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#home #family #parents #children #JesusChrist #God #Faith #Hope #Love When we #think of the #victory of the #Cross we have to remind ourselves that the #blood of #Jesus #cleanses us from all our #sins and we are #forgiven in Christ. At the Cross #Jesus bore all our #grief and #sorrows. All #guilt and #condemnation is lifted because of His #blood. At the Cross #mercy and #peace took on a #human #face. #Jesus #Christ made a #covenant with His #Father and His #blood brings us #everlasting #peace. 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. © 2012 World Challenge. All rights reserved. PO Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771-0260, (903) 963-8626
the sin of indifference
Heavenly Father
we honor your word in this church
we honor you and we honor your word
you’ve honored your word above your name
we know it’s truth alone that sets us
free
there are no manifestations anywhere
that can free our souls
there are no spiritual Thrills that can
set us free it’s the word the word of
the Living God
bring it forth Lord Sanctified sanctify
me holy from the top of my head to the
souls of my feet let there be the
Sanctified influence of the Holy Spirit
we pray Lord that life shall produce
life
oh God give us ears to hear what the
spirit is saying to us today in Jesus
name I pray amen I want you to open your
Bible to go to the book of haggai and
leave it open on your lap please leave
it open on your lap and I’ll tell you
what for the new Believers go to the
last chapter go to the end of the new
test of the Old Testament and go left
two books and you’ll find hagyad between
Zephaniah and Zechariah
does that help
hagiai
we’re going to be in the book of hagya
this morning so just open your Bible and
leave it on your lap if you will please
I still hear the rustling of leaves I’ll
wait until you get there
if you see someone next to your struggle
don’t try to help them
they’ll find it
you have an index by the way you can
look from the back of your Bible get the
number
thank you Jesus for the word
now in this uh book two chapters
this Prophet speaking to a people who
had spent 70 years in Exile in Babylon
in Babylon they’d spent seven years
weeping
by the Rivers of Babylon and now God by
his Spirit moving upon them and through
the preaching of prophets
has excited them about going back to
Jerusalem they’re back in Jerusalem now
to rebuild the walls the city and this
and and the country they’re rebuilding
now they’re very excited God is doing a
great work among the people there’s Zeal
there’s excitement
the wall the the first thing first a few
months they erected The Altar and
instituted a pure worship of Jehovah
they were surrounded by Samaritans who
had a mixed religion of mixed uh worship
a mixture of Hedonism and worship of the
of true Jehovah and now the pure worship
of Jehovah has been established
now these people got a surprise when
they went back because under the Jewish
uh thinking that when you obey God
automatically you’re blessed they
anticipated because they obeyed the Lord
to go back to Jerusalem that they would
find houses built they would find
Vineyards they would find fields and
ready for Harvest they would find
friendly neighbors of course what they
found was a wall that was torn down a
city that was devastated they found that
there were no there there was no Harvest
there in fact there was embroidered on
famine and they didn’t have any friendly
Neighbors in fact their neighbors were
so uh set against them
they became incensed because they were
refused when they offered to help
rebuild the city and the walls and so
they write to King Cyrus and they’re
able through their influence to stop the
building of the Tabernacle or the temple
and the walls
and the people in verse 2 haggai 1 2.
thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying
this people say the time has not come
the time that the Lord’s House should be
built
look at me please they’re saying uh
evidently this is the will of God God
would not allow this to be stopped
unless it was his will
and immediately the burden was gone the
Zeal of God’s house waned stopped
completely everything that had to do
with the work of God the Eternal purpose
of God was absolutely stopped there was
a wild melee they they decided to go on
now and build their own houses they’re
running to the hills and bringing down
Cedar they’re building their beautiful
Cedar houses and painting them with
wonderful okra and red and uh spending
their time getting their businesses
established getting their homesteads and
their farms and their cattle and their
herds
God’s house is completely forgotten now
totally indifference indifference means
a loss of Interest a total loss of
Interest they’re no longer interested in
the temple the waltz even the altar of
God
now there’s an obsession throughout all
of Jude and Jerusalem now to do their
own thing everybody’s focused on making
the dollar or making money
it’s amazing thing verse three to five
then came the word of the Lord by haggai
the prophet saying is it time for you oh
ye to dwell in your sealed houses in
this house lie waste
now for thus saith the Lord of hosts
consider your ways
I found now were people totally wrapped
up in making a living totally wrapped up
in uh and the essence essence of what
they’re saying as soon as we get
established as soon as we get our work
together we get a hold for our family
surely God is interested in our
establishing our own families and
providing for our own as soon as we have
our business established as soon as we
have our houses built then we’ll get
back to the work of God
I remember a young Minister who told me
a number of years ago he was dropping
out of the ministry
to make a fortune he said I want to get
rich and then I won’t be obligated to
anybody I’ll be able to give a lot of
money to the work of God but first I’m
going to go and establish my business he
went out and and it just gave himself to
establishing a very profitable uh Oil
Business
and as you know when you have that as
your goal when you get the money you
forget what you said
and that I’ve seen that all through my
lifetime I’ve seen ministers I I think
of a minister right now who was so poor
always house poor poor is it the
proverbial church mouse and he he said I
can’t live like this he said I’m going
to I provide for my family first my
family comes first
and so he left the ministry and
established a great uh business in the
midwest in fact two years ago I got word
that he was building almost a city he
was building everything in sight and had
wild crazy dreams of a fortune being
spent in this past six months he went
bankrupt and he’s back now
worse than he was before
put money in in a bag with holes in it
and that’s what you’re going to find in
this verse six ye have sold much and
bring in little you eat but you have not
enough you drink but you’re not filled
with drink you clothed
you close you but there’s none warm and
he that earned the wages earneth wages
to put it in a bag with holes
folks listen to me please here’s the
heart and the essence of my message this
morning
when you become indifferent to the work
of God
when God’s house is no longer first
God’s interests are no longer first
you’re all wrapped up now in your
business you’re all wrapped up in
established in your own way in your
house and your furniture and your cars
and spending all your money and your
time and your energy in trying to keep
your own interest alive
folks God is not against us having nice
homes he’s not against you having nice
furniture he’s not against you driving a
nice car
but he will not stand for being put
aside
he will not take second place in our
life or our business or our energies he
has he demands he literally demands he
has a reason for it he demands the best
of everything we have of our time our
energy our money everything he will not
be slighted and these people were slight
in God and they were using this uh
decree of Cyrus
to back away from the Eternal purposes
of God
beloved when you gave your heart to
Jesus Christ and you came you said I
want to be a part of the body of Christ
the Lord heard that you became my
building Stone in the new temple of God
the rebuilt House of David in these last
days and you are a living Stone you are
part of this building that he’s building
and folks when you you decide that you
have got for some reason of it you you
don’t have time now these people had no
time for the house of God
they had no time for the work of God
they were all wrapped up every dream
every desire all their planning all
their scheming their dreams everything
in their little house their family
and now you see a people who are not
satisfied with anything they do
they strive to make money and they put
it in a bag that has holes in it now
their money’s not going very far
some of them have more money than
they’ve ever had and it doesn’t go as
far as it did when they had almost
nothing
how many know what I’m talking about
how many
carried that bag around with holes in it
I just put something on my heart because
there I remember when I first came here
to New York City
in the first year
when we were we were God was
establishing this work this church I
never saw such excitement in my life
there were people businessmen busy busy
businessmen many career people
from almost every kind of career in New
York City
from Wall Street United Nations from all
over the city the king got was doing a
new thing and there were such exciting
people would hear the message go by the
tape and listen to it two or three times
during the week and never miss a service
never Mrs irvish
and I watched it took maybe two three
sometimes maybe four years and I watched
