This recording is provided by Times Square Church
in New York City.
You're welcome to make additional copies for free
distribution to friends.
All other unauthorized duplication or electronic transmission is
a violation of copyright and other applicable laws.
This recording cannot be posted on any website.
However, written permission to link to the Times
Square Church homepage may be requested by emailing
info at timessquarechurch.org.
Other recordings are available by calling 1-800
-488-0854 or by writing to Times Square
Church Tape Ministry, 1657 Broadway, New York, New
York, 10019.
I want to speak to you about the
great final separation.
Would you pray for me that the Lord
will give me the strength to preach this
message?
I've struggled with it, but I know my
role.
I know what God's called me to do.
He's called me to be a watchman, and
I can't do other than what He commands
me to do, no matter the cost.
Father, I pray you help this morning by
your spirit to communicate through me to this
congregation and to all who would hear this
message.
Communicate your heart, and that is the work
of the Holy Spirit.
So I'm asking you to sanctify this vessel
and speak your word with mercy and grace.
Let it come forth not from my lips,
merely but from your heart.
Lord Jesus, we have only one goal and
one ambition in this life, and that's to
see you glorified and see your will be
done on this earth and that the church
of Jesus Christ come through to its glorious
calling.
Holy Spirit, come upon me.
Let nothing hinder what you've been trying to
say.
I receive it, Lord, and I ask you
to come upon me.
Holy Spirit, seize me.
Lay hold of me and speak through me,
I pray in Christ's name.
Amen.
Jesus said the gates of hell shall never
prevail against his church.
Paul said Christ loves his church.
He said it's going to be presented to
him on that day, sanctified, washed by the
word, a glorious church without spot or wrinkle
or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish.
That's what he said, that Paul the apostle
comes along, even though we have this promise
that in the end of time, when Jesus
comes, it's going to be a glorious church
that he takes.
It's going to be a prevailing, overcoming church.
We stand on that promise.
But in the meantime, the enemy is going
to come and try to destroy that church.
And Paul the apostle and the other apostles
tried to warn the church of what was
coming.
The apostle Paul said, for the time is
coming when they will not endure sound doctrine,
but after their own lusts will heap to
themselves teachers having itching ears.
They shall turn away many of their ears
from the truth.
And Paul, seeing that, he said, I call
heaven and earth.
I call the father and the son as
witnesses to tell you, preach the word, be
instant in season and out of season.
Why is he calling God and Christ as
a witness to what he's saying?
He said, I'm telling you now that the
only way to prevail against this invasion of
false doctrine and false teachings and the focus
on money, the only way to combat this
is to preach the word.
And he said, I call you before God
the father and God the son as witnesses
to what I'm telling you.
Preach the word in season, out of season.
Let no man hinder you from preaching a
sound gospel.
The sound gospel, the whole gospel includes the
cross of Jesus Christ.
It's a sound doctrine of suffering.
Paul, when he said preach the word, he
says, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine.
That doctrine is of self-denial, the return
of Jesus Christ, holiness, forsaking of sin, that
which you do not hear in the church
of the itching ears.
Bible said they're going to come with itching
ears and they're going to heap to themselves
teachers to scratch those itching ears.
They're going to turn away from the gospel,
the scripture says.
You see, that doesn't sound like a prevailing
church.
That doesn't sound like what Jesus said would
happen.
But Paul, the apostle says until that time
comes before and in the last days, there's
going to be a struggle for the body
of Christ.
The devil is not going to lay down
and say, well, the promises are there, so
I can't fight.
He's fighting because of those promises.
He's rising up with everything in hell to
destroy the church of Jesus Christ.
He said that because there was a prophecy
given to that there would be a great
falling away.
He said men are going to turn away
their ears and they're going to turn to
a smooth doctrine of the flesh.
It's so clear in the scripture here.
Many shall follow their sensuous ways and become
and the way of truth shall be mocked.
Second Peter, two, three.
And in their greed, they're going to be
exploited.
He said this is happening in the congregation.
There's an incredible thing that's happening here.
I used to think that in the last
days it would that this would be ungodly
pastors or those.
Jesus said the scripture said there would be
angels of light that come in the pulpit
that really from the enemy.
