David Wilkerson – How Quickly We Turn Away | Sermon
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this Saturday August 26 at 3:30 p.m.
Broadway Chapel for those uh interested
in Jesus for Muslims Fellowship uh
Ministry Dr Lewis Hamada is going to be
the speaker that’s he’s a powerful
speaker and that Chapel ought to be
filled over there with people you really
want to hear the word that’s Dr Lewis M
will be speaker in that meeting now keep
that in mind that’s Saturday at 3:30
Over Broadway Chapel amen
Welcome to our visitors we pray the Holy
Spirit touch you tonight you walk out of
here you’ll be touched challenged and
changed by the spirit of the Living
God my message how quickly we turn away
how quickly we turn
away heavenly father I have no right no
merit no righteousness of my own no
right to stand in this Pulpit other than
the blood I come in the righteous of
Jesus by faith I come now Lord for the
uh Clean Hands pure heart that you’d
sanctify me Lord that I would preach
myself under conviction first and
everybody in this building be under the
conviction of the Holy Spirit and I pray
Lord that you take your holy authority
over every wild thought every evil
spirit every uh principality and power
of Darkness that the glory of the Lord
be manifested here tonight Lord we thank
you for your presence now speak clear
larly to our hearts Lord don’t let us uh
push this word aside let it come
directly into the Heart Lord that may
preach it with love but with the
authority of the Holy Ghost Lord I stand
only under the covering of the blood the
I have no other plea but the blood the
Precious Blood of the Lamb hallelujah
thank you Lord for your precious word in
Jesus name
amen how quickly we turn aside
why don’t you to go with me in your
imagination to the city of Jerusalem and
it’s a Sabbath and King
Soloman is about to take an incredible
trip his trips have been so incredible
when he went to the house of God that
the Queen of Sheba was breathless when
he she saw his Ascent it was so colorful
it was so spectacular just going to
church was spectacular for Solomon it’s
years later now and I want you to follow
Solomon is his Entourage he he traveled
in style this man had
1,400 specially made chariots he had
12,000
Horsemen uh this this man traveled in
great these were gilded uh chariots that
he traveled in can can you imagine this
man coming out of out of his Palace his
sparkling white granite palace and this
great Entourage going to the house of
worship what a sight I I picture his
Chariot being black gilded in Gold
Leaf and I I picture all the other
chariots and the horsemen with their
bright uniforms and the plumes and the
golden shields just the golden shields
had to be so blinding what an Entourage
it was and I want you to look at this
man coming out of his Palace he’s an
older man now and and he’s in
his Chariot and he’s with his Entourage
and he’s heading for the house of
worship but he he looks preoccupied he
looks
sad and there’s a woman at his side and
this is the daughter of pharaoh and
she’s smiling from ear to ear they’re on
the way to the house of worship and they
pass on the
way the landscape parks and the Lush
Vineyards that he had built built over
the years the Exotic Gardens and
Orchards of all kinds and they passed
ponds and fountains and a great City Zoo
with peacocks and apes and exotic birds
brought by the ships of Tarsus and he
passes sparkling government buildings
with Treasures of gold and silver and
art Collections and uh he he he he’s
built a Summer Palace a Winter Palace
this man is the wealthiest wisest man on
the face of to the
Earth and he passes all these gorgeous
buildings that he’s
erected and he comes near the Great
temple that great sparkling Temple that
he built to the glory of God some years
before and usually when the president
the United States travels uh people line
up when they know his where he’s going
uh I remember being over here just a few
blocks when President Clinton was there
and it was all blocked off the streets
were crowded because they said in about
an hour President Clinton’s going to
walk always they they were there just to
see him get out of his car in walking
into the Hilton Hotel streets were
crowded everywhere Solomon would go
those that came from Israel heard of his
Fame from around the world visit
Jerusalem they would find his uh tour
and they would line the streets but he
comes and approaches the temple the
Great temple that he built to the
Jehovah God where he had one time slew
12,000 oxx and 120,000 sheep one of the
greatest religious revivals in the
history of the Earth but there are no
crowds and the streets are not lined and
this man preoccupied and
sad and now he’s old because he’s lame
because of his sensuality he’s wasted
his life and he pulled up right by the
the entour goes right into the Avenue
leading to the Great temple but he
doesn’t turn he doesn’t even look there
