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Heavenly Father help us tonight to enter
into the fellowship of your
sufferings help us to get our eyes off
our own sufferings and get our eyes on
the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ
that we may pray tonight as Paul did oh
that I might know
him in the power of his resurrection and
the fellowship of his
sufferings oh holy spirit that open our
eyes Lord I know I’ve prayed about this
I know you gave this to me so I I humbly
share it and ask that special unique
anointing baptize it in love help us to
receive it not as from a man who comes
in to to make a point or with a chip on
his shoulder I come with love I come
with a broken heart feeling your heart
and your need so minister to us in
jesus’ name
amen that I might know him and the power
of his resurrection and the fellowship
of his sufferings not suffering but
sufferings being made conformable unto
his
death Fellowship is a union of friends
who share a similar interest or problem
and to suffer means to feel pain or
distress and here you see Paul yearning
to share the pain and distress that
Jesus Christ
experienced you’d think that he had
enough suffering of his own because hard
anyone has suffered more than Paul and
didn’t he have enough hurt and care with
all the church is weighing heavy on his
back and with all the cares of the
churches and all his own suffering he
puts them aside and he prays oh God that
I might know how to share your pain and
your
hurt and it was soon after his
conversion that ananas came to him with
the word from the Lord speaking of the
great things that he must suffer for the
sake of Christ’s
name and it was more than just the shame
that he would bear or rejection or
persecution
hardships he was going to suffer through
shipwreck stonings beatings the
afflictions of body and soul he was
going to take joyfully the spoiling of
all of his
Goods in triumph over all of his
sufferings the day would come when Paul
would cry out I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in
us and you see if you read his life
story you see Paul suffering as much as
any other man of God on Earth yet he
considered his absolutely nothing
comparison to the sufferings of Jesus
Christ as Lord even Peter spoke of being
not only a witness to his suffering but
a partaker of his suffering Peter said I
who am also an elder was a witness of
the sufferings of Christ then he goes on
to say rejoice in as much as you are
partakers of Christ suffering Peter said
I just didn’t see him suffer I partook
of his sufferings here’s Paul praying
the same thing I don’t want to be just a
witness I don’t want to hear about it I
want to enter into his
sufferings who in our day and age is
praying like Paul who is yearning to
know Christ in The Fellowship of his
sufferings
because the church in these last days is
focused
inwardly we spend most of our spiritual
energy on the pain and distress of hurts
of our own
members in nearly every community in the
United States today there are small
prayer groups intimate prayer
groups who are reaching out with
compassion to share their hurts of their
suffering friends and
neighbors and we’ve really entered into
the fellowship of our brothers and
sisters we have thank God for that the
problem is we’re becoming selfishly
consumed by our own
hurts we’re consumed by the hurts of our
own brothers and sisters and it’s left
us with little or no time to think of
Christ’s sufferings let alone enter into
them and I I think I’m a bit ashamed as
I look back over the past 25 years of my
Ministry and my preaching how many
sermons I’ve preached about human
suffering
and so little about Christ suffering
I’ve wept over the hurts of
multitudes but I’ve never shed a tear
over Christ suffering I’ve known the
pain and sorrow of people from all walks
of life and all kinds of Sinners but
I’ve known nothing of his
sufferings and look about you today and
see if that’s not the problem of almost
all Christendom today go into any
bookstore and count the number of books
that deal with human hurt depression
fear reje divorce remarriage loneliness
Etc go to any seminar almost any Crusade
you’re going to hear a lot of preaching
about how to cope with personal pain and
distress but how little was written how
little is preached how little is taught
about the sufferings of Jesus
Christ now I’m not putting all that
down because we need all the help we can
get but my point is that Christians
everywhere including myself we’ have
become obsessed with our own problems
our own hurts our own needs our own
suffering we’ve become strangers
absolute strangers to his
sufferings we’ve got to start praying as
Paul did that we can share in
his now the sufferings of Christ are not
to be found in his human
body they’re all
spiritual we get very sentimental when
we talk talk about Christ paint at
Calvary we’re deeply moved by the talk
of the crown of thorns on his head
piercing his skull we talk about the
driven Nails the piercing spear in his
side the Deering crowds and the mocking
soldiers but you can never enter into
the sufferings of Christ if that’s as
