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Ezekiel 36, please.
Ezekiel 36.
Start to read verse 21.
Ezekiel 36, begin to read verse 21.
But I had pity for my holy name,
which the house of Israel had profaned among
the heathen, whither they went.
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord God, I do not do
this for your sakes, O house of Israel,
but for my own holy name's sake, which
you have profaned among the heathen, whither you
went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which
was profaned among the heathen, which you have
profaned in the midst of them.
And the heathen shall know that I am
the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I
shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Verse 33 again.
I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned
in the midst of them.
And the heathen shall know that I am
the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I
shall be sanctified or honored in you before
their eyes.
A reproach among the heathen.
Daniel, the prophet, cried, O Lord, it's because
of our sins and the iniquities of our
fathers that Jerusalem and thy people are become
a reproach to all that are round about
us.
He said, we are your people, but we're
a reproach.
We're a reproach to your holy name, to
all nations, to all heathen.
The prophet Ezekiel prophesied this to Israel.
He said, I will make you a desolation.
I'll make you a reproach among the nations
which surround you in the sight of all
who pass by.
And you will be a reproach and a
taunt, an instruction and an astonishment under the
nations that are round about you.
Now why would God allow his people to
become a reproach and astonishment to everybody who
passes by?
Why would God give his people, his own
people, over to reproach?
The reason is almost unbelievable.
God looked down on his church, his people,
and he found something out that was shocking.
His people were sinning more than the heathen
around about them.
His people were doing things that the heathen
nations never even thought of.
I'm reading Ezekiel 5, 6.
She, Israel, hath changed my judgments into wickedness
more than the nations and my statutes more
than the countries that are round about them.
They have twisted my laws.
They have discounted my nature.
They have done everything against my name that
not even the heathen nations could think about.
Because you multiplied your sin more than the
nations round about you.
Verse 7.
You multiplied your sins in my house, among
my people, than all the heathen nations around
you.
Now, God sent terrifying judgments upon his people,
devastating his own house.
God allowed his people to be invaded.
You know this history.
God sent a famine.
Nature became a terror to them.
And in the famine they began, as was
prophesied, they began to eat their own children,
eat their own babies.
They wound up being carried away in chains
as slaves.
They were plodding along with their heads down,
absolute powers and weak and frail.
Turn to Ezekiel, look at verse 16 in
Ezekiel 36.
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto
me, saying, Son of man, when the house
of Israel dwelt in their own land, they
defiled it by their own way and by
their doings.
Their way was before me as the uncleanness
of a removed or an impure woman.
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for
the blood that they had shed upon the
land, and for their idols were what they
had polluted it.
I scattered them among the heathen.
They were dispersed through the countries according to
their way and according to their doings.
I judged them.
And when they entered into the heathen, unto
the heathen, while they went they profaned my
holy name when they said to them, These
are the people of the Lord and are
going forth out of the land.
Look at verse 20 again.
And when they entered into the heathen, whether
they went, in other words they were carried
away captive now.
The multitudes of the heathen are watching God's
people in chains being dragged into Babylon.
Whether they went they profaned my holy name
when they said to them, In other words,
when all the people looked at them and
said, Look, these people in chains, those are
the people of God.
And they're gone forth out of his land.
Now look at me please.
God looked down at this sight and he
said, This is profaning my holiness.
You are making me look before the heathen
as though I can't take care of my
people.
You are a reproach.
Look at you.
People who were mighty and strong and no
enemy could stand against you.
Now because of your sin and your idolatry,
you've lost the power of God, you've lost
the presence of God.
You've lost my presence, you've lost everything.
And now look how weak you are, look
how frail you are, being carried away captive.
And now all the heathen watch you being
carried away.
They look at your slavery, they look at
your bondage and say, Oh, this is the
God who said he gave them a land
and he couldn't keep them in the land.
Here's a God who made them promises and
couldn't keep his promises.
Look how you have reproached my reputation before
the whole world.
You have been a reproach to me.
That's what this verse means.
When you entered in among the heathen, you
profaned my holy name because the crowd was
saying these are the people of the Lord
and they're gone forth out of the land.
You've brought shame to my name because of
your bondage.
The way you appear before the world is
weak and helpless.
That means you have made your God to
appear weak and helpless before the world.
Now folks, we live in a day when
the church in the name of Jesus Christ
the Lord is under great reproach.
You know that.
The heathen in America now are scoffing at
the church.
They believe it's powerless, weak.
The church has become the object of scorn
and laughter.
God saw the sad condition of his church
in these last days and God did something
knowing that it would affect his own name
and his own reputation.
He sent judgment to his own house just
as was prophesied.
For the time has come that judgment must
begin at the house of God.
And if it first begins at us, what
shall the end be of them that obey
not the gospel?
And what God did, He looked at the
television evangelists first because they're high profile.
Millions of people were watching and they're giving
the whole world an image of what God
is supposed to be.
And here were men claiming to be healers.
Here were men claiming to have faith.
And they were begging for money and using
unscrupulous methods that were a shame in the
nostrils of God.
And I'll tell you what God did in
the way of judgment and why He did
it.
God exposed and God didn't bring any of
these evangelists down because of some kind of
sexual sin or immorality.
That's not the real thing.