are no crowds the doors are shut there
are no priests there to welcome him I
don’t even know if he gives it a second
thought I don’t know even if he
remembers the past glory and other the
things that God had told him because he
turns East and when he turns East it’s a
Boulevard and the scripture the real
name in the Hebrew is the mountain of
disgrace it’s called Embassy Ro by some
of the uh theologians because along this
great Embassy Road East of the temple he
has built these great temples to the
gods of his strange wives that he’s
married and the daughter of pharaoh is
smiling from ear to ear because she
turns and there’re looking down the
Avenue at the Great temple of Baal the
crowds have gathered people are in their
finery people are dressed in their very
best they’re going into all of these
various temples and shrines to these
gods of ASO and
milcom here’s this great King Solomon a
man who was one so touched by the Holy
Ghost he wrote 3003
songs a man of great power and wealth a
man who was once anointed of the Holy
Ghost because we have right now here in
the Canon of scripture his written word
the Bible said these words were written
by holy men of God as the spirit of God
moved upon them so the spirit of God had
moved mightily upon this man this man
had been gifted by God and you see the
crowds waiting now at this Temple and
you’re saying to yourself he’s going to
let her off and he’s going to go to his
Summer Palace but no the Chariots open
his guards stand there they roll out the
carpet and this man great Solomon with
Queen the with with the daughter of
pharaoh in front of him and there about
400 orange Rob priests
chanting here is the king and the
multitudes watches the king who once
took away the very breath of the Queen
of Sheba as she came to watch him just
watch his Devotion to his Jehovah God
how devoted she was absolutely it she
almost fainted at the sight of the glory
of the scene and now this man
dissipated a shell of a man the spirit
of God is
gone 400 Priests of Bal are
chanting this man walks into that Temple
and takes a place and kneels on one of
those oriental rugs and could can you
imagine this man of God kneeling there
while they sacrific their mice and their
pigs and they’re serpents and they’re
keeping
things and can you
imagine how this
man incomprehensible one of the most
incomprehensible things that ever
happened in all of God’s word he kns
before
milcom the detestable
god of the Heathen he kneels before him
do be do doing obeses the scripture said
his wives turned away his heart for came
about when Solomon was old his wives
turned his heart away after other gods
and his heart was not wholly devoted to
the Lord his God as the heart of David
his father had been for Solomon went
after asteroth the goddess of the
sidonians and after milcom the
detestable Idol of the
ammonites there he is
watching these priests sacrifice their
pigs just a few years before this the
same man had dedicated the Great temple
to Jehovah he had knelt before the Lord
humbly and stretched out his hands and
he had prayed oh God my Lord whatever
prayer is made by any man or by all the
people of Israel each knowing the plague
of his own heart and spreading his hands
toward this house hear thou in heaven
thy Dwelling Place and forgive all whose
Hearts thou knowest for thou alone does
know the hearts of all the sons of men
that they may fear thee all the days
they live he had commanded Israel this
very man had commanded Israel let your
heart therefore be holy devoted to the
Lord Our God to walk in all his statutes
to keep his Commandments all thy days
that was the preacher that was Solomon
the man of God who preached the word of
the Living God
what happens what happened to this man
that in such a short time he turned away
how is it that those who’ve been so
anointed of God can turn away turn away
from Jesus Christ turn away from the
Living God God said he turned aside now
the Lord was angry with Solomon because
his heart was turned aside he turned
away quickly in other words from the
Lord the god of Israel who appeared to
him twice his wives turned his heart
away now this story is so important
because he represents a righteous Spirit
anointed child of God who quickly turns
away and in the end is
[Applause]
destroyed let me give you what I believe
the Holy Spirit has given to me about
how men women of God have turned away
there are people that I can run it
through my mind right now that used to
sit here I know right where they sat
they praised the Lord they loved God
with all their heart they
worshiped and they’re not here
now some of them are in the arms of some
IL illicit lover some of them are out
now in the porno shops others are drunk
others are back on their drugs they’re
not here anymore people used to dance
here in the front they’re gone they have
turned quickly aside they’re gone there
are some of you here tonight you’re here
