David Wilkerson – THE PROTEST OF AN UPRIGHT MAN

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the protest of an upright man let’s pray

heavenly father I thank you for the

Living Word I thank you for the truth

that sets men free Lord I pray for the

anointing of the holy spirit this

morning that my mind be quickened by the

power of the spirit of the Living God

and I pray Lord that the word of the

Lord grip our hearts dig deep into US oh

God and help us to understand the ways

of the Lord oh Holy Spirit we’re wholly

dependent upon you we acknowledge you in

this house there is no church without

the Manifest presence of Jesus we thank

you for manifesting your presence but

now Lord we make room for the word of

the lord we love your word we honor it

now help us to live by it we pray in

jesus’ name

amen I received a letter this week from

a man who probably would boast that he’s

a very upright white man and he said

Dear Mr

Wilkerson what’s happened to you you

used to preach so powerfully against

sin you were a real Hellfire

preacher but you’ve gone soft on sin

lately your message on Jubilee provided

people with a license to sin you were

offering Comfort to compromisers instead

of conviction brother Dave get back to

preaching Holiness I don’t

sin no one has to sin there’s no sin in

me and he went on with a lot of

bitterness about the hardness lately of

my preaching well in the first place the

man’s proud and bitter attitude to sin

and secondly the Bible said if we say we

have not sinned we make him a liar and

his word is not in us for God said all

have sinned and come short of the glory

of

God but there’s one thing I fear

probably more than anything else in

preaching and that is that I never

condemn the righteous and I never

Comfort the wicked in fact I tremble at

this verse he that justify the wicked

and he that condemneth the just both are

an Abomination to the

Lord now a true man of God if he’s going

to preach the gospel has to show the

people their iniquities he has to name

sin as it as it is he has to point it

out he has to show people the difference

between the holy and the profane and by

God’s grace I believe he’s helped me to

do that over the years since I’ve been

preaching but I’m a fraud I’m a total

fraud if I don’t bring forth to the

congregation the wonderful mercies and

grace of our Lord Jesus Christ I would

be a

fraud in Luke 15th at Luke the 15th

chapter if you’ll turn there please and

leave your Bible open on your lap well I

go in and out of this chapter with with

you and talk about the protest of an

upright

man you see here’s another protest by a

man who boasted that he was

upright now we’re going to talk about

the prodical son now prodical simply

means wasteful and Reckless here’s a

reckless young man now folks in the

story of the prodical son the father of

this story is our father it’s God

himself and if that be true then these

two sons represent two kinds of

Christians two different camps of those

who follow Christ in two different

manners now the first misuses the grace

of God and the second misunderstands the

grace of God equally are sinful to

misuse and despise the grace of God and

not to understand and appreciate it and

deny it to others is equally a

sin the younger son comes to his father

and he asked for his inheritance the

earnest of his inheritance now what he

got from his father did not Minish the

wealth of his father he got just a

portion of his wealth in fact both sons

had a portion divided unto them now this

story has no meaning whatsoever to the

Church of Jesus Christ in us we

understand that the riches these young

men receive are the rich of the glory of

God in Christ Jesus his grace his Mercy

his compassion otherwise this story has

