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Go to Revelation 22 please, Revelation 22.
Go to verse 7 with me.
This is Jesus speaking.
Behold, what?
I come quickly.
Blessed he that keepeth the sayings of the
prophecy of this book.
Go down to verse 11.
He that is unjust, let him be unjust
still.
He which is filthy, let him be filthy
still.
He that is righteous, let him be righteous
still.
And he that is holy, let him be
holy still.
Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is
with me, to give every man according as
his works shall be.
I'm Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the first and the last.
All right, verse 16.
I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify
unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and offspring of David,
the bright and morning star.
Verse 17.
And here's my message.
And the Spirit and the bride say, repeat
these words with me.
You know, we don't do this often, but
it's so important for me now, and I
want you to hear.
And the Spirit and the bride say, come.
Again.
And the Spirit and the bride say, come.
Two voices.
The Spirit and the bride say, come.
Lord Jesus, I can't preach this unless your
Spirit comes on me.
Unless you open my heart and the ears
of all who hear and touch my voice
and give me the anointing of the Holy
Spirit.
Lord Jesus, we expect you to return.
God, I thank you that this is the
hope.
This is our eternal hope.
This is our everlasting hope.
That we learn for and we look for
the return of Jesus Christ back to this
earth to redeem his own.
Lord Jesus, in these perilous times, this message
has to be heard.
Now, Lord, God, let this sound like a
trumpet.
God, sound the trumpet in our voice.
Not at the intensity of my voice, but
Lord, the power of your Holy Spirit.
It's dead letter unless you come by your
Spirit and make it known and real to
our hearts.
Awaken our spirits, we pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
When's the last time you've heard a message
on the coming of the Lord?
I don't remember how long it's been since
I've preached on the coming of the Lord.
You don't hear it anymore.
You can go anywhere in the United States
and you will seldom hear a message about
the soon return of Jesus Christ.
Now, when I was a boy, before even
teenage years, we heard that every Sunday.
My father was a preacher.
My grandfather, great-grandfather, came from a line
of preachers.
And every Sunday we heard this.
I grew up hearing about the trumpet sounding.
And I heard this message that came from
my father, Jesus is coming.
He's coming like a thief in the night.
Be ready, be prepared at any moment because
Christ is coming.
And my mom used to say, David, don't
ever go.
Now, back in those days, going to a
movie was very worldly.
Don't go to a movie.
Jesus might come while you're in there.
And she kept me righteous for years.
I didn't want to do that because the
trumpet was going to sound.
I still come to attention when a trumpet
blows.
I was born and raised with this, not
with fear, but a godly fear.
The message is, it's from the Scripture, he's
going to come suddenly as a thief in
the night in the twink of an eye.
Bet your eye, that's how quick the Bible
says Jesus is going to come.
Even when I was a teenager, every evangelist
that came preached on the coming of the
Lord.
People were awake, people were expecting his coming.
We don't know when he's going to come.
But the Bible said we're to live expecting
him at any moment.
Now, the Bible warns us that in last
days, mockers are going to come mocking this
message.
I'm reading to you from 2 Peter 3,
verse 4.
In the last days, mockers will come with
their mockings, saying, Where is the promise of
his coming?
For all things continue just as they were
from the beginning of nature.
Ever since the fathers fell asleep, things go
on as usual.
You see, there's a new teaching now, there's
a new mindset right now.
Jesus is not coming.
We've heard that for many years.
All the prophecies, very few have been fulfilled.
Why should we expect his coming?
Because everything continues.
The sun rises and sets, and there's morning,
and there's noon, and there's night, and every
day will be the same.
It's been that way from the creation of
the world, and it'll be like that until
we die.
Where is the sign of his coming?
Because, you see, if you're living in sin,
if you're in perversion, if you're in something
that your heart and your conscience tell you
is wrong, and even when your conscience is
smitten, the Holy Ghost tells you it's wrong,
then you don't want to hear this message.
You want nothing to do with it, and
you're going to say, well, things continue as
they are, and you're going to have this
same mindset.
The very thought of dying, the very thought
of judgment, the very thought of having to
stand before God and have a day of
reckoning for sin, the world can't handle that.