The anger of God was against what all
the prophets were railing against.
All the prophets screamed about.
He said, you have robbed widows' houses.
And the Scripture makes it very clear.
Woe from Isaiah 10, 1 and 2.
Woe to those who deprive the needy, who
rob the poor, who spoil the widows, who
plunder the orphans, who use orphans to raise
money.
And God looked down and He said, I
will not let these men send these horrible
appeals to the poor and to the widows.
And these evangelists say, send me your hundred
dollars.
They made it sound like you could buy
healing, you could buy the blessings of Almighty
God.
And there have been widows all over the
United States that gave their food money, gave
their rent money to these men because they
were under such a guilt trip by these
men.
And God saw these men robbing widows and
taking away the money from the fathers.
And God said, that's enough.
That's when God moves in judgment.
Because the whole world, and that's what came
out in the trial of one man, and
that's what the whole world here in New
York City was in the New York Times
and every newspaper in New York.
It was not the lifestyle these men were
living.
They didn't care whether they ran with prostitutes.
They didn't care anything about their lifestyle.
It was because they said, hey, look at
these men, supposed to be the men of
God.
They're robbing the widows.
They're robbing the poor.
And that was the testimony of the liberal
bunch.
This was the testimony.
This was the cry, Ewan, cry of the
heathen.
How can they be men of God?
How can God be a real God when
He robs His own widows?
And God said, enough.
I sent some of my team to one
well-known ministry.
I said, just go in and talk to
them and see how they're answering their appeals
from people.
And my two men came back weeping and
said, let's get out of here.
They wanted to get right off the place.
Out of that ministry.
I said, why?
He said, well, they told us when the
people, doesn't matter whether the widow, doesn't matter
who, as soon as they hit them, hit
them up again, hit them up again.
Those were the words.
These were the leaders.
Hit them up again.
Go right after them.
There was no concern whether they were widows,
no concern whether they were poor.
And God said, that's enough.
And that's been a profanation, that's been a
reproach on the name of Jesus Christ.
And folks, it's still going on.
Thank God they got that false prophet Tilton
off television finally.
What an abomination.
What a reproach.
Every ungodly heathen in America looked at that
man and said, is this man a joke?
Is this what God is?
Is this what the church is?
Send me a thousand dollars and get your
healing.
Thank God he brought it down.
The abortion crowd now is convinced that the
church in America is dead.
They boast in their private conferences that nothing
can stop their agenda now.
They're mocking and they're laughing and they're determined
that every Christian is going to use their
tax dollars, tax dollars to pay for health
insurance, including abortion.
They're determined to make every Christian pay through
the nose.
Whether they like it or not, their tax
money go for abortions through the new health
plan.
250,000 gays marched up Fifth Avenue and
gave the finger to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
And the bishop, the cardinal, gave him the
finger.
Did you hear about passing and giving the
finger to St. Patrick's?
And here are 250,000 gays in all
of the United States.
And they are absolutely mocking the church.
They say the church is dead.
Evangelicals who preach against homosexuality are dead.
And even during their parade, they send a
delegation to two or three of the evangelical
churches who still believe that homosexuality is a
sin.
And they said, get out of here.
You're finished.
Get out.
Threatened them.
And so they think the church is weak.
It's poor.
Cannot stop the homosexual power.
Cannot stop abortion.
But you see, God's concern is not the
homosexual crowd.
You know, this church, we love the individual.
I don't care what he does.
We love him as a sinner.
But we can take a stand against this
sin.
Homosexuality is a sin in the sight of
God.
And it will always be that.
Nothing going to change it.
One pastor was trying to rent a church
down in the village.
And he went to at least a dozen
churches to try to rent the church, to
have gospel meetings.
And they said, well, what's your stand on
homosexuals?
Unless you're homosexual, open to homosexuality, you can't
come into this church.
These are evangelical churches.
But you see, God's not concerned about the
attitude of the homosexuals, or the abortion crowd,
or any other heathen crowd.
God's not concerned about that.
That's not what bothers God.
That's not His concern.
His concern is His church.
He's concerned about His own people.
And how their personal life is bringing reproach
on His name.
How their own lives.
They call themselves Christians.
They call themselves by the name of Jesus.
And God said, my people are bringing reproach
on me.
I read last week an article by a
secular writer.
It was in the Daily News.
And he was saying, what's all this hue
and cry by the church against abortion?
And he says he has statistics to prove
that there are more evangelicals going for abortions
than there are non-Christians.
Did you hear me?
More so-called Christians going for abortions than
non-Christians.
More Christians are getting divorced than non-Christians.
More Christians, he said, are into materialism, and
into sports, and into entertainment, and into all
of this frivolity than all of the heathens.
I see the signs of that everywhere, especially
in the South.
In the central part of the United States.
Not so much in these liberal areas of
the Northeast, but all over the rest of
the United States you find that.
Thousands of young girls who have Pentecostal, Baptist,
and evangelical backgrounds going for abortions.
He said, my people are bringing reproach on
my name.
In the 36th chapter of Ezekiel is the
revelation of the heart of God.
You say, oh God, I want to know
your heart.
I want to know your heartbeat.
The Lord tells me when I know his
heart, I go into the Old Testament and
I see the revelation of his acts.