them little by little beginning to back
away and I know what was happening first
of all they were no longer into the word
of God they were depending on the
sermons that we were preaching they were
not getting they’re all fed in the
secret closet they were not seeking the
face of God anymore they were not on
their bended knee coming having been fed
by the Holy Spirit and then coming to
give something the house of God
they were not praying they were not
reading their Bibles anymore and then
they not only did they neglect that
they became Sunday Morning Saints
never saw them again during the rest of
the week and when I drop in on their
business they’d say Pastor I’m sorry but
this city is so demanding
my time is so stretched
and I I think to myself well you were
just a stretch you were just as busy
when we began
you had a heart for God you used to sit
at the edge of the sea you could hardly
wait for the word to be preached but now
Something’s Happened I can taste the
indifference in them I can see it when
I’m in their presence
and I began to watch they they would
finally come Sunday morning and get that
little touch of God
Just a Touch
many of them are no longer even going to
church they’re not here they’re not in
any church
they’re not only lukewarm they are cold
they’re no longer in the house of God
indifferences set in
he says now that you become indifferent
and now that I am no longer the center
of your life
the church is no longer the center of
your social life
I believe in all my heart that the
Church of Jesus Christ the Brotherhood
of saints should be the center of
everything in our lives
of course you know that I’m speaking of
the body of Jesus Christ he being the
head and we being the body
he said you eat but you don’t have
enough now you’re never satisfied
there’s something missing you can’t find
any satisfaction at all
and he said he that Earnest wages
earneth it to put it into a bag with
holes
and he sang from the time you lost your
Zeal for the Lord
and You Begin spending your energy and
your time on your own interest
he said from that very moment he said
God knows the time
it may have been slipping up on you
slowly but God God remembers the time
and when God finally looks down in your
heart and he says now you have become
indifferent you become apathetic
you have an apathy toward me you don’t
have an appetite for the things of God
like you once had
he said from that very time listen to me
your money
your finances became very troubled
he said it didn’t go very far you worked
you wanted your you wanted the time you
had to make money and when you made it
just doesn’t go very far it’s put into a
bag with holes in it it just goes like
water
he that Earth wages earneth to put it
into a bag with holes
now I told you that God wants us to give
ourselves
to
hard Earnest work
God wants you to
minister to your family in fact the
scripture says Heathen neglects his own
households worse than an Infidel is
denied the faith
certainly God wants you to have time to
do all these things but he also said
seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness and all these things shall
be added unto you
and I find that people that put the
house of God first his ministries
Eternal purposes first I find they sweat
far less than anybody else on the face
of the Earth
I wonder how many hearing this message
this morning
have been cooling off in your Zeal for
the things of God in the house of the
Lord
ask you to examine yourself this morning
have you been cooling off
are you just as excited about coming to
church as you were even a year ago
come on now
are you just excited about hearing the
word of God or you get just a little
peeve now when you hear messages like
you’re hearing now
folks I promise God I preach this in
great love this morning and I am you’re
going to see and feel that love of Jesus
through what I’m saying this morning
are you so wrapped up now
in in in just your things
for sake not the assembling of
yourselves together
I’m talking now about coming to church
Church attendance
listen to me
forsake not the assembling of yourselves
together as the manner or the custom of
some is
but exhorting one another so much the
more as you see the day approaching
the Lord said times are going to get
difficult the day of the Lord is coming
near if there was ever time for you to
be faithful to the kingdom of God in the
house of God it’s now dog forsake the
assembling of yourselves together
where are you Sunday night
you said we’ll wait brother Dave the
church is packed I have to stand
sometimes even on Sunday night or
Tuesday night that’s not the point you
miss entirely what the Lord is saying
when you come and you become a part of
the body of Jesus Christ you give
yourself to him listen to what the Bible
says happens
very very
clearly
you become fellow citizens with the
Saints
and of the household of God
you’re built upon the foundation of the
Apostles and the prophets
Jesus Christ himself being the Chief
Cornerstone
in whom all the building fitly framed
together growth to a holy Temple in the
Lord in whom also ye are building
together for habitation of God through
the spirit
you are a living Stone
built up a spiritual house a holy
priesthood to offer up spiritual
sacrifices
acceptable God to God by Jesus Christ
now listen to me please when Solomon
built the temple he set a army of men
into the uh to the
the quarries
they not only cut the stones to size
they were all numbered and they were
brought to Jerusalem by another Army of
thousands of workers and how they did it
I don’t know when the great feats in
history to bring those huge Stones cut
and numbered everyone was numbered
and they were built by number they were
built in space number four went here
number five when here number seven
number eight number nine every one of
those huge Stones were in place they
were numbered they were cut out
purposely to fit that he said you are
