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A word from the Lord this morning.
I want to speak to you about the
cry of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Now, Lord, I know I've heard from you.
I know, Lord, you're speaking in these times.
Things are happening so fast.
We can't even keep up with it.
It's beyond us.
But, oh, God, you're not surprised by it
at all.
You have foreseen it all.
And you have everything under control.
And, Lord, I pray this morning that you
speak to us.
Expand our hearts, our vision.
Lord, expand our vision, our compassion.
Lord, you've got to do something for me
this year in expanding my vision.
And for this church, Lord, we may think
we have a vision that we're so far
beneath what God has planned.
We have not yet conceived what he wants
us to enter into.
We cannot conceive of the greatness of our
God.
And we pray, Lord, that you reveal some
of that to us today, we pray in
Jesus' name.
Amen.
Will you go to Genesis, the 18th chapter,
please.
Genesis, the 18th chapter.
Beginning to read at verse 17.
Genesis 18, 17, 21.
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Start and read verse 17.
The Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham
that thing which I do, seeing that Abraham
shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall
be blessed in him, for I know him.
He will command his children and his household
after him, and they shall keep the way
of the Lord to do justice and judgment,
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that
which he has spoken.
And the Lord said, because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous, I will go down
now and see whether they have done altogether
according to the cry of it which has
come unto me.
If not, I will know.
Would you leave your Bible open?
Genesis 18, 19th chapter.
Just leave it open on your lap if
you will.
Now, in this text I've just read to
you, the Lord comes to Mamre and appears
to Abraham.
He's sitting at the door of his tent.
And Jehovah, Elohim, appears with two angels in
the form of men.
And they're on a deadly mission.
A total destruction, annihilation of five cities.
Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible says, also Adma,
Zeboam, and Zoar.
These were five cities, Sodom and Gomorrah being
the largest, Zoar being the smallest.
And the Lord says, their iniquity is grievous.
Their sins are wicked, they've come up before
my face.
And He said, I've come now to destroy.
The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great,
their sin is ever, they're very grievous.
Now, I personally hear three cries coming out
of Sodom, and I want to discuss those
three cries with you this morning.
The first cry that I hear coming out
of Sodom and Gomorrah is the cry for
vengeance.
The cry of their sins that have reached
into heaven, the ones that God called very
grievous.
The Bible makes it very clear that there
was violence, there was homosexuality.
Of course, that is accompanied with lesbianism.
There was lawlessness, and lawlessness always leads to
violence.
And the city had become so corrupt and
so vile, the Lord says, I will not
endure it anymore.
And God decides to rain judgment on Sodom
and Gomorrah.
It came at the point when the homosexuals
became lawless and forced their agenda on society.
When they were in the closet, as they
call it, He withheld judgment.
But when they came forth lawlessly and began
to take the law in their own hand,
God said, that's enough.
That's the point at which God moves with
divine judgment.
And folks, we are at that point now,
the point of lawlessness creating violence.
And we have reached that point in the
United States.
They forced their sin on society.
Now, how excruciatingly loud is the sound, the
cry of the sins of the United States,
and not just the United States, but the
whole world.
It's not just the United States about to
legalize marriages between gays and lesbians.
A judge in Brazil this past week flaunted
the whole constitution of Brazil, and they're marrying
them now in Brazil.
Canada is already doing it.
They are far beyond us in sodomy, and
they're outsodoming Sodom.
We have done that.
Fifty years ago, we outsodomed Sodom in the
United States.
And it's not just that.
Think of what's happening now in France.
They have declared their nation a secular nation,
not a religious nation.
They've outlawed even the Muslims from wearing their
head covers, the Jews from their head covers,
no religious symbols, no crosses anywhere in the
nation.
They have declared we are not a nation
having anything to do with God, anything to
do with religion.
We are a secular nation.
Germany has outlawed Christmas.
Absolutely impossible legally now to celebrate Christmas or
any symbol of Christmas whatsoever.
It's not a national holiday anymore in Germany.
It's not just the United States.
It's the whole world.
