This morning, I want to speak to you
on the subject, We Must All Appear Before
the Judgment Seat of Christ.
We must all appear before the judgment seat
of Christ.
Go to Romans 14th chapter, please.
Fourteenth chapter of Romans.
We have services at three and five.
Or is it six?
Three and six, no repeat services.
Three and six o'clock.
Romans 14, please.
Verse 10, Why does thou judge thy brother?
Why does thou set it not thy brother?
For we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
For as written as I live, saith the
Lord, every knee shall bow to me and
every tongue shall confess to me so that
every one of us should give account of
himself to God.
Verse 10 is my text.
Why does thou judge thy brother?
Why does thou set it not thy brother?
For we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
Heavenly Father, we thank you that you have
sent the Holy Spirit to Times Square Church
in a unique way.
And you have caused us to recognize the
presence of Jesus as we've never known it
before.
And we walk softly before you, Lord.
I've heard people just whisper and walk out
of this church with such a holy awe
and reverence for you in a time, Lord,
when you are so lightly esteemed by the
world and in so many places you've come
to call a people to reverence you, to
walk in your holiness and righteousness.
Oh, God, I pray that you speak again
to us.
Lord, we're not looking inside our own selves.
We're letting you, the Holy Spirit, come and
search us out.
The search of all men's hearts has come
to search us out to prepare a people,
Lord, in a time when calamity is beginning
to fall upon this land in such ferocity.
And when the world is spinning out of
control, you have promised to reveal yourself.
If my people are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, forsake their sin, confess and
turn to you and pray you would heal.
And I pray, Lord, you do that in
our hearts.
Speak clearly to us by the power of
your Holy Ghost.
And we receive it is from you, Lord.
You started to work in my heart.
Now, Lord, let it touch everyone listening to
me today.
In Jesus name I pray.
Amen.
There's an awesome scene in the 20th chapter
of Revelation.
There's a great white throne pictured and God,
the father sitting on the throne.
And before him stands all the multitudes of
the world from all creation from the beginning
of time.
And the scripture makes it very clear that
the Antichrist will be there and all of
his forces, the false prophet, all the graves
have been emptied.
Hitler will be there, Stalin will be there,
all the mass murderers will be there, Mohammed
will be there, every killer of babies will
be there, every atheist will be there, every
Christ rejected will be there.
And the Bible says also the fearful, the
unbelieving, the abominable, all murderers, warmongers, sorcerers, idolaters,
all liars.
A multitude, the Bible said, which no man
could number, and on that day the books
are going to be open, the Bible said,
and whosoever's name is not written in the
book of life to be cast into eternal
lake of fire.
Whosoever was not written in the book of
life shall be cast into utter darkness.
Now, folks, there was a time that preaching
like that.
Focusing on the day when we would stand
before God and give an account and warning
about an eternal destruction for those who rejected
Christ, there was a time even in America
that that would move hearts in the early
revivals in the United States, especially in Kentucky,
in the Midwest, and even here in the
state of New York, even in 1857, in
that great revival that spread and when it
hit the Midwest, especially the events gave prophetic
words about the coming of Jesus and especially
about the day when we stand to give
an account of our sins.
Every man must give an account of himself,
the Bible says, and when that came down
on the power and authority of the word
of God and the anointing of the Holy
Spirit, men everywhere in camp meetings by the
hundreds, even by the thousands, bent their knee
and wept and confessed and turned to the
Lord.
They were deeply moved by the word and
the warning of that coming judgment.
Today, society is so warped.
By calamities and plagues and killer diseases, we're
so satiated with sensuality that this kind of
preaching anymore doesn't move the crowd, doesn't move
the masses, because it's just another disaster movie.
It's just another Hollywood scene.
They've seen so much.
The mind has been so satiated.
The mind has been so bombarded with disasters
and with all of these calamities, movies about
Armageddon and even the coming of the Lord.
The movie is called The Rapture.
I've never seen any of these, but but
I read it in paper about Rapture and
all of these things.
So it's just another movie.
