Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons.
Each week we bring you a different message
from some of history's greatest speakers in the
Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers
too.
This week we have David Wilkerson with his
message, Another Gospel.
We're not talking about homosexuals and drug addicts
now.
We're talking about preachers of the gospel.
For Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light.
Therefore, can so great significant ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness?
Well, that's awesome.
Many will come in these last days who
are false apostles deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
the apostles of Christ.
Satan's stronghold in the church in the last
days is a host of teachers and ministers
who have been transformed by a gospel of
the best.
They have come to us as the Lord's
most enlightened ministers.
They sound just like the preachers of the
gospel.
They freely use the name of Jesus.
They speak of righteousness.
They use the scripture.
They cast out devils.
They heal the sick.
And the Lord says they do many wonderful
works.
But the message is not of God.
It's another gospel.
It's a deception.
It's a defection.
It's not of the Spirit.
And right now these false doctrines of Satan
are prevailing in the church in many areas.
Multitudes of God's people are walking to conventions
and meetings to hear this other gospel.
This gospel of self and prosperity and success.
The gospel of the flesh is riding high
in the church.
Come on, Christian, wake up.
Are you and I being deceived?
Have we been trapped into the teachings of
an angel of light from Satan?
Are you being swept away by this flood
that the prophets told us would sweep the
church that we're teaching would prevail?
Get into God's word and hear the true
gospel of Jesus and begin to judge not
what we see and hear and compare what
Jesus said to what they are saying.
This picture through a diamond shadow of a
thousand faces through floods.
This new gospel is saying, This is godliness.
This is godliness.
Listen to this.
Clearly, if you don't hear anything else I
say, hear this now.
It's a compromising message without repentance and forgiveness.
It promises forgiveness without repentance.
All we offer people now is forgiveness.
Turn on your television and listen.
It's godliness and forgiveness.
It's all-offering feelings.
No repentance.
It's a gospel of gain.
It's based on the supposition that the godlier
you are, the more gain you will have.
Oh, listen to Paul's frightful warning.
If any man teach otherwise, even other than
the words of our Lord Jesus and to
the doctrine which is according to godliness, that
man is proud.
He knows nothing.
He's destitute of the truth.
Supposing that gain is godliness, Paul cried out,
Turn away from them.
Turn away from this other gospel.
Do you want to hear the true gospel,
Christians?
Do you want to hear what Jesus really
said?
In this day and age of success and
prosperity, free speech, do you want to know
what the gospel says?
Are you interested?
Here it is from the words of our
Master himself.
Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the
kingdom of God.
Blessed are ye that hunger, for you shall
be filled.
Blessed are you that feed now, for you
shall last.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you,
and they shall separate you from their company,
and they shall reproach you, and cast out
your name of evil for the blood of
man's sake.
Now here is what the gospel says about
people in these modern times in the church
who are seeking after material things from the
lips of Jesus himself.
Woe unto you that seek to be rich,
for you have received your consolation.
Woe unto you that are full, for you
shall hunger.
Woe unto you that last now, for you
shall mourn and weep.
Woe unto you when all men shall speak
well of you, for so did the fathers
to the false prophets.
The gospel of gain despises poverty.
It rejects and despises the poor.
Listen to what James said, he said, but
ye have despised the poor.
You say unto him that's prosperous and dressed
best with the gold rings and the fine
apparel, sit up here in the good place,
and to the poor you say, sit here
in the low place.
Sit at the footstool.
This is a gospel of partiality to the
prosperous and successful.
It is an indictment against the poor to
whom Jesus ministered.
It exalts prosperity and success.
James said, are you not partial?
Hath not God chosen the poor of this
world, rich in faith and heirs of the
kingdom?
And for you preachers of the gospel, who
try to tell me that he became poor,
that we can become rich in houses and
lands?
You don't know your Bible.
There it is, it says, hath not God
chosen the poor?
Rest in peace.
How blind is the church today.
How blind!
Is this a gospel for a dying world?
Jain is godliness.
Faith is for prosperity.
Poor people lack faith.
Christ became poor so that we could be
rich in material goods.
He came to give us abundant life.
Is abundant life supposed to be wealthy goods?
No, that's eternal life.
Abundant life is the fullness.
You and I don't have the life.
We have just the seed.
The life is encapsulated in that seed.
And one day we're going to have abundant
life.