praising that I’m tell you one of these
days unless God fear gets all of your
heart tonight you’re going to quickly
turn aside you say could never happen to
me well it happened to this man here’s
the man who missed
Christ he missed Christ he was the type
of
Christ and he missed
it he’s he’s used in fact one scholar
found 100 ways in which Solomon was the
type of Jesus Christ 100
ways first of all Solomon turned aside
because he lost the fear of
God there was not a wiser man born on
Earth other than
Christ and God gave Solomon wisdom and
understanding exceeding much and largess
of heart he was wiser than all men and
he spoke 3,000 Proverbs and his songs
were 3003 and all the kings of the earth
came to hear his wisdom he himself had
said the fear of the Lord is the
beginning of all wisdom and the fear the
wisdom that he had had to have begun
with a reev ation of fear if he said the
beginning of all wisdom is fear the fear
of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
so if God gave him wisdom he had to
first start with a revelation of the
fear of
God he preached listen to what he
preached the strange woman her feet go
down to death her steps lay hold of Hell
Solomon had once preached why should you
embrace the bosom of a foreigner you
will be held with the cords of your own
sins and you’ll die for lack of
instruction this man once warned of the
smooth tongue of the adulteress of the
strange woman let she trap you with the
her beauty and with her eyelids it will
cost you the substance of your house you
will groan in your latter days out of
his own mouth you’ll find the answers to
why he turned aside because he chose not
to maintain the fear of God he chose to
jettison he chose to ignore the fear of
God that had been planted in his heart
he himself had said the fear of God is
to hate
evil I made my words known unto you and
this is what God said to him I I made my
words known unto you you said it not all
my counsel you hated knowledge and did
not choose the fear of the Lord you
despise my reproof therefore you’ve
eating you’re eating the fruit of the
goings of your own way he himself said
the fear of God is to hate evil he
preached the fear of the Lord is a
Fountain of Life to depart from the
snares of death and Incredibly this man
said by the fear of the Lord men depart
from Evil how do you depart from Evil by
the fear of the Lord how is it that you
don’t go out and live like other people
what is it folks I know what keeps me
it’s the fear it’s not just the love of
God I know many people love God ply and
that doesn’t keep them from their sins
it’s balanced by this incredible fear of
God be thou in the fear of the Lord all
the day long Proverbs 23:17 all the day
long but Solomon deliberately cast aside
the fear of the Lord he turned aside to
riches and pleasure and mostly to lust
Solomon loved many strange women women
the scripture
says and when he was embracing these
Godless strange
women I wonder how many times the Holy
Spirit came to him and reminded
him her steps will lead you to Hell
Solomon Solomon you preached in the
latter days that you will grown you were
headed for death Solomon how many times
did he Shake It Off how many times when
we are in sin do we shake off the
conviction and when you shake off the
conviction of the Holy Ghost you’re
shaking off the fear of
God how is it
that so many can sit under the house of
in the house of God and hear the word so
many times and the Holy Spirit speak to
them so often about to besetting sin and
yet they keep shaking it off and shaking
it off and in that process little by
little losing the fear of God and
hardening their
heart it’s been the history of God’s
people folks to quickly turn aside to
idolatry and lust wanting to play rather
than to
pray it took only 40 days for the
children of Israel to shake off the fear
of God 40 days God appeared on Mount Si
with you remember that scene with
thunder and lightning and the piercing
sound of a Divine trumpet folks that
trumpet sound made Moses
tremble I can’t even conceive in my
finan mind what it’s like to hear a
trumpet blown from Heaven itself I can’t
imagine that scene it was awesome they
trembled they fell on their faces Bible
said they all trembled the smoke the
mountain was covered with smoke it was
it was a it was an incredible earthquake
the whole Mountain shaking a Divine
trumpet sound that lasted and lasted
till they covered their
ears and the people so trembled they had
to stand at a distance and Moses
explained to them why God allowed this
fearful display this incredible display
of his power and he explains the people
why God did it and folks I tremble when
I hear preachers who preach nothing but
Grace who who who don’t believe in
Judgment at all I tremble when they mock
Mount Si where where they mock the law
and said we passed we’re not at Mount Si
of course we’re not at Mount Si but the