And folks, even if an angel came down
in the form of a man or a
preacher and it could be ascertained he was
truly from another world and warned the way
it's going to be and paint the picture
so vividly, the majority of people, especially the
United States, would chuckle.
Others would say, I'm standing before God, am
I?
I've got a lot of things on my
mind to tell him.
I'll tell him.
This is the attitude today of mockery, nothing
moves this generation anymore in the way of
preaching about judgment and the fear of God,
because we have lost the fear of God.
This generation doesn't care anymore, eat, drink and
be merry for tomorrow we die.
Why is it that when almost a million
people have lost their jobs in the last
eight months, why are young people who don't
even know they're going to have a job
tomorrow buying five hundred thousand dollar houses?
Not even know if they're able to pay
it because they all tell us, well, we're
all going to be in the same boat,
so what?
So no care attitude.
Now, folks, I myself can visualize some of
those awful scenes of that day somewhere in
eternity.
We don't know our minds can't comprehend it,
but there's a place that God has prepared
for a judgment when all the masses of
the world from all time are going to
be gathered before him and he on a
white throne is going to open the books
and the angels will be there and the
multitude will stand before him to give an
account.
And what a day that will be, the
Bible said there was no place for them
to to stand.
In other words, they had no standing of
their own.
I don't know where that place is.
There's no loudspeaker, but everyone will hear even
a whisper.
I don't understand as far as the eye
can see an eternal picture that is beyond
comprehension when everyone will give this account.
I can picture those.
Who Jesus spoke of, who said, Lord, Lord,
we've done mighty things in your name, we've
cast out devils, we heal the sick.
And when they stand before him on that
day, listing what they have done in his
name, the Bible says he will say to
them, depart from me, you work of iniquity
and you point to the angels and they
will be bound hand and foot and cast
into outer darkness, screaming, I did it in
your name.
And I can picture the multitudes in that
great host that are being judged, who are
in the same position, who performed the same
kind of miracles and said the same thing,
knowing that judgment has already been pronounced.
Can you imagine them knowing those know what
they are going to be told when they
stand praise to face?
Everyone must give an account.
It's a one by one judgment.
You said that would take an eternity.
Time will be no more.
It'll be a one by one, every one
of us will stand before him.
Now, remember, Jesus is God.
He always has been God and always will
be God is also man.
Can you imagine the ministers of the gospel
standing before him who knew the gospel, who
preached a lie and lived a lot, who
preached what they call the truth and lived
a lie?
I can't imagine any more agony worse than
that.
Can you imagine when Hitler stands before the
throne?
I don't know if there's going to be
replay when God somehow in disguise replays.
And the cries of five million Jews scream
murderer, God, we want justice, this is the
man who tried to wipe our race from
the earth.
How does a man, any man.
Even in a body fitted for destruction, stand
before a holy God and answer to that,
how does the doctor stand there who boasts
he has aborted 10,000 babies?
Will we hear the wailing cry with the
masses, the wailing cry of 10,000 babies?
Whose lives were snuffed.
What are the millions of so-called believers
who in the last days became lovers of
pleasure more than lovers of God?
Who turned away, the Bible said, like the
swine who was clean and turned to its
vomit and wallowed, turned to the mud and
wallowed in the mud that he'd once been
delivered from.
Now, folks, it's impossible to picture all these
things.
I tried this past week, picture what it'd
be like just to to enhance my righteous
fear of God, to picture the torments and
the cries.
But, folks, the context of Paul's message about
the judgment seat of Christ has to do
with believers.
In fact, it's an amazing thing, he ties
this whole scene into these very words, he
ties it into judging our brothers and sisters.
Fourteen.
Verse 10, why does thou judge thy brother?
Why does thy said it not thy brother?
For we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
He's talking to real born again, genuine Christians.
We Christians must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ.
And then he goes on.
Why do you judge your brother in light
of this?
Why do you reduce him to nothing?
That's what it means to bring him to
not.
Why would you reduce your brother or sister
to nothing?
Why would you take away anything from your
brother or sister, seeing that you're not the
judge?