deep as you go the sufferings of Jesus
Christ go much much deeper than
that Paul knew what it was to be beaten
and mocked and urged Paul
bled he too is despised and rejected by
men if you’re going to use a human scale
of pain Paul probably just about balance
the sufferings of Christ and I can take
in church history and show you many men
who suffered physically far more than
Jesus
Christ nor was it a cosmic suffering
that Paul’s talking about there’s no
human being that can enter into the
Divine suffering of Jesus this Universal
suffering of taking in the sins of the
whole world on himself he alone was
wounded for our
transgressions and the agony of his
Redemptive Act is uniquely his this this
Redemptive act that Calvary none of us
can enter into we can’t even begin to
comprehend that suffering don’t even try
to describe it that’s Cosmic we have
nothing to do with
that the sufferings of Christ that Paul
and we can Fellowship in have to do with
his spiritual sufferings while he was
here on
Earth he suffered more before he went to
the cross I believ that when he was on
the cross it had to do with the
backslidden church unbelieving loved
ones and what it cost him to leave this
earth and go to the
heavenlies we often think about what it
cost him to come down from Heaven to
Earth but there was another cost and
that was when he left the Earthly for
the divine for the
Heavenly now no man can fully understand
the sufferings of Jesus I’m certainly
limited my
vision but over the past few months the
holy spirit’s been allowing me to
Fellowship in three aspects of his
suffering and I want to share them with
you tonight first of all Christ suffered
grievously at the sight of his house
being turned into a den of
Thieves Jesus went up to Jerusalem at
the Passover and he entered into the
temple and what he saw appalled him all
the grief at what he
saw
merchandiser merchandisers had taken
over the house of
God he came seeking a house of
prayer and what he found was a business
conducted by
churchmen he came to KNE with God’s
people at a holy altar of worship what
he found was a preoccupation with
promotion this display and sale of
religious
merchandise the selling of religious
articles became more important than the
sacrifice the religious leaders were
counting
prophets God’s people were not reading
or studying or hearing the word they
were too busy selling religious articles
they were so busy they went about
promoting thinking they were doing the
work of God men of God had become
more pushers of their articles than they
were of the sacrifice of the
temple if you speak of suffering folks
you’ve got to understand the terrible
pain that our Lord suffered at such a
sight which one of the disciples would
have walked into the temple and felt
that kind of pain which one of them
would have stood there and have been
appalled at what they had seen how many
of them would have taken a whip and
driven them out of the temple how many
would would have felt the wrath of God
it’s seeing the house of God being
turned into a Merchandising
Mart and picture that
moment here’s a compassionate Christ
boiling with holy anger here’s a Meek
spirited man raging with righteous
indignation picture that lonely savior
now his spiritual vowels
boiling he’s got a whip in his hand and
he storms into the temple and he’s
flailing in all directions he’s
overturning the tables piled with
merchandise he scatters the promoters
and the pitchmen and the
husters and he Thunders
out out of my father’s house you have
dis desecrated this holy Place turning
this House of Prayer into commercial
Enterprise not anywhere else in the
scripture will you find such outrage in
Jesus it was one of the most painful
suffering experiences in his ministry he
couldn’t stand by and see his father’s
house become a den of religious
thieves and young people when I see the
wrath of God displayed I watch and take
notice understand this is the wrath of
God on display wrath of God those
words don’t they hit your heart the
wrath of God
we become religious
thieves when we are more interested in
the money than the
message when we’d rather profit than
prophesy we are thieves if we produce or
sell Records books tapes simply to make
money even for good causes rather than
to get a messy out we are thieves if we
merchandise more
we we feel our merchandise is more
important than the
message I’m not against the the making
and the selling of any books records
tapes or anything
else but I’m wondering if you and I are
willing to enter into the fellowship of
Christ suffering on this very
Point are we going to allow ourselves to
feel the paint and pain and hurt of
seeing God’s house being turned over to
merchandisers I of the church in
general we have commercialized the
gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ do you feel any spiritual rage in
you when you hear the
husters promoting anything with the name
of Jesus on
it can we share his suffering in this
point to stand up against those who had
turned God’s house into a theater or
just a house of
entertainment and that’s what’s
happening one half of the time in many
of our churches now it’s given over to
