David Wilkerson – Preparing for Hard Times | New Sermon

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.

again this is my sixth

message on what is coming

i’m i’m pretty much uh coming near at

the end of a book that i’m

writing i finished a book and sent it

across the nation

called america’s last call on the brink

of a financial holocaust

and the response has been phenomenal

people driven to their knees and seeking

the face of god

returning to their first love and a

follow-up book now called the

preservation of zion

god’s plan to keep his people in the

coming depression

and i want to i i can only preach what i

get

from god i don’t invent these messages

and i have to obey him he’s made me a

watchman

one of his many and uh when i pray and

seek god and i spent many many hours

along with the lord

and what i give you i believe came

from the heart of god and his throne in

fact what i preached this morning is the

heart

of the book that i’m writing and

i’ve had many people say well pastor

david if you’re going to warn

people if you’re going to warn the

church then why don’t you seek god

for an answer how to prepare for what is

coming and that’s my message this

morning

preparing for hard times heavenly father

i thank you for the word that you’ve

implanted in my heart

and i pray the unction the anointing of

the holy spirit

lord i got this from your heart i didn’t

invent it i didn’t think it up

it came on my knees it came through

seeking your face

and i believe i have your mind lord

you’re going to set a lot of people’s

hearts free this morning

you’re going to deliver them from fear

and from bondage of

those things that are coming lord you

made it clear that we as saints of god

we as christians and believers when we

see all of these perilous times coming

upon the earth

while men’s hearts are failing them for

fear we are to rejoice and look up

because our redemption draws nigh so

lord remove

all fear let the glory of the lord be

manifested in this word we pray

in jesus name amen now friends you may

not want to

hear it you may not want to believe it

you may put it out of mind but very very

hard and perilous times

are just ahead they’re looming right in

front of us now

i’m amazed that many at the attitude of

many in america today especially

young married couples and especially

those who are investing

their funds in markets and stock markets

and

currencies around the world one of them

stated

in essence the following you said we’ve

never known anything but prosperity

at our age we know only good times

growth prosperity we simply can’t

believe that things are going to fall

apart

we have rebounded after every other

crisis we will rebound

after every coming crisis we’ll rise up

no matter how bad things look we refuse

to think that hard times can come

we doubt we will go anywhere but up

up in our income up in our prosperity

that’s the thinking right

now the market dropped last week 300

points and

they were interviewing these young

investors and they said it’s nothing

it’ll come back

you see for 10 years these new investors

have known

nothing but good times nothing but

prosperity same with our young people

our young people

have lost their worth ethic they have

they’ve had

nothing but prosperity they’re 125

dollar

pair of sneakers they don’t work for it

they go and ask mom and here’s the

credit card go get your whatever you

need

well folks that’s all about to change

now folks here we have so many people

that are blinded to what is coming now

folks

there’s there’s something coming

that is so ominous and

so perilous the very things that jesus

said would come

on the other hand you know

you have these who are totally

unconcerned then on the other hand you

have growing number of christians who

believe

the world’s heading for a violent storm

and that it’s

the country and the nation in the world

is uh

on the brink of a crash and they’re

making preparations to survive this

they’re making all kinds of preparations

now

these are christians

and many of them are christian

investment advisors

and they put out newsletters and they

they’re on the internet and

they’re warning christians to prepare

and

basically their advice is this if you’re

in the city

move go to the country

buy yourself uh some acres acreage in a

in a an abandoned or uh

isolated area have your own well dug

and put up a barn or something and store

a two three year supply of food and on

and on and on

and now these are christians and they

are

advising this and it’s it’s circulating

now all over the united states it’s

become a wave

of preparation now an elderly

lady wrote to us this past week because

her friends had been advising her she’d

better get prepared

because they’d been getting these

advisory newsletters

and they were getting prepared

themselves and she wrote to me the

following

dear pastor david what can i do to

prepare

for the hard times coming i’m 87

years 4 months old with limited funds

87 4 months old with limited funds

she said it’s impossible to do all the

things they’re telling us to do to

prepare for

i would dearly love to live in the

country and have my own whale water

i’ve been brought up in a farm one of 12

kids and i know what it’s like to live

without modern conveniences

i have always kept on hand a good supply

of food anyhow but i still

put all my trust in god and i’m a

praying person

but what shall i do to prepare well this

message is for this dear lady

and for all other christians who are in

a tizzy about how do i get ready

and prepare for y2k or for the collapse

of the government or for the collapse of

the economy

folks i believe these things are coming

it may be worse than any of us know

but let me

give you god’s mind on this all right

the message i want to share with you

is how to prepare god’s way not man’s

way but god’s way

the way that i want to share with you

you don’t need any extra money

you don’t need to leave your apartment

or your house you don’t have to move out

of new york city

you need no private source of water

you need no guns you don’t have to

stockpile anything

because i’m going to give you god’s plan

now i know that there are pastors

all over america today who don’t utter a

word such as you’re hearing this morning

it’s evidently because they don’t see

what is coming or don’t want to see it

because if they did see it

and didn’t warn the bible said blood

would be on their hands

so either they ignore it or they don’t

want to

stir up the congregation and especially

build a new building and they have a

heavy mortgage they’re sure not going to

preach

gloom and doom to their money people

but you see if if you

hear the sound of the trumpet the bible

says and you don’t warn the people the

blood is on your hands

and i’ve heard the sound of the trumpet

and i can’t do anything but

make it sound and i know there are some

of you here that have been listening to

me the past six weeks saying

i sure wish our pastor would move on

i don’t mean out of the pulpit

but out of this stream

but if i know my heart

and the hours i spent with the lord i

know what i see coming

and i know that i’ve been appointed to

be one of his many watchmen

and i know how much time i’ve spent