The world cannot handle those outside tonight, especially
those who are living in vile sin.
There's no way they want to even think
about it.
It's the most frightening thought any man in
sin can think, that one day there's a
judgment.
One day Jesus might come and might judge
me.
I might have to stand before him and
have books opened on my life, and that's
the last thing that the sinful man wants
to hear.
The Bible says they followed the dictates of
their own lust.
And this is what Peter is saying.
Here's what's behind all of this rebellion against
God's Word.
Here's what's behind the lawlessness of today.
Because they have said in their heart, Jesus
is not coming.
Where is the promise of the coming of
Christ?
Where is there any danger of ever having
to stand before God and give an account?
And that's what Peter is saying.
This is what is behind this lawlessness breaking
out in the land on all sides.
This is the teaching.
This is what man has done.
The flaunting of sin.
Now these that are pushing for breaking down
the marriage institution between a man and a
wife.
Breaking this down.
Till it can finally come that a brother
and a sister can get married.
It will come down to the most vile,
incredible breaking down of every institution we've trusted
in.
They are not breaking the law of the
land.
They're not breaking the constitution.
They're breaking the law of God.
They're bringing into disrepute and unbelief everything God
has said.
Taking away the authority of God's Word.
Because there's this nagging fear.
This nagging thought.
The Bible says, and I don't know where
they hear it.
Some of you say have never heard it.
The Holy Ghost, when He comes, He reproves
the world.
The world, all of mankind, He reproves the
world of sin and righteousness and judgment.
And even though you try to shake it
off, the world tries to shake it off.
And the world sits comfortably saying, we don't
believe it.
Everything continues as it was.
Now, first of all, how can anyone be
so blind as to say things are continuing
just as they have?
We've had terrorists blow up the twin towers
in New York.
Terrorists blowing up a train station in Spain.
Terrorists down in Iraq are chopping off heads.
You know, people say things continue as they
were.
What blindness when 700,000 innocent people were
killed in Rwanda at the hands of their
own people.
AIDS killing millions in Africa, India, China, and
all over the world.
Rogue nations now with hydrogen bombs ready to
hold the whole world as hostage.
New diseases coming up that have never been
known to mankind, such as SARS and Ebola.
That can eat up a man's flesh in
a week.
And they say all things continue as they
were.
That is willful ignorance and blindness, the Bible
says.
They forget the flood.
That's what Peter said.
They forget that there was a flood.
Things do not continue as they were.
The Bible said things continually get more and
more evil.
And many generations are multiplied seven times in
multiples in the power and the extremity of
the wickedness.
Incredible that man can say things continue as
they were from the beginning.
But you see, there's a power in the
land.
An unseen, invisible power.
And that's the Holy Ghost.
When men say, where is the sign of
his coming?
Even if they sear the conscience, as I
said, the Holy Spirit has been mandated to
come and reprove the world of sin.
Folks, the sinners can parade.
Sinners can mock.
The mockers are here.
They're in Congress.
I'm not saying all congressmen, that they're trying
to change our laws and our institutions.
They're in Congress.
They are in government.
They're in our schools.
They're in our colleges.
The mockers are everywhere.
The mockers are teaching in seminaries, in Bible
colleges.
These mockers who are taking away this concept
that Christ will come again.
Absolutely removing it from their minds and from
their theology.
You ask me, what kind of coming are
you talking about, Pastor Dave?
Are you talking about what they call is
the rapture?
That he could come at any moment.
He could come tonight.
And it's called by one strain of thought
that that's the evacuation.
People will disappear suddenly.
Books have been written about it.
It's been preached for years.
And it's called pre-trib rapture.
Many believe that Jesus will come halfway through
what is called the great tribulation.
That the world is going to fall under.
And this is scriptural.
That there's going to be a time of
what they call Jacob's trouble.
And for seven years there'll be terror.
And there will be signs and wonders and
chaos such as the world has never seen.
A time of tribulation.
Some say that we're going to go three
and a half years and Jesus will come.
Some are called post-trib.
That means after the trib.
Pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib.
And then there are others that say, well,
there's only one coming and that's the end
of the world when the Lord wraps it
all up.
