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About David Wilkerson David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade. In 1987, David Wilkerson returned to “the crossroads of the world” to establish Times Square Church. As a pastor of the church, he faithfully led this congregation, delivering powerful biblical messages that encourage righteous living and complete reliance on God. David Wilkerson had a strong burden to encourage and strengthen pastors throughout the world. From 1999 to 2008, he traveled around the globe holding conferences for Christian ministers. Posted with written permission of Time Square Church Copyright © 2016 Times Square Church, 1657 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019, USA. T: (212) 541-6300 F: (212) 541-6415 About Ahava Jerusalem The website and the Social Media Channels are a Christian host for devotionals, sermons, and videos with a focus on Jesus Christ and His Word so that the Church may be built up. MISSION: that Christ is formed in you (Gal 4:19) and that you may be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Ro 12:2) so that you may grow to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. (Eph 4:13) Like 👍 & Subscribe – @Ahava Jerusalem today to stay updated. #fyp #forgiveness #salvation #light #heaven #time #Youtube #Google #Internet #home #family #parents #children #sermon #JesusChrist #God #Father #HolySpirit #Faith #Hope #Love #God #Jesus #Christian #Future #people #ahavajerusalem #Truth #Bible #Peace #HolySpirit #World #Word #Love #Grace #joy #future #grace #amazing #best #live #life #bestsermons #home #family #parents #children #sermon #JesusChrist #God #Faith #Hope #Love #sermon #God #Jesus #Christian #Future #people #ahavajerusalem #Truth #Bible #Peace #Kingdom #HolySpirit #JesusChrist #God #Holy Spirit #Bible #Word #Love #Grace
I have a word for you Heavenly
Father we need your love tonight we need
your touch not a guilt trip for anybody
not anything but your mercy and your
grace Lord I desperately need your touch
tonight I feel that there are so many
like me that are hurting tonight perhaps
going through one of the greatest trials
in their life and yet I dare to preach
in that hurt tonight because of the
Sheltering of the blood of Jesus Christ
and the power of your Holy Spirit Lord
there are people that have come tonight
in that H that be they bear that hurt
tonight father minister to me Minister
through me minister to all of us tonight
in Jesus name I pray amen a message
tonight the Lord is thy keeper The Lord
Is Thy
keeper there’s a thrilling story in the
Old Testament that I’ve always
enjoyed and it best illustrates my
message tonight about what it means to
be kept by the power of God it’s found
in 2 Kings the 6th chapter Ben hay dad
the king of Syria had declared war on
Israel if you remember and he came
against Israel and camped with a mighty
Army don’t turn to your Bibles because
I’m going to be throwing scripture at
you and you won’t begin to keep up just
take it take my word it’s in the
Bible the Lord is thy keeper then haad
this king of Syria comes against Israel
camps with a great Army and he calls a
war counsel and he plans his strategy
and everywhere he turns he’s thwarted
because the Prophet Elijah is sending a
messenger to the king of Israel saying
don’t go there because Ben haad in his
army is waiting for you he’d sent
another messenger don’t go there he’s
waiting for you and Ben haad became
Furious and he called a counsel he said
I to all of his servants show me who my
traitor
is tell me who’s revealing our plans to
the king of Israel and the servant said
it’s not what you think my Lord O King
there is no traitor in thy camp or in
the court we’re all true men but this
man of God Elijah tell the king of
Israel the words that you speak in your
bed
chamber he was Furious and he sends his
most prized group chariots and an army
of men and INF infantry men to Dothan
and he says get the man and bring him
back to me and in the middle of the
night they surround Dothan and the
servant of Elisha goes out in the
morning and he looks in the face of a
ferocious Army standing there chariots
and Horsemen and infantrymen all against
one little prophet of God Elisha who’d
been ratting on the
king in Terror the servant runs back Al
ask my master what should we do we’re
surrounded and with a gentle Wink in his
eye and a smile on his face the prophet
bows his head and said fear not
son for they that be with us are more
than they that be with them and Elisha
prayed and said Lord open his eyes that
he may see and the Lord Open the Eyes of
the young man and he saw and behold the
mountain was full of horses and Chariots
of Fire rounded about Elisha no wonder
he was so
contented he knew the Lord was his
keeper he could say I will not be afraid
for 10 thousands of people that have set
themselves against me round the though a
host en Camp around against me my heart
shall not fear though War should rise
against me in this I’ll be confident he
keeps me he hath delivered my soul in
peace from the battle that was against
me for there were many with me now
that’s my prayer tonight and that’s what
I hope this message accomplishes that
the Lord would open our eyes that we
could see the mountains around this
field with the horses and Chariots of
divine fire and the Lord of hosts being
with us
hallelujah you know the Old Testament
Saints knew the Lord in a way I don’t
think we New Testament Saints know
anything about they knew him as the Lord
of host I found 200 references in the
Old Testament to this phrase the Lord of
hosts it was said of David David waxed
greater and greater for the Lord of
