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Lord we thank you for the power of
the word and we come to the word
humbly broken before you and ask you to
speak to our hearts.
Lord we have nothing to say unless the
spirit brings it to birth.
That which you birthed in our hearts, Lord
that which you gave us as we waited
upon you, we bring now to this people.
We pray Lord that you speak deeply into
our hearts, life changing word.
Speak to my heart and change me in
the process of preaching it and speaking it.
Lord we give all honor and glory to
your name.
We are gathered in your name to hear
your word so give us open ears and
open hearts to hear the word in Christ's
name.
Amen.
I read to you the 20th chapter verse
16 beginning to read.
And when we were come to Rome, this
is Paul.
Remember he was in Jerusalem and they tried
to kill him in Jerusalem and he appealed
to Caesar.
The Lord had told him he was to
go to Rome and God was going to
do a work for him through him in
the city of Rome.
This is the head of this is the
capital of the great Roman Empire.
In verse 16 when we came to Rome
the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain
of the guard.
But Paul was suffered or allowed to dwell
by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Let's go now to verse 30 and 31.
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his
own hired house and received all that came
in unto him.
Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those
things which concern the Lord Christ.
Jesus Christ and with all confidence no man
forbidding him and in the original Greek.
It's also in the New American Standard and
other references and other scriptures.
With all confidence, no man hindering him.
The word is hinder.
Now he was totally unhindered.
The gospel he preached and Paul himself were
unhindered.
In the original Hebrew Paul proceeded and taught
the gospel with all openness, unhindered, unobstructed, unstopped,
without delay.
For two years, the scripture says, with all
confidence, no man hindering him.
Now, once you get this picture, if you
will, please.
This is quite an amazing scripture emblazoned in
the word of God and it closes out
the ministry of Paul.
We're not going to hear about Paul's ministry
from here on.
In fact, after this last, this is the
last of his ministry is wrapped up.
He's going to be martyred here and he's
in prison now.
He's in a nondescript house, a rent house
that he's been permitted to rent.
And he has a soldier guarding him.
In fact, he was chained in that that
place.
He could not go to the corner.
He could not go for to a street
meeting.
He could not advertise his meetings in nondescript
house in a just a far off alley
street, perhaps.
And this is the man that God has
sent to evangelize Rome.
Here's the man that God has sent to
to raise up an army that would move
through the whole Roman Empire and affect it
for ages to come.
Is this the plan of God?
Now, how does he reach Rome?
Now, Rome at this time is given over
to homosexuality.
It was not only an accepted, respected lifestyle.
It was a preferred lifestyle among the intelligentsia.
Nero, the emperor, was killing Christians and others
on the streets and in the palace court.
This society, remember that Roman Empire collapsed eventually,
but its very roots in a foundation.
It was lust.
It was money.
It was fame.
All hell had broken loose on the streets
of Rome.
Many, many that were being killed.
And all of the intelligentsia was against anything
that was religious except the cults.
And how does God come in to a
situation with so many hindrances?
These are all hindrances to the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
The false cults.
A government that is persecuting.
A Jewish religious system that wants nothing to
do with Christ or the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn, there are
nothing but hindrances.
There are mountains.
There is opposition.
And God calls a man.
He's by himself.
This time Timothy's not with him.
None of his young soldiers are with him.
One converted Jewish terrorist.
And that's what Paul was.
He's a terrorist.
He went into homes and dragged people out
of their homes.
He was responsible for killing some.
And he stood there when it says he
consented to Stephen's stoning.
It means he participated.
Here's a terrorist.
Here is God's plan.
Is this how God is going to move
Rome?
Is this how God, by His Spirit, is
going to come against all the opposition of
the enemy?
Everything that the devil can do, everything that
is in the devil's weaponry is now aimed
at this man.
There is no chance, humanly speaking, of the
gospel breaking through in Rome.
Is this God's program?
How different from what we see in America
and the world today?
How different?