The cry that must lift to God's ears
at this particular time, how much will God
endure?
When will God rise up and honor His
name?
How long does God allow the boasting, the
mocking of His name, the flaunting of apostasy,
the mockery of God's name?
How long?
When does God move?
At what point?
And I'm sure that's the question that's asked
by many of those who love Jesus.
And you know the heart of God and
you feel His hatred for sin.
You see, we as Christians have to have
this in our mind that we can hate
the sin, but we have to love the
sinner.
And we have to be able to distinguish
between the two.
But you see, there's something happening now in
our hearts.
There's a cry to God.
When?
How long do you endure this?
How long will you be impatient with this
society?
And the way the world is spinning now
where the very guts of hell are being
exhumed upon the earth.
Where demonic powers are absolutely in control in
many areas of our society.
And we say, Lord, how long?
And like David, the psalmist asked God, why
do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
When the wicked are boasting, they bless what
God abhors.
They're proud.
They say we will never be in adversity.
They say in their hearts they will never
be moved.
Their mouths are full of cursing, deceit and
fraud.
They say in their hearts God is forgotten.
He hides His face.
He sees us not.
God will not judge us.
You'll find that all in Psalm 10 when
you want to read it at your leisure.
God said, though, to David, I did see
it.
He said, I have seen every form of
mischief.
I know every sin that's being committed on
the face of the earth.
And the day is coming when I will
judge it.
In my time, in my way, he said,
I will stretch forth my hand and I'll
judge it.
I say, yes, judgment is at the door.
There's no question about that.
But you see, there's another cry I hear
coming from regarding Sodom and Gomorrah.
And that's the cry of Abraham.
After Jehovah and the two angels explained to
Abraham their plans, destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
and all five cities, they head out towards
Sodom.
And as Jehovah was going around the mountain
to the other side, because you could go
to the mountain on this side in the
plains of Mamre, you could go up to
the mountain, you could see the valley of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
And as he was going there, Abraham detains
the Lord, stood before him.
You can read it all in this chapter,
chapters 18 and 19.
And Abraham drew near to him and stood
before him, the Scripture says.
He detained Jehovah.
The two angels went on.
The Lord would later appear, but he stands
before God, the Bible says, and he drew
near.
And he did something in the way of
intercession that I know nothing about.
He did something so incredible that when I
explain this to you, you better take a
long breath and a deep swallow because it's
going to hurt.
He did something that I can't even conceive.
I've never done it in my life.
I've interceded and I have prayed for missionaries,
I've prayed for family, I've prayed for every
conceivable thing, but I've never once prayed the
kind of prayer that Abraham prayed.
I've never cried this kind of cry.
He began to intercede for Sodom and Gomorrah.
Not for a lot in his family, but
for the entire population of sadomasochists and rapists
and alcoholics and drug addicts and mostly the
homosexual society.
And before you say you're getting old and
gray and losing your brain, Pastor, I'm giving
you Bible.
I'm giving you something that has shaken me
to the core of my soul.
After being a soul winner with drug addicts
and alcoholics for years, it still burns in
my soul what I see and hear from
the Holy Ghost.
This man, Abraham, knew something of the heart
of God.
He was a friend of God.
And Jesus himself said, Abraham has seen my
day and was glad and rejoiced over it.
He had a vision of the mercy of
God that was coming through a Messiah.
He knew all about the mercy of God.
Then he stands before God, and you know
this story, and he said, God, Elohim, if
you find just 50 righteous, will you spare
the city?
Not my nephew, not, but the city, will
you spare it?
And he said, yes, I'll spare it.
If I can find 50 righteous in that
city.
And he said, Master, please, or Father, please,
what if it's five less than that?
The Lord said, yes.
And he said, forgive me, I don't want
to impinge on your mercy, but please, and
I'm paraphrasing, what if there's only 40?
Will you spare the city?
Will you spare Sodom?
And the Lord said, yes.
He said one more request.
What if there's only 30?
Yes.
Lord, I'm coming to you one last time.
What if there's only 10 righteous that you
can find in Sodom and Gomorrah?