hosts was with him the Lord of hosts the
scripture said is with us the god of
Jacob is our refuge oh Lord God of hosts
who is strong a strong tower like unto
thee or to Thy Faithfulness round about
thee you find these Majestic words all
through the Old Testament Lord God of
hosts hear our prayers Lord God of host
host he is the one who is with us Lord
God of hosts he is the king of glory
Lord God of host liveth and will save us
200 times Lord of hosts Lord of hosts
now I’ve read it and read it and read it
and didn’t have the slightest idea what
it
meant host in Hebrew is
sabawa and it’s a very very expressive
word which means an army ready and
poised for battle
soldiers horses and chariots ready to go
to war at any appointed time an army
assembled and mustered in full array
waiting for instructions to
attack can you picture this prophet of
God knowing the Lord of
SE and I don’t think we know Lord seawa
in our generation today we don’t know
anything about him and I want to share
this with you you because I don’t think
you can catch a glimpse of the glory of
what it means to be kept by the power of
God until you understand what the Hebrew
and Greek meanings of these precious
words are and I want to share it with
you the best I know how see to Elisha
the Lord of hosts had become the Lord of
SE the Lord who comes to his assistance
with an army poised for battle an army
of multiplied thousands of soldiers and
horses and chariots assembled and just
waiting for instructions to protect him
and to attack the
enemy King
Hezekiah at another time in place when
the Assyrians came knew the Lord
SE the syrians had surrounded Israel and
sudden his eyes were open to this great
Lord of hosts this Lord of armies in
other
words and Hezekiah gathered Israel and
all of his soldiers and he said be
strong and courageous and do do not be
afraid nor dismayed for the king of
Assyria nor for the multitude that’s
with him for there be more with us than
with him with him is the arm of the
Flesh and with us is the Lord Our God to
help us and fight our battles and the
people rested on those
words oh that we could get those words
and rest on them the Lord
Sawa the Lord of hosts the Lord of an
army David said the Chariots of God are
20s 20,000 and that’s multiples of
20,000
20,000 upon 20,000 upon
20,000 that’s the original meaning 20s
of
thousands the chars of God are 20s of
thousands and even thousands of angels
and the Lord is among
them the psalmist said the Lord is thy
keeper and then Peter brings it out even
clearer he said we are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last
time now I see this as a prophetic word
and I believe this is prophetic that in
the last day before Jesus comes he’s
going to reveal to his people who are
hurting what it means to be protected by
the Lord of hosts and when you listen to
the news about the Middle East and you
look around you and see how many people
are hurting
if you and I do not get a revelation of
who our God is his might and his power
and rest on that you and I can’t make it
if you can’t run with a Horseman what
are you going to do when the flood
comes Christ prayed to the father oh I
love the 17th chapter of John I think
it’s one of the greatest chapters in all
the Scripture it reveals the Heart of
Jesus and the loving heart of
God he said while I was with them he
praying to the Father and Jesus said
while I was with them Father I kept them
in the world I kept them in thy name
those that thou Hast given to me I have
kept and none of them is lost now you
and I have the idea I think that the
disciples was superhuman saints that
were kept by the strength of their own
will and just by their close proximity
to Jesus and the power of His word that
they were kept and they didn’t make
mistakes and they didn’t hurt like you
and I hurt and these 12 men were such
great men of God no they were not kept
by their own power Peter had in him a
heart that would deny after three years
after three years with him Peter stands
in the court and says I don’t know him
and he wasn’t lying he didn’t know him
he’d spent all that time with Christ and
never did know his heart he wasn’t lying
Peter never did know the Lord these men
were frail these men hurt these men had
you know because when Christ was taken
they all forsook him and fled the
scripture said they all left him no
Jesus kept him he said I kept
them they didn’t keep themselves father
well I was with them I kept
them and then looking down through
history thinking of us Jesus prayed the
these beautiful words and how they
blessed my
heart I pray not that thou should us
take them out of the world he’s talking
about you and
me I pray not that you take them out of
the world but that thou should us keep
them from the evil that thou should us
keep them from the evil I want to show
you tonight the best I know how what it
means to be kept by the power of God
through
faith kept in English means to retain
possession of to take into one’s charge
to provide all the Necessities for life
to raise and to feed to protect and
guard to preserve to hold in
control but the Greek word used here in
First Peter the fifth verse first
chapter and fifth verse this word kept
is one the most expressive Greek words
in the New Testament it’s
perero and I started studying this word
and I couldn’t believe it at first so I
kept digging into it it got better the
deeper I
got and it’s so blessed me it’s changed
my life and it’s been such an
encouragement to
meet What the Lord Has permitted me to
go through
recently you know what the word kept
means in the original Greek used here we
are kept by the power of God through