But they're preaching another gospel, another Jesus.
And I used to think that these are
men that are just gathering people together and
influencing them.
But that's not what it says.
The Bible says he said they have itching
ears and they are turning away from the
truth and heaping to themselves teachers to scratch
their itching ears.
So it is not pastors coming and seducing
the people.
It's something that's happening in the church general
where people are turning to the things of
the world, the materialism and the love of
money, which call is called the root of
all evil.
God's not against you and I having money.
He's not against you being blessed and prospered.
That's not it.
And this is not to condemn you.
If you're a businessman, you are commanded by
the scriptures to to endure till he comes
and you're to do your business.
You need to be zealous and you're to
be active and you're to provide for your
family.
But he said there's coming a generation.
They're going to have nothing but greed and
covetousness.
They're going to have what I would say
they have done away with the period in
their life.
There's never enough period.
They don't they don't say, well, when I
get a million dollars, period, that's enough.
They remove the period every in every area
of their life.
Nothing is is going to satisfy.
And now we live in that generation that
is creeping into the church and taking over
the house of God all over the United
States.
We see this American gospel of greed.
This American gospel is I heard one well
-known preacher being interviewed.
He said, if you come to my church,
I guarantee you will prosper.
I guarantee you will make money.
And the theme of the church is money
will come.
Thousands and thousands attend that church.
And that's happening everywhere we go, this American
gospel, because they see it on American TV.
But you see, he's he's saying it's not
the past.
There's a demand.
There's a vacuum that's been created.
And so they are because of the demand.
The enemy is having to raise up ministers
who are ministering to that spirit of covetousness.
You understand what I'm saying?
And then it becomes an attraction to all
those unsanctified men.
Those wolves in sheep's clothing that are coming
just to fill a need.
It's not pastors, they come to my church.
That's that's not it.
It's it's pastors coming in to fill that
vacuum created by a spirit of covetousness in
the house of God.
Peter wrote a warning to the church to
stir them up.
He said, remember what the prophets have spoken.
Remember the words of Christ spoken through these
apostles.
He said in the last days, there should
come scoffers walking after their own lust and
saying, where's the promise of his coming?
Because all things continue as they were.
Who are these scoffers?
I'm telling you, it's not the drug addict.
It's not the atheists.
It's not the homosexual in your face, violent
crowd.
It's not the secularists.
It's not the communists or the atheists.
These are those who turned aside with itching
ears to another gospel.
They're scoffing and what they've done.
You see, the only way they can live
that life, the only way you can get
rid of the guilt, the only way you
can give yourself to the spirit of greed
is to put out of your mind that
Jesus is coming.
And so they scoff at that message because
it's a message of condemnation and guilt against
greed and against lust.
And they, Bible says, they're going to come
mockers and scoffers unless they say, where is
the promise of God?
Everything continues as it was and whether they're
saying it's always going to be good.
It's always going to be good.
It's always going to be prosperous.
They're saying, where is the sign of his
coming?
But let me tell you where the young
people are not scoffing and laughing, but confused.
To hear a church, to hear a people
of God preaching about the coming of the
Lord.
And they look at these lives and they
watch these television programs and they see all
this begging and pleading for money.
Then they see this gold gilded candy cotton
preaching.
And I tell you, these young people say,
if Jesus is coming like they're saying, why
are they living like he's never coming?
Why are they reaching for?
Why are they living like we're living?
Why are they bringing our world into their
world if Jesus is coming?
Why aren't they going further and further away
from the world?
Why are they not separating themselves and getting
ready for this coming that they preach about?
There are some of this church and in
many churches in this city and around the
United States, people that sit under good preaching,
solid preaching, sound doctrine.
They have heard the word and they have
been growing in Christ.
But you see, there's a seed in them.
And so they are attracted to these voices
and they go to these meetings out of
curiosity where money and greed is emphasized.
And they say, oh, I'm only going out
of curiosity.
I'm only going to go hear this man.
I just turn on this TV celebrity man
because sometimes he says some good things.
Yes, I'll tell you, 95 percent of it
is good.
It's the 5 percent that will kill you.
But the reason you do that is because
there's something in you, the Bible says.
There's something that says maybe this man can
make me wealthy.
