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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
Jesus uh what a terrible thing to have a
hard heart and yet Lord I’m speaking to
some tonight that are hard some that are
in the process of hardening and yet
there are some Lord that have open
Tender Hearts and and yet one day will
have this hard heart that we’re talking
about and warning about tonight Holy
Spirit I’m asking you to come down upon
me mightily I’m asking you to to give me
clean hands and a pure heart I want to
deliver your heart I want to deliver
your mind speak into me and through me
and let everybody in this place uh be
warned be touched oh God I don’t want a
hard heart I I want to stand before you
one day with a broken heart and a
contrite spirit don’t let us ever lose
that oh God as we see the making of this
hard heart may we be warned and oh God
for those whose hearts are in the
process of hardening melt their hearts
tonight don’t let anybody walk out of
here with a hard heart we pray in Jesus
name
amen the making of a hard heart there’s
nothing in my mind as beautiful and as
wonderful as an open receptive
heart I love to be around people that
have openness that they just receptive
to the word of God but there’s nothing
in my mind that’s sad as sad as a
hard-hearted person what a tragedy to be
around somebody’s heart is like a stone
it’s rock
hard now some are hearing me right now
that are developing this hard
unreachable heart there are some in the
balcony here in the main floor you’re
almost at the point of being
unreachable and we’ll explain that in
just a bit but how does a person how how
does anybody especially a backsliding
Christian develop a hard heart now you
can forget all about the psych olist and
their pop psychology about why people
get hard against religion because they
say there’s so many Hypocrites all kinds
of excuses why people see uh
psychologists always blame somebody for
your problem and you can find somebody
to blame and uh yet the Bible makes it
very clear very clear how the heart gets
hard I want you to go to Mark the 6th
chapter and I’m going to show you a man
who best exemplifies a man who had an
open heart and closed it and became
hard-hearted terrible terrible tragedy
Mark the 6th chapter let’s begin reading
at verse
7 I want to read this whole portion so
that we can set a
background how a man or woman develops a
hard heart it’s all in this that I’m
going to be reading to you and we’ll go
through it Mark 6 beginning to read
verse 7 and he called unto him the 12
began to send them forth by two and two
and gave them power over unclean spirits
and commanded them that they should take
nothing for the journey save a staff
only no script no bread no money in
their purse but be shaw with sandals and
not put on two coats and he said unto
them in what place soever you enter into
house there abide till you de depart
from that place and whosoever shall not
receive you nor hear you when you depart
then shake off the dust under your feet
for a testimony against them ver I say
unto you it shall be more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of
judgment for that City and they went out
and preached that men should repent and
they cast out many devils and Anointed
with oil many that were sick and healed
them now listen to this please and King
Herod heard of him for his name was
spread abroad and he said now folks this
his resurrection day that John the
Baptist was risen from the dead he
believed in the resur resurrection and
therefore Mighty Works do show forth
themselves in him others said this is
Elias and others said that it’s a
prophet or as one of the prophets but
when Herod heard thereof he said it’s
John whom I beheaded he’s risen from the
dead for Herod himself had sent forth
and laid hold upon John bound him in
prison for herodias sake his brother
Philip’s wife whom he had married for he
had married her for John had said unto
Herod it’s not lawful for theee to have
thy brother ‘s wife therefore herodias
had a quarrel against him and would have
killed him but she could not for Herod
feared John knowing that he was a just
man and holy and observed him and when
he heard him he did many things and
heard him gladly all right look this way
please there was a tremendous commotion
out in the Judean Wilderness out by the
Jordan River multitudes from Jerusalem
and all over Judea were going out to he
very strange looking man this man had
been living in the desert and you you
can be sure he had not shaven he had
long hair he had a beard he had a coat
of camel’s hair he had a leather girdle
on him and when they offered him food
their food from the city when he offered
them their sweet breads and their
desserts he turned it down and he turned
aside and had his own little meal of
locust he ate Locust and wild honey he
ate bugs
strange
man according to the crowd but they were
flocking out to hear a man sent from God
a man who called himself only a voice
and that voice was the most piercing
voice that had ever appeared on the
scene in Judea or in on the earth at
that time and they were flocking out
they loved to hear him scath the