fit in the body you are a living Stone
if one of those stones is missing
admires the whole construction of the
building it Mars it it’s not a complete
building
and you say I I my attendance folks I’m
not trying to build up the attendance
with people standing with downstairs
School we’re trying to seek the people
but that’s to miss the whole thing
what the holy spirit is saying in his
word is that when you join the body of
Christ through faith
you become a part of what he’s doing
all the ministries of the church
honor The Fellowship of the church
I’m not talking about Times Square
Church I’m talking about the Church of
Jesus Christ
we being a part of it
but he said if you if you think that
you’re God’s Gonna Let You just slip
away and lay there on the ground
isolated by yourself one stone well I’m
a stone I’m a living Stone no you have
no life until you’re placed
until you were there in the structure
you are not a Lone Ranger
you’re not out there by yourself because
you make yourself open to all the
attacks of the devil
they come at you from the right into the
left demon powers know you they’re a
part of the body of building a beautiful
building that he’s building for the
glory of Jesus Christ
God help you if your home doing church
night watching television
sitting there feeding your mind
until we feed
I’m not going to get on this
very much
do you know why
Pentecostal churches especially don’t
have Sunday night meetings anymore
the early days of Pentecost Sunday night
you couldn’t find a seat in most
churches they were packed there was an
excitement that’s that was the great
soul-winning night all through my
Boyhood I couldn’t wait for Sunday night
because there was good singing there was
hand clapping there was rejoicing in
preaching on the coming of the Lord and
people weeping and getting saved a loved
Sunday night and I still do when I first
came to New York and talked to pastors
and burdened my heart about a church in
Times Square they said well one thing
you can’t do is have a Sunday night
service because everybody’s home
watching television
that’s the best TV night
I said I don’t care what anybody says I
don’t care if it’s uh TV night if God’s
going to raise up a Remnant people that
have the Eternal purpose of Christ
embedded in their heart Sunday night
will be a powerful night and you see it
when you come Sunday night you see it
here a church that’s full and people
getting saved
I don’t want to be a part of a church I
don’t want to be a part of a church
where the people’s interests are not
only given to the Lord I want to go with
the people holy Remnant and say Lord I
Thank you for raising up this house this
is where I get my meat I want to fit
into the body of Jesus Christ and I want
that to be my first interest Hallelujah
I want to come and meet Jesus of course
he’s first but his work you can’t
isolate him from his work
and his house
amen enough about television
God God said in verse 10
therefore the heaven over you has stayed
from due
and the Earth has stayed from her fruit
I called for a drought Upon This land
and upon the mountains and upon the
Coronet upon the new wine and upon the
oil and upon that which the ground
bringeth forth and upon men and upon
cattle and upon all the labor of your
hands
look at me please I I want to explain
this the best I can that’s the Holy
Spirit to help me
he’s saying you wonder why things are
going bad now from bad to worse
we have people get up and testify I said
boy the devil’s give me a hard time
the devil’s just harassing me
I don’t know what haggai said this
passage he says the Lord said I have
called for a drought
he said the Lord is withstanding your
progress
the Lord is hindering your harvests
he said and he is hindering all the
labor of your hands everything you do
there’s something blocking you’re not
getting through it’s not working
and he said stop and consider
from the time you became indifferent
from the time you laid down your trial
and and you no longer had my house was
no longer your first Memphis now your
own interest your things you’re all
wrapped up in that
he said from that time on I called for a
joke
all these hindering forces in place it
would not there’s nothing to do with
demons nothing to do with hell
nothing to do with the Devil it was God
at work
he said stop and consider you find this
all through had you consider consider it
consider
stop and think
I’ve got to stop here and
before some of you who are being tested
by the Lord and he’s allowed uh maybe a
spiritual drought a dryness
a lot of Christians I know what that’s
the what that’s like to go through weeks
of dryness where you you wonder if if
you’re ever going to have them moving
the holy ghost in your life again
I have gone through times of testing
like that such dryness such emptiness
wondering if
God would ever use me again feeling
absolutely empty useless
now those are testing times that has
that’s not what we’re talking about here
and I don’t want you to get discouraged
if you’re going through that
some of you are going through financial
testing he’s God’s trying to bring Faith
out of you that’s not what this is about
so don’t try to put yourself into this
picture we’re talking about indifference
we’re talking about people now who are
all wrapped up in their own things they
have no time for God I’m not talking
about people who still love Jesus with
all their heart I’m not talking about
pastors and ministers who who are just
in Rapture with the Lord but they’re
being they’re going through a very very
difficult time that’s something entirely
different and I would feel very uh sad
if you would try to think that I’m
identifying you in this picture
we’re talking now about a people who
have lost interest in the things of God
they only want to come and get a touch
in fact the prophet goes on in the next
chapter and he says
I’m gonna read it to you it’s in Chapter
2 in verse 12.