One converted terrorist who can hardly see, who's
being battered every day by Satan, who by
his own description is not eloquent, and his
speech is contemptible.
He's not a celebrity because when he comes
to Rome, he calls the Jewish leadership and
says, I am here because I've taken a
stand for this man Jesus.
And they say, we don't know who you
are.
We don't know anything about you.
There have been no letters sent here.
Who are you?
At some reception to the gospel, the man
who spent his life, and they say, who
are you?
And Paul's got this burning desire to preach
Christ to his fellow Jews.
In fact, Paul watched them.
They began to argue among themselves about this
Christ.
And Paul said, you've hardened your hearts.
He said, I'm going to go to the
Gentiles.
I know God sent me here.
And there are people going to respond to
this gospel.
And so for two years in an undescript
rented house, no advertising, no computers, no equipment,
no prayer warriors, nobody standing with him.
He's all alone, chained to a Roman unbelieving
guard.
Imagine Paul sitting in that Roman house, knowing
that God called him and he's been through
so much.
Here's a man that's preached to multitudes.
He's been in city squares.
He's established churches.
And now God wants to reach the city
of Rome and he wants to reach the
Roman Empire.
Here's Paul sitting there having a prayer meeting
by himself.
And there's not a discontented muscle in his
body.
He's in total contentment, Lord, just being here.
If that's all it is, you sent me.
And if I just all it is that
I am here in your place, not murmuring,
not complaining, then the gospel is going to
go forth unhindered.
No one's going to be able to stop.
I don't know your plan, but you told
me to come and you put me here.
I didn't plan this.
You planned it.
You see, you can be sitting here in
the choir now and just your being there.
That's where God put you.
He didn't call you to Africa.
He didn't call you to China.
He called you to the choir.
Then just your being there makes the gospel
totally unhindered, opens up.
No devil, no demon of hell can stop
what you're doing, what you're singing, what you're
saying.
You might not see the impact, but the
kingdom of God is being impacted, impacted.
It's just Paul being there.
You're not, sir.
God put you there.
There's power in that.
That unhinders the gospel of Jesus Christ because
you're not murmuring, saying, well, I wish I
was in the choir.
No, God put you there.
Thank him.
And one of your smiles may bring salvation
to somebody.
That's all they needed in this house.
What is God's method of building his church
in times of dire, consequent, dire hindrances?
Is this how you reach cities?
Paul dwelt for two whole years in his
rented quarters and received all that came to
him.
A contented man with no, he's got no
committee.
One man praying and suddenly people start coming
into this rented house.
The Holy Spirit draws them because there's a
hungry people there and it's all word of
mouth.
And Bible says day and night for two
years, people came to that little house, that
rented house of Paul.
And folks, when you read some of the
historians and when you read, I don't have
time to go into, but naming some of
the people who are converted in those meetings,
they're out of that little house.
God moved in Rome, established a powerful body
of believers, and they went all over the
world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ all
over through that little rented house.
That little house was the Holy Ghost central
headquarters for Operation Rome.
Where's God moving?
Oh, not in the cathedrals.
Where is God moving?
Not that he can't.
Well, is he down in the marketplace?
No.
Where do you go?
You have to go down this street and
then you turn left and then right.
And then when you get into the poor
section, Paul couldn't afford a house in the
high rent area.
Paul was a poor man and he had
to pay for his rent.
You find it in this nondescript poor little
house.
No techniques.
Is the Holy Ghost trying to say something
to his church?
I don't believe God is against using modern
techniques.
Look ahead.
This is something modern.
Paul never had this.
He didn't have this microphone.
He didn't pastor into one of these great
buildings like I'm preaching from right now.
He didn't have all of this technical stuff.
I'm not against that and God's not against
that.
God uses everything.
Every tool we have we're to use to
evangelize the world.
But, folks, God is trying to say something.
It doesn't have to be big.
And I think if Paul, the apostle, came
today and looked at what's happening in the
church, where the techniques are replacing the Holy
Ghost, where methods are bringing us to a
place where we think God works only on
big scale, I think Paul would preach downsize.