Will you spare the city?
And God said, yes, I'll spare the city.
Now, folks, when you look at that barefaced,
the human mind thinks, well, this makes Abraham
appear more merciful than God.
God wants to destroy.
Abraham wants to save.
That's not it at all.
When you understand the premise upon which he
was making his request, it's amazing.
And it's shocking to the Christian mind because
we've been so set on, oh, yes, we
fast and we pray.
We seek God.
We want to win souls lost.
Where do you draw the line?
Do we want the neat people?
Do we want the nice people?
Do we want the family people?
Do we want just our sons and our
daughters?
What happens when you pick up the newspaper
and you see 3,000 homosexuals lined up
to get married in San Francisco illegally, kissing
and hugging in public?
What goes on in the spirit?
What goes on in your heart when you
hear activist judges flaunting the Constitution and throwing
it in your Christian face?
And he's saying, God, and he knows this
city.
He has an army of 318 men.
He could go at any time and deliver
him out of that city.
He could have asked for one day.
Give me one day.
I'm taking my army in there, and I'm
going to deliver my nephew and his family.
He knew all about the sins of that
city.
I'm sure he sent messengers in there to
bring him out and warn him, and they
brought back these stories to Abraham that were
shocking and beyond belief.
Abraham's a smart man.
He's a God-ordained man.
He's a brilliant man.
He's mighty in God and the Spirit, and
he walks and moves in the Spirit.
The Spirit of God was on him.
He knew about it.
And he was not trying to ask time
so that they can involve more in their
sins and bring young people coming up and
involve them in homosexuality.
That's not why he's asking time.
That's not why he's asking to spare them.
You see, there's a heaviness to sin.
And what he's saying, God, I know what
I see in the future.
I know there's a Messiah coming, and I
know there'll be a time when men will
be reconciled, and I know this is your
hard work.
I know you get no pleasure out of
the death of the wicked.
I know, God, what your heart is all
about.
And I'm not railing against them.
I'm not going to let my spirit get
angry.
Lord, break my heart.
I know your heart is broken, and you're
doing this because...
And I want to tell you something.
At this moment, I believe something is happening
in the heart of God.
Finally, one man I found standing in a
gap, and every prophet in the Bible knew
that part of God, knew that way of
God, because the Scripture is very clear on
that.
I sought for a man.
God was saying to Ezekiel, I sought for
a man among them that should make up
their heads and stand in the gap before
me for the land, that I should not
destroy it, but I found none.
You know what God is saying?
If I could have found a man who
would stand in the gap and plead for
mercy, until the heaviness of sin had accomplished
its work, because sin is heavy.
That's why so many homosexuals are alcoholics, and
why they drink themselves to sleep.
It's the heaviness of their sin.
That's why in Hollywood, they go from one
mate to another, marriage after marriage after marriage,
and they look fine in public, and they
can go down the red carpet and get
their prizes, but they go to sleep with
drugs.
The Lord said, therefore, I poured out my
indignation upon them, I consumed them with the
fire of my wrath.
Their own way have I recompensed on their
heads, saith the Lord.
I found no intercessors.
You know, the reason this is so convicting
to me, I've been what they call a
holiness preacher all my life.
But you know, when I see people running
for office that I know that are so
liberal, and I know that they're going to
appoint activist judges, wicked, vile men, something in
my heart rises up.
And when I see homosexuals, so militant, flaunting
the law, and the hatred toward God and
Christianity, I want to do as the disciples.
They went to Jesus and said, Lord, they're
casting out your name.
They won't receive you.
So we call fire out of heaven and
destroy them.
You see, I want to call fire down
out of heaven sometimes and say, God, get
that judge.
Lord, kill him.
I don't say it that way, but that's
what I'm feeling.
And so are you.
And if we're not careful, we wind up
bitter, mean-spirited Christians who have no Christlikeness
to us whatsoever.
And we'd look at this kind of sin.
You see, Abraham is pleading for a people.
Oh, God, give him time.
Send prophets.