That's all the way to the very last
in when he comes back with a host.
And, folks, there are good men, godly men
in all of these camps.
Honest people could give you scripture to back
up their theology.
Now, here's where I'm going with this.
I'm not going to get into any of
that.
I believe in we can't lose trib, for
example.
To me, it doesn't matter if I have
to go through three and a half years
of tribulation or seven years because the same
Lord that's kept me for 73 years is
going to take me for seven years if
I have to.
And he'll walk over us.
And, you see, that's not the real issue
because the Bible says no man knows the
time or the date.
And I think it's wrong to argue with
Christians so bad.
Well, I believe in the rapture.
I believe in mid-trib and get mad
and lose your soul in talking about Jesus
coming.
Get mad at people.
If you love Jesus with all your heart
and you want him to come and you're
wanting him to come at any moment, you
can go all the way to the end.
Jesus will be with you just the same.
Glory be to God.
I'm not trying to lighten this or be
facetious about it at all.
But, you see, there's a greater issue.
There's something goes for you on that.
Because Satan has created a vicious lie that
he's implanted in the heart of Christians.
It's in the world, but it's taken hold
at root even in evangelical circles and in
Pentecostal circles.
And this is the lie.
Jesus has delayed his coming.
Jesus is not coming at any moment.
He has delayed his coming.
I want you to go with me, please,
to Matthew 24.
Matthew 24.
Do you have your Bible?
I said, do you have your Bible?
Then go to Matthew 24.
And I start reading at verse 42.
Watch therefore, for you know not what hour
your Lord doth come.
Now, that's amazing.
You don't know whether it's pre-trib, mid
-trib, post-trib, end of the world.
Watch therefore, for you know not what hour
your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the good man
of the house had known in which hour
the thief was coming, he would have watched
and would not have suffered his house to
be broken up.
Therefore, be what?
Be ready, for in such an hour as
you think not, the Son of Man cometh,
who then is a faithful and wise servant,
whom his Lord hath made ruler over his
household, to give meat in due season.
Blessed is that servant, whom when his Lord
comes, he shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you, he shall make
him ruler over all his goods.
But, if that evil servant shall say in
his heart, My Lord, delayeth his coming, and
shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and
eat and drink with the drunken, the Lord
of that servant shall come in a day
when he looks not for him, in an
hour which he is not aware of, shall
cut him asunder, point him in his portion
with the hypocrites, there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
Now, he's talking about servants.
These are his people.
He's talking about his servants.
And one of them is expecting, one is
faithful, and he's been made ruler of the
house.
The other is called an evil servant.
And what is it that makes him evil?
Well, why does Christ call this man an
evil servant?
Because he says in his heart.
He didn't preach it.
He didn't teach it.
He didn't voice it to his family.
But he was taken by a lie in
his mind.
His mind has bought this lie, Jesus has
delayed his coming.
He's not coming at any moment.
I don't have to be concerned about it.
I don't have to live carefully.
I don't have to think about it because
he has delayed his coming.
Now, Jesus called that man who thinks like
that an evil man.
Now, folks, we don't say it.
You may not have a theology to back
it up.
But you may have heard it somewhere, and
the enemy has planted that somewhere in your
mind.
He's not coming at any moment.
But he has delayed his coming.
Some say Paul the Apostle preached against getting
people excited, preaching about an imminent return of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
And this is widespread in the church today.
I want you to go to II Thessalonians,
please.
II Thessalonians, the second chapter.
You're going to have to go closer to
the end of the New Testament for new
believers here.
II Thessalonians.
I'd like to hear the rustling of the
leaves.
II Thessalonians 2.
I'm sorry, verse 1.
Now, we beseech you.
This is Paul speaking.
We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by our gathering together
unto him, that you be not soon shaken
in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, nor by letter from us,
as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
Now, look at me, please.
He said, you've gotten a letter, or somebody
sent you a word, and don't let that
word that you hear upset you or excite
you.
He said, don't be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, nor by letters from us,
as that the day of Christ is at
hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means,
for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man
of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Now, look this way, please.
