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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
a few weeks ago I preached a message in
this church about God’s controversy
concerning Zion his church that God
judges Nations when when the governments
and the People Press his body his church
when they be when when a nation begins
to uh take away the freedoms of God’s
people God sends judgment you saw that
happened to the the Russian Empire you
saw the whole empire collapse because
they persecuted the Church of Jesus
Christ for so many years Afghanistan you
saw the same thing happen they were
killing Christians and Believers
murdering them and burning them and
beheading them these were were Muslim
nations and Russia came down and the
nation went into depression you see it
in Indonesia Indonesia Thailand and some
of these others were persecuting uh
Christians and uh in the Indonesian
riots remember many of those ethnic
Chinese were Christians Born Again
Christians and over 1500 of them I
believe were slain or near that amount
and so God judges Nations he has a
controversy with Nations when they
persecute his body and this is what I
believe is going to be a part of the
judgment on America because the the
attempts to be uh politically accurate
and to uh get got out of our schools out
of our all of our
institutions and uh really harassment
against anything that has to do with
Jesus Christ and I believe that that’s
the controversy God has with America not
just our drugs or alcohol or sexual
promiscuity but all of the uh
legal attempts to take God out of our
schools and now a legal a legal move
underway to remove In God We Trust off
all our coins and a an outright attack
on anything having to do with the name
of our Lord and so judgment will come as
a result of that tonight I want to speak
to you about God’s controversy with the
backslidden church God’s controversy
with the backslidden church tell you
what I’m going to be in uh the book of
Hosea so why don’t you turn to Hosea and
leave it open around the fourth chapter
we’re going to be referring a lot to
this Prophet
tonight God’s controversy with the
backslidden
church heavenly father there are things
happening outside the doors of this
church all over the United States and
around the world now Lord you have come
to balance the books you’ve come to take
revenge on those who for years and
centuries now have mocked your name and
Lord you said judgment will begin in the
house of God and we pray Lord that you
open our eyes and our understanding Holy
Spirit come upon me now and speak
through me as an oracle of God I pray
Lord that as we humble oursel before you
we would hear your mind in the words
that I speak tonight Lord enlarge our
vision help us to see the heart of God
and why he is having to judge the
Nations why all the nations are in
turmoil One Nation after another Lord
absolute despair depression economic
depression unemployment Mass suicides in
Japan now Mass suicides in Korea and in
Thailand and in Indonesia and all the
Asian Nations literally thousands are
taking their lives fear uncertainty but
oh God we want to look at your church
tonight there is there is a church in
this nation and around the world that is
going to come under your wrath and your
Vengeance we pray Lord you give us an
understanding in Jesus name I pray
amen now when God suddenly pours his
corrective judgments On Any Nation the
Bible said he begins in his own
house the Judgment must Peter said begin
in the house of the Lord and if the
righteous scarcely be saved where shall
the ungodly and sinner
appear if the rights should scarcely be
saved does not mean that Christians are
going to be saved by the Skin of Their
Teeth that’s not what it means if you
take it in context that whole chapter
Peter is talking about Peter is talking
about suffering for Christ has to do
with suffering and he he’s actually
saying if the righteous in a time of
judgment scarcely find immunity against
suffering in other words even Christians
are going to suffer in in great measure
and he said if we’re going to suffer and
we’re not immune to these things where
will the ungodly come in what kind of
suffering will be Meed out to the
ungodly now please note that the Bible
says that God’s people overcoming people
are not going to be scarcely saved in
fact the Bible makes it very clear
they’re going to presented be presented
by Jesus Christ to the father with
exceeding great joy it’s going to be
with a triumphant sound we’re not going
to just limp into heaven we’re going
shouting and jumping all the way I can
assure you
that the entire passage is about the
suffering of Christians rejoicing in as
much as you are made partakers of Christ
suffering but we’re to commit the
keeping of our souls to him and well
doing as a faithful Creator in all these
times that are coming he said you
present your soul your body to me
because I’m going to be faithful to you
now Paul refers to the time we’re living
in now as the wrap up of all times the
end of all times he says upon whom the
ends of the world have
come and he said really if you want to
know God’s heart when it comes to
judging when it comes to his people you
don’t have to pray for a vision you just
don’t get along with God and say Lord
reveal to me your mind he’ll dig he’ll
say go into the Old Testament dig it out
I have revealed my mind that’s why the
Apostle said and all these th all these
things happened unto them in the Old
Testament for our example they are
written for our teaching upon whom the
ends of the world are come we are living
in that time Paul said the ends of the
world have all come down upon us now so
everything is meant for our
teaching but the Lord is saying if you
want to know what is going to come to
your nation and to the world if you want
to know my heart when it comes to my
mercies and my judgments get to know my
