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This week we have David Wilkerson with his
message, You Really Do Reap What You Sow.
You really do reap what you sow.
Amen.
Good and bad.
You'd be surprised we're going to talk a
lot about the good tonight as well is
the bad.
Why don't you go to Matthew the 25th
chapter if you will please.
Matthew 25.
Let's begin reading at the 14th verse.
Very familiar.
Verse 14.
Very familiar.
Kingdom of heaven says a man traveling into
a far country he called his servants and
delivered unto them his goods to when he
gave five talents to another two another one
to every man according to his several ability
straight away took his journey when he received
he had received the five talents went and
traded the same made them another five talents
likewise also he received two he gained another
two the one who received the one of
course remember what he did he digged into
the earth he had his lord's money after
a long time the lord those servants come
cometh and reckoneth with him he that received
five talents came and brought another five talents
saying lord thou deliverest unto me five behold
i've gained beside five more his lord sending
well done good and faithful servant you've been
faithful a few things i'll make you rule
over many things enter the joy of the
lord he received two talents came and said
lord you delivered me two i've gained two
more the lord said unto him well done
good and faithful servant you've been faithful over
a few things i'll make thee rule over
many enter into the joy of the lord
he's received the one talent came and said
lord i knew thee thou art a hard
man reaping where you've not sown together strawed
i was afraid i hid it in the
earth there thou hast that is thine the
lord said unto him you wicked slothful servant
you knew that i reap where i sow
not gather why i've not strawed you should
have therefore i put my money to the
exchanges and then at my coming i would
receive mine own with usury take therefore the
talent from him and give it unto him
said ten and of course he was cast
into outer darkness very familiar scripture that has
to do with reaping heavenly father thank you
tonight for jesus holy spirit i need to
be quickened holy ghost come and quicken my
body let me speak as the oracle of
god tonight lord don't let anybody stay in
this service tonight without being moved by the
holy ghost changed by the word of the
lord quicken us lord sanctify me i take
your authority jesus over every demon power every
prince upon in power of nothing in this
house can disturb or or hinder the word
of the lord from going forth quickened by
the holy spirit in jesus name amen now
this matter of sowing and reaping you know
goes two ways it's both good and bad
you know all my life and all your
life you christian life you've heard this whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also reap now
that has a bad connotation but it also
has a good connotation in fact probably most
of my message tonight will deal with the
good connotation the bible said in due season
you shall reap if you faint not now
there is a sowing to the flesh there's
a sowing to the flesh that brings a
terrible awful harvest how many people do you
know that showed to the flesh and you
know you look at their life but they
are reaping on all sides have you ever
seen a day where there's been such awful
reaping such terrible reaping for sins that have
been sown physical problems mental problems family problems
on all sides people who have been sowing
to the flesh and sowing to the flesh
and now they are reaping what they have
sown it's an awful harvest you can see
the effects of the sowing to the flesh
here in the united states let's talk about
what america's reaping now let's talk about the
nation first not just individuals but corporately as
a nation look what we are sowing for
example in our public schools you know all
through new york now the schools are in
absolute chaos we have teachers that are afraid
to go into the classroom anymore let me
remind you that in 1940 that's just one
generation in 1940 all classes opened with prayer
and the pledge of allegiance they would pray
first and then pledge allegiance to the american
flag but there was prayer every morning in
school that was one generation ago god's blessing
was asked upon the school they prayed for
the principal they prayed for their teachers and
over the PA system there was public prayer
school was open with public prayer and they
said one nation under god and folks he
honored that he honored our classrooms this nation
was number one in education i don't even
know where it is now many nations have
passed us many of our kids can't even
read or write anymore in 1940 just a
generation ago the top seven disciplinary problems in
our schools were as follows the number one
problem in school in 1940s right up to
1950 number one problem was talking in class
number two was chewing gum number three was
making noises number four running in the halls
number five cutting in line number six improper
clothing number seven not taking out the garbage