faith it means to establish a military
Outpost and to guard that
Outpost protect it with a Garrison of
soldiers to establish this Fortress with
a full military line and a full military
apparatus and to set up a senent to con
seeed the enemy in all directions and to
call forth the Army when it’s needed
it’s all in that one Greek word kep for
narrow you understand that when the
scripture says he is our Mighty Fortress
it’s not just that he is the Fortress
when you have faith in him he
establishes in you a military Outpost
against the
devil we become an armed
camp
you don’t believe that do
you we actually become a strong military
Outpost with armies of soldiers and
horses and chariots ready for combat and
a sentinel you know the Bible says we’re
not ignorant of his devices why because
we have a sentinel we’re
C to never did take time to find out the
devices of the devil that the my
Captain’s
job by the
way since when did the shepherd send the
Sheep to fight the
Lion a lot of you sheep running out you
you tell the you telling the shepherd
let me at
him I get
him no you’re just a sheep you run
between the shepherd’s leg he’s got the
staff in his
hands I don’t worry much about the devil
because he can’t find me my life is hid
with Christ and God
now if you’re a carnal Christian you
watch that but if you’re sheltered by
the blood of Jesus Christ under the
blood I going tell you something when
the blood sheltered the children of
Israel the Lord said when I see the
blood I will not I’ll pass over you and
God wouldn’t pass the bloodline he’s
sure not going to let the devil pass
it Jesus prayed keep them from the
evil and there’s another beautiful Greek
word
forero and it means deliverance from the
effect or influence of anything that’s
bad or evil Grievious harmful lwd
malicious or Wicked and then finally the
word also means deliverance from the
Devil Himself and everything he
represents that’s
corrupt now let’s put it all together
and see if you can build some faith on
this we are you know the Bible it it
looks like we were just kept by the
power of God through faith that’s rather
just a simple little phrase isn’t it
it’s oh if we could only see the depth
of it we are God’s military Outpost
protected by a full and equipped
spiritual Army including innumerable
soldiers and horses and fiery chariots
in full battle array completely informed
of every plan and device of the devil
and completely defended in all
directions against Satan and all the
evil powers of the
universe now say amen amen
now you don’t know what the Bible said
greater is he that’s in us than he
that’s in the world what is there in you
an
army the Lord is my rock my Fortress my
deliverer my high tower you’re a shelter
for me and a strong tower from the enemy
we do not keep ourselves from Evil we
don’t do battle with the devil ourselves
else the Lord of hosts must do the
keeping it is he that has made us and
not we ourselves we are his people and
he is good he delighteth in his
children I don’t let preachers put guilt
trips on me anymore I used to hear
Evan’s Thunder against the Judgment seat
that I was going to stand there and
somehow Works were going to burn and I
would crawl down on my knees and cry
never again will anyone put me under
conviction about the Judgment seat we’re
all going to appear before the Judgment
seat but what does the Bible say he said
he’s going to present us faultless
Before the Throne of his glory with
exceeding Joy Hallelujah exceeding
[Applause]
Joy you mean to tell me we serve him all
our lifetime he brings joy and glory to
our heart we live a lifetime expecting
him to run into his presence and and
just be afraid no the Judgment seats
where he puts his arms around me we’re
all going to have Works burned you know
what they are all all legal Works in
trying to please God and add something
to the blood of Jesus Christ that’s
what’s going to burn everybody going to
have works that burn the Lord’s not
going to let us go into Paradise
thinking we had anything to do with it
and all our good works he going to say
here see what you tried to do to add
something to the blood you couldn’t do
it I’m going to burn it in front of your
eyes so when you come into Paradise with
me you had nothing to do it was my blood
period none of us going to Eternity
thinking we had anything to do with
it glory to
God he sent from above and he took me
and he drew me out of many Waters he
delivered me from my strong enemy for
they were too strong for
me you go ahead out and try to fight the
devil in your own strength make God all
the promises you want and God will let
you have the biggest despair you ever
had in your life and so instead of
having a dozen or 50 little despairs
have one grand Despair and get it all
over with and start trusting
God now unto him that is able to keep
you from
falling under
him unto him who is able to keep you
from falling and present you faultless
before the Throne of his glory with
exceeding
Joy now we’re kept from the enemy
without and from the Enemy Within
the enemy without his suffering caused
by manifold Temptations I want to deal
with that first because that’s the easy
part but I want to show you something
tonight the lord gave me this last night
wherein ye greatly
Rejoice would everybody repeat those two
words greatly
Rejoice again greatly Rejoice about what
let me read it to you though now for a
season if need be ye are in heaviness to
manifold temptations that the trial of
your faith being much more precious and
of gold that perisheth though it be
Tried by fire might be found under
praise and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ now the two key words are
heaviness and fiery trial heaviness in