character by studying every one of these
Old Testament prophecies folks I I love
the new New Testament and I’m in that
constantly but what I want to know the
the real heart of God he’s already
judged he’s already shown his mercies I
go to the Old Testament and and I I just
live in it and I I get the mind of God
so that we don’t have to
speculate we don’t have to dream up
something because it’s so clear the
heart of God Is So
revealed especially in
Hosea Hosea is the prophet who clearly
reveals the heart of God about what’s
going to happen to America and to the
nations of the world in the short days
ahead the Hosea is the prophet who
clearly defines God’s controversy with a
backslidden church go to Hosea the 4th
chapter if you will
please verses 1 and two Hosea the 4th
chapter verses 1 and
two hear the word of the Lord ye
children of Israel for the Lord hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the
land because there’s no truth nor Mercy
nor knowledge of God In the Land by
swearing and lying and killing and
stealing committing adultery they break
out and blood toucheth blood now listen
to that if you will please very clearly
the warning is addressed to the children
of Israel these are God’s people now
folks here is the church being described
in the last days this was in his time
but he’s also speaking duly of a another
time because God said you look at this
you read it and you’re reading your own
times into it
also and I want you to look at this
please a church totally bankrupt of
Truth having no
mercy a called out people yes but
completely ignorant of God’s ways no
longer in communion with him a church
full of cursing lying
adulterous hateful people even murderers
in their midst
killers and folks listen to me please
can you imagine such a church as that
existing today is there a church in
America and in the land and in the world
today that is full of adultery full of
bitterness full of rebellion and even
killing and murder absolutely
yes it’s not the overcoming Church of
Jesus Christ I assure you but there are
two churches in the land just as there
were two churches in the time of Hosea
Israel represents the backslidden church
that had become adulterous fornicating
full of of rebellion there was murder
there was raping there was
incest and then there is Judah of Judah
God said Judah still rules with God and
is still faithful with the Saints the
though Israel will play the Harlot let
not Judah offend he’s saying I have an
overcoming church I have a holy Remnant
represented by Judah but there was
another church in hosea’s time
Israel a children of God absolutely
backslidden priests that were Unholy and
ungodly and God says I have a
controversy with this church because
they call themselves by my name they
claim to be my church and God says I
have a
controversy the Lord hath a controversy
with the inhabitants of the land because
there no truth nor Mercy nor knowledge
of God swearing lying killing stealing
committing adultery blood touching blood
he said there’s a river of blood flowing
out of this
church I’m telling you that’s abortion
blood touching blood until it becomes a
river and folks I want to show you that
that is coming from what is called the
Evangelical churches
even would you listen closely there’s a
church in the land and a People
backsliding the Bible said a spirit of
wartom is in the midst of them it’s a
harlot
church have you not seen in your
newspapers yet the pictures of our
national leaders coming out of church on
Sunday morning with their Bibles in
their
hands do you not hear them say we are
born again we are
Christians
in the United States capital every
Sunday
morning there are attorneys judges
lawyers politicians and in every state
topal in the United States and the same
thing around the world in Europe
especially you see them Sunday morning
toting their Bibles and putting on the
front and they will say that I am a
Christian many of them claim to be
evangelicals many of them teach Sunday
school
hold prayer
meetings and yet these are the same
people those people who are voting now
for abortion those who are taking up the
homosexual agenda many of them claim to
be born again Christians they’re not
agnostics they’re not
atheists they claim to be
Christians that’s where the blood is
touching blood the prophet is talking
about lying and
stealing
corruption judges magistrates doctors
lawyers Business Leaders coming and
going out of protestant Evangelical
churches folks I have listen to this
double talk this double speak for many
of them I told you about President
Clinton’s Pastor Philip wman of found
Methodist Church who excuses the
president of the United
States I don’t know what the president
may be guilty of but his pastor says we
cannot judge him for this because he has
so many good qualities that outweigh his
sins if there be
sins and out of churches like
this with pastors listen you know that
the majority of pastors now in most
denominate in many denomination now do
not believe I think the last figure was
less than 25% of the Pastors in most
denominations don’t even believe in the
Virgin
birth thousands poing into these
churches no wonder there’s so many
people who want nothing to do with God
or church because they see this
stench they see the hypocrisy and the
phoniness of it
all those who make the laws about
abortion
those who stand up against prayers in
our schools in our
society all across this land especially
in the South and in the Midwest and even
in the north
Midwest especially the whole Bible Belt
Governors coming out of prayer meetings
and making statements to protect the all
homosexual
agenda God says I’m angered with this
church the people call themselves by my
name yet they abandon my word they’ve
turned aside from the knowledge of that
which is holy they are profane there’s
blood on their hands they act as if they