not disposing of the garbage proper leaving apples
on the desk for example now today the
most recent survey let me give you the
top seven disciplinary problems in our american schools
today since we took god out we took
prayer out we took the bible out we
want nothing to do with god we chased
him out we want nothing that resembles god
in our schools now i say we we're
talking about the liberal mind we're talking about
the godless people who have pushed this upon
our society the number one problem in our
schools today rape number two and this this
is documented robbery number three assault number four
burglary number five arson number six bombing number
seven murder that's one generation folks we are
reaping all of these are related to drug
abuse every one of these problems have to
do with young people that are on drugs
i don't know if you know that in
brooke up in the bronx in one of
the schools just recently a seven-year-old
boy in first grade came and laid on
his desk a whole bag of marijuana he
was going to pass it out to his
classmates seven years old in first grade with
a bag of marijuana i don't even know
where he got i don't know the whole
story but it all has to do with
drug-related problems well we wanted god out
we let the devil in it's payday we
are reaping in american our schools what has
been sold to the flesh they're calling now
for free condom distribution in our schools even
to seventh and eighth graders and now you
know what the latest latest thing is now
condom vending machines in all of our schools
supposedly to protect our young people from aids
but you know what that's saying to our
young people we condone your sex we know
you're going to do it so just protect
yourself what an awful awful harvest that we
are paying right now one half of all
the births in our city now are illegitimate
fifty percent of all the babies born to
our young ladies now are illegitimate one half
of all the children born this good according
to the latest report one-fourth of all
pregnancies are now being aborted every one-fourth
of all pregnancies are ending in abortion than
22 million abortions already and some believe it
may be 25 million abortions and many of
them just girls going without their parents even
knowing it in just one generation we've come
from chewing gum to machine guns now are
you understanding how far we've gone and what
kind of thing we have in a bronx
school a student brought an uzi machine gun
to class hidden under his jacket loaded the
reports of teachers now all over new york
and in all of our schools even in
country schools now have saying there's no respect
for authority they curse the teachers i don't
know if you heard now that uh this
past week two days ago i think it
was uh the pope was in in uh
germany in east berlin and hundreds of young
people were cursing they stripping off their clothes
and they were throwing paint bombs at his
popemobile first time any kind of reception like
that young people wild and absolutely uh and
these were young people who admirers of hitler
right out of school out onto the streets
no respect for any authority then of course
we they called uh 20 years ago almost
30 years ago for a sex revolution in
the united states the liberal press and backslidden
theologians called for a new day of sexual
freedom they said we don't want any more
of your puritan moral standards i said anything
goes between two mutually consenting adults anything goes
if you're adult and you consent anything goes
and so now we have homosexuals that have
come out of the closet who were in
the closet for many many hundreds of years
now out of the closet on the streets
parading and now moving into the schools to
teach their lifestyle and then taking to the
streets and now it's become in your face
perversion in your face like it or not
they'll parade down the street signs we'll get
your kids like it or not some harvest
we've paid some payday now it's payday with
aids oh god help us the new diseases
now four million cases of chlamydia chlamydia shuts
the womb and it looks to me like
god's going to have to shut one womb
for every abortion with chlamydia there there's there's
a new papillion now a new cancer uh
a sexual cancer that is horrible there are
things that we just can't even understand so
far beyond our comprehension payday syphilis is returning
now to this to to the uh sexual
generation this revolution sexual revolution has brought back
syphilis i have a christian doctor who's on
our board he was here last sunday sitting
on the platform and dr rice he said
pastor dave he said just 15 years ago
i had to give six six hundred thousand
units of penicillin six hundred thousand units for
syphilis he said today i have to give
four million eight hundred thousand units and it
still doesn't kill this virus think of it
four million eight hundred thousand units and it
doesn't touch it because it's it's uh becoming
absolutely uh immune to penicillin and now with
this uh papilloma it's called virus that's attacking
many young women especially and there's no end
in sight almost every time you pick up
the paper anymore there's some new disease sexually