Send somebody to stand with Lot.
Awaken Lot.
He's not witness to anybody.
He's not a witness.
His soul is vexed.
I believe he must have been drinking because
when he goes to the mountain, his two
daughters get him drunk.
He could have never been seduced to alcoholism
or to drunkenness unless he had been drinking
in Sodom.
And he said, I know this doesn't give
you pleasure, but, oh, God, you're so mighty.
You're so great.
Somehow you can make a way.
Somehow your mercy can be extended.
Now, this church has been fasting and praying.
And there are other churches in the nation
that have been fasting and praying.
And around the world, there are a lot
of people fasting and praying.
God's doing a wonderful thing on the face
of the earth right now.
But I'm going to ask you, where do
we draw the line?
Jesus saves alcoholics, drug addicts.
How about militant ungodly judges?
What about murderers and rapists and homosexuals?
Now, I could put heterosexuals in that.
I'm not trying to just put down homosexuals.
Where are you going to draw the line?
Who are we praying for?
I don't remember for years praying for any
homosexual because I was bothered by the fact
that I hadn't seen many conversions.
And then I would read the Scripture about
being turned over to uncleanness, reprobate mind.
You search that out.
And when it says reprobate in Greek, when
you read the true meaning of it, it
means further out.
It's further out.
In other words, beyond any sin that has
been conceived.
It's the furthest out sin in so many
words.
And turned over to uncleanness, but it doesn't
say it's turned over to Satan.
No, the Bible does say that Paul turned
some over to Satan for the destruction of
the flesh, but that their soul may be
saved.
There was still an act of mercy.
It was an act of mercy.
I know that Jesus called the Pharisees vipers,
but then he went to the edge of
the city and wept over them and gave
his life for them.
But you see, where do we draw the
line?
I asked a minister friend recently, when's the
last time you ever prayed for the homosexual
community?
And this minister friend of mine said, I
don't remember, it's been a long time, but
here was the question the minister gave to
me.
If I knew it was truly scriptural to
pray for them, I would.
If I knew I was on good scriptural
grounds to intercede for them, I would do
that.
Now folks, what really began to move my
soul was a homosexual I've met here in
Times Square Church for years in the lifestyle
of homosexuality.
And what a testimony he has.
What a man of God he's become.
And when my wife and I took him
out to eat one day, he said, Pastor
Dave, how are you going to limit God?
You're going to limit God?
I'm a testimony, look at me.
And I'm testifying to many homosexuals who are
so sick of their sin and so hungry
and want to be changed.
We've got to have people praying and interceding
and fasting and believing God.
We can't limit God.
If we were limiting God, I would have
been in hell.
And we cannot limit God.
If you're going to pray and fast for
souls, you can't have parameters.
Jesus says to the uttermost.
You're sitting here today, I don't care what
you've done.
I don't care how deep in sin it
is.
Jesus receives sinners.
I want to prove to you from the
scripture that it's absolutely scriptural important that we
pray for the worst of sinners that you
can conceive of in this country.
Now, I've determined I don't listen to radio.
I don't have TV, but I don't listen
to radio to any of these talking heads,
they call them.
I'm saying it respectfully.
It's all I know.
They're on for three or four hours.
And you sit and listen to that and
they will stir your soul and you'll get
angry.
Anti-Semitism or anti-Arab, you'll become a
political basket case.
Shut it off.
Don't let anything in this world stir you.
I don't care what any homosexual says.
I don't care how they flaunt it or
anything else.
We're not to get angry and just rail
at the sin.
Now, it's getting rather quiet.
Let me prove to you.
Go to 1 Corinthians 6 chapter.
Now, I want you to know that I
despise homosexuality.
And I believe God's going to judge it
severely.
But until he does, we'd better take heed
to his word.
1 Corinthians 6, starting verse 9.
1 Corinthians 6, verse 9.
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate.
That means homosexual, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind.
These are homosexuals and lesbians.
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Verse 11.
And such were some of you.
You are what?
Washed, but you are sanctified, but you are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
and by the Spirit of God.