seeking the lord

about what is coming because as pastors

of this congregation

were responsible

this past week i i was

out on a country road in new jersey

the moon night night the moon was

shining bright and i had a number of

hours

from twilight right on up into hard

darkness

and i was seeking god about this

congregation

and what is the responsibility on us

as pastors to prepare a congregation for

hard times

now folks i i warned three i mean four

years before

the iraq war i reckon war

that and i warned there would be 500

fires burning in the mideast

everybody winked

if you remember there were 503 fires set

by saddam

saddam hussein i’ve been able to

see these things since i was a child

i was i was writing these things down

when i was a teenager

things that god would show me he’s never

said that i was a prophet i’ve never

believed that but

as a watchman and i see what’s coming i

i see i was walking and i was in my mind

seeing new york city a flame over a

thousand fires burning riots

troops and tanks on our streets not only

here but

everywhere and folks i had just heard

that same day

this past week that our secretary of

defense

has a special trained army special unit

to move into 120 cities now in case of

riots and

and difficulty and crisis 120

there are trained our troops are trained

ready to move they’re like super swat

teams

ready even now standing it alert

and and i began to see the grocery

stores being

mobbed and new york only has a three-day

supply of food in reserve

and mobs out of control looting

and i thought of all of our dear people

we have probably now

seven to eight thousand people that

worship here and call

times square church their home and

i’m i’m saying lord we have a people

that can’t run to

we can’t run out of this city some

people just

many people even paycheck to paycheck

hardly able to pay the rent

let alone have enough money to run to

vermont or

somewhere in pennsylvania or idaho or

montana wherever you are and

buy some land then it’s enough to get uh

tokens for the subway

lord we’ve got people live in little

one-room apartments they can’t store

food

lord how in the world what do you want

me to tell these people do

do you want us to stockpile food and boy

god begin to

to show me some things he he mildly

lovingly rebuked me said

david wait a minute you’re looking at it

from your point of view and not mine

and i want to show you from god’s

viewpoint

but i became so overwhelmed by

what i saw coming i grabbed a

picket rail fence beside the road

and i almost fell weeping and broken

before the lord and i said god

if you had me warn people

now why won’t you give me a word

that will take away once and for all the

fear

and show us what we’re to do

and god heard my cry and he spoke to my

heart and i’m going to share that with

you this morning

here’s what god spoke to my heart first

of all listen very closely

the only trustworthy preparation

for hard times is in the heart

and not for the body this is a spiritual

matter

more than it is a bodily or physical

concern it’s a

spiritual thing of the heart that god is

looking at

first and primary of all and let me tell

you this here’s what i’ve heard clearly

from the lord those who set their hearts

to seek god

with everything in them their heart

their mind their soul their body with

all their strength

those who are saturating their hearts

with the word of god

those who are cleaning up their hearts

by faith in the work of the holy spirit

trusting in the sprinkling of the blood

of jesus christ

growing passionately in love with jesus

you are better prepared for the coming

storm

you are safer you’re more protected than

those

christians who have a year or two of

supply

of food and live out in some remote area

and have all kinds of gear

everything saved up to ride out the hard

times you

are safer if you’re making preparations

in your heart

than those who are half-hearted called

in christ

and making all kinds of physical

preparations you are ready

the children of israel were told to

stand by to leave at any moment

and folks they were headed for hard

times they were

leaving from the security of egypt and

even though it was a

furnace of fire a burden to them

and though they were slaves and in

bondage they had everything they needed

to eat there were supplies and they were

going to move into a wilderness

where there was no water there was no

food there were no resources whatsoever

and moses said stand by

he didn’t give them any instructions to

stockpile

to get wagons build wagons and and load

them down with food to last

a year or so they were given the

following instructions and they were all

spiritual

these were spiritual instructions the

instructions were

get secured by the blood

they were to kill a lamb and sprinkle

that blood on the doorpost

and they were to trust in that blood as

long as that blood was applied and

sprinkled on the doorpost

they were secured they were secure

physically

not only spiritually but physically

their human bodies

their children their families their dogs

their cats

everything was secured in that house

folks if you want to get ready for what

is coming make sure you’re

under the blood you’re secured and you

have your confidence in the keeping

delivering power

of the blood of jesus christ secondly

they were told to eat the lamb

they would have feast that lamb is jesus

christ a type of christ

that is his shed blood that is his body

we eat and drink christ what are you

feasting on are you building up your

spiritual body

getting spiritually strong for the

wilderness experience to come

where there are no resources human

resources available

then you better be feasting on the word

on the lamb this is the lamb

this is the word this is christ you

better be feeding on it

this is the food that you store up right

now you store up until you’re so strong

in faith

nothing can shake you

[Applause]

store up the word of god thy word have i

hid in my heart

that i might not sin against you and you

the sin he’s talking about his unbelief

all right that’s spiritual you

get secured by the blood you eat the

lamb

what are you feasting on don’t tell me

that god should give you a plan of

survival

if you’re sitting in front of a filthy

television

program or you’re in a dirty movie

feasting on

filth or you’re on the internet i our

mail is swamped with letters from wives

preachers wives included

saying i don’t know what to do with my

husband one woman wrote she said i

i went into the room and i saw my

husband watching

child pornography

she said i divorced him immediately

he said a good man who’s gone bad who’s

ruined

feasting his mind on filth

don’t talk to me don’t talk to god about

protection

or getting ready for what is coming

brother sister when it hits

you will run in fear you will run in

fear

he said you feast on the lamb and then

he said be ready to go

in other words don’t be tied down to

this world

don’t have your eyes focused get your

eyes on eternal thing get a new

jerusalem state of mind

this is not my home i’m not living here

i’m living here in my body but my spirit

my soul is with the lord

and my body and my soul my mind cries

out even so lord jesus come quickly

[Music]