law is good it has a purpose and God
shook that mountain and that was a
display that had a purpose for them and
for us
today Moses said to the people do not be
afraid for God has come in order to test
you in order that the fear of him will
remain in you so that you may not sin
against him he said God’s trying to
implant his fear in you to safeguard you
against your lust against your sin
that’s what it’s all about that you will
see that God can not be toyed with that
God is faithful that he’s a just and
holy
God that the fear of him May remain with
you so that you may not
sin
now just prior to
this Aaron nbu and 70 elders had just
come from the most a most awesome
experience that you can describe in the
word other than than the three men that
were on the Mount of transfiguration
this was
awesome they went up with Moses they saw
the god of
Israel and under his feet there appeared
to be a pavement of sapphire as clear as
the sky itself yet he did not stretch
out his hand against them and they
beheld God and they ate and drank they
ate and drank In God’s
Presence now
folks I would think that if I had eaten
and drunk in God’s presence and I had
seen him walk toward me on a sapphire
pavement I would have thought never
again in my lifetime would I do anything
to grieve such a God what a
vision and you would imagine that in
your own
heart and all Israel pledged
faithfulness to the Lord with great fear
and all the people answered together and
said all that the Lord has spoken we
will do and Moses brought back the word
of the people back to the Lord now I
want you to go to Exodus
3279 from 7 to9 ex I want you to go to
Exodus
32 how long
did they maintain the fear of God
anybody tell
me less than 40
days less than 40 days look at Exodus 32
verse vers 7 beginning to read and the
Lord said unto Moses go get thee down
for thy people which thou broughtest out
of the land of Egypt have corrupted
themselves God didn’t even at this point
want to acknowledge them as his own
people they have turned aside
quickly that was the name of my message
of recall how quickly we turn aside
verse eight they have turned aside
quickly out of the way which I commanded
them they have made them a molten calf
and have worshiped it and have
sacrificed their unto and said these be
thy Gods oh Israel which have brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt and the
Lord said unto Moses I’ve seen this
people and behold it is stiff necked
people now therefore let me alone that
my wrath May Wax Hot against them that I
may consume them will make of thee a
great
Nation Beloved listen to
me they quickly turned aside the
psalmist tells us why they soon soon
turned aside don’t turn there but Psalms
106 says they quickly forgot his Works
they waited not for his counsel because
they lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness they lusted exceedingly Paul
said now these things were written for
an example to the intent that we should
not lust after evil things as they also
lusted the key word is lust and here is
how he lost the fear of God
he allowed his lust to consume him it
was a lust after evil things and this is
what drowns out the fear of God Israel
got weary of the straight and narrow way
they got weary of reproof they wanted to
play the way was too tight and folks if
you go to a church that preaches the
gospel the way the Lord Jesus once it
preached there’s going to be reprove
you’re going to feel like you’re under
that yoke even though his yoke is not
heavy his burden is light you’re going
to be reproved you’re going to have
sometime the sword of the Lord come and
cut right through to your heart till you
bleed and it’s going to hurt and it’s
going to be painful but that’s the love
of God that’s to keep us in the fear of
God and God closed these doors if it
should ever come that there is not a
word like that that goes from this
Pulpit we believe in Mercy we preach
Mercy we preach Grace in this church we
believe it I looked over some of my old
sermons recently in every other sermon
was mercy and grace even though they
call this doomsday preaching here there
was mercy and Grace but there’s always
been a word of Repro and that’s a sure
sign that God loves us it’s a sure sign
that pastors love their people when they
get up unafraid to reprove and rebuke
when the holy spirit says
speak and it’s not the love of God to go
to some candy cotton Church where they
just flatter
you and they give you pablum and they
want your money but they’re afraid that
you’ll turn away and take your tithe
with them with you when you go because
they’re preaching a strong
message there will always be a message
in this church that’ll provoke you to
righteousness hopefully prayerfully for
all of
us but they wanted to play they got
weary of the warnings they wanted to
dance they wanted to play they wanted to
fornicate Solomon just had to have
beautiful women around him this man was