have no knowledge of God
whatsoever there are thousands upon
thousands of churches in America in
England Australia around the world dead
immoral ashamed to the name of God a
church system so wicked and corrupt at
the ungodly are shocked by
it how did this
backslidden immoral Church come to into
being how was it birthed how did we come
to this in this
country folks this city is full of
churches like that I could name you
three of the most best known churches in
New York
City where the ho agender
homosexuality
immoral
activity adultery fornication on all
sides drunkenness alcoholism drug
addiction not a word is said about
it Hosea blamed a backslid and corrupted
Ministry per peret
perpetuating perpetrating
this great wickedness in the land he
said this thing that’s happening in our
land has come from our
pulpits God said look at verse 6 chapter
4 my people are destroyed for lactive
knowledge because thou has rejected
knowledge I will also reject thee that
thou sht be no priest to me he’s talking
about the Ministry you will not be
priest to me seeing thou Hast forgotten
the law of God I also will forget thy
children those are his spiritual
children God says how can I minister to
your spiritual
children he said you will not be a
minister to me you may be a minister
minister to the crowd they may think of
you a pastors a priest but you’re not
mine I have nothing to do with you you
have no knowledge of God you are not of
mine and your church is not of
mine was a time of great Prosperity if
you know the context of this prophecy
time of great prosperity in Israel at
the time there was great increase in
verse 7 look at it it says as they were
increased or as they prospered so they
sinned against me therefore will I
change their Glory into
shame the ministry of hosea’s
time we’re eating off the sins of the
people
they were excusing sin but not only were
they excusing it they were enriching
themselves by the sins of the people
verse eight they eat up the sin of my
people and in the Hebrew it means they
live off the sins of their people this
is the man in the Pulpit who will never
reprove he’ll never cry out against sin
he’ll never give a prophetic warning
because it would cost him all he wants
he’s a highing and the hings are in the
Pulpit All Over America there are hings
they’re in the ministry to be known and
loved and financially secure
period folks I’m not inventing this this
is the
prophet Hosea 4:11 harlotry and wine and
new wine take away the heart that’s
their discernment their
understanding har he he said there’s a
drunkenness
alcoholism alcoholism
drinking adultery
fornication is eating away the
discernment of the
ministry I heard a of a German Pastor
who took an evangelist acquaintance of
mine aside and he said please Don’t
Preach so hard about pornography because
there’s not a p he said there’s hardly a
pastor or Christian in Germany that
doesn’t go to sleep every night with
without some nude or pornographic image
on his mind from
television he said they won’t hear it
here and he was actually told to soft
pedal it as if the man who was saying is
is confessing himself that that’s what
he goes to bed at night with these
pornographic images and pictures in his
mind from what he’s
seen Hosea warned the ministers of the
Lord have lost their spiritual life
their understanding their dull their
void of life because they’re given over
to sexual lust they’re drinking they’re
carousing according to Hosea the
backslid sensuous church was the result
of people becoming just like their
pastors look at verse n and there shall
be like people like
priest folks look at me please and hear
me
well you can sit in any congregation in
America you can’t be there more than a
half an hour and you’ll know what the
pastor’s like before he
speaks there will not be a sense of awe
and Holiness in that church you will you
will sense a a looseness you will sense
uh the the absolute sense of immorality
or Holiness or
righteousness and you can always go to a
church where you know there are a
there’s a man or there are men there are
leaders who seeking the face of God and
they’ve been warning against sin because
there is something of a incredible joy
that breaks out in that congregation
that doesn’t have to be worked up there
is a fellowship that you cannot invent
there’s something about it that if
you’re walking in the spirit you know it
you sense it you feel it when you sit in
the
Pulpit that’s why I so am blessed when I
hear people from all over the world that
come here even when the church is empty
and we’ll write me a letter or call us
on the phone said I was in Times Square
Church and there was nobody there but I
felt the presence of the Lord in the
building God help
us listen to this terrible warning of
Jeremiah I’ve seen in the prophets of
Jerusalem a horrible thing they commit
adultery and they walk in lies they
strengthen the hands of the evildoers
that none of these evildoers return from
their wickedness they are all of them
unto me as Sodom and the inhabitance
thereof is gamorra if you think that I’m
preaching stronger listen to this
language this is from God’s Own Heart he
said these preachers are Sodom and
gomorra to
me from the prophets of Jerusalem his
profane is gone forth into all the land
he said your land is corrupted because
there’s a stream coming out of the
pulpit
ungodly
dreams of
corruption and the people love to have
it so according to the
prophet I tell you something if you if
you’re not willing to pay the price laid
down your sins if you not really got a
heart to walk in Holiness before the
Lord in his righteousness if you don’t
have a heart for that you won’t last
long in the Holy Ghost Church you’ll go
find somebody you’ll find a past P
that’s going to be just like you he’ll
he’ll mirror what’s in your heart he’ll
speak to the idolatry in you and you’ll