no meaning it’s just the story of a

runaway kid and perhaps a little bit

story of how the father uh offers such

free Grace but if it’s to apply to me

and apply to the Church of Jesus Christ

we’ve got to understand it when this

young man or these young men say the

young man goes and younger son says give

me what is coming to me I want my

blessings this represents a kind of

Christian that we see in the church

today who is always claiming his rights

I want everything Lord that you have for

me he he he glories in a message of

mercy and Grace and he endows himself he

fills his mind with every scripture

there is about the grace of God he loves

to hear the story of the shepherd who

goes out and finds the lost sheep and

the lost coin because it relates so well

to him and gives him such comfort and he

builds his for a lack of better term his

stash of Grace he he gathers together

all that he can get Lord I want

everything you have coming to me now

that’s good that’s that’s fine we we are

to uh receive the message of Grace this

young man has gone to the heavenly

father he’s the type of a Christian says

Lord I want everything you have for me a

lot of these people want heaven now now

they want every

material physical blessing that they

believe they have a right to and this is

what happens this young man I believe is

a type of a Christian who really intends

this young man really never intended to

run away at first in fact it was quite a

while before he left he stayed a while

at his father’s house no doubt wanting

to invest it and work hand inand with

his father be intimate with him and uh

and uh have his father be very very

proud of his

achievements but you see he really

didn’t want a longstanding relationship

with the father he didn’t want

intimacy there was something in him of

worldliness and pleasure and it it began

to attract him and he gathers up all his

blessings and he heads off to a far

country now this may shock you but I

really

believe this younger son represents a

whole Camp of people in the Church of

Jesus Christ I call the bless me

Club all they are wanting are the

blessings of their heavenly father but

they don’t want the intimacy and the

price of intimacy they really don’t want

to walk with God they don’t really want

to hear anything about sacrifice and the

cost of going all the way with the Lord

God you know you find this same kind of

of follower in Deuteronomy 32 God had

blessed Israel mightily with increase in

the fields he made them suck honey out

of the rock oil out of a flinty stone he

blessed them with butter and milk and

sheep and flocks of cattle wheat and

houses and lands and Vineyards but jarin

or Israel grew fat and kicked then he

forsook God which made him and lightly

esteemed the rock of his salvation

getting all the blessings and then

taking

off this boy not many days later took

his portion took his journey into a far

country and wasted his substance with

Riot as

living there’s a New Testament scripture

that defines what this boy did in terms

that we understand these are clouds Jude

said without water blown about by the

wind turning the grace of God into

lasciviousness getting all the messages

of Grace all the scriptures of Grace all

the teachings of

Grace and saying I I I am secure now I

know I’m saved I know I have a merciful

loving father I know that he’s going to

find me he’s the shepherd who goes for

the lost if I got lost he’s coming after

me and and they they they have this

conceptual thing of an easy

Grace the prodical

son sits in this church this morning he

may be right next to you the prodical

daughter now please don’t look to the

right or the left or behind you could be

the seat in which you’re

[Applause]