He said, seeing that Jesus is the judge
that you are, you and I are all
going to stand before him who made you
the judge, who gave you the right and
the permission to judge any brother or sister,
no matter what they may be or what
they may look like or talk like.
You have not been you are not made
the judge.
So we should all stand before God, not
before you, not before me, but before the
judge.
I've been speculating with you what it might
be like on the judgment day for people
like Hitler and Stalin, the mass murders and
baby killers and and the false prophet and
the Antichrist speculating what it may be like
that.
But Jesus would say, what is that to
you?
What is that to me?
He said, what about your own heart?
The issue is not what the world out
there is going to do.
The issue is not what Hitler is going
to face.
The issue is not what Mussolini is going
to face.
The issue is not what the ungodly are
going to face.
The atheist is you, Christian, you, David Wilkerson.
You are going to stand before the judgment
seat of Christ, and he ties this judgment
to this issue of judging of the believers.
Why do you judge your brother or sister?
What is there in your spirit so unyielding
you can conjure something in your mind against
a member of my body and reduce them
to nothing?
What is there in you still unyielding?
That you can conjure up what you think
are spiritual vibes that you've received about a
brother or sister, you say, I want God
to search my heart.
I want him to go deep, go deep,
deep, deep.
And I've been praying that all week and
I didn't know he'd go as deep as
he would.
Because he's touched something in my life and
he wants to touch it in all of
our lives, because if God's going to walk
among us and we're going to be a
vessel of honor and glory to his name,
he has to get to the bottom.
We plead, oh, Holy Ghost, purges and cleanses
and go deeper with this.
So now Paul does this, that he puts
us right at the judgment seat of Christ,
face to face with our master.
Is there any mention here now of adultery
or pornography or gambling or drugs or alcohol
or stealing or any other kind of wickedness?
Not at all.
Because, you see, this issue is even deeper
than all of those sins.
This is the root.
And he said he laid the axe to
the root.
It's easy and spectacular to talk about these
sins that seem so powerful, so unusual, like
drugs and alcohol, but all for the Christian
world and for the church of Jesus Christ.
God said, I have an issue that you
must deal with before you come before my
judgment.
Folks, I've put myself before the judgment seat
and I've looked into my heart and I've
got to cry guilty, Lord.
I judge others by sight.
I judge them by outward appearance.
I look at him and my mind says
he's hiding something.
She's hiding something.
He's too quiet.
She's too quiet.
I just know.
How do I know?
I don't.
I think God's told me.
No, quiet, no laughing.
See, mine is a spiritual judgment because the
Bible doesn't say judge righteous judgment.
Folks, we've got that so contorted.
You know what that righteous judgment is?
Self-judgment.
It's Jesus saying, if you really want to
be righteous in my sight, judge yourself.
He's talking only about righteous.
He said, if you really want to be
righteous, you will let the Holy Spirit examine
you and you will stand before the judgment
seat and you will judge yourself that you
be not judged.
And he said, if we judge ourselves here,
we will not be judged there.
Isaiah said of Jesus, he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes.
He will not reprove after the hearing of
his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge.
There's a well-known evangelist that took a
fall and he was a friend of mine.
And three months before he fell, I broke
off relationship with him and I watched and
listened in the news to all the reports.
A year went by, two years went by.
And I had so many minister friends, some
of them well-known, and said, Brother Dave,
have you felt led of the Lord to
go visit Brother Zonzo?
I said, no, I haven't.
And it's probably because he's still in sin.
In fact, I can't recall how many times
pastor friends and others said, you were his
friend.
If you felt led of the Lord to
go and I'd say, well, no.
And most other praying men that I know
haven't been led to go see him.
Other praying men, identifying myself as a praying
man, absolute arrogance.
Unmitigated pride, because I know for a fact
the man doesn't sleep.
For all I know, he's been on his
face weeping and crying out to God with
everything in his gut.
But you see, this holy man, this man
of prayer, no, I can't go see him
because you see, I feel there's something wrong
in his heart.
He may still be living in sin.
You see, I put I instilled in everyone
who talked to me about it, I implanted
a seed in their minds.
He's still living in sin.
