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 as
the bad.
Why don't you go to Matthew the 25th
chapter if you will please, Matthew 25.
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 one he gave five talents, to another
two, another one.
To every man, according to his several ability,
he straightway 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 that 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.
And after a long time, the Lord, those
servants, 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 said unto him, well done, good
and faithful servant, you've been faithful of a
few things, I'll make you ruler over many
things.
Enter the joy of the Lord.
He that 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 ruler over many.
Enter into the joy of the Lord.
He that received the one talent came and
said, Lord, I knew thee, thou art a
hard man, reaping where you have not sown,
gather where thou art strawed.
I was afraid, I hid it in the
earth, there thou hast it as thine.
The Lord said unto him, you wicked, slothful
servant, you knew that I reap where I
sow not, gather where I have not strawed,
you should have therefore have put my money
to the exchangers, and then at my coming
I will receive mine own with usury.
Take therefore the talent from him and give
it unto him, said Tim.
And of course he was cast into outer
darkness.
Very familiar scripture, that has to do with
reaping and sowing.
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 of power and power of
darkness, that nothing in this house can disturb
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, your Christian life, you've heard this.
What silver 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 sowed
to the flesh?
And you know, you look at their life
and 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 is 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 a 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 properly, 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
Brook, 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 it.
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 America in 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 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.
According to the latest report, one-fourth of
all pregnancies are now being aborted.
One-fourth of all pregnancies are ending in
abortion.
Twenty-two million abortions already, and some believe
it may be twenty-five 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.
There are reports of teachers now all over
New York and in all of our schools,
even in country schools now, saying there's no
respect for authority.
They curse the teachers.
I don't know if you heard now that
this past week, two days ago, I think
it was, the Pope was in Germany, in
East Berlin, and hundreds of young people were
cursing.
They're 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, and these were
young people who are admirers of Hitler.
Right out of school, out onto the streets,
no respect for any authority.
Then, of course, they called twenty years ago,
almost thirty 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.
They 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 and say, 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's a new papillion now, a new cancer,
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 the sexual generation.
This revolution, sex 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 said, Pastor Dave, he
said, just 15 years ago, I had to
give 600,000 units of penicillin, 600,000
units for syphilis.
He said, today, I have to give 4
,800,000 units, and it still doesn't kill
this virus.
Think of it, 4,800,000 units, and
it doesn't touch it because it's becoming absolutely
immune to penicillin, and now with this 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 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 rife 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, 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 understands 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, and 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, it's going to happen and nobody's 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 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 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've 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 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 the 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 Spirit church
ought to be, and I believe will be
as the days come.
The Lord is not affected.
The kingdom of God is not affected by
the economy.
The kingdom of God is not affected by
anything the devil does.
The devil can do everything he wants to.
He can throw all the demons of hell
out.
He can come down with great wrath, but
that does not hinder in one iota 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 Lord is the one who's, the Bible
says, 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 is 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.
Do 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 the
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
community is doing 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 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 prophesied is 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.
I said a last day army prepared.
I want to show you a prophecy.
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 God going to 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 enemies, to rule,
rule thou in 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 hast the due 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 to the Father.
It's been the day of his power.
He's shown his power for the last 2
,000 years.
But remember how God showed his power in
Egypt?
First of all, 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.
But if God says it's time, he exposes
it.
That was Watergate for example.
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's going to have his way.
Some of you are 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 dictators, God
just snaps his finger, blows on dust.
He said that the nation of 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 a
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, 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.
There are going to be people last time
that don't feel that holiness is a burden.
That, you know, this reproof and all of
this.
Oh no, I can't live like that.
God says there's going to be a 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, he said, 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 I'm 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 a living testimony of 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'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 hast
the dew of thy youth.
Now, folks, I'm not the only one that
saw this.
I was surprised that Jonathan Edwards, Calvin Rogers,
and some of the great prophets of God
and writers from way back for the last
300 years, 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.
It's going to be 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.
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 the morning
in 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 one?
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 something unique and special about these
last day servants, 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 are
not going to have anything?
It's harvest time.
The Bible said there's going to be some,
there's going to be churches just dead.
There's going to be 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.
There are going to be people saying, oh,
it's too cold out there.
You know, the demon powers are out there.
The rapists and 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 to Tynes Square Church,
they said, they don't want God here.
I've been here 15, 20 years, nothing happens.
You can't have any church Sunday night.
It's too cold, you know.
People are not going to come out.
People are not going, the subways are so
dangerous.
The city is getting so wild.
They're not going to come.