Some of you were gay.
Boy, what a play on words.
I've never met one of them that was
happy.
I'm saying it.
I mean in the deepest.
There's an outward happiness.
Folks, I'm not trying to be funny or
facetious.
Hear me, please.
What a play on words.
How ironic calling it gay.
We're not mocking gays.
We're not mocking homosexuals.
We're calling for removing all the boundaries of
intercession.
1 Timothy.
Did you get that?
And such were some of you.
But you're washed and sanctified and justified in
the name of Jesus and by the Spirit
of God.
Oh, hallelujah.
1 Timothy.
First chapter.
Verses 15 and 16, please.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of
all acceptation.
That Jesus Christ came into the world to
save sinners of whom I am what?
Chief.
I'm the worst sinner God ever had to
endure.
Howbeit for this cause I obtain mercy that
in me first Jesus Christ may show forth
all long suffering for a pattern to them
which should hereafter believe on him to life
everlasting.
He said, take a look at me.
I was the worst.
I murdered people.
When they were called before the high priesthood,
I voted for their destruction, for their death.
Signing their death warrant.
He said, I was a hater of Christ.
He was a Christ hater.
And he said, I'm a pattern.
I'm a pattern of long suffering so that
you can know, you can understand, if you
can save the chiefest, you can pray for
any other, they'll be less sinful than I
was.
You say, but pastor, these are wicked, lewd
people and they're enemies of the cross.
What's the Bible say?
And you that were, I'm reading from Colossians
121.
And you that were at one time alienated
and enemies in your mind by your wicked
works, now has he reconciled.
You say they are enemies to the cross.
They are enemies to the cross.
But so were you.
So was I.
We were all enemies to the cross of
Jesus Christ.
When we were enemies, we were reconciled to
God by the death of his own son.
Jesus said, love your enemies.
Bless them that curse you.
Do good to them that hate you.
Pray for them which despitefully use you.
Folks, I'm being despitefully used by the courts.
I'm despitefully used when my Christianity is thrown
in my face.
That's despitefully using me.
The Bible says, and they persecute you that
you may be the children of your father.
For he maketh the sun to rise on
the evil and on the good.
And he sends rain on the just and
on the unjust.
Bless them.
Pray for them, the Bible says.
Jesus said, pray for them.
Now, I just want to show you how
serious this is, the greatness of God.
And the Lord reminded me of some of
the worst, two of the worst cases in
American history of how God reaches those that
seem impossible.
A number of years ago, there was a
name, this Charlie Manson maker, anybody remember the
name Charlie Manson?
He had what was called the family.
And they practiced what is called helter-skelter,
which means murder sprees.
And his chief leader in this, they mostly
were women, but Tex Watson, a Texas boy,
handsome young man, he was the killer.
And I was reading this past week the
history again of Charlie Manson and the family
in California.
They terrorized California for months.
This is the group that went helter-skelter
into the home of Sharon Tate, the young
actress who murdered her in cold blood.
And on another occasion went in and I
think there were five people murdered.
And I read his story.
And Tex was the one who pulled the
trigger.
He was the one that had the knife
stabbing 50 or 60 at times.
And then he turned them over and stabbed
them again.
And he said, I was under the power,
a demonic power.
I was led by the devil.
And I remember the headlines at that time.
And I remember they were at the courtroom.
And I remember the pictures of them coming
into the courtroom.
And I said, oh God, they showed no
mercy.
Show no mercy to them.
Give them life or put them in an
electric chair.
And folks, they deserve that.
But you know, ten years later, I'm ministering
in a jail in California.
And there's a young man who comes walking
in with his Bible and smiles from ear
to ear.
And he's the chaplain's assistant.
And the pastor who was accompanying me said,
you know who that is?
That's Tex Watson.
He's been marvelously saved.
He's one of the most powerful testimonies here.
And every 25 years, they automatically have to
come up for hearing, for parole.
And he says, I don't want to be
paroled.
He doesn't want out of prison because he
has his own website.
And I was ministering to people by mail
all over the world.