nothing but pure
entertainment pure
promotion no Holy Ghost
move no honoring of the name of Jesus
it’s to get a crowd it’s to count
heads and the you finally come down to
the point are we merchants or
missionaries can we grieve over Propet
teering on the name of Jesus can we get
Eyes Off cast and back on the cross in
the
church Peter warns of the coming of
false prophets are going to steal in
Among Us and the Bible said they’re
going to be Covetous men they will with
phony words make merchandise of you and
other words they’re going to come with a
sales pitch they won’t see anything but
dollar signs in the congregation they’ll
put the name of Jesus on anything to get
your money to make themselves rich and
these are Merchants that need to quit
preaching the gospel and go into
business it’s okay for businessmen to do
it but not
evangelist how the heavens must rage
against all the buying and selling of
all the crazy Jesus
junk how it must hurt our Lord to see if
van is more concerned about the record
and tape sales and the Book Sales than
lost
Humanity what fortunes are being made to
promotion and sale of
merchandise we’ve done more than
commercialized Christmas we
commercialized the
godhead God gives us a talent a gift and
we pack it and sell
it we freely receive and expensively
sell we’re so afraid to trust God for
our Ministries we develop a side
business out of what God has freely
given us we incorporate our talents to
turn a profit and I’m wondering if there
are any advantes in America left that
have nothing to
promote know how God’s dealing with
me you see I I I don’t have all the
answers yet see the bibles are sold and
that’s how the word of God has gotten
around the world Paul used his talents
to make
tents I think it has to do with personal
profit versus support of God’s work but
anything that demeans the name of Jesus
Christ I’ve got to tell you
tonight people I’m struggling over this
I’m really deeply struggling because
listen to what Jesus says this this
frightens me Mark 11:15 said Jesus cast
out them that bought and sold in the
temple he threw them out listen to this
take these things away Jesus said take
them away make not my house a house of
merchandise that scares me that makes me
go back and think of how how many times
Publishers have called me up and said
David we need a book anything your book
sell and I’ve got to confess to you I’ve
written three or four books over the
past years that I did just because we
needed
money I weep over it now I grieve over
it and I’m struggling with
this because I I believe God does raise
up good spirit filled businessmen to
produce distribute Bibles and books and
records and
tapes but you see my problem is what I
feel in my heart that anything that
touches the cross should not be
expensive I’m wondering if we were
really where we should be with God if we
would be selling
anything I’m wondering I don’t know yet
I don’t have the answers I wish somebody
could give it to me our cont and I God
been dealing with
me I can’t tell you the grief I feel
anymore when I pick up some magazines
sent out by evangelist and they’re
selling everything from holy mustard
seeds to holy water to everything and I
think the world and the CER out
there Associates the gospel with
trinklets and gimmicks and
promotion and see the issue goes beyond
selling merchandise in the house of God
it includes all secular promotion of the
things that are holy and of God secular
promotion of God’s
things you know you and I would be
shocked tonight if you knew how many
popular Ministries in
America are in the hands of Public
Relation
men secular
promoters they package and sell the
gospel like soap and
cereal the result is cutesy little songs
and sermons with a lot of hype and no
life this this week I got a formal
notice from an outstanding Ministry in
America informing me that they had just
hired a Madison Avenue promotion man
because they wanted a new image to raise
more
money can’t tell you almost it makes me
want to
vomit the prophets are being replaced by
PR
men we need more Exposure One said so he
went and hired a public for him to make
his name known and I could tell you the
man and You’
cry I want nothing to do with the
professional husters and promoters they
have no right to touch the anointed
things of God they compromise the men of
God they rob them of their anointing and
they substitute some slick lifeless kind
of
evangelism they take these powerful men
of God and they turn them into proud
celebrities who build reputations on the
gospel if God’s trying to do anything
he’s trying to deglamorize the gospel El
and the preachers we’ve got enough stars
and God said he going to get all the
glory you know I go to some Crusades now
and I see men coming on stage and the
audience is standing and clapping and
almost idolizing and sometimes I I think
God that man’s on dangerous gun he may
drop dead no man can take his glory no
man can handle the
glory that’s why I walked
away no man can handle it you know what
these promoters are doing they’re taking
anointed spiritual singing groups
they’re dressing them in sequin jackets