they had just enough dough in there

needing trials to last a day or two and

then it’s gone

the lord said you’re going to trust me

you’re going to cast your

future you’re going to cast everything

into my hands and you’re going to learn

to trust me

the cry if the scripture is still

when i see the blood i will pass over

you

judgment was on the land awful judgments

were falling upon a sinful

idolatrous nation and yet there were a

people secured

because they said when i see the blood

the judgment will not hit you

i see the heart of grieved over this

poor spiritual condition of the bride

god chose a bride for his son you didn’t

choose the lord he chose you

he said you haven’t chosen me i’ve

chosen you i’ve called you and i bought

you with the price

you’re not your own

here’s a blood purchase bride waiting in

waiting for the bridegroom

this bride of christ is the overcoming

church it’s the holy zion the new

jerusalem coming down out of heaven

which he purchased with his own blood

this bride is spoken for

this bride is set apart she’s agreed to

be espoused to christ who’s the

bridegroom

folks you and i sitting in this

congregation you’re listening to me

right now we if you are under the blood

if christ is your passionate love

if you are walking in the spirit you

are a part of the bride company you’re

in the bride

now what should be the focus of the

bride no matter what conditions are

what is the focus of the bride the focus

of the bride is to get ready for the

wedding

to get ready to go to

ready to be with her beloved

but sadly many in the bridehood of

christ

have eyes for other lovers many

in this company have corrupted

themselves their garments are stained

and soiled

ephesians 5 25 even as christ also loved

the church

gave himself for it that he might

sanctify

and cleanse it with the washing of water

by the word

that he might present it to himself a

glorious church

not having spot or wrinkle or any such

thing

but that should be holy and without

blemish holy

and without blemish in revelation 21

1-2 you read of a holy people coming

down

out of out from god prepared as a bride

and i john saw the holy city new

jerusalem coming down from god out of

heaven

prepared as a bride for her husband

now folks those that are seated with

christ in heavenly places

every time you go into the secret closet

every time you get alone with the lord

every time you open that door and come

out to meet the public

or your family or to do your business

you’re coming down out of god

you’re coming down out of heaven this is

the new jerusalem this is a holy

people hallelujah overcoming spiritual

children of god

beloved let me tell you something there

are a people in this world today

it’s a remnant it’s a small people

who have eyes for no one but jesus their

eyes are not on the things of this world

they’re not coveting the things of this

world

they’re not wrapped up in materialism

there’s a

there is a magnetic draw to their heart

they are reaching out to the lord

every time they get up in the morning

every single day of the week they say

lord there’s nothing here for me

thank you for my family thank you for my

job i thank you for everything you

provided for me

but this is all going to burn my heart

is not here

my heart is with you lord

they are not focusing on the things of

this world they’re not trying to save

their skin

they’re trying to adorn themselves as a

bride

to adorn in greek is

to make preparation and to set things in

order

this bride is setting her heart in order

she’s making arrangements she is not

looking to the things of this world

she’s not

afraid of anything because her heart is

drawing her to her beloved

folks the bride is not preparing for a

storm

it’s not preparing to save their bodies

they are making preparation to leave to

a wedding feast

the bride is adorning herself

reading herself purifying herself

her heart is not here

there’s not a day there is not a day

anymore and i must

tell the lord a thousand times a day

lord there’s nothing here i thank you

for your touch on my life i thank you

for the people you’ve raised up

i thank you for my family my children my

grandchildren but oh god

this is not where my heart is

that that should be the heart cry like

paul the apostle