Maybe he can help me to find the
secret to making money.
Then money becomes the focus.
If this sounds gloomy to you, I've got
good news.
In spite of what is happening in this
world.
In fact, the Harvard professor recently remarked the
decline of Christianity.
The decline of Christianity is one of the
most remarkable phenomenon of our times.
The lack of influence, the loss of power,
the loss of authority.
He said it's the greatest phenomenon in modern
times.
A Harvard professor.
He said this decline, this loss of influence,
a weak church that has no authority, no
spiritual power.
But that's not what Jesus is coming back
for, the scripture says.
Christ is not coming back for church that's
a den of robbers.
He's coming back for a church led by
the Holy Ghost and not by CEOs.
He's coming back for a sanctified body of
saints who are separating themselves from the world
and all the things of this world, not
letting it get a hold of their hearts.
Now, what's God going to do to answer
the foolishness and this doctrine of covetousness that
is sweeping the world?
How is God going to bring it back
to this promise of a prevailing, overcoming church?
He's going to do it by raising up
spiritual Nazarites.
Samson, Samuel was a Nazarite.
Samson was a Nazarite.
Paul was a Nazarite.
A Nazarite took a vow.
Some were under vow at birth as Samson.
They took a vow of separation from the
world.
And that vow was taken by men and
sometimes by women.
It could be for a week, it could
be for a month, year or for a
lifetime.
And this vow for men included no drinking
of wine.
That represented no giving yourselves, I mean, total
separation from the passions and lust of the
world around you.
He was not to touch a dead body.
And that symbolized don't drink in anything of
this world, don't touch anything of this world
that will rob you of the life and
the purity that is needed for the Holy
Ghost to work through you.
And he was not to cut his hair.
He was never to be shorn of his
hair.
Forget the seven locks on Samson numerology, I
don't want to get into that.
Samson knew it was not his long hair.
He knew that that long hair never to
be cut was a symbol.
It was symbolic.
Every time he saw it, every time the
world saw this man is different.
He doesn't walk where we walk.
He doesn't talk like we talk.
This man is different.
He's set aside for God.
This was a mark.
Now, that mark alone, there's no power in
separation itself.
I'm telling you what God is going to
do in the last day.
The only way he can bring back the
church to this prevailing mode, bring it back
to the glory.
He has to have a separated people, a
Nazarite people that have made a Holy Ghost
vow and led by the Holy Ghost.
The more wicked this world becomes, I am
going to turn to Christ with everything that
is in me.
I'm going to seek God like I've never
sought God before.
I'm going to walk a different path.
I don't care how many Christians say they
can do it.
I can't do it because Jesus is coming
and I want the Holy Ghost in my
life.
Israel had been under bondage for 40 years.
The church represented their powerlessness and under the
bondage and the fear of the Philistine people.
What is God's answer?
How does he answer?
What does God do when the church is
under dominion of the enemy where there is
no strength, there is no power to impact
the world?
He doesn't send an army on this occasion.
He doesn't send angels.
He finds one man and separates himself completely
from the world.
And when he gets this man separated and
is convinced that this man will walk in
that separation, that he knows that that's his
calling in the world, that he's in the
world but not of the world.
Jesus loved sinners.
He ate with them.
But the Bible said he was also separated
from sinners.
And until Jesus Christ once again can find
a body, until he can find a people
who are not being sucked in by the
spirit of this age, until he can find
a clean and holy people that the Holy
Spirit can move upon, because that's what you
hear of Samson time and time again, and
the Spirit began to move upon him mightily.
And you see a lion come up against
him which represents the devil himself who is
a roaring lion.
And the Bible said, And the Spirit of
the Lord came on him, and without a
weapon he tore that lion's mouth apart and
killed it on the spot.
Because the Spirit of the Lord was on
him.
A thousand men come against him.
There were thirty of the Philistines come against
him one time and he slays thirty.
And then on another occasion a thousand come
around him.
And again the Bible said the Spirit of
the Lord came upon him mightily.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him.
Why?
Because he was separated.
And it was not just the separation.
It was the Holy Spirit moving through a
separated man.
Separated from this world.
And for twenty years this man judges Israel.
And for twenty years you don't hear of
another miracle.
