Something very powerful and awesome is going on
in America and the world today.
God's doing something very hidden, it's very quiet,
but it's so awesome and supernatural that it's
beyond human comprehension.
In fact, what the Lord's doing right now
is going to affect the whole world in
these last days.
And here's what it is.
He's preparing a very small but most powerful
army of dedicated Christians who are more dedicated
than anybody who followed Hitler.
I was reading a book recently, a picture
book of the story of the rise and
fall of the German Reich and of Hitler,
and he started with an army of young
people who were ready to lay down their
lives, and many of them just laid down
their lives to die for Adolf Hitler.
But this is going to be an army
more dedicated than even the Communists.
They were considered to be among the most
loyal people on the face of the earth.
Now God is destroying Communism all over the
world.
This army is going to be more dedicated
and devoted to the cause of Christ than
all of those over one million young people,
mostly teenagers, that were killed in absolute obedience
to the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran.
Often without guns, just waves and waves of
teenagers went against the Iraqi fortresses and guns,
and they were mowed down by the thousands.
Over a million young men died, sacrificing their
life for the Ayatollah.
But folks, this army that God is raising
up is going to be the most dedicated
army on the face of the earth, never
before anyone as pure, devoted, and fearless as
this remnant that's coming forth.
They're going to come forth and do exploits,
and they're going to shake hell, literally.
I have heard all my life about our
godly forefathers, the mothers of Zion, the fathers
of Zion, men who spent hours and days
in prayer, who fasted, who had the ability
and the power to stand up against the
wave of immorality in their day, and I've
often thought about those great forefathers.
Many of them are dead.
They're gone.
But folks, the army that God's going to
raise up and is in the process of
raising up right now is not going to
be made up primarily of gray-haired old
prophets.
Many of those gray-haired old prophets are
sitting in front of televisions now getting fat
and have lost the touch and anointing of
God.
God's bypassed them long ago.
This new army is going to be made
up of handmaidens of the Lord.
It's going to be made up of servants
of the Lord, ordinary Christians who lay hold
of God, and God lays hold of them,
and a whole new realm of service, a
whole new realm of the moving of the
Holy Spirit is about to break forth.
Right now, if you look at the church
religious system, you lose heart.
In many Pentecostal churches, many all over the
United States, at least 50 percent of the
congregation are now divorced.
In some southern cities, 80 percent of the
congregation is divorced.
When you look at pastors and churches rocking
and rolling, when you see pastors turning to
positive thinking, when you hear even evangelical pastors
get up with foolishness and frivolity, you ought
to see the letters that are coming in
to us of pastors that are falling on
every side.
I got a letter the other day.
We read it at our minister's meeting.
We received a congregation praying for their pastor
because he was caught.
He's an addicted gambler.
There's a gambler in the pulpit preaching.
Adulterers, fornicators, those that are involved in the
occult and witchcraft, creeping into the church of
Jesus Christ.
And if you look at what is called
the denominational church system today, you lose heart
and you say there's no influence, there's no
power.
What's happening?
Folks, you're not supposed to fret, according to
my Bible, because God has a plan.
God has a plan.
He's always had a plan.
And that plan is no secret.
It's here in this book.
It's clearly revealed.
Much of God's plan that I want to
share with you can be found in 1
Samuel.
I want you to turn to 1 Samuel
with me, if you will, please, the third
chapter, because God's plan for what he's going
to do, he's going to raise up a
Samuel company.
Hallelujah.
The holy remnant.
1 Samuel, third chapter, and my whole message
is coming out of this chapter.
I want you to look at verse 11,
chapter 3.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I
will do a thing in Israel, at which
both ears of every one that heareth it
shall tingle.
Can you see it?
Read it again.
The Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I'll do
a thing in Israel, at which both ears
of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Both ears, everybody's ears, are going to be
tingling.
It's going to be a shocking thing that
God does.
This new thing is going to amaze and
startle everybody.
Do you know what it was?
It's the judgment of God on an old
religious system, and the raising up of a
whole new program of the Holy Ghost.
That's what you see in 1 Samuel.
In fact, the first six, seven chapters, it's
all about the death of an old church
religious system, and the birthing of a new
holy remnant.
Hallelujah.
Now, I want you to keep in mind
that what God did in Samuel's day, He
keeps doing in every generation.
In every generation, when the so-called church,
the organized church, backslides and gets cold and
compromising, God just gives up on it and
raises up another.
He's always had a people after His heart.
He's always had a praying people.
In every generation, He's had that little spark
of fire.
And when the old dies, He just fans
the new and starts all over again.
And that's called the remnant.
All through the ages, there's been a remnant.
But all this remnant that's coming is going
to be beyond anything the world has seen.
Eli represents the old religious system.
He had two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, and
they were devils.
They were sons of Belial, according to the
Scripture.