transmitted disease folks it's payday we are reaping
what we have sown to the flesh in
our society now what does this word mean
you reap what you sow folks the the
lord means that the bible means that look
what we are reaping with our children now
when we allowed child pornography it is allowed
child pornography is allowed it's it's it's right
all over the united states now and now
listen to me folks in the past 10
years one of the number one problems in
our society is incest and primarily parents molesting
their own children now we don't like to
hear these things but folks that is the
what has happened to our society it's payday
you can't keep feeding this garbage into the
minds of the american society without reaping in
it what we what we are reaping right
now we've become such a degenerate nation of
some parents that are like wild animals and
they're like beasts folks i can't imagine a
father or a mother raping their own child
it's a that has to be a beast
where does that come from we are reaping
what we have sown in what we call
sexual freedom and now folks we're about to
reap another kind of harvest and that's an
economic crash because we have become a greedy
nation wall street right here is the the
the bed the hotbed of all of this
greed everybody trying to get their hands on
one big last killing and what's happened folks
let me let me i quote you something
i just read in a newspaper by the
federal reserve officer he said don't worry about
multi-billion takeovers now with their 10 to
1 debt load he said there's too many
other unknown forces out there now folks out
there has become a term every politician understands
it every economist understand out there is a
whole unknown thing about society about our economy
nobody even knows where it's going nobody can
explain what's happening one day i've been warning
about it for a long time now one
day overnight and i've told you the vision
i've had repeat at least five times i've
seen i don't know who the president is
i just see his chair he's turned his
seat toward the window and he's got all
of his cabinet and all of his counselors
in the room and he turns and he
says how did it happen and every man
in the room has his head down and
everybody's shaking his head nobody in the room
can explain what happened and the president is
saying what happened how did it happen folks
is going to happen and nobody going to
be able to explain it because it's payday
we have been reaping greed or sowing greed
and we're going to reap a harvest god
has warned us and he's given us many
many opportunities to repent but there's been no
repenting the bible makes it very very clear
that we are going to suffer economically there's
a good side to this now that's the
bad side i've just given to you i
hope you're ready for the good side the
bible said you reap what you sow but
he said if you sow to the spirit
you're going to reap a wonderful harvest hallelujah
this whole story in in matthew the story
that we just read to you we went
through it i want to show you that
the lord is going to have a great
host of willing sowers in the last days
how many believe that god is going to
have a whole host he's going to have
an army of people that are going to
go out and sow the good seed and
before jesus comes there's going to be a
great harvest there's going to be a great
harvest before jesus comes now this parable proves
to me that god is going to have
in the last day those who are bearing
fruit now often we focus on this one
servant who goes out and he wraps his
his talent in a napkin he wraps it
all up and buries it and many people
think the church is going to be like
that that there's going to be so much
sin there's going to be so much wickedness
and all these things we talked about the
church is going to be downcast christians are
going to be defeated and they're just going
to take their talent and bury it out
of fear this man said he's afraid and
he buried his talent and people have the
concept that the church of jesus christ is
going to be so inundated with all kinds
of problems that the cities are going to
become so wicked and so violent that is
true but this parable if you see it
in the spirit is saying no that there
that the majority in god's house in the
remnant the holy remnant are going to be
bearing great fruit they're going to be coming
with their arms full they're going to be
joyful they're going to serve the lord with
gladness the bible said these men said i
have gained i have gained there's going to
be gain hallelujah the closer we get to
the coming of the lord the more fruitful
times for church ought to be and i
believe will be as the days come the
you know the lord is not affected the
kingdom of god is not affected by the
economy the kingdom of god's not affected by
anything the devil does the devil can do
everything he wants to he can do all
the demons of hell out he can come
down with great wrath but that does not
hinder in one eye odor the plan of
god god's plan is not going to be
affected by it hallelujah i was looking at
this this afternoon in preparing for the service
