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Ezekiel 18 chapter.
My message tonight, the indwelling power of the
Holy Spirit.
The indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.
Ezekiel 18.
Now you won't understand this message until we
get a little further into it, where we're
going, but you'll see it unfold as we
go.
18th chapter beginning at verse 30.
Ezekiel 18 verse, beginning at verse 30.
Therefore I will judge you, O house of
Israel.
This is Ezekiel speaking through the power of
the Lord.
Everyone according to his ways, saith the Lord
God.
Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions,
so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby
ye have transgressed, and make you a new
heart and a new spirit.
For why will you die, O house of
Israel?
For I have no pleasure in the death
of him that dieth, saith the Lord God.
Wherefore turn yourselves, turn yourselves, and live ye.
Heavenly Father, take us into your word.
We're not looking for some exotic theology.
We want the simple truth, O God, of
what you have revealed in your word.
That which is revealed belongs to us, and
Lord, we claim it on the authority of
the Holy Spirit and the power of God's
word, your promises, that all of these things
belong to us, and they have to do
with our living and overcoming life.
God, bring forth truth tonight that will open
our eyes and our understanding, that you have
not sent us out into the world powerless,
but you have given us the Holy Spirit
to empower us over sin and hell and
death and the grave.
Lord, anoint me.
Let the power of the Holy Ghost, demonstration
of the Holy Spirit, come upon me, and
let this word go deep into our hearts,
transforming, changing, and encouraging, lifting our spirits, we
pray, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
The indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.
Now Ezekiel the prophet is deeply grieved at
what he sees in the house of God
among the children of Israel.
He's grieved at the compromise and the backsliding.
He sees about what we see in our
land today.
He sees sin as it has never been
as ripe.
He's seen compromise on all sides.
He sees a backslidden church, and he comes
to the church with this message.
Repent.
Turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity
shall not be ruined.
Cast away from you all your transgressions.
Make you a new heart, and make you
a new spirit.
Turn yourselves and live.
Now that's a powerful, convicting message, isn't it?
It sounds so much like the preaching I
did for many, many years.
Turn yourself around.
Now Ezekiel was one of those many Old
Testament prophets that had not only been touched
by the Holy Spirit, but he'd had the
privilege of entering into the blessing of the
new covenant, even in the time of the
old covenant, because the Spirit of God not
only touched some of these men, but he
indwelt them.
He lived in them.
In fact, this is the case with the
prophet Ezekiel.
Chapter 2, he said, and the Spirit entered
into me when he spake to me.
So we know this man is indwelt with
the Holy Spirit.
So certainly he has in himself, as Abraham
did, who saw the time of Christ, all
the Old Testament prophets who were touched, David
included, they had that inner indwelling power of
the Holy Spirit, and they were able to,
they had that inner strength to fight sin
and resist temptation, but not so with the
congregation that he preached to.
He's saying to sin-bound people of Israel,
why don't you just stop what you're doing?
What's your problem?
Simply lay it down.
Turn.
Make yourselves change.
Get yourself a new heart.
Just say no to your besetting sins.
He says it two, three times.
Turn yourselves around.
Get yourself a new heart.
You need a new motivating spirit.
Get one.
Get a new motivating spirit.
This man who was indwelt with the Holy
Spirit could not understand because he's no, no,
no, probably not living in their realm, but
he can't understand or comprehend why they simply
are not convicted by his strong word, why
they won't heed his powerful warnings, and just
simply say no to their sins and turn
around.
Now, I know you will admit, you have
to admit God told him to preach that
message.
This was inspired by God.
God told him to, but he did that
for a purpose, to set that high standard,
to show them that they could reach it.
They needed a new covenant.
They needed something beyond anything they could reach
in the realm of the flesh.
Now, folks, I preached that kind of gospel
for years.
I stood in the pulpit.
I so grieved at the sins of the
nation.
I so grieved at the compromise in the
church.
I still do.
I looked into my own heart.
I was not satisfied with what I believe
should be total, absolute victory.
There were times that I was being tripped
up by the enemy.
It can be covetousness.
It can be pride.
It can be ambition.
So many things that we hate in ourselves.
And so I would stand in the pulpit
and say, why will you, why are you
going to let this sin ruin you?
You know God hates it.
Get mad at the devil.
Get mad at hell.
Get mad at your sin and say, that's
enough.
Now walk away.
That's good preaching, isn't it?
I listened to some of my old tapes
and I said, oh, wow.
Folks, I don't reject a single message I
preach.
Because there is, there is, there is a
lot of good in that kind of preaching
because I brought to the people, I preached
law so strong that people realized they could
never live it and were driven to the
cross and their mercy.
I was one of those men that just
drove people to the cross.
I can't live to Dave Wilkerson's standards.
Neither could I.
Ezekiel was asking the people to do something
it was humanly impossible to do.
No way.
Under any circumstances, under their limited fleshly power,
are they going to be able to get
themselves a new heart, a new spirit, and
just turn away from their sins and their
idolatry?
He's saying, lay your idols down.
Quit your adultery.