Jesus went to one of the worst sinners.
But you know why?
Because there were some prisoners, some inmates that
were in that same prison when Tex Watson
came in and they began to fast and
pray for him.
That not only would he be saved, but
he'd become another Saul turned to Paul, the
apostle.
They had laid hold of God.
And God answered that prayer because they didn't
back away from him.
They didn't say, oh, yeah, God saves up
to this point, but not when you've murdered
all these people and stabbed them, been so
demon-possessed.
Charlie Manson claimed to be the devil himself.
And he's still in jail.
And if you see his picture on a
website, it's most incredibly, he still looks like
the devil.
His eyes glaring hate.
See, Jesus saves to the uttermost.
He saves sodomites.
There's another case.
Son of Sam.
New Yorkers know how he terrorized this city,
murdered six women.
And you know this story.
But here's a letter, a copy of a
letter he sent to the chief of police
here on April 17, 1977.
He said, I'm an outsider.
I'm on a different wavelength than everybody.
I'm programmed to kill.
You've got to stop me.
Attention all, please shoot me when you see
me.
Shoot to kill me.
I'm a monster.
I'm Beelzebub.
I don't want to kill anymore.
But the voice I hear, and he goes
on to tell how through the night he
heard a barking of dogs and lamenting and
cries.
It said, go kill.
He was reading a satanic Bible.
And he said, I was totally satanically possessed.
And he goes into prison.
He had ten years in isolation.
And after they released him from isolation, his
name was Berkowitz.
And he goes out on a cold winter
night walking in the yard, feeling he was
no longer on drugs and he was in
his right mind.
But you see, there was a prisoner in
his jail who began to pray for him,
plead that God would save him.
And he saw that boy, Berkowitz, walking in
the yard.
And he goes out and walks beside him.
And he put his arm on his shoulder
and said, I'm here to tell you, Jesus
loves you and wants to forgive you and
change your life.
And he gave him a pocket testament.
He began to read it.
And he says in his story that God
melted this hard, stony heart, melted me.
He just came up for parole recently.
And he writes a letter to Governor Pataki.
And this is a copy of the letter.
He said, I'm disappointed there's even going to
be a parole hearing.
I know the sentencing laws require a hearing
every June.
I mean, held in June.
But I have no interest in parole.
I've done nothing whatsoever to try to get
parole.
Frankly, give you no good reason why I
should ever be considered for parole.
The loss of six lives.
He said, I have God's help now.
Long ago I came to terms with my
situation.
And I've accepted my punishment.
But my faith has helped me to put
the past behind.
And he goes on and gives a testimony
to Governor Pataki.
Folks, he died and go to hell.
But somebody had a cry out of that
Sodom.
God save him.
No limits.
I'm not going to carry this any further
than that because I want to get to
the last cry.
The third cry out of Sodom that I
hear is the cry of Lot, Abraham's nephew.
You see, the angel comes in and has
to literally drag him.
Take him by the hand and his family
and pull them out of Sodom.
Certainly, Lot knew instinctively that this was the
Lord himself because the Lord was now in
the picture.
And they knew because he calls him Lord.
And they said, escape.
Run to the hills.
Get out of here.
It's going to burn.
And Lot says, oh, no, no, no, not
so.
Not so, Lord.
If I go to the mountain, I'll be
killed.
He's talking about, I don't know, a wild
beast or what.
He's about to be in a city that
burns and he's worrying about something on a
mountain.
He said, send me to Zoar.
That's just a little town.
There's just a little bit of homosexuality there.
There's just a little bit.
It doesn't compare to this.
Send me there and I'll be safe.
I'll save myself.
It's the very words that he said.
My soul.
My soul will be safe.
And he represents those Christians, those believers, this
selfish, self-centeredness.
No concern about the rest of society.
No concern about those who are about to
go into hell by the thousands.
Get me out of here, Lord.
Just keep me clean and wrapped for me.
Get me out of here.
My only obligation is to stay pure.
I'm in a wicked society.
I don't care what they do.
They deserve hell.
Let them go to hell.