sit there and you’ll be given over to a
lie and you’ll think it’s the truth and
you’ll say what a wonderful sermon when
it’s sending you to
hell now why is America become so evil
such rampant wickedness and
profanity folks you there’s not a high
school kid in this city except a few
Christians have you ever walked around
these kids and listened the profanity
there’s profanity in the movies there’s
profanity on television there’s
profanity in Wall Street it’s it’s the
it’s the in thing now for Wall Street
women the these up and coming breaking
through the glass ceiling to have a
profane
mouth making millions of dollars and
spewing out profanity
where did they get it Bible said it’s
from a profane pulpit in America not
that they’re cursing but there’s a
profanity coming out of godlessness that
has given birth to the
spirit Bible said if they stood in my
counsel and if they would cause my
people to hear my words then they would
have turned them away from their evil
way and from the evil their doings God
saying if I had been in the Pulpit who
would name sin if I had men in the
Pulpit were not afraid to prophesy if
there were men that would stand and
defend my name and stand up against this
encroachment of evil on all sides if I
had them if my people if my servants had
not
backslid there would have been a bull
work this flood would have been
stopped God says I will punish and
reward them for their doing now let me
show you what God prophesies that he’s
going to do in this coming storm that’s
coming to America and not just to
America Europe and around the
world Evangelical churches in Europe are
dying I get calls
from leaders of
denominations all through Europe in fact
I’m going to in next May to to France
and to cross Germany and to Bosnia and
to Romania but the Cry of the pastors
and the leaders that are read on fire
for God is saying brother Dave there is
such a deadness in our churches there’s
no life it’s dead it’s dead it’s dead
it’s
dying it’s dying in England it’s dying
in Australia churches are dying even
Evangelical churches are D are dying and
I go to ministers conferences and I I I
look at some very wonderful men but
there’s a sense of Despair and
death I’ll punish them and reward them
for their doings verse
n in verse in verse 10 it says God is
going to send upon them a spirit of
dissatisfaction for they shall eat and
not have enough they shall commit wartom
and shall not increase because they have
stopped giving heed to the
Lord he he said I am going to cause a
disease in this ministry that’s been
profane that is backsliding I going to
cause I’m going to give them
over
to Total dissatisfaction a spirit of
dissatisfaction so that the more they
indulge the more they try to satisfy and
find pleasure he said there’s going to
be no pleasure I’m going to take away
awful
fulfillment folks you show me a
backsliding Christian and I’ll show you
one of the most miserable persons in the
face of the
Earth backslid cold and different to the
Lord but you show me a pastor that once
had the touch of God you show me a
pastor once moved in the anointing of
the Holy Spirit you show me a pastor
once used to be close to the Heart of
Jesus and he could he was embraced by
the Lord and you could hear it in his
language you saw it in his walk and he
turns away
aside it may be pornography it may be to
adultery or fornication whatever it may
be and you see the withering and you see
the drying in fact if they don’t change
the Bible makes it very clear God says
the Judgment upon ministers especially
is that anything they do in the way of
the world will never ever bring them a
moment of pleasure it will be
diminishing effect it will be toally
diminishing in its results in their life
so that they go deeper and deeper into
the pit and the more exotic their sins
become the less fulfilled they
are and know if you’ve ever run from God
you know that’s
true you ran from God because you didn’t
want the restrictions and you wanted the
freedom and you went got your freedom
you found it was hell and it was a
prison the they shall eat and not have
enough they shall commit adultery W them
and shall not increase in other words
their satisfaction will not increase but
it will
decrease the Bible said they become
clouds without water carried about by
the wind trees whose fruit is withered
without fruit twice dead plucked up by
the
roots Raging Waves of the sea forming
out their own shame what wanding stars
that wandering stars there in the Greek
is roving about like a roving
about like a
folks I have seen those at one
time were men of God that moved my
heart and I saw a backslid condition
come over
them they sit now and just watch one
filthy television program after another
and there’s no life there’s a wither and
you see them just tramping about they’re
just roaming about like tramps the Bible
says Raging Waves of the
sea fruitless twice dead plucked up by
the roots the Bible said the wicked are
like troubled sea when it can’t rest
whose Waters cast up M and dirt there’s
no peace sayith the Lord God to the
wicked if you’re backsliding here
tonight and this what the message is
about cuz God’s promised me that he’s
going to bring home a lot of backsliders
tonight God sent you here to hear a word
I’m talking now about backsliding
preachers yes but I’m talking about a
backsliding congregation as well I’m not
talking to you that are walking with the
Lord I’m not talking to the remnant
church I’m not talking to Blood Bought
who love Jesus with all their heart this
message is not your message it’s for
those who slipped away and you’re a part
of this you’re part of this whole
backsliding scene the Lord wants to hear
first of all his warning that the fear
of God will lay hold of you so they
could show you his
Mercy another
judgment verse 16 Bible says because let
me read it to you for Israel slighted