I have trembled when God fingered that.
So if you want to see your heart,
you want to see how proud you've been,
Jesus said you judge after the flesh, but
I judge no man.
And yet if I do judge, my judgment
is true.
You see, I want him to bring to
light everything hidden in my heart, but God
help me if I attempt to expose something
I suppose is even somebody else's heart.
God, help me go to first Corinthians four,
starting verse five.
Therefore, judge what nothing before the time until
the Lord come, but both will bring to
light the hidden things of darkness and will
make manifest the counsels of the hearts.
And then shall every man have praise of
God, judge nothing before the time until the
Lord come.
Folks, I got to get this out of
my heart and folks, my knees are trembling.
But I asked the Lord if I had
to do this and the Lord said, yes,
get it out.
A number of years ago.
A minister acquaintance came to me before I
could stop him, told me a story of
a pastor, a friend of mine who he
said had sinned previously and got into my
spirit.
And over the next four or five years,
every time I saw that man in my
mind, he was stained by that word that
I had received.
I guess seven or eight years went by
or longer.
He came to one of my meetings and
there he was and all I could I
was preaching and looking and all I could
see is that sin.
And I'm thinking seven years and he's been
in that sin.
After the service, I said, could you visit
with me and I took him into a
room, private room.
I said, I've got on my knees in
front of him.
And I said, listen, God's been giving you
about a sin for a long time.
It's got you enslaved.
And I feel in my spirit, you've got
to repent.
And he looked dumbfounded.
I began to weep and said, please repent.
I see a sin in your life.
He got up.
He said, David, this is crazy.
You've crossed the line.
I'm walking out on you.
When he left, I said, God, what was
that all about?
And he reminded me that those who had
brought that report to me had brought a
deceiving report previously.
And then he said, David, the very thing
that you accuse him of, you have the
seed of that in your own heart and
you've had it a long time.
You've been trying to get a speck out
of his eye.
You've got a log in yours.
I repented.
We're dear friends and he's never held it
against me since.
But you see, I judged him on something
somebody planted in my mind.
Somebody planted it in my mind and I
still blush about it.
I abhor what I did.
I know it's under the blood.
I want to go to James.
I've never trembled in preaching like this in
my lifetime.
Chapter two, beginning
verse 12, so speak ye and so do
as they that shall be judged by the
law of liberty, for he shall have judgment
without mercy that is shown no mercy and
mercy rejoices against judgment.
Now, look at me, please.
I told you that for for weeks God's
been walking among us in a holy all
reverence, just an awesome silence that we can't
break and don't want to break.
We don't know what to do when he
comes, but to repent and humble ourselves before
the Lord.
But you see, in this time, he's revealing
his holiness.
And that's why in this time of holy
dealing by the Holy Spirit, these verses have
been made real to me, judged by the
law of liberty.
You see, you and I are in the
new covenant.
We enjoy the glorious promises of God.
We promise to do to those for those
who repent, to put the fear of God
into our heart, to cause us to walk
in his ways and to send the Holy
Ghost to do in us what we are
not capable of doing, because we've repented and
we've hungered and thirsted after him and he
came in answer to our cry.
You see, to those, obedience is not a
burden anymore, becomes a joy.
And you're no longer judged by thunder, you're
no longer judged by thou shalt or thou
shalt not.
You're judged, you have in your heart a
love for Jesus, and the greatest concern is
not, well, you know, what can I do
that's right or what can I do that's
wrong?
If I do that, am I going to
grieve him who has given me liberty and
set me free?
There's a liberty in my heart.
I enjoy it now.
The Lord has done such a work in
my heart.
Now, how can I grieve him if I
do this?
I don't want to do anything that is
not going to make me all pleasing unto
the Lord.
So though we're not judged by the law,
we are judged by a higher law, the
law of liberty.
No one else can judge you now on
your outward appearance.
No one can judge you legally before the
Lord.
But you see, if you're walking in the
law of liberty, if you're under the new
covenant and you know you're forgiven and you're
walking in his mercy and grace, then this
higher law is the law that rules your
life.
