I've been seeking the Lord on this and
praying all day.
In a former message a number of years
ago, I touched on what I want to
touch tonight, and some of you may recognize
some of these points, but I want to
talk about a new world that's coming, a
whole new world that's coming.
Usually we talk about the coming of Jesus
and all the signs that point up to
it, but I want to talk to you
about the things that are going to happen
after Jesus comes.
There's a whole new world, and a lot
of new converts, since I dealt on this
subject a number of months ago, have no
concept.
They hear about the coming of the Lord,
but what happens after that?
There's a whole new world.
We sing about some of these things, but
we don't know it, but I'm going to
go through the scriptures tonight and remind you
of these things.
Amen.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, I pray for your touch.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit that's been
evident, the manifest presence of Jesus in this
church tonight.
Hallelujah.
Lord, we're so glad to be in your
presence.
It's good to be here.
It's refreshing to be here, Lord.
It's life-giving to be here.
Lord, one of these days we're going to
leave.
We are going home.
Hallelujah.
Lord, this is not our world.
This is not our place.
We're just passing through.
We are headed for redemption.
We've got a whole new world that God
has created for us.
Lord, excite us about it tonight.
Give us joy as we anticipate that one
of these days, soon and very soon, we're
going into the new world.
Hallelujah.
Whet our appetites with it, Lord, and with
this motivate us to seek you and be
holy and righteous in our daily walk, I
pray.
Quicken me now as we go into your
word, I pray, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
There are many, many Christians who don't know
the chain of events that are going to
happen after Jesus comes.
And I want to go through this chain
of events with you and remind you.
And I pray that this time, if you've
heard any of this from any preacher, these
things need to be indelibly stamped in your
heart.
They need to go deep inside your heart
so you rejoice over them, so that when
you get down or depressed, the devil can't
defeat you.
You can just say, well, I'm not going
to be here long anyhow.
This is not where I belong.
I'm looking for a city whose builder and
maker is God.
I want to give you an outline of
these eternal events as I see them and
as many of our forefathers saw them.
And this is nothing unusual about it.
It's the evangelical approach to interpretation of future
events.
First thing that we have on the agenda,
and everybody knows it, Jesus is going to
suddenly put a stop to time.
The Bible said time shall be no more.
Picture eternity as a big circle, like a
hula hoop, a big circle.
Time is this little piece that's cut off
of that.
It's just a little piece.
In fact, the Bible said God gave man
space to repent.
Time is that little space in this great
circle.
And then God's going to remove that little
thing and put it back together, and this
endless circle called eternity goes back together again.
You and I have been given this little
space to repent.
Time, I don't care how long you conceive
it to be, it's a very short time
in comparison to eternity.
The Bible says, and I saw another mighty
angel come down from heaven.
He set his right foot upon the sea,
his left foot upon the earth, and he
cried with a loud voice as he lifted
up his hand to heaven.
And he swore by him that liveth forever
and ever that there should be time no
longer.
The mystery of God shall be finished, and
he hath declared it to his servants the
prophets.
An angel is going to come and set
his foot on the sea and the land
and raise his voice in his hands and
say, Time is ended.
Time shall be no more.
Hallelujah.
Jesus is going to say, My priesthood has
been finished.
No longer a priest.
I've done all that I've been called to
do.
He's going to put on his judge's robes.
He's going to take off his priestly robes
and put on his judge's robes.
Hallelujah.
My day, he says, of intercession is all
over.
The last believer has been sealed.
The last prophecy has been given.
The last invitation has come and gone.
The last church service has been conducted.
It's all over.
The last person has gotten right with God.
The last outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
It is all finished.
Time shall be no more.
The Bible says there's an angel, the seventh
angel in fact, is going to come with
a mighty shout.
The kingdoms of this world he's going to
proclaim have now become the kingdoms of our
Lord and his Christ and he shall reign
forever and ever.
The Lord himself then shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet of God.
Hallelujah.
