two feet sticking out under
the bed
I said okay Angelo I know you’re here
now you can come out
he came out all right his arms wailing
and he was cursed and he jumped on me
and it was going to beat me up and he
got me down fortunately I had my
associate with me my associate pinned
him up against the fireplace there and
put his hands behind him with his hands
behind him I felt pretty strong and
saved
I went over to him I jumped up and Shake
the Dust off and I said to myself bless
God I’m a man of God nobody touches me
nobody gets away with that I’m nobody
touches God’s anointed I’m God’s man and
he’s going to know it
and I went over to him and stuck a
finger right on his chest that was easy
his hands were pinned behind his back
I said look Angelo the Bible says touch
not my anointed do my prophets no harm
and I’m God’s anointed if you got away
with this my life wouldn’t be safe
anywhere on the street he said look I
know where you walk on the street one
night I’m gonna find you put a knife in
your back
and I said look nobody talks to me like
that I said
nobody
nobody talks to me like that
I like to think I was righteously
indignant about just plain old man
I’ll walk huffing and puffing back to
the center I said Joey’s not going to
get away with it I’m going to get a hold
of God and sent judgment on him
foreign
I went back to my room into my office
and I knelt down
and I put my cause before the Lord tears
rolled down my cheeks poor little David
stood there before his mighty God said
now Lord you know I’ve given my life for
these drug addicts
and you know how he did me wrong now he
could have killed me and he’s threatened
to kill me Lord
and you know that I
can’t stand for anybody trying to
threaten me or my life won’t be a savior
on the street put him on his
oh God’s profit was all stirred up
I was zealous over a righteous cause
after all I was right oh friends I was
right believe me I was right
suddenly
the thought burst in my through my
subconscious what do you want me to do
David called fire down out of heaven and
burn him up
and then I remembered
the disciples
threatening to call fire down out of
heaven and the Lord said I came not to
destroy man’s lives but to save them the
Lord said David I called you to New York
to show compassion and love no matter
what they do I came I called you to New
York to save these boys and not to
destroy them
and when I saw it and I knew it was the
Holy Ghost talking to me it was then in
that room that God showed me that the
baptism of the Holy Ghost is a baptism
of love not well that’s springing up
inside of you is a well of Love That
Springs up and the Bible said it cast
out all fear perfect love his holy ghost
love his perfect love and when it flows
up through you it casts out your fear It
cast out the fear of all those around
you and that is The Well of Living Water
that Springs up and I raised my hands
and said oh God forgive me fill my heart
with love for that boy help me to Love
Angela save you more don’t let him be
lost in my mind I could pick him just
the last little drug addict had been led
us sprayed by the devil and I was on my
way an hour or two later I had to leave
for the airport to go to Dallas Texas
for a crusade Nikki drove me to the
airport
and uh I was telling Nikki heard about
it and he’s known where I got the boys
ready
and uh I said well that’s all right we
don’t need him
and all the way down to Texas and do the
Crusade and back on the plane God filled
my heart with love for that boy oh it
did it was just bubbling in me a love
for that boy I couldn’t wait to get back
Nikki met me at the airport he’s at
eight Mr Wilson he got company waiting
for you backyard of the center I said
Angelo he said yeah
he said don’t worry I got the boys there
look he’s always got his boys there
I said that’s all right Nikki he said I
I need to see him I get out of the car
and everyone’s sitting in the back porch
on the steps his hand
on his head and he was he was scowling
at me
and I knew he couldn’t wait to get a
fist in my face and a Chim knife in my
stomach
but by now I didn’t have any figures see
perfect love cast out off here you see
the fear of the Lord’s only the
beginning of wisdom
but the maturity of wisdom is perfect
love that cast out that fear
and so there was no fear now I said look
answer before you say that come on the
office I’ve got to talk to you a minute
and I was walking through the kitchen
and and Nikki pointed two boys by the
door at my office got his boys there you
know
walked in and he sat down he flopped
down the chair beside me I said Angelo I
said before you say it do anything I
just want you to know that God’s put
love in my heart for you and I said now
I want to apologize I said I wanted to
send God’s judgment on you
but I said I think I could have done it
but God showed me that wasn’t the reason
I said I just want you to know that I’m
sorry for my attitude I said before you
do anything just shake hands with me and
tell me you forgive me
I reached out to take his hand and he
looked at it and then turned away they
looked at me again
and that kid flopped down in his chair
and then he turned and knelt and broke
and began to sob like a little baby
and I got up
no I I gone back to my chair and I got
up and walked over there and I stood
over Angelo as as he was just sobbing
his heart out just crying like like he
was dying and I looked at that little
mass that poor little lost sheep and I
thought what would have happened oh God
and it shut it a friend I can still feel
what happened in me
and I I said to myself what would have
happened if I’d have walked in here it’s
God’s big man in the hour God’s men of
faith and power and said Angelo received
the Judgment of almighty God
may have honored that request for me
but I’ll tell you there was
there was something rise up in my heart
because that boy was sick all along that
boy just needed a bit of love
you see Love Takes you out of the way
on another occasion I remember one of