i would rather go to be with the lord i

remain here with you just because you

need me

i have a question for you are you making

serious arrangements to prepare

now not for a crisis

y2k not for the

smashing and the breaking down and i

believe god’s fist

is coming down on our stock markets and

bond markets

no question about it and very soon

the pastors who heard me preach that in

a couple cities now and who walked out

saying that’s foolishness after 300

points last week they’re thinking now

i just got a call from one of those

conferences

the leaders of the conference that i

preached warning like this and

suddenly my tapes warning of that in

such demand they can’t keep

up with them after the stock market went

down 300 points

amazing calls for

i want to hear it now someone hear it

after it’s too late

but it must be the grief of heaven it

must be the grief of god’s heart

to see so many of god’s people so

serious about making

sure they’re earthly secure that they’re

secure that they have

food they have they’re making all these

plans and it must be the heart of god

the grief of the heart of god that so

much is going in so much thinking

so much preparation trying to get things

in order to ride out a storm

and absolutely neglecting god

neglecting their prayer life neglecting

the word of god

not preparing their spiritual minds and

hearts it must be the grief of god

saying all that you could give me that

kind of intensity all that you can make

such preparation for me in your heart

i’m not against christians storing

food and prepare for calamity probably

makes sense to have

two or three weeks or 30-day supply of

food around if you

if you can and if you don’t eat it you

can always give it to somebody who needs

it

but those who are preaching uh these

kinds of preparation

even though they’re and they’re mostly

believers and they quote the scripture

and the two

the scripture they quote most and i’m

not putting this down and i’m saying it

lovingly

they quote proverbs 22 3 a prudent man

foreseeth the evil

and hideth himself but the simple pass

on

and are punished and that’s repeated

word for word in proverbs 27

12 and they say if god repeated it twice

he must mean

that you’d better listen and act on it

but you see this very verse

that is quoted as a motivation to

store food and prepare physically for

the coming storm

proves my point right now that

a prudent man foreseeth the evil and

hideth himself

and what does isaiah said a man shall be

the hiding place from the wind

and a covert from the storm as rivers of

water in a dry

place and there’s a shadow of a great

rock and a weary land

if you’re prudent if you’re wise you’ll

get

under the blood you’ll come to christ

and hide yourself

and put your faith and confidence there

there are all kinds of people that have

put their eternal destiny in the hands

of the lord but they’ve not put their

earthly destiny

in the hands of the lord your earthly

destiny has to do with what you eat

what you wear the clothes on your back

this

security the house over your head your

apartment whatever it may be

that is your earthly destiny

and it’s amazing that

you can ask questions do you really

believe yourself are you going to heaven

when you die are your sins under the

blood and they’d be offended

of course it is i have by

faith given my eternal destiny in the

hands of the lord

by faith the whole thing is by faith

why then is it so hard for us

to put our earthly destiny our future

where our paycheck comes from where our

food comes

why can’t we put our you know what

jesus killed a man

they brought a palsied man to the lord

and jesus healed him and he

got up and walked away and the scribes

said to themselves he blasphemes you

know what jesus said

what’s easier for me to say

your sins are forgiven or rise up and

walk and the man was still in his bed he

said your sins are forgiven and they’d

said eat blasphemes

and jesus says rise up and walk i’m god

which

is easier for me

which is harder to keep

to keep this man make him whole and keep

him secure and send it back to his

family as a whole man

or just forgive his sins now god’s

saying

think gentlemen i’m god if i can forgive

sins and i can save your eternal soul

how hard is it going to be for me to

take care of you

[Applause]