a lusting man this man was full of
lust folks we don’t turn aside to
nothing there’s either someone or
something that always takes the
heart what is it that has your heart
tonight what is it that God is dealing
with and says lay it
down God by his
spirit I pray myself I I I go God every
time I preach to preach myself under
conviction I want you and everyone in
this house to be under conviction so
that the thing the Holy Ghost brings to
your mind and you know it you say oh God
take this black stone out of my heart
take this one thing lest it consume me
lest I so play with it it so attach
itself to my heart that I lose the fear
of God I would rather die than lose the
fear of God in my heart I don’t want to
preach this gospel unless I have the
fear of God in my heart heart it’s been
the fear of God that’s kept me all these
years and I prayed even today God I’d
rather quit preaching than you ever let
me live or preach without the fear of
God burning in my heart and I fear
sometimes I don’t have it like I once
had it I desire it I pray oh God keep
your fear burning in my heart remember
young man coming to me when we were down
in the other theater he was uh was been
on drugs for a number of
years and he came to me after one of the
service and he was
pale he had just walked in he’d been out
and came in back after the service and
he was absolutely pale he said brother I
got to talk to you I got to talk to you
he said I I fell asleep and he said I’ve
just had it two our vision of hell I’ve
been to Hell and he was trembling he
said God showed me hell he he he said I
can’t explain it all but he said God
told me that he was showing me hell to
scare me out of my drugs and keep me
because there’s no other way and he said
I know God told me that if if hell this
vision of hell if this did not put the
fear of God in Me and I went back to my
drugs I di my sins and go to this place
and he said brother Dave I don’t want to
go to I saw it it’s frightening I the
thought of it is just overwhelming me I
can’t even explain I don’t want to talk
about it but I’ve been to
Hell two weeks later he’s on the spring
drugs I don’t know if he’s even alive
now the longer you play with your lust
the dimmer becomes the fear of God the
scripture said there is no more fear of
God within the heart of the
transgressor and you know what bothers
me in the church what is called the
church today there there is such a
lightness of preaching there’s such a
ridiculing of the Holiness Gospel of of
preaching that every time someone
preaches a strong message they cry
legalism I got a letter today my wife
showed me from somebody that goes to a
sinner Friendly Church rebuking me for
some of my recent newsletters that I
sent out around the country and and and
said look I came out of legalism and and
the message I preach folks there was
nothing strong about it at all it was
milk a baby wouldn’t have spit it out
and they CED you see that that’s that’s
the that’s the cry legalism
legalism well folks that cry has never
scared me off from preaching it and
I I I don’t pay any attention to the the
cry
legalism number
two Solomon forsook the written word of
God and relied instead on dreams and
voices folks I want to talk plain to you
tonight hear
it because if you don’t you’re going to
turn aside like Solomon the Lord
appeared twice to Solomon in dreams and
twice he heard the clear voice of God in
gibian he appeared to Solomon a dream at
night and God
said then another scripture says the
Lord appeared the second time to Solomon
and the Lord
said you hear it again and again and the
Lord said to him and the Lord said to
him he heard from Heaven through dreams
that those dreams did not keep him from
iniquity he did not read or heed the
written word of God in fact the word of
God was hidden during Solomon’s Reign
and was not found until Josiah’s Day by
heah the priest and it was hidden in a
basement dirty filthy uh Corners room it
had been hidden since Solomon’s
time and Solomon simply opened up
deuteron if Solomon simply read in he
had this in his
possession I want you to turn to what
could have saved his life and can save
yours in mind Deuteronomy
17 now he he had
this all he had to do was have a scribe
read it to
him David read it and hid it in his
heart verse 14 beginning to read
Deuteronomy 17:14 when thou art come
unto the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee and shall possess it and
shall dwell therein and shall say I will
set a king over me like as all the
nations that are about me Thou shalt in
any wise set him King over thee whom the
Lord thy God shall choose one from among
thy Brethren sht thou set King over thee
thou mayest not set a stranger over thee
which is not thy brother listen now but
he shall not multiply horses to himself
this man had 12,000 horses from
Egypt nor caus the people to return to
Egypt to the end that he should multiply