Just walk away from it.
Just say no to your sin.
Turn around.
Oh, folks, that's being preached from pulpits all
over the world.
Some called it legalism.
Call it what you want.
But they could no more create themselves a
new spirit, new heart, than they could raise
the dead.
Absolutely impossible.
See, that's the problem with the old covenant,
the old problem.
The demand for total obedience is there, but
the power is not there to fulfill it.
That's why God had to make a new
covenant, a new agreement with mankind.
Now, I'm certain that there were some in
Israel that heard Ezekiel preach because they had
a heart for God.
There, there was a holy remnant all through
this time, and I'm sure they heard this
powerful convicting preaching of Ezekiel.
This is true holiness preaching of the time,
and they said, oh, Ezekiel, that's what we
want.
That's what I've always wanted.
I don't want my sin.
I hate it.
The thing that I despise, I do, and
the thing I don't want to do, I
don't have the power to do.
And I want that, but I keep failing.
I don't have the power, Ezekiel.
I want to do exactly what you're preaching,
but I don't have the power in me.
Just when I think I have the victory,
I fall down again.
Well, now, if we're helpless in our flesh
in breaking the power and dominion of sin,
where is the power?
In these last days under the new covenant,
in the day of grace, God's demand of
obedience is just as strong as it was
under the old covenant in the Old Testament.
God doesn't wink at sin, never has and
never will.
God demands absolute, total, perfect obedience to his
word.
He does so under the new covenant.
He still calls for a new heart and
a new spirit.
Now, Ezekiel had to have been one of
the most discouraged preachers in the Old Testament,
one of Israel's most discouraged prophets by what
he saw, because they were trusting in their
own righteousness.
God told him, he said, they're trusting in
their own righteousness while they're still living in
their sins.
He said, they're trusting in their own strength.
And here's exactly what God said to him
about his people that he'd been preaching.
He said, Ezekiel, they hear your words, but
they'll not do them.
For with their mouth they show much love,
but their heart goes after their covetousness.
They hear you, but they'll not obey.
You see, the church of his time was
in total disarray.
The shepherds were all out for themselves.
They were cheating the people, living off the
fat while the people were starving.
The sheep were scattered over all the hills.
And Ezekiel said, there are no shepherds willing
to go out and find them.
He said, they are wounded and there's nobody
to heal their wounds.
The shepherds are all out looking for themselves.
They're all out trying to make it big.
They're all trying, they're all looking for success.
They're all looking for wealth.
They've forgotten the sheep.
Folks, that is what I hear from people
all over this nation and around the world.
Shepherds, the sheep were scattered all over the
hills and Ezekiel said, the shepherds aren't even
going after them.
They're taking care of their own needs first.
And in that dark, dark hour, what appeared
to be hopelessness, God shared a great secret
of his heart with his prophet.
You know, one of my favorite texts and
it's one the Lord gave me when he
first called me to preach and said one
day he'd fulfill it in my life.
And it's, it's been my heart cry ever
since I was just a young man when
I first started to preach.
Psalm 25 14, the secret of the Lord
is with them that fear him and he
will show them his covenant.
I've quoted that almost every day of my
life.
And in the past number of years, the
Lord has seen fit to start opening and
fulfilling this promise he made to me many,
many years ago.
And here's a man who fears God and
God has begun to open his eyes.
He's beginning to show him the covenant.
And suddenly the word of the Lord came
to him and he began preaching a message
that must have both thrilled and dumbfounded him.
I mean, he couldn't believe what was coming
out of his mouth.
The Lord was going to take him out
of the old covenant time and give him
a vision of what was going to happen
in the time of the coming Messiah.
I want you to go with me now,
skip over to Ezekiel 36.
And I'm sure that he couldn't believe what
he was preaching, what was coming out of
his mouth.
You know, he just told these people, he's
just been preaching.
I mean, up and down the land.
Quit your sinning.
What's your problem?
Turn around, get a new heart, get a
new spirit.
And God suddenly comes upon him by his
spirit and I don't believe he believed what
was coming out his mouth.
Look at it in verse 25, beginning to
read, when a sprinkle clean water upon you.
This is his new message.
You shall be clean from all your filthiness
and from all your idols will I cleanse
you.
He had just been telling him, you cleanse
yourself, clean yourself up.
A new heart also will I give you
and new spirit will I put within you.
He just told him, go get a new
heart, go get a new spirit.
I will take away the stony heart out
of your flesh.
I will give you a heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within you and
cause you to walk in my statues and
ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Everything he'd been commanding them to do, God
comes along and says, by my spirit I'll
do it.
Ye shall dwell in the land that I
gave to your fathers, ye shall be my
people and I'll be your God.
I will also save you from all your
uncleanness and I will call for the corn
and increase it, lay no famine upon you.
I'll stop right there.
Look this way please.
I'm sure after he preached this he went
to God and said, God wait a minute.
Am I hearing you right that you're going
to take matters in your own hands and
by your spirit you're going to do for
these people what I've been asking them to
do and they can't do?