Greek is Lupo which means Greek s and
trouble but the reference here in Greek
to fari is sudden lightning that’s the
Greek word fiery trial is a lightning
trial sudden coming without
expectation wherein you greatly Rejoice
though now for season if need be you
were in grief and sorrow because of what
has come upon you that the trial of your
faith be more precious than the gold
that perish though it be Tried by a
sudden gold of lightning that causes
pain
that’s what it
says if you can’t comprehend it get your
strong concordance and see it’s all
there
lightning are you here tonight in a
season of grief because somehow you
failed
God you gave into a
Temptation and you know that you griev
the Lord and it’s a manifold Temptation
I don’t understand that in the original
Greek that this word tempt ation
actually has to do with sensuality it
has to do with the Flesh and I don’t
understand how you can greatly rejoice
when you’re being tested and tried in
the
flesh I don’t understand that at all you
know I I I have all young people say uh
you know preacher You Preach is not a
sin to fall into temptation man I passed
that point long ago I gave
in I want to show you something here
tonight you see there’s some of hear
also that they Sorrowing because of this
sudden
lightning
trial but if you don’t see it as a test
of faith you’re missing something but
it’s a test of faith that you come out
to face what is coming in the future
with a spiritual backbone because if you
think this is trial you’ve seen nothing
to what is about to happen to this
world if I told you what I think I’m
know in the spirit prophetically about
the next few
years you would say God test my faith
and bringing out
gold can you rejoice in spite of it just
like the scripture says here can you
rejoice and can you rise above it by
faith and glorify the Lord through it
and is this whole thing going to end in
praise and honor and glory to his name
that’s what the scripture
says now those who believe that
overcoming Christians don’t suffer don’t
know their Bible and they don’t know
God one of my favorite writers is T
Austin Sparks he’s been dead for about
30 years great English writer great man
of God and he made a statement once that
shook me at first but then I realized
that’s what was happening in my life he
said God will allow a crisis to be
created in your life so that you you
can’t get by with information anymore
but you have to have
Revelation you can’t just have sermons
preached at you anymore you’ve got to
know him and God will let that crisis
come back and roll it in and roll it in
until death comes to the flesh until
there’s nothing left but Jesus there’s
nothing left but him and the cross we
don’t have the preaching of the cross
from our pulpits anymore we’re preaching
everything but the cross of Jesus
Christ you ask him to bring back to that
place Jesus Christ was
sinless yet the scripture said he
suffered and he suffered as an example
now I tell you in love I’ve had people
walk out on me three months ago I had a
whole contingent of people walk out
because I was talking about Christian
suffering
indignantly P out and I felt so sorry
for them because when it comes and rolls
in on them they’re not going to be
prepared
for even here unto ye are called now why
don’t we see that here’s what we called
to because Christ also suffered for us
leaving us an example that we should
follow his
steps that’s not David Wilkerson version
of the
Bible it’s King
James here’s what you’re called to
because even as Christ suffered for us
he’s left us an example that we should
also follow his steps who did know sin
neither was any deceit found in his
mouth he had no sin there was no deceit
in him yet he
suffered there are many preachers who do
not preach this message you hear
preachers and evangelist today standing
in the Pulpit saying here’s what you are
called to saints of God here’s what
you’re to follow in the way of example
of Jesus Christ through
suffering and it’s not used the result
all the
sin so I’ve suffered most when i’ been
closest to
him it’s not the enemy without that is
the battle it’s the Enemy Within that
causes most distress David said in my
distress I cried I could stop right
there and preach the sermon I wonder how
many if you could stand up and preach a
five minute sermon right now in my
distress I
cried in my distress I
cried did you see what David was crying
about here’s a holy Godly holy man a man
after God’s Own Heart he looks inside of
himself and he cries out to be delivered
from
himself deliver my soul oh Lord from
lying lips and from a deceitful tongue
and if out of the the if the mouth
speaks from the heart out of the
abundance of the the heart the mouth
speaks then David is saying deliver me
from my deceitful heart he looks inside
and he sees deceit he has a heart that
burns for God but in his flesh he sees
his weakness and he cries out oh God
deliver me deliver me and then he looks
inside and he says what shall be done
unto thee Earth what do you deserve oh
deceitful heart what is God going to
have to do to you David thou false
tongue sharp arrows of the mighty and
coals of
Jupiter wo is me David cried he sees the
sinfulness in his heart and in those
days Arrow were synonymous with judgment
and the calls of Jupiter represented the
wrath of God and he said I’m supposed to
be a child of God but he said I see
something in me that frightens me I look
at my flesh and I’m
afraid and he says I deserve from what I
see in me I Des deserve nothing but
these arrows of God being shot at me he
started looking around to see where the
first Arrow would hit him it’s what you