you see

if all you’re going to do is prepare

physically you’re in

trouble you see

they say have a 30 day supply of food

and some say one year supply some say

two year what if this thing

lasts 10 years 12 years and i’ve

listened to many sane economists saying

that we’re going into

uh either a major recession or a

depression it’s going to be 12 15 years

long

now if jesus carries where are you going

to get that kind of

place to store all that i had a

gentleman tell me that

about 20 years ago he got scared to

death and he

he bought a warehouse and filled it with

dried foods

and he went in this past year to check

it out it was all rotted and

it was it was all wormy and it’s all

gone

i told you how years ago i was going to

prepare i went out and got a country

place

and 50 headed black angus cattle

and built ponds and filled them with

fish

[Laughter]

the cows got bangs disease had to sell

them all off and i told you it cost me

more to raise the fish and to go the

store and buy it

i had big gardens and it was costing me

more to keep those gardens than to

get it in the local grocery store

and the lord cured me

i’m not i’m not against any of that but

i’m saying if that’s your main focus

then

what are you going to do because we’ve

got many people now saying jesus not

coming until

we go through three and a half years of

the tribulation and some say we’re going

to go through all the tribulation for

seven years

how are you going to starve for seven

years if that’s what you believe where

does it

end

i’m telling you by the spirit of god if

you’re preparing your heart

you’re getting your spiritual heart in

order you’re making changes you’re

dealing with sin and lust

you’re calling on the lord more and more

with intensity you’re trusting in his

word

and you’re building up your faith you

are ready for a depression

you’re ready for any privation you’re

ready for the earth to tremble

the mounds to be cast in the midst of

the sea you’re ready for troubled waters

you’re ready for floods and fiery

furnaces and lions dens and persecution

crop failure drought shortages

sickness trial of all kind most of all

you’re ready for the coming of the lord

and for the wedding feast of the

bridehood

[Applause]

he said seek ye first the kingdom of god

in his righteousness and

all these things shall be added unto you

now let’s go on and i’ll show you a

little more of the heart of god on this

i believe what i’m going to show you now

sums it all

up god has made a covenant to keep and

protect those who stay passionately in

love

with your son i’m going to say it again

god has made an everlasting covenant to

keep him protect those who stay

tastily in love with his son if you

believe god’s word then you have got to

believe

this covenant in fact if you get a hold

of this truth it’s the secret

to having all fear cast out of your

heart i don’t care if the whole world

shatters apart this covenant was first

made with abraham in genesis

15 1 fear not i am thy shield and thy

exceeding great reward

shield here is protector hedge and a

wall of security

and what an amazing promise what amazing

covenant god made with abraham

abraham he’s saying wherever you go

whatever nation you’re in

whatever crisis you face in life no

matter what you face

never be afraid i am going to be all you

need i’m going to be your wall of

protection i

am your shield you’re exceeding great

reward and that exceeding great reward

in hebrew is

salary wages compensation benefits

that’s what it means i’m going to be

your boss i’m going to be your pay

master

everything you get’s going to come from

my hand

everything in other words i’m going to

protect you

take care of you all your physical needs

all you have to do

abraham is walk before me righteously

put your trust in me and love me with

all your heart

this covenant was made with abraham’s

son also

isaac it was made with his son then

jacob

it was then made with israel and finally

to the whole seed of abraham

psalm 105 the whole psalm is about god’s

promise to the seed of abraham

now listen to me please you’ve heard me

say this before and you’ve got to get

ahold of this truth

every blood-bought blood-washed

child of god everyone walking with jesus

christ by faith

living in overcoming life are you are

the seed of abraham the

natural jew is not the seed of abraham

now if you’re a jew and you believe in

jesus christ you are of the seed of

abraham

there are no jews no gentiles now

there’s only one jew and that’s

who is it you by faith the scripture

makes it very very clear

now listen to what the bible says they

which are the children of the flesh

these are not the children of god but

the children of the promise are

counted for the seed the seed of abraham

that’s romans 9 8.

listen to this please know ye therefore

that they which are of faith the same

are the children or the seed of abraham

are you trusting jesus as lord and

savior

are do you belong to christ

are you his by faith then you are the

seed of abraham

say well how important is it for me to

see that why should i be so concerned

about whether or not i’m the seed of

abraham

because the promise that god made to be

a shield and a protector and a wall was

made to abraham and to

all his seed if that be the truth

then if i lay hold of this by faith i

get the same power i get the same

deliverance i get everything

that was promised abraham i am a child

of abraham i’m the seed of abraham

god has made an everlasting covenant i

will keep you

you don’t look at the storms you don’t

look at that you look at my covenant

i’ve made a covenant with you

i’ve swore it out and i cannot lie i

will keep you by my grace and power

forgive my screaming and my falling hair

here i’m

getting excited here

but you see god put a condition on this

covenant

this covenant was given to a thousand

generations and believe me that covers

us

he hath remembered his covenant forever

the word which he committed

the words which he commanded to a

thousand generations

the same covenant he made with abraham

the same covenant he made with abraham

to a thousand generations hallelujah

psalm 165 10 he confirmed the same

speaking the covenant to israel for an

everlasting covenant

showing mercy unto thousands of them

that love him

and keep his commandments the condition

is to

stay in the love of god in jesus christ

this is the covenant condition this

covenant is not for every christian who

says lord lord.