And that's eternal life in Jesus.
We don't have it now.
We're going to get it then.
One billion people on this earth are near
starvation.
The heart of Jesus is breaking over the
sight of weeping mothers who hold starving babies
with their bloated stomachs.
Millions are unemployed.
The ends of the world are coming down
on us.
The world's headed for Armageddon.
Our cities in America and Canada are about
to explode again in riots.
Persecution and stipulations are coming.
The Bible says the elements are going to
melt with the fervent heat.
The world's on fire.
All over the world, God's chosen people are
being jailed.
They're being persecuted.
They're losing all they possess.
They're taking joyfully the sporting of their goods.
And you tell me that God's going to
send a man of God to tell me
that I have a right to be rich?
Was that a man of God who comes
to me in the face of a starving
world and says, use your eyes, use your
faith.
You can be rich.
You can be prosperous.
You can have a bigger car.
You can have a better home.
What's happened to us?
How blind can we be?
You say that's an American message.
No, it's speaking all over Canada right now.
We got it all wrong.
The rich man went to hell.
The poor man went to hell.
From such turn away.
These preachers have no burden for repentance.
They don't preach against sin.
They offer blessings without sorrow.
They are accumulators of this world's good.
They accumulate.
You hear the preachers say, I have to
be successful.
I have to drive a nice car.
I have to prove what I'm preaching.
Makes me want to cry.
Amos the prophet cried out, O to them
that are ease and Zion, unconcerned about the
evil day ahead.
They lie upon beds of ivory.
They set themselves upon their couches and they
eat the lambs of the flock and they
drink wine in bowls.
And they are not pleased with the afflictions
of Joseph.
They are not pleased.
And I shudder to think of standing before
the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, having preached
that kind of a message.
I've been speaking to young people for over
50 years.
I have four children and ten grandchildren.
I hear a lot of kids tell me
they don't listen to fathers, but sometimes they
listen to grandfathers.
I'm a grandfather, and I want to talk
to you as a grandfather.
There's a story in the Bible about a
young man who couldn't speak.
He was tongue-tied and he was deaf.
The Bible says somebody brought him to Jesus.
I presume he's a teenager, a young person,
because they wouldn't have brought him.
He would have come himself.
The Bible doesn't name who he is, but
he's tongue-tied.
No doubt he has been an outcast.
When he was in school, he couldn't speak.
I want to talk to you about a
cry that can't be voiced.
A cry that can't be voiced.
Some of you have this cry in you
that you can't explain.
Here's a boy who said, if I could
only speak.
His tongue is tied to the roof of
his mouth.
He can only utter.
He can only make utter noises.
And he probably lived most of his time
saying if I could only speak, I would
scream.
I'm not a simpleton.
I'm not a dunce.
I'm not crazy.
I have dreams and I have hopes just
like everybody else.
But he's been cast aside by society.
And they bring him to Jesus and said,
would you just put your hand on him?
I don't know who this boy is, but
I have an idea.
Because everything that Jesus talked about represented people
in any age until the end of time.
And I think he represents the young people
that have a cry in them that don't
have a voice.
They don't know how to express it.
I told you I have ten grandchildren.
And at one particular time, one of my
grandsons, I couldn't get through to.
Nice kid.
Wasn't drugs.
Wasn't running with girls or anything.
Wasn't a party boy.
He just, he said, Grandpa, I don't know.
He was so passive about Jesus Christ.
He'd come to church and hear me preach
and say, I love you, Grandpa, but I
said, why are you so passive about Jesus?
You seem to be, you're not ashamed of
Him, but you don't mention Him.
He's not in your voice.
He's not in your mind.
There's something in you going on.
You've got to struggle.
He was lifting weights one day and I
went into his garage where he lived and
I sat on the floor and I said,
I'm not leaving here until you tell me
what's going on in your heart.
What are you hiding?
Why can't you tell me?
You know I'm a man of God.
Tell me what's going on.
Why do you feel like you do?
You can't tell anybody.
You can't talk to your dad.
You can't talk to your mother.
You can't talk to your friends.
You're all tied up inside.
You've got a voice.
You've got a cry in you.
There's something crying in you and you can't
put a voice to it.
And he said, Grandpa, I love you.
He said, I can't tell you.
He said, there's a bunch of stuff going
on that has to do with relationships.
It has to do with my friends.