Because he would be taking us through the
Bible and he'd be talking about Gideon bringing
30,000 men and God took them down,
remember, to 10,000, and then he took
them down to 300 because God said if
you think I'm going to use a great
host, then you're going to start boasting that
you did it.
God says I'm going to take a little
hand of people that are dedicated, that are
fully given to me, and I will use
them.
I'm not preaching smallness.
I'm preaching that God can use the most
humble.
He can use anybody that is willing to
be shut in with God and stripped of
all confidence in the flesh and learning to
be wholly dependent on God for everything, totally
believing the power of the gospel and speaking
it and living it with confidence.
God can do it with anybody.
I'm an example of that.
God found a skinny little preacher in a
little town in Pennsylvania and sent him here
to work with gangs and drug addicts and
then work with you, who are not drug
addicts and gang members.
There's a history of the Pentecostal movement that
started in a little nondescript house in Los
Angeles on a street called Azusa.
This is early 1903, 1904, thereabouts.
And the Holy Ghost broke out in a
little clapboard house church.
An unknown, humble, black preacher, Brother Seymour, used
to pray with his head in a wooden
box, an empty wooden apple crate.
And people would come when the Holy Spirit
broke out in Los Angeles.
Word spread all through Los Angeles.
People would line up to get in.
They had prayer meetings, daily prayer meetings, in
the second floor in a room.
And the story, by witnesses who were there,
ministers came from all over the world to
that little house, that little rented house.
The humble, black pastor, who did nothing but
pray and seek the face of God.
And pastors, evangelists, well-known pastors, evangelists would
come.
And the testimony was, when they'd walk in,
they would be so convicted of their sins,
they'd fall on their face and begin to
weep for hours.
What am I trying to say?
That this gospel of Jesus Christ will not
consider any opposition from the world as a
hindrance.
The gospel of Jesus Christ sees no hindrances.
There is nothing.
Communism couldn't hinder it.
The deadness of all the churches at that
particular time in the early part of that
century, they said that religion was totally dead.
And God says, I don't care what they
say.
I don't care what the hindrances may be
in your eyes.
I see no hindrances.
And I don't need an army.
I don't need a lot of money to
get this done.
I need a man.
God's not looking for methods.
He's looking for men.
He's looking for women that He can touch.
God always uses a God-filled, Holy Ghost
man to accomplish His work.
He can do it in the smallest, most
insignificant places with the most insignificant people.
Paul the Apostle in Rome is not a
celebrity.
He's an unknown Jew.
This man is not discouraged.
He said, I'm going to go to the
Gentiles.
The preaching and the teaching of Paul's gospel
of Jesus Christ was spoken, the Bible said,
with confidence and unhindered.
And this is what this brings us to
our age.
You see, we face hindrances that Paul knew
nothing about in his generation.
There was no homosexual outrage such as we're
seeing.
There was a lot of homosexuality in the
Roman Empire.
It was not this organized religious thing.
Here in the state of New York, 410
churches, 410 pastors have signed up for Pride
in My Pulpit, it's called.
And it's spreading around the United States.
In New York State, 410 pastors already signed
up.
Pride in My Pulpit.
That is the homosexual agenda.
In other words, we are proud of the
homosexual community and we endorse the homosexual community
in our church.
And I have Pride in My Pulpit.
In other words, I'm with the homosexual pride.
The first thing, my Bible said pride goes
before destruction and the Holy Spirit before a
fall.
The very dangerous thing that is sweeping the
United States now.
And Paul did not have the in-your
-face violence that we're seeing.
We face an Islamic onslaught against Christianity.
Never in history have we faced this.
Think tanks, these modern think tanks are telling
us now that the great battle is between
Islam and Christianity now.
And Islam against democracy.
And mosques are being built all over the
world, all over the United States.
Here in New York, they're building mosques.
You can see these incredible mosques, all financed
by Arab oil money.