You see, Paul, this church, was sent a
letter, and said, Jesus is coming, and Paul
says, Jesus, calm down, don't worry about it,
don't think about it, because two things have
to happen first.
There has to be a great falling away,
an apostasy, and then the man of sin,
the son of perdition, the Antichrist, has got
to take his place, seated in the temple,
opposing, or claiming to be God, and claiming
worship.
In the first place, in the original Greek,
and in the New American Standard, it's not
what it says at all.
It says, the Scripture said, that day shall
not come.
Let me get here.
That the day of the Lord has come.
Their concern, their being troubled, was that they
were told that Jesus had come.
That the day of the Lord had come.
And they said, we have missed it, and
they were troubled.
Paul, that's not Paul's theology.
Here's what Paul's theology is.
Knowing the time, that is already, this is
already the hour for you to wake from
sleep.
For now salvation is nearer to us than
when we first believed.
The night is almost gone.
The day is at hand.
Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of
darkness, and put on the armor of light.
Here is Paul's theology.
Let your moderation be known unto all men,
because the Lord is near.
Now, let me talk to you about Jesus
not coming until there's a great apostasy.
Number one.
Now, I think you'd have to be absolutely
spiritually blind not to see the raging apostasy
all over the world.
In the world and in the church of
Jesus Christ, the apostasy that is now sweeping
worldwide.
The apostasy has already come.
That day shall not come except there come
a falling away first.
For the mystery, Paul said, the mystery of
iniquity is already at work.
The mystery of iniquity is the mystery of
lawlessness.
He said it's already at work.
Now, listen closely.
If this lawlessness, this spirit of lawlessness, absolute
chaos, no one respecting the law.
This is why God destroyed the earth by
the flood, because of violence and lawlessness.
And Paul said this mystery of lawlessness, it's
a mystery how it's just breaking out everywhere.
But if it started in the days of
Paul the Apostle, what do you think is
happening today?
How raging is this fire?
That after all these years and that apostasy,
that lawlessness has continued to grow worse and
worse and worse.
How lawless do you think Paul would think
we are in this generation and in America
today, if he were alive today?
The apostasy.
Absolute mockery of the things of God.
No concern about the coming of Jesus Christ.
This message could not be preached in a
majority of Protestant churches today.
It could not be preached.
Paul goes on to say there's been a
restraining power.
I'm going to read on in verse 4.
Who poses and exalted himself above all that
is exalted, all that is called God, that
is worshipped so that he as God sits
in the temple of God, showing himself that
he is God.
Remember, he said when I was with you,
I told you these things.
Verse 6, now you know what withholdeth that
he might be revealed in his time.
What withholdeth?
There's a restraining force, Paul said.
There's a restrainer.
And that's what it says in the original
Greek.
There's a restrainer up to now.
And he said that restrainer is no longer
going to be restraining.
Now, could you imagine?
Who else could restrain sin?
Who else could stop total lawlessness, total chaos,
till the world was in critical mass and
everything spinning out of control, no one controlling,
no government, nobody.
It's been the Holy Spirit.
You know what New York City would be?
Can you imagine what this city would be
without the restrainer?
Restraining wickedness until the gospel can be fulfilled
and taught and preached in its fullness?
I wouldn't want to be near this city.
I wouldn't want to be in the country.
I wouldn't want to be anywhere.
But the restrainer has been here.
And he said, now, you know what's withholding,
that he might be revealed in his time.
Can you think about it?
Think about it for just a moment.
All of this that we've been talking about,
this lawlessness, that's under restraint.
The Bible said God's going to lift the
hand of the restrainer.
He's going to lift the hand of restraint
so that they will believe a lie, he
said.
There'll be strong delusion.
And what is going to happen?
See, the Antichrist forces are already set.
The stage is set.
We have United States of Europe about to
put into place a constitution that is totally
secular, denies God, denies religious freedom.
Right now, I told you in Sweden, a
Pentecostal preacher is in jail because he preached
against homosexuality from the Bible.
And that's a part of the whole agenda
of the United States of Europe.
It's just the beginning.
The stage is set.
Right now, you say, well, Jesus can't come
until the Antichrist.
What does the Scripture say?
What does the Bible say?
He is Antichrist who denies the Father and
the Son.