Pharisees and the Sadducees he came out
the Pharisees and the Sadducees
and they would stand in the periphery of
the crowd and he’d Point his Rod at them
and call them a brood of snakes a brood
of vipers he said just a pack of snakes
and the crowd loved
it but they repented because his message
pierced into their hearts soldiers came
to hear him and and they would say what
can we do to be saved because his
message pierced their hearts and he said
uh be satisfied with your wages and I’m
sure King Herod loved to hear Hime
preach to his army be satisfied with
your
wages he was he was scathing to all
against sin he was Fearless he feared no
man and Herod heard about this man John
and I’m I’m sure being the leader being
the king he traveled with quite an
Entourage I would always picture uh I’ve
always pictured that scene I’ve got a
vivid imagination I picture about six
black chariots and and I see Horsemen
everywhere his bodyguards and I see them
coming standing uh he Parks his his
chariots on the hillside he’s heard
about this
man now I I have a feeling in my heart
that Herod had grown cynical he he had
administered uh government to the Jews
and I’m sure he was tired of the phony
priest he of that day he was tired of
the Pharisees who made long prayers and
yet robbed widows houses he saw the
hypocrisy he he heard their crazy
messages he saw infighting among the
different religious sects and I’m sure
he was cynical he was saying religion
has nothing to do for me and he he went
out of
curiosity because uh that’s where many
of you are here right now many of you
have heard a cynical you’re cynical in
in Amor because you’ve heard and seen
nothing in religion but that which is
hypocrisy you have judged all religion
by certain television Ministries that
are into materialism or preach a money
gospel and you’ve called them money
grubbers some of you sitting here now
you have never really seen reality
you’ve never heard it all you’ve seen of
religion is that which has bored you and
caused you to be
cynical but he came out of curiosity to
hear this Prophet John and I’m telling
you when he heard him something happened
in herod’s heart he said this is a
different man he is a holy man he’s a
godly man this man is telling the truth
this man the Bible said he gladly heard
him and he did many things he kept
coming back to hear John and the harder
John preached the more he loved it in
fact one day he came to hear John the
Baptist and he’s sitting there I don’t
know if herodias is there or not but he
had stolen his brother Philip’s wife and
he’s living in adultery and in that
Society among the Jews that’s the worst
thing he could have done unforgivable in
and John the Baptist points a finger at
him right at the king and he says King
Herod it’s not lawful for you to have
that woman give her up and do what is
right
repent and Herod loved it he loved it I
can picture him going back and telling
his prime ministers and and his cohorts
there’s a man of God that’s what I like
to hear I like to hear a man tell it
right that man’s not into materialism
that man doesn’t care about clothes that
man’s a real preacher we’re going
back you know a lot of people like that
they they finally hear a
sound and they know it’s not phony and
they know the man or the men that preach
it are living it because men who live
their message you can’t mistake it if
you have discernment in your heart you
can’t mistake
it and he hears a
sound and he loves that straight
preaching and he loves this man in fact
the Bible said he defended him he would
let nobody touch this man that’s my man
that’s my
preacher I’m sure he went up and down
the halls of his Palace saying to
tomorrow we’re going down the Wilderness
again I’ve got to hear another heart
message from Brother
John and I’m sure he told everybody I’m
sure he got up before his court he said
I want everybody there tomorrow you got
to hear this man he is something else he
tells it like it should be that’s the
way preachers should be that’s the way
churches should be like John the
Baptist he comes to hear John the
Baptist and the Bible said he hears him
gladly I’m going to tell you folks I’m
preaching tonight the same message John
the Baptist preaches re preach
repentance and I’m going to preach it
straight and we preached straight from
this Pulpit you know we have a lot of
people that come to this church and they
sit here they they’ve heard all kinds of
phony stuff they’ve come from churches
that aboard them and they come and they
say boy they tellal it straight I like
it I’ve had him hug me and say boy you
preach it straight brother Dave don’t
stop preaching it straight I know
there’s still living like the
devil I’ve been conf I have been comp
complimented more on my preaching by
Sinners than
Christians you know I’m not looking for
your compliments by the
way and I’ll tell you what the more I
preach straight the less it’ll be
compliment but he he is so taken by this
man he makes moral changes in his life
he does a lot of changes he goes home
and he thinks it over and he say I I
can’t do that anymore I can’t do that
anymore he he’s laying down this and
he’s laying down that he hears him and
he makes moral changes in his