And the boast is that we are going
to destroy infidel Christianity.
But folks, I want to tell you, my
Bible says they're not going to win.
The Bible says all of these forces, all
of these hindrances, all they are.
I talked about this a week or so
ago about the Supreme Court deciding that no,
there can be no display of the Ten
Commandments in any federal court building or federal
or even a state court buildings.
And now they're tearing it down and they're
grinding it off the granite walls.
But the Lord God says, let them grind.
Let them take it down.
It's not going to hinder the gospel.
It's not going to hinder this gospel.
Nothing is going to hit it.
Not communism.
They said in Albania, they declared Albania to
be a totally atheistic society.
The government made a declaration.
We are an atheistic nation, declared it in
the Constitution.
And the Holy Ghost started working in Albania.
And bless God, one of these days soon
we're going to be able to go there
and hold meetings.
But they can't stop the moving of the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
It shall not be hindered if it is
preached with confidence.
It happened in China.
They tried to persecute the church out of
existence.
And now millions upon millions of Christians in
small homes and in groups all over China,
now by the millions.
Oh, hallelujah.
Can't be put out.
Let the heathen raids, let the Islamics boast
that they're going to prevail.
Let the atheist, elitist, try to legislate God
out of our society.
Let the Supreme Court legalize gay marriage.
Let the persecutors try to persecute the gospel
out of this system.
Let the prince of powers and power of
darkness rage.
Let the heathen rage.
The Bible says this gospel shall go forth
unhindered.
It shall not prevail against the church of
Jesus Christ.
We see in Europe right now, paganism taking
over most of Europe.
A real pagan spirit, secularizing, coming into the
church.
In Sweden now, 30% of those who
are together, they're living together.
The 30% of the population living together,
unmarried.
The percentage of marriages are falling, and those
just living together are rising.
It's all over Europe, especially in Sweden.
We see all of these things happening, hindrances
to the gospel, the apostasy, and the court
systems that are ruling against Judeo-Christian family
values, and all of these hindrances that are
gathering materialism, lukewarmness, all of these hindrances and
all these oppositions.
Nothing in this world, nothing that the ungodly
culture does can hinder the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
Nothing.
But I'm telling you, we who preach it
and we who live it can hinder the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
It's not the world that concerns the Lord.
The wicked, the Bible said he laughs at
the nations rising up against him.
He said they're just little specks of dust
in the measuring cup.
He said that does not, yes, it grieves
God, but that's not his concern.
God's concern is his church.
You see, the unbelief that Jesus faced in
the hearts of those, even his disciples, it
was the unbelief that hindered his work.
He said, I can't do many works there
because of their unbelief.
And I want to go into that for
just a few minutes, if you will, please.
I've been examining my heart in the past
weeks.
I've been traveling in conferences for ministers.
I've been preaching this pulpit for over 17
years.
And I'm seeing all these things that are
happening around the world.
All the methods, all the new programs, expensive
programs.
Everywhere I go, I hear these new things
being introduced.
And many ask, well, Brother Dave, you pastor
what they call a mega church.
God help you to raise up a church
that has substantial witness to the world.
What's the plan?
I mean, what can we do?
What can you give us?
We'd like to do what you're doing there
with your pastors and your team in New
York City.
And when I look at it and I
see a world that is turning apostate and
I see all these things that Jesus said
coming upon the earth, when men's hearts are
going to fail him for fear, I said,
God, I'm one man.
What do you want me to do?
I fast, I pray, I try to go
to the ends of the world.
But the older I get and the closer
I get to the last run around the
course, the more I think of only one
thing.
And that's the day I stand before Christ
when he said everything is going to be
tested by fire.
Every work, every work.
He said every one of us, you and
me are going to stand on that day.
And when I think of that, I say,
oh, God, I'm looking over my life of
all the things you've called me to do,
the ministries that you placed in my hand,
the buildings that I built, the purchase, the
ministries you had laid on my heart and
started and all of these things.