and I do don’t we when we sin where is
God going to strike us down is it going
to be a child that gets sick is it going
to be my husband my wife am I going to
get cancer we look for the arrows and
the coals of
Jupiter and I don’t believe you can
understand Grace until you understand
the deceitfulness of your heart you’ve
got to understand that if you had if you
got from God if you and I got what we
truly deserve it would be nothing but
the sharp erors and the calls of Jupiter
you and I deserve the wrath of God
because of what we
are you tell me you’re not under law or
going to the New Testament there are 250
laws in the New Testament you can’t keep
one of
them if you love your neighbor as
yourself have you loved God with all
your heart and mind soul and strength
then you broke the law and if you break
the law you’re deserving of
hell you’re good for the PS of Jupiter
and the arrows of God and we all tremble
with the thought of it and if you looked
at it long enough and that that if that
where you stopped you’d have a nervous
breakdown you could never understand who
God was you could never understand
Grace you cannot understand or
comprehend the loving father you can’t
comprehend Grace until first as Paul
said you see the exceeding sinfulness of
sin and this is what God was doing with
David showing him his heart showing him
him the lying tongue in him showing him
the
deceitfulness and you tell me anything
more painful for a a man of God or a
woman of God than to preach or to sing
or to witness and to say I’m a man or
woman of God and then go home and cry
out what you see in your
heart you tell me that isn’t the most
painful thing for a
Christian Galatians mentions 17 sins of
the flesh not one of them having
anything to do with demon activity it
includes adulterate Witchcraft and it
doesn’t even mention a demon so I do
believe that caral Christians can be
harassed by
demons but I’m going to tell you
something you’re not going to cast those
17 sins out by having somebody pray with
you you’re going to deal with that
through the power of the Holy Spirit
there’s flesh
involved there flesh
involved wow is
me finally he comes down oh God is your
mercy and Grace Gone
Forever and all he wanted is to feel the
mercy and grace of God and finally he
came to the end of himself he came to a
place of resignation up to this time his
eyes had been cast down he’d been
introspective and looking into his own
hearts and I’ll tell you the only time
he got the victory the only way you and
I can get the victory is to do what
David did these eyes that were looking
inward these eyes that were looking at
the
flesh began to look up outside of
himself and he said then I will lift up
mine eyes Under The Hills now what does
he see in the Hills what did I tell
was in the
Hills the Lord of
host saal is there with his
army no wonder he’s looking there only
he should been looking there a long time
ago if you get your eyes off your pain
and yourself and your hurt and start
seeing who he is I will lift up my eyes
unto the hills from when cometh my help
I’m looking to the hills from when
cometh my Army is what he’s saying
My Help Cometh From The Lord he will not
allow my foot to
slip he that keepeth me will not Slumber
behold he that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep the Lord is my
keeper you can’t keep
yourself oh God open our eyes that by
faith alone from the Hills come our
Salvation to him alone who can keep us
from
falling the Lord shall preserve thee
from all evil he shall preserve my soul
the Lord shall preserve thee from all
what you listening to me from all evil
and here you have been fighting that
evil thing all by
yourself he will keep me from all evil a
better translation is he will hedge me
about with thorns to keep the enemy
out David’s faith in God’s forgiveness
all David suddenly just felt the
glory of God’s keeping power and David
finally said this isn’t my battle
anymore this is not my battle I
resign I’m not going out there with my T
sword
anymore it’s really if you really look
at it David talked about having just a a
a toothpick in his
hand and he put away his
toothpick and that’s about some of you
are you going out pricking the devil you
little toothpick that’s about all you’re
doing when you’ve got an Army in a hill
surrounding you if you just lift up your
eyes and by faith appropriate
it now I want to show you something I
found something here that if you’ll
catch this now can be one of the
greatest words of encouragement you’ve
ever heard because it has been for me
never seen it before was laying in bed
the other night and oh just flooded in
on me David in the next verse said the
Lord shall preserve my going out and my
coming in from this time and forever
more now you get anything out of that
the Lord is going to preserve my going
out and my my goings out and my comings
in now going out here synonymous with
failure and giving in to Temptation and
sorrow now the prodal son had a going
out and didn’t the father keep him in
love while he had a going out and he
also had a coming in and he was
preserved in too we’re always going
out we’re going out of his love we’re
going out of his Holiness we’re going
out of his presence we’re going out into
our own will but he says I’m going to
keep you even in your going
out
you say oh brother Dave I’m already out
I I I’ve gone out he didn’t keep me oh
yes he did you look back at that time
that you gave in and you
indulged you did that thing that you
hated and you didn’t seem to have the
power and dominion over sin and you
indulged and you said the Lord didn’t
protect me take a look go back and see
how miserable you were because the Holy