life Herod feared John knowing that he
was the just man and holy and he
observed him and when he heard him he
did many things and he heard him glad
gladly gladly he heard
him well there are some of you here
tonight you don’t have a hard
heart you gladly hear the word because
there’s a hunger this man had a hunger
in his heart he couldn’t have come as
there was something in him that really
wanted reality this is the tragedy this
is where hard-heartedness starts with
many people who start with a Hungry
Heart they really want reality they
really want to do what is wrong right
they don’t want to they don’t want to
live in their sin they don’t want the
misery anymore they want they really
want to change and I believe Herod
wanted to change but you see Herod could
not give up a Fatal Attraction in his
heart he he was totally ens snared by
this woman herodias he had stolen his
brother Philip’s wife he is an adulterer
he’s living in
adultery and John said you can’t repent
until you bring forth uh Works me to
repentance in other words you’ve got to
do what God says you’ve got to do right
you’ve got to lay your sin down and he
he is convicted by this
message and
uh Herod knows this woman he knows she’s
a murderous she’s a conniving revengeful
woman and he knows it there’s no way he
can get around this this manipulating
conniving murdering woman no doubt she’s
intelligent she may have been beautiful
she may have been Charming but she was a
snake and and Herod knew
it all around
Herod he sees men repenting at John’s
message he sees people changing he sees
uh people making restitution he sees
soldiers no longer complaining he sees
Pharisees he sees publicans paying back
over
uh collected taxes he sees people that
have stolen things making restitution
and here he is he’s being challenged now
if you want to repent if you want life
lay down your besetting sin laid down
your pet Idol lay it
down but
Herod really would have loved to repent
if he could have given up everything but
herodias did did just God there’s no
evidence that he ever went to John alone
and said look John I respect you I know
you’re a holy man and I’ve got a problem
I am hooked on this woman I hear your
message and I would really like to be
free could you tell me how to get
free you see there are people sitting
here right now you would love to repent
you would love to serve Jesus and come
to this church even perhaps Faithfully
you’d like to be a part of the body of
Christ but there came a time and there’s
a time just now about to ripen for you
where the Holy Ghost says if you’re
going to repent you’ve got to lay down
that besetting sin you’ve got to lay
down that Fatal Attraction you’ve got to
lay it down now tonight and Herod
there’s no evidence that he went to John
John could have told him why there’s one
coming after me whose shoes I’m not even
wory unlatched and he is coming to open
every prison door he’s coming to break
every chain and if you’ll repent he’s
already here in spirit and he will give
you he he will give you Freedom he will
break it there could have been a break
he could have been helped some of you
sitting here now you can’t come to Jesus
because of a Fatal Attraction in your
heart now what is it or who is it that’s
holding you back from repenting and
following Jes Jesus with all your
heart I I’ve got to speak what I believe
the Holy Ghost has put on my heart
tonight there are some of you a number
of you here tonight you have backslidden
over this you are not serving God
because of it let’s talk first to young
women middle-age women I don’t know what
age you may be let’s talk to the ladies
first you cannot make a surrender you
cannot repent because you have a heart
that’s given over to somebody there’s a
man in your life and that man is
evil that man is
corrupt that man is going to destroy you
and deep in your heart you know what
he’s like you know it in your heart the
Holy Ghost has dealt with you you know
that that man you do things and say
things with him that you wouldn’t do
under any other circumstances you do it
and say it only when you’re with
him you know that something evil you
know there’s a serpent in it but it has
your heart you can’t lay it
down there are men here right now
there’s some woman in your life that has
captured your soul and your mind and you
can’t eat you can’t sleep it’s consuming
you you want Jesus you don’t want to go
to hell you’d like to be a Christian
you’d like to repent but you can’t stay
away from that serpent
woman she has your heart she makes you
you say and do things you would not
think of doing at one
time it’s there it has your
heart that’s the beginning of a hard
heart Herod turns away from John’s
preaching because he knows if he repents
he’s got to lay it
down now let me tell you something and
listen
closely the Lord by his spirit is is not
wanting you to lay down your adult
your your drugs your alcohol these
besetting sins simply because he’s mad
at you for doing them it’s it’s not
because you sin angers he’s already paid
the price for sin he died for all
sin the reason he wants you to lay it
down is because he knows the snake in it
he knows the Viper in it he knows the