And you get to know his ways.
And the 36th chapter of Ezekiel that I
have you open to right now is a
revelation of the heart of God.
And what he's going to do about it.
You think God's just going to let this
go?
You think he's going to let the homosexuals
gain power and mock the church endlessly until
Jesus comes?
You think that the abortion agenda, God's going
to wink at it?
You think that all the gates of hell
are going to come against our mighty God?
And God's just going to let truth fall
into the dirt?
God's going to just let the church go
weaker and weaker and sputter out?
Until finally there's just a tiny little thing
left when Jesus comes?
That's not what the Bible says at all.
Not one of the prophets bear that out.
The prophets say God is going to take
matters into his own hands.
God's going to do something sovereignly about it.
And it's not going to have anything to
do with our prayers.
Now that may shock you.
But if God waited until we really got
on our face before him, it'd never happen.
If he waited until we got holy and
clean and pure, it'll never happen.
If God waited for us to get the
job done, it would never happen.
Because he said, my people are stiff-necked.
He said, I'm going to give you the
promised land not because of any goodness.
He said, ever since I've known you, you've
been stiff-necked.
And we are stiff-necked people.
We are bent on backsliding.
And with all the talk about prayer, there's
very little prayer going up.
The nation is not repenting.
We're not turning to God.
We can quote our cute little scriptures about
nations turning to God in prayer.
God will heal their land.
It's not happening anywhere.
It's not happening.
Those who started out have lost heart.
They get all excited and have a big
prayer convention, and a month later they're back
into apostasy.
Now if God waited for some prayer revival,
it'll never happen.
And even every revival that's been here, and
they say it was prayer alone, it's the
sovereign work of the Holy Ghost.
It's always been a sovereign work of God.
Oh yes, we're to pray, we're to seek
God.
In fact, when we see these things begin
to happen, that's when we're to press in
and pray.
It was when Daniel knew he had a
prophecy.
When God had spoken to Daniel that the
70 years were up, and he knew that
that was God's appointed time, that's when he
set his face to seek God more than
ever.
Now when we know the mind of God,
and we're going to know it this morning,
what is God going to do about the
reproach against his name brought on by a
backslidden church?
What's God going to do?
Well, he said, well, he's going to send
judgment.
He did that to Pharaoh in Egypt.
And he said, I'm going to plague Egypt
that they may know that I'm the Lord.
They're going to know that I'm God.
But folks, in this last day, even though
I believe judgment's coming and judgment's at the
door, judgment will not get the attention.
The Bible says in Revelation, when God finally
scorches men with heat, they'll just curse his
name.
They'll curse his name.
They'll not acknowledge him as God.
They'll just curse him and turn against him.
You think those who were under a terrible
judgment of a plague, somebody dying, ready to
face eternity, would turn to the Lord?
No.
You go to almost any AIDS hospital now,
you'll find those that are dying who don't
know Jesus are cursing his name.
Going out in eternity cursing.
Judgment will not wake up America.
God says, no, I'm going to do something
about my church.
I'm going to do something about my people.
Hallelujah.
God is going to rise up in fury
and jealousy, and he's going to bring back
glory to his name.
He's going to make every heathen in America
and the world know that he is God.
Look at verse 23.
Let's start verse 22.
Let's start verse 21.
But I had pity for my holy name,
which the house of Israel hath profaned among
the heathen, whither they went.
Therefore saying to the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord God, I do not this
for your sake, O house of Israel, but
for my holy name's sake, which you have
profaned among the heathen, whither you went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which
was profaned among the heathen, which you have
profaned in the midst of them.
And the heathen shall know that I am
the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I
shall be sanctified at you before their eyes.
Now, folks, listen to me, please.
God's focus in these last days, hear me,
God's focus in these last days is the
honor of his own name.
The honor of his own name.
Now, follow me closely, please.
Everything God's going to do in these last
days has to do with sanctifying his name
and getting glory to his name before the
heathen.
He said, America and the nations are going
to know who I am.
They're going to know.
Now, I hear of so-called revival meetings
and outpourings of the Holy Spirit in various
places around the country.
And people come.
There's one place in Canada that 70,000
people have come from all over the world
in the past six months to see this
great move of God.
And what they see are bizarre, strange manifestations,
kissing, laughing, roaring like lions, barking like dogs,
strange, unusual manifestations.
And it's called the new move of God.
And thousands of people flock to see and
to hear because they have itching ears.
And, folks, let me tell you something.
The Lord told me this in prayer last
night.
That's going to hit New York City like
a fire.
And there are going to be some little
churches around here.
There are going to be some churches where
these manifestations break out because a number of
so-called well-known evangelists have said that
God's put it in their heart to sweep
this all over the country.
I heard it from their own ears.
I mean, from their own mouth.
Now, let me tell you something, and I
want you to listen closely.
God is going to do a great new
work.
He's going to do something supernatural by His
Holy Spirit.
But I'm going to tell you what it's
going to cost.
I'm going to tell you what it takes.
And it's all here in this prophecy of
Ezekiel.
And remember, Ezekiel 37 is about the valley
of dry bones and the resurrection of the
dry bones.
But here's what has to come first.
And if you tell me that there's a
move of God, it had better be focused
on the honor of the name of the
Lord.