But get me out.
And we've got thousands and thousands of Christians
worldwide.
Now, I believe in a second, sudden coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
With everything in me, I've preached it all
my life.
But, folks, that's all some Christians want.
They have no concern.
You can burn against sin.
You can burn against the sinner and cry,
Lord, all I have to do, I'll go
to church.
I'll go to Times Square Church.
I'll get fed.
I'll grow fat in Jesus.
And then, no suffering, no tribulation, nothing.
I'm going on the rapture.
Oh, no, Lord.
No suffering.
And I know I'm addicted to television.
I want to stay in Zoar.
So, on that day of the Lord, that
trumpet sounds.
We're going to have a sleepy church.
Oh, there'll be a holy remnant.
But, folks, my job as a pastor and
all these pastors, never once has God called
a true pastor just to hold a people
together just to make it through.
You can have your little groups waiting, just
waiting for the coming Lord.
I look every day for His coming.
He said, occupy until I come.
Occupy until I come.
Expand your borders and believe God for the
impossible.
Believe God that men dressed as women, cross
-dressers can come in here and get saved.
Come to this altar and get saved.
And not be rebuked and be loved.
Not for their sin, but in spite of
their sin.
And pray the worst sinners.
You hear about somebody that's in jail, prisoners,
some notorious.
Begin to pray for them.
Begin to seek God.
Send somebody, Lord, in prison.
There are a lot of Christian believers in
prison.
God, send somebody to them.
And if you start praying for the most
wicked sinners, you will not have that spirit
of wrath rising up in you.
You can't be a man of prayer and
pray for people and then have wrath against
them.
God, help us.
God has called me to go from this
church to be a representative.
This next year, I think it's this next
year, or the first of the following year,
we're going to New Zealand, Christ Church.
It's the furthest point on the earth from
Jerusalem.
Jesus said, go to the uttermost parts of
the earth.
I am believing God for the worst of
sinners.
I am not going to limit God anywhere
at any time.
And I'm going to start fasting and praying
for those sinners.
I'm going to fast and pray for America,
for this land of ours.
And folks, one day when I leave this
place, I'm leaving with an army behind me
of drug addicts and alcoholics and prostitutes and
homosexuals and lesbians.
A whole army.
And they're going to come marching into glory
saying, Jesus receives sinners.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
I'm closing now.
When I first came to this city, New
York, it was taken as a matter of
fact.
It was taken as a matter of a
social reality that no drug addict could be
transformed.
Once an addict, they said, always an addict.
Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
Once a drug addict, always a drug addict.
Boy, did God prove them wrong.
Thousands and thousands all over the world.
One of the major drug lords in Columbia.
One of the most vicious drug lords in
Columbia has been saved and now preaching the
gospel.
What about Nikki Cruz?
What about all of these sinners that had
somebody not been praying?
And folks, I want to tell you, like
Sonny Argonzoni, who was a drug addict walking
this city, and now he's bishop of some
50, 60 drug addict churches all over the
world.
But you see, he had a praying mother.
It was prayer.
And folks, if we're going to fast and
we're going to pray, we have no limits.
No parameters.
And God start laying some vicious sinners on
your heart.
Will you stand?
What about some of the relatives you think
are hopeless?
What about some of your children you think
are too far gone?
God give you faith.
God put some fight in you.
Hallelujah.
Now I'm going to give an invitation.
And it's a limited invitation.
A church this size, there's no way you
get to know everybody.
But in the annex, in the overflow rooms,
and here in the main auditorium, balcony and
elsewhere, you came here to this church either
by invitation or you heard about it, but
somehow you were brought into this house.
You may not know it, but that's the
work of the Holy Spirit.
Not because we think this church is so
great.
It is great in Christ, but not in
any human terms.
But you're here now.
You've heard the word of the Lord.
There are some of you that may be
measuring yourself and saying, well, I'm certainly not
a Charlie Manson.
I'm not a Berkowitz.
I'm not one of those kind you described,
Pastor.
But God doesn't measure sin like that.
Sin is sin.