Imagine the shouting in heaven when all the
angels suddenly are informed that he's coming to
earth.
He's coming for his bride.
Can you imagine the shouting of the angels
and the rejoicing of the heavenly host?
The seventh angel sounded.
There were great voices in heaven.
These great voices have to do with the
revelation that time has ended and now all
the kingdoms of the world are going to
come under his jurisdiction.
Hallelujah.
This is the day that's been longed for.
This is the day that their Christ is
going to be vindicated.
Hallelujah.
It's not only the end of time, but
it's the end of the power of the
enemy.
All the Lord's enemies are going to be
brought under submission.
You know, I've preached a lot about the
conditions of the world and we've talked about
packed up homosexuals who want more power.
We've talked about the forces of abortion.
We've talked about the liberal forces and those
who've driven prayer out of our schools.
We've talked about all of these principalities and
powers that have risen trying to take authority.
But, folks, on this day, it is all
over.
It is ended.
All the kingdoms of the world now become
the kingdoms of our Christ in his glory.
The Father is going to say to his
Son, Go now, put on your royal robe
and appear in your glory.
Empty the heavens of all the glorious spirits.
Sit on your judgment seat.
Come, prepare for judgment.
The time has come.
The time that's in the Father's hand has
been announced.
Hallelujah.
After the pronouncement by the angel that times
will be no more, that the end of
all things has come.
Secondly, the Bible said he's going to descend
out of heaven.
He's going to sit upon his imperial judgment
throne, his judgment seat.
And he's coming in a cloud.
And the Bible said he's coming with the
retinue out of heaven.
He's coming with the four and twenty beasts,
the elders.
He's coming with the seraphims and all of
the angels, the thousands upon thousands of those
dressed in white.
He's coming with all of the hosts of
heaven, the scripture says.
Behold, the Lord's going to come with mighty
angels.
Behold, the Lord is coming with ten thousands
of his saints to execute judgment.
Thousands and thousands shall minister unto him.
Ten thousand times, ten thousand shall stand before
him.
And the Son of Man shall come in
his glory and all his holy angels with
him.
Now, as he ascends from his eternal abode,
the Bible said there's going to be a
great fire.
It's a fiery appearance.
You know that even a spaceship, when it
comes into the atmosphere, has to have a
special shield or it would burn up immediately.
It would flash into ashes.
And can you imagine when he approaches the
atmosphere of this earth and the whole world
is going to see him, the Bible says,
when he comes?
You say, well, how could the whole world
see him because the sun shines on this
side and it's dark on this side of
the earth, different time zones.
How can every time zone see him coming?
Well, folks, if Jesus in his glorified body
can walk through walls, he can make this
whole earth transparent.
In fact, he's coming with such a brilliance
that the sun and the moon, it says,
refuse to shine.
And what that means that in comparison to
the brightness of his coming, those are just
dim bulbs compared to the glory of the
shining.
He's going to cover the heavens and the
earth with his glory, this mighty shining host
with all the shining angels with him.
Mankind's first view of him is going to
be in the clouds, a cloud of glory.
Then shall appear the sight of the Son
of Man in heaven.
They shall see the Son of Man coming
in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
Behold, he's coming in clouds.
In every eye shall see him.
In day also it's pierced him.
They shall see the Son of Man coming
in the clouds and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn.
What tribes?
That's not just the tribes of the islands
of the sea, not un-evangelized tribes in
themselves.
There's going to be the homosexual tribe.
There's going to be the abortion tribe.
There's going to be the mockers tribe.
There's going to be the scoffers tribe.
All of these tribes of the earth that
have gathered around their particular sins and mocked
and ridiculed and crucified him afresh, they're all
going to mourn when they see him coming,
the Bible says.
Hallelujah.
The sun and the moon shall refuse to
shine because of the brightness of his coming,
the Scripture says.
Sinners will cry, the Bible says, for the
rocks and the mountains to fall on them,
to hide them from the face of him
that sits on the throne.