It governs you when you open yourself to
the word of God and everything you read,
you absorb it and you love it and
say, I will obey because I love him,
because he's delivered me from the power and
corruption of sin.
I'm compelled by the law of liberty in
Jesus Christ to judge myself in the matter
of modesty.
I'm going to move now away from judging
my brother and my sister to this matter
of Holy Ghost, modesty and chastity.
Paul told Titus to speak to the church,
he says, tell them to be sober and
grave or serious about the things of God
and as a behavior as become a holiness.
We need behavior in the house, Paul said,
that becomes holiness.
And to the women, tell them to be
discreet and chaste, that means clean and pure,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
I believe that God's people, if they're a
holy people or self-judging people.
They don't need somebody in a pulpit haranguing.
They don't need somebody pointing a finger saying
thou shalt or thou shalt not, because there's
a law of love and liberty in their
hearts and they are moved quickly by the
word of the Lord.
They are moved by the hand of the
spirit and by his wooing.
They see something in the word and the
Lord says, will you judge yourself now because
you love me?
Will you go to the judgment seat now
and judge yourself?
In the Old Testament, Moses gave explicit directions
on how to keep the camp clean.
For the Lord thy God walks in the
midst of your camp to deliver you, to
give up your enemies before you.
Therefore, shall your camp be holy, that he
see no unclean thing in it and turn
away from thee.
No, we're not being judged by the law
of Moses, but by a higher law and
especially when God's walking in the camp.
He said, if you want your enemies, every
enemy out of hell, every demon power to
be subjected, you want to be totally delivered
from the power of sin and lust, I'm
walking in your midst.
And he said, I want it to be
holy.
I want everything in modesty and chastity.
As I walk in your midst, not by
the law of Moses, but the law of
liberty, we had a I'm going to talk
about appearances and dress.
No amens, please.
We're on holy ground.
We, the young actors, used to come to
this church when we first started this church
a number of years ago, excuse me, dressed
very sensually.
In fact, he dressed here in church.
He came to church as he dressed in
the studio, as he was on the street
and so forth.
But nobody shamed her, nobody talked to her,
and I was so glad nobody rebuked her,
told her that she was dressed on singly.
But we prayed and the Holy Spirit dealt
with her.
Just dealt with her, and she started coming
to church dress very modestly, and she told
someone later, she said, you know, I didn't
know, I just didn't know.
I see men coming into this church with
just muscle shirts.
You know, flexing muscles, but folks, we don't
condemn when you come to this church, nobody
gives you a book of rules concerning a
code book of dress and appearance.
And I'll say something else.
If somebody comes up to you and says
something unloving about the way you dress, they
don't represent the pastors in the church.
They don't represent us at all.
But you see, God's walking in the camp.
The Holy Spirit is coming, Jesus is walking
among us.
Having said that about not putting the finger,
not coming up and judging you as an
individual, I'm not even judging you as a
pastor.
And I would hope that.
Anybody has become this church and you look
at somebody coming in here with shorts or
short shorts or dressed with a halter or
whatever it may be.
Whatever you ever said, it better be the
Lord, they better be loved.
It can't be like the woman who came
up to one young lady and says, look,
your dress is too short, if you don't
have the money, I'll buy you one.
It was it was absolutely embarrassing to the
young lady, you had better be walking in
the spirit.
But having said that, let me say this.
If you really love Jesus, you're hungry to
be cleansed and to be his witness, you're
going to take a good look at the
way you talk and dress and judge yourself
by the word of the Lord and by
the will of the Holy Spirit.
You will judge yourself.
I'm going to say this tight, revealing clothes
in the presence of God.
Is it modest?
It's immodesty, it's not modest at all.
Showing off your body is unchaste, sensuous motions,
doing worship or evil, sensuous movements at Mount
Zion Bible School.
Young men.
Don't run around in classes or chapel with
muscle shirts, and the girls, when they walk
to campus, tie a sweater around their waist.
Legalism?
No.
Because there's a purpose, and I'll tell you,
these young people thank us over and over
and over again.
Thank you for these standards.
It's not legalism.