It has to do with so many on
drugs now.
They're pulling all on all sides.
The things about what's happening in the world
I don't understand.
Things that I don't understand at all.
The confusion.
I'm concerned about the future.
And here's a kid that was a bright
student.
He is now since he's come through to
Christ with passion.
He's a 3.8 student and he had
this in him but he was just eating
up time.
And he said, I can't explain it.
And I waited.
I said, I'm not leaving until you tell
me.
He said, well, I can't tell you.
So when I got into my car to
leave I put my head on the steering
wheel and I said, oh God, this is
my grandson and he's got a cry in
him and he can't voice it.
He can't speak it.
That's when I started reading the Bible about
this boy that's been brought to Jesus.
They bring him to Jesus and he's got
a cry that he can't voice inside.
It's like some of you here, you have
a cry.
There's something going on and you can't tell
anybody about it.
You can't explain it to your parents or
counselor or preacher or not even your best
friend.
You may get on your phone and you
can talk for two or three hours.
You can talk about just about anything but
you never get to the real gut issue.
There was a drug addict in New York
City.
A young teenager who was strung out on
heroin.
He was a main minor.
And he got so sick there was a
cry in his heart.
He didn't know how.
He got hooked.
He was only going to smoke pot he
thought and he got hooked.
He's robbing, he's stealing.
Comes from a good family.
And he comes into his room that he's
staying in.
He's laying on a cot and he is
so desperate.
Doesn't know where to turn.
He's been in drug programs and they didn't
work.
So he stuck the needle in his vein
and sucked the needle full of blood.
Laid back on his bed and sprayed on
the ceiling H-E-L-P, help in
his own blood.
You see, there was a cry in him
but he couldn't explain it all.
All he could say was help.
And he was saying that to God and
he was saying that to anybody that would
listen.
And I'm here to tell you if that's
all you can say.
You can put on a front, you can
put on a mask and you can act
like somebody that you're not.
You can fool people but you can't fool
what's going on inside your heart.
And God heard that cry.
Came to one of our centers and the
Lord changed his life and took away that
and he was able to voice it.
He was able to speak out.
He was no longer like this young man
who couldn't speak.
The Bible said Jesus took him aside.
Away from the crowd.
You see, this, I think, had the greatest
impact on this boy because he's been the
center of attraction in the wrong way all
this time.
He's had people try to say something.
Maybe his parents have said, well, can't you
explain this?
Can't you say something?
Just utterances.
Unintelligible utterances until finally he doesn't talk to
anybody.
He doesn't utter.
He's shut up in silence all by himself
because I can't explain it.
I'm tired of people making fun of me.
I see kids in New York City dressed
in Gothic.
I see them in every kind of colored
hair.
I see them in all kinds of situations.
I know that there's something going on in
their heart.
It has nothing to do with the way
they're dressed.
It doesn't matter whether you're dressed in black
or white or purple or green.
That's not the issue.
There's something deeper going on.
It's not, hey, look at me.
I'm trying to be somebody.
There's a cry and only God can hear
it.
No man can hear it.
I'm a preacher and I've worked for 50
years with troubled kids and I still can't
reach the heart and I can't reach you.
You're not going to be reached by something
I say.
It's going to be something the Holy Spirit
does in your heart in the next few
moments.
Jesus took them away from the crowd.
He said, this is not a show.
And church, a real church, going to church
doesn't make you a Christian any more than
walking into a bar makes you a horse.
You can go swimming, but that doesn't make
you fish.
You have to have an experience.
You have to have your own experience and
you don't have to go to church to
get it.
You didn't have to come here to get
it, but by a miracle somehow, somebody talked
to you and you came here.
I don't care if you call yourself a
Christian.
I don't care how you go to church.
You may put up your hands and sing
and shout and clap your hands and do
all these things and still have something so
deep inside that you can't even express.
And it's only between you and God.
Relationships.
Future.
So many things that all gather together until
there's something inside that you want to scream
and many say, what's the use of living?
What's the use?
The crowd of adults here, dads and moms
that are here would be shocked if they
knew how many are sitting here right now
that you have thought of taking your life
and say, look, this happens everywhere we go.
I have given invitations in some countries where
we've had as many as 200 come forward
saying, I've been thinking of taking my life.
And it's not games.
It's real.
It's something.
Parents say, oh, that's just something they're going
through.