jackets they rewrite their song so no
one’s going to be offended then they try
to make them so professional they can
get a song on the secular
charts and I see singing groups all
across America being
seduced losing God’s anointing anointing
and ending up just another lifeless this
group few groups are left in
America who are still
unspoiled they all seem to go the same
way they want a professional
sound and they they they they want to
sound even better than the secary I hear
it someone sent me a record the other
day of of a group that my wife and i’
love to hear and they were so humble
when they started the first time I heard
them I cried and I wept but someone came
along said you’re not professional
enough you just don’t have the
professional sound and you’re not
dressed right we got last week their
last record it’s the most lifeless
pitiful thing I’ve ever seen it’s glossy
it’s smooth but it’s
dead it’s
dead I’d rather hear someone stand up
and make all kinds of mistakes and I
don’t care how they’re dressed as long
as they have the anointing of the
humility
that doesn’t mean that you have to have
an unprofessional sound but it’s so easy
to get away from the anointing of all
the groups they say I’ll never go that
way here later there they go same way
all trying to compete and finally they
get to the place where they get on their
buses or they get in their Vans or
whatever it is and they say how many
records did we
sell how much did we make listen friends
not only will God not bless this Modern
Trend toward professionalism he’s going
to thunder against it and drive it out
of his presence Heaven didn’t put up
with it at Jerusalem he’s not going to
put up with it in these last days the
days of the commercializes are over he’s
going to drive it out of his church it’s
all over God will not put up with that
secular professionalism keeping in and
destroying the anointing of the Holy
Ghost he won’t allow it oh God bring us
all back God bring us
back
secondly Christ
suffers when those he loves most doubt
his interest in them and his power when
we who love him most doubt his interest
in us and his power now Jesus loved
Lazarus he dearly loved his two sisters
Mary and Martha their home was an oasis
for
him we know
that that Lazarus loved Jesus
but you see here’s something unique this
is not the Bible speaking about man’s
love for Jesus this is Jesus the Bible
is speaking of Jesus love for Lazarus
it’s just the opposite how Jesus loved
him the scripture says he who Christ
loved was sick it’s Lazarus he whom
Christ loved was sick Jesus heard it and
he sent a message to Mary and Martha
this sickness is not unto death but for
the glory of God God now let’s stop
right there doesn’t say the resurrection
is to the glory of God what does it say
just back up a little bit come on now
what does it say this sickness is not
unto death but this sickness is to the
what now that’s not a David Wilkerson
version of the
Bible this
sickness is not under death but is for
the glory of God that the Son of God may
be glorified thereby Jesus knew that
there was a miracle coming that would
give him glory and hopefully the faith
and confidence of those who loved him
most and he loved but oh what a
suffering experience this turned out to
be it was intended by God to bring Glory
it should have been a beautiful
Resurrection experience but it turned
out to be one of the most suffering
moments in our savior’s life how he
suffered I don’t think you see the
disciples doubted him Mary Martha
doubted him the Weeping friends of
Lazarus doubted him and I don’t think
Mary Knew How Deeply she hurt Jesus when
she accused him of being disinterested
or preoccupied Master if you had been
here if in other words if you just taken
the effort the time it’s too late the
damage and done where were
you I don’t think she knew how that hurt
him I don’t think she knew how in his
human form he suffered when the one he
loved the most would not trust him and
accuse him being disinterested in their
needs and their
problems I don’t think Martha knew how
she hurt the master made him suffer when
she questioned his resurrection power
Jesus had plainly told her thy brother
shall rise
again she shrugs her
shoulders and she said oh yes on the
Resurrection Day he’s going to rise but
what about now he’s
dead how painful it must have been for
Jesus how he must have suffered when he
had to try to persuade his dearest
friends that he was God In the Flesh
that he had all power that he was
interested in them that he’ not
forgotten them he he said he’s saying in
essence don’t you still know who I am
you’re hurting me I’m the resurrection
don’t you understand I’m the life
believe in me believe in me believe in
me I have the power I have the
life I wonder if Jesus wasn’t saying to
himself now look the Pharisees won’t
believe I came to my own people they
wouldn’t believe the sinner doesn’t
believe the Publican doesn’t believe the
priest doesn’t believe and if those who
I love the most don’t believe who will
ever
believe there no one
left oh the pain this matter of
ignoring his power this is what causes
you want to enter into the sufferings of