You don't hear of Samson doing anything.
You hear of no mighty works.
You hear of no moving of the Holy
Spirit.
Here's a man who started right.
Here is a man who knew he was
separated.
He couldn't touch the things of this world
as long as he stayed in that place
of separation.
He had the Holy Ghost available to him.
And the Holy Ghost would come upon him.
And he was invincible when the Spirit of
God came on him.
And I'm telling you, though they would mock
him and ridicule him, they feared him.
And the church of Jesus Christ will never
be feared.
Until it is a separated people.
Until the Holy Ghost is moving again through
people.
Not just knocking them over.
Not just some kind of physical manifestation.
But through a powerful word anointed by the
Holy Spirit.
And people say, I know that voice.
That's a different voice.
This city heard it when we moved into
this place here on Broadway.
We didn't come here with an agenda.
We didn't come here with a program.
We never knocked on a door.
We never took a poll.
We never asked people, why aren't you going
to church?
Why are there so few people going to
church in New York?
We never said, what would you like to
have in the way of a meeting?
Do you want the music soft?
Do you want it loud?
Do you want organs?
Do you want guitar?
We didn't ask any questions about the music.
We didn't ask anybody.
We were told to come here and preach
the word and confront sin.
And the Holy Ghost would do the rest.
And when we moved into this theater, all
of Broadway said, that show won't last six
months.
They were angry.
And then, folks, Broadway started feeling the impact.
Actors started getting saved.
David Davis is one of, now, pastors of
the church in Jerusalem, Israel.
The musicians started getting saved.
The singers started getting saved.
And they cursed us.
They tried to buy this theater back.
The people we bought this theater from came
to me, offered millions of dollars.
And one man pleaded with me.
The man we bought it from pleaded with
me, please give me back my theater.
I said, no.
Standing room only for Jesus on Broadway.
Folks, it wasn't a program.
It wasn't a book.
It was because the Holy Ghost was in
the pulpit, and the Holy Ghost is burning
in the people.
Why?
Because the Lord said, come out from among
them.
Be ye separate and clean, saith the Lord.
Then I receive you as my son and
my daughter.
And God started cleaning up.
I remember in the other church, I remember
a whole row of crossdressers, transvestites.
There was such Holy Ghost power in this
church.
We didn't have to say a word.
We didn't rebuke them.
We didn't condemn them.
But little by little, they started coming dressed
as men, which was their gender.
And some of them got married.
And those that were married got straight.
Why?
Because the Holy Ghost was here.
The Holy Ghost is in charge.
But you see, for 20 years, you don't
hear from this man.
So his spirit gets cool.
He said to himself, I don't want to
live this separated life.
That had to be his attitude because of
what he did.
Twenty years later, this man, first of all,
he has a one-night stand in Gaza
with a prostitute.
And you see, the next few weeks, his
hair doesn't fall out.
Judgment doesn't come.
And he suddenly has a hook from the
enemy.
He's thinking now, I've been too intense.
I'm living too strict.
Why not a little bit of relaxation?
Why not just a little bit of the
world?
And this is when he goes down to
Zurich.
Zurich is in the Philistine Territory.
And Zurich, the word itself, means a hissing
voice.
A hissing voice, a call.
It's had the most luscious grapes of all
the Mideast.
He goes down, not for grapes, but he's
going to.
And I don't even think he's looking for
a prostitute.
But you see, the devil's trying to say,
we've got to stop this man.
We've got to stop.
There's a secret here.
There's something going on there.
And that's just what they're saying about what's
happening right here.
There's something going on.
Be careful when you go in there.
You're going to feel something.
Be careful in there.
They may get you.
They can mock and they ridicule, but they
have to respect the Holy Ghost.
Samson goes to Zurich and meets a woman
who I believe was planted by the Philistine
princes.
And you know what Delilah means?
He's up.
Take it easy.
Relax.
Don't be so intense.
Look it up.
And he falls in love with Delilah immediately.
And he ends up in her home.
And the Bible says, and he loved Delilah.
What that means, he began to love the
easy life.
He began to love not having to carry
a burden.
No more worrying about the orphans of Israel
or the widows in Israel.
No more weeping over the poverty.