And one day I'm going to stand before
God and all of these things are going
to be brought up and tested in the
utter holiness of Christ.
The fire is just the absolute holiness, the
piercing love, the utter, utter holiness of God,
where nothing in the flesh can stand.
Nothing in flesh can last the moment because
suddenly it's in a flash and it's gone.
Now, every soul I've won, not going to
burn.
No, no, all all of those things that
have been under the blood, those those people
that have been one.
I don't they don't lose their soul.
Even a cup of cold water is given
in the name in love to a prophet.
It's going to have its reward, Jesus said.
And many are going to many go stand
there and all their works are going to
survive the fire.
And I never questioned my salvation because Jesus
said when the fire comes.
Well, let me read it.
You said that every man be careful how
you build.
Each man work will become evident for the
day.
We'll show it the day when we stand
before Christ.
That's the day of the Lord.
It's going to be revealed by fire and
the fire itself will test the quality of
each man's work.
This day of the Lord, the fire, so
try every man's work of what sort it
is.
If any man's work shall be burned, he
shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be
saved.
Yet so is by fire.
Peter talks about when judgment begins in the
house of the Lord, they're going to be
some that are scarcely saved.
Folks, I don't want to be scarcely saved.
I don't want to stand before him.
I don't want the works.
I don't want to have to stand and
see it all.
Lord, all my lifetime and I have nothing
to offer you.
I thank God for the souls.
None of that is going to be lost.
All of the things that he said he
would do for you, he will do.
But you see, I have to look at
Lord.
Did I hinder in any way your gospel?
Paul, the apostle, said he really looked at
his life.
He said, I have to be careful how
I how I come to the people.
I can't be a materialistic minded man.
He said, because I that I might not
cause hindrance to the gospel of Christ, that
the way I live.
You see, if I come to church and
I sit here like the Corinthians did when
they had communion and the rich were bringing
these fancy lunches and their wonderful steaks and
their wonderful fruits, and they were sitting there
in their little cliques in their tables and
the poor among them didn't even have food.
And he's saying, if you come to church
and you're just thinking about how you're going
to make it, you have your eye on
your future and how to make more money,
how to have better stuff.
And you're not even considering you're not sharing.
You're not concerned about the needs of the
body.
You're not concerned whether the brother next to
you needs to have money for the next
meal.
He said, I judge myself that I'll not
be judged.
I judge myself because I'm going to stand
before Christ.
And when I stand before Christ, crowds won't
mean anything.
Numbers won't mean anything.
Techniques won't mean anything.
Plans of man, methods of man will mean
nothing.
Much of it will not endure the fire.
We stand before him.
You say, well, oh, Brother David, I've learned
now to just put everything under the blood.
Everything, yes, is under the blood.
These are blood-washed people that are going
to stand before Christ.
We're going to stand before him.
And God says, the scripture says, your salvation
is not in jeopardy.
But I'm going to judge the heart and
the purpose and the motive.
Were you trying to make it?
Were you trying to be somebody?
Were you trying to be recognized?
Were you trying to just prepare your own
future without the care of the future of
others?
Were you just trying to have a safe
haven and forget the whole world?
Did you merchandise the gospel?
You see, Paul, the apostle, said, I determined
to preach to you the whole counsel of
God.
Let me tell you that I could stand
here.
These pastors could stand here.
And week after week, we could tell you,
Jesus saves.
Jesus wants to bless you.
Jesus wants you to be happy.
Jesus wants to give you miracle after miracle.
Jesus wants you to be abundantly blessed.
That's pure gospel.
That's true.
But it's only half the gospel.
It's not the whole counsel of God.
And this is what I stand before God
in every pastor's church when you stand before
Jesus.
Did you preach all of these things?
Yes.
But remember, there is only one gospel that
is unhindered.
Only one gospel that is mighty.
Only one gospel can truly save.
And that's the full gospel.
That's the entire gospel.
That's the whole counsel of God.
That includes repentance.
Godly sorrow.
Preparation for persecution.