Jesus
Christ it’s when and his dearest friends
will not trust his power and if we his
dearest friends will not trust him who
will tell me who’s going to trust God if
we
won’t we’re the ones he loves we’re the
ones who love
him we call him friend we call him Lord
but we don’t live our lives as though he
had the power needed to keep us in
Victory and
joy oh in recent weeks every time I’m in
the bathroom come with my hair every
time I take a bath every time I sit down
to study I’ve had it coming at me night
and day every day of the week now for
two or 3 weeks David is he
Lord is he really Lord David am I
Lord then why are you worried if he is
Lord why do we have such pain when we
think of sickness or
death why does it frighten
us why do we allow ourselves to live so
empty and
dry when our God has a strong arm that
can Crush all might and
power you know what I believe read
satisfies the Heart of Jesus more than
anything else and I believe this is the
glory of God you talk about seeing the
glory of God I the glory of God is not
something mystical it’s not something
you can’t see you can see the glory of
God you know what the glory of God is
you know what brings more satisfaction
to his heart when a child of his fully
completely trusts him
that’s the glory of God that brings
satisfaction to his heart more than
anything else there is one there is one
who fully completely trust me my power
my wisdom it’s that child who can say I
know God you have all power I believe
you can heal and save by whatever means
you choose but I also believe you have
all wisdom and I’m going to treat
completely trust you even when I don’t
understand how you’re working
all the church is full of people who
believe in his power that’s all they
know and that’s all they want to
know they all you get in a meeting where
the Miracles are flowing and the
blessings are flowing you’ll find all
kinds of Faith pumped up and oh oh I
believe in God’s power and everybody
goes out glorifying God’s
power but let
God exert his
wisdom and take a loved one home to
glory and those same power
Brokers start
pouting they go into a tail spin of fear
and unbelief and they end up accusing
God of being unfair or unconcerned
because all they knew was his power and
nothing about his
wisdom I don’t think there’s anybody
Believes In Miracles more than I do I
believe in healing I believe God can
heal cancer I believe there’s any
disease God is in the healing business
he’s doing it all the time but I believe
my
God has authority over all the universe
all nature all the kingdoms of Darkness
but I don’t trust God at all if I can’t
believe that he’ll do what is right even
through good times bad times in sickness
and in health in life or
death you don’t believe God at all until
you can believe him in any and all
circumstances you take something you may
not have understood yet but I’m
beginning to understand it I enter in to
Christ sufferings when I grieve over
Christians who believe God gets Glory
only out of miracles signs and
wonders when I look at
people who have boed God into nothing
but miracles signs and wonders and
that’s the only way they SE God the only
way they believe him I grieve over that
that’s when I enter into the sufferings
of Jesus Christ because he Grieves over
that
when Jesus said this sickness is for the
glory of God it was not just the
resurrection from the
dead and there are a lot of Christians
cringe at the thought that God can get
Glory out of his
sickness I’m going to go a step further
than that and I can tell you that God
even gets Glory out of the death of his
Saints death is a curse but death in
Christ is the ultimate
healing death in Christ is the Al he and
I had a woman and her husband come to me
once and they were praying for a little
child they prayed oh God heal him
completely heal him completely and the
boy
died and they got they went in tail SP
and said don’t you understand he
answered your prayer completely you you
prayed down on that boy the ultimate
healing God healed him completely he’s
got a glorified body ain’t that better
than the one you were praying for ain’t
that better who who would trade a
glorified body for even a healthy body
may be the most healthiest Christian in
America wouldn’t would you trade that
most health healthy body for a glorified
body would
you well we hold on to everything don’t
we we put Health above glorified
bodies you know what I pray every day of
my life Lord let my living and my dying
bring glory to your
name it’s not doubt to rest in God’s
wisdom to overrule our prayers and our
faith that’s no
doubt job said though he slay me yet
I’ll trust him if God and I mean this if
God doesn’t answer another single prayer
in my life I’m still going to trust him
I’m still going to believe
him you know what Mary and Martha should
have done he shouldn’t have even had to
prove his resurrection power to have
their faith should he weren’t they his
friends shouldn’t Mary and Martha said
Jesus we know you’re able to raise him
but if not you must have some
Supernatural reason backed by your holy
wisdom so are we going to accept your
will wow that’s that’s contrary to