sitting could be in a choir

this is the son of the

daughter who according to Ephesians 1 11

has received an

inheritance and like the prodical son

they give the father thanks for making

them partakers of the inheritance of the

Saints of light thank you Lord for this

inheritance of grace and mercy and all

these blessings you’ve given to me

they’ve received what the Bible calls

the earnest of their inheritance they’ve

been blessed with all Heavenly blessings

in high

places they’ve been supplied abundantly

with the truth of grace and

mercy and what

happens in this church as you sit here

week after week and you you have given

to you message after message of the

mercy of God you glory in it isn’t it

wonderful the lord loves me isn’t it

wonderful he so freely forgives us when

we fall and when we fail we have

preached that with power we preached

that with tears we preach Mercy we

preach Grace we preach his loving

kindness we preach

justification mortification

sanctification we preached all these

doctrines and they all Center on the

grace of God through Jesus

Christ but what happens after having

heaped up this inheritance

this son gets his

Blessing he stays a while and then he

heads off to satisfy some lust in his

heart a Wonder lust a lust a spirit of

worldliness I’m convinced that there are

many Christians who cannot handle the

message of grace and the blessings of

Grace they can’t handle it it burns a

hole in their

flesh this man young man had this wealth

and it’s burning a hole in his pocket

and he heads out to the world and there

are some people Paul makes it clear that

cannot they do despite to the grace of

God they cannot handle it it it it

appears to them to be a license to

sin that’s so why he said should we sin

that Grace May abound he said oh God

forbid that this message that burn a

hole in your

flesh and that you should go out and do

despite to this Mercy and Grace

message they head off now as this

prodical Sunday some forbidden

place it could be somebody sitting here

this morning you go out and begin to

waste your grace on rius living your

lust can carry you to the bed of a

fornicator can carry you deeper into

homosexuality lesbianism can take you

back somewhere to a pusher and you stick

a needle in your vein again and you

store Coke it can be gambling it can be

almost anything and then after you have

visited the bed of the prostitute or the

fornicator you go back to your room to

your a little stash of

Grace and say oh there’s plenty of it

I’ve got enough I can handle it and this

young man leaves he says I can handle it

I don’t intend to go out in the world I

don’t intend to do anything and if I do

fall I have all I’ve got this stash

behind

me I’ve got an alls sufficient Grace

and so this young man goes to the bed of

the Harlot he goes out in parties and he

goes back and he keeps spending and

spending his

grace I know you haven’t heard it

preached like this before in the

prodical son but this how God showed it

to

me look at that Son of God running

around with an ungodly crowd doing

wicked things running from

God following desperate into deeper and

deeper sin

until everything is gone is

depleted there are Christians today that

are perverting and squandering the grace

of God Titus 21:12 for the grace that

bringeth salvation has appeared to all

men teaching us that denying ungodliness

and worldly lust we should live soberly

righteously and godly in this present

world that is what God intends the

message of Grace to produce

Holiness godliness righteousness a holy

fear of the

Lord that’s what Grace God intended to

produce in our

lives but you see the moment we try to

cover up

sin by appealing to

Grace we do despite to that message let

me say it again the moment we try to

cover up sin by appealing to the grace

of

God in other words yeah I know I’ve

sinned and rather than to be heartfelt

repentance rather than giving it up

rather than asking the Holy Ghost to

give you the power to

overcome and trusting the Holy Spirit to

do the work in you it’s I I know that I

failed and I’m not quite ready to give

it up but I know that if Jesus comes

tonight I I I’m ready because I’m truly

saved and I have the grace of God in my

life and thank God I don’t care how far

down I get he’s going to find me because

I heard the preacher say that that he

never gives up he won’t give up on me

and so having this this uh little stash

of Grace having this message of Grace

they go out and do despite rather than

to use it to turn to Godliness and

Holiness and righteousness that go out

into the world and we have people in

this Church sitting here now that come

week after week doing despite to the

grace of God because you’ve heard it and

you’ve taken Comfort when I preached

when brother Carter preached it you have

taken such comfort from it you’ve been

able to convince yourself that you can

go out and live like the world live like

the devil and still have Grace cover you

without repentance without turning from

your

sin I’m telling you that’s

impossible I’m telling you that’s not

scripture

I’m telling you you’re on Dangerous

Ground keep in mind his father still had

all that he needed his father was not

depleted of of all his wealth I I don’t

care how a man waste his grace I don’t

care how he squanders Grace it does not

deplete God’s grace it’s not that God

doesn’t have all the grace that we need

no matter how down we get in sin but

there has to be a time when you come to

your senses as this young man did

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because the time is going to come when