horses he and the Bible even tells us
the price he paid for Egyptian horses
for as much as the Lord has said unto
you ye shall henceforth return no more
that way neither shall he multiply wives
to himself that his heart turn not away
neither shall he greatly multiply to
himself silver and
gold now folks it’s the Bible says that
God blessed him and prospered and gave
him all this wealth but God intended him
to use it to bless Nations and to use it
for those who are in need and not to
consume it on himself because the whole
Bible says
that it should be when he sth upon the
throne of his kingdom that he shall
write him a copy of this law and a book
out of that which is before the priest
Levites it shall be with him not in some
dusty room it shall be with him he shall
read therein all the days of his life
that he may learn to fear the lord his
God and keep all the words of this law
and these statutes to do them that his
heart be not lifted up above his
Brethren that he turn not aside from the
Commandments to the right and or to the
left to the end that he may prolong his
days in his kingdom he and his children
in the midst of
Israel oh listen do not turn aside if he
would only read Deuteronomy 28 do not
turn aside from any of the works I
command you today to the right hand or
the left to go after other gods if you
will not obey me and observe all that I
say I charge you that all these curses
shall overtake you the Lord shall send
on you curses confusion and rebuke in
everything you undertake to do now folks
that is important in light of what I
want to tell you right now look this way
if you will pleas the Bible predicts
that in the last day that a great
Falling Away coming that people are
going to turn away by multitudes it
predicts that the love of many is going
to grow and wax
cold multitudes are going to go that way
they’re going to turn aside because they
depend on voices and dreams and visions
and prophecies and not on the written
word of
God I had handed to me just last night
my wife reached thousands of letters and
my wife handed me a stack and I went
through it and I can’t believe I can’t
believe the lack of discernment I can’t
believe what people who call themselves
Christians are sending to me say isn’t
this a wonderful word you have to read
just half the page and realize it came
out of the pits of
hell it has a mixture of psychology
there are Christian psychic so-called
charismatic psychics that are standing
in the Pulpit now reading people’s lies
telling them their addresses and their
names and giving that folks the amazing
kesin did that on the Johnny Carson show
for the last 15
years there’s nothing new about
that we’ve got people right now who want
God to give them dreams and visions and
prophecy why would God speak you in a
dream a vision or prophecy or send you
to some man to get the word of God when
you won’t take the hours it takes to be
sh in with this book like Solomon should
have been where you get rooted and
grounded in this book where nobody can
shake you
a prophet comes to Paul who’s about to
go to Rome and agabus a wonderful man of
God
comes and the Bible says he took Paul’s
belt and bound his own feet and hands
and said this is what the holy spirit is
saying in this way the Jews in Jerusalem
will bind he was going to Jerusalem will
bind the man who owns this belt and it’s
very dramatic and all the Christians are
saying Paul don’t go but this man had
been shut in with God he knew the the
word of God and the command to go to
Jerusalem he knew the word Jesus had
revealed himself not to him but in him
there’s a difference of having Jesus
revealed to you and in you this man had
the word in him living abiding this man
lived in the
word I don’t think there’s been any more
thunder come out of my heart in this
Pulpit than to cry out to this church to
get into the book get into the word of
God so that all of these false doctrines
will not shake you in the last days you
don’t have to get on TWA and fly to
Chicago to hear some Prophet give you a
word he going to get he’ll give you a
word they going to cost you a hundred
bucks on the
side and a man who’s associated with an
certain event I won’t know name name his
name but there were 1,200 people in the
audience just a few weeks ago and he
stood he said the Holy Ghost told me
that every single person in this
building is to give $100 tonight every
single
person the offering was 18,000 so a lot
of people didn’t get the Holy Ghost
message and I’m not trying to be
factious but if the Holy Ghost going to
tell anybody going to tell the people
and not the
man folks I am still flabbergasted the
that there are people that have been
sitting under our ministry for seven
years or longer still running around to
get a
word still running and they’re not in
this book if they were in this book they
wouldn’t be running anywhere they would
have been running to the Lord every time
they ache and hurt every time