No, it's not something that's going through because
the devil wants to kill you.
He wants to kill you either by drugs,
alcohol, confusion.
He wants to destroy your life because the
devil's a killer.
He takes him aside because Jesus knows he
has to have a personal experience.
It can't be something from mom.
It can't be something from dad.
It can't be an experience somebody else has
had and trying to share it with you.
You have to have your own experience, your
own encounter with Christ.
And Jesus took him aside.
He said, I know what he needs.
He needs time just one on one.
He didn't want this to be a show.
That's what I don't like about so-called
Christian television with all its cameras and people
being knocked over and young people there in
camera right in their face and making a
show out of it.
That's an abomination for your holy God.
It's an abomination.
God says, no, this is something personal.
It's between you and me.
If it doesn't happen in this meeting, if
something causes you to say, I can't do
it right now, you cry out to God.
There has to be a desperation.
This boy is desperate.
One of the young drug addicts came to
our center, told the story of how desperate
he got.
Been on drugs for 15 years.
He had a long track.
And if you're a mainline, you know what
the track is.
There's blisters in the track that scar from
shooting so many shots into the arm.
And he was so desperate.
He thought, if I could just be locked
in a room for three days, I could
kick it.
And so he steals a pair of handcuffs.
I don't even know where he got them.
And he goes into his room, shuts the
door, and handcuffs himself to a steam radiator
that's hooked on the wall that you get
heat from.
He chained himself to it with the handcuffs.
He got by for about six hours.
But before that nightfall, he was so wanting
a fix, he tried to pull away and
it was just marking up his hand till
nearly bleeding.
But another five or six hours, he got
so desperate and just almost like supernatural strength
and gritting his teeth, he pulled the whole
radiator off the wall.
50, 60 pounds.
Put it on his back.
Chained to it.
And ran to the pusher to get his
fix.
Because you see, you can't lock yourself into
some room and find freedom.
You can't do it in your own strength.
Another one of our guys looked at his
track.
And he said, every time I see my
track, that's when I get a desire to
get it on again.
So he said, if I could just get
rid of that track, maybe I could get
rid of my habit.
He had been in every kind of institution,
every kind of treatment possible and he would
come out and within an hour, he's back
to his pusher.
He goes into his room and he puts
a iron frying pan on a hot stove
and gets it white hot.
And he takes a towel and wraps it
around the handle.
And closes his eyes, grits his teeth and
pushes that white hot pan on his arm
to burn off his track.
And there was such screaming, just scorched his
flesh, he dropped the pan and ran to
the pusher and stuffed himself with heroin to
kill the pain.
And I've seen and heard of every conceivable
way of just getting some relief from pain.
And Jesus looks at this young man and
the Bible said, and Jesus sighed, and in
the original Greek it is groaned.
He let out a groan.
Oh!
He let a scream out of him.
And what Jesus is screaming about, what Jesus
was groaning about, he was looking down through
history.
He was looking down to this day right
here in Melbourne.
He's looking to this meeting.
And he saw you.
He saw this meeting.
And he knew what you're going through.
He was not only crying for that young
man who wanted to be able to speak
and express himself and be changed and be
normal.
And then he's looking down at every drug
addict.
He's looking at every kid that would be
dying in Africa because their parents passed on
AIDS.
He was listening to the groan and the
cry that's coming out of Zimbabwe right now
where every day 700 are dying of AIDS
and where there are thousands of children roaming
the streets and he hears the cry.
He hears the cry.
He heard the cry of Nicky Cruz, Mau
Mau gang leader on the streets of New
York years ago.
When I first met him, he slapped my
face and said, go to hell.
One of 17 children would cry himself to
sleep at night when he was three years
old.
His mother said she didn't want him.
He was locked in a cage for many
years by his own parents who were devil
worshippers.
He said he'd never cry again.
But there were those simple little whimperings at
night.
What's life all about?
Where does this all end?
And when I first met him, I said,
Nicky, Jesus loves you.
And he slapped me and said, go to
hell.
But he couldn't get that thought out of
his mind.
He tried to sleep every night and in
those words I said, Nicky, Jesus loves you.
He had said, I could cut you in
a thousand pieces.
I said, well, every piece would still love
you.
He couldn't forget it.
Nicky Cruz gave his life to Jesus Christ
and has been now an evangelist for years,
winning millions to Christ all over the world.