tonight our our lord is the one who's
the bible said who's traveling to a far
country and after a long time he's going
to return and the talent here represents the
measure of grace and revelation of jesus christ
some one man was given a great revelation
of jesus he was given five talents another
was given two talents not not as much
revelation but it was the true revelation of
the grace of god and the other was
given a measure of the grace and revelation
of jesus he buries his but what happens
god says in the last days he's trying
to tell us that in the last days
he's going to have a people who trust
him he's going to have a people who
are joyful in him they know that he's
not a hard task master if you think
our god's a hard task master you're serving
the wrong god you have the wrong image
and that's why you bury your talent that's
why you have such a poor revelation of
who jesus is because you have a perverted
view you have never seen his grace and
his mercy and his love for a lost
humanity folks i'm telling you god is god
is absolutely totally committed to saving a people
you understand he's committed to saving and keeping
you from the power of the devil he's
committed to bringing you to his throne room
he's committed to presenting to you to father
without blame blameless before the father he's committed
himself to that he's committed himself that there
is going to be a harvest in the
last days hallelujah so you can look at
what the homosexual uh community is doing and
and say that doesn't concern the kingdom of
god and his program you can look at
what is happening to our schools and you
can grieve over it you can pray about
it but that's not going to hinder the
program of god and and i was i've
been very concerned about our young generation we
pray for our teenagers and that but i'm
going to show you in just a minute
what god prophesies going to happen he's not
going to let this generation be lost there
are going to be thousands and thousands of
christian young people in the last day coming
to the lord let me ask you do
you believe that the last day just before
jesus comes there's going to be a clearer
and clearer vision of who jesus is do
you really believe what the scripture says that
though hell rages the gates of hell will
not prevail against the church of jesus christ
that's the word of the lord hallelujah the
kingdom of god is not affected by demons
or by the economy by communism by violence
or any world conditions hallelujah this parable proves
that god will have a last day army
amen now before i turn there
remember jesus quoted this prophecy paul quoted it
and it's quoted seven times in the new
testament so clearly this is a last day
prophecy of conditions in the church just before
jesus comes now this is good news go
to psalm 110 psalm 110 i'm going to
show you a prophecy about our young people
if you're a teenager tonight oh ask god
to let this lay hold of you tonight
in fact if you're under 25 i'd say
that's young at my age anything is young
martin luther said of this chapter a glorious
prophecy concerning the kingdom of christ it ought
to be one of the nearest dearest scriptures
to everyone in the church one of the
dearest most precious chapters of prophecy in the
bible the lord said unto my lord sit
thou at my right hand until i make
thy enemies thy footstool what's gonna i'm gonna
do with the enemies of jesus they're going
to be under his feet that's the prophecy
the lord shall send the rod of thy
strength out of zion who is the rod
of his strength that's jesus hallelujah in the
midst of thine enemy to rule rule down
the midst of thine enemies thy people shall
be willing in the day of thy power
in the beauty of holiness from the womb
of the morning thou has to do of
thy youth now let me show you what
this means follow me if you will please
amen there's a day of his power look
this way please the bible says there's going
to be a day of his power now
we know there's been a day of his
power ever since jesus arrived ever since he
was on this earth and ascended the floor
it's been the day of his power he's
shown his power for the last 2000 years
but remember how god showed his power in
israel in egypt first of all he he
shook the earth and then he literally shook
the heavens with thunder and with darkness and
he kept increasing the day of his power
and increasing it and what did he do
a final rage of death to the firstborn
there was a burst of power and do
you know what the lord said he's going
to do he's been shaking everything but he
said there's going to be one last shaking
he said i'm going to shake everything there's
going to be a day of his power
and we're living in that day of his
power and he said in the day of
his power when god comes down to start
dealing with his enemies and folks he is
dealing with his enemies now oh yes even
presidents of the united states they can hide
and hide it but if if if god
says it's time he exposes it that was
watergate for example and and no matter who's
in washington you can't hide from god you
can't hide i don't care who it is
republican democrat you can't hide from god god
