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Turn to 1 Corinthians 10th chapter.
1 Corinthians 10th chapter.
Let him that thinks he stands take heed
lest he fall.
Let him that thinks he stands take heed
lest he fall is my subject.
Let's read the first 12 verses, chapter 10,
1 Corinthians.
Moreover, brethren, I would not have you that
you should be ignorant how that all our
fathers were under the cloud and all passed
through the sea.
They were all baptized into Moses in the
cloud and in the sea, and did all
eat the same spiritual meat, and did all
drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank
of the spiritual rock that followed them.
That rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not
well pleased, for they were overthrown in the
wilderness.
Now these things were our examples to the
intent we should not lust after evil things
that they also lusted.
Need to be idolaters as some of them
were.
And by the way, in the original, that's
as most of them were.
Need to be adulterers as were most of
them, as it was written.
The people sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play.
Neither let us commit fornication as some of
them committed and fell one day three and
twenty thousand.
Neither let us tempt Christ as some of
them also tempted and were destroyed as serpents.
Neither murmur ye as some of them also
murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.
And all these things happened unto them for
examples, and they were written for our admonition
upon whom the ends of the world are
come.
Wherefore, that him that thinketh he standeth, take
he lest he fall.
Father, let the Holy Ghost come upon these
words.
Lord, this is dead letter without the spirit.
And I pray, Lord, you come upon me
with sanctifying power, preaching authority, and that Christ's
name be glorified in the word today.
We love you, Jesus, and thank you for
your presence in this house.
But now, Lord, we come to be fed
by the hand of God, manna from heaven.
Oh, God, speak to us all this day
in every service.
Amen.
Now, Paul is speaking to brethren.
He's speaking to the church of Jesus Christ.
I believe he's speaking to the Corinthian church
primarily, but he's speaking to the church in
general, all generations to follow.
And he's speaking to me especially.
And he says, Brethren, let him that thinks
he stands take heed lest he fall.
Beware, brethren, lest you take a fall.
Now, is Paul speaking about believers who were
going to fall into deep lust, the kind
of lust and sins they had been delivered
from by the hand of Christ?
Is he worried that he himself, because he
makes a statement in the previous chapter about
keeping his body under authority and into subjection,
is he worried about a fall into some
kind of lust or immorality?
God forbid, that's not what this is about.
That's not what this chapter is speaking about.
There is a fall here mentioned, but let
me tell you what it is in just
a moment.
First Corinthians, the ninth chapter, verse 27, he
said, I keep under my body and I
bring it under subjection that by any means,
when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway.
And in the context, he's speaking about a
race and he said, you have to be
under control in this race.
Your body has to be under subjection.
And he says, I keep under my body
and I bring it under subjection, lest by
any means, when I have preached to others,
I myself should be a castaway.
He said, I could not finish this race.
I can't finish this race.
And he identifies himself as a boxer in
this last verse.
And he said, I don't fight the air.
He said, I make it count.
I come against my doubts and my unbelief
and I have to land a devastating blow
on all of my doubts and fears or
I will be disqualified from this race.
And when he speaks about being a castaway
means be disqualified.
And what he's saying after all my preaching
on faith and I've been encouraging others to
finish the race, run a good race, fight
a good fight.
And he said, after all my preaching, if
I am involved in this particular sin that
I want to talk to you about in
the service this afternoon or this morning, he
said, if I don't bring my body under
subjection on this matter, if I allow this
particular sin to go unbeaten, unchallenged, then I'm
going to be disqualified myself from this race.
And what he's saying, if God disqualified the
whole Israelite dispensation, if he disqualified them because
of this particular sin, will he not disqualify
me for the same sin?
Let us lay aside.
You can't understand what he's saying unless you
get it from Hebrews 12.
One, let us lay aside every weight, the
sin that so easily besets us and let
us run with patience the race that set
before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and
the finisher of our faith.