everything we’re hearing today I’ll tell
you something I know a dying family in
Ohio that’s bringing more glory to God
than all the healthy Christians in that
state I just got the
clippings 3 days ago was sent to my wife
they’re called the singing
seist they’re in Wadsworth
Ohio the father
the grandfather had a rare form of
intestinal stomach cancer it’s been
passed down through all the children
they have three daughters two of the
daughters died as teenagers the last one
that died a year ago the third daughter
has a large tumor in her stomach and
she’s dying and the father has a huge
tumor his stomach protrudes a huge tumor
in his
stomach but I’m going to tell you
something folks they’ve been in the
headlines all over the state a whole
stack of clipping were sent to me even
the news reporters were amazed you know
what it
says faith in the face of
death faith in the face of death I
talked to them on the phone last
night they couldn’t believe that i’ just
pick up the phone and call them you know
what they said we’ve been praying for
your suffering and your
wife they said brother Dave when Lori
died last year people came to her room
from everywhere she spread such Joy she
had such a hunger to go and be with the
Lord and sing in his
choir and I talked to them last night
and they said oh we’ve not suffered the
Lord has revealed himself you know
people all over Ohio you know what
they’re saying about the secrets they’re
saying that’s the kind of faith I want
that’s the kind of God I want to serve
one who can give you peace and rest in
the face of death
itself a God who keeps you from coming
apart in a
crisis
let me tell you something folks that’s
the kind of faith I
want God does have to have a miracle to
prove his
glory he gets Glory out of any situation
he even causes the wrath of men to
praise him the sweetest Grace that God
has is reserved for those who go through
the valley in the shadow of
death and we know that I have never in
my life talked to someone sweeter who
knew his grace more than brother and
sister seist
to hear him talk he said Brother David
what it does you hold on to everything
in this world like that you don’t get
attached to anything and you live every
day wanting to go
home yet he’s still making
records for the glory of
Jesus blessed are they who have not seen
yet believe blessed those who’ve not
seen what a miracle an answer to prayer
bless those not seen and yet
believe thirdly Christ suffered when he
gave up that which on Earth was most
precious to him when he gave up on Earth
that which was most precious to him you
want to enter into his sufferings then
listen closely this is one of the most
important now the Bible says that Jesus
loved Lazarus he loved Mary he loved
Martha could it be that he did love his
mother dearly how could he love Lazarus
and Mary and Marth and not love his
mother did he love his disciples more
than his mother no I can’t believe that
in his Earthly form the Bible said he
was the son of Mary he was the son of
Mary he’s the son of God but in the
flesh he’s the son of
Mary now one line tells us something
about God’s loving attitude toward this
blessed woman he was the fruit of her
womb she cuddled Jesus as a baby she
taught him she was just like every other
loving caring mother who has a close
relationship sh with a child our last
boy Greg has just left home to go to
Detroit to work on the streets and he
had such a beautiful close relationship
to his mother it was a painful thing for
her to see him
leave she grieved when the neighbors and
Friends spoke against her son how many
times Mary must have wept herself to
sleep when she heard the slander and the
lies and the
accusations about her own son how many
times did she go in a crowd and hear
them say
something you know when my wife spoke
here today I was down on the first floor
I got in the elevator and the meeting
had broke up and a whole group of ladies
came on they were talking about how they
were moved by Mrs Wilkerson they didn’t
know I was on the elevator right there
they didn’t recognize me and I got off
on the seventh floor and I I said I’m so
glad you said things nice about that
lady then they realized who I
was but can you imagine
Mary people not knowing who it was she
was and they hear she’d hear all these
accusation he’s a fraud he’s a phony
he’s a liar he’s the son of the devil
how it must have grieved her can you
imagine Mary’s pain at the foot of the
cross that’s not only the Son of God
that’s her
son now if Jesus is tempted at all
points as we are then certainly he
suffered
deeply when he had to give up this
Earthly relationship to his
mother boy what a touching human scene I
was reading this the other day and I
really cried my heart I begin to feel
the pain of Jesus now there stood by the
cross of Jesus his mother Mary and his
mother’s sister and Mary
Magdalene when Jesus therefore saw his
mother evidently Joseph is dead now when
Jesus therefore saw his mother and the
disciple standing by her that’s John
whom he loved he saith unto his mother
woman Behold thy son he’s pointing to
John behold your son and to John the
scriptures then say he to the