deuteronomy 10 12 and now israel

what does the lord thy god require thee

or what are the conditions of this

covenant

but to fear the lord thy god to walk in

all his ways and to love him

and to serve the lord thy god with all

thy heart and with all thy soul

he said here’s what i require of you i

want my fear in you

this all this respect for your heavenly

father

yes i have intimacy with him but my

blessed redeemer you’re also the one who

created the heavens and the earth you

spoke everything into being

and i have a holy righteous on fear of

you

you’re my friend you’re my kinsmen

redeemer but you’re also almighty god

creator of heaven and earth

and that’s what has been lacking in the

church this great all

respect for him i want you to go to

deuteronomy 11 please

deuteronomy 11 and show you this

condition we’re moving on quickly here

please

i trust you’re still with me

deuteronomy the 11th chapter

we’re trusting god’s word to drive all

fear out of our

minds eleventh chapter of hebrews

yeah i’m sorry deuteronomy deuteronomy

during my 11th chapter i haven’t lost it

friends i’m still here

let’s start verse 13

deuteronomy 11 verse 13 it shall come to

pass if ye shall

hearken diligently unto my commandments

which i command you this day

what come on now to love the lord your

god and serve with all your heart with

all your soul

now what’s he going to do he’s going to

keep covenant

i will give you the rain in your land in

his due season the first ring the latter

rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn

thy wine and

i always say you’re going to eat look at

me folks

he said you’re going to eat you’re going

to go hungry

i will get i will send grass in my

fields for thy cattle that thou mayest

eat and be full

take heed yourselves that your heart be

not deceived then you turn aside and

serve other gods

and worship them go to verse 22 if you

will please

for if you shall diligently keep all

these commandments so i command you to

do them to what

to love the lord your god to walk in all

his ways and to cleave unto him

then will the lord drive out all those

nations before you you shall possess

greater nations and mightier than

yourselves

every place one the soldier feature

treads will be yours

from the wilderness and lebanon from the

river the

river euphrates even onto the utmost see

your coast

be there shall no man be able to stand

before you

see you don’t need a gun

for the lord your god shall lay the fear

of you and the dread of you upon all

the land that ye may tread upon us upon

us he has said unto you

behold i said before this day a blessing

and a curse look at me please folks he

said

you love me and you draw near to me you

cleave to me

you don’t have to be afraid anybody

they’re going to be afraid of you

not because you have a gun not because

you have a stash of ammunition

but you’re full of christ in the power

of god

and all you’ve got to do is smile adam

i believe this with all my heart when i

came to new york city

god knew i was going to walk the streets

and have to work with prostitutes and

everybody else

and boy god said david if you just draw

near to me i’ll put such a dread

of you that any prostitute or any woman

ever looks you on the street

the fear of god will hit them and folks

god kept that word all these years

i i love their souls but i’ve had many

just get near and say oh they just back

away don’t even say a word oh

that’s the hand of god i’ll put the

dread of you

you get full of jesus they’ll know

you’ve been with christ they’ll know

you cleave to me go to 30th chapter

deuteronomy

you shall know the truth and the truth

shall set you free

let’s start in verse 6

deuteronomy 30 verse 6 and the lord thy

god will circumcise thine heart

and the heart of thy seed to what to

love the lord thy god with all

thy heart and with all thy soul that

thou mayest what

live glory be to god

the lord thy god will put all these

curses upon thy enemies and on them that

hate

thee which persecuted thee they also

return and obey the voice of the lord

and do all his commandments do i command

thee this day

the lord thy god will make thee

plenteous in

every work of thine hand and the fruit

of thy body the fruit of thy cattle

the fruit of thy land for good for the

lord will again rejoice over thee

for good as he rejoiced over thy

fathers glory be to god

verse 16. in that i command thee this

day to what

love the lord thy god to walk in his

ways and to keep his commandments and

his statues his judgments

that thou mayest live and multiply and

look at this

and the lord thy god shall bless thee in

the land whether thou go as to possess

it

and i’ll bless you i don’t care what’s

happening all around you i’ll bless you

with enough

a sufficiency i will bless you

there’s more verse 19 i call heaven and

earth to

record this day against you that i have