You see that chapter 2, verse 12, the
sons of Eli were sons of Belial, or
sons of the devil.
They knew not the Lord.
Folks, look at me, please.
Eli's over 90 years of age.
He's fat.
He's stiff-necked.
He's lost the touch of God.
God's no longer talking to him.
He doesn't hear from God.
Nobody was hearing from God.
There was one prophet unnamed who came to
Sam and warned him.
He said, I'm going to send judgment and
cut you off because you're soft on sin.
But Eli and his two sons represent the
dead, cold, formal church who are going through
the motions of former godless, no power.
These men, these two sons of Eli, and
Eli and his two sons represented the ministry,
the priesthood.
And the ministry was corrupt.
The two sons of Hophni and Phinehas, they
didn't want to eat sod and flesh.
And when they brought the sacrifice, it went
into the big pot, and they would seethe
it, boil it.
The priest had a three-pronged hook.
He would pull out, whatever came out on
that three-pronged hook was for their table.
But they didn't want that.
They wanted filet mignon, red raw meat.
So they would meet the people who brought
their sacrifices.
They'd bring a heifer, and they'd say, look,
we're going to kill it now.
We'll leave it here, and we're going to
take the prime rib.
Prime rib goes to our table for our
priesthood.
Eli knew they were doing it.
He got addicted to that red raw meat.
That's how he got fat, I guess.
I don't know.
He knew what they were doing.
He knew the meat he was eating was
abominable.
But he didn't correct his sons.
His two sons were adulterers.
They would pick out women that came to
serve the Lord, and they would seduce them
right at the temple gate, right at the
tabernacle doors.
These men were covetous.
They had no fear of God.
They didn't even know the Lord, and yet
they went through all the sacrifices.
They were ministering to the people, even in
the holy place.
They even went into the Holy of Holies.
Thank you, Jesus.
They were devils.
Folks, you see a picture here of how
the ministry and how the organized church has
gone.
When you've got preachers like we have right
over here in New Jersey, Bishop Spong pushing
for homosexuals to be ordained, whole denominations now
accepting homosexuals, whole denominations saying that homosexuality is
pleasing to God, entire homosexual denomination now, and
they're going to be brought into the National
Council of Churches.
You see a backslidden, corrupt ministry falling on
the left and the right.
Okay.
Why are you hanging your head?
Thank you.
How many of you here have seen the
way the denominational church has just gone down
into moral landslide, into mud and filth?
It's a stench in God's nostrils.
But see, Eli winked at it.
God said, I have told him that I'll
judge his house forever for the iniquity which
he knows because his sons made themselves vile
and he restrained them not.
He refused to judge and correct.
Now, folks, that's exactly what's happening in America
today.
There are multitudes of thousands of pastors and
shepherds who will not reprove their congregation.
They will not call sin, sin.
Not at all because they're soft on sin,
because they've grown comfortable in their positions.
Folks, I think I told you once of
talking to, I think there were seven of
them, six or seven pastors visiting from a
southern state.
These were Pentecostal pastors.
And I was telling them about my concern
of all of the corruption that's creeping in
the church, in the music and in the
pulpit itself and this lack of correction in
the church.
And I turned to one pastor and I
said, Is this true that pastors are afraid
to correct people because they're afraid they'll lose
some money, people who won't help pay the
mortgage?
I said, Tell me that's not true.
And a pastor bowed his head.
He was the leader of this group.
And he said, I'm afraid it's so, David.
And every one of them bowed their head.
And one pastor said, Brother David, I've got
to confess.
I've been afraid to speak out.
He said, I'm afraid if I speak out,
half my congregation will leave me.
And everyone in that circle, Pentecostal pastors, said,
What they're really saying, we're very easy on
the people.
We don't want to offend anybody.
In fact, some churches are called outsider-friendly
churches to make it friendly.
Folks, you can go to a friendly church
and go straight to hell.
I don't want to go to an outsider
-friendly church.
I want to hear the word of the
Lord, sharp as a two-edged sword that
pierces to the very marrow of the bone.
Folks, you show me.
Just show me ten men of God, gray
-haired men of God left in America today.
Name ten.
Name five gray-haired men of God, all
prophets.
Name me five.
Remember what Abraham said, Lord, if there's any
of you ten righteous left, you name me
those ten, even five men who are standing
in an international pulpit and crying out against
sin.
Name them.
Show me gray-haired men who have stayed
true all these years, have been on their
face before God, and they can get up
like a Samuel, and their words don't fall
to the ground.
And you know by looking and hearing, there's
a man that walks with God.
He's holy.
He's righteous.
He's heard from heaven.
And he can say, Thus saith the Lord.
Name me five of them.
They don't manipulate the crowds.
They're not looking for money.
There are television cameras around them.
But they're men of prayer.
They're men of God.
They're seeking the face of God.
There are not five left in the country,
at least not that I know.