And here was a young man who was
all locked up inside.
And folks, I remember the night he came
to hear me when I had a crusade
for gangs.
The Egyptian lords were there, the Maumau's.
And about ten different gangs were there in
one meeting.
I didn't know any better.
Looking back now, I think I must have
been crazy.
And there was tension everywhere.
They would mock me.
A girl came out to sing and they
whistled and hooted and said, hey baby, how
about a date?
Everything, just chaos.
And I got up to speak like I'm
doing now.
And there's the Maumau's, about 30 or 40
of them in the first two rows.
Right sitting over here.
Tried to preach and they were hooting and
making noises.
And I bowed my head and put my
head on the desk, on the little desk
just about this size and said, oh God,
I'm wasting time.
They don't want you.
They love their sins.
The Maumau's at the time were in the
headlines, one of the most notorious gangs protecting
their territory.
They would fight with bolo balls and zip
guns and every conceivable weapon.
Here they are with their weapons in my
meeting.
And suddenly, suddenly, a holy hush.
You could hear a pin drop.
And the Holy Spirit whispered in my heart,
He said, I'm here now and you're going
to see a miracle.
And I started to speak.
And I said, if you guys are so
tough, you think you're so tough, then let's
see you take a stand for Jesus Christ
and quit playing games.
Spirit of God came down.
Nobody's making a sound.
And just before the meeting tonight in that
back room, the Holy Spirit spoke the same
thing to my heart.
I'm going to do again today the same
thing I did years ago in that meeting,
my first meeting for drug addicts and alcoholics
and gangs.
He said, I'm going to do it again.
He's doing it now.
And I said, if you are not ashamed
and you want your life changed, you could
have an encounter with Jesus.
Get up out of your seat and come
down here unashamed because the Bible said, Jesus
said, if you're ashamed of me, I'll be
ashamed of you before my Father in Heaven.
But if you confess me before men, I'll
confess you before my Father in Heaven.
So I want you to confess Christ and
give Him your heart.
Nicky started sniffing.
He didn't want anybody to know.
Suddenly he stood up and he said, look,
and he faced his gang.
He said, I'm going up there and give
my life to Christ.
So are you.
Get up.
They came.
I took them over downstairs to what was
a dressing room because this was a boxing
arena where the boxers were dressing rooms.
I knelt down beside Nicky and Israel.
Israel was, President Nicky was vice president of
my mom's.
Suddenly, there was a gush of tears.
He said, oh God, nobody has ever loved
me in my life.
Not my parents.
I almost killed my brother.
Nobody has loved me.
The police hate me.
I have no friends.
I have nobody.
But if you love me, I'll give you
my life.
I'll lay my life down.
And Nicky Cruz gave his life to Christ.
And so did Israel.
I got a call the next day from
a police precinct in their housing development.
It was a police sergeant.
He said, are you the preacher that preached
to the Maumau's last night?
I said, yes sir.
He said, come down to the precinct immediately.
That was in Brooklyn.
I said, oh man, they've murdered somebody and
they're using me as an alibi.
I get to the precinct and Nicky and
Israel and some of the Maumau's are out
in the street because that night we had
given them Bibles.
And they had them with them.
And Nicky and Israel said, come on in
the precinct.
We're going to the precinct and there's some
police officers and there's a table there.
And the sergeant came from this.
He said, I just wanted to meet you.
He said, these guys had declared war on
our compartment.
It was unsafe for us.
We had to walk two by twos.
They walk in here this morning and surrender
the weapons and want us to autograph their
Bibles.
We're coming out of the precinct and I
am overwhelmed.
And Israel turns.
He said, hey Mr. Wilson, you won't believe
it, but I've been reading this book you
gave me the Bible.
He said, you know my name's all through
Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel.
That's God.
That's the Holy Spirit.
These weren't just things that happened overnight.
Some emotional experience and they're gone.
I told you that true story because, you
know, Nicky is known all over the world.
There's been a movie on his life.
His book Run Baby Run is a bestseller.
Israel turned to the ministry.
These testimonies go on and on and on
around the world and they're happening here because
we have those sitting here now among us
from teen challenge who have been delivered from
drugs, have been delivered from alcohol, but I'm
speaking now to even those who call yourself
a believer, a believer in Christ.
Jesus says you need a real encounter.