god's going to have his way you're some
of you're too too young to remember khrushchev
he came to the united nations here and
sat there and took off his shoes and
banged it and said we're going to bury
you he's in a grave and he's dust
now all of these world leaders these these
dictators god just snaps his finger blows on
dust he said that the nation the world
a drop of dust in a bucket he
has all power and all authority and folks
we're living the day of his power when
the holy ghost came that was the day
of his power and he's increasing his power
because he's about to come and he said
in that time my people are going to
be willing hallelujah he said whose voice then
shook the earth but now he hath promised
yet once more i'll shake not on the
earth but the heaven my people shall be
willing hallelujah now the scripture says it's this
people this prophecy says that they're going to
see the beauty of holiness now folks you've
got to stop here and listen to me
because god really spoke this to my heart
they're going to be people last time that
don't heal that holiness is a burden that
that you know this reproof and all of
this oh no i can't live like that
god says they're going to be people so
willing and have such a heart for him
that holiness is going to become a beauty
to them it's going to be a joy
a wonderful experience and they're going to thank
god for reproof that provokes them to righteousness
because they're going to say and really from
their heart they see these are beautiful words
because it produces a beautiful effect in my
life it's producing righteousness my people i'm going
to come in power and it's going to
be my day of power and in my
day of power i'm going to have a
people god's not going to send angels down
to do his work he's got us to
do it and he said i'm going to
make you willing not only going to make
you willing to go out and sow the
revelation i gave you of my heart and
of my son you're going to folks we're
going to have people going around who know
jesus in such an intimate personal way that
everywhere they go that's the witness they're going
to say i know you know jesus they
can see it on your countenance everything about
you is the revelation of jesus you're not
going out with four little scriptures you're not
going out with some little thing that you
have learned to quote you're not just mouthing
scriptures you are living testimony who jesus is
and the bible says you're going to have
such a beauty about you it's going to
be the beauty of holiness that you fully
accept you know we've got preachers in the
pulpit screaming we don't live by law anymore
the law is dead it's gone it's all
grace yes it is grace but he said
i'll put the law in your hearts you
will love to serve me you will love
to fulfill my law because i'm going to
give you the power to do it hallelujah
folks that that's a wonderful church when people
are serving the lord just because they love
him because there's a beauty in just walking
with him hallelujah that helps make you willing
to obey him now it says in verse
three thou has to do of thy youth
now folks i'm not the only one that
saw this i was surprised that uh jonathan
edwards calvin rogers and some of the great
prophets of god and writers from way back
for the last 300 years i i thought
i had some new revelation you know when
you go out in the morning and you
see the dew on the grass now you'd
have to go to central park in new
york to see that anybody been in central
park when the dew comes folks i was
raised in the country and when you go
out in the early morning and you look
at the dew it's like millions and millions
of diamonds those little drops of dew and
he says god says i'm going to have
the dew of youth i'm going to have
a whole sea of diamonds i'm going to
have the youth and that's before he comes
to go me too late after he comes
this prophecy is being fulfilled and these are
very days they're going to be fulfilled and
i believe it with all my heart god
is going to have the dew of the
youth oh these are his diamonds and that's
exactly exactly and here's the meaning these are
young converts servants of the lord they shall
be like beads as numerous as drops of
the morning dew that's the meaning as numerous
as the drops of the morning dew folks
you don't go out in a morning and
the field when the dew comes and just
see a drop here and a drop there
the fields are covered with these diamonds they
sparkle in the sun when the sun comes
they just sparkle has anybody seen that am
i the only okay all right i thought
i was the only one who saw that
hallelujah there is absolutely nothing in heaven or
earth that's going to stop this last day
harvest now there's there's something unique and special
about these last day servants this this these
young people especially that god is calling and
these willing people they're not going to be
afraid to plow in the cold the scripture
says the sluggard that's the lazy christian he
will not plow by reason of the cold
therefore shall he beg in harvest and have
nothing you know who these people are that
they're not going to have anything it's harvest