the girls one of our workers coming to
me and said Mr Wilkerson you’ve got to
pray for me I’ve lost all my love
she said I came she’d come from from the
Midwest from a farm she said when I
first came to Teen Challenge I was so
full of love I used to cry and weep and
walk the streets but I feel so cold I I
just feel so cold I had three or four
tell me that after the the first service
back here in the room Mr pray for me
I’ve lost my love I’ve lost my love and
and she had spent two weeks she said for
two weeks I’ve been fasting and praying
in the chapel God give me back my first
love
I said
I want you to quit praying I want you to
quit crying wipe your tears and I said
here’s an address and I gave her an
address
on the fourth floor an apartment house
on 102nd Street Up In Harlem I said go
knock on the door and when you’re done
there I said go right down that whole
apartment all four floors just knocking
on doors and find out what kind of need
in the house if they need to this is
done do the dishes whatever it is get in
that house and witness for Jesus she
said all right she took another girl
with her seven hours later
she came back bubbling over
she said Mr Wilson I know now I know now
what you were doing she said now I see
it she said I hadn’t lost it she said it
was there all the time I just needed
some victims to put it out on
I just needed somebody to love
all my friends it’s not a matter of
losing it as much as being in a position
where there are those around you that
need it to bring it out of you
some of you sitting around here worried
about losing your love your first love
and all you got to do is get up and walk
out and find somebody that needs some
love and you’ll find you’ve got more
than you can handle
oh yes love
a baptism a baptism of love
love overpowers fear first John 4 18
there is no fear in love with perfect
love cast without fear because fear hath
torment
he that heareth is not made perfect in
Love Now friends if you have fear and
anxiety and torment in your spirit you
better check your love something’s
missing because love casts without fear
now I say that the baptism the Holy
Ghost is a mighty rushing wind of love
that’s sent to sweep out and cast out
all your fear that’s why God has given
the Holy Ghost a mighty rushing with to
clear the decks of all the fears and the
anxiety you don’t need a trip to the
psychiatrist you just need to let the
baptism the Holy Ghost demonstrate for
you through the power of His Spirit how
he can sweep these things out of your
life if you exercise that love that he’s
given you
you’ve got to see the importance of this
truth or your baptism is in vain that
fountain that Springs up is that
Fountain Of Love
now there is evidence of the baptism
Holy Ghost and there’s a test of the
baptism and love is that test love is
above the gift of tongues though I speak
with the tongues of men and of angels
and have not charity I become as a
sounding brass and a tinkering symbol
the truly baptized person is one who
loves all his enemies he loves his God
with all his heart mind and soul and
strength and he loves his neighbors
himself
by this shall all men know that you’re
my disciples if you love one another
we know that we have passed from Death
unto life because we love the Brethren
he that loveth not his brother abideth
in death if a man say I love God and
hateth his brother he is a liar for he
that
loveth not his brother whom he has seen
how can he love God whom he hath not
seen
I remember a young man coming to me
young negro lad about seven eight years
ago
I was holding a crusade in Albany New
York
and he knocked on my hotel room he said
Mr Wilson can I come in and talk to you
I said yes
he said
I read your
literature about what’s happening down
at teen towns in New York he said I want
to come and work with you
and I I said look son do you have love
if you’ve been baptized the Lord goes oh
yes I said you have love for souls he
said well I don’t think so
he said I don’t know I don’t think I do
I don’t have too much love
I said well then
I can’t talk to you anymore I said I’ll
be here another day
you go to prayer tonight and ask the
Lord to show you what it means to be
baptized with love let him open up that
Fountain of love and then come back if
you could tell me you really love the
lost and you’ll walk the streets with
love in your heart then I’ll take you as
a worker
he knocked on my door the next day
and I said yes
he said I still want to work with you Mr
Wilson I said fine did you pray last
night oh yes you have love no
I’m not sure
he said but I’ll tell you what God told
me
he said the Lord I asked the Lord what I
would do if I had real love and he said
I’ve told the Lord that if I already had
love for the Lost I’d go out in the
street and work for at least six or
eight hours a day I’d go out and put my
arms around anybody and I just I just
pour out everything I have I wouldn’t
hold anything against anybody I give my
life I I would stay up with drug addicts
that are kicking cold turkey I would
wipe the sweat from their brow I’d hold
the bucket while they were vomiting he
went on it listed all these things that
he would do if God would just give him
love I said well that’s just what I want
from you son he said well God told me to
go out and do it until I get it
so I said look that sounds good enough
for me son that’s all right I accept
that and I invited him I like that kind
of language so he came to New York and
had boy started walking the streets it
was nothing emotional he was walking the
streets six eight hours a day he stayed
up with the drug addicts and that boy
worked and with compassion and love that
boy gave it himself no talk about love
he didn’t even think he had it didn’t
even know what it was
but he was doing it
in about three weeks later we were glad
tidings Tabernacle never forget it and I
gave an older call and here came this
young negro lad to the front and there
were three drug addicts he’d brought in