Do you mean to tell me you're going
to put a new heart in these people,
you're going to put your spirit in them
and you're going to clean them up and
by grace and mercy alone you're going to
cause them to incline their heart to obey
everything God commands in the book?
An unbelievable message.
It was too good to believe.
It was almost too good to believe.
He's not preaching God by his spirit.
God said I'm going to put my spirit
in these people and I am going to
cause them to obey me.
I am going to cause the Holy Spirit
to fulfill in them every command I've ever
made of them.
Every demand that I've made.
I'm going to empower them to do it
because I know they will never do it.
They don't have the power and they know
that now they've come to the end of
themselves.
And I'm sure the prophet had to say,
can this really be true?
God you're going to put your spirit in
them and cause them to obey you?
You're going to save them for all their
uncleanness by mercy alone?
And immediately, almost immediately, the Holy Spirit takes
him on a trip in the spirit.
He takes him out in the spirit, in
the vision and takes him to the valley
of dry bones.
Turn to chapter 37.
You're going to see the valley of dry
bones like you've never seen it in your
life my friends.
I want you to know he wasn't talking
about Israel, natural Israel, not at all.
There's absolute proof of this.
All of the things that we're going to
see now have never been fulfilled in natural
Israel.
All the things that you see and hear
now have to do with the time when
David, David had long been dead, the giant
slayer.
This David is Jesus Christ he's talking about.
Isaiah or the prophet Ezekiel knew in his
heart he was seeing another time.
He was seeing the time of the Messiah.
He was seeing the time of the fulfillment
of a new covenant.
All right, verse one.
The hand of the Lord was upon me.
You see, God's going to give him an
illustrated sermon now of what he'd been preaching.
He's going to just illustrate it to him.
The hand of the Lord was upon me
and carried me out in the spirit of
the Lord and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of
bones, full of bones.
The bones were dry, very dry.
Is that the church you go to?
There are very many of them there.
They're in an open valley.
They're very dry.
And the Lord speaks to him and he's
out in the middle in vision.
He's in the middle.
There's just dry, beach-blown bones everywhere, northeast,
south, and west.
And he's saying, can these bones live?
Can these bones live?
You know what God said to him?
Ezekiel, this is your congregation you've been preaching
to.
This is Israel.
Go ahead, tell those bones to get up
and walk.
Go ahead, tell them walk out of their
graves.
That's what you've been preaching.
That's your congregation.
Why don't you all get up and walk?
Why don't you get some skin on your
bones?
You're dead in trespasses and sin.
Your sin killed you.
Get up and walk.
You know, he said, those bones can't move.
There's no life in them.
He said, you've been preaching to bones.
Oh, I've preached a lot of bones in
my lifetime.
Trying to get them, get up and walk
a holy life.
I would scream, walk holy.
Why will you let your sin ruin you?
Why are you letting your sin destroy you?
Why are you laying in your grave?
Because I'm dead.
I don't have any power.
I don't have any strength.
I don't have any life.
If they could talk, that's what they'd have
to say.
God changed Ezekiel's message.
Now, what we're about to see in here
is new work of the Holy Spirit that's
going to open up his eyes, and I
hope it opens up your eyes.
I know it's been opening up my eyes
in a special way.
He's saying to Ezekiel, the only way these
bones can walk is if my spirit enters
into them and my spirit does the work.
It's the only way.
It's that simple, folks.
This is not complicated.
It's not complicated at all.
He said, here's what I want you to
preach, Ezekiel.
He said, behold, I will cause breath, spirit
to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Now, he's preaching to dead bones, but the
Bibles, these bones were able to hear.
God says he can make the dead to
hear.
He can make the dead to hear very
clearly.
Because he said, all ye bones, hear the
word of the Lord.
They're dead, but God's a God of He
can make the dead to hear.
You were dead when you heard it.
You were dead in trespasses and sins when
you heard it.
He's preaching these bones.
Behold, I will create, I will cause breath,
and the word is spirit there in Hebrew,
to enter into you, and you shall live.
I'll put sinews upon you, and I'll bring
up flesh upon you, and I'll cover you
with skin.
I'll put breath or spirit in you, and
ye shall live.
You shall know that I am the Lord.
And all of a sudden, he's standing there,
and boy, what a noise, what a shaking,
bone, neck bone, hip bone, connected to the
other bones, and the...
You know the song.
What a shaking, what a noise.
Sounds like a great revival, doesn't it?
A lot of shaking going on.
Folks, I'm not putting it down, because this
is the work of God.
God is creating vessels to hold his spirit.
These are vessels.
He's creating vessels.
But you see, what Ezekiel's preaching here is
perfect New Covenant gospel.
It's in a nutshell.
He's preaching it.
He said, all you dead men, just hear
it now.
The only way you're going to live, the
only way you're going to get victory over
the very thing that killed and destroyed you
in the first place, is that my spirit
comes in and takes total dominion, so that
you can live and never die again.
This is the key, the heart of the
covenant.
The spirit of God will do what the
flesh has never been able to accomplish, by
indwelling us, the power of the indwelling Holy
Ghost.
