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Matthew 24, 24th chapter of Matthew.
Let's begin with verse 44, please.
Are you glad you're in God's house?
Turn around behind you, in front of you,
and just say hello to your friends.
Hello, good to see you.
Yes, delighted to have you.
Visitors, welcome.
Eating and drinking with the drunken.
Matthew 24, beginning to read verse 44.
Therefore you be also ready, for in such
an hour as you think not, the Son
of Man cometh, who then is a faithful
and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made
ruler over his household to give them meat
in due season.
Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when
he cometh, shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you that he shall
make him ruler over his goods, but and
if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, my Lord delayeth his coming and shall
begin to smite his fellow servants and eat
and drink with the drunken, the Lord of
that servant shall come in a day when
he looketh not for him in an hour
that he is not aware of and shall
cut him asunder and appoint him his portion
with the hypocrites.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Eating and drinking with the drunken.
Heavenly Father, I thank you for your holy
word.
Your word is life and strength to us.
Father, I also thank you that we have
a hope this morning.
This city is hopeless, but we have hope
because Jesus is coming soon.
We look forward to the coming of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Father, I'm asking by your Holy Spirit this
morning in this service that you would make
us aware and awaken us to the truth
of your coming.
Lord, we have got to be stirred on
this truth.
We have got to be awakened to this
fact that Jesus said he's going to come
back in an hour that we think not.
He's going to come suddenly as a thief
in the night and that day should not
take us unawares.
Oh God, speak to us today.
Holy Spirit, break through to our hearts.
Let nothing hinder the word from finding its
place.
I take your authority over every demonic opposition,
every power of hell.
Nothing shall hinder the word that has been
anointed and sent by the Holy Ghost.
Lord, these are your very words.
I preach your words.
These are the red-letter words in my
New Testament.
They are from the very heart of God,
so I preach it with faith and confidence.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Eating and drinking with the drunken.
Probably one of the greatest tragedies in Christianity
today, I believe, is the apostasy concerning the
soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I honestly believe that those among us
here who are really looking for his coming
and yearning for it would be absolutely shocked
at the masses in Christianity today who no
longer believe in the coming of the Lord.
They have jettisoned that from their thinking and
their theology.
They are not looking for his coming.
They are saying he will not come in
my lifetime.
Our teachings now say he may not come
for centuries.
And so they have put away and out
of mind the truth of his coming.
We are seeing fulfilled right before our eyes
the warning of Peter, the apostle.
There shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking according to their own lust and saying,
where is the sign of his coming?
Where is the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of
time.
We are living that time when scoffers have
risen in the church of Jesus Christ.
These are not heathens saying it.
These are those within the church saying, where
is the sign of his coming?
Relax, he's not coming in your lifetime.
All things continue as they were from the
beginning of time.
But Peter still declares, but the day of
the Lord will come as a thief in
the night.
Say what they will, teach what they may.
Peter says the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night.
I believe with all my heart what the
Bible says and what Jesus says about his
soon return.
The Bible says in 1st Thessalonians 4, 16,
17, for the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout and with the voice
of the archangel, with the trumpet of God,
the dead in Christ arise first, then we
which are alive and remain shall be caught
up together in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air.
So shall we ever be with the Lord.
Hallelujah.
The Bible said these are the words of
the church that are meant to comfort the
body of Jesus Christ.
He said, wherefore, comfort one another with these
words.
Remind one another, preach it, talk about it,
think about it.
This is the comfort.
This is the hope of the church of
Jesus Christ.
And unto them that look for him, look
for him, expecting him shall he appear.
Makes me wonder if he's coming for those
who are not expecting him.
He said for those who look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin
unto salvation.
Paul in fact said there's a crown of
righteousness that's waiting for those who are looking
and yearning for the coming of the Lord.
There is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, not only for me, but unto
all them that love his appearing.
There is a crown of righteousness waiting for
all who are looking, yearning, loving his appearance.