something’s wrong they run to the Psalms
they run to Proverbs they go into the
book and they pray oh holy ghost this is
this is the revelation of Jesus give me
your heart Lord there’s going to come a
time you’re not going to be able to
afford to go anywhere you’re not going
to be able because there’ll be riots
what are you going to do then who do you
call Paul wasn’t much impressed now
folks I believe in the word of God so
did Paul believe in Prophecy but you see
he was so sure of the word in his heart
Paul said what are you doing weeping and
breaking my heart for I’m ready not only
to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem
for the name of the Lord Jesus I know
where I
stand yes there is a two- word of
knowledge but that’s given primarily for
those who are unsaved it’s given for
those the Bible says the drunk man
should be given wine if if that’s if
you’re going to give anybody give it I
mean to a dying man man this is for a
dying Society the word of knowledge
comes for that dying society that just
has to have that the word of knowledge
works the only place that works through
me is on the streets to Wicked people
who need Christ and the Holy Spirit
often will will will let me know
everything that’s in their heart and and
when their heart is exposed they know
that Jesus is talking to them where
nobody can see it nobody’s playing a
game nobody can applaud it’s the work of
the Holy Spirit
thirdly Solomon turned aside because he
did not share God’s hatred for idolatry
he didn’t share God’s hatred for
idolatry he he began first by thinking
it’s harmless God appeared to Solomon
and personally warned him of this danger
of idolatry he said if you turn away
from me Solomon and serve other gods
this house will become a heap of ruins
now folks we want to talk about your
house house becoming a heap of ruins
your house becoming a heap of ruins all
who pass by will say why has the Lord
done this to this land and to this house
and they shall say because they forsook
the Lord and adopted other gods and
serve them therefore the Lord has
brought all this adversity on them let’s
talk about a heap of ruins for just a
moment Saul when marriage these strange
wives and knowing human nature and I
think here’s how it went Solomon when he
he sees them bringing in their little
golden Mice from Egypt when he sees all
of these little carved
Gods Solomon is is
thinking how foolish can they
be how blinded they are foolish women
and and I I read some of the
commentaries that say well Solomon had
to uh uh have all these wives because
they signed peace treaties by giving one
of their women as a
wife that’s
garbage God had commanded no strange
wives you don’t add wives and folks God
doesn’t wink at
sin and
uh so Solomon at first is probably so uh
turned off by that to the these stupid
women with all the little and I’m sure
he made fun of them he may have mocked
them
and and uh they were and
finally a little bit of
curiosity as he would visit his strange
wives and in their homes that he had
built and he he would say this little
thing here what is that and she begins
to
explain and folks that Curiosity then
became
interest and finally grabbed his heart
because if you toy with it if you play
with it if you’re curious about it it’s
going to take your heart you give the
devil one
inch Jesus said Satan cometh and hath
nothing in me he has no ground you give
the devil any ground and he’s going to
move right in he sees what’s in your
heart somewhere along the line he got
intrigued somewhere along the line This
brilliant mind turned to to to to into
the history of these gods and to all of
the uh meaning of of their uh worship
and all of the things that they went
through what does that mean and as he
studied it got a hold of his heart as it
got his his into his eyes it got into
his
heart you simply give the devil a place
to exist in your house if you bring any
form of idolatry into your
home now let me let me talk to you it’s
been a long long time since I’ve talked
to you about your television
set remember me telling you Solomon in
his
Chariot do you know what your chariot is
your
couch with a little button with a remote
control and that can take you down
Embassy
Row down through the mountain of
disgrace and you can push a button no
you say my television is not an idol
okay but it’s your
chariot you push a button the devil in
this last days through Electronics has
made it possible for you to hide your
idolatry you don’t have to leave your
home you press a button now if your
thing is pornography if your thing is
lust you push a button and you can have
it in your home nobody but you and God
knows about it but it’s taking your
heart and it’s taking your love and it’s
robbing you of your fear of God and it’s
going to destroy
you you push a button and if you’re Idol
is sports now there’s nothing wrong with
sports if if you just uh if it’s