We have two years to teach these children,
these young people to keep their eyes on
Jesus, not be distracted by flesh.
The young ladies thank us.
The young men especially thank us.
It's not legalism.
It's God walking on that campus.
There's a holding.
If you walk on that campus, you recognize
the presence of God immediately.
Not because of the standard, but because their
eyes are not distracted.
Their eyes are on the Lord.
I wondered this past week when I was
praying about this message, if there's really replay
and what would it be like for a
man who claims to be a true follower
of Jesus and he stands before the throne
and suddenly there's replay of every time he's
watched a woman coming at him and turned
and watched her go the other direction.
He's looking and he's still looking.
And what if the Lord, sir, if he
prays every time you did that Sunday, thousands
upon thousands of those appear all of a
sudden.
When Jesus said, if you even look on
a woman, unless you've committed adultery, often I
wonder, too, about replay for women.
Would you be able to stand before the
throne and have replay without even your knowing
because of the way of the immodest dress?
And suddenly you come to surprise you.
Maybe it's not a surprise, but there it
is.
And you see men looking everywhere.
The replay shows men turning, looking at you,
following you right down the street, everywhere you
go, on the job and even occasionally in
church.
How do you take that?
How do you stand before that scene?
You see, I'm painting that scene now so
that you can bring yourself to the judgment
seat and deal with it and judge yourself
on it about how you come into the
house of God.
I wouldn't want to stand before God ever
knowing that what I say or how I
dress is detracted from Jesus.
That eyes have been on me rather than
who I am in Christ.
Now, we'll give you the.
The hope God has made a way for
us to stand before the judgment seat, totally
unashamed.
Hallelujah, folks, if it weren't for that, we
would have no standing whatsoever.
Thank God for the covenant.
Thank God for the blood of Jesus.
Here's the scripture I give you now.
Little children abide in him that when he
shall appear, we may have confidence and not
be ashamed before him at his coming.
That word ashamed is shrinking back.
He said it's possible to have a people
that on the judgment day, when the trumpet
sound, we all appear before the Lord Jesus
Christ.
There will be a host that will not
shrink back.
They will not be ashamed and they stand
there with confidence because they have come to
the world, they've come already to the judgment
seat, they've already been there and they've judged
themselves by his word, by his spirit.
And he said, now you stand with it
with confidence, you stand unashamedly, you stand with
confidence.
First, John 417, herein is our love made
perfect that we may have boldness on the
day of judgment, boldness in the day of
judgment, because as he is, so are we
in this world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect
love cast without fear.
And let me tell you, God knows exactly
when you have trusted his word.
He knows exactly what you've come to the
blood and trusted in the forgiveness of Jesus
Christ.
He knows that moment when there's been honest
repentance and he says now that you've repented,
now that you've seen it, now that you've
judged it, come now to the fountain of
blood, come to Jesus, come to the cross,
accept your forgiveness and now let joy flood
in your heart and let it be known
to the whole world.
And God says, as I was in the
world, so are you.
You're as clean as Jesus was as he
walked this space when you come to the
blood and bleed for his forgiveness because you've
repented of your sin.
You've come to the judgment seat and you've
judged yourself.
He says now you will not be judged.
And there's freedom and there's joy in the
Holy Ghost.
Here's love made perfect.
If you've truly repented, truly repented, your next
step is to come now by faith and
believe that all is well with your soul,
all is well with your soul.
You see, my past, I told you about
the arrogance and pride the Lord showed me
in my heart.
But you see, that's all under the blood
now.
I'm not judged by that anymore.
I'm free.
I don't know where he takes me from
here.
Folks, if you have a dealing in your
heart right now, I
ask the Lord what to do after I
preach this message.
And here's what he told me.
And I have I don't remember being so
severely dealt with on these matters and issues
as I have this past week.
I had no idea there was such an
arrogance and such a pride harbored in my
soul.
Never saw it, not in the degree that
I see it now.
I would see it at times that just
pass on, just as he showed me after
I misjudged my friend.
He showed me then, but it just didn't
sink in.
I thought, well, that's a one time thing,
but no, it became a part of my
nature.