Thank God for the young ones that he's
raising up that have the fire and the
glory of God.
You see, that's why God has to do
a new thing.
This old system is rocking itself into oblivion
in a rocking chair, growing prosperous and fat
and afraid to deal with sin.
And God got fed up with this Eli
church at Shiloh.
He sent a prophet with a word of
prophecy.
He said, Behold, the day is coming, pointed
a finger at Eli.
And this prophet, the Bible doesn't tell his
name.
You can find that in 2nd chapter, beginning
at 27th verse, right down the rest of
the chapter.
This prophet looked at Eli.
And he said, Behold, the day is coming.
I'm going to cut off your arm.
I'll cut off your arm.
You know what that means?
I'm going to take my spirit away from
you.
I'm going to take my blessing away from
you.
I'm going to cut off the glory of
God in your midst.
I'm going to cut off his arm with
the power of God, the anointing of God.
God said, I'm going to take away your
anointing.
He said, I'm going to quit this house
at Shiloh.
I'm going to remove my presence.
I'll make you powerless.
I'll judge your wicked pastors.
I'm going to pronounce Ichabod on you.
And I also see an enemy in my
habitation.
The habitation was the house of God, the
tabernacle at Shiloh.
And this prophet said, God sent me to
tell you, because you're soft on sin, you
allow wickedness in my house.
You don't reprove.
You have grown weary with God's service.
You don't have a heart of prayer anymore.
You're backslidden.
You're cold.
And because of that, I'm going to cut
off your influence, take my spirit from you,
and there's going to be an enemy placed
in your place.
The enemy is going to come in.
But God is saying, I'm giving up on
Shiloh.
I'm giving up on this church.
I'm giving it up, and I'm going to
give it over to the hands of the
enemy.
Now, folks, that's exactly what's happening in America
and the world today.
The organized religious system has been turned over
to the enemy.
The enemy.
Do you know that the National Council of
Churches, their multitudes of the money that they
have, much of their so-called discretionary funds
goes to support communist guerrillas around the world?
Churches supporting communists, godless communists.
Amazing.
We sit in America, and we wonder why
the church doesn't have influence.
The church in New York City, I'm talking
about the denominational churches from the cathedrals on.
They're just mausoleums.
They're dead.
They're funeral parlors.
They have no life.
They have no strength.
Their word doesn't mean anything.
Because God's walked away from it all.
God said, I cut off your arm, and
I'm going to put an enemy in the
tabernacle.
And that's what the Bible says is going
to happen the last day.
There are going to be men standing in
the pulpit that are going to give the
people what they want.
If you've got idolatry in your heart, you're
going to wind up in a church with
a preacher with idolatry in his heart.
And that preacher's going to minister to that
idol that's in your heart.
He's going to tell you it's okay to
sin.
He's going to tell you it's all right
to go easy.
It's all right to have fun.
It's all right to be a sports fanatic
and not pray or seek the face of
God.
That's what's happening all over America.
The old system is dying.
God is leaving it.
He's already left most of it.
You can go to many churches, even Pentecostal
churches, and it's death.
God's not there.
God's gone.
The church of Shiloh was abandoned by God.
And it was judged by the Lord.
And Israel was smitten.
And they fled every man to his own
tent.
And there was a great slaughter.
For these fellow of Israel, for their fellow
of Israel, 30,000 footmen, the ark of
God was taken.
And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.
In one day, God said enough.
In one day, God came in.
The ark of the Lord was captured.
Which means the presence of God has moved
now far, far away.
The glory of the Lord has departed.
Ichabod is born.
Not only that, God moved in judgment quickly
on the ministry.
Folks, what you're seeing now is what God
said in this book, Judgment will begin in
the house of the Lord.
That's why you see men falling on the
left and falling on the right.
Not just suicides.
Not just people being removed from the ministry.
Not just being exposed for adultery and witchcraft
or gambling.
But they're falling dead.
They're falling literally.
And the day is coming God is going
to deal so severely with the wicked congregations,
the wicked servants of the Lord that are
backslidden.
God's going to move with great judgment.
We see it now in the land.
When Eli heard the news that the ark
was taken, his sons were killed, the Bible
said he fell over.
He fell over off the seat backwards and
broke his neck.
And he died, for he was an old
man and fat.
He had a stiff neck.
He fell and died.
He was 98 years old when he died.
This is a vivid picture of what's happening
to organized religion.
It's under judgment.
Its ministers are falling.
Its leaders are spiritually dead.
But folks, here's what the scripture says.
In fact, I want you to turn to
Jeremiah.
I want to show you something.
Jeremiah, the seventh chapter.
Jeremiah 7.
This is going to make sense to you
in just a minute.
Jeremiah, the seventh chapter.
Once again, Jeremiah is talking about that organized
religious system.
Verse 9.
Will you steal?