You can't be passive anymore.
Not anymore because that passivity is going to
lead you down the path to destruction.
I'm going to tell it to you straight
before I quit preaching.
Jesus touches his ears and they open.
He touches his tongue, touched his own tongue
and then touched the boy's tongue and suddenly
that tongue was loosened and the boy was
free.
And I can tell you what I believe.
It's not written in the Bible.
I believe that he hugged Jesus and I
believe they danced and praised.
This man began to praise Christ and spoke
and I believe it must Jesus just set
beside him and this kid began to explain
everything that he'd been going through and he
talked and he talked and he talked he
got it out of his gut.
He got it out of his system and
that's what Jesus is all about.
He's the best listener in the universe.
He hears the cry and some of you
here listening to me now.
I don't care how young, how old you
are.
God brought you to this meeting and it's
time for a life change.
Jesus didn't condemn this boy and he's not
condemning you.
Jesus knows the cry.
He knows what happens when you lay down
at night on your bed.
You can party.
You can do these things.
You can go ahead and have sex and
then you go home.
You still have to deal with some things
that God is speaking to you about.
Not with condemnation but saying if you continue
the way you're going you think you won't
end up like everybody else.
You're having a good time.
It's party time.
God doesn't try to scare anybody.
It wouldn't do me an ounce of good
to stand here and try to scare you
to Jesus because as soon as you walk
out the scare will be gone.
I'm going to pray in just a moment
and you're going to feel something as deep
as you've ever felt in your lifetime.
And that's the Holy Spirit.
That's the Spirit of Jesus Christ who he
sends because he hears what you're thinking.
We hadn't planned to do this.
You see, you young people here my son
and I Gary came here for a minister's
conference and the other night I guess it
was was it last night?
The first night that I was here a
couple of nights ago the Holy Spirit spoke
to my heart and said you've got to
close out this meeting invite the young people
in because I want to do something in
this country among young people.
I want to do something supernatural.
I want to raise up young people whose
lives are going to count.
And there are many churches here where God
is doing that.
But people went out in the streets maybe
you heard on the radio, we hired some
we just tried to get the word out
and say come.
And now we come to the real issue
of why you were invited here.
Not to join a church.
I'm not going to give you the name
of any church.
I'm not going to have you come and
say a little prayer as if that prayer
is going to change your life.
But I'm going to come down to the
closing issue here right now.
Some of you would consider yourself religious.
Religion can kill you.
God's not interested in religion.
He's interested in you having a personal experience
that's all your own.
It's something that is between you and Jesus
Christ Himself.
And never has He spoken as clearly to
you as He's speaking to you right now.
Some of you who call yourself a Christian
need to get some things right with God.
So that your testimony is not a phony
testimony.
So that you're not a dual personality.
You're not into hypocrisy or apostasy.
But there's something burning in you.
You may not be perfect and you may
be going through a battle but the Holy
Spirit wants to come now and help you
with that battle if you get honest with
Him.
If you've been laying around you've been playing
a double life.
The Lord says no, I'm not going to
condemn you but I'm telling you it has
to end now.
Because I can't use you.
And you're going to get in with the
wrong crowd.
And you're going to go and you're going
to forsake me and you're going to leave
me and break my heart.
Now others of you here, you're just beginning
now to join the party life.
Others of you, smoking pot.
Others of you have gone deeper than that.
Something is got a hold of you and
it's starting to master your life.
Some of you are more concerned about what
your girlfriend or your boyfriend thinks than what
Jesus thinks.
You're thinking more about your next date than
eternity.
And today we're going to see a miracle.
We're going to see it in the next
five minutes.
I'm going to give you an invitation to
get out of your seat and come up
here and just stand.
You're not standing before me, you're standing before
Christ.
And you're like that man that was brought
to Jesus.
Now you see people don't bring you to
Jesus, maybe somebody did but see it's different
now.
It's the Holy Spirit that goes out after
you and finds you and brings you to
Jesus.
It's the Holy Spirit brought you here.
I want everybody 25 years of age and
under to stand if you will please.
Everyone 25 years and under.
I want you to stand.
I'm going to pray right now that the
Spirit of God who began working with me
over almost 50 years ago 45 years ago
in a meeting something like this when he
began to move and show me his power
and how he can change a life and
he's here now and I'm going to pray
as I pray you say, Pastor David, something
you said today has hit me right here
in my gut.