He said, there's a sin that so easily
besets us that's common to all of us.
And he said, this is the one sin
that I fear above all.
It's the mother of all sins.
It's the root of all evil.
And he said, this is one sin common
to the body of Jesus Christ.
And he said, I'll not have you ignorant
of it.
I'm not going to let go unchallenged.
I've challenged it in my own life, and
I'm going to challenge it in the church
now.
This is the sin of unbelief.
This is the fall that is mentioned in
this chapter.
Paul is thinking about all of his past
preaching.
Now, he's a preacher of faith.
This man preached faith.
This is the man that said, for by
faith, you stand.
He's the preacher who said, examine yourself, whether
you be in the faith.
He said, the just to live by faith.
He preached that we live by faith.
We're justified by faith.
We're kept by faith.
We overcome by faith.
We claim the promises by faith.
We fight the good fight of faith.
It was faith, faith, faith all through Paul's
preaching.
And he said, in light of what I've
preached, in light of what I have told
people to do, to believe and trust God,
if now in this race I give into
doubt, I give into fear and I give
into unbelief, I will be disqualified.
I will not finish the course.
I cannot finish the race because I will
be disqualified.
And he's saying, God, I'm showing you an
example from our fathers, how they were totally
disqualified and how they were left to waste
away in the desert, in the wilderness because
of unbelief.
The sin that is common to all of
us, the sin that is one of the
most dangerous of all and the root of
all other sins that would follow.
In light of this, he said, I fight
and I don't beat the air.
He said, I have got to give a
devastating blow to all unbelief in my life
if I'm to be able to finish the
course and win the race.
Now, in chapter 10, here in 1 Corinthians,
Paul shows the possibility of enlightened Christians to
fall into a state of unbelief.
It's possible for the most enlightened Christians, the
most privileged Christians, the most blessed believers to
fall into this terrible sin.
And he says, I'm going to take you
back into the Old Testament.
He said, I'm going to show you the
example.
I'm going to show you the danger of
unbelief.
He said, I don't want you to be
ignorant of what happened to your fathers.
The fathers were those in Israel, our spiritual
fathers, those who were called out of Egypt
past the Red Sea.
And he begins to enumerate the privileges of
these people.
He said, now let me tell you about
your fathers.
He said, all our fathers were under the
cloud and they passed through the sea.
Now, the Bible said the Lord went before
them by day in a pillar of cloud
and led them in the way, and by
night with a pillar of fire to give
them light.
Now, this speaks of God's guidance.
It speaks of his protection.
And Paul was saying, I want you to
know that your fathers were divinely, supernaturally led
by the spirit of God.
These were men who had God's hand upon
them.
They all of them were under this protective
cloud.
They all passed through the sea.
They were privy to miracles, one miracle after
another, but the greatest miracle ever recorded, perhaps,
natural miracle, that the seas should pile up
underneath wind and they could go over on
dry ground.
The east wind would dry up ground so
the wagons wouldn't sog down in the mud.
And he said, think of the privilege of
these men.
They could talk the rest of their life.
They had a testimony.
They all passed through the sea.
They all knew miracle power in their lives.
They could talk about and testify to their
children and their grandchildren.
I was there.
I saw what God did.
They were all baptized into Moses.
That means that they were submitted unto the
truth and the gospel preached by this meek
man.
In other words, they were well taught.
They were not ignorant concerning the ways of
God, the nature of God, the attributes of
God.
These men, these Israelites, were well trained.
They sat under a powerful gospel such as
no other nation on earth could hear or
understand, baptized with truth by the hand of
Moses.
They sat under a man who was a
prophet, a man of prayer, a man of
holiness, a man who came from God's presence
and stood before them and gave them the
word of the living God.
All ate the same spiritual meat.
They all drank the same spiritual drink.
This was the man and the water that
came out of the rock.
And the apostle Paul said that rock is
Christ.
In other words, that rock represents Christ.
Christ was in the Father at the time.