set before you life and death blessing

and cursing

therefore choose life that both thou thy

seed may live

thou thou mayest love the lord thy god

and thou mayest obey his voice that thou

mayest leave

mayest cleave unto him for he is thy

life

and the length of thy days no he’s your

security there it is

he is your security glory be to god

now look this way please

deuteronomy 6 5 says thou shalt love the

lord thy god with all thy heart

all thy soul and all thy might look

please

what more does god have to say to prove

to us

that if we will stay passionately in

love

see everything god has done has been

vested in his son

you stay in love with jesus and you know

what it means to be in love with jesus

first of all

he did have my commandments and keepeth

them he is that love with me

but to keep those commandments not they

have to be done through

loving submission now

a white the bible said is to submit

herself to her husband that’s what love

is lord i give you my body

every time i go to prayer lord i i go i

support i

i submit to your

will everything i have no will of my own

i give everything it’s submitting it’s

going to him

loving him in submission saying god my

body

my mind everything i’m going to trust

you you give me a voice

folk i’m going to tell you now you say

well what am i going to do about

the money that i’ve accumulated my my

iras or my retirement or the pension

funds what do i do

i’m going to tell you something you stay

close to jesus you’ll know his mind

he’ll speak you he’ll tell you what to

do he’ll tell you what to do

if god tells you that you you’re to

store food or you

you have the money to go it’s because

he’s trying to help you

to be a haven for everybody else and

folks i’m going to tell you god told me

in prayer

that when this time comes every home is

to be a haven

every home is a haven every home is a

place

i don’t care if i have to take uh some

other christian

into my family if we have to sleep on

the floor in sleeping bags whatever it

is

my home is a haven

we we are getting hundreds of letters

now from people who are saying that

right now they

the holy ghost is i’ve never seen

anything like the holy spirit speaking

to thousands and thousands of christians

and they’re not running they’re not

afraid they’re saying

i have been told by the holy spirit to

put away some things

and put away a little money that i’ve

accumulated so that i can help others

that are less fortunate than i am

that is fine every home of haven

but now let me give you the problem

and here’s where some of you have been

confused

for a long time you read and hear about

all these promises we just read to you

of god’s steeping power he’s your shield

he’s your protector a wall of fire

around you put your body in your earthly

destiny as well as your eternal destiny

in his hands and god will take care of

you

but then you say well what about hebrews

11 36

to 40. go there please hebrews

and and i want to tell you something

folks unless you deal with this

you’ll never have proper faith

the scripture i’m going to read to you

now i have been just absolutely

overlooked by many because they’re

afraid to touch

it hebrews

hebrews 11 verse 36 beginning to read

and others had trial of cural mockings

you know we’ve just heard

through faith they subdued kingdoms and

they wrought rights but they obtained

promise they stuck the mouth of lions

they quenched the violence of fire they

escaped the edge of the sword

out of weakness were made strong wax

vanity and fight

turned to flight the armies women

received their dead raised again

but others were tortured verse 35 not

accepting deliverance that they might

obtain a better resurrection

and others had cruel head trial of cruel

mocking

scourgings bonds imprisonment stoned

sawn asunder tempted slain with a sword

wondered about in sheepskins goatskins

being destitute afflicted torment

of whom the world was not worthy they

wandered in deserts and in mountains and

dens and caves

these all having obtained a good report

through faith received not the promise

god having provided some better thing

for us that they without us

should not be made perfect now folks

look at me please

you look at that you say all right where

was the covenant

where was the shield where was the wall

of protection

sean and sunday they were cut into

beheaded these were all in faith these

were all

pass me in love with jesus you say that

argues against everything you’ve been

preaching this morning brother dave

and there are many whose faith has come

up against this wall and it’s collapsed

folks you’ve got to understand something

that

this there are going to be until jesus

comes they’re going to there’s going to

be much more of this and i’m going to

show it to you go to revelation 6

9 revelation 6 9

there’s going to be incredible suffering

until

jesus comes

revelation 6.