Ghost wouldn’t let you enjoy it because
he was protecting and preserving you and
you felt his love and felt his presence
and he you felt his arms around you and
the kiss on your neck and he brought you
back don’t tell me he didn’t preserve
you oh there are host and hosts of
Christians All Over America and around
the world that have gone out on the Lord
da David thought he’d gone so far he he
said and that’s what he said I I’ve gone
so far Lord that I’m lost I’m a lost
sheep seek me find me I’ve gone so far
out I’m
lost I’ve always believed that the most
important move you ever make is the move
you make right after you go out and
fail it’s when the Devil comes in and
says you’re dirty you’re filthy you’re
no good and you lie and cheat because
his desire is to hide you from the love
and the grace and mercy of the Lord and
his forgiving love he wants you just to
stay down and say I can’t get back and
like David I’ve gone so far I’m lost and
you just sit there hurt
you come to the house of God like you
are tonight and you say all deep in my
heart I love him I still feel his
presence but i’ I’ve just slipped and I
I because I don’t have power over sin I
can’t go on because I don’t want to be a
hypocrite I don’t want live a lie I
don’t want to be a phony and yet sitting
here you know you sense is love you
sense that he still is reaching to you
and above and beyond it all if you just
come back
you know when the prodal son came back
his father was waiting without a
question not a question didn’t blame him
for spending his substance and wasting
his life he’d been there yearning after
this child that had had a going
out and he preserved that love for that
boy just like God has preserved his love
for you no matter what you’ve done and
that prodical son is drawn by that love
I don’t think it’s just because he came
to the end of himself I think it’s
because he felt the drawing power of his
father’s love and the moment his father
sees him he runs out after him throws
his arm around him and falls on him and
kisses him on the neck no questions
asked perfect undeserved
Grace and he says take the rags off his
back put the robe on him put shoes on
him put a ring on his finger and he
takes him to the door of the house
because you see the father doesn’t want
to just kiss you wants to take you into
the banqueting table and feast with you
you can interpret the whole Bible that
way that you and I have a tendency to be
the prodal to go away from his mercy and
Grace and God’s desire is to bring us in
a Heavenly Place seated with Christ
Jesus At A Feast of good things and the
lord always has a problem how he’s going
to get us into the house and not just in
the house but at the table feeding on
the
lamb see you and I are so used to
looking at the blood I was telling our
Brethren about this uh a little while
ago you picture two Israelites in Egypt
the night of the Passover and the
blood’s been applied to the door and the
Lord says I’m going to keep the night
when I see the blood I’ll pass over you
and here’s a house they sprinkled the
blood on the doorpost of the lle and
this particular house dad is so nervous
and mother is nervous and they look at
the first born and the father takes him
in his hands and says family please pray
we may have failed God and all night
long they live in doubt and fear and
misery they may have hurt God and
grieved
him and the next door they’re sitting
there in peace and joy happy sheltered
by the blood and the firstborn looks at
the father and says are we safe am I
going to die tonight father they said oh
no son you’re safe the blood’s on the
door but not only the blood we’ve got
the father’s
word which of those two houses was
safest that
night which one where they were doubting
and Afraid or where there was faith and
joy which house was
safest they were both safe because they
were both under the blood see it didn’t
matter what in fact they were P they
were packing Idols in their satchels
that Night 40 Days Later they’re going
to be dancing around an idol a a golden
Cal in fact Isaiah said when God found
you you were har you were prostitutes
but God had a favor to you that’s
Grace they were there were nothing in
those people that deserved
Deliverance that’s why some of us
need uh just as much keeping power when
we’re coming
in he’ll preserve your going out and
you’re coming in Hallelujah it was in
one of my going outs recently
that last
week I I don’t like to talk about my
personal battles but how you know how in
the world can I relate what I’m talking
about unless I get into it a
bit I’ve just come through probably the
worst two months in my life
unbelievable I’m on the fifth month of a
year sabatical to seek God
if you’d have told me what it would cost
me I would have never done it I’d have
preferred to go on just take the plotts
of men and take the offerings and preach
the crowds and go
on most
painful unbelievable experiences two
months ago everybody in my family got
sick I have a beloved Son 25 years old
who Pastors in all black church in the
ghettos of
Detroit had to bring him home his white
count was dangerously low very
sick his little child my grandson Ashley
just a baby started bleeding in the
ball the two daughters got sick another
grandson desperately
sick and then on top of all uh in an
effort to cut back our ministry offered
a house for
sale and a man comes in said he was a
multi-millionaire accepted the price
gave us a check for $50,000
down and said I was a former CIA agent
and I was in Narcotics Division and my
family’s in danger I’d like to move into
the house immediately to Safe House them
he used all the terms the CIA agent
would use so I let him move in he