They're going to cry, hide me.
They're not going to be able to look
at the face of his coming.
Demons will flee in terror.
Mockers and scoffers will fall like dead men
before this vision.
Those who forsook him, can you imagine the
terror of the backslider?
Those who heard the Gospel, those who turned
their backs on him, what a day, especially
those who know what it means, especially those
who know what it means.
Remember, I received a letter from a woman,
a Christian lady, and she said, I had
a dream, and I told this in one
of my messages.
She said, I was sitting in a restaurant
in a great big glass window, a huge
glass, and suddenly I looked out and I
saw people dressed in white were being taken
left and right.
Suddenly they appeared in white robes and they
were drifting.
I said, what a beautiful sight.
Nobody in the restaurant could see it.
They were all talking about physical things, and
money, and lands, and cars, and finances, and
food, and all of these things.
She said, look, look, look.
She was so excited, she went to the
window.
She said, that's beautiful, that's gorgeous.
Then it dawned on her, I'm here, and
they're going.
She moved over here to try to find
a door.
There's no door.
She went over here.
She said, if I can just get out
there, if I can get out there, I'll
go with them.
She was absolutely panic-stricken because everybody was
leaving.
The Bible said we should all be changed
in the twinkling of an eye.
They were being changed in the twinkling of
an eye, and she's sitting there, or standing
there in terror trying to find a way
to get through that glass wall.
She woke up, and boy did she pray.
She said, oh, Jesus, I'm going to trust
in the sprinkling of your blood.
I'm going to walk in your righteousness.
I will not be afraid.
I will not fear.
Hallelujah.
He will send forth his angels, then together
his elect from every nation, and he shall
send his angels with the great sound of
a trumpet.
They shall gather together his elect from the
four winds from one end of heaven to
the other.
This is resurrection day.
Jesus is going to shout, saints, come forth.
He said that to Lazarus, and Lazarus came
out.
He's going to say it to all of
his beloved, to the whole elect.
He's going to say, come forth, and the
angels are going to go out, the Bible
says, and gather all the elect from the
four corners of the earth.
The dead in Christ will rise first.
There is going to be the sound of
a trumpet.
Some Bible scholars think that's the voice of
the Lord himself sounding as a trumpet.
Others, it will be a literal trumpet sound
that will be heard in the grave.
Angels are going to be told, search the
earth, go to the bottom of the seas,
every saint that ever drowned, go into the
deepest grave, let the dead be raised, go
with this shout and awaken my beloved from
their graves.
And we are going to be awakened, folks,
and we are going to be changed in
our new bodies.
We will be in our new bodies when
we are resurrected.
We are resurrected into a new body, the
Bible says.
Hallelujah.
And we are going to be gathered together
with Christ in the cloud at his judgment
seat.
He's coming to sit in the judgment seat.
I believe this is literal.
I believe the whole earth, the whole world
is going to see that scene in the
heavens.
What a magnificent, glorious scene.
We see this throne of God, the throne
of Jesus Christ.
The hour is coming and now is when
the dead shall hear the voice of the
Son of God and they that hear shall
live.
Glory to God.
The Bible said the hour is coming in
which all they that are in the grave
shall hear his voice and they shall come
forth.
The dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them into the
clouds.
Hallelujah.
Into a glorified body.
You know an amazing thing?
We're going to recognize.
God is going to give us some kind
of a consciousness to recognize.
See, everyone's going to have a new name
on a white stone that only they know
and the Father knows.
I don't know what that means.
I do know that when the three disciples
went with Jesus to the Mount of Transfiguration,
they knew that Moses was there.
They knew Elijah was there.
They had not seen him, been dead for
years, but they recognized him in the Spirit.
And in the Holy Spirit, we are going
to recognize James and John and Moses and
Abraham.
We're going to recognize everybody.
We don't have to ask names.
They're going to know you just like you
know them.
Abraham's going to come up to me and
say, You're David Wilkerson, aren't you, from New
York City?