Murder?
Commit adultery?
Swear falsely and burn incense under Baal?
And walk after other gods whom you know
not?
And then come and stand before me in
this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered to do all
these abominations.
In other words, we're safe.
We're no danger.
We're not going to lose our salvation.
Verse 11.
In this house, which is called by my
name.
Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes?
I've seen it, saith the Lord.
But go now unto my place, which was
in Silo.
That was Eli's church.
The church that I'm talking about.
The prophet says, Go back now to my
place, which was in Silo.
And I set my name at the first.
And see what I did to it for
the wickedness of my people Israel.
And now, because you've done all these works,
saith the Lord, and I spake on your
eyes early in speaking, but you heard not.
And I called you, but you answered not.
Therefore, will I do unto this house, which
is called by my name, wherein you trust,
and unto this place, which I gave to
you and to your fathers, as I have
done to Silo.
And I will cast you out of my
sight.
And I will cast out all your brethren,
even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Therefore, pray not for this people.
Neither lift up cry nor prayer for them.
Neither make intercession to me, for I will
not hear thee.
You see what God is saying?
I'm doing away with this thing.
There's no chance of repentance.
Doesn't mean that God isn't as merciful as
he's always been.
God's still loving, and his heart bleeds.
But he's saying, There's no hope for this
church.
It's given up.
I cannot work with this church anymore.
And so God says, in every generation, he's
saying it to us.
Go back to Silo.
Go back to the church of Eli.
See what I did to Hophniath and Phinehas.
See what I did when I took my
glory and my presence away from Silo.
And God said, Well, there's sin in the
camp.
The glory is going to depart.
While the church of Eli was under judgment,
and being forsaken by the glory of the
Lord, and taken over by the devil, God
was busy raising up a remnant.
And Samuel represents the holy remnant.
Now, folks, listen to me very carefully now.
I want to take you into this book,
into this chapter, and I want to show
you how God trained Samuel to come up
to take the place of this dead religious
system, how God had a plan.
And this is what God's going to do.
This is what he's doing right now.
He's training some of you that are here
now.
Many of you are being trained by the
Holy Ghost, because you're going to be a
part of this army that he's raising up.
I want you to listen very closely.
And I believe when I'm finished, you'll be
able to know whether or not you're a
part of this remnant that he's raising up
to do his work in the last day.
Here's the training and preparation of a holy
remnant.
First of all, the remnant is always birthed
in prayer and intercession.
Always.
Hannah birthed Samuel through bitter tears and much
prayer.
Scripture says that she was in grief of
soul.
This is 1 Samuel 1.10. She was
in grief of soul.
She prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.
Now, keep in mind that Elkanah, her husband,
had two wives.
Peninnah was the other wife.
She had children.
Hannah had none.
And the Bible says her adversary provoked her
sore and made her fret.
Listen to me, please.
Get the picture.
Hannah is at the temple of God every
day on her knees, standing before the altar
of God.
And she's so crushed and broken because she's
childless.
She's there before the altar weeping every day,
seeking the face of God.
Her adversary is making fun of her so
that she's fretting.
And Hannah is saying, The Lord, all I'm
doing is giving myself to you in prayer,
and I'm being harassed by an adversary.
I'm being harassed constantly by an adversary.
The remnant, which Samuel represents, was born in
grief, intercession, pain, sorrow, through provoking of adversaries
and through misunderstanding.
It came to pass that she was continually
praying before the Lord that Eli was watching
her mouth.
Now, Hannah, she spake in her heart, and
only her lips were moving.
Therefore, Eli thought she was drunk.
And Eli said unto her, How long will
you be drunken?
Put away the wine from you.
Isn't that amazing?
How people who pray, give themselves to God,
are so clearly misunderstood.
They're misunderstood.
Listen to it very clearly here.
It's powerful.
It's something you've got to get it into
your mind here.
He looks at her, and she is so
full of grief.
She's so burdened for the work of God.
All she can do is move her mouth.
She's groaning in the Spirit.
Eli is so out of touch with God.
Eli is so dead in his Spirit.
He thinks she's drunk.
And he says, Woman, how long are you
going to come in here drunk?
Put your bottle away.
Isn't that amazing to a man who won't
correct his own sons?
He won't even correct all he told his
boys.
You shouldn't be doing what you're doing.
But he lost all his spiritual authority because
he had never really corrected those boys.
And those boys knew that he loved that
red meat that he was eating.
Listen, please.
If you're going to seek God with all
your heart, with all your soul, all your
strength, and you're going to feel the pain
and the grief of God for his church,
you're going to suffer consequences.
You're going to be misunderstood on all sides.
You're going to have people accuse you of
all kinds of things.
Hannah prayed, If you give me a man,
child, I'll give him unto the Lord all
the days of his life.