if one bear holy flesh from the skirt of
His Garment
and with his skirt he does touch bread
or pottage or wine or oil or any meat
shall it be holy and the priest answered
and said no and look at me please this
is a picture of
a priest coming home from the sacrifice
and he has his portion
he probably has it wrapped in some kind
of of uh
a rapper he puts into his armor under
his outer garment and he has it there
carrying it home he said
had you I said if if that Holy meat
touches bread or wine or anything else
does that touch of that Holy meat
sanctify does it communicate Holiness to
anything it touches and the priest said
no
and here’s the Dilemma of the children
of Israel at the time they had erected
the altar the altar was holy and it’s on
the ground and their thinking is that’s
Holy Ground now that means that it is
communicated Holiness to all the ground
that why isn’t the ground bringing for
fruit because we have a Sanctified altar
that altar should
communicate Holiness to everything it
touches
now look at me please we’re talking here
the prophets talking about a casual
attitude toward the things of God a
casual touch
oh folks we have people
like in California there’s a a whole
group of churches now and the whole
thing is casual worship
they don’t even have a form of service
you come in and there are young ladies
that serve you coffee and donuts during
the service
and you’re told not to wear a suit you
you come with the most casual clothes
that you have you can come you know in
short shorts and tank tops whatever you
want
and you put your feet up on the chair in
front of you and you just relax
if there’s a if there’s a sermon there
may be a sermon if not we’ll talk
we’ll just communicate
and and a friend of mine acquaintance of
mine was asked to minister in one of
those saw one of those services and she
was told before she ministered don’t
mention the blood and don’t mention sin
cozy casual atmosphere to try to bring
them in slowly
this person was absolutely shocked at
the casualness and they were glowing in
their casualness
not even not a word about sin or
anything else folks we have a whole
casual attitude in America today toward
the things of God that’s why our young
people don’t want anything to do with it
their rock and roll is not casual it’s
intense everything they do is intense
and they’re going to come to the house
of God for just a casual touch
the Casual touch doesn’t
communicate Holiness you can’t come and
just get a touch Sunday morning
I believe that every time this church is
open
every type especially prayer meeting
night
I believe that when this church is open
no there are some of you have jobs
understand it you don’t quit your job to
come
what about the time alone with the Lord
in the secret closet
what about this good book
have you become casual to it have you
thought well I’ll I’ll do it when I get
time
no the Lord says you will not put me
aside like that
when you go to Malachi you find the
people uh we’re so casual about the
sacrifice rather than expecting to hurt
and bringing the best of the flock they
would pick out any
sheep or lamb and just bring it pastly
to the Altar and God says no he says you
go try to offer that to the governor you
offer that to somebody but you won’t
offer to me I want your best
it has gotten so quiet in this house
our hope and trust is because the Holy
Ghost is talking to all of us
Hallelujah
he said from the time
the the time that
you became indifferent
that’s the time
that I I had to stretch forth my hand
take away the joy take away the
satisfaction I had to hinder your
Harvest and I had to withstand you and
everything your hands do and he does
that lovingly that we may consider that
we may look at it but you know something
folks we’re not like that we’re just
like Israel when things go wrong we
don’t stop and consider and try to to
say well Lord where did I go wrong am I
indifferent am I apathetic toward the
things of God do I have this Zeal of the
Lord I once had we don’t stop and
examine our hearts anymore we say well
it’s just one of those things I’m going
through a hard time I’ll make it through
this is just one of those difficult
times
listen folks God is asking us this
morning to stop and consider and look at
your life
am I as a child of God as a living Stone
is his house
his work
the winning of Lost Souls
the minister the Lord the minister to
him
is that everything in my life is that
first is that my focus
I know what it’s like to lose that Focus
years ago
as an evangelist preaching to thousands
and I got so busy
absolutely busy
I was
mightily blessed and I was building a
big house on 50 acres with an indoor
swimming pool and
playing around with
antique cars
I’m just losing my focus
comes a place where I think I lost the
focus completely
I could still preach because I had
sermons
that I’d learned to deliver
I tried to be as sincere as I could I
don’t think I ever stood in a pulp
without being sincere
but I know what it’s like that’s why I
preached this was feeling this morning
I know what it’s like
to lose that Focus
and when you lose that Focus the things
of God become burdensome
they become a weariness
and it became a weariness I traveled in
in two big
half million dollar buses custom made
and I traveled with a big truck full of
hundreds of thousand dollars worth and I
had a whole Entourage and they would go
ahead of me and I would glance here and