He's going to say, You preached a lot
about me, didn't you?
Yes, and we are going to know each
other.
We shall know even as we are known.
We're going to be numbered among the righteous.
Oh, hallelujah.
The redeemed are going to shine in its
brightness.
The Bible says he shall be glorified in
his saints.
Folks, you talk about a praise meeting.
You talk about a shouting time.
Nobody going to be in some corner watching
it.
Hallelujah.
The Scripture makes it very clear there's going
to be an outbreak of thunderous praise and
worship.
There before Christ in his judgment seat, we
will fall down before him.
Along with the four and twenty elders, we
are going to be shouting his praises.
Scripture says, I beheld in law a great
multitude, which no man could number of all
nations and kindred and people and tongues, stood
before the throne and before the Lamb and
cried with a loud voice saying, Salvation to
our God.
This is what we're going to be saying.
To him who sits upon the throne and
under the Lamb and all the angels stood
around the throne and about the elders and
the four beasts and fell before the throne
on their faces and worshipped God saying, Amen,
blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and might
be to our God forever and ever.
And you know, our Lord is going to
stand before this great multitude and say, Welcome,
my beloved.
Welcome.
Oh, folks, to beyond the veil of tears.
I wake up every day anymore and I
look in the mirror and say, There's nothing
in my world.
Lord, there's nothing here holding me.
I can say with Paul, I would rather
be with him.
If you can't say that, you really don't
know him.
There has to be something in you that
says, Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.
He has to be more than your wife,
more than your children, more than your job,
more than anything in this world.
Even so, Lord, come quickly.
Hallelujah.
Oh, yes.
What a day.
And I heard, as it were, the voice
of a great multitude and the voice of
many waters and the voice that sounded like
mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth.
You know, if the prodigal son comes home
and his father hugs and kisses him, we're
prodigals coming home.
What do you think he's going to do
with us if he's not going to hug
and kiss his own children?
The Bible said we're all going to be
judged for all the things we've done, both
good and bad.
You see, the bad things that we've done,
they will be monitored, they will be mentioned,
the books are all going to be opened.
But then, you and I are going to
stand before the judgment seat of Christ without
fear.
I can prove that to you.
In his presence is going to be fullness
of joy, and in his right hand will
he place us forevermore.
He that heareth my word and believeth on
him hath everlasting life, shall not come into
condemnation.
But he will present you faultless before the
throne of his glory with exceeding great joy.
And the only reason the bad things are
going to be mentioned is to glorify his
grace, so that all through eternity we will
be thinking of that marvelous grace that redeemed
us.
But there will be no sorrow.
Hallelujah.
Before the judgment seat of Christ, he said,
it's with exceeding great joy.
Oh yeah, all of these things, they can
be mentioned, but the Lord is going to
say, now can you understand my grace?
Understand how good I've been to you?
I give you something to rejoice about all
through eternity.
Hallelujah.
You know, when you get to heaven, the
Lord revealed this to me years ago.
I've heard others use this.
Probably picked it up in one of my
tapes, but years ago I saw this.
And when you get to heaven, it's not
some static glory where you get it all
at once.
We're going to have an ever-expanding consciousness
of the glory of God.
We're going to learn all through eternity.
Can you imagine that in the last 100
years we've gone from horse and buggy to
spaceships in 100 years?
Can you imagine the increase of knowledge in
just the past 100 years?
Can you imagine eternity with a mind that
is God-like, God-conscious, that is released
from all sin and hindrances?
Can you imagine what we're going to learn
about His universe?
Ever-expanding of the glories of God and
all the glory of grace and mercy that
redeemed us.
Hallelujah.
It's going to take an eternity just to
get to know all about Him.
Hallelujah.
And in hell there's an ever-increasing knowledge
of damnation, ever-increasing knowledge of what was
lost, ever-increasing terror.
It's not a static terror.
It's ever-increasing.
The Bible makes that very, very clear.