Yearning for the coming of Christ.
Beware of the deceitfulness of sin.
Beware of lukewarmness.
Beware of the deceitfulness of riches.
Without holiness, no man shall see God.
And then there's the cross, the blood, the
sacrifice.
There's heaven and there's hell.
You see, Jesus ministered miracles.
He ministered bread and meat to the multitudes.
He blessed and he healed.
But one day a message came forth, and
there were no miracles this day.
There was no bread.
There was no fish.
Jesus, knowing his time is short, this man
who had preached such a marvelous good news,
he said, unless you eat my flesh and
drink my blood, you have no part in
me.
And they get together, and the Bible said
this was a multitude he spoke to, and
these were his disciples.
These were those who were followers of Jesus.
And he says, does that offend you?
And then I hear a modern generation say,
we can't make the gospel work today if
we offend people.
Don't talk about being washed in the blood.
Don't talk about blood sacrifices or eating flesh.
But Jesus comes back.
The Bible says, and from that day on
they said, that's a hard message.
Who can receive it?
And so the Bible said, from that day
on they forsook him.
If Jesus came to many of our churches
today, and God forbid that it would ever
happen here, I don't believe it could happen
here.
But you go to many churches, and I
mean this with love, he can stand there,
and if he stood and preached that same
message, if he preached that message, you have
to eat my flesh, you have to drink
my blood, you have to see the spiritual
meaning of this.
Jesus says, I'm asking everything of you.
All of this other food, this movie junk,
this TV junk, and all this other stuff
that you've been feeding on has to go.
I have to be the one you're feeding
on.
These churches would empty.
You see, there are times that I've stood
in this pulpit, and I've never claimed to
be a prophet.
You've never heard me once boast of being
a prophet.
But there are times I prophesy.
There are times I've had to preach a
hard word.
Same with every pastor here.
I've seen Pastor Carter and Pastor Neal struggle
before they got, because they knew that they
had a word that could pierce and break
through, and some may not know how to
receive it.
But there are times, and even lately, that
I've preached what we consider a hard message.
I've preached this hardest message.
And I walked out that door, and I
walked to my apartment, didn't say anything to
anybody.
I didn't want to talk to anybody.
And I went home and started crying.
And I, for two weeks, I would say
to my wife, and I'd even call Pastor
Carter and say, did I wound the congregation?
And I'm not looking for sympathy or pity
or anything else.
But I know how that affected me.
And because there was one verse in this
Bible that burns in my soul and affects
me every time I get up to preach.
It is Proverbs 17, 15.
He that justifies the wicked and he that
condemns the just, even both, are an abomination
to the Lord.
It says this, I cannot in any time,
no matter how I feel the word, I
cannot get up in my flesh and condemn
the just.
But at the same time, God help me
to examine my heart.
And when I preach, Lord, have I held
back anything?
Is there something I'm preaching that makes people
feel good in their sins, that they have
to repent, that there's a work that God
has to do, and He will not do
His covenant work without our association, without our
cooperation.
And I have to say every time, especially
when I preach covenant, or when I preach
the blessing and the grace of God, I
have to be very, very careful that I
preach the whole gospel of Jesus Christ.
That I do not comfort men in their
sins.
And you will not find that in Times
Square Church.
If you're visiting here and you say, well,
I like this church.
Well, be prepared, my beloved friend.
Be prepared sometime to hear a message that
will make you uneasy.
Because this is the only prevailing gospel.
This is the only unhindered gospel.
It has to be the whole gospel in
this Bible.
Give me just two minutes.
What about this?
You say I'm not a preacher?
Brother David, you're preaching to preachers now.
No, I'm preaching to the congregation.
The only thing I want to say, and
the Lord put this and told me, I
had to say this before I closed the
message.
The gospel that you have witnessed to your
family.
You're sitting here, you have an unsaved loved
one.
Someone you've been praying for.
I'm telling you, you dare not ever give
up.