I'm telling you that no pastor, no evangelist,
listen closely, is moving in the true spirit
of the living God in these last days
until everything He says, everything He preaches, everything
He does, everything that happens in that church
or in that movement has to be focused
on bringing back honor to the name of
the Lord.
It has to be His honor.
It has to be His glory.
If it's bringing attention to man.
See what's happening now.
People are going for these manifestations, they're going
to the Scripture trying to justify it, and
how they stretch the Scripture is trying to
justify it.
That's not the way it's done.
You go and find the Scriptural pattern, you
abide by the Word of God, you do
what God says, and He will do what
He said He would do.
You go to the Scripture first, you get
it in divine order, and having finished and
obeyed divine order, then God will come down
with fire on the altar.
Removing the reproach on His name and bringing
forth the people who do not have itching
ears for some new experience, but whose lives,
their very lives, are praise and honor and
glory to the Lord.
Some of you here are going to run
off, and let me warn you now.
Folks, listen to me closely.
Times Square Church is your home.
You're going to have people coming to you
saying, hey, you've got to come.
You see, that's what every drug addict says
when he's hooked.
He says, hey, just try it once.
Curiosity gets you hooked.
You can offer yourself to such demonic influence
that it will blow your mind.
I'm not trying to...
We don't try to hold a crowd.
We don't try to hold anybody.
We've got empty seats.
If you look back, you see people standing
everywhere.
There are about four people to fill every
seat if anyone leaves.
I don't want to see anybody leave, but
I will not stand by as a pastor
and let you be deceived.
I want you to get something in your
heart today that will build you up and
give you discernment so that you can go
anywhere.
Now, folks, don't go anywhere just to see
and hear something.
Don't go out of curiosity because if you've
got that in your nature, the devil sees
it.
He wants to know why you're there.
Why are you there?
What are you looking for?
You're not satisfied with Jesus?
You're not satisfied with the words you're hearing?
You want some new experience?
Are you concerned about the glory of His
name, the honor of His name?
Boy, it's coming, folks, and there are going
to be people coming in here and trying
to bring forth their strange manifestations, and I'll
tell you, the only thing it's going to
overcome, that's the sweet presence of Jesus.
The sweet presence of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Three things have to happen.
And anywhere you go, I'm going to give
you something now that if you'll get a
hold of this, you'll be protected the rest
of your life.
You'll never be deceived.
And here's what the prophet says God's going
to do in the last days.
Now, folks, the reason I believe this prophet
is not to the Jew alone is because
this has never yet been fulfilled because this
has nothing to do with Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, and
Ezra rebuilding the walls in the temple.
Because after this, there were many reproaches, and
the Lord is saying, here, there's coming a
time when I'm going to remove the reproach.
The reproach was never moved.
Enemies still came in and reproached long after
this prophecy.
It's a prophecy for these last days.
It has, in part, something to do with
the Jews.
But it has to do with the church
of Jesus Christ.
And there are three things that God is
going to do sovereignly.
I want you to follow me closely now.
Number one, go to verse 25.
Then will I sprinkle, what?
Clean water upon you.
You shall be cleaned from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
Will I cleanse you?
Ephesians 5.26 says that He might sanctify
and cleanse it.
That's the church.
With the washing of the water by the
Word.
Look at me.
The Word of God is the cleansing water.
And God's not about to pour out His
Spirit on a dirty church.
He's not about to bring manifestations to those
who haven't been purified and cleansed by the
living Word of God.
And God's saying right now in the last
days, I'm going to raise up young men.
I'm going to raise up preachers that have
clean lives and they're going to preach a
clean Word.
It's going to be a holy Word.
It's going to be a piercing Word.
And it's going to get rid of the
filthiness and uncleanness in my house.
I'm going to have men sweep it out
of the house.
I'm going to purify my house.
He's talking about a revival of holiness.
Folks, I have been given some tapes by
some young evangelists that are thrilling.
I have never heard such strong preaching about
sin.
I have never seen in any generation men
with such power to expose uncleanness and filthiness
in the house of God.
These are young Jeremiah's.
They're young men of God.
I believe Carter is one of these young
men God has touched so marvelously.
Unafraid to preach against sin.
Coming forth mightily.
God's doing that.
I've got two sons like that.
There are a whole generation of young preachers
coming up right now.
And God's saying, Hey, look, you're going to
see.
The devil knows that something's coming.
He's trying to take the power away from
it and try to bring something in that's
false before the real comes.
Getting people's eyes on themselves and on experiences
and on manifestations rather than the cleansing of
the house.
God said, I'm going to sprinkle clean water
on you first.
I'm going to cleanse.
I'm going to take away your filthiness.
We've had people going to the house of
God for years.
Going to the house of God, hearing sermon
after sermon and the world looks at them
and says, Well, they're not changed.
They're just like I am.
There's been no change.
No wonder the church appears so weak.
People don't see a holy people.
A holy man is a terror to a
sinner.
Jeremiah 33.
Go to Jeremiah 33.
Jeremiah 33.
And I want to begin reading verse 8.
Verse 8.
And I will cleanse them from how much
iniquity?
All their iniquities whereby they have sinned against
me.
And I will pardon all their iniquities whereby
they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed
against me.