And he said, this represents.
And not only that, it represented the water
and the bread, represented the communion.
He said, here are people, think of their
of the blessings and the privileges.
They are saved out of Egypt.
They've had a genuine conversion.
They are led by the Holy Spirit.
They've been baptized in and through the waters.
They have sat under great preaching.
And they know what communion is.
They've heard the very voice of God.
No people ever sat under greater teaching.
This man was a prophet.
He came from God.
He said, in spite of these privileges, in
spite of everything that I gave them.
But with many or most of them, God
was not well pleased, for they were overthrown
in the wilderness.
In other words, they took a fall.
It's unbelief.
With whom was he grieved forty years?
To whom swore they that they should not
enter into the rest, but to them that
believe not some.
So you see, they could not enter in
because of unbelief.
I was grieved with that generation, so I
swore in my wrath they shall not enter
into my rest.
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred
them and he said, I will hide my
face from them.
These are children in whom is no faith.
He said, there's no faith.
I have given them every privilege.
I've shown the miracles and in every ensuing
crisis, even though I met them, I would
meet them in for a season.
They would rejoice.
They would glorify my name.
I serve a great deliver.
And then a few days later in the
next crisis, they're saying, God, where are you?
Paul reminds the believers.
Now, these things were our examples.
These things, this is verse six and verse
eleven, happened unto them for examples.
They're written for our admonition upon whom the
ends of the world have come.
He says, now you take heed.
And he said, now let's talk about your
privileges.
He said, beware, you Testament believers, lest you
fall into the same example of unbelief.
He said, you have even greater privileges.
You don't have an essence of Christ.
You don't have a shadow of Christ.
You don't have a type of Christ.
You have the Christ.
You have been in his presence.
You have tasted of Christ.
You have sat under a gospel, not of
the letter, but of demonstration and power of
the Holy Ghost, as Paul said.
You had covenant revealed to you.
You've had a manifested Christ.
You've been filled with the Holy Ghost and
you've been given all the gifts of the
Holy Ghost.
You've had signs and wonders and the working
of miracles.
You've had better promises.
You've heard incredible preaching.
And you have a revelation of a high
priest and glory interceding for you.
And you have an Old Testament, a completed
canon of the Old Testament.
You have the prophets.
And you have all of these truths.
And you have the epistles.
You have the writings of these great men
of God.
You have all of these privileges.
You have been at the communion table and
you know what it represents.
You have been so blessed.
You've been so privileged.
And then he comes and says, there remains
a rest to the people of God.
He's saying Israel rejected it.
They wouldn't enter in because of unbelief.
They allowed their doubts and their fears to
overwhelm them.
They turned to idols.
And he said, there still remains a rest
to the people of God.
Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that
rest.
Now, listen to this.
We're talking about a fall.
Lest any man fall after the same example
of unbelief.
KT, lest you fall.
What are we talking about?
Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, drugs, alcohol.
We're talking, those are all previous sins and
all the result of this sin.
And we're talking about unbelief.
Lest you fall into a spirit of unbelief.
Unless you fall, that is a fall in
the sight of God.
It's a fall into mire and degradation.
More than any sin named on the face
of the earth.
No other sin does God hate more than
unbelief.
Because it's the root sin of all the
others.
Yet Paul tells them they're in danger of
falling at the peak of their blessings, at
the very pinnacle of all that they have
been taught.
And now they sit comfortably in the Corinthian
church and they can look at one another.
And there is, there had to be some
sense of maturity in that house.
There had to be those who were pillars.
And he comes to these who were pillars,
he comes to the pastors, he comes to
all of us, as he comes to me
and you today.
And he said, beware, watch out, take heed.
Lest you fall into the same sin that
disqualified Israel, that left them wasting in the
desert in spite of all of their privileges
and a God who loved them and a
God who took them in his loving arms.
He said, now you beware, lest you fall
into this state of unbelief and you be
disqualified and you do not finish the race.