back as a backslidden hepher now the
Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large
Place folks this is this is an awesome
judgment listen to me please this is for
every backsliding Christian for every
backsliding preacher in the United
States and around the world listen to it
closely the message I preached to you is
going out to tape in many many hundreds
of preachers receive it in a conference
last two days I said how many get my
newsletters and tapes and and and a
third of the congregation stood up out
of
hundreds so I’m addressing them as I
address you tonight also and I do it
with a broken
heart Bible says
because of backsliding and forsaking the
truth and righteousness God will strip
you of all your increase in your comfort
and he’ll turn you into a Wilderness to
fend for yourself like a little
lamb for Israel slth back as a
backsliding heer now the Lord will feed
them as a lamb in a large place that
large place is a Wilderness in the HEBs
who Wilderness place what he’s saying
because you don’t want restrictions you
been as stubborn as a an ox trying to
throw off the Yoke you don’t want the
restraints my easy Yol my easy burden
you don’t want that you want to hold to
your sin you want to hold to this woman
to this man you want to hold to your
sexual perverse you want to you want to
hold to this thing that has your
heart you you have backslid in your
heart God says and I have done
everything I know how to do to reach
you he says now I’m going to have to
take you as a lamb you want your freedom
I’m going to take you into a Wilderness
a dry withering
place and I’m going to release you I’m
going to strip you of your Comforts and
your increase according to the prophet
because you’re uh you are stubborn as an
ox he said I’m going to lead you out and
you’re going to wander
around and folks I believe God God does
this out of Love sometimes many many
times the only hope the only hope is
that in that lost condition where you
have to fend for yourself and this has
to do with the economic collapse is
coming hear
me I feel the breath of the Holy Ghost
when I speak it hear it well folks God
is going to take this nation as a little
lamb out into a dry Wilderness and strip
it every Godly religious television
program is going to be stripped of its
money of its finances and will go
bankrupt every backslid
denomination every ungodly denomination
headquarters is going to go bankrupt
God’s going to strip
it God says I’m going to take away your
increase I’m going to lead you as a lamb
into this withering place and you’re
offend for
yourself and God hopes that when the
economy goes down and so many people
running around trying to make it on
their own perhaps they’ll say God I need
you maybe there’ll be
repentance finally
God the the last curse is in verse 17 to
19 God says I’m going to leave them
alone they’re going to be given over to
their alcohol their sexual fixations and
they’re going to end up embracing shame
I want you to to to uh for verse
177 Ephraim is joined to Idols Ephraim
is is another name for Israel Ephraim
because that was the capital the capital
was there in Samaria Ephraim in Ephraim
is joined to Idols let him alone they
their drink is sour that committed warom
continually her rulers with shame do
love and what it says what it is in
Hebrew her rulers are not ashamed of
their
shame now
folks what do you think is happening in
our country right
now what better word describes it than
shame not ashamed of their shame he’s
talking about the leaders and the
priests
and the
people Ephraim is joined to Idol let him
alone God says I’m going to let you
alone now this is not a time to pray
anymore this is not a time now to
intercede anymore God said I’m going to
let you alone and that’s what is
coming their drink is
sour they’ve committed adultery
continually her rulers dearly love their
shame they’re not ashamed of their shame
and in the original it says let them
rest in their sins now they’re beyond
reproof let them rest in their sins
they’re beyond
reproof hopefully they will be moved by
judgment I believe is what God is is is
saying here and folks this is the last
indignity in the book of Hosea before
God sent judgment this was the last
indignity against holy God that they
could flood their sin and not
blush and they they they they they
laughed they they mocked the
same we have a whole nation that says
morality doesn’t count anymore give us
prosperity give us leaders who can make
us prosperous we don’t care if they’re
Devils is what is being said
they can be Scoundrels they can FL their
shame as long as we have all that we
want what
greed this is the last
indignity that a nation or
Society inflicts on a holy God before
the fist comes
down before the fist of God comes down
on the nation and this is what happened
in Israel this was the last the Bible
says in verse 19 the wind hath bound her
up in her wings that that means a storm
a storm has come and picked her up in
the wings of the storm and carried her
off into the Wilderness to be
judged now I’ve had listen very closely
to me I’m going to wrap this up in the
next 5 or 10 minutes now listen closely
please to what God’s put in my heart
I’ve had people write to me from all the
United States I said brother DAV have
you given up on America is there no hope
can we still pray for America is there
going to be a Revival come to this
nation you’re talking so much about
judgment that’s coming folks yesterday
yesterday front page of the New York
Times the party’s
over
the party’s
over they said is there no
hope
Hosea offers incredible hope and I’m
going to take that hope in just a minute
but let me tell you what I believe the
only hope that we have for America or
any other Nation on the face of the
Earth that’s under judgment is that in
judgment in the storm there’ll be
repentance because in hosea’s time God’s