poison in it he knows it will kill you
he knows it will destroy you it’s
because he loves you then he said lay it
down or it’ll k kill you it’ll give you
a hard heart and you’ll turn against me
it’s not it’s not just adultery it’s not
fornication it’s not it’s the fact that
it has your heart it’s an idol and it
has you in its grip it’s ens snared
you he goes back the Bible said a
companion of fools shall be destroyed
shall be
destroyed
John could have helped this man you know
if you’ll come to Jesus with your Fatal
Attraction if you’ll come to Jesus with
that that that bosom sin that holds you
so tight if you’ll come bold you just
come as a child to Jesus you say oh
Jesus this has overwhelmed me this has
overpowered me and I’ve got to have help
you come with an open heart you come
ready to lay your sin down even though
it’s got a hold of you you come to him
and and I promise you the holy spirit
will lead you through it may take a
little time but God will bring you
through he’ll Break Every Chain he will
break those chains he has all the
power you say if I come to Jesus I’ve
tried I’ve made promises and I can’t
break it I keep going
back because you have not yet trusted
the Holy Spirit you have not yet
understood how much he wants to deliver
you there is Del Deliverance
Hallelujah you have to have the want to
you have to have the desire so oh God I
want to be
free I promise you you can be free
there’s not a sin there is not a sin out
of hell that can’t be
broken there is not a single Fatal
Attraction that cannot be smashed by the
power of God through the Holy
Ghost if we by his Spirit mortify the
flesh we shall live through his Spirit
we kill the flesh trouble is you’ve been
fighting at yourself and making promises
and what you wind up is sin confess sin
confess sin confess and it doesn’t work
and you get discouraged and you go out
and say what’s the
use I wh Watch What Happens now when
when when you go to your Idol because if
you go to your idol you become just like
it whatever spirit and the idol will
leap upon you and I want to show you
those those who go back to their lust or
their Fatal Attraction are soon driven
into a deep Wicked destructive downward
spiral you listen to me please you’ve
got to hear this it’s not a matter of
saying well I’m just going to go my way
I’m just going to do my little thing
I’ve got one thing I can’t let go I’m
I’m just someday I’ll be free but you
see the devil never going to be
satisfied to let you just go out and do
your thing with your one little
particular sin you’re not going to be
satisfied at all because he going to
make sure that he drives you down deeper
and deeper into sin so that you will
never want to come back he has to harden
your heart Les you once again gladly
receive him like Herod
did he has to take that gladness toward
the gospel out of your heart and the
only way he can do that is to drive you
deeper and deeper into wickedness filth
and viess he will drive you and folks I
have seen that all the years of my
preaching those who’ve sat under the
gospel of repentance like Herod and then
turns away goes to the Idol goes to the
attraction says well I I I just can’t
give this up go follow the attraction go
follow the lust and folks what a
terrible thing begins to happen to this
man now he begins to close the gospel
off you don’t find him anymore going out
to hear John preach you find him now
becoming more and more like his Idol he
becomes more and more like herodias and
he’s being driven and it’s not very long
folks it’s just a very short
time a very short time just a matter of
months
before this man loses all his senses and
finally for a song and a
dance a song and a dance this man sells
out a godly man kills him and
decapitates his head takes his head
off he watched this man hardening his
heart now he’s driven to do something he
never thought he would ever do as long
as he lived it’s so
uncivilized it’s so vile it’s so
Unthinkable that he could lose all his
reason and act like an
animal and sell out this man that he
knew to be a man of God so holy and so
righteous and jump off his head and sit
there at a party and watch them bring
the head of John the Baptist in on a
tray
present it to
herodias and I believe that W woman was
wicked enough to have that head bronzed
and put in her bedroom on her
dresser such a wicked vile
woman you see preacher I’m Pastor Wilson
I’m I’m not a preacher killer I I am not
going down into
degradation I may have a problem but I
may have a besetting sin but I’m never
going going to go down into that spy go
worse and worse oh that’s not what
Romans says Romans the first
chapter you’ll see this spiral of sin
that goes down to the very pits of Hell
first chapter of Romans I’m just going
to read a few verses 18 and 19 the wrath
of God is revealed from Heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men who hold the truth in
unrighteousness because that which may
be known of God is shown to them or
manifest in them for God ha showed it
unto them verse 21 because that when
they knew God you see they they heard
the preaching they knew what was right
and wrong they glorified him not as God
in other words they stayed to their