Watch therefore, for you know not what hour
your Lord is coming.
We all be changed, the scripture says, in
a moment at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet shall sound and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible and we shall all
be changed in the twinkling of an eye,
the Bible says.
How many times a minute did your eye
twinkle, wink, in the wink of an eye.
We shall all be changed, the Bible says.
The trumpet shall sound, the dead shall rise,
then we alive remain shall be caught up
to meet him in the air.
So shall we ever be with the Lord.
I believe that.
Always believed it.
I'll die believing that or I'll be raptured
believing it.
I'll be carried away believing it.
Now let me show you the incredible danger
of not believing this truth.
First of all, Jesus makes it clear that
we're to live in constant expectancy of the
return of Jesus.
Therefore, be ready for such in an hour
as you think not the Son of Man
will come.
Therefore, let us not sleep as the others
do, but let us watch and be sober.
And those who say, my Lord has delayed
his coming, the scripture makes it clear, they
don't watch, they don't expect him at any
hour.
They begin to indulge in the flesh.
They begin to indulge in sin.
They're not looking for his appearance.
And all these admonitions of the New Testament
to watch, be prepared, be ready are of
no value.
They're wasted.
God wasted his breath, so to speak, on
them.
Has no meaning.
Why would you watch if you don't believe
his coming?
Why would you be prepared?
Why would you always be ready for his
coming?
The New Testament is filled with these admonitions
to be ready at any moment.
Now, Jesus offers proof that living in expectancy
of his soon return produces faithfulness in your
walk.
And it results in being wholly focused on
Jesus Christ.
No matter what happens to the society, if
you have ever uppermost in your mind that
Jesus is coming at any moment, any hour,
as he said he would.
This is a motivation to holiness.
It's a motivation to keeping focused on Jesus
Christ, no matter what happens in your day
and age.
Look at verses 44 again and 45.
Therefore, be also ready for in such an
hour as you think not the Son of
man cometh, who then is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler
over his household to give them meat in
due season.
Now, follow me, please, to give them meat
in due season.
That meat is Jesus Christ himself.
The Scripture makes it clear for my flesh,
Jesus said, is meat.
Indeed, and my blood is drink.
The Scripture makes it also clear.
Paul said our fathers did all eat the
same spiritual meat.
They drank the same spiritual drink.
And they drank the spiritual rock, which was
Christ.
He's talking about a faithful servant, his ruler
over his house.
Now, this body is the house referred to.
This is the temple.
This is the house of God.
Now, the Scripture says he is giving meat.
He's giving meat to the household.
It's not just his own body, but it's
the whole household of God.
Now, there's a very clear, simple message Jesus
is trying to show us in this.
This servant kept all defilement out of the
house.
You see, God has entrusted us when he
comes into our hearts.
This body becomes a temple of the Holy
Ghost.
He makes us ruler over it.
Paul was a ruler over his house.
He said, I bring my body under subjection.
I rule my body.
I bring it under subjection to the obedience
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I bring all my thoughts into obedience to
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because he's made me a ruler of this
house.
He gives me power to rule.
But we are, the Scripture says, to be
giving meat.
Scripture says he gave them meat in due
season.
He gave them meat.
This, first of all, is meat to your
family.
Meat to those on the job.
Meat to those that are in the body
of Christ.
This servant is not someone who's full of
bitterness.
He's not full of gossip.
This faithful, wise servant is not drinking and
eating the filth and the slop of this
world.
He is feeding on Jesus Christ.
He's eating and drinking the truth.
Here's a faithful servant who loves the Word
of God.
You don't have to beg him to read.
You don't have to threaten him to read
the Word of God.
He loves the Word of God because he's
feeding.
He's a faithful, wise servant.
And he knows that if he's going to
give anything to anybody, out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaks, he has
got to be full of Christ to give
Christ.
He can't give it to his family.
He can't give it to anybody on the
job.
Because you are what you eat.