And it shall be to me a name
of joy, of praise and an honor before
all the nations of the earth which shall
hear all the good that I do unto
thee.
And they shall fear and tremble for all
the goodness and for all the prosperity that
I procure unto it.
Look at me, please.
Why would the heathen tremble?
What are they trembling about?
Because God's cleansed His people.
Now standing before the world are people that
are pure in heart.
There are people that are godly.
They say, I'm going to make the world
tremble because I'm going to clean up my
house.
God said, I'm going to do it.
Supernaturally.
God is doing that now.
Thank God He's doing it in Times Square.
Church.
We have been in a cleansing time.
God's been cleansing out the filthiness of the
flesh.
Hallelujah.
How many believe He's doing that for you?
Glory be to God.
What a wonderful thing He's doing.
Tell me.
Well, there's a cleansing revival.
You tell me, say, hey, over here in
Iowa, over here in California, there's a church,
there's a, people come from everywhere because there's
a repentance revival.
People are getting up and confessing that they've
been adulterers.
Men are getting up and saying, I was
hooked on pornography and they're burning their pornography
books.
They're burning their videotapes.
The porno junk.
People are making restitution.
Things are getting right.
I wonder how many thousands of people flock
to hear that kind of revival.
But God said that's what He's going to
do first.
If you tell me there's a move of
God somewhere, tell me first where there was
a cleansing.
Tell me first where there was repentance.
Tell me first where sin was exposed.
They're inviting people who are living ungodly lives.
People still hooked on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, everything.
Invite them to come and get the blessing.
There's been no purging.
They've not been to the well.
They've not been to the labor.
They've not been cleansed and coming into God's
holy place jumping over the labor.
Impossible.
There has to be a cleansing first.
How many people would attend a conference?
Listen to me now.
How many would attend a conference where the
evangelist, all he did was get up and
weep and wail over sin in the house?
And that's exactly what Paul the Apostle said
to the Corinthians.
I'm reading 2 Corinthians 12, 20.
For I fear that when I come I
shall not find you such as I would
unless when I do come my God will
humble me among you that I shall be
well.
That means loudly weep.
I will loudly weep.
I will be well many which have sinned
already and have not repented of the uncleanness
and fornication and sensuality which they have committed.
And Paul says, I'm afraid that when I
come to visit you all I'm going to
do is stand there and weep and wail
over your sins.
Sometimes I wonder what people are laughing about.
I really wonder.
There's a place for laughter.
That's after repentance.
Folks, I know what that's like.
I was in a meeting preaching to a
number of thousands of people.
Right in the middle of my message I
broke down.
I just started to wail and cry in
an unknown tongue.
And after the message I'll recall I went
down to get in the car and the
driver was waiting.
And I kept walking out into the darkness
of the field.
It was a stadium.
I fell on my knees uncontrollable weeping and
wailing.
I was just wailing and crying out because
the Lord was giving me a revelation of
the sins of the pastors and the evangelists
that were listening to me.
And he showed me the vile things that
were going on.
He showed me all this and it just
overwhelmed me.
And I fell and wept.
I couldn't get a hold of myself the
rest of that evening hardly.
It was just absolutely overwhelming.
The wailing.
I would wail.
Where is that wailing against the sin and
corruption in the house of God?
All the divorcing.
All of the abortion in the house of
God.
All of the cheating.
All of the things that are inside the
house of God.
And yet we want to go and get
a blessing.
Until there's been a cleansing there will not
be the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
You want to see a manifestation of the
Holy Ghost?
You'll see a real manifestation when you see
God's people beginning to weep between the ports
and the altar.
When pastors and evangelists do exactly what Joel
said.
He said, I call you to weep and
wail between the ports and the altar.
That's the manifestation that will precede the real
work of God.
Secondly, the second thing God's going to do
in restoring the power and glory of His
name, verse 26.
I got to get back there to Ezekiel
36.
Verse 26.
A new heart also will I give you
and a new spirit will I put within
you.
And I'll take away the stony heart out
of your flesh.
And I'll give your heart a flesh.
I'm going to give you a new heart
and a new spirit.
Hallelujah.
Do you know what this new heart is?
It's a broken heart.
The new spirit's a contrite spirit.
Folks, there's no pride in what God's going
to do to you.
There's no man that's going to shine.
It's the spirit of God.
It's the work of the Holy Ghost.
God's sovereignly saying, I have got to have
a people who are going to send terror
and trembling into the hearts of the heathen.
My people are going to be such a
testimony.
They're going to have new hearts.
They're going to have the heart of God.
They're going to have a heart after me.
Folks, I don't see that in America.
I don't see it in many churches.
I don't see a people with a heart
for God.
I see it here.
I see it in a number of churches.
But in general, I don't see it in
the church of Jesus Christ.
Men and women whose hearts yearn after Him.
Spirits that are broken before Him.
People who are not sitting in front of
television feeding their spirits with idolatry, feeding their
spirits with the filth and sensuality of this
world.
God said, No, I'm going to have a
people of pure heart.
I'm going to have a people of broken
spirits that are open to the moving of
the Holy Spirit.
Don't want anything for themselves.
They want nothing more than to bring honor
and glory to my name.