And she turned to Eli and said, Don't
look on me as a wicked woman, or
a daughter of Belial, for out of the
abundance of my sorrow and grief have I
spoken up to this point.
And I'll tell you, God heard her prayer.
And the name Samuel means God heard my
prayer.
That's what Samuel means.
And folks, God's hearing the prayer of a
people in his house, a people who yearn
for an outpouring of the righteousness of Jesus
Christ, a people who yearn for an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit upon their sons and
their daughters, a people who want to see
the glory of the Lord come down on
his church, a people who want to see
God move in a very special way in
these last days.
God's going to hear their cry.
If you've been moved to prayer, if God's
been calling you to prayer, you're feeling the
grief of God.
And I'm not talking about spending five, ten
hours a day in prayer.
I know people who pray many hours, who
never touch God.
They never feel the grief and the pain
of God's heart.
No, these are people who are really on
their face seeking Him.
Hallelujah.
These are people who are pouring their heart
out to God.
And there are people that were given, according
to Hannah, given to the Lord all the
days of their life.
These people are so committed, there's no thought
of backsliding.
There's no up and down, in and out,
hot and cold.
They are wholly given to the heart of
God.
Oh, God raise up a people like that
in Times Square Church.
People who you don't have to worry about.
People you don't have to wonder what they're
going through now.
Is this crisis going to blow them away?
No, because they're growing in the Lord.
There's not a hint, there's not a chance
they're going to turn their back on God.
They're wholly given to the Lord.
Do you know what it's all about?
When you're in trouble or in a crisis
to go to God and pour your heart
out?
What do you do when you're in trouble?
Go to a counselor?
Pick up the phone and talk to a
friend for an hour or two?
Folks, I want you to know that this
remnant is going to go to the heart
of God and pour out their soul.
Trust in Him at all times, ye people.
Pour out your heart to Him.
David, when he was in trouble, said, When
I remembered all these things, then I went
to Him and poured out my soul in
me.
I emptied myself.
Folks, when I'm in trouble, when I'm in
sorrow, when I'm in pain, I go to
God, I bury my heart, I empty my
heart.
I come out completely empty.
This remnant is going to know how to
pour out their soul to God.
Do you know that Samuel was such a
man of prayer that when the people came
to him, they didn't ask for counseling, they
asked for his prayers?
When they asked for a king, God sent
a mighty thunderstorm.
In fact, the thunderstorm came because Samuel prayed
it down.
Samuel, don't listen to it.
The Lord sent thunder and rain that day,
and all the people greatly feared the Lord
and Samuel.
And all the people said to Samuel, Pray
for thy servants unto the Lord thy God,
that we die not.
Time after time, read it, you'll hear them
come to Samuel.
Pray for us, pray for us, pray for
us.
Why?
People learn to trust their prayers.
And folks, there's going to be a praying
remnant, that people will go, not for counseling,
but for prayer.
They're going to say, I know somebody who's
going to touch God.
God wants to make you that person, that
you're touching God, that you hear from God,
and God will give you a ministry of
people coming to you with their burdens and
their trials, and you won't dare saying, Thus
saith the Lord.
You'll lay hands on them and pray.
And while you're praying to where the Lord
and the power of God will come forth,
then God will answer their prayer.
God wants to raise up prayer warriors who've
touched heaven.
Now, secondly, in the training of the remnant,
it's going to be trained to know the
voice of the Lord.
Now, this was a time when God wasn't
speaking to Israel because of the sinfulness of
the ministry and the people.
The Bible said, look at verse 1, chapter
3, And word from the Lord was rare
in those days.
Visions were infrequent.
The only time you hear of God speaking
was that unnamed prophet that came.
Folks, look this way, please.
I want to talk to you about knowing
the voice of the Lord.
One of the most important things you can
learn.
In the middle of this dearth, this famine
of the word of God, God appears to
Samuel.
The Lord called Samuel.
Now, Samuel did not yet know the Lord,
nor had the word of the Lord yet
been revealed to him.
He didn't know the voice of the Lord.
He was a praying boy.
He was 12 years old at the time.
He loved God, but he didn't know God
in a theological way.
He didn't know Him in the full revelation.
But I want you to see something.
God called, He spoke to Samuel.
He wasn't speaking to Eli.
See, He's not speaking in that dead church
system.
But He is speaking today.
He's going to speak, not just through preachers
in the pulpit, evangelists and missionaries.
God's trying to raise up an army of
people who know His voice, who hear from
Him directly.
There's an Eli ministry today that's fattened, compromising.
It's lost all discernment, all spiritual authority.
Do you know why Hoth, Nile and Phinehas
never listened to their father?
He lost the spiritual authority.
Because they saw his compromise.
They just laughed at him.
And folks, that's what's needed in the church
today, the spiritual authority of God.
Those that can stand and say, that's the
Lord because it's backed up with a life
of righteousness.