And if you're eating Christ, you'll be giving
Christ his meat.
It's that simple.
This man is, he's the faithful person that's
coming to the house of God and can't
wait for the Word.
Hungry for the Word of God.
And he says, oh Jesus, by your Spirit
expose every hidden thing in my life.
Let your Word be a hammer and smash
every hardness in me.
There's a love for the Word.
There's a love for a holy conversation.
Not dirty jokes, not filthy stories.
But to hear the Word of God, the
conversation is pure because it comes out of
a heart that's feeding, eating and drinking Christ.
Hallelujah.
Jesus said, blessed is that servant.
And the Lord, when he cometh, shall find
so doing.
This is what our Lord desires for all
of his children.
To be always ready.
Always expecting his return.
Living on him.
He said, I am the bread of life.
He said, I am drink indeed, come and
drink.
All you that are thirsty.
Folks, you have to be thirsty to drink.
You've got to come to God's house every
service thirsty.
There's no such thing as getting too much
of the Word of God.
That is stupidity.
I've heard people say, well they've been over
preached.
You can't be over preached.
Not if you have a heart for God.
It's impossible.
Now, if you're not giving it out, that's
a different story.
But God gives it to you so you
can give meat to the household in due
season.
Having received it, I go out to the
hungry and I meet those needs.
But somehow, this wise faithful servant lost the
urgency of the coming of his Lord.
And a wise faithful servant becomes an evil
servant.
And I want you to see this.
Because this is the same man.
It's not two servants.
Now, some believe that.
But I believe with most of the commentaries
that this is the same man.
Because Jesus said, if that servant and also
this servant says, If my Lord, my Lord
is delayed His coming.
One who's always been an evil servant would
not call Him Lord.
So this is the same servant.
But something has happened to this man.
It's an amazing thing.
But and if that evil servant shall say
in his heart, My Lord delayed His coming.
Now, there's no question in my mind it's
the same person.
But even if you want to say that
there are two persons here involved.
You're going to see the awful consequences.
The fatal consequences of losing the theology of
the truth about the soon return of Jesus
Christ.
I believe Jesus can come in the next
10 seconds.
I believe He can come in the next
hour.
I believe Jesus can come at any time
in the twinkling of an eye.
I don't believe there's anything that hinders Jesus
Christ from coming for His church right now.
He can come in this meeting while I'm
preaching.
What a glorious thought that is.
What a wonderful truth.
But you see, there's a false doctrine that
has gripped this man's thinking.
The Lord's not coming soon.
I don't have to think about it.
There's a lot of time.
There's a lot of time left.
He begins to think.
In fact, the kingdom dominion teachers now the
gospel called the kingdom dominion.
I have read one of their books just
skimming through it.
And they say he may not come for
centuries, for hundreds of years.
In fact, one writer said, I would think
it's more like 10,000 years before he
comes.
We have to first conquer the whole earth
and bring it under subjection and set up
the kingdom of God.
Then bring the king back.
And that's why that same book suggests that
when hard times come, that you stockpile tobacco
and alcohol.
These same people.
The Bible said because of the lust of
their flesh, they say, where is the sign
of His coming?
When you even begin to think that Christ
is delaying His coming, it can be absolutely
fatal to your Christian walk.
The false doctrine of delay somehow got into
this servant's mind and became his absolute downfall.
First of all, he said he began to
say in his heart.
He's just thinking it.
He didn't even voice it yet.
But he gripped his heart.
He's not coming.
My Lord's not coming soon.
All of these co-workers of mine expect
many money.
They're running around and they're working so hard.
And they're striving so hard.
You see, people don't want to strive against
sin.
They don't want any more spiritual warfare.
They want to relax.
And we have a whole army of ministers
in the pulpit today.
Preachers of peace saying, relax.
You're OK.
I'm OK.
Relax.
After that thinking took his heart, the Bible
says he began to smite his fellow servants
and to eat and drink with the drunken.