disciple John Behold thy mother and from
that hour that disciple took her into
his own home that’s how we know Joseph
is
dead even if this last hour he’s
thinking of his
mother and Jesus wanted to leave her in
the loving care of someone he trusted
and loved that very day John took Mary
into his home to be a provider and
protector and you know it’s easy to skip
over these seven little words woman
Behold thy son Behold thy mother it’s
easy to skip over that miss the
significance of his
suffering Jesus at this moment was
giving her
up he’s now going to become not just the
son of Mary he’s going to become her
Lord and her savior he’s going back to
his father with great joy in in the
Divine being of God there’s nothing but
rejoice and expect he’s returning to his
heavenly father but he’s also tasted in
his human body the love of a mother he’s
tasted this now I I can’t really relate
to the pain of those Nails in his hands
I can’t relate to the Thorns I can’t
relate to this the the the nails in his
feet and I can’t relate to the spirit in
his side because that’s that’s all
Theory I can’t relate to that you have
to go through it to relate to it but I
can relate to the pain of somebody
giving up something that’s dearest to
him on Earth I can relate to that I can
feel that
pain my wife and I just had a little
sample that last
week my son Gary and Kelly moved into
Detroit to start an interracial Church
Debbie and Bonnie Debbie and Roger my
daughter son-in-law they moved up this
summer to help him Bonnie and Roger
mother daughter and her husband leaving
for Boston to work in the ghetto and
then our last son who just graduated a
few weeks ago two days after gets in a
car and heads up for Detroit and he’s
working on the streets that first day at
home you have to be a father you have to
be a mother to understand that the pain
of giving up what is most dear to you on
Earth just giving it up I begin to
understand
something about his pain that
moment you and I don’t understand how
close he was to his mother he couldn’t
have he couldn’t have been my
representative savior if he hadn’t loved
his mother as much more than I love
mine and there going to come a day that
I’m going to lay my mother down just
like laid my dad my dad was 54 years old
when he died I Lov that man oh I loved
him I’d call him every Sunday night
wherever I was in the world I’d call him
up just to share with my
dad and to be in a meeting one night and
have somebody come in the back door and
bring a telegram and lay it down from my
mother said David dad has just been
glorified and I had to go through my
message but I remember for a month every
Sunday night I’d pick up the phone and
call and one night after God I said Mom
I want to talk to
Dad she said David you know he’s
gone took me years and even now I miss
him I really miss him but I’ve known
that and someday you’re going to know
what it’s like to give up a loved one
and lay it down then you going to
understand the fellowship of your
suffering what it is to give up that
which you love most dearly for the
perfect will of God for the perfect will
of God and that’s what the cross Works
in us the cross works of willingness to
give up up everything that would hinder
us from doing the perfect will of
God you’re more important to me than my
family you’re more important me to the
than my Ministry and everything that you
would be Supreme that I’m willing to
give up everything even my Ministry and
that’s exactly what’s happened to
brother Snider a friend of mine I I use
him in my office now answering mail
counseling and because of a brain tumor
he’s had to give up what he wanted most
on Earth and that’s a pastoral Ministry
but in that giving it up he’s growing
Leaps and Bounds and ways he could have
never grown if this hadn’t come into his
life my wife and I are seeing our
children in a new relationship we have
discovered a new kind of comfort that we
didn’t need until they left we didn’t
need it until they were gone but now
that they’re gone the holy spirit is
doing something in US between us he’s
compensating he’s doing something
special and we’re seeing our children in
a new light because when you give it up
you get it back in a new form that’s far
more glorious you get it back in a more
glorious glorious way and then when I
get to thinking bad about that I think
of dear brother Raven Hill and his
children one down in Australia and one
down in paruay get to see him once every
seven
years
mhm I’m so glad that Jesus suffered in
such a personal intimate
way you see the way of the Cross is the
surrender when he calls for it of
everything that’s dear in our lives
everything I would imagine there’s
probably 15 or 20 other aspects of the
sufferings of Jesus Christ these
spiritual sufferings and I’ve only seen
a little Glimpse but I know from this
day
on if I know
anything on this Earth at
all I’m not giving
up until he fully reveals to
me the power and the glory Glory of his
sufferings until I taste them and when
you taste of his sufferings your
sufferings vanish in light of that
glory and I used to be I used to stand I
stood in front of congregation so broken