she knows I said oh no I gotta hit the
road again and I I would get on that bus
and say oh no and I was so tired and so
weary of it all
absolutely weird that weirdness that
tiredness came because I was not now
praying as I should I was not seeking
God in this book just to find the
reality of Christ I was looking here
just for sermons
absolutely cold in heart and I wanted to
tell you folks the Lord during that time
did something
I will never forget
during that time
half my staff resigned I couldn’t
understand one by one they were leaving
our finances dried up
sickness in our home
my son’s Greg Greg is here and during
that time I got a call head-on collision
God delivered him without a scratch
but I remember standing there
looking at that head-on collision
and thinking of everything in my life
and Ministry going wrong
everything was wrong
the anointing was gone
I’ll go through the motions just gone
through emotions
and didn’t know how to get out of it
sick inside and weary and almost thank
God I just I can’t go on I don’t want to
preach anymore I know what that’s like
I’ve been to this point
this drought
this opposition from the hand of God
Gary correction east and west north and
south everywhere everything’s Raw
when I stood by that accident the Lord
said now will you listen to me
and I said I’ll listen
and I had to leave I think two or three
days later another Crusade still had
weariness great prophet of God Leonard
Raven Hill gave me a book
Christian and complete armor
it was 1200 pages that thick and I took
it kindly but I threw it in the back of
my bus and said who who’s going to read
1200 pages
I just thought I’ll never look at it but
you know we weren’t 20 miles down the
road and the Holy Spirit said go back in
your Suite back there and open that book
and start reading it
and and I’ll tell you it was the
prophetic voice of God
within a half an hour
I was laying on the floor of that bus
weeping and crying
and confessing
the fear of God the wonderful
reverential fear of God Came Upon My
Life once again
I went to the rest of the fellas I said
fellas This is Our Last Crusade
I said I’m out of here
said I’m not going to go like this
anymore I’m not going to be a phony I
said I’ve been miserable the work of God
is I just been preaching by wrote I’ve
been preaching by habit God’s blessed in
spite of me but I said I can’t go on
like this I’m going to take a year off
and speak to the face of God
and I canceled everything
and I shut myself in with God
and I thank God for that day or I
wouldn’t be standing here now and God’s
interest from that day on
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beloved from that day on his interest
I I left all of that I gave a bus to the
singing group and they went their way
and I sold the other Buffs and I just
began to seek the face of God and from
that day to this his interest has always
been first in my life and God that’s my
prayer God don’t ever ever and I have to
pray diligently about it because you see
we can’t do it we can’t when you get to
that place humanly in your own strength
you cannot shake yourself from
indifference you cannot shake it off in
your own strength and your own power
but what happened here in the book of
haggai they listened to the prophet they
listened to the word of God you see God
sent his word to me through this book
through prophet a prophet of God he sent
the word to me and I heard it and I
believed it and I wanted to hear it
if you want to change
listen to me
there’s a word here and I you have to
get this before I close
God said I smote you with blasting
and with mildew and with hail in all the
labors of your hands yet you turn not to
me saith the Lord you know what the
prophet’s saying
you I got God God’s saying look I came
to you with judgment I came to you with
blasting and mildew I did everything to
get your attention and my judgment
message didn’t
touch you you didn’t hear
remember what Proverbs says I called and
called and you refused you did want to
hear my reproof
now listen to me clearly before I close
this message
I could stand here this morning
and I could blast you with the word of
God there are scriptures here that I
could just blast
I could talk to you about the mildew
that’s happening in your life
I could point a thing at you and say the
reason you’re in this condition the
reason your finances are all messed up
and I can come down on this and I could
hit as hard I could take the hammer of
God and I can preach judgment from this
pulpit and not one chain of apathy would
be broken
God says I blasted you I tried to get
you out of your indifference but it
didn’t work
he comes now with the prophet hagiah
into a indifferent people to a people
who were putting all of their time and
energy in their own interests he comes
to them now he says I’m still with you
I’m still with you
and you know what that loving message
did and I hope it’s what you hear from
your pastor this morning
I’m not here to blast you
I’m not here to to to
bring judgment message to you but I want
to tell you something when I read in
this book when I read this
that a loving God trying to get the
attention of his people says
I called for a drought I cut things off
I laid this on you
when I hear a loving God say that then
he says stop and consider I’m going to
listen
and that’s what I hope now that you will
say well brother Wilkerson that’s me
and if that’s you and you really want to