Now, this servant is not eating and drinking
Christ anymore.
He's not into the Word.
He's bored with the Word of God now.
He doesn't want to hear anything about the
coming of the Lord because it's going to
ruin his lifestyle now.
Because you see, the world is creeping in.
The spirit of the age is creeping in.
This man's thinking is changing completely.
I've got all the time in the world.
You know, a lot of Christians today are
living for the devil and saying, well, he's
not coming right now anyhow.
But if I get sick and before I
die, I'll repent like the man did at
the cross.
The thief at the last moment said, take
me to Paradise.
You're the son of God.
I will repent on my deathbed.
Chances are you won't get that chance.
He began to smite his fellow servant because
now he's intoxicated with what has intoxicated his
society.
He's imbibing.
He's taking in now.
This man is eating and drinking entirely something
different than he's ever known before.
He shall begin to smite his fellow servants.
I call that the Saul syndrome.
Remember, Saul tried to smite his fellow servant
David because Saul had lost the anointing.
The spirit of God had left him because
of his compromise.
And David remained faithful to the Lord.
And Saul threw a javelin at him.
And he said when he threw it, I
will smite David even to the wall.
And David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways.
The Lord was with him.
Wherefore, when Saul saw that he behaved himself
very wisely, he was afraid of him.
And Saul thought to make David fall by
the hand of the Philistines.
You see, he had taken a fall.
He's no longer expecting the coming of the
Lord.
He's backslidden.
He is cold.
He's indifferent.
But you see, he looks at what he
used to be and what he's lost.
And he sees people going on for God.
He sees fellow workers all around him now
that are living at any moment, expecting Jesus
to come.
They're motivated to holiness and righteousness.
They're seeking God.
They love the Word.
And he uses his tongue to smite.
He will mock.
He will ridicule.
He'll get hard.
And he will accuse because just as Saul
was afraid of David, those who stayed true,
those who expect the coming of the Lord,
those who walk in righteousness are smiting.
They strike fear in the heart of the
compromisers.
There's nothing.
I've seen it in preachers.
I've seen it in ministers' conferences.
Those who are into pornography, those who are
living double lives and having affairs and all
of the things that happen, you can tell
the fear, the absolute fear of God, a
fear of those people, of the touch of
God in their life.
And, folks, when you lose this vision of
the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ,
you will absolutely grow cold and indifferent.
You will not feed on Jesus anymore.
You will not feel any motivation to read
the Word of God.
You will sit in God's house, but your
mind will be filled and satiated with all
the other stuff you've been feeding on.
Because only those expect the coming of the
Lord are feeding on Christ.
Some of you sitting here now, you've been
in this church quite a number of years.
You've heard message after message.
What are you eating and drinking?
Are you as much in love with Jesus
this morning while I'm talking to you as
you were a year ago?
Are you as hungry for the Word of
God, or have you put Jesus on the
backside of your mind?
He's back here somewhere, and you say, oh,
yeah, I believe him, I trust him, but,
you know, I've got all these things to
do.
I've got things in my life.
And little by little, you eat and drink
the other things of this world, and you
are not focused now on Jesus.
You are not eating and drinking, and the
only reason you would do that is because
you really don't believe Jesus is coming soon.
If you really believe Jesus is coming at
any moment, and you believe what he said,
be ye ready, you would not get spiritually
lazy.
You say, well, as long as I'm morally
clean, it's not enough to be morally clean.
All of our moral cleanness, if it is
not associated with absolute watchfulness, if it does
not motivate us to the love of his
return, it can become absolute rags.
Saul thought to make David fall, and this
is where it can lead you, that you
will try to bring everybody down to your
own cold, dead spiritual level.
Now, keep in mind, this servant is not
convinced the Lord's not coming, but he's still
ruler of the house, but he's lost control,
absolute lost control.
The fear of the Lord is no longer
there, it's gone.
What does he have to give anybody?
What does a man, if he's a father
and a husband, what does he have to
give his family?