Now, let me tell you something about hearing
from God.
It takes more than just open ears.
I've heard people talk about how to learn
the voice of God.
Folks, listen to me.
It takes more than just what Samuel said,
Here am I, Lord, speak.
That's what Eli told him to say, Here
I am, Lord, speak.
It's going to take more than that.
It's going to take more than just quiet
times with the Lord.
Just sitting there saying, Lord, speak to me.
There's no formula.
You don't need ten steps on how to
hear the voice of God.
Listen to me now.
You can't hear God's voice until he's speaking.
You know what?
Eli could have spent all month long shouting
with God, oh God, speak to me.
He'd never heard the voice of God.
God wasn't talking to him.
God wasn't speaking to him.
You know, Jesus said, my sheep know voice.
But what else did he say?
They hear when I call.
In other words, they hear my voice when
I'm speaking.
When I'm speaking.
Folks, you can listen all day.
If God's not talking, what's the point?
God only talks to those who talk to
him.
God only talks to those who are sitting
out.
He'll talk to the church, but he'll talk
in one word syllables.
Repent.
Turn.
Tell you who he's talking to.
He's talking to those like Samuel with a
pure heart.
With a heart open.
How it must have grieved Samuel when he
saw Eli's sons committing adultery and their mockery,
making fun and joking, filthy mouth men.
How this tender heart of Samuel must have
grieved.
God came to his bedside, began to speak.
And what was the first thing God told
Samuel?
God told, God implanted in Samuel, and he's
doing it in the remnant.
He planted a vision of God that says
God will not put up with sin in
his house.
He told Samuel, he said, I'm going to
judge.
I told him, he said, I'm going to
start judgment soon and I'm going to end
it.
I'm going to judge Eli because he knew
his sons were wicked and he would not
judge them.
He would not restrain them.
Those young pastors should have been stripped of
their robes.
They should have been told you can't go
near the holy place.
They should have been put out of the
ministry.
Eli's job was to do that and he
wouldn't do it.
And God said, now I want to show
you Samuel.
And the first thing God said to him,
I want to show you my hatred for
sin in my house.
I want to show you my hatred for
compromising the ministry.
I want to show you what it's going
to take Samuel to hear my voice and
to walk with me.
And Samuel heard it, how he must have
shuddered when he thought that this man he
so admired, God was going to leave him.
He was going to be judged.
How it must have grieved him when God
told him, I'm going to destroy those ministers
and I'm going to raise up, Samuel, a
people that are after my heart.
Samuel was afraid to tell Eli.
Eli couldn't, I don't know, he knew that
God was talking to him in the middle
of the night.
If he really wanted to know what God
said, he'd have gone in to that boy's
room and said, what did God say?
He waited until morning.
He said, Samuel, I can see you've just
taken him by the shoulders.
He said, Samuel, God called you.
God spoke to you last night.
Now you tell me what he said.
God so helped me, if you don't tell
me.
He shook him.
I want to know what God said.
What did God say to you?
Isn't that a shame?
This man had been in the ministry for
over 50 years and doesn't know God's voice
and has to shake a little boy's shoulder
to get a word from heaven.
I want to tell you what's happening.
The time is coming.
The time is coming when people are going
to want to hear this word from heaven.
The Bible said, God so moved on Samuel
that none of his words fell to the
ground.
In other words, nothing he said was empty.
What he said he heard from heaven.
Folks, if you want to hear from God,
God will speak to you.
That means you don't go into his presence.
You don't go into his presence carrying your
load of sin with you.
You allow God to deal with that sin.
You allow God to take that temper away
from you and sanctify it.
You ask God to do what he has
to do in your life.
You go into the presence of the Lord
and say, Oh Lord, I want you to
purge and sanctify me and cleanse me because
I want to come to you with clean
hands and a pure heart and I want
to hear you speak to my heart.
God's raising up a holy people that know
the voice of God.
They're not going to have to go to
so many bands and get a word.
We got people running all over the United
States trying to get a word.
You know why that?
Because God's not talking to them.
I don't want God to talk to me
through somebody else.
I want to hear it right from his
heart, right from his lips.
I've got to do another.
I've got to get on with this.
Number three, this remnant is going to be
trained in true deliverance through the knowledge of
the ways of God.
I'm telling you folks, listen to me please
if you haven't heard anything else.
What's coming to America is such chaos.
Do you know why Louis Farrakhan is becoming
so popular?
He's on the front page, I think it's
Time magazine.
In the black community, Louis Farrakhan is second
in popularity only to Jesse Jackson.
He's more popular now than Martin Luther King.
That's what it says.
And out of his innermost being is spewing
hatred.
Then on the other side, you've got on
radio, you've got white radio talk hosts that
are stirring up full of hate.
Right here in New York, some of those
white men hate blacks with a passion.
I can't listen to any of that garbage.