Then, after He welcomes us, the books are
open, and He proclaims His proclamation, Well done,
thou good and faithful servant.
Take your seat.
Right hand to the Father.
Right hand to the throne of God, because
now we're going to sit and judge the
whole world, every center.
We are going to sit.
The 12 apostles are going to be in
the front seats, judging the tribes.
And we are going to be there on
the right hand of the Father, the sheep.
Hallelujah.
We're going to be seated.
Sit down at my right hand.
There's going to be a roll call, first
of all, of all the saints.
He's going to name our names, and then
He's going to confess us to His heavenly
Father before the whole world.
When all of the wicked are brought before
this throne, then He's going to pronounce our
name before the whole world, all the angels
and the Father in heaven.
This is my beloved.
He's going to confess us before the Father.
These are mine.
These are my children.
I will confess His name before my Father
and before His angels.
To Him that overcometh I will grant to
sit with me in my throne.
And I saw thrones, and they that sat
upon them, and judgment was given unto them.
Ye also shall sit upon 12 thrones, judging
the 12 tribes of Israel.
It appears the entire church of Jesus Christ
is going to be there to amen His
judgments, to be witnesses to His justice.
Many of you are going to be witnesses
against those on your job.
You're going to be witnesses even against family
members.
And there will be no sorrow.
There will be no sorrow.
God will wipe away all tears and all
capacity for sorrow.
There's going to be a judgment.
This just God is going to judge the
wicked.
The sinners or the goats will be brought
before the throne of God.
Folks, I believe in a one-by-one,
one-at-a-time judgment.
Now you say, how?
That would take an eternity.
Well, there'll be no sense of time anymore.
We won't need to eat natural food.
We won't need sleep.
And the Lord is able supernaturally to make
this move in such a way that our
minds can't comprehend it.
But every...
The books are going to be open and
every sinner...
Can you imagine what it'd be like to
be numbered among the transgressors?
You're standing next to Hitler.
You're standing next to mass murderers.
You're standing against...
Right there, those who nailed Him to the
cross.
Every sinner of every age, every apostate, every
wicked, vile person, every murder of every Jew
on the face of the earth, every Christ
-rejecter to be numbered with transgressors.
I don't think there's any thought more terrifying
than to have to stand, knowing that you're
going to kneel before the Father, kneel before
Christ on His throne, and have to answer
for every thought, every word, every deed that
has not been forgiven.
It stands there unforgiven.
It stands there before the judge.
And what a day that is going to
be.
The saints are going to amen His judgments.
The saints will join in a chorus when
He says, Depart from me, you work of
iniquity.
That will be voiced by every saint of
God.
It'll be like thunder.
Depart from me, you cursed into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels.
And you will witness the wicked being bound
hand and foot by the angels of the
Lord and taken out and cast.
Now listen, folks, into outer darkness.
There's going to be a flinging of these
bodies.
And, folks, they're going to be bodies fitted
for destruction, the Bible said.
These are special.
Unless we get a glorified body, they get
a body fitted for destruction that cannot be
destroyed.
The worm that eats is the conscience.
The Scripture makes it very, very clear.
And they're going to be flung out.
Can you imagine being flung out into eternity,
into a cosmos somewhere so dark, and the
further you get away from God, the deeper
the darkness, a darkness that can be touched
and felt, a darkness that is so far
away from God and drifting and drifting and
drifting out into eternity till finally face to
face with Satan?
And to know that every moment you drift
further and further away, there's going to be
a drift.
People who die come back.
There have been books written on it about
they go through these tunnels.
One is light and the other is dark.
Can you imagine going through this dark tunnel
cast into outer darkness?
Folks, even the signers trying to describe the
darkness of the cosmos out there.
There's such a darkness that our human minds
can't comprehend it.
But more than that, to be cut away
from everything that made life sweet, everything that
gave us consciousness, everything that had to do
with the comfort of God and the Holy
Ghost, that's all gone.