something you that does not consume your
time does not take you away from the
work of God or your family that’s one
thing but folks I know men that cannot
sit in the house of God for two
hours without getting nervous
some of them even can’t sit it now I
know one man who told his wife she told
me she may be here tonight her husband
said I I I can’t go to that church it’s
two hours we’re going to the other
church it’s one hour service he wanted a
1 hour
service but he has no trouble watching a
three and 1 half hour football game
switching channels and watch another
three and a half hour seven hours to
watch two football
games that is
idolatry that’s idolatry
and you can push that button and you can
bring you can ride your chariot without
moving out of it and God the devil will
take you right into his Shrine he will
open up one Shrine you know what amazes
me we have we have Christian wives and
mothers we have sisters who
are uh you would think are the holiest
people you ever met but they are
addicted to soap operas
I you you don’t see me
laughing you watch people jump from one
bed to another you watch adultery you
watch
fornication and what you have
done is the same thing Solomon
did you have moved out of the temple of
God into the shrine of
milholm and you’re going to lose your
fear of
God and I’m going to thunder about
it now many of you have a television in
your heart your house and you use it as
a monitor that’s a different story some
of you have television and and you know
how to handle
it I’m not going to put a trip on you
but I’m talking about Idol
Tre a cord or Shrine the devil right
now is bringing in even on
computers even computers now you say I
don’t have a television said but what
about all the absolute incredible
Blasphemous filth coming now on
electronic
Windows
networking the worst filth that’s ever
been invented is coming now all of this
stuff that’s coming these are new
temples new shrines that are being
built and that chair it’s right in your
living
room I folks I’m warning you in the love
of
God you remember the times I I would
stand here and shake my fist at
you and a fear God
say you say if you changed no I feel
just as strong as I’ve ever
felt but are you going to bring filthy
videos and put them in your VCR you
going to sit there and watch films that
blaspheme the name of Jesus and take
God’s name in vain then come to God’s
house and say oh how I love Jesus Lord
and have
communion folks this is what causes
people to turn away
quickly they turn aside and I wonder
wonder how many that are here now
hearing me are going to turn aside
because I’ve already touched in your
life something God’s dealing with by the
Holy Ghost and he’s telling you tenderly
and lovingly tonight I want to free you
I want to deliver you folks before I
close I you know I always bring in
something good before I close it’s a
good
part God has a Josiah
company Josiah follows
later and what does he do Josiah tore
down and defiled the high places which
was before Jerusalem which was on the
Mount of
Destruction and that’s what God Called
It god named it the Mount of reproach or
the Mount of Destruction where all these
temples have been which Solomon the king
of Israel had built for asaroth the
abomination of the sidonians and chimos
the abomination of Moab and milcom the
Abomination the sons of Ammon and Josiah
removed all the Abominations from all
the lands of all the lands belonging to
the sons of Israel and made all who were
present in Israel to serve the Lord
their God throughout his lifetime they
did not turn from following the Lord God
of their fathers for there his
lifetime oh that’s my prayer throughout
this pet as long as God has holy men in
this Pulpit as long as you live the
whole lifetime that your Idols will be
turned down your heart will always be on
fire for God you’ll always be
affectionally in love passionately in
love with Jesus and you say oh God let
me walk in your fear the holy fear of
God keep the fear of God in my heart
tear down the idols tear down the
idols
Hallelujah I want that to be my
testimony
oh God all my
lifetime I folks I have to tell you the
life of Solomon has put more fear of God
in Me probably than any Old Testament
story I love the story of Joseph and all
of that but when I read Solomon the man
who missed Christ the man who missed it
who had everything I think of so many of
God’s people folks I for one don’t want
to end up turning
aside I I want
if if my funeral is ever held in this
church I want such Fire coming out of
that casket of
mine that they can
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say he lived for God and he died for God
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Hallelujah at my funeral I want to
Revival I want the glory of God to come
down
Hallelujah will stand in his
presence this is the conclusion of the
message
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