Lest any man fall after the same example
of unbelief and God abhorred Israel for it.
He turned his face from Israel because of
it.
He gave Israel over to their sins because
of it.
Now he says, take heed, lest you fall
into the same example of unbelief.
Now that brings us to our day.
That brings us to Times Square church.
It brings it home to me now as
a pastor.
He says, you church of Jesus Christ of
the last day, those of you hearing me
now, the most privileged of every generation in
the past of any generation.
We are so far more privileged than the
church at court.
We now have the whole canon of scripture
here in our hands.
We have not only the testimony or the
example of the Old Testament.
We now have the example of the Corinthians
themselves.
Not only that, we have a media saturation
of the gospel that the Corinthians could have
never even conceived of.
We have preaching on television, our own churches
on radio preaching a gospel.
Some of the sermons that you hear, the
message that you hear are being heralded all
across the city.
And you can pick up magazines, you can
pick up books, and there's mass publication, mass
media.
And what do you do when you pick
up a really genuine Christian magazine or you
hear a genuine preacher of the gospel, someone
truly filled with the spirit, you hear testimonies,
you hear of people being healed, you hear
of people that have been healed of cancer,
you hear people who face death without fear.
You hear miracle after miracle after miracle of
God's faithfulness.
No other generation has been so saturated with
the blessings and the testimonies of the utter
faithfulness of God.
In spite of this, we have a generation
falling in the church into unbelief.
And if God disqualified Israel from belief, will
he not disqualify us who are the most
privileged people on the face of the earth?
Paul goes further and deeper into the horror
of unbelief.
He warns, he said, now let me show
you where all this ends.
Let me show you where unbelief takes you.
Let me show the end result of unbelief
in the heart of a believer.
He said, there's a gravity to sin, to
unbelief.
There's a pool of gravity.
He said, a gravity that will pull you
down into the flesh and you will commit
sins that you never conceived possible in your
life.
No matter how long you've walked with God,
no matter how many privileges you've had.
And Paul was speaking to privileged Christians.
He's speaking to brethren, full of the Holy
Ghost, baptized in water, sitting under the word
of God, having heard all the testimonies, having
a full canon of close scripture.
In spite of all of that, he says,
take heed.
Because Paul said, I'm going to show you
now where it ends.
I'll show you where it takes you, where
unbelief going to take you.
Now, these things were examples that we should
not lust after evil things as they also
lusted.
You see, Paul saying, when our fathers began
to disbelieve God, when they fell into this
horrible sin of unbelief, lust broke out in
the flesh.
And he names idolatry and fornication.
Neither be your idolaters as they, neither commit
fornication as some of them committed.
And in one day, twenty three thousand fell.
Now, you see, all of these sins are
very grievous that we're talking about, the sins
of the flesh, the lust of the flesh.
But you see, God didn't name those things
when he spoke about Israel not entering into
the rest and how he abhorred Israel because
of what?
Unbelief.
He does not name these, or they didn't
even name idolatry because those were all the
fruit of this root of unbelief.
What is unbelief?
Simply put, unbelief is to doubt God is
faithful to his word.
Unbelief is to doubt God is faithful to
his word in two ways.
It is doubt that God will keep his
promise to deliver us in impossible situations.
When we face an impossible situation, impossible trial.
It's this growing fear, though I have seen
God do this before, will he do it
now?
Can I utterly, utterly believe him?
Can I live a life of faith where
no matter whatever comes my way, I can
trust?
And then see, unbelief breaks out in not
believing that God would be faithful to back
up his command, which was divine judgment.
Not believing that God has any wrath.
And all we hear today in churches all
over the world is the love of God.
You never hear of hell.
You never hear of reproof.
Now, different in this church, I can assure
you.
But you see, the Bible says, they tempted
Christ.
Verse 9, neither let us tempt Christ as
some of them also tempted were destroyed of
serpents.
How did they tempt Christ?