What an awful, horrible thought to be removed
from the presence of God.
Forget the hell's fire for a moment.
Think about being removed from Him who sits
on the throne.
Never again to hear a scripture verse, never
to hear an invitation, never to hear a
kind word, never to see a smiling face
again, never to see a friend again, never
to have hope again.
Incomprehensible.
To Him that overcometh will I grant to
sit with me in my throne.
You're going to sit there and you will
judge with Him.
Hallelujah.
They will be cast hand and foot into
eternity.
The saints, the scripture said, do you not
know that the saints shall judge the world
and judgment shall be given to the saints
of the Most High?
Daniel 7.22. Behold, the Lord is coming
with ten thousands of His saints to execute
judgment upon all.
And do you not know that you shall
judge the angels?
The fallen angels you and I will judge.
And after the judgment's completed and all of
the damned have been eternally cast from His
presence, there's nothing left now.
There's nothing left but the saints.
Hallelujah.
Jesus Christ is going to rise from the
judgment seat and we're going to rise with
Him and He's going to turn to us.
You know what He's going to say?
Come and go with me to my Father's
house.
I can't sing it.
Father, I don't have to sing it.
Where do you think that song came from?
It came from this moment when He's going
to say, come now to my Father's house.
And I believe He's going to give us
just a glimpse of the eternal city that
He's been preparing.
That golden vision is going to appear before
all the saints and He says, now come,
we're marching to Zion.
And the Bible said He's going to take
us and present us to His heavenly Father
as His bride.
Hallelujah.
What a march.
You talk about a triumphant entry?
Terrible as army with banners?
Then He will present us with that spot
unto His Father.
Then shall He deliver up the kingdom of
God to God, even the Father.
Then shall the Son also Himself be subject
unto Him that put all things under Him,
that God may be all in all.
We're going to see God.
You say God's the Spirit.
How are we going to see Him?
Folks, I can't explain this, but I do
know something.
Suddenly there's going to be a revelation.
Jesus is going to take His seat.
You know what He's going to say?
If you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
Hallelujah.
The next order of business, no sooner are
we presented to the Father than the Bible
said He's going to do away with all
the old heavens and earth, this atmosphere that
we know, this orbit that we are in,
our literal heavens and earth.
The heavens are going to pass away with
a great noise.
The elements shall melt with a fervent heat.
The earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burnt up.
You know, there are some theologians that believe
God is going to redo this earth by
fire, and that's explained by one of the
fathers, Romanus, who wrote these heavens and this
earth will be purified with fire and super
-invested with new endowments.
There shall be an everlasting habitation of the
blessed saints.
But most church fathers believe like I do.
He said He's going to destroy.
This heaven and this earth are going to
perish.
Let me read it to you.
Of old hast thou laid the foundations of
the earth and the heavens by thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure, O
God.
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together like
a scroll, and the host shall fall down,
and the leaf that falleth from the vine.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
word shall not pass away.
Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements of the earth shall
melt with fervent heat.
Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, look for
new heavens, new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
All folks, what He's got, I don't think
this earth could handle what He has in
mind.
Modern science can't tell us any more about
the creation of the earth than they say
the earth was created in a big bang.
There was a big bang and suddenly life
began to spring up.
No, they got it wrong.
The big bang is at the end, not
the beginning.
The big bang.
And I saw new heaven and new earth.
For the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away with a great noise, and
there was no more sea.
The big bang is at the end.
No more sea, no more moon, sun.
You know, the heavens, the Bible said that
the heavens and the earth are kept in
store, reserved under fire against the day of
judgment, in the perdition of godly men, and
the earth and the works therein shall be
burned up.
You know when God set fire on Mount
Carmel?
What did it do?
It licked up the waters that were there.
Can you imagine this fire licking up the
seas?
I mean, licking up everything.
And it is going to go.
We're going to be with Him, and folks,
we are coming to a new world.
We're in righteousness reigns.
Hallelujah.