They might come Sunday morning and that's it.
Everywhere I got, you can't do it, can't
do it.
It's too cold, too cold.
I don't mean, you know, the weather, but
that's what it means.
It's too hard, too difficult, can't happen.
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.
They about 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.
I said, when I first came here, drug
addicts can't be changed.
Nobody can.
Drug addicts.
When I first came to New York, there
were no ministries on drugs.
In the United States, we were one of
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 addicts, all the
gang leaders I was working with, I was
preaching to gangs first because there were no
drug addicts on the street.
Just musicians smoking pot and a few things.
1958, 1960, heroin hit.
All these gang members that I was working
with were on the streets.
They weren't fighting.
They were just trying to get money to
support their habit.
I noticed kids out in the cold of
night.
It was zero out and they had no
jackets on.
They didn't feel the cold.
I was figuring out, man, these kids don't
even feel the weather.
I went up to one, he said, I'm
high, I'm high.
He couldn't feel the weather.
I began to suddenly see these kids vomiting
and laying all over.
Suddenly, I didn't know anything about drugs, but
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.
I'll tell you something else.
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 hands.
They're talking about the devil.
I don't believe that.
I believe God has the whole world in
his hands.
You know what the Lord said?
Go out quickly into the streets and lanes
of the city.
Bring in here to the poor, the maimed,
and the haunted, and the blind.
Bring them in.
He said, don't be afraid of the lion.
Some of you remember 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 nights.
They only come Sunday morning because of the
crime.
So on a Tuesday night or Friday night,
I opened up the microphone and I said,
if the Lord's delivered you from, you know,
somebody tried to attack you and everything, come
up and tell us about it.
I'll tell you what, 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 said,
I'll use this in 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.
Go out quickly in the streets and bring
in the, the poor, the maimed and the
haunted, 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 list that, brother Dave, and
they say, 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 $500 of silver U
.S. dimes, a six-month supply of dehydrated
food, a home water filter system, water storage
facilities, chemical toilet, kerosene heater and 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 of 500 rounds,
22 long-range ammunition, air rifle, reloading equipment,
high-quality first aid kit, battery-operated shortwave
radio, citizen's band radio, 50 pounds, one can
pounds of coffee for exchange, 100 six-ounce
tins 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 or 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 a Christian, this is a
preacher.
He sent me the book.
And I start reading through this.
I said, I got to think, 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.
Folks, you know where I want to be
when the crash comes?
Right here, with God's people.
I'll tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
You're going to be safer here.
Have you been reading the news about those
people out in Montana?
On 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.
Let me close with this.
Bible said, he that seeks to save his
life shall lose it.
He that loses his life for my sake
shall find it.
Hallelujah.
You know, Bible says they're going to cry
for the rocks and the mountains to fall
on them.
Well, we are praising God.
We're going to go out in a blaze
of glory.
Hallelujah.
Turn around to these three people and say,
God has everything under control.
Everything.
Stand, please.
You say, brother Dave, if you believe hard
times are coming, why aren't you storing food?
I've been storing food right here.
Beloved, our security is not in guns, not
in a stash of food.
Our security is in our Lord.
Hallelujah.
Beloved, he's kept us 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.
Folks, what I'm trying to say tonight, and
the last thing I want to 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 boldly tell everybody you can about
Jesus, and believe, believe that God's going to
give you a harvest, 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 says, 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 dew
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 Timothy.
That's all these guys in the front rows
here.
These were guys that Society and everybody else
gave up on, and 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.
We're 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.
I'll tell you something else.
Up there, down here, if God can save
you, he can save anybody.
If he saved you, he'd save anybody.
He saved me, he can save anybody.
Yes.
Hallelujah.
God, give us hope.
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 sow, and you
can't sow till you plow.
We've been plowing and plowing, and now we're
sowing, 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
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 sat and 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 are, up in the balcony,
you can go to the stairs on either
side or here on 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, 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 whole, 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 want your heart
given to him.
Isn't that why you came?
You want to give your whole heart to
him?
How many could 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.
God will put the Holy Ghost in you
with such power 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 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.
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.
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 to forgive me and to cleanse me,
to make me clean.
And when you're clean, the devil has no
rights.
But 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 not 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 lived by feelings, I'd never, hardly
ever, be able to survive.
You can't live by your feelings.
Amen.
Pray with me now, write out loud.
Jesus, I give you my heart with all
of its sins and all of its weaknesses,
and I come to you for help.
Forgive me and deliver me from all the
power of sin.
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 why don't 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.
You won't cut me off.
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.