time in the bible there's going to be
some they're going to be churches just dead
they're going churches in this city while we
are packed and our alders are filled and
people getting saved your families and all over
the dew is falling everywhere and the diamonds
are shining and god's people willing in the
day of power they're going to be people
saying oh it's too cold out there you
know the the demon powers are out there
the the the rapist and and uh people
don't want god you know when i came
to new york city and talked to some
pastors about my vision of coming here in
the time square church they said they don't
want god here i've been here 15 20
years nothing happens you can't have a church
sunday night it's too cold you know people
are not going to come out people are
not going the the subways are so dangerous
the city is getting so wild they're not
going to come to they might come sunday
morning and that's it everywhere i got you
can't do it can't do it's too cold
too cold i don't mean you know the
weather but i that that's what it means
it's too hard it's too difficult can't help
it i got so sick and tired of
that i got so sick and tired of
that everywhere i went if i listened to
what i heard from my minister friends god
bless them i'd have never come to new
york but tried to scare me to death
one pastor hasn't seen a soul saved in
10 years at least that's the impression i
got death everywhere it's too cold to plow
god says you go out in the cold
and you plow doesn't matter what the weather
is doesn't matter what people say you go
and plow and you sow your seed i'm
going to give you a harvest hallelujah you
when i first came here drug addicts can't
be changed nobody can see a drug addict
when i first came to new york there
were there were no ministries on drugs in
the united states we were the first to
prove to the world that jesus could save
a drug addict up to that time it
was hopeless because at that time in 1958
there was no heroin very little most of
it was pot then in 19 after we
were here about a year all the drug
addict all the gang leaders i working with
i was preaching to gangs first because there
wasn't there were no drug addicts on the
street just musicians smoking pot and few things
1958 1960 heroin hit and all these gang
members that i was working with were on
the streets now they weren't fighting they were
just trying to get money to support their
habit and i noticed kids out in in
the cold of night you know it was
zero out and they had no jackets on
they didn't feel the cold and i was
figuring out man these kids don't even feel
the weather i went up to one so
he said i'm high i'm high he couldn't
feel the weather and and and i began
to suddenly see these kids vomiting and laying
all over and suddenly i didn't know anything
about drugs but nobody and nobody believed in
not even the church believed that a drug
addict could be saved too cold to plow
god said i'll save them and folks thousands
and thousands have been saved now all over
the world hallelujah these willing
servants are not going to be afraid of
the lion out there roaring the scripture says
the slothful or lazy christian saith there's a
lion without i shall be slain in the
streets proverbs 22 13 proverbs 26 13 the
slothful man says there's a lion out there
in the way a lion is laying and
waiting in the street devil's too powerful they
say he's got the whole world in his
hands you know that song he's got the
whole world in his hand they're talking about
the devil quickly into
the streets and laying to the city bring
in here to the poor the main and
the halt and the blind bring them in
he said don't be afraid of the lion
some of you remember uh about two years
ago there was so much talk about crime
in the subways and everything i got to
thinking boy one of these days it might
affect our people won't come on sunday nights
and tuesday night they only come sunday morning
because of the crime and so on a
tuesday night or friday night i opened up
the microphone and i said if the lord's
delivered you from uh you know somebody tried
to attack you and everything come up and
tell us about it i'll tell you what
i i heard one after another we were
here for about an hour remember hearing testimony
after testimony of people who've been delivered one
lady she said i carry my i don't
know if she's here tonight or not i
carry my bible in the subway anybody come
around to hit me she i'll use this
my club this is my club and i
i had i had sisters all over the
church said brother don't be afraid don't be
afraid i was the only one afraid nobody
else how many are not afraid of the
lion out in the street come on now
i'm not afraid of the lion out in
the street he said go out into the
streets and lanes of the city he didn't
say go out in the lanes of the
except new york city in 1995 they go
out quickly in the streets and bring in
the hit of the poor and the maimed
and the halt the blind but you know
there's a growing number of christians and i'm
going to preach about five more minutes there's
a number of christians now that are heading
for the hills they're hiding in fact i
