Then you will call and the Lord will
answer.
You will cry.
Verse nine.
He will say, here I am.
If you take away from the midst of
the yoke, the putting forth of the finger
and empty talk or speaking vanity.
And if you draw out your soul to
the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then
your light will rise in obscurity.
And even your darkness will be as the
noon day.
Oh God, oh God, help us in America
to rise now in this difficult time.
I speak not only to Times Square church,
but to the church in America.
This is the finest hour for you.
If you can rise out of this self
-seeking pursuit of God and begin to understand
again what the work of Christ is.
He says, if you go into the vineyard
and you say to me, well, where are
the poor?
Well, folks, just hang on.
They're going to be all around you very,
very shortly.
They're going to be everywhere.
Churches are going to have opportunities to open
their doors and begin to feed others and
watch the provision of God begin to come
into them.
Thanks be to God.
This is the hour for the church, not
to hide, but to stand on the deck
in the middle of the storm.
This is the hour.
This is the finest hour for the church
of Jesus Christ.
And your darkness will be as the noon
day.
You'll have clear vision.
You'll have clear sight and the Lord will
guide you continually and satisfy your soul in
drought.
You'll have this inner knowledge.
This is where to go.
Do this.
Reach out here.
I'm going to give you provision.
God says, I'm going to satisfy your soul
in drought.
I'm going to make fat your bones.
You'll be like a water garden and like
a spring of water whose waters fail not
like a I don't know if ever you've
seen a spring out in the forest.
I have.
And the water comes up.
It's clear.
It's clean.
It's pure.
You can't see the source of it necessarily,
but it's there.
And it's some of the most refreshing water
you'll ever taste in your entire life.
You'll be a spring of water, the Lord
says.
And they that shall be of these shall
build the old waste places and that shall
raise up the foundations of many generations.
And you'll be called the repairer of the
breach and the restorer of the past to
dwell in.
The Lord says, There's going to be a
soul winning time coming to the true bride
of Christ.
And there's going to be light in your
theology.
There's going to be reality in your practice.
And you're going to raise up a foundation
that has been destroyed because of the wrong
embracing, holding the truth as it is in
unrighteousness.
And you're going to be called the repairer
of the wall or the place where the
enemy got in and took away the glory
and took away the power of God and
the restorer of past to dwell in.
Verse 14, he says, Then shalt thou delight
thyself in the Lord, and I'll cause thee
to ride upon the high places of the
earth and feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the
Lord has spoken it.
God says, If you delight yourself in me,
I'm going to give you a victory that
is so deep in your heart and in
your mind and in your spirit that it
can't be taken away.
Nothing on the earth can take it away
from you.
I'm going to feed you with the heritage
of Jacob, your father.
In other words, there was a commanded blessing.
God says that I gave to Abraham and
I gave that commanded blessing to the children
of Abraham, whose we are through Jesus Christ.
And that blessing should be that we would
be a blessing wherever we go, and that
all the nations of the world should be
blessed through you and I as the church
of Jesus Christ.
And God says, I am going to give
you this heritage.
This is right.
If you will just go into the vineyard.
Hallelujah.
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken
it and the Christ I preach is not
corruptible like man.
He speaks the truth.
He says, You go into the vineyard and
what is right, I'm going to give you.
Hallelujah.
The time is short.
The need is very great, but God is
greater.
She'll have the courage not to deal unrighteously
with God.
Sin has to be put away, folks, double
dealing with God.
You cannot treat God like a bug or
a beast or a bird.
The Bible says God cannot be mocked.
You cannot know the life of Christ and
hold to willful sin at the same time.
These things have to be put away.
You cannot say, you know, God and stand
idle in the marketplace.
There's a work and the Lord Jesus Christ
has left us here to finish this work
on earth.
And the work is that you and I
as his body empowered by the Holy Spirit
would be used of God to reach every
man, every woman, every child that we can
find for the kingdom of heaven.
This is the work of God.
Christ didn't come to make people rich.
He didn't come to give you a great
big destiny.
That theology is hogwash and it's leading many,
many astray.
God help us.
God help us now.
God help us, folks.
You could slough my words off this morning,
but in a year or less, you won't
be sloughing them off anymore.
Some of it will come back.
Some very hard days are ahead, folks, for
the whole world, not just here, the whole
world.
God help us to get into the battle.
God help us as a church to understand
why we're called in this generation.
God help us to be kind.
God help us to just reach out of
ourselves.
God help us just to do the simplicity
of what we're called to do and to
be.
God help us to get away from the
self-seeking, lustful breed of Christianity that has
mutated in this country.
God help us to get back to the
cross and the Christ to the cross.
Hallelujah.
I want to give an altar call this
morning and then we're going to worship.
If the Holy Spirit is speaking to you,
it's on two fronts.
The first, you're holding the truth unrighteously and
you know it.
You know you're not living right before God
and because of it, you're doctrinally confused.
The very first thing that God says he
will do if you will hold the truth
righteously is light begins to come into your
mind and into your soul.
That's the first thing that God does.
And secondly, I just speak to those that
are standing idle in the marketplace.
You've been given this great life of Christ.
Can you imagine on the day of Pentecost
if they just kind of come out of
the upper room with their hands in their
pockets and just sort of walked around?
Silent testimony as it is in a generation
or talked about the things that God was
going to give them.
What a different world it would be today.
What a different testimony we'd have in the
book of Acts.
But they came out and they were a
public declaration of the glory of God.
It's time, beloved, it's time to step into
the marketplace unashamed.
Say this is who Christ is.
This is who he's made me.
This is where I'm going.
This is what you can have.
It's time, folks.
It's time to stand for Christ.
As we stand together, as the Holy Spirit
is drawing you, and I do pray you
can hear this heart that I've spoken in
today and the Spirit, and you would be
able to come forward and say, Pastor, I'm
in.
I'm in.
I'm walking away from sin and I'm walking
towards humanity that need God.
If that's the cry of your heart today,
I'm going to open this altar and as
we stand and worship for the next few
minutes, maybe the next 10 or 15 minutes,
you can come.
We'll worship together and let the Holy Spirit
seal this work in your heart.
In Jesus' name, let's stand together.
Balcony, you can go to either exit and
make your way here.
In the annex, you can stand between the
screens.
Let God be God.
Please let God be God now.
Step out.
Step into the light.
Turn from sin.
Turn to Christ.
Turn to the work of God.
Yield your life as a vessel in the
hands of God.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, God.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
Beloved, this is the finest hour for the
church of Jesus Christ.
I see in my spirit a victorious army.
I see people riding and joining this march
as it is to seeing the glory of
God one more time in this season, to
seeing a multitude of people come to the
saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, seeing the poor
know that they have a helper.
Thanks be to God.
The only word I have today for you
at the altar is go into the vineyard
and what is right that you will receive.
Everything you heard from Isaiah 58 will be
yours.
Light, hope, health, spiritual health, a sense of
purpose, resources to do what God's called you
to do.
It'll all be yours.
Everything will be there.
Blessed be God.