Idols neither were they thankful but
they became vain in their imagination
their foolish heart was
darkened professing themselves to be
wise they became fools now I want you to
go down and verse 28 and even as they
did not like to retain God in their
knowledge God gave them over to a
repeate mind to do those things which
are not convenient now let look at me
for just a minute a repeate mind is is a
mind that is no longer open it’s a
closed mind it’s absolutely closed and
when the mind is closed to the gospel
that which could be known of God was
clearly known but they refus to retain
it they refus to heed the gospel
therefore God gave them over to a closed
mind and now look what’s happening we
look at this spiral down into hell doing
those things which are not convenient
being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetousness
maliciousness Envy murder debate deceit
malignity Whisperers backbiters haters
of God despiteful proud boasters
inventors of of evil things disobedient
to Parents Without understanding
Covenant Breakers without natural
effects implacable and merciful folks
that’s that’s these sins are pasted
right on the Gate of
Hell these are sins right out of hell it
it it’s these are steps leading right to
the pit and the worst of all verse 32
who knowing the Judgment of God that
they which commit such things are worthy
of death not only do the same but have
and them that do them oh here’s what
happened to Herod Herod now is doing
exactly what herodias was doing and
having pleasure in it he was just like
his Idol he had become the
Idol Oh folks the day will come when
when right now you you walk out the
streets here and you see some of the
stuff that goes on you go in the subway
you go on the job you walk some of these
filthy these streets of immorality and
you see what some people are capable of
you read about it you hear about it and
and at one time you would have scrapped
your head and said how could anybody do
that and then in short time you’re doing
exactly everything you’ve heard of every
sin that’s named you are going to be
guilty of it because you have now a
closed mind and you’re following after
your lust you have been given over to
your
idolatry till finally you not only do
what they doing but you enjoy seeing
others do the same thing you take
pleasure in that kind of wickedness
where once you could have walked into a
bar room and run out because the Holy
Ghost was pulling you now you go in
you’re one of them you’re a part of it
now those secret things that you only
once dreaded and said how could any
human being do it and then suddenly
you’re doing it and having pleasure with
others who do the same things that’s all
that he’s talking about here
what a
tragedy
tragedy you may not believe
it it won’t be long till you’ll be
capable of the most Unthinkable
sins who would have ever thought that a
man who sat there praising this man
obeying this man glad to receive him
would turn aside one day and said chop
his head and walk away and become like
Romans 1 whoever believed it it’s the
hardening process who would have ever
believed uh a preacher’s wife three
precious children who one time would
rather die than give up one of her
children but she falls into an
adulterous Affair falls in love with a
young man half her age runs off leaves
her kids her heart’s hard she never if
you’d have told her five years before
one day you’re going to run off leave
all your children leave the ministry and
you’re going to wind up drinking and
going to Bar she would have laughed at
you but no downward spiral she cut off
everything and turn to her Idol who
would have ever thought a young woman
could uh drive her car into a
lake because she’s in love with a young
man who says he doesn’t want anything to
do with kids and she’s got
two what happens to a woman what kind of
a downward spot
brought her to this place where she can
just sit on the edge of the lake and
watches her car slowly sinks and her two
boys screaming and
drowning what kind of a Down SP what
kind of hardness
happens what kind of hardness and you
know they tell us that that young woman
at one time played with those children
they were so sweet and she seemed to
love them so much an idol she became
just like her Idol hardness set in
anything goes when that hardness comes
anything now those who come to this
point become
haunted haunted absolutely haunted
there’s nobody more haunted than a
backslider I mean they’re the most
haunted people in the world every time
they can walk down the street they hear
a trumpet they come to you know the
Trump of the Lord is sounded they come
to attention
there’s a there’s another rumor that
comes to Herod said there’s a there’s
another man and he’s he’s raising the
dead lepers are being healed blind eyes
open deaf ears
unstopped said I know who he is I know
exactly who he is well his name is Jesus
no it’s not Jesus it’s John
he’s raised from the dead he’s come to
hunt
me and his his friends in his cohart
said no no it’s it’s Elias’s Prophet
Elijah raised from the dead or one of
the prophets or someone like a prophet
they’re trying to quet him down he said
I don’t care who you said it is it’s