message of Hope didn’t come until that
nation was plagued and fallen and
smitten and in its smitten condition
Hosea comes along in the fifth
chapter no let’s let’s go to uh uh the
14th chapter 14th chapter of
hose
now folks I’m going to give you what I
believe Hosea the prophet has re
revealed to us about the heart of God
can you look this way for a moment don’t
read ahead of
me
you’re so anxious for hope you’re going
to grab hold of
it what I’m about to read you is God
saying perhaps in the hardest of times
when all the things that people have
trusted in have come have been stripped
away from them when I start shaking
everything that can be
shaken when all the trusted institutions
and prosperity crumbles prosp PR erity
crumbles when everybody is struggling
fighting to
survive perhaps then there will be
repentance they will turn to me again
and then and only then I will verse four
I will heal their backsliding I will
love them freely for my anger is turned
away from him but that promise did not
come and look at verse one if you will
of chapter 14 oh Israel return unto the
Lord thy God for thou Hast Fallen by
thine iniquity he said you see they’re
already in a fallen condition and here
comes the prophet folks look at me God
gets no pleasure in judging America or
any other Nation this is a hard work for
our loving Heavenly Father what a hard
work it is for him but he says there is
no other way you have so hardened your
heart there’s no other way I can reach
you so backsliding your churches are so
backslid so far from me that I have to
strip and Shake everything so that the
only hope
left is that you have to turn to
me to even
survive where I give you nothing but a
life and death option you turn to me
with all your heart and I will heal you
and I’ve got a word for you backsliders
here’s the heart of God oh Israel or oh
backslider return to the Lord thy God
for you fallen by your sin sins take
with you words first of all and turn to
the Lord and say take away all iniquity
and receive us graciously so we’ll under
the Cass of our lips he said if you’ll
just turn to me and repent turn to me
and say I don’t want my sin I don’t want
to live in this Darkness I Don’t Want
This Cloud hanging over my head he said
if you’ll turn to me I know you’re
hurting there’s not a person listening
to me here tonight that’s in a
backsliding condition and don’t tell me
that the word backsliding isn’t biblical
I just read it to you like a backslidden
heer now if I had have called you that
you’d have been offended but the prophet
Hosea called
it God’s not asking you to make him a
bunch of promises he’s not ask you to
wait till you clean up your own life
he’s not waiting for something out of
you all he wants out of you is humble
confession I’ve messed it up I have
fallen by my own sins but you have said
Oh Come to Me My People return to me
with words give me out of the innermost
part of your being out of your mouth out
of your heart the M speak speak to me
the Lord says don’t hide from me talk to
me you know that you can talk to God
right now no matter what your condition
is you call on God how many prisoners in
their prison I just got a letter the
other day from a a a young man he has
lost everything he he he once had a a
Ministry and he’s lost his wife he’s
lost his children he’s got a 13-year-old
daughter that’s given birth to uh an
illegitimate Baby by an older man twice
your
age he’s got a 14-year-old son that’s a
drug
addict and his 16y old boy all three of
them live with his
mother and his mother just come to the
prison that week and said your
16-year-old son is the hardest young man
I’ve seen on the face of the Earth
there’s nobody harder than your son this
man cast himself down on a bed and he
says oh
god I’ve messed up my life I’ve messed
up my family all my children are going
to hell I’ve got a son so hard as rocks
God have mercy on me and God Spirit came
down in that prison filled him with the
Holy Ghost that man’s on fire for God
[Applause]
I’ll heal your backsliding I’ll Love You
freely for my anger is turned away from
you oh what a wonderful word from God
now folks that’s the Hope For America
that the day would come in our fallen
condition in the midst of a a depression
such as we’ve never seen folks don’t you
understand just as we had 1929 into the
30s a dust bowl and the farmers going
bankrupt we have a dust bowl in Texas
and Oklahoma the same place it was then
how many times does God have to speak
over and over again the same thing
Farmers going bankrupt the cotton crop
has gone and all these things and people
still still
partying people are still saying I don’t
believe it I don’t care the whole world
is going depressing and we’re just
floating along like in an island of
Tranquility wake up
Saints but now let me tell you
something hallelujah what a wonderful
thing God has said through the prophet
Hosea he comes in the midst of this I
mean the nation is in turmoil in fact if
if uh the whole story of this if if you
read osah and you go to some of the
other prophets who were were speaking uh
at the same time contemporary with him
you find that there was a famine in the
land you’ll find that all the trases
were bankrupt you’ll find that all the
Springs had dried up trade had stopped
everything was stopped it was it just
collapsed and in that collapsed
condition God comes with this wonderful
hope he he says I I have judged you but
I’m not mad at
you my anger is no longer there
he said if you’ll just repent and turn
to me that’s what we should pray with
not that God keep us out of the storm
but in the storm God bring
[Applause]
repentance can I have five more
minutes all
right now let’s let me show you how God
showers us with Incredible promises if
we’ll just turn to the Lord now I’ve got
to say this in all seriousness all that
are in this but I don’t know where you
sit if you’re