He was in the Father.
And the Bible says they tempted Christ.
Now, here's how they tempted him.
First of all, they tempted him with what
I would call provisional faith.
They tempted him by saying, yes, God, I
know what you have done in the past
for me.
Yes, I can enumerate many miracles, how you've
touched me, you've delivered me.
But now, God, I'm asking you, you've got
to do it one more time.
If you do it one more time, you
see, it's a provision.
I lift the bar every time we keep
lifting the bar.
Lord, if you do this one more time,
I'll never doubt you again.
Israel said that 10 times.
And when it says, God, in the original,
it says tempted beyond endurance.
The root word suggests endurance.
God said, you trained my patience beyond endurance.
You're putting me to the test.
You're tempting me to see if I'm going
to be faithful.
You won't take me at my word.
You want another miracle.
Lord, one more time.
God said, no, that's tempting me.
We tempt Christ's mercy because of unbelief.
I consider the most tragic, this most tragic,
dangerous fruit of unbelief.
If I do not fully believe that God
will keep his word and judge transgression in
my life, I'm going to see how far
I can go.
I'm going to keep taking God to the
brink.
This means that a man can be in
his home and he's got a cable TV
and suddenly there is pornography right in his
face.
He takes two minutes and the spirit of
God says, shut it down.
Cut it off.
And he cuts it off and there's a
tinge of conviction.
There's a Godly sorrow.
He says, oh God, forgive me.
But then you see the devil keeps coming
and says, there's nothing wrong with that.
It's not that big of a deal.
15 minutes.
And so he goes and he turns it
on again and see now he's tempting the
mercy of God.
Because you see, God didn't judge him.
And folks, you've got to go back to
the seduction of Moab in Israel against Israel.
How Balak was taught by Balaam to seduce
Israel.
And the Bible says very clearly.
And let me read it to you.
The people beg to commit whoredom with the
daughters of Moab.
And Balak was taught, he said, ease them
into it.
Bring them to a dinner.
They brought them first to a dinner.
They invited all the men of Israel that
would come to a great dinner.
They had their false gods and they slowly
introduced it.
Now they come home from this dinner and
there's no judgment.
They wait one day, probably wait a week
and there's no judgment.
I mean, nobody dies.
There's no disease.
They're not getting a cancer or tumor and
they're not dying.
Mercy of God.
And so they're invited back this time to
a dance.
And this time they go home from the
dance and lust is growing.
You see, there's a gravity to unbelief.
And it pulls you deeper and deeper into
sin.
You see, if a man jumps off a
fifth story thing, which is most dangerous, the
first step or the last?
The man is falling.
He takes first step.
You say, he's dead.
He's gone because gravity is going to take
him right to his death.
And you see, this is how it worked
with Israel.
And so they go back.
And about the third trip, these men are
now committing fornication with these Moabitish women.
And it's tempting Christ to see how far
we can go before God will judge it.
And because judgment, the scripture said, is God
is not quick to judge sin because it's
not quickly.
Men are encouraged in their sins.
Tempting Christ.
Because if you're going to tempt Him on
His faithfulness to meet your need and to
do the impossible, if you're going to doubt
Him on spiritual matters, you're going to doubt
Him everything having to do with your flesh.
You're going to doubt Him in His keeping
power to keep you from the lust of
the flesh.
You're going to doubt every promise there is
in the covenant.
You're going to doubt it.
Because unbelief spreads through every area of our
life.
And even while Moses is slaying those who
are committing this sin, he was hanging their
heads up on poles so everybody could see
it.
And here's how far down you can go
through unbelief.
There's a man who brings a Moabitish woman
into his tent right in the face of
Moses, right before the holy man of God.
And that's how sin, you could gravitate and
get down so low until it's not only
a fall into unbelief, but it's a fall
into the fleshly mire of hell.
Now, let me tell you what I believe.
And I've written this down.
I'm just going to read it to you.