I know that I have to have a
new and fresh encounter with Jesus Christ.
I want you to forget the crowd.
I want you to forget the fact that
people may think you're something other than you
know that you're not.
This to me is life and death.
I want you boldly to get out of
your seat and come stand here.
I want to pray with you and I
want to minister to you.
No one's going to say something silly to
you.
Nobody's going to ask you to speak.
I am going to ask you to open
your heart.
I'm going to ask God to do a
miracle in your life and change you.
If you are a believer and something that
I've said today was meant just for you,
you obey the Holy Spirit and as you
come there'll be others that will follow you
that may not have come because you took
that step.
We have not planted anybody here and said,
well you go up there so that others
will come.
You come because you have heard a cry
and the Holy Spirit wants to speak to
you specifically.
While I pray just get out of your
seat and come and stand here and follow.
Yes, just come right up here and stand.
That's right.
This is going to be a miracle night
for you.
You know that don't you?
Nobody make a fool of you.
Nobody's going to say anything foolish.
Do you go to church at all?
Not very often.
Do you go to church at all?
When you were young?
Okay.
Alright.
Move in close.
Move in tight.
Make room for these that are coming if
you will please.
Would you give me your hand honey?
Don't be afraid to cry.
Lord Jesus this is a night that she
will never forget.
You are changing her even now.
You are laying your hand on her with
the Holy Spirit in such a powerful beautiful
way.
Honey, don't be afraid to cry.
Jesus bottles every tear that you shed.
Don't be afraid to be moved.
Don't be afraid to have your emotion touched
right now.
Are there any others that want to come
just before we change?
Just step out.
Alright.
No cameras please.
No cameras anywhere.
Look at me because I've said this is
life and death.
We're still coming.
We'll wait for you.
Just a minute.
I want to say this as lovingly as
gently as I can.
And you know this is not a show.
Jesus will not put up with a show.
I don't want anybody back to see your
face.
I want you to make sure you turn
and facing me.
Alright.
I want to know if what God told
me is true.
One of the reasons this meeting had to
be called I don't want to raise your
hand high.
I just want you to put it in
front where I will see it.
I want every one of you to be
saying Pastor David things have gotten so bad
in my life that I have really been
thinking of that same thing.
There's no use living like this anymore.
I've had it.
Just let me see.
Alright.
Yes.
How old are you?
Are you married?
I'm drunk.
Are you on heroin?
Give me two teen challenge guys over here.
Will you pray with me?
This young man and this young man.
Can we pray with you?
Right now.
The same thing that happened to them is
going to happen to you right now.
Would you put a hand on their shoulder?
Just shake hands.
Just hold his hand right there.
Lord, I'm praying right now that these guys
are getting together.
The same thing that you've done here, you're
going to do it again.
Now, here's a man that's going to be
changed.
I take power and authority in Jesus' name
over every spirit that is bound.
You're going to put your hand on this
young man and you're going to transform his
life.
Congregation stand wherever you're at, all over this
house.
But I have to tell you that I
count at least 15 hands of those who
don't feel there's anything worth living for anymore
and some of them are on drugs.
And I want God to come down in
this house.
I won't point you out.
I want you to open your heart.
I'm going to pray first, then I want
you to pray.
And I want this whole audience to pray
for you that you will have, even though
there are many hundreds of people, that you'll
have a personal encounter.
Son, give Son, right here, would you give
me your hand please?
Lord, look at me please.
You were called by God, weren't you?
Were you called to be in the ministry
or what?
Are you going to church at all?
Jesus, you've been calling him for so long
and now he's saying yes.
Will you just say that right now?
Just say yes, Jesus.
This is a good night for you.
God has heard your cry.
Lord, thank you.
You heard his cry.
Now, Lord, for everyone that's standing here, every
girl, every young man, every young woman, don't
let one be untouched.
Congregation, pray out loud.
Lord, don't let anyone be untouched.
Lord, come Jesus, and put your hand on
the head of everyone that's here.
Put your hand on us.
Touch each one, Jesus, by your Holy Spirit.
Will you pray this with me from inside?
Look at me now.
Just say it right out loud.
Speak inside.
Just close your eyes so you're not looking
at other people.
And I want you to pray this.
Jesus, say it loud.
Let me hear it.
Jesus, I need you to touch me.