get letters now from people on my mailing
i said brother dave and they said i'm
prophesying to you i heard from the lord
you have to get out of new york
city quickly you've got about six months left
it's going to be bombed i've got others
saying brother wilkerson god's telling everybody to flee
to the hills go to montana go to
wyoming go somewhere and get a farm there's
a book just been written and it's it's
by a christian who's a member of the
coalition on revival and let me let me
read to you what he says christians have
to do now they have to go out
in the country and get at least five
acres you have to have five hundred dollars
of silver u.s dimes six months supply
of dehydrated food a home water filter system
water storage facilities chemical toilet kerosene heater lamps
survival stove fire extinguisher at least 145 colt
automatic pistol this is this is a in
fact this man's a preacher who wrote the
book you've got to have a 30-06
rifle with a four-time scope a 12
-gauge shotgun with pump action you you must
have ammunition 500 rounds 22 long-range ammunition
air rifle reloading equipment high quality first aid
kit battery operated shortwave radio citizens band radio
50 pounds one can pounds of coffee for
exchange 106 out 10s of cigarette tobacco so
you can trade when the crash comes 20
pounds of inexpensive pipe tobacco one case of
expensive whiskey preferably jack daniels a wild turkey
that's what it says 30 mexican gold
coins five u.s 20 gold coins and
he says the booze and the tobacco is
to bribe the law the sheriff in time
of anarchy you bribe people imagine this is
christian this is a preacher he sent me
the book and i started reading through this
i said i got thinking i can't find
any of that in the bible i can't
find any of that my bible says go
quickly out into the streets bring them in
you know where i want to be when
the crash comes right here you're going to
be safer here have you been reading the
news about those people out in montana at
a farm with the fbi they've got their
guns they got their kerosene they got all
that they're in jail and we're here winning
souls bible said
he that seeks to save his life shall
lose it he that loses his life for
my sake shall find it hallelujah hallelujah you
know bible says they're going to cry for
the rocks in the mountains to fall on
them while we are praising god we're going
to go out in a blaze of glory
hallelujah hallelujah turn around to these three people
and say god has everything under control god
has everything under control everything stand
please you said bro dave if you believe
hard times are coming why aren't you storing
food i've been storing food right here a
stash of food our security just to
this time hasn't he no matter what happens
he's going to keep his people he's going
to keep you he's going to keep me
hallelujah and the last thing we'll say to
you the lord wants you to come to
church with hope he wants you to have
hope about the salvation of your family he
wants you when you walk the streets to
know that angels walk with you he wants
you to know that he wants you to
be absolutely fearless and he wants you to
to boldly tell everybody you can about jesus
and believe believe that god's going to give
you a harvest that that many may reject
it but folks you're going to find more
and more people are open people are hungry
they want to hear and folks you've got
to believe what the scripture says and someone
is i believe that with all my heart
to me that's not theology to me that's
not just something i read and forget i
believe that with all my heart and that
gives me hope for the young people and
not only in this church but in this
city no matter how they curse no matter
how they drink it may be look i've
thought for a whole while we've lost the
whole generation and then i go to the
word that says no he says he's going
to have the due of the youth he's
going to bring diamonds out of these kids
they're going to be diamonds that shine look
at look at timidness all these guys in
the front rows here these were guys that
society and everybody else gave up on and
for for sarah house here and folks we've
changed the name from hannah to sarah we
had to because there's a whole bunch of
other hannah houses all the united states and
people are mailing us were confused by it
so it's called hannah house but these girls
that are up here in the front they
are diamonds that people would have thought nothing
could have been done up
there down here if god can save you
he can save anybody if he saved you
save me he can save anybody yeah give
us faith we are not a defeated people
we are victorious people god god gave us
what i believe is the best theater in
this city right in the middle of broadway
he's raised up a standard and he is
saving people left and right people from all
walks of life and he is moving by
his spirit god help us to act and
move not in cowardice not worried about a
lion in the street or the coldness of
conditions but to trust him in all things
folks we intend to keep plowing god sent
me here to sew and you can't sew
till you plow we've been plowing and plowing