John man can’t sleep he can’t
eat he’s haunted he’s he knows he’s
turned down the gospel of repentance he
knows he’s killed a holy man of God and
I’ll tell you every time you walk out on
a holy ghost message you crucify Jesus
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fresh it’s Elijah Herod no it’s John and
I’ll tell you from that time on all
through Jesus ministry He is wanting to
meet this man now you know that pilate
finally brought him to and he had a face
and face
encounter this man believes in
Resurrection here’s a man who believes
in
Miracles he still has this I I I believe
in miracles because later he’s going to
ask Jesus to perform a miracle for it
when he has him face to face and and he
keeps believing that a holy man can be
raised from the dead he believes in
resurrection power isin’t that amazing
that people can live in the depths of
sin when they backslide they can still
believe there there are some of you here
now you have turned your back on the
Lord you’re deep in your sin you’re
going downhill doing things now you
never thought you could ever do but but
if anybody dare ask you you can be in a
bar you can be drunk and still talk
about Jesus dying on the cross you know
all about it you still believe that
Jesus died for sin that he is
resurrected from the dead that he was a
man who could heal you know all about
him you could probably teach in a bible
college for two hours
how do you
sleep you you know every time the New
York Times the past two weeks been
talking about everybody in the country
talking about angels appearing
everywhere like magazine the front page
Angels appearing they’re talking about
angels appearing in the heavens and
everywhere have you heard about it
Angels
everywhere what do backsliders who once
knew the power of God think when the
we’re Sinners and Liberals are talking
about
angels what what do they say now when
the scientists watching television and
now they say all these weather changes
there’s something cataclysmic there’s
something Supernatural going on and many
scientist says we’re destroying our
planet it’s soon going to be all
over and that Christian in the backlit
in there says I know what that’s all
about that’s that’s John he’s raised him
the dead I’ve been H that’s a
gospel
H the Holy Ghost is the Hound of
Heaven he’ll Hound you because he loves
you he’ll Hound
you boy this he Hound I’m thanking I’m
GL he hounded me he’ll Hound you to your
last moment he’ll stay right with you I
don’t care who it is the Holy Ghost The
Hound of heaven will stay right there
finally Herod types ended up
mocking and laughing that very God
himself because Jesus was God in flesh
would you go to Luke 23 with me
please we’re going to see him coming
face to face finally with his
nightmare can you imagine this man
living three years with this uh
nightmare this
haunting 23rd chapter verse three
beginning to
read and pilate asked him saying art
thou the king of the Jews and he
answered him and said thou sayest it
then said pilate to the chief priest and
to the people I find no fault in this
man and when they were and they and they
were the more Fierce saying he stirreth
up the people teach throughout all
jewelry beginning From Galilee to this
place when pilate heard of Galilee he
asked whether the man were Galilean and
as soon as he knew that he belonged un
to herod’s jurisdiction he sent him to
Herod isn’t that amazing after about
three years now herod’s finally going to
meet him face to face who himself also
was at Jerusalem at that time and when
Herod saw Jesus he was exceeding glad
for he was desirous to see him of a long
season because he had heard many things
of him and he hoped to seen some miracle
done by him now look this way please I
know exactly how that
went Jesus walks in and herod’s looking
at him looks him over and he’s thinking
his eyes aren’t the
same he’s a little
taller he speaks with a different voice
but that’s John that’s
John and you know what he
said come on now I know they call you
Jesus but you’re John aren’t you you’re
John tell me you’re
John this man’s still harded you’re John
the Baptist you’ve been raised from the
dead what do you want out of me I can’t
sleep I can’t eat what do you
want there’s not a
sound
this this man saysi know exactly who you
are you are John the
Baptist I cut off your head and I’m
thinking he’s looking for a
scar I believe he got his Clos as he
could to walk around him see if there
was any Mark for the sword and chopped
off his
head you know what the Bible
says here’s the tragedy of the hard
heart
and Jesus answered him not a
word there’s no greater
judgment than for God to stop talking to
you there’s no greater judgment on Earth
Saul knew what that was all about he
came under that judgment because he
followed the sin of his own heart his
pride took him away from the repentance
the scripture said when Saul inquired of
the Lord the Lord answered him not
neither by dreams nor by urum nor by
prophets he finally ends up trying to
consult with the witch you know what he
tells This Witch he said God has
departed from me and he answers me no
more neither by prophets nor by dreams
he said I don’t hear from God