You are not going to be sitting around
in a mansion, just harping and stringing and
saying, no more work, no more bills to
pay.
No, no, no, no.
There's a whole new world.
He's going to have us conquer to His
glory, not conquer as much as to rule
and reign over things that are finite minds.
If God just opened a little inch and
we could just take a peek in there,
it's so beyond anything your mind and mine
can comprehend of singing and new songs and
new praises and new kinds of ministry one
to another.
Folks, there are going to be millions and
millions of little babies and children.
Do you remember the story of the little
boy?
I told you once, this is the only
story I've really believed of those who've had
visions of heaven.
This little kid had a dream, and he
woke up and he said, Mama, I had
a dream.
I went to heaven, and I saw Jesus,
this little kid.
He said He played ball with me.
That's the only one I've believed.
I had others.
They have visions about it.
I saw Eternal City, and everything was gold.
The roses were gold.
Who wants cold roses?
You can't smell cold roses.
The sea was gold.
Who wants water that's gold?
I want real water.
I want real flowers.
Hallelujah.
Let me tell you why I preach this
tonight.
When these things begin to come to pass,
then look up, lift up your heads, rejoice,
because your redemption's drawing nigh.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for all
these things, that new heaven He'd just been
talking about, the new heaven and new earth,
He said, Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look
for such things, be diligent you'll be found
in peace without spot and blameless.
He said, Let this bring peace to your
heart, because this is not your world.
Seeing then all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought you to be
in all holy living and godliness?
Hallelujah.
I did that in 35 minutes.
Are you clapping because I'm done?
Saints, listen to me.
God does not want you limping around in
your Christian life, going around sad.
That is one of the poorest commercials for
heaven I've ever think about.
There ought to be a joy.
People say, Where are you going?
I'm going to heaven.
I'm going to a new world, and there's
joy in my heart, joy unspeakable and full
of glory.
We need to take a moment.
Now, for some of those that are here
now, you can't rejoice from the heart.
Maybe a little on the outside, but deep
in your heart.
And let me tell you why, because you're
doubting that you're ready.
You're doubting that you're prepared.
First of all, you think you're unworthy and
that you're not able to live the life
that you want to live and that somehow
you're going to miss it.
You lack assurance.
You lack peace.
I want you to get out of your
seat and come and say, Jesus, take away
my fear.
Take away my doubts.
Give me confidence in your saving power.
Some of you have literally probably backslidden.
You've said, It's been too hard.
God, listen to me, please.
I believe this is the Holy Spirit.
It's just been too hard for me, Brother
Dave, to try to live this.
I'm not making it.
I'm just not making it.
He wants to give you strength.
He wants to heal you.
Some of you say, Brothers, I've got a
terrible sin that keeps hanging on to me.
Something won't let go of me.
I don't know whether it's demon power or
what.
Something's got its claws on me, and I
want those claws taken off my spirit and
my body.
Come.
Nobody needs to know what it is.
Just come right here to the front, and
we'll pray for you.
We'll believe Jesus.
Up in the balcony, just go either side
and down the steps, and let's believe Jesus
for you tonight.
God's able.
God wants to bring you home.
He wants you to be in this redeemed
number.
God doesn't want to lose anybody.
He doesn't want to lose anyone.
Hallelujah.
He's faithful.
He loves you, and he cares about you.
Hallelujah.
Wonderful Jesus.
Come on.
We'll wait for you.
Just come and fill up the front here.
Hallelujah.
Folks, hold steady.
The Lord's doing a good work here in
some hearts.
Bless the Lord, oh, my soul.
Okay, you can just stay in the aisle
there.
That's all right.
Right where you're at, that's fine.
You can still come while I'm talking also.
Beloved, if you're not ready, this would be
a wonderful night to get ready, a wonderful
time to get ready.
I'm going to convince Jesus loves you no
matter what.
He loves you no matter what.
Yes, he does.
He cares about you.
Look at me, please.