change you can’t do it your own strength
but the Lord comes with this message I
still love you I’m still with you I’ve
not left you
my hand is still on you
and we’re gonna lose you
and the Bible says that the fear of God
Came Upon them and they started
rebuilding again
and now haggai comes I think this is his
third or fourth message that God’s given
him in these two chapters and he comes
finally they’ve been about two months
now back to rebuilding the Zeal of the
Lord is back it was not it did not come
through a judgment message oh folks I
traveled all over the world for almost
15 years prophesying and preaching
judgment
thank God for those that were saved but
the church was hardly moved
it was hardly moved
here in Times Square Church we have
preached the truth we have not
compromised God helping me and examining
my heart I don’t think once I’ve ever
stood in this pulpit and compromised the
word of God
what I’ve been told to preach strong I’m
pretty strong
Pastor Carter the same way but it’s
always been bathed in love
is being bathed in love this morning
and if you’re honest about it say well
brother Wilkerson I have been
indifferent about my church attendance
I’ve been indifferent about my tithing
I’ve been indifferent about praying and
can God and his work I’ve become
indifferent I’m not where I was before
and I want to get back to that first
love
I want God’s work to be first From This
Day on in my life
there’ll be no chastening from this
pulpit
there’ll be no threats
this this is a message of the Prophet
God says I’m with you
if you will simply now allow me the Holy
Ghost comes now the Bible says and I I
read this to you listen to what God did
then speak hagyah the Lord’s messenger
in the Lord’s message under the people
saying I Am with You saith the Lord and
the Lord stirred up the spirit of
zerubbabel and the spirit of Joshua and
the high priest the spirit of all the
remnant of the people they came and did
the work in the house the Lord of hosts
their God
as soon as they accepted this message
examine their heart and returned God
says now I’m going to stir up your heart
I’m going to move on you supernaturally
this becomes then the work of the Holy
Spirit if you sit under my preaching
this morning you say Pastor I believe
you’re preaching to me in love
and I want to take I want to consider
like the prophet said my own life now
and I want to come back to my first love
I want the things of God to be first in
my life I don’t ever want to come to the
place
where he is secondary I I put him aside
now in closing listen to this
consider now from this day and onward
this is chapter 2 verse 18 from the
fourth twentieth day of the ninth month
even from the day that the foundation
the temple was laid considerate is the
seed yet in the barn yes yet the vine
and the Fig Tree the pomegranate the
Olive Tree hath not brought forth but
from this day will I bless you
you know what the prophet’s saying and
now I close
he said you may not see the results yet
you don’t see many changes yet in your
life you don’t see your finances
changing you don’t see a lot of changes
but he said I promised you from the day
you set your heart to seek me with all
that’s in you that’s the day I started
blessing you and now it’s been sown a
harvest it’s going to come now I’m going
to bless you Hallelujah
folks
I believe that you you can change
everything in your life
by coming back to your first love this
morning
and making up your mind with the help of
the Holy Ghost Lord I want you to keep
my heart stirred I want you to stand
with me right now
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Hallelujah
love it look this way I’m not even gonna
pray right now I want to pray later when
you come
and ask the Holy Spirit right now to
breathe
on this congregation I want every honest
soul in this house this morning
just buy your head for a moment
and I want you to do what haggad the
prophet said consider
consider think about it
do you have a sense that God’s
withstanding
and holding back
but everywhere you turn you see a
hindrance
you’re going to ask yourself
is it because I’ve led up
is because I’m not seeking the Lord with
all my heart
if you have to acknowledge this morning
that you’ve been drifting
that you’ve been a little haphazard
about the house of God and the things of
God
I want you to get out of your seat and
come here now repent
I say Lord I hear your word this morning
I don’t ever ever Lord
to have to have you withstand me because
of my indifference and my apathy I want
my soul on fire if you’re backslidden if
you don’t know the Lord I want you to
come with these that are coming up in
the balcony there are two stairs on
either side go down those stairs and
come down any aisle and
meet us here if you will
heavenly father not convict us
speak lovely to us let us hear what the
spirit has to say
let us receive it and Lord change our
hearts I pray
to come forward
I thank God
for his great love for his church
how God loves us
I’m convinced that I’m loved no matter
what I’m going through
that love holds me that love brings me
through
before I say a word I want you to be
convinced that God loves you has a great
love in his heart for you because he
said you draw nigh to me I’ll draw near
to you you’re you’re wanting to come
near to him brings him and attracts the
Holy Spirit he comes quickly to move
upon you
now look at me please I want you to know
something here and hear it deep in your