anymore I can’t think of anything more
tragic it causes me to tremble that a
person person can become so hard in
their heart and the Lord sees that
nothing is going to move
it that he doesn’t talk anymore and it
ends up that you can sit in a meeting
like this no movement of the Holy Ghost
no amount of conviction if an angel came
down in bodily form and preached
directly from the Throne of God it would
not
touch no tragedy can move the heart
there’s nothing the heart is absolutely
Untouchable in fact every question to
God every inquiry now is meant by an
emptiness there’s no answer there’s no
response oh my brother sister that
is one thing I would rather be dead now
than that that should ever happen to me
because oh if I did not have the comfort
of the Holy SP spirit inside that voice
that inner voice of the Holy Ghost
you’re my beloved Son I love you and to
get his Direction and to know that the
the the the witness of the holy spirit
that the Christian has Christian if you
didn’t have the witness of the Holy
Ghost you would be in
Terror if you didn’t have the
voice you hear him you you heard him
today you’re hearing him now while I
preach the majority of you who love the
Lord you’re hearing him in the Inner Man
right now it’s not my preaching that’s
comforted you it’s the Holy Ghost in you
that’s coming you you hear his voice you
know his
mind he speaks to you he convicts you of
sin of judgment and righteousness he’s
in you he’s at
work God help those who backslide those
who follow their idols and they can sit
in any church any kind of Revival
meeting any kind of moving of the Holy
Spirit no conviction absolutely totally
dead Jesus see he answers pilate
pilate’s not quite hard-hearted I
guess the Herod who had once received
him
gladly and you know what happens
next the man who received Jesus
gladly in mockery puts a royal robe on
his
back and he starts laughing at him he
said King of the Jews and he begins to
laugh at
him and he joins the soldiers in
mocking this blessed Lord and the chief
priest and scribes stood and vly accused
him and Herod with his Men of War set
him at not means they began to belittle
him and they mocked him and array him in
a gorgeous robe and sent him back to
pilate is’t that something that you can
one time have heard the gospel with
gladness and then up end up sitting in a
church snickering at the preaching you
can end up sitting
there what a bunch of
crazies what a foolish thing to think
that one time I believe that garbage
what a bunch of unintelligent people
let’s get out of here and end up mocking
the Son of
God and folks I tell you the greatest
mockers of the cross of Jesus Christ are
those who like Herod at one time gladly
received the gospel and they become
mockers and
scoffers in
closing had a I have a dear
friend who had to
endure horrible tragedy just
recently his father in the
80s a
stepmother dying of
cancer and they called in one of these
suicide
doctors for a double
suicide and uh in fact they even called
the newspapers came in on
it it’s rather well
publicized this dear man
dear friend of
mine had
to listen to his father when he begged
him one last time please please it
witness to him and witness to
him just before the man’s about to go
into eternity through an assisted
suicide with the lethal
injection turns to his son and says get
away with your garbage I don’t want to
hear of your Jesus I don’t want to hear
anything of that that’s for money
grubbing
preachers the words to that effect I
want nothing to do with it har broke his
son’s heart this broke
him this man and his wife go out in
eternity
hard like a
rock how are you going to go
out how are you going to face Jesus at
the Judgment
Day you think that hardness is going to
stand Before the
Throne you think that hardness is going
to stand no because he said every knee
shall bow every tongue shall confess and
every eye Shall Behold
Him where are you at in what stage are
you in this process of hardening is
there still time let me tell you when
you could know if there’s time if you
sense a stirring in your heart right now
there something still moving that’s the
Holy Spirit he’s still able to penetrate
he’s penetrated those walls that you’re
already erecting he maybe he came in
through a window came in through a door
that’s cracked the holy spirit’s there
he’s witnessing to you he’s saying don’t
turn me away that’s why he stands at the
door and knocks because he knows
somebody’s about to harden and shut him
out out forever some of you are that
close to closing him
up that he never can speak to you again
not that he doesn’t want
to not that his voice is not heard
around the world you’ll sit in meetings
where many many many are being saved but
you’ll be
unmoved oh
Jesus what a off awful horrible thing to
imagine that some that are here tonight
hearing me preach this
message in the process of being hardened
in their hearts could still walk out and
say I can’t give up my sin I can’t give
up this thing in my heart I won’t give
it up and then go
out and have happen just what I’ve
talked about
Oh Holy Spirit Come don’t let anybody
walk out of this place without your
spirit wooing them this is the
conclusion of the
message