Now, if you're here this morning in the
annex upstairs and here in front of me,
behind me.
If you have to acknowledge.
As you sit here.
That you have misjudged.
Your brothers or sisters.
If you have a tendency and you see,
I'm a suspicious person by nature, I'm suspicious.
God help me.
I've had to deal with that all my
life.
Early Pentecostalism was much that way, was implanted,
people going around correcting everybody, people going around
saying, I see this, I see that about
you.
It's been in my nature and I've asked
God to take it out.
Now, God does have righteous judgments that he
sets up in the church.
Leaders have to obey the Holy Spirit when
he speaks, he has ways to deal with
us.
These are legal, biblical ways he deals with
the church, through elders and through ministers.
But not as individuals, only in corporate.
Confident confidence, but if you're here, you have
to repent.
I'm going to ask you just a moment
to stand and put yourself at the judgment
seat of Christ.
And judge yourself today.
If you have to say, Brother David, the
Holy Spirit's put his finger in my life,
I've not been as cautious as I should
be about the way I talk and dress,
because I know he's walking among us and
I want things to be right before him.
I want my heart to be judged now.
Upstairs, downstairs and in the in the annex,
I want you to stand.
Just humbly stand before the Lord, Lord, that's
me.
The message was for me, Lord, I humble
myself, I want to judge myself righteously before
the Lord.
You don't need to stand, no one will
embarrass you, but you remain seated.
It has to be a work of the
Holy Spirit, it doesn't mean anything.
Now, if you're here this morning and you
are not right with God, you don't know
Jesus.
And you've been backslidden, you turned away, you
can stand right now with these that are
standing and you can come right now to
repent that you can come to Jesus with
all of your heart.
I want you to stand in the presence
of the Lord.
I want you to lift both hands.
And I want you to speak it out
to him, maybe privately or quietly, I want
it to go deep into your heart.
Lord, forgive me right now.
Ask forgiveness.
God, forgive me.
I judge myself.
Come on, come to the throne.
Lord Jesus, we come to your throne of
grace and mercy right now.
We're not standing before the judgment seat of
Christ literally, but we're standing spiritually right now
before your judgment seat.
You said if we judge ourselves, we shall
not be judged.
Lord, I've judged myself and I declare that
I am guilty.
I am guilty, Lord, of gossip.
I am guilty of defaming my brothers and
sisters.
I'm guilty of suspicion.
I'm guilty of so many things, Lord, that
I thought were spiritual.
And they were my flesh.
Oh, God, I've judged by appearances.
I place myself before the judgment seat and
I declare myself guilty before God.
Just say it, Lord, I'm guilty.
I am guilty, Lord.
I am guilty before you and I repent.
I repent, God.
I repent before you.
I repent before this people.
I repent before you, O God.
And I tell you, there's a godly sorrow
in my heart and I need more than
repentance.
I need the power of the Holy Ghost
to keep me from doing it again.
I need to be reminded every time I
even think this way.
I need to be reminded by the Holy
Ghost.
Holy Spirit, come right now, cleanse this body.
Lord, for those who have to honestly admit,
I've not been thinking about my dresses.
I should have not been thinking about it.
Lord, there are many that are are totally
innocent because they didn't even know.
But now, Holy Spirit, as you're walking among
us, you're saying it has to change.
You have to think of these things.
You've got to think about others looking and
you have to make sure you're not distracting
from my presence.
I walk among you and I can't walk
among sensuality.
I can't walk among immodesty.
I can't walk among those who are unchaste
when they know better.
And when the Holy Ghost is said lovingly,
deal with it.
Lord, we deal with it now in your
holy presence.
We deal with it.
Hallelujah.
Lord, forgive us.
Folks, we need to repent before a holy
God.
We need to repent before a holy God
that he would dig out the trash, dig
it out.
Lord, you want to walk among a clean
camp.
It's not our righteousness, but it's yours.
It's yours, Lord.
But you're showing us things that have to
be dealt with.
Oh, God, not to become righteous, but because
we are righteous.
We deal with these things in your love.