This is what I believe.
I believe that when Christ forgave me and
redeemed me, He gave me His Holy Spirit,
and my body became the temple.
And He lives here.
He abides here.
He's in His temple.
And He is here to renew my mind
and my will.
The will that fell in the garden was
restored when the Holy Ghost possessed me.
My will was renewed.
So I now, because I have the Holy
Ghost in me, because Christ abides in me,
I have the will and the power to
obey the Holy Spirit's urgings.
And I believe that in Christ, I have
the power to resist temptation.
I believe that the first look at sin,
the Holy Ghost will come and say, stop,
go no further.
I believe that I have the power to
obey that Spirit's voice.
I believe that if I disobey that voice
of the Spirit, I open myself to demon
seduction.
I believe that if I reason with my
lust, if I say, it's not that bad,
then I'm in the greatest danger.
I believe that the moment I turn liberty
into license, I grieve the Holy Spirit.
I believe that the Spirit will do nothing
to deliver me without my cooperation.
God will not do anything.
No covenant promise can be given you without
your cooperation in mind.
He will not, the Holy Ghost will do
nothing, no promise, nothing of any covenant if
we are not going to cooperate with the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
We're not cooperate with what he speaks.
I believe the Spirit, I believe that I'm
tempting the mercy of Christ when I look
the second, third time and then shake off
conviction.
Now, Paul was not wanting to bring the
church under any kind of condemnation.
He didn't want people to go around walking
in fear of falling into fornication or any
other sin.
And he gives a wonderful promise, verse 13,
look at it, if you will please.
Verse 13, chapter 10, there hath no temptation
taken you, but such is common to man.
Now, what temptation are we talking about?
Now, in the context, I believe it has
to deal with the sin of murmuring and
complaining, because he says in verse 10, neither
murmur ye, as some of them also murmured
and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Look at me, please.
This is the temptation that Paul goes on
to say is common to all of us.
You see, we read this, it says there's
no temptation taking such as common to man.
In other words, some people get that God's
saying, well, everybody does it.
Everybody.
Yes, he's saying it more emphatically.
Everybody is guilty of it.
This temptation to doubt God, this temptation to
disbelieve in the miracle power of God, this
tendency, this temptation that comes on us when
we face a trial, this temptation that we
are tempted with, these thoughts that keep pounding
in our minds, is God able or why
God?
Again, why do you let me go through
this again and again?
As the children of Israel face one problem
after another, ten times provoking God.
He said that God's faithful who will not
permit you or suffer you to be tempted
above that you're able, but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape that
you may be able to bear it.
And I've always been bothered by that, that
you may escape.
Well, if you escape, why do you have
to bear it?
It's gone.
But you see, stay to the context and
you will understand what Paul the Apostle is
saying to the church of Jesus Christ.
He said, there's a temptation that we're all,
it's common to all of us, every believer,
this temptation to doubt the faithfulness of God.
He said, it's common to all of us.
And he said, God is faithful.
Now, here's the point.
And this is where I'm going to close
in just a few moments.
You see, the history shows that the enemy
brought ruin to the paradise that God had
established here on earth.
Gates are closed.
Adam and Eve are disqualified.
Adam and Eve fall into unbelief.
He fall down in history and you see
Israel, Satan is successful in bringing down a
whole generation of believers because of unbelief.
Now we come to the last days and
now this is, this is the way of
escape so that there will be a generation
in the last day before Jesus comes who
will not doubt him, who will be brought
into a rest.
And that rest is simply this.
I believe that I can live my life
without fear, without doubt, with unbelief.
I believe it's possible because this is not
the house of Moses.
Now, this is the house of Christ that
he is building.
This is his house.
And he is sent to this earth to
bring a body into the rest, to believe
the heavenly father will see them through, the
heavenly father will be faithful to his promises,
that the heavenly father will not do anything
that would harm his children.
And he's going to have a people in
the last day.