John said, even now there are many Antichrists
whereby we know it's the last time.
When you think of terrorism, the deification of
flesh, the blatant atheist, Islamic brutality, vile television,
movies that are so filthy, militant homosexuality, molestation
of little children.
One Catholic diocese in the West Coast has
declared bankruptcy, unable to pay the millions of
60 accusations against one priest for child molestation.
I'm not marking the whole Catholic Church.
There are some men that I know in
the Catholic ministry that are called charismatic Catholics
and they seek God with all their heart.
I've met some true men of God.
I'm not painting a brush on all the
Catholics, not at all.
But you see, this is all under restraint.
The restrainer is still here.
He is still restraining.
He is still withholding, the Scripture says.
But you see, the Antichrist is right on
stage.
It's like the stage is set and he's
right outside the door ready to come in.
Because what happens the moment the restrainer's hand
is lifted?
The Bible said that God will send a
strong delusion that they will believe a lie.
What is that lie?
They can believe that any man who mentions
the name of Jesus, he must be all
right because he names Jesus.
But the Lord himself said they're going to
come with another Jesus and another gospel.
And they're going to use the name of
Jesus, not the Christ.
They don't acknowledge him as God, but as
a good man.
And this blindness is going to sweep the
whole world and even those that you wouldn't
believe, who were once on fire for Christ,
for once believed in the Trinity and the
doctrine of a glorified Christ, are going to
be caught in a delusion.
The apostasy is already here.
The Antichrist spirit is already in control of
the bodies of many and the minds of
many.
The Antichrist spirit, John said, is already here.
There is nothing holding back the return of
Jesus Christ to this earth.
Nothing.
Let me talk to you about the cry
of the man who is seated with Christ
in a heavenly place.
The cry.
And that cry is what we heard here
in Revelation.
We hear Jesus saying, I'm going to come
quickly.
And the spirit and the bride say, come.
And folks, the Holy Spirit knows just as
sure as Peter and Paul were told their
time was up.
As the Lord, Peter said, has revealed to
me, my days are short.
And Paul said, I finished my course.
God spoke to his heart.
And the restrainer knows that his time is
nearly finished.
His work is nearly done.
And he knows that the spirit cries out,
oh, Jesus, come.
The Holy Spirit's last prayer in the Bible.
Jesus, come.
Do you understand the Holy Ghost grieves?
He said, grieve not the Holy Spirit.
Do you understand he has grieved all these
years?
How the Holy Spirit grieved when Jesus came
to reveal himself as the Son of God.
And even Jesus said, you have hated me
and you've hated the Father.
Can you imagine the grief of the Holy
Spirit at the rejection of Jesus Christ?
And how they crucified him.
And the grief of the Holy Spirit as
he watched the Christ that he has come
to magnify and glorify and reveal and manifest.
He sees the agony, the pain of his
Christ.
And the very spirit of the living Christ
himself.
The grief that was in his heart.
And the grief of all of these years
since the cross.
Can you imagine one pastor, 150 years ago,
stood in Metropolitan Tabernacle.
His name was Spurgeon, one of the great
preachers of all times.
And he said, I wonder why the Holy
Ghost is still here.
Because we so grieved him.
And the grief he sees as every law
of God is being flaunted.
The grief he sees as Christ being rejected
by a world that Jesus came to die
for.
And he sees the church turning away from
him.
Unconcerned people, even those who are the elect,
going their way.
Buying, selling, getting involved in the worldly things
and tied to the things of the world
and materialism.
There's nothing wrong with your car, your house.
There's nothing you have to provide for your
family.
But folks, look what's happening to us.
Look what's happening to us.
You see, the Holy Spirit has to pray
through people.
He does.
He prays through the bride.
The bride encompasses every born-again, blood-cleansed
believer.
All over the world, we're the body of
Christ.
And the Holy Spirit, in the last day,
in the last time, said a cry is
coming.
Behold, the bridegroom is coming.
And the Holy Spirit hears Christ saying to
the Spirit, I'm coming soon.
I'm coming quickly.
And all the Holy Spirit cries out and
prays through his bride, Come!
Jesus, come quickly!