But folks, it doesn't look very serious right
now.
But very soon, not far off, when the
economic chaos comes, you watch what happens.
There'll be armies of blacks, armies of whites.
Jews against black, black against Jew.
Black against Korean, Korean against black.
Folks, the race wars that I'm talking about,
I've warned you and warned you and warned
you.
How many have heard my warnings?
I have.
Any more, it just seems people don't want
to listen.
I want you to hear it.
Hear it good.
America's headed for chaos and a collapse.
And the word deliverance is going to take
on a whole new meaning.
Right now, the word deliverance to most of
us, we talk about deliverance meetings.
You know, somebody's eye opened or somebody throwing
away their cane.
And, you know, we see television cameras and
that's supposed to be a deliverance meeting.
Folks, the word deliverance is going to change
its meaning.
People are just going to want safety.
People are going to want to hear words
from God.
When does this end?
What's God doing?
Is this God's judgment?
People are going to wonder.
They're going to look everywhere, searching.
And the word deliverance is going to come
down.
Listen to me, please.
For people, God's ordinary people, not pastors, but
you in the pew, who are so calm,
so peaceful, because God's with you.
You're hearing from heaven.
God told you he's going to protect you.
God told you an angel's going to walk
with you.
God told you all this was coming.
So you're not upset.
And people are going to come to you
for deliverance.
The new deliverance ministry is going to be
those who are going to say, Come on,
sit down.
I'll tell you what's going to happen.
Here's what the Bible says.
Here's what's going to happen.
And there are going to be people reaching
out just to hear somebody, to see somebody
with calm and peace that's not going crazy.
The Bible said men's hearts will fail them
for fear, watching those things coming on the
earth, people dropping with heart attacks all around
you, people fanatical, people I've seen in a
picture in my mind, and I believe the
Lord put it there.
I saw hundreds of cars fleeing New York,
and I saw car camps out in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, everywhere, cars out in the field,
people sleeping in their cars to get away
for a few weeks from the chaos.
Folks, it's going to be beyond anything we
could imagine, but there's going to be a
holy remnant that are steadfast and sure, unmovable.
Go to 1 Samuel.
I'll show you 1 Samuel, 7th chapter.
Number 7, with this I close.
7th chapter, verse 7.
That's not the one I wanted.
I think it's over in...
Let me just tell it to you.
Folks, listen to me, please.
The Philistines gathered against Israel to do battle.
The Bible said, and Samuel cried, and as
Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
Lord thundered on that day with great thunder
upon the Philistines, and they were smitten before
Israel.
Here's what happened.
This is what you have to hear before
I close.
Samuel said, I want you to all gather
at Mizpah with me.
He said, I'm going to tell you the
way out, because over 50,070 people had
died because they peeked into the ark.
And everywhere the ark was, people were dying
like flies.
The whole land was in chaos.
Can you imagine 50,070 men dropping dead?
People said, who can stand before such a
holy God?
This judgment, it has to be God.
We know it's God.
Nobody knew what to do.
They said, who shall go up for us?
How are we going to stop this plague?
What do we do?
There was one man who had the answer.
It was Samuel, the remnant.
He called the people together, and the Bible
said he judged them.
He judged their sin.
He exposed sin in the camp.
And the Bible said they fasted before the
Lord, and they humbled themselves, and they prayed.
And the Bible said, while Samuel stood before
the altar offering the sacrifice, God came and
thundered against the Philistines, and there was a
great slaughter, and God's people won the victory.
Why?
Because one man knew the answer.
One man knew what to do.
He'd heard from God.
And folks, the day is coming.
Your neighbors and everybody you work with, everything
else, they're going to want to hear from
you.
There's got to be answers.
Folks, you shouldn't have to come to Times
Square Church and hear what Brother Dave Wilkerson
or Brother Don or Bob or anybody else
has heard from the Lord.
God is so instilled in you of the
principles of walking with God.
You so hear from God.
You're so into this book.
You don't have to have a teacher teach
it to you, because God's working on you.
He's going to do it, folks.
He's doing it now.
Why do you think God started this church
in the heart of Babylon, right here at
Times Square?
Why do you think you're sitting here in
your seat right now?
It's not a happenstance.
It's not just something that happened.
This is a part of what He's doing.
We're just a small part of it.
But we're a part of what God's doing
in New York City and other cities.
God came ahead of the riots.
God came ahead of the collapse.
God came and prepared.
I know.
Years ago, two years before we came, I
walked these streets weeping.
I had a little garage up on top
of the garage, a little study.
And I spent hours on my face.
And God said, I want you to go
to New York City, and I'm going to
raise up a holy remnant.
I'm going to track them from all kinds
of walks of life.
I'm going to raise up a holy remnant,
and I'm going to prepare them for the
judgment that's coming.
And that's why God raised up this church.