you’re going to wind

up alone and in a spiritual

famine where the spirit of God is no

longer moving on you you have no

spiritual life you don’t hear a word

that’s being preached because there’s a

hardness setting in now because of your

sin and this is exactly what happens the

young prodical winds up in a

pigy

starving and I’ve seen that spiritual

starvation I’ve seen people who once had

such marvelous testimony of

grace and mercy and now they’re just

skeletons spiritual skeletons they have

no spiritual life left in them

whatsoever verses 17 and 18 chapter

uh let’s see what chapter did I give you

Luke

15 yes okay I want you to go to uh

verses 17 and 18 with me

please let’s start verse 14 and when he

had spent all there arose a mighty

famine in the land and he began to be in

want boy that’s the man who has

squandered his supply of Grace now that

that’s a perverted supply of Grace that

is not the true grace of God it’s it’s

what he’s turned the grace of God into

lasciviousness and he went and joined

himself to a citizen of that country and

he sent him into the fields to feed

swine and he would Fain have filled his

belly with the husk that the swine did

eat and no man gave unto him and when he

came to himself he said how many hired

Servants of my fathers have bread enough

in Despair and I perish with Hunger I’ll

rise and go to my father and I will say

Him Father I’ve sinned against heaven

and before thee now look at me

please I have used the statement that

repentance is simply turning around and

going the other direction but I I must

apologize that’s only half the

truth it’s not only a matter of of

repenting to God turning around and

going back to him but it’s going back

with this confession God I’ve made a

mess of my life I can’t handle it this

young man thought he could handle it he

thought that he could take a measure of

this world and he could take the grace

of God and mix it and it won’t work you

have to you have to come to the Lord

when you have sinned and you can’t get

victory over your sin and you wind up in

a pig sty somewhere you have got to come

to the Holy Ghost you’ve got to come to

the cross of Jesus Christ you’ve got to

say oh Lord I have messed up I am not in

control I can’t handle my life I can’t

govern anything because I have ended up

in a

mess and has that’s what repentance is

it’s turning around from the world and

going back to the heavenly father and

saying lord I can’t govern my life

anymore I submit to your government I

will be your servant that means I will

be under your governorship you will

govern my life you will tell me what to

do and how to do it I’m tired of making

a mess of my life repentance is just

that I give up trying to run my life I

can’t do it and not a person in here

that has the skill and the wisdom to run

your life you run it into the ditch all

the

time oh hallel that’s what’s walk that’s

what walking in the spirit is simply

giving over control of your life and the

government to the Holy Spirit

Hallelujah when he says I can’t handle

it I’m no match for my

lust that’s

when God begins to do a very very

special work of

restoration verse 20 to

24 verse 19 no worth I’m no more worthy

to be called the son make me as one of

the hired servants other words put me

under your government and he arose and

came to his father but when he was yet

great way off his father saw him and had

compassion ran and fell on his neck and

kissed him the son said unto him father

I’ve sinned against heaven and in thy

sight I’m no more worthy to be called

thy son but the father said to his

servant bring forth the best robe and

put it on him and put a ring on his hand

and shoes on his feet and bring hither

the fatted calf and kill it let us eat

and be marry for my son was dead and is

alive again he was lost and his found

and they began to be

merry

Hallelujah when he was yet AAR off his

father falls upon him kisses his neck

and he kills the fatted calf of course

you know as that picture of them in the

uh Father’s House fully restored not as

a servant but as a son now under the

governorship of his father willing to

submit now he’s interested in intimacy

he’s interested he he has lost all

interest in the world and the things of

this world and he’s ready now to sett at

the father’s feet and to do as he’s

commanded and they have a party I mean

it’s a merry wonderful time feasting

around the lamb now you know who the

lamb is don’t you that we eat of and

partake of that’s Christ that’s Jesus

Christ that’s a wonderful scene total

restor ation wonderful scene it’s a

feast but there’s an upright man looking

in the window who’s protesting the whole

Affair he’s looking in the window and

he’s angry and he’s growing angrier by

the moment because he’s upright for many

years he’s never transgressed any

commandment he’s served his father with

absolute diligence he’s upright

according to the