off the street right outside glad tidy
Tabernacle and he was kneeling there
with his arms around him tears were
streaming down his cheeks and those drug
eggs were getting converted and I said
and I I said look son it looks like now
that God has given it to you
he said well it doesn’t make any
difference now Mr Wilson I’m doing what
I do if I had it anyhow
it’s not a matter of making something
it’s not a matter of taking that
inspecting it say do I love do I have
this much love or this much love is it
there examining it introspection no it’s
just a matter of giving yourself it’s a
matter of saying this is what should be
done and I’ll do it feelings or no
feelings emotions or no emotions just
giving
giving of yourself
and I’m pointing to the importance
friend of another
matter of love and that’s the gift of
gentleness
you know I’ve been holding meetings for
Catholic friends and all these nuns who
come forward my Crusades
they come backstage and cry I’ve seen
something in those dear nuns that I see
very seldom I see the gift of gentleness
the fruit of gentleness that quiet
Gentle Spirit of giving
oh
doesn’t it
have you ever stopped to look at
yourself
have you ever stopped to think that that
critical tongue that you have with will
you run down the church you run down
people you judge people the way they act
the way they dress and you say that
you’re a Christian that you’re baptized
with the Holy Ghost and that tongue of
yours has been dipped in Gall and
bitterness
oh God help us to dip that tongue in
love ask God to take it out and what
happens in your home friends do you
trade coldness for coldness
you trade argument for argument or are
you a holy ghost Peacemaker in your home
have you learned to take things instead
of just dishing it out all the time
and there are some people that think
that they’ve been raised up by God to be
prophets to set everything in order
including the pastor the deacons and
everybody else they accuse the the
pastor taking too much in his hands and
they accused assistant pastors of
laziness and the music director not
singing too fast or too slow
and I’ll tell you we could write a book
we can write a book on the kinds of
criticisms that Spirit-filled people are
guilty of
now come on Friends things shouldn’t be
that quiet right now
I can’t tell you why I preached like
this tonight
I haven’t talked to the pastor
but I’ll tell you this I know that I
preach in the will of God and I’ve got
his message for this hour right now God
wants to take out of our hearts that
bitterness that criticism and give us a
baptism of Holy Ghost love l-o-v-e
love for everybody your enemies the
pastor the sonics will teach all the
Deacons
and your wife
and your husband and your children and
everybody your next door neighbor that’s
right the next door neighbor even though
he hasn’t returned your lawnmower for
the past two years
then he wants to put a kind of love in
your heart that you don’t come home from
work and kick the dog
oh yes
and grab that newspaper and yell and
scream around the house like little King
Tut and there sits the holy ghost man
sitting there he’s already blasphemed
the whole family he’s yelled and
screamed all over the house and there he
sits God’s man
God take that out of us God give us a
spirit of gentleness I don’t believe in
cowards and sissies but I believe that
God wants to give us a baptism of love
in our homes in our lives on a job in
the church
now tell your friends if you don’t
humble yourself and come his way
he has a way God has a way
that weighs hard
I would like in my own heart now and say
Jesus give me love even for the
long-haired bearded hippies
no more talking about
her screaming about the way the actor
behave we don’t have to be a partaker of
their sins we can cry out against their
sins but God give us a heart of
compassion you know some our young
people are trying to say something to us
today and Dad mom sometimes we refuse to
listen that God would give us an open
heart to love
the heart of compassion
do you have that tonight do you have a
baptism of Love Is there anybody that
you hate is there anybody tonight you
have a grudge against
is there anybody in the womb but I want
to say something like this is not
boasting but I I God has been so good I
can’t think of anybody in the world
tonight
that I despise I can’t think of anybody
that I have a grudge against
I I just it makes me feel so warm
tonight to know that there’s nobody
now I know a lot of people may not feel
that way about me
bless your heart I just refuse to hold
those things in because that love I’ve
just said Lord You’re the baptizer just
sweep it out take it out now let this
well spring up within me this well of
love father do that for us tonight in
this meeting tonight
take out the bitterness take out the
critical tongue
take it out Lord because bitterness and
sweetness cannot pour out of the same
fountain
if we’ve been baptized with the Holy
Ghost our tongue should be dipped in oil
oh God take out the bitterness help us
Lord to speak a good word in season to
the weary heart help us to encourage and
edify and exalt and lift up others oh
God help us not to act like prophets
help us oh God not to belittle or to
criticize help us not to touch God’s
anointed or do his prophet’s harm but
help us O Lord to know that we’ve been
baptized with love
forgive us forgive us
now
I’ve confessed humbly for the night
but I needed this message
because ministers are just as guilty as
anybody else and I want you to do the
same thing tonight I wonder how many
there are that would say Mr Wilkerson
I needed that tonight and I want you to
pray
that I’ll allow him to baptize me with
his love I need a new baptism of love I
need to see that the Holy Ghost baptism
that I have is a baptismal love and I
want that love to operate through me in
my home and all over Everywhere I Go and
all that I do I want a new Taste of love
I want you to stand for my prayers right
now but just stand up all over this
church