Are you beginning to get a little bit
of it?
That you need the Holy Ghost to live
in you and abide in you?
Oh, there's much more to it than that,
though.
Ezekiel's puzzled.
He sees all of these beautiful mannequins laying
undead.
I mean, they look like mannequins.
They've got flesh, they've got color in their
cheeks, probably.
They've got eyes, they got hair, everything.
They look good.
But the Bible said there was no life
in them.
There's no life in them at all.
They're still dead.
What's the point of this?
What is God saying to Ezekiel and what
is he saying to the church?
What is the point of this whole thing?
None of this is here just to tell
you a story about dry bones and somebody
could invent a song about it.
No, no, no.
It's about learning how to enjoy the blessings
of the new covenant.
Now, I want you to know that these
prepared vessels, though they were dead, they were
under covenant.
The Lord had already made the promise.
He said, you dry bones, hear the word
of the Lord.
I am going to come and put my
spirit upon you and you are going to
live.
No condition whatsoever upon these people.
He said, I am going to come.
This is the new covenant.
God says, I'm going to come and pour
out my spirit.
I'll put my fear in you.
I'm going to cause you to walk in
the ways of the Lord.
I am going to create in you a
new spirit and a new heart.
I'm going to lead you.
I'm going to guide you.
I'm going to cause you to know the
Heavenly Father.
You're going to bypass your teachers because you're
going to know intimacy with me.
I'm going to be merciful to your sins.
I'm going to be a God to you.
That's what he's saying to these bones.
He's preaching the new covenant and he knows
it.
I'll prove that to you in just a
moment.
He absolutely knew that he was preaching to
another generation.
He's seeing another generation.
He's seeing the time of the Messiah.
Now see, they heard the covenant but they
were not yet in the enjoyment and the
blessing of the covenant.
Now, there are many of you that have
heard us preach about the new covenant and
it sounds almost too good to be true.
You can sit down with people that you
can explain if you see it even in
part and it sounds so wonderful and they
say, well, how do I get into it?
How can I obtain it?
How can I reach that?
I want that so bad.
Now look, they are prepared vessels.
They're laying on the ground.
They're lifeless but they're under the covenant.
They've heard the covenant promise.
That promise was, I'll put my spirit in
and you shall live.
They had heard it preached.
The promise had been given to them but
they still can not.
They still have not entered into it.
You can be under covenant and not even
know it.
You can be under the new covenant and
not enjoy it.
And the Holy Spirit is coming tonight and
you'll keep coming and coming to this pulpit
until you understand it and enjoy the blessing
and the favor of it.
It is one truth that will forever set
you free from guilt and fear and condemnation
where you can walk in victory, come hell
or high water, whatever may come against you,
you will be in the covenant and you
will know that you are secure in Christ.
And you're going to need that in the
days ahead.
But you see, people say, well, how do
I get into this covenant?
How do I enter the covenant?
How can I enjoy this new covenant?
There is something we've got to do.
Listen to what is commanded of Ezekiel.
Then he said unto me, prophesy unto the
wind.
Prophesy.
Verse 9.
Prophesy to who?
The word prophesy, there's preach.
He said preach to the wind.
Who is the wind?
The Holy Ghost.
Preach to the Holy Ghost.
Prophesy, son of man, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the Holy Ghost or the
wind, thus saith the Lord God.
Hold the Holy Ghost to the covenant.
Challenge the Holy Ghost to the covenant.
Now, wait a minute.
Does that sound a little blatant to you?
You know, my Bible says, come boldly to
the throne of grace that you receive mercy
and grace.
Come bring forth your strong reasons.
The Holy Ghost loves to be challenged by
the covenant.
Prophesy to the wind.
Prophesy, oh, son of man, and say to
the wind, thus saith the Lord God.
Come from the four winds, oh breath, oh
Holy Ghost, and breathe upon these slain that
they may live.
So I prophesied, he is commanded, and the
breath came into them, and they lived and
stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Here stands before him now a great army,
alive and breathing.
The Holy Ghost is in his place.
The Holy Ghost has taken possession, and now
they stand an exceeding strong army before Ezekiel.
He sees them.
They're ready for battle.
What happened?
How did they get the Holy Ghost?
How did they enter into the covenant?
They're in the covenant now.
They're in their strength.
How did they, how did, why did the
Spirit answer their call?
What's the secret that the Holy Ghost is
unveiling to the prophet and to us here?
You see, Jesus said your heavenly Father will
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask,
but there's a way to ask.
It was not simply Holy Ghost, come and
fill us.
Not at all.
It was told the prophet, you say to
the wind, and you say to the Spirit,
and you preach to the Spirit, thus saith
the Lord.
You hold the Holy Ghost to the oath
that the Father made.
The Holy Ghost cannot do anything in you
any more than Christ could do anything where
there was unbelief.
He can't do it where there's unbelief, and
your Holy Ghost can be in you and
do absolutely nothing in the way of deliverance
if there's unbelief.