law he’s scripti justly clean and he

looks in that window

now what this young what the Elder son

saw when he looked in the window was one

of the greatest expressions of God’s

Grace ever shown

mankind absolute glorious picture of

Grace that a man can repent no matter

how low he gets and simply give up the

government of his own life and come to

the heavenly father and the heavenly

father doesn’t ask a question he doesn’t

elure him he embra him puts a new robe

on his back brings him into the feast

that’s reconciliation that’s the heart

of God that’s right this elder brother

didn’t know the heart of God served him

with sweat served him with all kinds of

human effort and didn’t even know the

father didn’t know his heart and he

looks in the window and he

protests he’s

angry he says he’s saying in this I have

no part of this cheap Grace

easy

Grace this

man lives like the devil he squanders

everything he’s about shame on the

family Wicked vile Sinner and he walks

home like a

hero I don’t see his

tears maybe he’ll fall next week and go

back

again have you ever heard it in the

church I just heard it in a letter I

read to you

brother wilers said you’re preaching

cheap

Grace you’re telling Sinners they just

they just repent and suddenly everything

is okay God wipes out the past and

they’re in a favor and blessing of God

and suddenly at the feast yes yes that’s

exactly what the Bible

says because there has been true

repentance and humility and Brokenness

now see the younger son misused Grace

but this man misunderstands

Grace he didn’t know the heart of the

father he could not accept unconditional

love from the father simply because he

was born his

son he was trying to prove or uh or earn

the love and favor of his father he’s

saying father I don’t what he’s saying I

don’t feel love I don’t feel like

feasting I don’t feel very happy I’m

under a burden because I have worked so

hard to please you and you have never

shown me this kind of

love the

legalist has a very difficult time in

putting away the

flesh My Flesh Rebels every

time I have to put it aside because I

want to perform for God I want I want to

be able to sit back and say I earn this

I work for this

pieace I I have really prayed and fasted

and done everything to eat the Victory

and I have worked and worked until I

finally made

it and then I have to push that whole

thing aside because it’s aen in God’s

nostrils because I’m trying to earn

favor and I’m trying to come into His

presence and be accepted on my own

merits and my own works and it doesn’t

that is absolutely what God call

filthy

rags your flesh will

protest it will cry out with everything

everything in its Spirit it will cry out

against this matter of whole dependence

on the Lord of trusting in his mercy and

Grace and coming in simple childlike

repentance and then believing the Lord

to wipe the Slate

clean then trusting him to give you the

power and the wisdom and the authority

to live an overcoming holy life through

the power of the Holy

Ghost now I picture the younger son

seeing his Elder son looking at the

window frowning at him and in my own

thinking I I believe I know the heart of

that young man because it’s the heart of

repentance true rep repentance would say

brother I don’t know why you’re Fring

cuz greedy you should be in my place you

don’t know how much I admire you for

your discipline and your faithfulness to

the father you never went out and Sinn

like I

did you have the better testimony

because you’ve been faithful and here’s

the Young Brother looking in said I wish

I could have fellowship with you I know

I don’t deserve

this you know there there there I’m sure

this young man had to endure years of

pain with with this elder brother

protesting his deliverance and his

restoration saying you didn’t pay the

price that I

paid I don’t want anything to do with

your easy gra I don’t want anything to

do with that message I’m going the way

of Holiness I’m going the way of

separation and folks some of the meanest

people in the world and I know some of

the most judgmental

bitter hard people are those who say I

want nothing to do with that kind of

message the acceptance of a people to

come right out of sin out of drugs and

alcohol and suddenly be transformed into

the favor of

God where are there years of

sacrifice I had a a pastor once from

Russia who spent a number of years in

jail came to the United States

and in fact he visited his church

once and he frowned all through the

service and after the service I asked

him said pastor what’s wrong he said I

don’t understand how your people have a

right to clap and be happy they’ve not

been to prison they haven’t paid the

price said the only way to come to that

kind of Victory is through

suffering human

suffering that is not

scripture you come through the unmar

grace of God

the sacrifice of Jesus on the

[Applause]