I'm going to ask you a question.
When is the last time you prayed this
prayer?
Jesus, come.
I want you to think about it.
When is the last time you allowed the
Holy Spirit to pray through you?
Oh, Jesus, Savior, come!
Redeem your name!
I can't handle the rejection of those around
me against you.
You see, that's the prayer.
That's the cry of the man who's seated
with Christ, because he walks and lives in
the Spirit.
And the Spirit is crying this.
He's praying that, and he has to pray
it through the church.
I ask you again.
When's the last time you prayed diligently and
daily?
Now, I'm preaching to myself because when God
posed that question to me, I couldn't remember.
Couldn't remember!
I've read that.
And the Lord said, David, it's different now
because my coming is so close now.
I am doing it by the Spirit.
The Spirit is going to start praying and
crying.
And now, soon, if the bride of Jesus
Christ will cry...
See, I didn't know I could hasten the
day of the coming.
I didn't know that my prayers could hasten
the day of His coming.
You see, never heard that before.
Let me prove it.
2 Peter 3.12, Looking for and hastening
to the coming of the day of the
Lord, wherein the heavens being on fire shall
be dissolved, the elements shall melt with the
fervent heat.
And that big word, hastening, means to speed
up.
To speed up the coming of the Lord.
You see, if the bride all over the
world, if the church would wake up and
just allow the Holy Spirit to pray this
and begin to pray, Jesus, come!
And there was a cry from millions of
those who know Christ.
Would He shorten the days?
For in those days shall be affliction, such
as was not from the beginning of the
creation which God created unto this time, neither
shall there be.
And except the Lord had shortened the days,
no flesh should be saved, but for the
elect's sake, whom He hath chosen, He hath
shortened the days.
Do you know that we can touch God's
heart?
Are you saying that, pastor, because you're just
tired of living in this world of sin?
Yes!
I'm tired of all the cancers in my
family.
I'm tired of this belly of mine aching
all the time.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Because He said, I'm going to give you
a new body.
Paul the apostle said, I want to go
home.
The only reason I'm here is for you.
I've got to keep ministering to you because
he said, you're not learning fast enough.
Oh, but that's not why I want to
go.
That's not the real issue.
The Bible said, we're going to see Him
face to face.
We're going to behold Him as He is.
You know what I want to hear?
My name.
David.
I want to hear Him speak it.
David.
Can you imagine Him calling your name?
Say it.
Think of Jesus saying it to you.
Face to face.
Beholding Him.
He says, David.
There's much more.
One last thing.
I'm just going to shut it down.
One last thing.
Can you imagine a newlywed couple?
They've just been married and he's called away.
And he says to his new bride, I
don't know when I'm coming back.
I have to go.
I have to do this because that's my
calling and I have to go.
I don't know when I'm coming back.
But here's how you can reach me.
And I'll come at a certain time.
I don't know when, but I'll come.
Can you imagine that woman, that bride?
She writes to him for the next two
or three years.
Wonderful love letters.
Sweetheart, I miss you.
I miss you so much.
It extends to five years and she's still
writing those love letters, except they're not as
frequent now.
Ten years go by and she's writing these
letters.
And less and less, I love you.
But can you imagine this man having to
be gone 15, 20 years and having received
all these letters, I love you, and all
these pledges, I'll be true to you.
And every once does she say, please come
home.
Please come back.
I need your embrace.
I need to see you face to face.
And, folks, that's a picture of the church,
a picture of many of us.
Oh, how we love Jesus.
How we love him.
How we talk about it.
When was the last time you got on
your face and said, Jesus, I can't handle
this anymore without you being here.
I know you're in heaven.
I know that I want to be with
you.
Let me come to meet you.
Come get me.
I would think she wants to be near
him.
I would think she wants to see his
face and be embraced by this man and
say, I'll never leave you again.
I don't want to be away from you.
And that's the way it is.
This is what I'm talking about.
The man seated with Christ, walking and praying
in the Spirit, is going to have this
cry in his heart.
Come.
Teenager, you're here.
You say you love Jesus.
I'm not going to put some scare thing
in you.
I'm not going to say, hey, you're going
to miss the coming of the Lord.