He said, I am going to make a
way of escape in the last day that
you may be able to endure anything at
any time that you may be able to
endure it.
He is not going to take us out
of the suffering often.
He's not going to take us away when
the country is in economic chaos.
We're all going to be in the chaos.
But he said, I'm going to have a
people that is in rest.
He said, I will not permit this last
generation.
I'm not going to allow the devil to
take this last generation.
I'll have a people that have come into
the rest.
There remains the rest of the children of
God.
And I've asked God to bring me into
that rest because he created me a free
moral agent.
If I don't have the ability through the
Holy Ghost to trust God, then I'm not
a free moral agent.
I'm a robot.
And God is unjust.
God has given me the ability and the
power to believe.
And I can bring every thought into captivity,
the obedience of Jesus Christ.
And I can look the devil in the
eye and I can look society in the
eye and I can say, let nature run
its course.
Let it go wild.
Let everything collapse and be shaken.
We have a God that's going to see
us through in the last day.
We are going to enter into that rest.
Hallelujah.
My prayers, oh God.
This is what your covenant is all about.
To bring a people into total rest and
confidence that can look every storm in the
eye.
Say devil, do what you want to do.
But I know one thing.
I've got a wall of fire around about
me.
I've got a God in heaven.
I've got a high priest in glory.
Hallelujah.
Folks, God hates, abhors, despises unbelief.
And we don't take seriously our murmuring and
complaining.
But all God's been doing with my heart,
not to murmur about anything, to begin to
thank him in all things he said, to
give him thanks, to give him praise, to
get up in the morning.
You know, so all my path, my neck,
my arms, oh God, am I ever going
to be free of pain?
So God, thank you that you're alive today.
You're real.
Oh God, what am I going to do
if things get bad?
Looking unto Jesus, Paul said, the author, the
finisher.
He said, I'm going to finish this job
I started.
I'm going to take you through.
Will you stand?
May God make this a believing church, believing
for the impossible.
Folks, I'll tell you what God has in
store.
He has in store for this city, a
shaking, a convicting, a moving.
And if we'll seek God and believe him
that nothing is impossible.
Aren't you tired of sitting by and watching
homosexuals take power?
Aren't you a little weary of them now
trying to get God's name off our coins
and from the pledge of the flag and
just absolutely cast God's name in vain?
Remember what we've been preaching?
God said, I'm going to rise and I'm
going to defend my own name.
But folks, when Daniel heard what God intended
to do, he fell on his face and
began to intercede and pray.
And we've been given a word that God's
going to stand in this city and in
the country and defend his own name now.
He's going to move in judging power and
mighty power.
And if we obey him and believe him,
what we really need is another theater jam
packed with newborn souls, newborn saints, a whole
other church, the same church, but another whole
theater somewhere just filled with people.
And we need to see pastors in our
prayer meetings coming under the same burden of
the Lord.
It's time to believe.
God, forgive our unbelief.
Lord, forgive our unbelief.
Forgive my unbelief.
God, we're going to have to start believing
in great, miraculous things.
We're going to have to believe for our
own lives.
A daily provision and whatever comes, Lord, that
telephone call, that word from the doctor, whatever
it may be, oh God, we can cast
ourselves on you, say live or die, I'm
the Lord's.
God will do what is right.
Heavenly Father, can we say truthfully, we trust
you.
We believe you.
I'm going to open the altars for those
who have to confess.
Now, you may be in the annex.
I'm speaking to you and here in the
auditorium upstairs and down.
You have been, I'll put it straight, murmuring
and complaining.
And there's been some unbelief that's gotten a
hold of your heart.
And you've been asking God, why?
And you've been wondering.
I'm going to ask you, if the Holy
Spirit's speaking, you get out of your seat.
And I want you to confess the sin
of unbelief.
I want you to confess it.
I want you to say, Lord, I have
not trusted you in these particular time of
my life, in my crisis.
I've not been trusting you.