over the needs of the people I would I
would go back behind stage and just cry
and weep at all the divorce and the
broken homes and the suffering and the
pain and everything
else now that humanly that’s fine that’s
human
compassion but I should have been
standing there saying people you don’t
know what suffering is we don’t know
what suffering is come on let’s get our
eyes off of this inward let’s turn that
light that’s shining inward where we
always examining ourselves let’s just
turn it around and shine it into his
face and see some of his suffering and
enter into that and ours will ours will
pale in the sight of his suffering I
want that I want that friends I want
that all that your ministry would be one
that enters into the suffering of the
Lord Jesus Christ that you would feel
what he feels and you would do what he
does and enter into that I don’t think
it’s mytical I don’t think it’s
unreachable I’ve tasted it it’s so good
I want all of
it God Is So taking my eyes off of my
own suffering now and he’s changing my
Outlook on my Ministry because now I’ve
laid all the sufferings of the people
package them all up and put them on his
back
and when you see them through his
suffering they look
different no more sermons on how to
cope oh that I might know him in the
power of his
resurrection you’ve known him in the
power of his resurrection or you
wouldn’t be here you’ve tasted that
resurrection power you’re born again
you’re filled with Spirit Life The Same
Spirit that raised Christ from the dead
has quickened your mortal body you’re
alive in Christ now the suffering comes
after the
resurrection and in doing that you
become conformable to his
death really I don’t know if this means
as much to you as it does to
me and I I’ve just touched the
highlights because I don’t have all the
answers when Jesus
comes I don’t want my eyes on the
cash I want him on the
cross I I feel all over the country
there’s a growing hunger to get to
really know him and to do his perfect
will and not to touch anything that is
unlike him anything that could be
questionable would come under his wrath
or his flaming
eyes oh I see his flaming eyes searching
everything I do and and and you say
isn’t that living under tension oh no
because when you lay something obedience
is its own reward the glory that comes
through obedience this is my last last
meeting except the summer I’m going out
well I’m I’m here tomorrow night that’s
right but uh my last preach engagement I
think I have three nights in September
and I’m not booking anything I have no
more meetings anytime in my future and
I’m not going to preach again I’m not
going to any Crusades or anything until
I can stand in the pulpit and have a
clear clear
revelation of who he is of his suffering
of his glory and his message to the
Church of these last days and he’s
trying to get through to us he’s trying
to say get away from all the
business they began to seek my face put
away everything that’s what he said L
put get rid of it get rid of everything
trust
me and reach out to my
heart this has been the most
happy this is the most glorious year of
my life
because I’ve had
time I wake up every
day so Lord I’ve I’ve got
time I’ve got time and the Lord can’t
speak to us till we give him
time I see all these people rushing
around and busy and building and buying
and
selling I said oh God thank you for
delivering me from that thank god oh I’m
not I’m not ahead of anybody not a bit
but I’m
hungrier I’m
hungrier it’s like a snowball you get
hungry he feeds you and it gains
momentum and you get hungrier and the
hungrier you get the happier you get cuz
he’s feeding you and he’s and you know
something the big I never thought I’d
come this the greatest thing I used to
get excited every time I’d go to a town
or see this is years ago we were
building and starting teen chall centers
all over the world and every time I see
a mans po that make a great Center let’s
buy it and that farm let’s buy I’m
buying everything in
sight buying buy it buying buying buying
building building building
building and now the greatest excitement
I get is when the Lord reveals something
to
me should that be should that be the
most important thing in our lives that
God reveals himself and opens his word
to us shouldn’t we be going around
saying heyy it it shouldn’t be hey how
many did you have how many did you have
it should be Hey listen to what God said
to me let me share something we should
all be so excited running around so
excited with our Bibles in our hand I
was praying last night God spoke to
me I told a man recently you can have
all the buildings you can have all the
prime freeway estate you can have all
the Prime Property on the freeway you
can have all the cathedrals you can have
all that you want give me the Revelation
because the Revelation is where the
power is and where the glory
is I didn’t come here to make you
shout come here to be honest with you
and share my
heart i”s say you could ignore it if I
hadn’t been touching
God but I think he’s saying something to
us tonight to all of
us I can’t tell you how much I love you
you know I do I’m one of
you