and now we're sewing and we're going to
reap hallelujah blessed be the name of the
lord we don't try to pack this altar
or anything else we're just here to serve
god's people and to reach those who are
in need and the lost but i feel
that there's some balcony in the main floor
and here's what the holy spirit put in
my heart just just a moment ago some
of you standing here have no joy i
don't know if you lost it or you
just misplaced it but the joy of the
lord is not there you you you sat
you heard the message but you sat with
a burden hanging on you just hanging on
you bring that burden to the lord now
but please don't come unless you're going to
believe with me that while i pray and
we pray together that's going to be lifted
from you because the bible said the joy
of the lord is your strength and i
don't want you to walk out of here
weak and be a prey to the enemy
so wherever you had up in the balcony
you could go to the stairs on either
side or in the main floor as we
sing it again how i trust thee bring
that heart to the lord you that have
come forward if you can look this way
for just a moment please i am so
uh there's such a joy in my heart
when i know how much he loves his
children the lord loves his people if you
can only get this down so you have
to be totally convinced that god's not mad
at you if god were mad at you
he'd cut you off long ago we'd all
been cut off because we deserve it but
he's a god of love and mercy and
compassion yes he's a holy god he's a
just god but that that the wrath of
god is against those who reject him those
who reject his call his plea and his
many many mercies that he extends to his
people but you're not that kind you come
here because you love him and you want
him and you you want your heart given
to him isn't that why you came you
want to give your whole heart to him
i'm gonna say amen to that i want
to give my whole heart to the lord
i want to hold nothing back now if
you have a besetting sin often sin brings
condemnation guilt and it cuts off the joy
it's hard to be in sin and have
any joy it's almost impossible the only joy
you can have if you're living in sin
is a false peace and a false joy
so let the holy spirit bring that right
out into the open and say lord i
know why i don't have joy because i'm
still living in sin and you're going to
pray with me that god break the power
of that sin through the holy ghost the
holy god will put the holy ghost in
you with such power that that you don't
have to struggle the lord will just powerfully
encourage you and strengthen you so that you're
not fighting it in your own strength but
in his power and his strength and listen
if if you're listening to the lies of
the devil the devil will lie to you
and say that you're not going to make
it uh he will bring depression on you
sometimes it's physical sometimes it's mental and spiritual
and many times then he will just come
harass you with lies but i'll tell you
wait you know how to deal with the
lies of the devil just remind him of
the truth of god's word hallelujah remind him
of the truth of god's word the devil
has to flee at the truth he can't
handle the truth hallelujah you just say my
bible says my bible says if i confess
my sins he's faithful just forgive me to
cleanse me to make me clean and when
you're clean the devil has no rights no
i'll tell you i want to tell you
something no matter how long you serve the
lord no matter how you are the lord
he's always going to be an accuser of
you you're always going to have him accusing
you so just don't put up with it
anymore say devil i've had enough of that
i'm going to listen to you anymore i'm
going to believe what god's word says i'm
going to stand on the word of god
that's when joy comes when you take your
stand on the word not on your feelings
if i live by feelings i'd never hardly
ever be able to survive you can't live
by your feelings amen pray with me now
right out loud jesus i give you my
heart and all of its weaknesses and i
come to you for help forgive me and
deliver me from all the power of sin
oh fill me with the holy ghost that
i may have power and authority against the
devil take all the fear out of my
heart of the devil's power or the power
of my flesh and help me to understand
that he who lives in me is greater
than all things else all the things yes
all other things greater is he that's in
me than he that's in the world lord
jesus i want my joy back give it
to me by faith i believe you saved
me and i believe you can keep me
i've come like a child in simple faith
i give you my heart my confidence and
my love all right now once you just
raise your hands and love jesus right now
just love him right now love him lord
i love you i thank you for your
faithfulness i thank you for loving me i
thank you for caring about me you'll never
cut me off you'll never cut me off
jesus you won't cut me off hallelujah won't
cut me off oh the lord will not
cut me off thank you jesus lord you
will never cut me off you'll strengthen me
you'll heal me deliver me glory hallelujah you've
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