Oh, over the years I have ministered to
so many multitudes, including pastors, godly people who
love the Lord with all of their heart,
who weep and cry over a failure in
their life, whether it was pride, a covetousness,
a fear of man, a lust, adultery, whatever
it may be.
Something that had their heart, and they cried
for weeks.
Some of them lived for years under the
bondage.
Spirit-filled, yes, Spirit-filled, talking-in-tongues
people.
The battle and said, and as well as
said, look, I know that Holy Ghost abide
in me, but I have not been able
to see the release of power.
If the Holy Ghost is in me, where
is the power?
Why do I not see the release of
it?
You say that he has the power, he
can embolden me, and I'm full of the
Holy Ghost.
Where is the power?
Why isn't it coming out?
If there's an intensity against sin in your
life, if there's an intensity in you to
walk a holy and pure life, if there's
an intensity in you against your besetting sin,
and you say, God, I hate this sin
and I want victory, and there's an intensity
in you to believe that the Holy Ghost
is going to do what is fulfilled, then
the Holy God himself is calling upon Ezekiel
the prophet.
He says, I am telling you, I am
telling you to preach to the Holy Ghost,
to come and do what he's called to
do.
You take the Holy Ghost to the oath,
because the Holy Ghost was one of the
makers of the covenant.
He wants you to pray the covenant, in
other words, pray it and believe it with
everything in your heart.
It's not just saying, well, you're just coming
very meekly, oh, Holy Ghost, come and possess
me.
No, he said, you prophesied to the wind,
you prophesied to the Spirit, and you preached
to the Spirit and said, oh, Spirit of
the living God, an oath was made to
me from the foundation of the world that
you would come and enter my heart.
A promise was made that you cannot pray
because you cannot lie.
Holy Ghost, you said you would cause me
to walk in the Spirit.
You would cause me to walk in holiness.
Holy God, I hold you to the covenant.
I had to come to that place in
my life where I said, oh God, I'm
going to take you at your word, and
I challenge you, Holy Ghost, because I love
you respectfully with everything in my heart and
with a heart full of love and humility
to you, Holy Ghost, you have been ordered.
That is your oath, the oath of Almighty
God, and I commit my soul to it,
live or die.
And when the enemy comes in like a
flood and some old sin tries to enter
in, some spirit of covetousness or anything else
or pride or lust or anything else, I
pray the covenant now, say, Holy Ghost, this
is your promise.
I've committed myself to it when I stand
on the judgment day before my Savior.
I am going to be able to say
to a just God, I believe the Holy
Ghost.
I held him to the covenant.
This is his result.
I have committed my eternal soul to the
covenant he made.
My God cannot lie.
I don't know how he plans to do
it.
I don't know how.
But I know he made an oath.
He swore and God said, I cannot lie.
I will put my spirit in you, and
I will cause you to walk in the
Lord's ways.
I'll cause you to do it.
I don't have to study for 10 years
about the fear of God.
I don't have to beg and plead.
I go to the covenant because God said,
I'll send the Holy Spirit in you, and
I, the Holy Ghost, will put my fear
in your heart.
I don't have to figure it out.
Glory be to God.
He set me free.
Oh, he set me free.
He broke the bonds of prison for me.
Hallelujah.
New Testament said, if ye through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye
shall live.
If ye through the Spirit, through committing your
eternal destiny in the hands of the covenant
of the Holy Ghost, if you will commit
it, he said, you will live.
He's speaking to people who are humanly alive,
but they didn't really live because if there's
sin in your life, you really don't live.
He said, you're dead while you still live
because sin is death.
He said, if you'll commit that to the
Holy Ghost, if you through the Holy Ghost
will allow him to mortify that sin, you're
going to know what life is all about.
You're going to know what life is.
Hallelujah.
Now let me, you say, well, Brother Wilkerson,
that all sounds so good, but are you
sure Ezekiel is not talking, you sure God
isn't talking about Israel in the flesh?
Because look down here, let's see, verse 14.
And I shall put my Spirit in you,
and you shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land.
Then you should know that I, the Lord,
have spoken and performed it, saith the Lord.
You say, doesn't that nail down that that's
a natural Jew, natural Israel?
Not for your life, not one I owed.
No way.
Every prophet knew what Isaiah knew, that the
land was something spiritual.
And the word here in the Hebrew, by
the word, is a place of solid ground.
I'll bring you to a place of firmness,
an unshakable place.
That's what it means.
I'm going to bring you to a firm
place.
I'm going to bring you to a place
where your faith is founded, where nothing can
shake you, and that's what the covenant does
for us.
I'm reading to you from Ezekiel 62, 4.
Thou shall no more be called forsaken, neither
shall thy land any more be called desolate.
But thou shall be called Hephzibah, and thy
land shall be called Beulah.
For the Lord delighteth in thee, and the
land shall be married.
Beulah here means a wife whose husband is
her master.
That's the land.
I'm going to bring you into Beulah.
I'm going to bring you into a firm
place, and that firm place where you're unshakable
is when you're under the full control of
the master to whom you're married.
That's Christ.
And you can't bring yourself under mastery.
You can't do it.