I need my own experience.
Forgive me for living for myself.
And, oh, Jesus, I'm the one with a
cry inside.
And I know that you hear me.
I give you my heart.
I give you my faith.
And I trust you now that as I
give myself to you, you will give back
to me the peace that I'm crying for
and the joy that I've been missing.
Change me, Lord.
May this be the day that my life
is forever changed, that I will not be
a Christian just in name, but I will
live in passion for Christ.
Now I'll pray for you again.
My Father, I know that it doesn't take
you all night.
I know that you hear the slightest cry
of the heart and I thank you for
what you're doing.
Lord, you've satisfied my heart that this was
the right thing to do, that there were
going to be those whose lives would have
been taken by the enemy.
And there are those, Lord, some Christian young
people that are here that go to church
and that have loved you, but the enemy
has been trying to pull them away.
There's been a tug.
There's been a problem.
There's been a situation.
There's been a misunderstanding.
There's been confusion.
And there's been hurt and pain.
Lord Jesus, come now by your Spirit and
embrace them and heal them, I pray.
Embrace them by the power of your Holy
Spirit.
Now, in the name of Jesus Christ, my
Savior.
Hallelujah.
Where are the guys that have been delivered
over here from T.
Challenge?
Raise your hand.
God bless you.
Yes, something beautiful is happening here now.
I'm going to come against the Spirit now.
Listen to me, please.
All of you had your hands.
You went like this to me.
You signaled to me.
You feel like there's nothing more to live
to and some of you have even thought
of it.
And you were only a day, two, or
a week away from doing this.
There are probably two or three of you
that wouldn't be here in another week.
And I'm not being theatrical.
I've been at this for 50 years and
I know what I'm talking about.
So, I'll tell you what.
I'm going to pray.
That's a spirit.
It's a live spirit.
That's when the devil comes and implants a
lie into your heart.
In the first place, you cannot take your
life because you end up immediately in a
godless hell fire.
I have to tell you straight.
You don't just vanish and that's it.
There's an eternity.
The enemy trying to rob you of your
very life.
And that's a spirit.
I'm going to ask you to believe God
right now and I'm going to pray that
nobody here ever entertains that thought again.
And that God plucks it out of your
heart and we're going to have everyone in
this house agree.
I want you to just bow your head
and we're going to believe God right now.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Savior, Lord,
and God.
I take your authority, Lord.
Not my authority, but the authority that is
in your word and in your blood.
Jesus Christ, Savior of the world.
Deliver from this lie that Satan is implanted
in some hearts here standing before me.
And I pray not one will ever be
lost.
Not one.
Satan, you can't have one.
Not one.
Build a wall of fire.
A protecting wall of fire around their minds
and around their bodies and around their future.
In Jesus' name.
Now I want you, everybody that came forward,
just lift up your hands to Jesus and
that says, Lord, here I am.
I give it all.
And begin to thank him in your own
word.
Just thank him.
Jesus, I thank you.
Thank you for touching me.
Thank you for a wall of fire around
my mind now and around my body.
And I trust that Jesus has heard my
cry.
Now just thank him right out loud.
Just say thank you, Jesus.
Music team, will you come up here and
get ready to sing.
Now you can put your hands down.
Doesn't take God all night.
Doesn't take God all day.
He's here.
Now if you believe what Jesus said, if
you believe that God answers prayer and he
does, then give me a smile.
Yes.
Because the Bible said the joy of the
Lord is your strength.
The evidence of faith is peace and rest.
If you really believe what God says, if
you really believe that he answers that cry,
if you believe that he's the same Christ
that healed this boy, he's healing you, then
he brings peace and rest and that then
leads to joy.
Now some of you may never been in
a church that claps their hands.
You may have just came in.
Somebody handed you some announcement about the meeting.
The Bible says if you get a Bible,
it'll be the same one I have.
It'll say the same thing.
Clap your hands and make a joyful noise
unto the Lord.
In other words, be happy in Christ.
Be happy in Jesus.
Celebrate.
Celebrate Jesus.
Celebrate.
I want you I want you to celebrate
Jesus.
The whole congregation we're going to sing it
together with you.
Celebrate Jesus.
Celebrate.
Stay right where you're at just for the
next two or three minutes, five minutes at
the most and we're going to give thanks.
We're going to celebrate him and give him
praise.