I have fear and doubt.
And in the annex, you go to the
lobby and the ushers will show you how
to get into this room.
You come down here, meet me here and
we'll pray with you and believe God to
deliver you, pluck every root of unbelief.
Up in the balcony, go to the stairs
on either side, come down.
If you're not right with God, if you're
here today, you say, Pastor Dave, I really
don't even know Jesus in a personal way.
I've never received him as my Lord.
You get out of your seat.
If the Holy Spirit's talking to you, come
and follow these that are coming.
Just get out of your seat and follow
these that are honest enough to come and
say, I have this unbelief in me and
I want God to pluck it out of
my heart.
And if you've been running from God, you've
been backslidden, you've grown cold toward the Lord
and you feel that tug and pull of
the Holy Spirit, you obey him also.
I'm not going to prolong this.
It doesn't take God a long time to
accomplish work when your heart is open.
I can't tell you how seriously God's been
dealing with me on this.
As you know, our families faced a lot
of problems like your family, a lot of
crises, a lot of sickness and illness and
things like that.
But through it all, God's been teaching our
family to trust him.
And he wants a trusting people.
He wants you to trust him.
He wants you to trust him about your
finances, your relationships, everything has to do with
your job, your family, your health, everything.
He doesn't want you to leave one area
open to the spirit of unbelief.
And this is a step that you can
take.
You can choose to believe God.
If you're a child of God, if you
had been touched by the Spirit of God
in your heart, the Holy Spirit abides in
you and Christ is your Lord.
You have a renewed will.
You are able.
You have the power and the will.
If you just take advantage of it, just
do it in his name.
In Jesus' name, I choose to believe.
In Jesus' name, I choose to cast down
my unbelief.
In the name of Jesus, I ask the
Holy Spirit to remind me of every doubt
and fear that enters my mind.
I take authority over it.
In the name of Jesus, I take authority
over those doubts and fears.
And I'm going to say, God will never
fail me.
God will not fail me.
I want you to pray this prayer out
loud and clear.
Lord Jesus, forgive my unbelief.
Forgive my doubts.
Forgive my fears.
Now, in the name of Jesus, I give
my heart, my sins, my unbelief to the
blood of Jesus Christ.
And I receive by faith forgiveness.
And Lord, I will believe you.
I choose to believe you.
I choose to have faith because I've been
promised that I've been given a new mind
and a new heart by believing in your
salvation.
Now, I give him thanks.
Lord, we give you thanks.
The Lord's put one last thing in my
heart.
I want to pray a prayer of faith
for everyone in the annex and upstairs downstairs,
wherever you're at, wherever you're hearing me now.
I want to pray a prayer of faith
for healing.
We're going to trust God.
Let's trust him right now for your healing.
Let's trust God right now.
You don't have to wait till this afternoon
for a healing line.
He can do it now.
He can do it in the annex.
He can fill that room with the glory
as he has in the presence of God.
He wants to.
How many need a healing in your body?
Raise your hand now and keep it high.
Just keep it there right now and let's
pray and let's believe God right now.
Will you believe God?
God is able.
I'm believing God for the healing of my
wife's bladder.
I'm believing God's healing for her leg, that
there'll be no operation necessary.
I don't know what you're believing about, but
let's believe God now.
You believe God right now, Father, in the
name of Jesus.
These words don't fall in front of my
face.
These are not the ramblings of a pastor.
This is your living word.
This is your word to us.
This is your promise.
And we stand upon your promise.
We come to an almighty God who gave
us a savior and a high priest.
We come to you, Jesus, our high priest.
We come to the blood, not only of
cleansing, but the blood of healing.
I ask you to heal, Lord, all through
this building.
We bring down the powers of the enemy.
Our weapons are mighty through God in pulling
down these strongholds.
Let our spirit of faith rise in this
church.
Let faith arise.
Let faith arise in the name of Jesus.
Give him thanks.
This is the conclusion of the message.