Folks, that's what I desire more than anything
else this morning, that we be a church
that brings honor and glory.
Jeremiah 24 7i says, I will give them
a heart to know me, that I am
the Lord.
They shall be my people.
I'll be their God.
They will return unto me with all their
hearts.
Folks, if we don't accomplish anything else here
in Times Square Church, from this pulpit, and
in what God's doing among us, is that
everybody that hears that you attend this church
would be able to say of you, There
goes a man, there goes a woman with
a heart after God.
There goes someone whose spirit's been touched by
heaven.
There's someone who's not materialistic.
There's someone that doesn't talk about their own
lives.
They talk about Jesus.
Don't go around them.
They'll just talk about Jesus.
They're Jesus crazy.
Yes, yes, Jesus crazy.
Hallelujah.
Jesus cried out, This people draw nigh unto
me with their mouth, they honor me with
their lips, but their heart is far from
me, and in vain do they worship me.
All the vanity of so much worship in
the church today, it's absolute vanity.
It's worthless.
It didn't get above the ceiling because the
people who sit there don't have their heart
in it.
They don't have a heart for God.
They come to church with their mind polluted
with everything, all their battles and their problems,
and they don't come with their mind cleansed.
They've not been to the labor.
And they come into the house of God
burdened down and many times polluted with the
things of this world.
No wonder their worship is in vain.
The Bible says, They worship me in vain.
They speak out of their lips, but their
heart is not right before me.
God give us pure hearts before the Lord.
God said he would do that.
He said, I'll make the heathen to know
my power through a people who are devoted
to me.
Thirdly, look at verse 27.
Then I will pour my Spirit in you,
within you, and cause you to walk in
my statues.
You should keep my judgments and do them.
All right, look at me please.
Here's the third thing God's going to do.
He says, After I've cleansed you, after I've
given you a heart after me, and after
I've given you a broken spirit, then I'm
going to pour out my Spirit on you.
And folks, all this talk about the Holy
Spirit being poured out on the nation, they
want that without the first two steps.
As I say, of Jeremiah, or Ezekiel here,
Ezekiel's giving the pattern.
He's giving the divine order.
He said, First the cleansing, then the new
heart, a spirit of flame, then I will
pour out my Spirit upon you.
Otherwise, folks, it's going to be demonic manifestations
on the right hand and on the left.
The people asking the Holy Spirit to come
down and touch polluted, unclean flesh.
And God says, No.
He said, I want to take away the
uncleanness first.
I want to give you a new heart.
And having cleansed you, and given you a
new heart, you're ready for an outpouring of
the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to pour out my Spirit upon
you.
Oh, thank God.
There is coming an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit on that remnant.
There are going to be churches that get
so hungry for God, and young pastors get
so hungry for God.
One young pastor recently said, I had about
400 people in my church.
He came to Times Square, got on fire,
went back and started preaching holiness and separation
and cleanliness by the Holy Ghost.
He said, About 50 people walked out immediately.
He said, As soon as those 50 people
left who didn't want to walk with God,
the Lord came down.
We're having all-night prayer meetings.
He said, The house is being cleansed.
God's pouring out His Spirit on us.
God's pouring out His Spirit.
Hallelujah.
What happens when the Holy Ghost comes?
You say, Oh, I want to see people
laying all over the floor.
Well, if God wants to do that, fine.
But I'll tell you what, If He's going
to lay you down, He's going to lay
a clean vessel down, ready to hear the
Word of the Lord.
A lot of the manifestations we see today
are people resisting the Holy Ghost.
First thing He's going to do when the
Holy Ghost comes upon you can be found
in verse 29 and 30, I will also
save you from all your uncleanness.
And I'll call for the corn and will
increase it and lay no famine upon you.
I'll multiply the fruit of the tree and
increase of the field.
You shall receive no more reproach of famine
among the heathen.
There's been a famine of the Word of
God.
And when the Holy Ghost comes, because the
people are hungry, they have a new heart,
and they're being cleansed, and they're not afraid
of reproof, the first thing that you do
when you're cleansed and seek God and love
reproof is that you get your discernment back.
The first thing you lose when you're sinned
is your discernment.
And the reason that people can't discern what
is right and wrong because there's sin in
their lives.
When God gives you back your discernment, you
love the Word of God, He brings you
a clean, pure Word of the Water, Water
of the Word, and He says there'll be
no more famine in your church.
You'll come to the house of God and
you'll be fed.
There'll be corn, there'll be wine, and you
will grow as a result, and you will
bear fruit.
Hallelujah!
Some of you are already bearing fruit.
The Word's finally found its mark.
Hallelujah!
I'll tell you what.
These meetings where there's no preaching, they go
week after week with no preaching.
Signs and wonders.
No, He said, I'm going to spread you
with a clean Word.
I'm going to bring a clean, holy, pure
Word before you.
Hallelujah!
That's what happens when the Holy Spirit comes.
Verse 31, 32, shows you the second thing
that's going to happen.
A hatred and loathing for sin.
Look at verse 31.
Then shall you remember your own evil ways.
Now, this is after the Holy Ghost has
come.
You shall remember your own evil ways and
your doings that were not good.
You shall loathe yourselves.
It means detest, despise yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Not for your sake do I this, saith
the Lord.