The Holy Ghost said, I'm going to enter
into you, and I'm going to bring you
under mastery.
I'm going to bring you to Beulah.
There's a song, Beulah land, sweet Beulah land.
Well, you're all too young to remember.
You don't know that.
Further proof, and David, my servant, shall be
king over them.
Verse 24, they shall all have one shepherd.
My servant David shall be their prince forever.
You know, King David of Israel was dead
at the time.
This is the seed of David.
This is the last David.
This is Jesus Christ.
And all of this happening here in Ezekiel
37 happens at the time when this prince
is ruling and supreme, and there's one shepherd
over them, and that's Christ.
Folks, this is our time, Ezekiel, seeking.
Face it.
Deal with it.
I dealt with it.
I am so totally convinced.
And by the way, there's not one single
prophecy that's ever been fulfilled to natural Israel
yet.
Not one of them.
Nothing you find in this 37th chapter or
the 36th chapter has ever been fulfilled to
natural Israel.
Zerubbabel had just a tiny taste of it,
but that was all.
They have never had a prince forever.
They have never had one shepherd over them.
It's never happened.
Now, folks, I'm not preaching replacement theology.
You know how deeply I love and appreciate
Israel.
That's why we started a church there.
That's why we finance, and that's why we
send missionaries, because we love Israel.
Hallelujah.
Give me five more minutes.
Listen, saints, this gets so good.
Not because I'm preaching, but because Ezekiel's preaching
it.
But I want you to go to Ezekiel
34 so we can do a little more
shouting.
Chapter 34.
Now, folks, again, if you just read this
chapter, this is the time when King David,
the one great shepherd is ruling.
This is the time of Messiah, the last
days.
This is the day in which we're living
now.
This is the new covenant times.
And this is what God told Ezekiel to
preach.
And this is what I want you to
hear.
I want you to start verse 22 with
me.
Therefore, will I save my flock, and they
shall no more be a prey, and I'll
judge between cattle and cattle.
God says you're never going to again be
a victim of the devil.
Not after I send a Holy Ghost on
you.
Not when I give you the fullness of
the Holy Ghost.
And you lay claim, and you start laying
the Holy Ghost.
You start challenging the Holy Ghost by covenant,
by the oath of Almighty God.
He said, I'm going to save my flock.
There'll no more be a prey, and I'll
judge between cattle and cattle.
I'll set up one shepherd over them, and
he shall feed them, even my servant.
Who?
David shall feed them, and he shall be
their shepherd.
Now, what happens when Christ reigns on the
throne?
Our day through the covenant.
Because Christ is the fulfillment of the covenant.
He was the seal of the covenant.
And I, the Lord, will be their God,
my servant David, a prince among them.
I, the Lord, has spoken it.
And I will make with them a covenant
of peace.
Do you know what a covenant of peace
is?
When all the evil beasts are gone, and
you're dwelling safely in the wilderness.
You're able to sleep in the woods, anywhere
else.
There are no more ghosts.
The ghosts are all gone.
All the past memories that try to haunt
you, and the devil tries to bring up.
You see, before, in the covenant, the devil
could scare you almost, then he'd go, boo!
And you'd run.
You wouldn't even go near the woods.
You can go anywhere now under the new
covenant.
Hallelujah.
The Lord said, I, the Holy Ghost, am
in you.
You can sleep in any woods, anywhere.
I'm going to give you a covenant of
peace.
Folks, when you rest in the work of
the Holy Ghost, the indwelling power of the
Holy Ghost.
And when you say, Holy Ghost, I completely
commit my eternal soul, my destiny, into this
covenant.
And you fully believe him.
You release the power.
Because he can't do anything where there's unbelief.
And the only thing that holds us back
from ending the covenant is unbelief.
We can't believe that he could do such
a wonderful thing.
Because we have been taught, and we have
lived for so long in this idea that
I have to help the Holy Ghost.
And folks, I want to tell you something.
You can focus so much on the victory
of the cross.
Now, listen closely.
Now, that's wonderful.
That's the heart of the gospel.
But if you forget the continuing work of
the Holy Ghost in us, you've only preached
half the gospel.
There has to be that focus also on
the work of the Holy Spirit in completing
the work that Christ finished in us until
it becomes a practical thing.
It's not just the gospel we preach.
But in our lives, it's a practical thing
worked out by the Holy Ghost, the indwelling
Holy Ghost.
And there's not nearly enough preaching in these
last days about the work and the ministry
of the Holy Spirit that makes the victory
of the cross a total victory.
Hallelujah.
Well, look, let's go on.
Stand while we read the rest of it,
if you will, please.
Verse 26.
And I will make them and the places
round about my heel a blessing.
I will cause the shower to come down
in his season.
There shall be showers of blessings.
We tasted some of them tonight.
The showers of blessing.
That's just the Holy Ghost coming upon us
corporately as he is taking control individually.
The tree of the field shall yield her
fruit.
The earth shall yield her increase.
They shall be safe in their land.
What's land?
That's beautiful land.
They shall be safe under the mastery of
Christ through the power of the Holy Ghost.