immediately bought $90,000 of the
furniture
and some friends of ours who are teer
decorators he wrote without checks for
it all well the $50,000 check to me
bounced the $90,000
bounced these were friends of ours and
they were in
panic found out the man was one of the
biggest clown artists in America was
dangerous and for a whole week I had to
hide my family in the motel our men had
to carry
guns and we had to go in with trucks and
take that furniture back to the mark to
save the credit of those young ladies
I watched as people came in ready to
kill that man he’d taken homes from
people he was trying to he was trying to
cheat our
ministry and God protected us from that
because we are his little turtle does
and a turtle dove is helpless we just
have to depend on his keeping
power as soon as that was settled my
wife was rushed to the hospital she’s
had six operations for cancer and now
they diagnosed her as having
lupus excruciating
pain and she got out I think day before
yesterday and I was at a hotel right
near the hospital a few nights
ago laying there just looking out the
window like so many people who live you
you live in a state of being stunned
you’re just stunned you love the Lord
but you’re
stunned you’re
overwhelmed
and you have no
answers and I’m I’m sitting there and I
take my Bible in my hand and would you
know it falls to Jeremiah and all I can
see is this man coming with robes
dripped in Blood and wrath against sin
and judgment and then I turned to Isaiah
and fin I threw my Bible down on the on
the bed and said Lord I’m sorry no wrath
tonight no judgment I’m
hurting I can’t take it I don’t
understand I love you I don’t have any
doubts that the Holy Spirit touched me
and I laid back and I said I’m just
going to let here I’m going to sit here
lay here for an hour I’m just going to
let you love me and he loved me and
loved me I started crying and enjoying
his love for an hour he just loved all
the hurt out of
me all the hurt was gone you see the the
the Lord is not standing he’s not
wanting to hurt you he’s not trying to
judge you we serve a loving father who
Delights in his children who understands
what we’re going through but so many
time we won’t stop and let him love
us
hallelujah now I I want to give you a
word of caution here
please for all who suffer and I’m glad
the Lord showed this to me because I
needed it I don’t know if some of you
going to understand this or not I’m
going to give you a
scripture and show you something I don’t
think you’ve seen that it’s vital it
says of Christ when he was reviled he
reviled not again and when he suffered
he threatened
not now what a tremendous statement when
he suffered he threatened not when to
talk to you about threatening
God as a result of suffering and if
you’re suffering in any way you’ve got
to hear me now before I conclude this
message you see not once did he defend
himself when people were talking about
him he never mistreated anybody he never
punished anybody he never ret retaliated
but how unlike us today we threaten when
we suffer and when the suffering gets
unbearable we really threaten we try to
defend ourselves we’re constantly
protecting our rights and our reputation
we withdraw from those who hurt us and
mistreat us and we hope secretly the
Lord will get even with them on our
behalf now we won’t pray it but we sure
hope
it but worst of all and here it is it’s
a very subtle thing that happens and I
don’t know if you’ve ever seen it and
we’re really not aware of it at times
but I want to make you aware of it
because I’ve been doing it and the Lord
made me aware of what I’ve been doing
and I’ll never do it again God helping
me when our prayers seem to go
unanswered and the Deliverance doesn’t
seem to come when we need it I I’ve
known people say but da I’ve prayed for
5 years when all I want is some evidence
that God is answering prayer just
anything I I’d like to see some evidence
and when the Deliverance doesn’t seem to
come or when you you say Lord keep me
holy and pure and in spite of all that
you fall into
temptation and trouble and disaster and
it seems like the Lord’s led us down and
we become very lonely and very empty and
there’s a sadness in us then we start
pulling back on
God we slack up on our prayer and our
Bible reading or we still love the Lord
with all of our hearts but we let go of
this
Zeal and it’s a subtle way of saying
Lord I did my best but you let me down
and when you stop seeking god with
intensity when you suffer that’s
threatening God when he suffered he
threatened not and I know Christians who
have prayed about something in their
life they’ve had a besetting sin and
they’ve prayed and prayed for
deliverance and didn’t come and finally
they went and indulged it as if to say
well I have every right to do it because
I prayed and God didn’t take it away
it’s a threat it’s a threat I’ve got a
right to do this because God let me
down are you catching
that I’m not here to scream and yell at
you put a guilt trip on you or wave my
hands and try to be active and a
powerful preacher
tonight I want to get some word into you
that’ll give you
strength some truth that will help you
in a troubling hour
he suffered not he when he suffered he
threatened not and I know there are
times that when I’ve suffered I’ve been
so overwhelmed and so stunned I would
pull back on God and then the Lord
showed me something you see it’s one
thing when you’re suffering and you’re
in this boat that’s storm tossed and
suddenly Christ appears see it’s one
thing to be in a boat that’s tossed in a
storm and it looks terrible but you’re
laying there
you’re going through life and suddenly