Be it known unto you, be ashamed and
confounded for your own ways, O house of
Israel.
Look at me, please.
Every prophet has said that when God's Spirit
comes, there comes a hatred for sin, a
despising, a loathing of sin.
And you begin to look back when God
pulls you out and He begins to cleanse
you.
There's always going to be with you this
sense, O God, I was one of those
who brought reproach on your name.
And folks, you can never, I don't ever
what?
You look back to that pit from which
God dug you out.
This was ever.
David said, My sin is always before my
eyes.
It doesn't mean that, you know, God forgets.
He forgets in that He forgives.
He forgives and He forgets that.
He forgets the judgment against it.
But folks, I'm never going to forget some
of the things that I did in my
lifetime.
I'll never forget some of the ways that
I reproached the name of the Lord.
I don't ever want to forget it.
I want my face to blush when I
think about it, that I would ever think
of bringing reproach.
And some of you think back to your
past life and what a reproach you were.
What a reproach.
But what it does, it maintains that loathing
for sin, that hatred for sin, where you
don't get cozy with sin.
You don't excuse it.
You have this, the same mind of Christ,
that hatred, that despising of flesh and sin.
Folks, that's not in many churches.
You don't find that in this so-called
revival that's supposed to be sweeping.
There's no one crying out against sin.
There's no loathing of sin.
There's no loathing of the past life.
No, He said, Then you shall remember your
own evil ways and your doings that were
not good, and you shall loathe yourself in
your own sight for your iniquities and for
your abominations.
Oh, your heart's right with God.
You rejoice in your salvation.
You're glad everything's under the bud.
You're sprinkled and it can't bring you to
judgment.
But you have a loathing for sin and
you say, Oh, God, don't ever let me
be deceived again.
Don't ever let me be a tool of
the enemy.
Never let me bring reproach upon your name.
Now, before I close, let me tell you
what I believe.
I believe that America was founded on a
knowledge and respect for God's holy name, and
you know that.
America was founded by godly men.
His name was sworn in our courts.
We swore by His name.
We put His name on our coins.
We pledged allegiance to our flag and country
in His name.
We were a nation under God.
Folks, do you understand that we were a
nation under God, under His dominion?
But now heathen powers have moved in and
taken authority.
Truth has fallen to the streets.
There's no more fear of God in the
land.
Evil forces have risen.
The great power desecrated everything we held sacred.
And even the heathen now say we're out
of control.
And it appeared to many people like all
hope was gone.
It appeared like the wicked were going to
prevail.
It appeared like a backslidden church was going
to go out weak and compromising.
But God said, No.
They have mocked my name.
They've ridiculed my name.
They've reproached my name and my reputation.
God said, I have pity for my name.
I will arise.
He's going to come roaring from Zion.
He's going to come into America, and God
is going to move in a spectacular, sovereign
way, raising up a holy people, making His
church strong until the world begins to tremble.
The world begins to tremble.
I've seen the more we walk with God
how God's giving this church respect outside these
walls.
You can walk these streets and almost every
drug addict, every alcoholic, you talk about Times
Square Church, you talk about Hannah House, you
talk about Timothy House, and there's a smile
breaks out.
Because you see, there's a church now that's
living in repentance, and when that happens, this
loathing for sin, and then along with that
comes a love for the lost and to
fulfill the mission of Jesus Christ.
And the manifestation that we want to see
is that you are driven out to the
streets.
You are driven to the needy.
You are driven to the drug addict, alcoholic,
the prostitute, and you tell them about the
power of God.
You have so much Jesus in you.
They believe you.
They see Jesus in you.
You're going to feed them, clothe them, and
house them.
Because he said on that day when we
stand before his judgment seat, he said, I
was hungry and you didn't feed me.
I was naked, you didn't clothe me.
I was in prison, you didn't visit me.
He said, When you didn't do it to
least of my brethren, you didn't do it
unto me.
Go ahead and shout.
Go ahead and fall.
Go ahead and do all these things, but
you didn't feed, you didn't clothe.
I don't even know you.
I don't know you.
Folks, the church that has the real revival,
the real moving of the Holy Spirit is
a church that's on the streets.
It is meeting the needs of people.
And if they don't have the respect of
the legislature, they don't have the respect of
governors and princes, they have the respect of
every needy person on the streets.
And that's where we want to be known.
We want to be known on the streets.
Glory be to God.
Where people know they have a need.
Stand.
Folks, can I give you a synopsis of
what I'm trying to get into your spirit?
Number one, don't believe any work of God
unless there's a repentance, revival, and cleansing first.
You understand?
Until there's a strong word against sin.
Number two, until the people have a heart
that's just like Jesus, and that's a heart.
Check and see how many of those involved
in these new works and moves of God.
Check and see how they are out doing
what Jesus told us to do.
See how many people are feeding, clothing.
See how many of them are out witnessing
on the streets or they just did a
little bless me club.
A little bless me club.
Bless me, Lord.
Bless me, my father, my mother, my brother,
my sister John, my brother John, and just
bless us for no more.
You know, the heart of Jesus, the heart
of love, the brokenness before the Lord.
If you don't see that, you can mark
it down that it's not a genuine work
of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Do you have that in your spirit?