They shall know that I am the Lord.
When?
When I have broken the bands of their
yoke and delivered them out of the hand
of those that serve themselves of them.
Those are those old habits, the demon powers
and the lies of the devil that have
kept you and you were a prey to
this and you were tossed to and fro.
God said that's all over.
And he, who did it?
Who did it?
I have broken the bonds of the, and
I have delivered them out of the hand
of those that serve themselves of them.
They shall no more be a prey to
the heathen.
Neither shall the beast of the land.
The beast of the land in the Bible
represent demon powers.
Neither shall the beast of the field devour
them for they shall dwell safely and none
shall make them afraid.
For I will raise up for them a
plant of renown that is Christ and they
shall be no more consumed with hunger in
the land.
Folks, he's going to satisfy your hungry soul,
he said.
Neither bear the shame of the heathen anymore.
Thus shall they know that I, the Lord,
their God, am with them and that they,
even the house of Israel, that's the spiritual
house of Israel, are my people, saith the
Lord.
You're my flock, the flock of my pastor
are men and I am your God, saith
the Lord God.
I am your God.
I will keep covenant with you.
Raise your hands and just thank God for
his covenant of peace that he has made
with you.
He's made with me.
Father, we thank you for the covenant of
peace.
We thank you for the Holy Ghost that
you have sent.
We thank you for the indwelling power of
the Holy Ghost in us.
Oh, Holy Ghost, what a power you are.
And we challenge the covenant by faith.
We come boldly to the throne of grace.
Heaven allows violence and violent, take it by
force.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord.
Folks, the battle's been won.
Hallelujah.
Battle's been won.
Please don't judge the covenant promises by your
own experiences.
You say, oh, Brother Wilkinson, I've tried and
failed.
I have done everything I know to release
the power of the Holy Ghost.
Well, you don't release the power of the
Holy Ghost.
You just trust the Holy Ghost.
You trust your life in the hands of
the Holy Ghost.
And then when the enemy comes in like
a flood, when that lust or whatever it
is comes towards you, you call upon Him,
but you call upon Him with all authority,
standing on the covenant promises of God.
And God will not fail you.
God has not failed me.
He's not failed any of your pastors.
He's not going to fail you.
He's going to deliver you.
That's His promise.
Now, folks, if that's not true, then this
whole thing would be a lie, which is
impossible.
For God cannot tell a lie.
Hallelujah.
When I trust the covenant, I've come to
this.
Lord, I've told the Holy Ghost, I trust
you.
You have got to come according to what
God says.
You have been ordered.
You have been commanded.
You are under oath.
When you enter into my body and you
take possession, you are under oath to do
for me what you promised and what is
promised in the covenant by the Father.
It's there.
And Lord, because I've believed it and because
I've committed my eternal soul and destiny to
it, I'm going to be able to stand.
If you're just God, I'm going to be
able to stand before you.
And I'm saying what you see, Father, is
what the Holy Ghost has brought me to
because I have trusted in His work.
That's a place of security, folks, that you
know you can stand before the judgment seat
of Christ.
Knowing that you have fully committed your life,
your future, your habits, your sins, everything into
the hands of the Holy Ghost.
Hallelujah.
Folks, it's time to just quit talking about
the Holy Ghost and singing about the Holy
Ghost.
Let's get him loose.
Let's loose him by the covenant.
Hallelujah.
Oh, Father, your word thrills our heart.
Your word builds faith.
But oh, God, don't let us just hear
it and then go out and forget what
we saw and heard.
Holy Spirit, I call you and hold you
to the covenant.
I know that's what you want me to
do.
You're looking for that kind of violent faith.
You're looking for that kind of commitment.
And when you see that, when I call,
you will come.
Lord, cause this people that hear me tonight
and all who hear this on tape or
video, wherever it may be, I pray, oh
God, that they pray this covenant to pass
in their lives.
They pray the understanding of it and enter
in now by faith.
No other way but by faith.
Hallelujah.
And Lord, they don't even have to work
it up.
Just pray it.
I hold you, Holy Ghost, to the covenant.
I hold you to the oath.
God, why would you give us an oath
and a covenant unless you wanted us to
hold you to it?
Glory be to God.
I've come, my people, to give you peace.
Peace beyond human understanding.
Peace beyond anything you have known or experienced.
But it can come only to you as
you rest in my word.
I've honored my word far above my name.
I have given you my word.
And I will give you the very spirit
that was in Christ, who is the very
spirit of Christ, the Son of the living
God, who shall lead you and guide you
and hold you in the stormy days ahead.
And he will come and cause you to
walk in the ways of the Father.
And he will hold you to the Father
so that you will not forsake the Father.
He will hold himself to you and he
will hold you to himself.
And he will not fail to do what
the word has said will be accomplished.
Stand by faith.
Speak the word of faith.
Come as the widow with great importunity.
And say, I will not let go.
I will stand on this word.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
We will stand on the word of God.
Folks, I don't have a single word about
this altar call.
All I'm going to do, we're going to
sing a song, and that's not to create
some kind of psychological mood.