Because this gospel that you live and this
gospel that you preach is not being hindered
by anything, can't be hindered by anything.
It's not the unbelief in your unsaved loved
ones.
It's the unbelief in your heart and mine.
That's where the hindrance is.
You see, the Holy Ghost breaks through.
They don't have the capacity to believe until
the Holy Spirit breaks through.
And the Holy Spirit begins to reveal Christ.
But you see, you and I have to
have confidence in this gospel we preach and
in the prayers that we pray.
I don't care how many hindrances you see
right now when you think of that precious
loved one or those loved ones close to
you and your family.
And the Lord made this so clear to
me.
Some of you have given up.
You don't have the faith.
You once did, but now you don't believe
it's impossible.
Impossible.
They're too hard.
I served with God and said nothing's impossible
with Him.
Nothing is too hard for the Lord.
And God can break through.
And this, I'm telling you now, if you
have witnessed to them, whatever you've witnessed, that
gospel seed that you preach, it's a mighty
gospel and it's going to get through.
It may be on a deathbed.
It may be only on a deathbed that
they get through.
But God's going to hear your prayer.
I'm asking this church to take back its
faith.
Lay hold of faith for the unsaved loved
ones because the gospel that we preach to
our loved ones is still an unhindered gospel.
The devil cannot stop it.
The spirit of the age can't stop it.
The sin in the heart of your loved
ones can't stop it.
Unbelief is the only hindrance.
You say, well, I can't accept that, Brother
David.
Yes, there are other matters.
I'm saying this, but you have to be
free on your part.
I want to stand before God knowing that
I have believed and I have trusted this
gospel that I preach, that I can believe
God that my son, my daughter, my husband,
my wife, my parents, I believe that God
can save them.
And I'm not going to let go, and
every day I'm holding on to it.
I've seen one after another come because I
believed and I've held on, and my one
sister at a deathbed, but God answers prayer.
Will you stand?
Aren't you glad we have a gospel that's
going to prevail, that every other gospel is
going to submit?
One day, the Bible said, every knee's going
to bow.
Every tongue's going to fast before our Christ.
Call him Lord and Savior.
I don't worry about Islam.
I don't worry about the homosexual agenda.
I pray for the homosexual community, and I
know you do too.
Let's not worry about the government and the
legislation.
Right now, Christians are being persecuted all over
the world.
But in the midst of that persecution, the
gospel is prevailing.
I trust this gospel.
Hallelujah.
What a power we have in this gospel.
God, take away our unbelief.
If the Holy Spirit has spoken to your
heart in the annex here in the Maiden
Auditorium, if God has truly spoken to you
this morning, something, say, I don't know what
God's dealing with you about.
I could name a whole lot of things.
I don't want to name anything.
But you say, Pastor David, the Holy Spirit
has moved me.
God's speaking to me.
And you need some time face-to-face
with Jesus.
There must be some repentance maybe for unbelief.
Maybe you don't know Christ.
You're coming here.
It's the first time you've been here.
But there's something pulling and drawing at your
spirit, your heart.
You're here and you say, Pastor David, and
I want to be careful on this.
I don't want just everybody to come.
But I want those who have to say,
I have truly given up on my faith.
I'm thinking of one person you pray for,
one person, not a whole group, not your
whole family, but one person in particular that
you have given up on and thinking is
too hopeless.
If the Lord speaks, you can come.
You that are here, would you look this
way, please?
I'm not going to preach another sermon, just
a few words.
I believe from the heart of the Lord.
Jesus, speak to us now.
And I'm asking you to go deep into
our hearts so that this is more than
just coming forward.
But this is something that becomes a commitment.
That when we walk out the door, some
changes are being made.
Changes are being made.
Now you can look this way.
See, only the Holy Spirit knows why you
came forward.
I don't know why you came up here.
If there are 150 here or so, whatever
it may be, there'd be 150 different reasons
why the Holy Spirit urged you to come
forward.
I don't know.
But He's one Spirit who abides in us
all.