You can go anywhere with that.
Hallelujah.
And then when you do see the Holy
Spirit, you want to judge it?
Judge it by the prophet Ezekiel.
I'd rather take Ezekiel's word than any evangelist
on the face of the earth today.
I don't care what he gets up and
says, hey, this is all of God, and
try to bring Scripture.
Does it bring a loathing for sin?
Is there a hatred toward sin?
Do you hear that crying out of repentance?
Do you see these very things that the
Holy Spirit said he would do when he
comes?
Do you hear that pure, strong, reproving word?
Or is it, hey, everybody, Jesus loves you.
You're okay.
I'm okay.
Everybody's okay.
Come and get your blessing.
Everything isn't okay.
Everybody isn't okay.
And not everybody here this morning is okay.
There are people here today, right now you're
laden down with a sin.
There's something God's dealing with you about.
How are you going to lift up the
name of Jesus?
How can you be anything but a reproach
if you won't go after it and hate
it?
And so, Jesus, I want to be delivered.
I don't want anything in my life to
bring a reproach.
I want nothing to reproach your name.
I'm not going to reproach your name among
the heathen.
I'm going to open this altar up here
now.
Nobody ask any questions?
Nobody put some microphone under your face to
ask you anything?
We don't do anything silly here.
We're here to bring you to repentance.
We're here to let the Holy Spirit do
a work deep in your heart and change
you.
God said, I'll take the heart of stone
out of you.
You ever hear of a hard-shelled Baptist?
Not just a Baptist hard-shelled.
All kinds of people hide behind their denominational
hard-shells.
All kinds of people have their doctrines hiding.
God said, I'll take that hardness out of
you and I'll open you up to my
truth.
I'll open up your spirit and I'll give
you a heart of flesh that heals and
loves and cares.
Lord, send your Holy Spirit right now and
convict of sin.
Convict, O Lord, and bring healing.
Lord, I'm asking you to not let anybody
in this church be deceived.
Let no one standing in front of me,
behind me, or around me be deceived by
the spirits that are loose in this world
today.
Let there be no deception.
God, bring forth a clean word from this
pulpit.
Bring forth a clean word and let the
people that are here love reprove.
Let them say, Oh God, turn the searchlight
on me.
Go deep into my heart.
Take away everything that's unlike you, Jesus.
All right, when the Holy Spirit touches you
and you say, Brother Wilkinson, something you said
this morning touched my heart.
I feel the drawing of the Holy Spirit.
Especially if you have something that you know,
if it were brought to the light, would
not bring glory to his name.
I want you to get out of your
seat and come and stand here.
So, God, put a hatred in my heart
for everything that's unlike you.
I don't want to carry in my spirit
anything that will drag me down.
I need you, Jesus.
I need your touch this morning.
Up on the balcony, go to the stairs
on either side and come down any aisle.
We'll wait for you.
Come now while they sing.
If your back's slid, if you slip from
God, if you don't know Jesus, come with
these.
Move close, please.
You will do a special work in their
heart this morning.
That they will leave this house not just
moved, but changed.
Not just stirred, but committed.
Oh, Spirit of the living God, fall now.
Fall upon every one of these that have
stepped out in faith.
And they say, Lord, I want to come
closer to you.
I need you.
Lord, they're coming forward because they're needing you.
They're coming forward to acknowledge that need.
And, Lord, you'll honor that this morning.
Honor this, I pray in Jesus' name.
You that have come forward, look this way
for just a moment.
He's waiting for you to make a commitment.
Really make a commitment this morning.
Lord, I believe your word.
You commit yourself to the word of God
that it's true.
Do you believe what the prophet said?
That he wants to just pour clean water
on you and cleanse you.
He said, I want to take your uncleanness
away from you.
God said, I want to do it.
You can't do it.
Cry a river of tears.
Make a million promises.
You can't take away your filthiness.
Only God can.
And oh, how willing he is to do
it right now this morning.
To sprinkle the blood of the lamb upon
your heart.
But is your heart repentant?
Is there godly sorrow?
God brought you out this morning to put
that godly sorrow.
Folks, repentance, I used to tell crowds in
my crusades, repentance is turning away from sin.
But that's only half of it.
It's turning away with hatred for sin.
It's turning away with loathing for your past
life.
It's hating what you've become or what you
are when sin is there.
You say, I can't live like this.
I can't go on like this.
I can't live a double life.
I can't do this.
I want victory in my life this morning.
How many want that victory?
Keep your hand raised, please.
Just keep your hand raised.
Pray this loud and clear right from your
heart, right out of your gut, inside of
you.
Pray it right out.
Jesus.
I come before you.
To make a new commitment.
I receive your word.
I open my heart.
And I ask you to do.
Just what you promised to do.
Cleanse me.
From all filthiness.
Of my flesh.
All sin.
Everything unlike you, Jesus.
Destroy it.
Kill it.
In Jesus' name.
And O God.
I pray right now.
For a heart after you.
And a broken spirit.
I give you my pride.
I give you everything.
Melt my heart.
Melt my spirit before you.
Give me a hatred for sin.
I thank you, Jesus.
From this day on.
I count this as my commitment.
To walk with you.
And I'll just thank him in your own
words.
Thank him in your own words.