I tell you, I don't, believe me, I
don't have an ounce of pride in me
about this church.
If God wants this building and puts us
in a barn, I'd go to a barn.
We're not married to this building.
And I didn't come here to preach sermons.
I didn't come here just to marry and
bury.
Folks, we do all of that, and we
do it joyfully.
But there's a divine, eternal purpose.
Next year, the Lord's going to allow me
to go, no doubt, to preach to ministers
in various parts of the world occasionally.
I'm going to be here.
I'm not abandoning this.
God's told me that I'm to take this
post until I die.
And no way you can throw me out
of this church.
Now, if I were immoral or something, that's
another story.
But God's kept us true to His face
and His name.
And I want you to know something here,
folks.
God is doing something supernatural.
You've got to understand that now.
You're not just coming here to church.
You're coming here now that God would put
divine principles in your soul and fire you
up and get you off the fence and
get you seeking His face and deal with
sin in your heart.
Somebody told me the other day, a preacher
called.
They had a minister in their pulpit.
They went out.
They had a visiting evangelist.
And this friend of mine or acquaintance of
mine took him out to eat.
And he said, you weren't right on.
You didn't have the anointing today.
There's something wrong.
And he blurted out, he said, oh, you're
just like Dave Wilkerson in that Times Square
bunch.
The image is that too hard on sin
and too much doomsday.
Folks, I know it's coming, but I'm not
scared.
I'm not afraid.
And I'm asking God first to deal with
my heart, and all the pastors pray the
same way, and then come to you with
broken hearts, bearing the burden of the Lord.
And I'm telling you, God is trying to
get you on your face before Him so
that He can deal with you as a
father with a son or a daughter.
I'm not saying we have an angry God
mad at you.
I'm saying God in His mercy is trying
to raise up a people in this city
that are going to be living in the
lump.
You're going to have Pentecostal churches, Baptist churches,
other churches all around you, many that are
not going to be prepared, and they're going
to come running to you.
What's the word of the Lord?
What's God saying?
Oh, folks, get into this book.
Get into this book.
Get along with God.
Let Him begin to speak to you.
And I'll tell you, when He speaks to
you, don't ask Him to reveal who's got
sin in their life so you go to
them.
Ask God to reveal the sin in your
life.
Let's stand.
There are nothing but things that are despised,
and I shall raise them up and anoint
them.
I'll send them forth to do exploits in
my name.
If you will come forth now and volunteer
your soul, body, spirit, and mind and cry
out to the Lord, Here I am, send
me.
I will hold upon you, and I will
anoint you, and I will open doors for
you, and I will stir your heart, and
you will know me, and you will know
my voice, and I will use you to
glorify my name.
You will never have a name, but my
name will be glorified through your lips and
your heart.
You'll never be recognized, but I'll recognize you,
and on that day I will reward you
because you were faithful to the call.
Respond now in your heart.
Ask the Holy Spirit to come and take
hold upon you, and He will hear that
cry.
He will take hold upon your spirit and
your heart.
He will enlarge you.
He will enlarge your spirit and your vision
and your mind.
You may see and know the things and
the ways of God.
You'll understand the ways of the Lord, and
in understanding His ways and His thoughts, you
will be touched and used in a very
special way.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Can you say, Lord, here I am, use
me, lay your hand on me.
Holy Spirit, come and touch me.
Awaken my spirit, woo me.
Lord, to pray and seek your face, to
deal with sin in my life.
I want all of those that are standing
in front of me, all of you that
came forward, look this way for just a
minute, please.
Or I'd like to just come down and
feel something in your heart.
I mean, just put it in there.
But I can't.
You know that.
There's no possible way.
But that's what the Holy Spirit's trying to
do now.
He's trying to put something into your heart.
He's trying to birth something in you.
He's planting a seed right now.
You know what that seed is?
The knowledge of His love for you.
And He wants you not just to be,
not just to go through life trying to
make it to heaven, but say, Jesus, I
don't have much, but what I have I
give to you.
Lord Jesus, I want to bless other people.
I want to be used to reach out
to people around me.
I want to heal the hurts of people.
I want people around me to see such
a peace in me and such a joy
in me that they'll be attracted to Jesus
in me.
If that's your prayer, raise both hands to
the Lord right now.
Pray this prayer with me.
Jesus, I need more than I have.
I do have a love for you.
But I need more love.
Please, Lord, by Your Holy Spirit, lay hold
of me.
Touch my heart.
Renew my mind.
Draw me to Yourself.
I offer myself to You.
Use me, Jesus, with my family, my friends,
and those around me.
Anoint me with the Holy Spirit.
Take away my sins.
Take away my burdens.
Help me through my temptations.
I have a heart for You, Lord, but
I want more, more, and more of You.
Now just raise your hands and thank Him
right now.
I thank You, Jesus.
I praise You.
I worship You.