And there's only one answer.
And that's that the Holy Spirit will always
bring you to the love of Jesus.
He'll bring you into the heart of Christ.
And when He draws you forward, He's not
bringing you just to the front of the
church.
He's bringing you to a greater commitment to
Jesus Christ.
He wants you to make a deeper commitment.
First of all, to believe Him.
To believe Him on your job.
And as you live before Him righteously, you
live before the world and your co-workers
righteously, that that gospel that's being preached by
what you're living is going to have power.
You may not hear about it, but it's
working.
Something's happening.
Every time you live it.
Every time you're honest.
Every time you don't cheat.
Every time people see that you're living a
different lifestyle than theirs.
Every time you turn away from their dirty
jokes.
Every time you come, as sick as you
may be and as burdened as you are,
your finances may be over your head and
you may be feeling bad, but there's something
of a quiet confidence in your heart and
they see it.
You're not spilling your guts to them.
You're just saying, yeah, I'm going through a
hard time, but I know my God is
able.
And every word that you speak comes out
of you is having an impact.
That is what we're talking about.
That's the unhindering of the gospel.
That's what God wants you to commit to
right now, Lord Jesus, that I will live
so before my wife, my husband, my children.
Many children are not serving the Lord because
they've been hindered by the screaming and the
dishonest and hypocrisy of parents.
So say, oh God, let me not be
a hypocrite before my children.
Let me not scream at my kids.
Simple things.
God's not calling you to be a great
missionary.
He's not calling you to build something or
do something.
He's asking you to live something of his
life.
Just to live that and say, Jesus, buy
that.
I want my unsaved loved ones to know
that what I have is genuine, that they
can look at me and say, well, if
I ever give my life to Christ, that's
what I want.
They've got to see that in you, even
if you have to make a confession that
you haven't been living that way and say,
forgive me, I've not lived my life as
I should before you, but by God's grace,
I will.
Lord, I ask you now by your spirit,
oh God, to speak.
You're not trying to condemn anybody.
You're trying right now to bring us out
of our self-centeredness and help us to
judge ourselves that we may not judge, just
to judge our life, to look at it
and say, is my life pleasing to Christ?
Am I living honestly without hypocrisy before my
family, before those that I work with?
Lord, do that, we pray now, and help
us to make those changes.
Will you pray this prayer with me right
now?
Lord Jesus, cleanse me and forgive me of
my sins.
Forgive my unbelief.
I will trust you.
And I ask you, Holy Spirit, to remind
me where I have failed to live like
Christ.
Remind me every day and help me to
follow through.
I will trust you to give me clean
eyes, clean hands, and a pure heart.
Jesus, I love you and I trust you.
You have touched me.
Now let me walk out of here with
peace.
Now let me pray for you.
Father, you heard it's just a simple prayer,
but we've seen it work time and time
again for many years, right here in this
church, at this same place, this same altar
area.
Lives have been changed.
People have been changed.
Families have been changed.
And God has done such miracles.
And we give you honor and glory in
Jesus' name.
In the last day, man, I want to
give to you, everyone, wherever you're at, make
a commitment right now.
You don't have to fall on your knees.
You don't have to shake.
You don't have to cry.
It's a commitment of faith.
As I walk out of here today, I'm
going to believe God for the salvation.
Now, I'm not limiting you to one or
two, but there are some that you especially
have to just bathe in prayer and hold
them up in prayer.
But that prayer that you pray will not
work unless you truly believe God is going
to hear you and answer you that God
is faithful to his word, that this word
is powerful.
Pray the Scripture.
Don't go up and just words coming out
of your mouth.
Pray the Scripture and stand on those Scriptures
and believe God.
Now, please don't get anxious if it doesn't
happen in a day, a week, or a
month, or a year.
It'll happen.
And you'll see evidence.
God will give you evidence.
If you keep praying, he'll give you some
kind of a sign or evidence just to
encourage you to keep on.
God bless you.
God be with you.
This is the conclusion of the message.