verse 9 beginning to read

and when he had opened the fifth seal he

saw under the altar the souls of them

that were slain for the word of god

and for the testimony which they held

and they cried with a loud voice saying

how long o lord holy and true does thou

not judge and avenge our blood on them

that dwell on the earth white robes were

given to every one of them

it was said unto them that they should

rest for a little season until

their fellow servants also their

brothers

that should be killed as they were

should be fulfilled

to see what it’s saying he’s saying

there’s going to be many many others

persecuted saunas under betrayed

just like this folks in indonesia

i was given a a report an official

report

and i i get reports from the united

nations because we’ve people here from

the united nations who supply these

reports to it a report out of indonesia

all we heard in the news that there were

many chinese ethnic chinese that were

killed in the riots

a few months ago and very few realized

that most of them were christians

over 1500 of them brutally murdered

their wives and their women were raped

and it was it it’s still going on

persecution

but at the same time because of their

testimony now listen closely

the bible says they were slain for the

word and for their testimony

listen closely what has happened in

indonesia in the past three months

first of all the christians decided all

the christians

and they are opening there’s such a

revival now such an outpouring of the

holy spirit in indonesia

they’re opening dozens of churches every

week now all over the country

christians have bound together and

decided to eat one meal a day and they

went to the new

president new prime minister of

indonesia and told them what they were

doing

you remember the news he asked the whole

country to fast the day a week that came

from the meeting with the christians

and the christians were told by the holy

spirit that god was judging

indonesia because the the muslims

the islamic the muslims had risen up

against the christians and for the past

two years have been

violently persecuting the church

remember

my message the controversy over zion

that god judges nations not just for the

wickedness but primarily because they

touch his holy

apple of his eye

no let’s talk about this for just a

minute before i close

most of you don’t have to worry about it

you can forget it

put it out of mind it’s not for you

because god has more volunteers than he

can handle right now

of people that are closest to his heart

because you see these these these are

chosen people

who have such a testimony of intimacy

with christ

they are so heaven bound and so in

with christ now they won’t take

anything to give them a shortcut and a

quick route to heaven

the bible said they chose not to be

delivered

choosing a better resurrection and i

want to tell you

god only gives this gift of martyrdom he

only gives the gift that we’re talking

about in the

bottom part of hebrews to a certain paul

was chosen to suffer as a testimony

there are many many many christians

worried well how can i believe

listen everyone mentioned here we’re of

the gideon army

all of the fearful the lord says you go

home they’re still my children but you

go home

this battle is not for you this is not

for you

folks god’s not going to choose cowards

for this crown he going to bypass you

you shall thank god bypassing me

let me tell you something i’ve read

fox’s book of martyrs and i keep reading

about the martyrs

and every martyr story that i’ve read

they they all

said when the hard times come and i’m

tested i’m gonna fall i don’t have it in

me

but when the time came god’s spirit came

on them gave them the grace and the

mercy and the power

i read of one dear pastor who was in

prison they were about to take him

to the fire and burn him at the stake

and he left a note to his wife

he’d been in prison for a year he said

this has been the garden

of eden he said this has been like a

palace

i have never known jesus more than i’ve

known him jesus came into my cell every

day

and because of his presence he made it a

palace

this is a chosen people this is a gift

from

god

it’s only for those but that special

holy remnant

that have passed the mark they’ve

already gone through

they’ve really left the world they’re

here but they’re really not here they’re

with

christ and they have this testimony for

the word of god they’ll not let it go

they’re like the hebrew children said we

know god is able but if not

we trust him the promises of god and

every one of these people

who were who were caught asunder and

every one of these that wandered in

caves and

dens hungry every one of them

when if they could take voice right now

would tell you

every promise is true god will supply

god will keep

they would be the strongest to stand

here and tell you god is faithful to his

word hallelujah

folks we’re going to take a back seat to

all of these martyrs

they’re the ones who are going to be

around his throne

closest to his heart but take heart

folks

god still loves the faint-hearted like

me

and like you he still loves the

faint-hearted

his covenant still stands and he’ll give

you all the grace you need if it ever

came to this

you’ll have more it’ll be the most

blessed experience you ever had and

you’ll go out

shouting the praises of god so there’s

no need to worry

hallelujah you should anticipate that we

should look forward to it

paul said liver die i’m the lord’s

anyhow

let’s stand

i preached a little longer than i like

to but

i wanted to finish this word that the

lord has given to me

folks look at me for a moment hold

steady

we’re not done

your dinner can wait

make sure this morning

that you deal with every bit of

trepidation every bit of fear

i know the lord has took taking it

completely out of my heart

i love this congregation as pastor

carter and all the other

leaders of this church love you dearly

and i believe you love us

too equally

we are concerned about you but folks we

we have placed this congregation

into these great big strong

hands of the lord

he said commit your ways to the lord

and he’ll bring it to pass committed god

doesn’t want you

not listen folks listen closely to your

pastor now

the nuisance coming even before this

year has ended the news that’s coming

of of violent terrorism

you’ve seen just some of it this past

weekend as our embassies have been blown

up

in africa

they’re going to be some terrifying news

awful news

but there has to be something in you

so at peace with god so at rest

that nothing can shape you let the news

be what it is

let the shake the shaking is coming

but you see when the shaking comes take

comfort that my god’s behind it all

my god has everything under control god

is doing this

god has a purpose to it and folks he’s

going to clean up his church he’s going

to purge his bride

i i was sitting here while that that

wonderful

explosion of worship and praise broke

out in this meeting this morning

and the holy spirit whispered to me said

david that’s nothing compared to what’s

going to be

after all of these things begin to

happen and the saints

gather here he said you won’t be able

you won’t be able to contain the glory

the shouting and the worship and the

praising of god

what a time is going to be

[Applause]

this is the conclusion of the message