backsliding I don’t know what you’re
going
through I don’t know what thing has your
heart that’s keeping you so cold and
you’re sitting in a withered condition
in this church
tonight I don’t know what the profanity
is I don’t know what the profaneness of
the iniquity that’s taken hold of your
heart but I know one thing if you just
talk to him tonight
if you just get up and walk down this
aisle if you choose it could be done
even in your seat you start calling on
the name of the Lord he says come on
bring forth
words give me your heart I’ll hear your
backsliding I’ll Love You freely and I
will not show you
anger God says look at verse
five I will be as the do unto you I’ll
be as the do unto
you here’s what will happen
tonight if you simply open up your heart
right now let the Holy Spirit break
through the hardness or break through
the
confusion in my closing moments here let
me show you this wonderful promise God
makes to you he say I’m going to make
you I’ll be to you as the DW of Heaven
now in Israel in the time the context
when this was written there was hardly
any rain and it was the duw that came
every morning that fertilized and
brought back life and according to the
scripture to to the context of this and
when you when you read the whole story
about the effects of duw it causes
greenness whether it’s been withering it
brings back the
greenness he said you’ve withered away
you’ve dried up you’ve been fruitless he
says every day you get up now you’re not
going to have that cloud of Gloom
hanging over your head I’m going to come
down on you like do and I’m going to
bring life back to everything that’s
been corrupted everything that’s been
withered I’m going to come now and I’m
going to minister healing everything’s
going to be
green thank God he I’m going to be like
the dud to you you can’t stand at heavy
rain right now but I’m just going to
start greeting you up glory be to
God and you’re going to start bearing
fruit oh folks I can’t tell you what a
joy it is to wake up every morning with
Jesus with no Cloud nothing between you
and the Holy
Ghost to be able to look God in the
eye feel the sense of joy and freedom in
him and you can actually feel the do of
Christ coming down on your
soul and you know that there’s growth
you can sense it in your heart whether
anybody sees it or not well they’ll see
it when you’ve been with Jesus they’ll
take notice don’t worry about that but
there’s a greenness that comes and
secondly he said You shall be you shall
grow as the Lily in other words he
saidou going to
Blossom with a quality found in the Lily
you know remember the Lily stands for
Purity and beauty and Aroma beautiful
Aroma and really remember it’s compared
to more Beauty than Solomon raid in all
of his glory nothing as glorious as a
lily but it’s the most fruit one of the
most fruitful plants because a single
root of Lily gives 5050 bulbs 50 bulbs
out of a single
root he said in other words you’re going
to bear fruit you’re going to be
fruitful where you were dying and
everything was wasting away now you’re
going to be fruitful there be wonderful
fruit coming out of your life blessing
instead of cursing everybody’s going to
notice it he said you’re going to be
fruitful 50 bulbs out of one but there’s
only one problem here and God took note
of it God doesn’t make any mistakes you
see the lily has one of the most fragile
root systems of all and and so God adds
to the Lily amazing thing here he said
she’ll cast forth Roots like
Lebanon the Trees of Lebanon took the
roots down as high as the tree The Roots
were that deep so that the tree could
not be blown over a bend in any storm he
said you’re going to be a lily with
fruits I mean Roots like the tree of
Lebanon you’re going to go down deep in
the Lord and you’re going to bear fruit
you’re not ignorant God’s going to teach
you by the Holy Ghost he’s going to
teach you you’re going to know and
you’re going to grow and then finally he
adds these words his branches shall
spread and his Beauty shall be as the
Olive Tree and his smell as Lebanon the
Trees of Lebanon all of the cedar trees
brought that the wind would sweep down
with the spices and the cedar smells
from the cedar trees swep over all the
valleys of Israel he said your branches
will
spread in other words people are going
to find rest in you everybody’s going to
be you’re going to have influence that’s
that that smell goes has to do with
influence you’re going to have spiritual
influence on others you’re going to
reach other people in other words
they’re going to see Jesus in you
they’re going to see something changed
in you and you’re you’re going to be
like a tree people can come under the
shadow of your tree and find
refreshment would you
look at
uh I will heal their backslidings I love
them freely verse four my anger is
turned away from him
do unto Israel grow as a lily cast his
roots as Lebanon his branches will
spread his Beauty shall be as the Olive
Tree his smell as Lebanon they that
dwell under his shadow shall return they
shall revive as the corn you going to
revive other
people the scent thereof shall be as the
wine of
Lebanon now to answer your question
specific will there be
Revival listen to me the Revival I want
to see is that out of all this testing
those that turn the Lord with all their
heart people are revived through the
influence of Christ in their life the
aroma of Christ brings Reviving to dead
Souls we’re not talking about uh uh
manifestations here we’re talking about
the aroma of Christ Reviving
people
hallelujah look at the last part verse
eight and with this I close Ephraim
shall say what have I to do anymore with
Idols I’ve heard him I’ve observed I’ve
listened to him now I’m like a green fur
tree from me is the fruit found he says
look at me now I was once withered and
dry food is coming out of me
Hallelujah glory be to God he said I