I'm saying if you love him, this is
the motivation.
If you truly love Jesus, you're going to
leave this service saying, I don't know how
to pray like that, the Holy Spirit.
If I just get along with you, would
you pray this through me?
Because the Bible says we don't know how
to pray, but the Spirit in us.
That is what he's doing in this last
hour.
He's praying that prayer.
And I just have to yield.
I've been doing that this past week when
the Lord's been dealing with me.
I've just been going along with him and
allowing the Holy Spirit.
And suddenly my heart just cries out, oh,
Jesus, honor your name.
Defend your name.
They're mocking you now.
It's out of control.
Come, Lord Jesus.
And the only reason he's delayed, he says,
the Lord is patient, long-suffering, not willing
that any should perish, but all come to
repent.
Or he would have come long ago.
And so, and with this last word I
close, if I really am praying that and
believing it in my heart, you better believe
I'm going to pray for my unsaved loved
ones.
Because it would be hypocrisy for me to
say, come quickly, Lord Jesus, and pray that
prayer, and knowing that I have not prayed
diligently for my unsafe loved ones.
If you've got a son or daughter, a
child, somebody in your immediate family, and they
are not right with God, and if you
truly believe that Jesus is coming, I would
suggest you need to be on your face
before God and say, Jesus, come quickly.
But first, save my boy, save my daughter,
save my family.
I don't want to go without my family.
I want to take all my family with
me when Jesus comes.
Will you stand, please?
Everybody stand, please.
Hallelujah.
Jesus, oh Christ of Calvary, oh Holy Spirit,
we give ourselves.
Can you just say that from your heart?
Lord Jesus, come.
Help me to pray this prayer.
Help me to, not just words out of
my mouth, but from the depths of my
innermost.
Lord Jesus, oh Holy Spirit, come and pray
through us.
Come and make that the cry of our
hearts, even so.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Come, Jesus.
And may we be ever living, expecting Him
at any moment, as the Scripture tells us.
Now, look this way, if you will, please.
In the annex, and here in the balcony,
and the main floor, this is a very
simple message.
No deep theology.
This is a very simple word that I've
given to you.
When I pray this to the Holy Spirit,
this will fall right in front of me
on the ground, if you don't take it
and make it known and felt, that the
congregation can experience what the Holy Spirit is
saying.
As weakly as I may have presented it
to you, but the Holy Spirit working in
your heart.
And this is a question that the Holy
Spirit would ask you.
And I am asking you through the Holy
Spirit.
Holy Spirit's upon me right now, and I'm
speaking as led by the Holy Spirit.
And I ask you, this message, does this
frighten you?
Does it upset you?
Does it trouble you?
If it troubles you, then there's a controversy
there that God wants settled.
Because this is the hope of the church.
This is the thrill of the church, to
hear that Christ is coming.
What a wonderful, glorious truth that Christ is
coming.
But have you been ignoring Him?
Have you been slipping away?
Have you...
If you stood face to face with Jesus,
I ask it honestly, without trying to strike
you with fear, even though the fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, I'm
telling you all honestly, are you ready?
Are you ready to face Him?
If you're not looking for His coming, if
you're not yearning for His coming, then sin's
at the door.
The sin that has to be dealt with.
Now, in His loving grace, I invite you
to step out of your seat and say,
Pastor David, I say it outright.
I'm not ready.
I know that.
My conscience tells me, my spirit tells me,
I know that.
I am not ready to meet Christ.
We are to live every day, every moment
ready.
Be ye ready.
For in an hour you don't think He's
coming.
He said, I will come.
I can't tell you when that is.
But I invite you to step out of
your seat.
In the balcony, go to the stairs on
either side and come down.
And in the annex, just go to the
lobby.
Turn behind you, go to the lobby.
Ushers, will you please show them how to
get into this auditorium.
Come down the stairs and meet me here.
And we're going to settle this now.
We're going to settle it in the name
of the Lord.
If only five people come, I'm going to
make this...
We're not interested in just packing the auditorium.
We're asking now, that if you're honestly not
ready, I have to put that to you
straight.