Some of you that are in the aisle
and some that are standing here, you're standing
here with a lot of pain inside of
you.
There's pain.
The pain has to do with what you're
going through, a lot of hurt, a lot
of pain.
Maybe it's the way you've been raised.
Maybe it has to do with your background.
Maybe it's something you're going through very special
right now, a special kind of problem, a
real testing and hard time right now.
You say, Bro.
Dave, I'm having a hard time.
How many of you raise your hand and
say that's me?
I'm having a hard time.
Well, Jesus is just for hard times.
Yes, he is for good times and hard,
but he's especially for hard times.
He's there for hard times.
You know, most of you know what to
pray.
You know what to say.
You don't have to have me say it.
But for those, have a look at, honey,
look this way for just a moment.
Is this your first time here?
You know, the Lord wants to do a
miracle in your heart.
He wants to take away all the fear,
and he also wants to heal your body.
He wants to heal you physically.
You need healing, and he wants to heal
you.
Lord, heal this sister.
Open her heart and her mind to you
right now.
Just open it up.
Hallelujah.
Everybody that's come forward, just look up to
the Lord.
Lift up your hands.
The Bible said I want you to lift
up your hands.
And just pray.
Talk to him right now.
Lord, I need you.
I'm going through a hard time.
Lord, forgive me and touch me.
Yes, heal my marriage.
Heal my body.
Help me on my job.
I'm going through a hard time, Jesus.
Help me.
Forgive me.
Take away my sins.
Take away all my hurt.
God, touch me.
Jesus, come.
I open my heart to you, Jesus, right
now.
Confess your sins, he said.
Believe in your heart.
Lord, I believe you right now.
Take away this clutch, this claw, Lord, that's
trying to hold some by their sins.
Break the chains of sin now through the
power of the Holy Spirit.
Break the chains of sin because we confess,
Lord, and call on you for help.
In the name of Jesus, let this be
the beginning of a new day.
Thank you, Jesus.
I want you to believe and thank him
right now, Lord.
I thank you for hearing my prayer.
I thank you for hearing my cry.
Now, look at me, please.
The Bible says you shall know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.
It's truth that delivers you, and that's why
you need to get in our New Believers
class.
That's on Friday night at 7 o'clock.
You can come here, and they'll tell you
where to go.
It's just in the Holiday Inn Hotel right
over here.
We have rooms.
Folks, we are hopefully, within the next two
weeks, signing the final contract on this building
next door, and we'll have all the space
that we need.
But in the meantime, you need to get
in on these classes.
You need to be trained, especially if you
come tonight, and you say, I want to
give my whole life to Jesus.
This is the beginning.
This is just the beginning, and the Lord
wants to transform your life, give you a
new mind and a new heart, clean up
your life, and give you peace and joy.
Hallelujah.
The Lord is good.
Now let me pray for you.
Lord, for everyone that came forward tonight, I
pray for a miracle.
Lord, let there be childlike faith that reaches
out to you and say, Lord, this is
the beginning.
Lord, this is not the whole thing.
This is just the beginning.
This is the first step.
But Lord, there has to be a step.
Holy Spirit, I don't think any would have
come unless you worked in their heart and
you wooed them and you called them.
They answered your call, not my call, but
your call.
Lord, this is an altar, yes, but this
is an altar called made by the Holy
Ghost, not by man, but by the Spirit
of the living God.
And Lord, you said, whosoever will, call upon
the name of the Lord and be saved.
Whosoever will.
Hallelujah.
We believe that.
We give you glory.
Now, Lord, send the Holy Spirit to give
power and to give ability and, Lord, to
strengthen.
In the name of Jesus, we receive your
Holy Spirit for our health.
Amen.
Glory be to God.
Hallelujah.
Now, like everybody came forward, now just turn
around, and I want you to just take
two or three people by the hand and
say, God bless you.
A good, solid God bless you.
God keep you.
God bless you.
Bless somebody.
This is the conclusion of the tape.