In fact, he said if you have just
the evil thought, it's the same as the
deed.
Some of us need a mind cleansing.
You've been watching stuff and feeding your mind
and your soul on filth out of hell.
God said if you keep going that way,
it's going to destroy you.
But I love you.
And there are people praying for you in
this church.
Praying that the Lord change your life this
morning.
If you're in the annex or any of
those rooms, you go to the lobby upstairs,
right in that floor, second floor.
You go there and the ushers will show
you how to get into this auditorium.
If you feel the tug and the pull,
it's when the Holy Spirit, there is a
pull.
There is a conviction.
The Lord is saying, I see your sin
and I'm merciful.
That's what you've heard.
His mercy for you.
If you're homosexual, you can come.
If you're lesbian, you can come.
There's deliverance for you.
You can be set free.
Please don't come unless you're tired of your
sin.
Otherwise, it won't work.
I don't care what kind of sin you're
involved in.
I don't care if it's mental.
Because every drug addict I've worked with all
my life will tell you, my habit's not
in my skin.
It's in my mind.
The habit is in the mind.
You may have the enemy.
You may have something that's out of hell
trying to destroy your mind.
I want you to get out of your
seat.
If you're in the balcony, come down the
stairs on either side.
If you're in the auditorium, you come up
here.
There'll be people coming from all over the
place.
But you come only when you say, I
understand that, Pastor David.
I know God's speaking through you to me
now.
And I want to give my life completely.
I want my mind cleansed.
I want a new heart and a new
mind.
I want to walk out of this building
different than I came in.
I don't want to go out with the
baggies that I brought in here mentally.
I want to lay it down at the
feet of Jesus.
And I promise you, God, by His Holy
Spirit, will transform you.
But you have to make the move.
That's it.
Follow these that are coming.
And in the annex, go to the hall.
In any of those rooms, go to the
hall right now.
Step out.
And they'll show you how to get down.
I'll meet you here, and we'll pray for
you here in just a few moments.
Lord, look this way for just a moment.
We'll prolong it.
But the moment you are ready to open
your heart, Jesus said, I stand at the
doorknock, and if you just open, I'll come
in.
And you can trust God to do just
that.
He will come in.
And I'm going to pray for you, but
you have to.
I can't.
Let me put it this way.
I can't jump into your mind and jump
into your heart and do your praying for
you.
Or your confessing for you.
That's something that has to come out of
your heart and your own lips and your
own words.
I want you to just take a minute
right now and talk to Jesus.
I want you to tell Jesus that you're
sorry for your sins.
And I just want you to say, Lord,
forgive me.
Lord, I give you my heart.
I give you my sins.
In your own words, just say, I'm here,
Lord, to be in business with you.
I'm here to surrender my heart to you.
He said, if you confess your sins with
your mouth and believe in your heart, you
shall be saved.
Confess it to him.
Lord, you know what I'm doing.
You know what I've done, and I want
to be free.
Something like that.
Just tell him.
You don't have to fancy words.
Just simple words from your heart.
Lord, I'm here because I have a need.
I'm here because I want to be changed.
I'm here, Lord Jesus, because I heard your
word this morning.
I'm here, Lord, because my mind has been
tormented by the enemy, by the powers of
hell.
And I want to be set free.
All right, now I'm going to have you
pray a general prayer with me.
Would you just pray this out of your
heart right now, from the depths of your
heart?
You see, if you mean what I say,
they won't be my words.
They'll be yours.
I'm just like a pattern word, and you
take that and make it yours now.
Pray this prayer with me.
Lord Jesus, heal my mind.
Break the power that's trying to control me.
Now, Holy Spirit, destroy my sin life.
Kill everything in my life that grieves you.
Give me a new heart and a new
mind.
I believe that.
I believe it's possible, and I pray it
in faith.
Jesus, I believe your word, and I trust
your promises.
Now, send the Holy Ghost and power into
my heart and into my mind.
Jesus, control my life now.
Now, just thank him in your own words.
Just thank him in your own words, if
you will, please.
This is the conclusion of the message.