Oh, God, hallelujah, that we may be all
pleasing in your sight, that we may not
be a distraction to the things of this
world and that the glory of God be
not defamed.
Hallelujah.
Now, thank you for forgiveness.
Just thank you right now, Lord.
I thank you for forgiving me.
I thank you.
I am clean by the blood of Jesus.
I am clean by the blood of the
Lamb.
Folks, before I would close, I have to
say this.
I speak of the extreme on one side
and there's another extreme.
And that's the dress of the Pharisee who
who dresses to make a statement that says
I'm holy.
And there are people today in the church
who say, look at my unbraided hair and
men who said, look at my black suit
and my black tie.
And look at this forlorn face of mine
and see how holy I am.
It's the other side, and God hates that
as much.
He hates the hypocrisy of dressing to look
holy just to make a statement to be
holier than thou.
Oh, how God hates that.
Put on all face and rub the eyes
so people would see I'm fasting.
No, no, no.
There's such a churning in my inner man
because, folks, it's an awesome thing to come
under the law of liberty because there's a
chastening, he said, goes with it.
That chastening is when God begins to deal
with it.
You see the blackness of trying to see
these things that you just danced over.
And it begins to show you and it
hurts.
But all of the healing power that comes
with that, the grace of God, the glory
that follows that, and you're truly repented before
the Lord.
Now, here's what we're going to do.
We have an annex.
Now, those in the annex you're facing room
206, God's dealing with you in a supernatural
way.
And the Holy Ghost is willing to say,
you need to get on your knees.
I want you to just go right into
room 206.
And if you don't know the Lord, if
you're backslidden, go into room 206 and just
get on your knees.
And we've got some prayer monitors and helpers
just there to answer, to pray with you.
And here in this auditorium, upstairs and downstairs,
if you just right now going to ask
Pastor Carter to lead us in a worship
song.
And as we sing this chorus, the Holy
Spirit, maybe you're visiting here and folks, we
used to give visitors a book and a
tape and some refreshments.
But we've canceled all that.
In fact, we've canceled all all special meetings.
We've canceled everything.
So all the rest of this year, all
special meetings, all speakers, everything canceled.
Because we're here to see God last two
weeks, we've been meeting almost every night, except
Monday and Friday and Monday and Saturday.
This next week, we will be meeting only
Tuesday and Friday.
And if the Lord says do that, we'll
do that.
But if you are here now, we're not
going to give you a book or tape
today.
The best thing we can give you from
now on, you visit Times Square Church, you're
moved on by the Holy Spirit.
You see, we got we got serious about
God in this church.
We're getting serious about sin.
We're serious about reverence in his face.
When you come to the church anymore, there's
no talking.
There's no visiting.
And we leave with that awe and that
reverence because a holy God's walking in our
midst.
And if you've been truly convicted by the
Holy Spirit, we don't take your name.
You can't do anything.
We don't have a membership.
But if you're sincere and there's a soberness
that God's put in your heart, God's lovingly
pointed finger.
Nobody railed at you today.
We say, oh, Pastor Dave, I don't want
to leave Times Square Church until I've had
a chance to unburden my heart to the
Lord.
I want to talk to him.
Just get out of your seat right now
and go to the lobby.
Usher, will you please direct him upstairs and
then right through into the other building.
Go to room 206.
The ushers are there all along the way
and they'll show you the way.
Husbands, wives, maybe a whole family.
You can go together, wherever you're at.
Just slip out right now.
Slip right out of your seat.
People will let you out as we sing
this.
We don't count heads.
We're not trying to pack.
We may not have anybody this old right
now.
But you go as the Spirit draws you.
If it's not the work of the Holy
Spirit, it's not going to last.
Heavenly Father, find every hungry heart in this
building, in the annex, Lord.
Draw people into room 206.
Draw people from this auditorium into room 206.
Because there, Lord Jesus, you wait there.
You wait there with open arms to forgive
and cleanse.
And to restore that which has been eaten
by the devil.
Everything that's been lost, you restore all the
years the canker worm has eaten.
In the name of Jesus.