No more, what shall I do, oh God,
to bring the house of the enemy down.
Now I put in my time.
Now I'm going to relax.
I'm going to take it easy.
And folks, Delilah's body went in the grave,
but her spirit's still alive.
And Delilah's still here today because she got
religion.
I said, Delilah got religion.
And the devil moved in the church.
He said, I've got Jezebel already planted in
one church.
I'm going to bring Delilah back.
And I'm going to come to a church
that's supposed to be wide awake, looking for
the coming of the Lord, intensely in love
with Christ, intensely wanting to win souls, those
who are seeking the face of God.
And I'm going to come.
Delilah is going to come and do her
thing.
And whisper, you don't have to live such
a strict life.
A little bit of pornography once a week.
These tapes that you bring into the house.
These vile videos.
I heard one preacher say, well, Christians ought
to be mature enough to take it and
not be affected.
Maturity.
A little drinking.
A little partying.
And that is sweeping through the churches now,
party time.
Turning to drink.
Turning to alcohol.
Flirting with the sexual unities and all of
the cyber sex and all of the media
sex.
And we think we can just walk through
this.
That we can indulge this.
And it's not sucking out our spiritual life.
And Delilah is very much alive in the
church today.
Draining the life.
Ruining pastors.
We see it all over the world.
Absolutely ruined by pornography and all of these
vile things that we bring into our houses.
And we think we can do this and
get away with it.
We think we're too mature.
Because even when Delilah begins to mock him.
You see, three times he toys with the
Philistines.
Three times he not only grieves the Holy
Spirit, he tests the Holy Spirit.
Because you see, he's not valuing now the
work of the Holy Spirit in his life.
He's not saying this is the most important
thing in my life.
That the Spirit of God be on me
and move through me.
Because without the Holy Spirit I am nothing.
I have nothing.
So now, this woman toys with him.
What's the secret of your strength?
And the Philistines say, you entice him so
that we can bind him.
But we've got to know the secret of
his strength.
And he knew the secret was not in
his head, on his hair.
He knew it.
He knew it was the Holy Spirit.
He knew it was just the sign of
separation.
And he said, if I lose my hair.
In other words, if I truly lose the
spiritual reality of this sign.
If I lose the spiritual reality of it.
Not just the symbol of it, but the
reality of it in my heart.
I'm going to be as weak as any
other man.
And so he wakes up stripped and shorn.
In the lap of Delilah.
And he gets up.
And he says, I've done this before and
gotten away with it.
No big deal.
And he walks away.
And they bind him.
He starts struggling and fighting.
He's weak as a kitten.
And he didn't even know the spirit of
the Lord had departed.
And that's the tragedy today.
Of thousands and even millions of Christians sitting
in dead churches.
Not even knowing the spirit of God has
left.
People living their lives.
And getting more and more attached to the
world and its things.
And not even knowing that the enemy, that
the spirit of Delilah has trapped them.
And they're being shorn in their spirit and
in their heart.
Anything that could bring them through the last
fires.
But let me tell you the good side.
You see, we don't have a mere man
as our deliverer.
We don't have a Samson.
We have a God-man.
We have Jesus Christ.
The son of the living God who is
our deliverer.
And Delilah is no match.
Oh, hallelujah.
I believe the Holy Ghost has been dispatched
by the Father and the Son even now.
He is under mandate from heaven.
Go, Holy Spirit.
Go and deal with the spirit of Delilah.
Go right into her house and chase out
every preacher you find in that house.
Convict them once again.
Call them and woo them and tell them,
I want to give them one more chance
of the glory of God just as I
did for Samson.
And chase every Christian you find down there
toying around, flirting with sin.
Tell them, get out while they can because
it's coming down.
The roof is going to cave in.
You say, how is it going to happen?
Because the Lord said, I'm going to shake
everything that can be shaken.
I'm going to shake things up.
I don't know how he's going to shake
it.
When you read all the prophets, when God
shook nations, he started by taking away the
basket of bread, he calls it, which represents
economy.
I don't know how he's going to do
it.
He said, everything that can be shaken is
going to be shaken.
I'm going to shake everything.
I'm going to shake those who are at
ease in Zion.
And I will shake those from Luke 12,
19.