cross God

forbid that anybody that’s fallen into

sin into adultery and fornication or

homosexuality whatever it is from this

church and they fall into sin and you

know about it you hear about it then you

see them come and repent God forbid that

you should back away and say no no no I

don’t want anything to do with that’s

too cheap it was too quick give him a

year or two give him give her three

years let Let’s test her make sure she’s

going to make

it no no no no that’s the protest of the

Elder the protest of the upright man but

that uprightness folks is human

uprightness and a very Sten in the

nostrils of God

let me tell you the point of this whole

story Grace is freely bestowed on those

who have died to

selfworth and

self-effort even the father testifies I

Rejoice for this my son was dead now

he’s alive he was lost and now he’s

found he was dead to his own efforts

dead to trying to ever peas his father

in his own he knows now he can never do

it he knows that he has to depend wholly

on the love and the grace of his

father but you see the Elder never had a

sense of his lostness no until you until

you understand how lost you

are how hopeless it is to try to bridge

the gap there’s a gap there’s a gulf

between us and God and you can’t Bridge

it in your works you can’t Bridge it in

promises you can’t Bridge it by any kind

of self-effort

oh yes you’ll work for God you’ll you’ll

strive in the

spirit

yes there is sacrifice involved but it’s

only after you’ve been secured and know

your acceptance in the in the love of

the father through nothing but the Merit

of the blood of Jesus Christ nothing

else no other plea the cross alone

Bridge the

golf you can get to God only through

Jesus Christ and his sacrifice you can’t

jump that golf you can’t get over

it but this elder brother never had a

sense of his lostness listen to him I

I’ve been faithful I’ve served you I’ve

done this I’ve done that there’s no

sense of being lost in fact he said I I

I thank God I’m like anybody else he’s a

Pharisee oh folks you can come to church

and stick up your nose and look at some

drug addicts and others around you and

those that come from deep and saying

well bless God I never had to do I never

been in that I never touched anything

iniquity well your Pride’s worse than

than than than the worst

drug take heat when you think you stand

L you

fall God make this church a church that

doesn’t judge that that we preach and

believe

reconciliation we preach and believe

reconciliation

Hallelujah I’m not going to preach

anymore I I want us to stand

uh many of you that are visiting here

may be on my mailing list and receive

these

messages close to 800,000 people receed

those now and and Gwen’s here and I

verify that she spends days all day

reading letters up till late last night

we were reading letters that come from

all over the world and

if if if

I had to line up my preaching to what I

hear I wouldn’t know what to preach

because half of the people over here say

you’re too soft and over here others say

you’re too

hard and there’s such a confusion about

the grace and mercy of

God my next message is

entitled what’s going to happen to the

church when preachers quit preaching

against sin

I’m going to show you what’s going to

happen and what is

happening but I want you to know with

everything in my

heart you you cannot know Jesus in his

fullness you cannot come into the glory

of intimacy with

him until you’re fully

convinced that he loves

you and that once you repent of your

sins with everything in your heart and

you go to him and turn over your life to

him to be governed by the holy spirit

it’s that

simple he rushes in with all the grace

and mercy that you will ever

need but you’ve also go you must know

you must know if you are going to know

anything that you can’t take that

wonderful message out and go and abuse

it and sin and then come back and say

everything’s all right it’s

not

because it

displeases him it’s a despite to his

love and his mercy and his

grace but the holy spirit’s here this

morning and if if you have if you’ve

been squandering your grace if you’ve

done despite to the grace of God you say

brother

wson I testify that I’m Sav sa D and

testified but you see there are so many

doctrines going around now that that are

excusing sin really excusing sin I

didn’t excuse him this morning but I

told you there’s a way

out and I know God wants to do something

special in many hearts some of you that

walked in here today for the first time

God’s dealing with you because

something’s been happen you’ve been

drifting you’re not where you once were

and I’m speaking prophetically now I’m

speaking under the anointing of the Holy

Spirit mightily hearing from his heart

and some of you walked into this church

you were warmed by what you felt you

were drawn little closer to the Lord but

you’re really not where you should be

something in this world has your heart I

don’t know if if if it’s uh television

uh and some of the filth that you might

be watching I don’t know if it’s just

materialism I don’t know what it is

that’s getting your heart and joy but

you are not in all honesty where you

were with the

Lord and and you are not not seeking his

faith you’re not praying you’re not

reading your word you’re not into his

word you are not really living in that

intimacy oh you’re still an upright

person but you don’t have that wonderful

drawing wooing Spirit of the holy ghost

drawing in the secret closet you are not

showing that grace of God but little by

little there’s a deterioration in your

spirit and your walk with the Lord and

that’s what this message is all about

and I want you as the spirit of God

moves now I want you to get out of your

seat and make an honest confession

nobody will put a mic under your face

and say something stupid or foolish to

you you come because the spirit of God

draws you this is life and death in this

church we’re not here to entertain

anybody this is the word of the Living

God and if your heart has grown a little