spirit right now
he said he’s more willing to give than
you are to receive
I don’t believe that God has complicated
this thing at all he’s made it simple
that a child he said could understand it
he’s made it simple
and you come to me now and you confess
I’m not only it cleanse you but if you
will trust me with your whole life put
everything you have in my hands if
you’ll make a commitment to put
everything having do with the Lord first
in your life his work his church
prayer seeking his word
if you want that with all your heart God
said you don’t have the strength to
follow through on that commitment but
I’m part of the Holy Spirit and I’ll
stir your heart I know what that’s like
I I I’ll be get busy and I’ll feel a
stirring in my heart and holy spirit’s
saying David break away break away get
into the word get into the word Holy
Spirit keeps stirring when I haven’t had
time to pray Holy Ghost said walk away
walk away the stirring of the Holy
Spirit I thank God for that story he’ll
do that for you he doesn’t do it just
for preachers he’d do it for all of
God’s people he will stir your heart
hallelujah thank God for that story and
then after he stirs you and you obey
that voice the Holy Spirit he empowers
you to follow through hallelujah thank
God for the power of the Holy Ghost we
couldn’t do anything without him I want
you to pray this prayer with me right
now Jesus
forgive me
for my apathy
for my coldness and my lukewarmness
toward you
and your house
and your work
I ask forgiveness
forgive my sins my doubt and my unbelief
I returned you now
I heard your word I receive it
I admit Lord
I’ve been indifferent
I’ve not put you first in my life
I’m sorry
I Repent
they’ll touch my life
stir my heart
give me power
to walk with you Faithfully
I need your help Lord
thank you Jesus I want you to lift your
hands and just thank him right now for
his faithfulness to you Lord I give you
thanks
I give you praise
you are worthy Lord you are worthy
Hallelujah
up in the balcony here in the main floor
you can put your hands down
if you’re if you came this morning and
you’re not right with God
I know there’s some of you I say Pastor
David I’m not a Christian I’m not I’m
not what you call saved
I’m not saved there are many of you came
because somebody invited you and you’re
here now you heard what I preached maybe
you didn’t understand it all you you
said well that’s for Christians no it’s
for you because the very fact that you
don’t serve Jesus at all the fact that
you don’t walk with him you’ve not
surrendered your heart that’s proof that
you’re totally indifferent to him
you can’t be indifferent to Jesus Christ
and just walk your own way
the Lord wants you to come his way now
he brought you here and the reason you
feel that little turning inside that’s
the stirring of the Holy Spirit that’s
God he’s not he’s not saying hey get
down here I’m going to cast you into
hell I’m gonna burn you
he said no
God says I’ve been with you all along
I’ve been calling you and the reason
you’re here this morning somebody
invited you and that’s that was my work
I had somebody invite you you’re not
here by accident
nobody’s in this church this morning by
accident nobody
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would you buy your heads right now
I’m not even asking you to step out of
your seat I’m asking you to give your
heart to Jesus Right Where You Are
you can do that right now up in the
balcony here in the main floor just even
under your breath you don’t even have to
say out loud God hears Whispers
God reads our thoughts
I want you to pray this in your spirit
in your mind dear Jesus
I’m a sinner
and I need you
I’m going to give you my heart right now
and Lord Jesus I’m asking you
to come right now
and reveal yourself to me
I want to get rid of my sins
and I want to be a free man a free woman
I want my freedom but if I walk out of
this building
now look at me please the Bible said if
you confess your sin with your mouth and
believe in your heart you shall be saved
you shall be saved
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Hallelujah
if you meant that and did it this
morning you’re going to tell somebody
you’re probably going to tell the first
the first one you’re going to tell is
the person who brought you
and when you walk out of here and and
you’re with a friend maybe there’s a
sister here and you brought another lady
and uh when you walk out and you’ll say
to your lady friend
I didn’t understand anything there
but I felt something
you’ll know that’s the Holy Spirit man
why don’t you just ask him to explain a
little further maybe they can do it
better than I did
this morning amen
how many believe the Lord is with you
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I’m going to ask you another question
how many in this building all around me
believe that God wants to bless his
people God wants to bless his people yes
keep your hands raised Lord I’m asking
you to help us to become so given to you
and we claim this promise that had gave
to Israel from this time on
Market
the ninth day
the 20th day the ninth month that was
the time he said put it on your calendar
I’ve blessed you from the time that you
set your heart to put me first
Lord I pray that this be marked on the
calendar for many on this day
in the month of May
whatever day it is
thank you Jesus blessing
blessing
Hallelujah blessing
this is the conclusion of the message