Those who say, I will say to my
soul, you have many goods laid up for
many years.
Take your ease now, eat and drink and
be merry.
But know that that was the shaking to
come that very night.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts.
Yet once in a little while, this is
in Haggai 2, 6 and 7.
I will shake the heavens, the earth, the
sea, the dry land.
I'll shake all nations.
And the desire of all nations shall come.
And I will fill the house, this house
with glory, saith the Lord Jesus.
This tells me that not only did he
do this when Jesus came the first time,
he shook everything the mountains shook.
But this is the same Christ.
He said once again, one more time, I'm
going to shake all that could be shaken.
And folks, in this time of shaking, God
is going to have a people that are
being drawn away.
We meet them now.
We're meeting them from all over the world.
Pastors who say something is in the air.
Something has happened.
And if you're full of the Holy Spirit,
you're sitting here now and you're listening to
me.
Something has to be.
You have to be hearing something in your
spirit.
That's be something stirring in your heart right
now by the Holy Ghost.
If I am preaching the word of God
and if the Holy Spirit is upon me
and if the Holy Spirit is in you,
there's one thing he wants in this last
day when everything is stirring.
He wants men and women so separated with
clean eyes, pure heart and clean hands that
are turning away.
If there's been any flirtation in these things,
backing away, asking the Holy Ghost for power
and buckling away, saying, oh, Jesus, I want
the Holy Ghost to come upon me on
my job.
I want the Holy Ghost to come upon
me on the subway.
And when I'm in church, I want the
Holy Ghost to come upon me.
And he said, that's when the mighty works
begin to happen.
That's when your family gets saved.
That's when God begins to meet needs, when
the Holy Ghost is free, free to move
in our vessels.
Oh, he's the reason I've been preaching this
in the last six weeks or so.
It's something God's doing in my own heart,
saying, move away, get away, don't go.
Build your walls.
Guard your eyes.
Don't let those abominations into your house.
Sitting watching TV, some of the filthiest stuff
in the world, some of it written, produced
by a homosexual community, and they're feeding your
soul.
Christians can sit and watch R and X
rated stuff and expect the Holy Ghost to
move mightily in their families.
Folks, I'm not condemning anybody.
I'm not condemning anybody.
There has to be something
that wakes us up.
There has to be something of the Holy
Spirit saying, hey, listen, church, don't get seduced
by the things of this world.
Don't let it take your heart.
Thank God for his blessings.
I live in a nice home and I
thank God.
I have beautiful furniture, I thank God.
I drive a nice, beautiful new car.
And God never condemns me on any blessings
he puts in my life.
And I'm not condemning you, nor is the
Holy Spirit.
But that's the real separation has to do
with this matter of the Holy Spirit.
I'm separated.
Call it negativism, call it legalism, call it
everything you want.
But I know that the only thing that's
going to impact this world is a Christian,
a true Christian.
That is a vessel upon whom the Holy
Spirit can shake and move and speak.
Nothing that hinders the flow and the anointing.
Will you stand, please?
I have a question for you, church.
Now, you know, if this is your home,
you know your pastors love you.
If they didn't, they'd be preaching you nothing
but a smooth, sweet gospel.
Make you feel good, but it wouldn't dig
to the issue.
Wouldn't get to the heart of it.
From this pulpit, Pastor Carter, Pastor Neal, Pastor
Patrick, Pastor William, Sister Teresa.
Everyone who preaches in this pulpit has one
thing in mind.
One thing in mind.
That God be glorified through this people.
We can't impact this city until we are
separated from it.
In it, but not of it.
And I think there needs to be some
opening of hearts.
Which way are you going lately?
Have you just been easing up and relaxing?
Saying, I can't take this anymore.
It's too strict tonight.
I don't want to live that kind of
life.
Because I've heard it said, God's not a
dictator.
The Lord is not a hard taskmaster.
And as one preacher, this Christian life is
like getting on a plane.
Sit back first class and order a Coke.
That comes from the pulpit.
No.
He said, wake up, church.
Seek my face.
Weep between the porch and the altar.
Stir yourself.
And long and look for my coming.
If you're looking for the coming of Jesus
and you believe that he could come at
any time he chooses, then you're going to
say, I don't want to be indulging when
Jesus comes.