cold and you’ve been drifting you say

brother Dave I’m not where I should be

with the Lord at all up in the balcony

go to the stairs on either side and come

down any aisle downstairs the L rotunda

on television you come up the stairs and

come down the aisle if you’re under here

wherever you see a video

Wall come

on Backstage wherever you are come right

now and make a confession before the

Lord Lord I I’ve come I I want to put my

life under your government I want to be

under control of the Holy Ghost I can’t

handle it myself get out of your seat

and come humble yourself before the Lord

now if you will please

hallelujah thank you Jesus and if you’re

willing to admit oh God I don’t want to

squand your Grace I don’t want to misuse

Your

Grace follow these that are coming if

you’re not saved if you don’t know the

Lord come with these that are coming

right now amen a number of responded but

I still have the tugging of the holy

ghost in my heart that and and and uh

it’s not just for this church but I feel

strongly it has to do with those who are

visiting here this morning you had a

Divine appointment the Holy Spirit

brought you here today specifically to

awaken your heart to bring you back to

your first love so that you walk out of

here saying oh God thank you thank you

for putting a knife in my

conscience and I tell you why it’s it to

me I honest will be for some of you it’s

life and death I don’t believe in

begging people it has to be the work of

the Holy Spirit we’re going to sing it

one more time because I still feel it up

in the balcony and all over this house

the conviction of of the Holy Ghost

saying today come on back repent make it

right come back to your first

love and I’ll give you true Grace I’ll

give you honest Holy Ghost Mercy the

mercy of Jesus

Christ we sing it again wherever you’re

at get into the aisle if you

can and instruction before we pray there

has to be if you came forward honestly

there has to be a cry in your heart

right now

and that it’s a prayer it’s a cry that

says oh

god I’ve messed up and I keep messing up

and I keep excusing

myself either accusing or excusing

myself and the Lord says no no excuses

now because I have all that you need I

have all the resources you need to live

an overcoming life if you will honestly

confess before him and open up your

heart

now look at me please I promise you on

the authority of this word that if you

humble yourself before him and

repent of your self-centeredness and of

trying to do it in your own strength and

just come to him like a child right now

the holy

spirit will come forth in you as never

before with lifegiving strength and he

will Empower you the Lord will cleanse

you

there has to be an honest confession now

I want you to follow this prayer with me

this prayer and itself won’t do it

unless your heart is in it unless you’re

mixing it with faith but if there’s

faith in your heart and you mean it this

morning the best you know how you come

to him he said I’ll no wise cast you out

no wise I know there are people don’t

believe in aler calls they don’t believe

that but I believe that when the Holy

Ghost convicts you he expects you to

respond and

we I I have seen thousands and thousands

come to an altar call they’ve been

living for God for years I I I responded

an alter call years ago and for over 60

years now I’ve been serving the lord so

don’t tell me alter calls don’t work I

know they work it worked for Nikki crew

it worked for gang members it’s worked

for almost everybody that’s on this

stage so let them say what they want

about an altar call you’re here in a

process the Holy Ghost approves I want

you to pray this prayer with me now holy

spirit Holy Spirit I acknowledge before

you I acknowledge before you that I’ve

messed up my own

life by my own decisions my own decision

I’ve sinned against you Lord against you

and I come to repent I come I Repent of

my coldness and my lukewarmness lukewarm

and my drifting my drifting I don’t want

to drift

anymore now lift up your hands Bible

said would men every lift all hands and

pray this prayer with me me Jesus Jesus

I come now I return to you I to my love

for you I need you Jesus I acknowledge

my helplessness acknowled my I give you

my heart you my heart cleanse me Purge

me of all iniquity Pur of here I am

Jesus I am I placed

myself under the government under the

government and the rulership r of the

Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost Jesus be the

Lord Of My Life Jesus be the Lord of my

life I thank you now I thank you now for

your mercy for your mercy and your grace

and your wonderful love your wonderful

love and your tenderness your tenderness

to me to me and I thank you for it and I

give you praise now in your own words I

want you to just thank him right now for

his grace and his mercy and his love

Lord I give you thanks you are merciful

Lord you are loving you are kind

Lord we take your Authority overlying

Spirit of Satan all principalities and

powers of Darkness that would come to

try to Rob and to steal the word of the

Lord God let the word fall on good soil

this morning and let it take root and

bring forth much

fruit I thank you Jesus for the work of

the Holy Spirit God this word and this

message and this service will not last

will not take root unless by faith now

Lord we lay hold of it and say holy

spirit I believe you now I trust you to

see me through glory be to God wonderful

Jesus we give you thanks Lord we give

you

praise

Hallelujah Lord I’m so glad that you

love me I’m so glad you love this people

so glad I can represent you as a god of

love and mercy and of everlasting Grace

hallelujah amen turn around say can five

people and just say grace to you Grace

to You Mercy to you grace and mercy of

God to you right now a

praise amen

rejoice in the Lord now if there’s

repentance there should be rejoicing in

your heart let us

rejoice this is the conclusion of the

message

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