It's just, I'm just going to say this
to you.
If the word touched you and there's some
reason for you to come down here, maybe
you don't know Jesus.
Maybe you don't know the Lord.
You haven't been saved.
And you say, this is all new to
me, but my heart's been stirred.
Once you get out up in the balcony,
come down either end and come down any
aisle.
Meet me here and I'll pray with you.
All those who are here backslidden, all of
those here fighting and a losing battle against
some overwhelming sin.
You say, I want to enter this covenant
by faith.
If God's speaking to you and you need
to come down this aisle and you feel,
say, Brother Wilson, pray for me.
God will tell me what to pray, but
I don't know who you are and I
don't know why you need to come.
But I'm just going to turn it over
to the Holy Ghost and let him do
what he wants.
If you feel that you need to get
up here, get something right with God, you
get out of your seat and let's just
do it.
Upstairs, the Holy Ghost is moving.
You move when the Spirit moves you and
you obey him.
He's right here now to deliver you and
set you free.
He wants you to walk out of here
as free as you've ever been in your
life.
Never to return to your bondage again.
He wants to break every chain that binds
you.
He wants to set you free, in other
words.
He wants you to leave this house rejoicing
tonight.
He wants you to lay hold of the
covenant by faith.
He wants all unbelief out of your system.
Folks, all unbelief has to go and flow
into our hearts.
Holy Spirit, come and make yourself manifest.
Oh, Holy Spirit, we call upon you.
Holy Spirit, lift your hands.
Everybody came forward.
Just lift your hand.
Call on the Lord right now.
He knows what you need.
He knows exactly.
Say, Holy Ghost, come and touch me right
now.
If you need forgiveness, ask.
Lord, forgive me.
Cleanse me.
Forgive me, Jesus.
Touch my life.
Lord, we take authority over every habit, every
sin through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Holy Spirit, by oath now, we commit you
to this.
We're committed, Lord, to the oath, the promises
of God.
You will break every chain, break every habit,
cast out every lust.
You will do what we cannot do.
Do it for us, Father, in Jesus' name.
Give him thanks right now.
Just give the Holy Ghost thanks.
Lord, I give you thanks.
I give you praise.
We give you praise.
We give you thanks, O Lord.
Holy Spirit, I ask you to remove unbelief.
I ask you to put your fear in
the hearts of those who come hungry to
you.
I ask you, Holy Spirit, now, upon the
power and authority of the word of God's
covenant, an everlasting covenant, an oath of Almighty
God who cannot lie, that you will come
now and cause our hearts to turn to
you, cause us to turn from our iniquities.
God, put a new heart in us.
Put your spirit in us.
Fill us mightily with your Holy Ghost.
O God, send the Holy Spirit in power.
We prophesy to the winds, come, O wind
of God, come and breathe in us.
Break every habit.
Break every lust.
O God, you will put your fear in
our hearts.
You will keep us from falling.
Lord, we come to your grace, to your
mercy, and to your covenant.
Hallelujah.
God who cannot lie.
Blessed Holy Ghost.
Holy Spirit.
O Holy Ghost, come on down.
Holy Ghost, come on down.
Come on down, Holy Ghost.
Come on down.
Hallelujah.
Come on down upon us, Holy Ghost.
Fill us mightily with your spirit and your
power.
Hallelujah.
He wants to fill you right now with
his spirit if you just let him.
The Holy Ghost is moving on some of
you.
Let him move upon you right now, Holy
Ghost.
Move upon me.
Holy Ghost, touch me.
Let the Holy Ghost touch you right now.
Let him have possession.
Holy Spirit, take possession.
Build your habitation here in our own hearts.
Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah.
About three or four hundred feet from us,
not far from right where I stand, right
across the street, right now while we're here,
they are praising one another, clapping their hands
for their heroes, the Tony Awards.
That's what you see all this activity out
here, right at the Gershwin next door.
But their river is going to be dry
tomorrow morning.
It's all going to be dry.
But what you have right now is going
to be just as fresh tomorrow and keep
flowing.
Hallelujah.
Saying I've
got joy like a river, joy like a
river in my soul.
And as we sing it, I want you
to.
Folks, let me tell you something that is
important, is needed, if not is as important
as prayer.
And that is to show love unto another.
By this all men know you're my disciples.
Now, folks, I've seen what happens with show
business people.
They'll put their arm around like they do
in Poland, little kiss on one cheek, little
kiss on the other, little peck.
But without Christ, you can't mean it.
I mean, there's no meaning to it.
Now, I'm not asking you to plant a
kiss on somebody's cheek.
I'm asking you, folks, I got kissed more
in Poland than I've ever been kissed in
my life.
On both cheeks.
That's in Croatia and Romania and everywhere else.
But there was such love to it.
There's great love.
I want you to turn and just shake
hands.
A good God bless you or praise the
Lord as we sing.
I've got joy like a river.
And let that joy spill over on somebody
else tonight.
Because, folks, you're under covenant.
You're under covenant.
You're safe.
This is the conclusion of the tape.