don’t want Idols I’ve found him I’ve
returned to my Lord and Savior will you
stand please will you
stand Please Hold Steady folks please
don’t
leave if you have to go and understand
that you’ve got to respect the moving of
the Holy Spirit
please time sare people I’m going to ask
you from now on too I say it lovingly as
a pastor the AL the calls the most
important time of the
service if you not we understand if you
have to go and many of them even not
just have to go we understand that you
have to get a train or something folks
please always stand it at attention this
is very vital I wouldn’t want to stand
before the judgment and have to answer
for
breaking the spirit of conviction upon a
meeting and often is very
distracting now I I don’t know
why I had to speak this message tonight
about
backsliding that God doesn’t waste
words
there are a number of backslidden people
here when I say
backslidden means that your heart is not
on fire it was on fire you’re
drifting something has your
heart and the Lord wants
that just so that it’ll not destroy you
and break communion with him Lord
promised me that if I’d be faithful to
preach this very word tonight
he was going to move on the hearts of
people that came to this meeting some of
you for the first time others of you
been here before maybe you’ve been here
a long
time but your heart’s backslid there’s
no getting around it plain
simple you’re not what you were or where
you
were something
happened Something’s Happened in your
life
and the Lord says come on now bring
words bring your words bring your
confession to
me and I’ll heal your backsliding
condition and I’ll embrace you and love
you and I’ll speak good to you you’ll
not see my anger you’ll see my grace
you’ll see my Mercy you’ll see my love
no one will condemn you nobody’s going
to put a microphone under in your face
and say what did you do nobody going to
do anything silly we’re going to pray
for you going to ask you to repent
honestly before the Lord up in the
balcony go to the stairs on either side
come down any aisle those that are
watching downstairs you come up the
stairs those that are in the main
Auditorium just get out of your seat now
don’t come unless the spirit moves you
the spirit moves you have to say Pastor
Dave God’s speaking to me tonight I want
to be on fire for God I don’t want to I
don’t want coldness I don’t want to be
in a backsliding condition I’m coming
back to my love for him I’m coming back
I need
him come
on Lord bless you wherever you’re at up
in the balcony move to the stairs and
downstairs watch some by a video just
come up the stairs and down any aisle
here and meet me right here at the
front I just heard one of the clearest
words from the Holy Spirit I’ve ever
heard in my life just as clear as could
be the Lord said David now tell them how
much I love them tell them how much I’ve
been waiting to just cleanse them
because they’ve already been forgiven at
the cross if they’ll just bring a
repentant heart now tell them how much I
love them how much I’ve been waiting
just waiting for heart confession and to
set their heart set your heart right now
Lord I want to follow you not half hard
with everything in me I want to follow
you with all my heart look at me please
God is not a demanding God he doesn’t
he’s not just standing over your
demanding and
commanding it’s a loving Heavenly
Father I’ll tell you he speaks strongly
sometime to us but that’s only because
of his great love his tremendous love
how many of you came forward are
convinced that the Lord Truly Deeply
loves you raise your hand please come on
everybody you should every I don’t care
if you’re a sinner you should have your
hand if God loves you convince yourself
on the power of the word of God that he
loves you and he cares about you can put
your hands down
now hallelujah what did I read to you
from the prophet Hosea he said come
bring words with you
now and give me the calves of your lips
your two lips are the Lambs of sacrifice
that you bring to the Lord you lay it on
the Altar and say Jesus cleanse my lips
cleanse my mind and my heart just come
now Jesus and take full possession of my
mind my soul and my body pray this with
me right now
Jesus I come to you now to confess conf
that I’ve sinned against
you and I’m here to
repent I bring the words of my
mouth from the depths of my heart of my
heart I come to you I come to you to say
I’m sorry say I’m s forgive me forgive
me and now Lord Jesus Lord Jesus on my
confession my conf of my sins my and
your promise your promise to forgive me
and to heal my backsliding my back I
give you my faith I give you my faith I
believe what you said I believe what you
said come right now Jesus right now
Jesus and love me freely love me fre
just like you promised just like you
promis embrace me embrace
forgive me forgive me Heal Me Heal
Me Show Me Your Love Now show your love
let me feel your
love now I’m going to pray for you
father we have done exactly what you
told us to do you said you bring the
calves of your lips you speak words to
me of forgiveness or of
repentance Godly sorrow and Lord because
we’ve done that now you do your part you
come now holy spirit and you bring
Assurance you bring a sense of cleanness
and Purity now come down like the Dew
from heaven right now and green up these
Lord who’ve withered some Lord that lost
their discernment some Lord that haven’t
prayed in a long time they’ve just been
so so weary Lord they’ve been out in
that Wilderness and everything’s been
dry and empty now Lord pour out your
spirit upon them right now God God let
them take Roots right now let them be
fruitful send fruit now to these that
are here now raise your hands and thank
Jesus right now just raise your hands
and give him thanks
Hallelujah this is the conclusion of the
message
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