I want to be a separated vessel.
Now, Lord, I don't know how to finish
this.
I did what you told me.
And I obeyed you.
Now it's your part, Holy Spirit, to change
lives.
And deal with grace, mercy, and love with
your body.
Lord, I start with myself.
That what I preach, you would help me
to live.
It would not just be a voice.
It would be a life.
Dedicated and given wholly.
Separated from the world.
You said, come out from among them.
Be a separate and clean.
Then I'll receive you as my son and
my daughter.
And Lord, make this a sanctified church through
the Holy Spirit.
Lord, fall on this church.
Holy Ghost, seize this church.
Seize it as you've never done before.
So that we seek glory beyond anything we've
ever known.
You can still come while I'm talking.
You either come forward.
Let me say just simple, I'm not going
to preach again.
Look this way, if you will, for just
a few moments.
If you can, you heard what I preached.
But I want you to know that I
battle battles just like you.
So does every other pastor.
We have the enemy come against us.
And we can look back on past lives
and see failures.
But you see, the Lord, by his spirit,
dealt with those issues.
He dealt with those issues.
Because we believe the cleansing, healing, forgiving power
of the blood of Jesus.
And then we moved on to say, Holy
Spirit, now empower me.
So let me trust you that when the
enemy comes in like a flood against me
now.
That he'll cause me to despise and hate
all of these things that are unlike Jesus.
That I can become more like Christ.
If you do that now, if you have
that desire, he will hear that cry.
He'll hear that prayer.
And you're going to have to ask the
Holy Spirit to come right now and show
you.
You don't have to live under self-examination.
But there comes a time when the Holy
Spirit says, just be still.
Let me talk to you.
Let me show you things that hinder my
moving.
My moving in your heart.
He abides in us.
But we, just as sure as we cripple
Christ with our unbelief.
We hinder the Holy Spirit from being able
to do his work.
Because of these things that we allow in
our lives.
Would you pray this prayer with me?
Jesus.
Cleanse me.
Of everything.
In my life.
That's unlike you.
Oh Holy Spirit.
I know you have come.
To convict me.
And bring me to the fullness of Christ.
Into a life of peace and rest.
Holy Spirit.
Take over.
Take control.
I ask you.
And I give you permission.
To expose to my mind.
Into my own eyes.
Everything that hinders.
Your work in my life.
Now let me pray for you.
I want you to believe that Lord.
We're laying everything under your control.
We are trusting you fully in the power
of the blood of Jesus Christ.
And the love of Christ.
That when we cry out in repentance.
That you hear and immediately.
Immediately.
It's finished.
There's forgiveness.
And you said I'm more willing to forgive
than you are to confess.
That's marvelous Lord.
And how you love us and you love
your church.
Lord remove everything.
In this body.
In me.
In every pastor.
Every worker.
Remove those things oh Lord that would hinder
us when we gather together.
Or when we're on the job or wherever.
The things that would hinder.
And Lord tell us what to do.
You tell us.
You'll say that's enough.
And you will convict us.
And you will keep convicting us until we
come to the place where we say yes.
Yes.
And then Lord every time we obey the
Holy Spirit.
More power comes.
More joy comes.
More victory comes.
Lord it's that simple.
Help us to do that.
Would you everybody in this house that wants
the Holy Spirit to come upon you.
The Holy Spirit's in you.
And you want the Holy Spirit to come
upon you.
And that would mean the Holy Spirit to
come upon you is the releasing of the
Holy Spirit in you to praise Christ.
To praise Jesus without fear.
Without bondage.
Would you lift your hands and just begin
to worship Jesus.
Worship the Lord Jesus Christ with all your
heart.
Let the Holy Spirit praise Christ through you.
Praise the Heavenly Father through you.
Lord give us clean hands and pure hearts
through which the Holy Spirit can move.
You can't move just through this pulpit.
You have to move through this body.
You have to move through a body.
Hallelujah.
Lord I worship you.
Thank you for cleansing.
Thank you for forgiving.
Give us power now.
Destroy the spirit of denial.
Lord awaken our spirits to seek you as
we've never sought you before.
To love you as we've never loved you
before.
This is the conclusion of the message.