If you know in your heart you're not
ready, and you feel the Holy Spirit tugging
at your heart, come here and say, I'm
not leaving this building until I know that
I'm ready to meet Christ.
Whenever He comes.
Step right on out of your seat and
come and stand here to the front if
you will, please.
If you've ever been in this church before,
if you've been coming, you know that we
don't play games, we don't try to put
on a show.
And I've always been sober in this pulpit.
But just now the Holy Spirit spoke to
my heart that at least three of you
that are here, that came forward, have even
been thinking of suicide because you've been so
down, so feeling of hopelessness and no hope.
And I said, Lord, I can't do that.
Now, when I travel all over the world
in ministers' conferences, young people flock to some
of our meetings.
And not too many months ago in Montevideo,
Uruguay, I gave an invitation.
The invitation for only those who were thinking
of suicide, and over 400 came forward out
of 4,000.
And it's all over the world and all
over the United States.
And I know it's here tonight.
And I said, Lord, I don't want to
do that.
And the Lord said, No, I want to
save them.
I want to save them from the pits
of hell.
No one will put you down.
No one will say a word to you
but to pray for you and strengthen you.
If you're one of those three, where are
you at?
Raise your hand.
Just raise your hand.
I can't see all of you.
Two, three, all right.
Four, five, all right.
Folks, this is not a show.
I'm not trying to be prophetic.
But this is life and death.
I want you to pray with me now
for every one of these that had their
hand raised, that God will stop that lie.
And every one of you have that right
now.
I want you to know that God so
loved you that He didn't point you out
to shame you.
He pointed you out to say you're an
object of my love.
You're an object of my prayers, of the
saints of God's people.
All right, folks, let's pray right now.
Pray right now.
If you saw someone's hand, just put a
hand on their shoulder and pray the love
of Jesus.
Father, right now I come against that lying
spirit of the devil who tried to destroy.
The devil's a destroyer.
The devil's a liar.
And we take authority over that spirit in
the name of Jesus, and we cast it
out now in Christ's name.
We take Your authority, not our authority, but
the authority of Your Word, the authority of
Your name in the name of Jesus Christ.
Pluck that lie out of every mind that's
here tonight in Christ's name, in Jesus' name.
Now, look at me, please.
Those that have come forward right now who
say, I'm really not ready.
It doesn't take all night.
It doesn't take God long when He sees
an open heart.
When He sees an anxious person, He said,
if you're ready to confess, I'm more than
willing to forgive and cleanse you.
You know Jesus can wipe you as clean
so that you can be as clean in
the eyes of God as Jesus is.
Do you understand that?
That's the power of the blood.
You can be as clean and accepted before
God as His own Son because He takes
you into His heart and you are one
with Christ so that the Father looks at
you not as what you were but what
you are through confession of your sin and
faith in Jesus Christ.
He said, you're accepted in the Beloved, and
He receives you into His heart.
And even if you've backslidden, if you've said,
well, I've grieved the Holy Spirit and I've
grieved God.
Yes, but here you are.
You're being lovingly convicted by the Holy Spirit
and He wants to bring you back to
His arms right now.
Lord Jesus, I pray for a miracle now
that everyone that's here will hear the Holy
Spirit saying, Come, come now.
The Lord is ready to receive you and
cleanse you.
Will you pray this prayer with me?
Lord Jesus, cleanse my heart.
Of all sin and iniquity, I confess my
need.
In every sin, take sin out of my
life.
By the power of Your Holy Spirit, Jesus,
receive me.
Because I want You.
I love You.
Touch me.
Heal me.
And set me free.
And bring me peace.
And rest in my soul.
Now, I want you to just close your
eyes for a moment.
And just, if you have your Bible in
your hand, just raise one hand.
Some of you have your purse or pocket,
but just raise one hand to the Lord
right now while we pray.
Will you pray this, thank You, Jesus?
Say it out loud, thank You, Jesus.
That You answer prayer.
And You honor Your Word.
And on the authority of God's Word, I've
confessed.
And now I believe.
I'm forgiven.
And I'm cleansed.
And I'm ready to meet Christ.
Give Him thanks now in your heart.
Give Him thanks.
Hallelujah.
This is the conclusion of the message.