you feel his presence and then you begin
to relax and and and sit back now it’s
one thing to just rest in him but you
have to be careful that it’s not just
passiveness and
fatalism where you say well he’s there
and you just sit back because that can
lead to terrible doubt and fear but it’s
another thing in the storm to make a
move toward him and get out of the boat
and say I’m in a stor storm and I’m
going to use this storm to get to know
him in a new way Peter wasn’t showing
off his faith when he got out of the
boat he wasn’t trying to belittle those
other disciples but he had something in
his heart that was reaching out to his
master he wanted to touch him and see
him in a new way he wasn’t satisfied to
say well the Lord is near thank God the
Lord’s near let’s all just rest and oh
how God’s been showing this to me David
when you’re down when you’re hurting and
I I saw this this past week use this as
an opportunity to get out of that boat
and walk on the water take a step of
Faith go toward him make a move toward
him right now love him like you’ve never
loved him reach out to him and even
though Peter got his eyes on the Storm
the truth is he did walk on the water he
was above his problem for a while and
the the faith that kept him above the
water for six steps could have kept him
all the
way
you know when stepen was being stoned he
looked up and he saw an open heaven and
he saw him who sat on the throne and
from that moment on he was above it all
nothing could hurt him the stones
couldn’t hurt him he was already seated
his with Christ in Heavenly places he
was already
gone because he had an open
heaven
I don’t want anything anymore in my life
but him I want him to feel everything
and I want I want to know him as my
keeper the Lord is my keeper I gave up
the struggle a long time
ago when I found out how much he loved
me in spite of who I am and what I am
and what I’ve done I I feel sorry for
people every time a preacher says he’s
going through a problem or has had sin
in his life everybody thinks of adultery
that’s not my problem in case you want
to know
we’re all just mud
balls that’s
all well a feet of
clay well I guess I’m
finished but there’s some of you have
threatened the
Lord and you you’ve lost the sense of
his love for you
I I can tell you that though this had
been the worst two months of my life in
the Physical Realm it’s been the most
glorious two months in the spiritual
realm because I’ve had a vision of Grace
a glimpse of his Mercy that endures
forever and I don’t find him spanking me
anymore I don’t I don’t feel his wrath
anymore I feel his love I feel him
kissing me you know the prodical is this
something the prodical the Lord’s
already the father’s kissed him put a
robe on his back shoes on his feet he
says come in the house and this poor
stupid kid and I’m not being phous but
that poor little
child doesn’t understand his father’s
love at all cuz he’s he’s sitting there
said I’m not worthy to go in there you
know what are he saying I need three
more months of
discipleship uh I I guess I don’t feel
grief for my sin like I think I should I
need a little more time to prove to your
father that I’m still not in the pig pin
and I got this all out of my heart no no
no no no he said come on
in you know you can walk right in and
God’s will for you is to come to the
table tonight be seated at the lamp and
partake and be
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full I’m full
tonight because I feel his tender lips
on my
neck and I’ve got his robe on my
back and I’m sitting at a table he said
we’re seated in Heavenly places in
Christ Jesus and I believe I’m
everything he said I
am you know some of you people make
better Jews than
Christians because you’re living under
such
legalism I’ll come on in the
house got not mad at anybody here
tonight have you failed him all right
you see how there no preacher has to
tell you how bad you
feel
H I don’t want to make you cry I want to
make you rejoice but you know as well as
I you can feel it right now there’re
people here that are
hurting and you’re hurting because
somewhere you got it in your
mind that you’ve grieved the Lord so bad
you don’t have a right to his
love and I think that hurts him more
than it hurts
you I had my daughter-in-law and with
this I close beautiful little
Kelly sit in the chair and she sat on
the floor put her hand on my knee she
said daddy do you know how much I love
you you’re so tender you’re so nice I
said yeah Kelly there’s one way you can
love
me accept my love for
you let me love you and then I’ll know
you love me
and we always say oh how I love Jesus
but that we won’t let him love
us I’ve been letting him love me all
through my
preaching God doesn’t want you go
through life focused on your sins but on
him and his mercy and his grace is there
anybody that needs some mercy and love
and grace tonight you say brother Dave I
felt so empty I felt so unloved let me
here and let me help love you is
everybody I felt so cold I just need his
love tonight I want him to love some out
of
me oh can’t you feel his
love come on college kids dad
mom bring it to him lay it down here
right now he just wants to love you
you’ve got to accept
it Lord your love is so
incredible that you could look down in
an audience tonight and see us in all of
our foolishness and our hurt and say I
Delight in you you’re my
child
Hallelujah are you hurt in your home
your marriage are you hurt in your home
in your marriage let me minister to you
for just a moment I’d like to just take
you by the hand and ask God to let you
have a moment of the hurt just draining
out of you so you can leave here
tonight knowing
the Lord
shabaa