You see, now he's eating and drinking with
the drunken.
Now, I'll explain what that means in just
a moment.
What kind of meat does he have to
give in due season?
To those on the job, to those in
the body of Christ, what does he have
to give?
Did you hear the news yesterday, St. John's
Episcopal Church in Brooklyn?
The pastor, who just a month ago was
in the headlines with a big baseball bat
in his hand, is supposed to have chased
off some people trying to rob the church.
Well, they moved into his office this week
and found out the church was a drug
den.
In fact, they caught him typing out his
sermon with a crack pipe in his mouth.
Now, I'm going to ask you, I'm not
condemning that man.
I pray God save him.
I pray God forgive him and save him.
We need to pray for the rector of
St. John's Church in Brooklyn.
But I'm asking you, what kind of meat
is coming out?
What kind of death?
Because death produces death.
What kind of life is coming out of
that?
You see, when you're not eating and feasting
on Christ, you don't expect His return.
You turn to the world.
You turn to its filth.
He shall begin to eat and drink with
the drunken.
Now, he's not going to bars and nightclubs.
That's not what he's talking about.
You see, that little box in your living
room?
Now, folks, I'm not on a soapbox.
But let me tell you where we're headed.
And I want you to listen to me.
Because I don't have anything to prove.
But I answer for your soul.
And let me tell you where we're headed.
You see, you can turn your living room
into the bar room.
In other words, when it says eating and
drinking with the drunken, it means that you're
eating the same food, drinking the same food
that's intoxicated the world.
They are intoxicated now with sports and entertainment.
I can't believe the intoxication.
You go to Dallas, Texas, when the Cowboys
are playing?
On Sunday morning?
If the service isn't over 12, if the
Cowboys are playing at 12 o'clock, they
dismiss at 11.30. And there's a screen
in the basement for everybody to go down
and watch the kickoff.
God can wait for the Cowboys.
There's an intoxication with sports in the United
States that is absolutely demonic.
We've got a basketball player now, who's become
popular because he wears green and blue hair.
And the more people, the more umpires he
hits with his head, and now he's kicked
a cameraman.
And his managers told him, I read it
in the papers, managers told him, the meaner
you act, the worse you act, the more
popular you are, and you're going to make
more money.
And they're lining up, all of these commercial
companies are lining up to give him millions
of dollars, and they love it now.
And he's becoming a hero.
He said, oh brother Dave, come on, sports,
that's innocent.
It can become so addictive that you begin
to eat and drink with those who are
drunken with entertainment, and you can bring those
videos into your house and get so involved
in eating and drinking.
And folks, I'm going to tell you, this
begins to satiate the mind.
It begins to affect your thinking.
Now, he's eating and drinking, he's not thinking
about the Cowboys, he's not thinking about wasting
hours in sports.
Do you know there are some Christian men
that go home, they make sure they get,
if their church has three or four services
on Sunday, they get to the earliest service.
They hope it was six o'clock in
the morning, so they can go for their
little hour religion.
And then they go all day long for
football games, basketball, and sit there sucking potato
chips.
And not one thought of spending an hour
along with Jesus in the Word.
I know men who are Christians, even preachers,
not preachers so much, but I know people
who, men, who can't memorize two verses, but
they can tell you that every basketball player,
every football player, their height, their weight, and
their statistics.
Now folks, I'm not trying to be facetious,
I'm telling you that's a shame.
And that's what's happening in the body of
Jesus Christ today.
Sports, it can kill you, it can rob
you of your spiritual life.
You eat and drink with a drunken.
I'm not saying it's a sin to sit
there occasionally, but you had better balance your
time.
You had better be giving God your first.
Do I hear a whole lot of wives
saying, Amen, Pastor, they give it?
Well, let me talk to you.
Sister, what are you eating and drinking?
Are you eating and drinking with the drunken?
There's nothing filthier than soap operas, nothing.
Nudity, filth, adultery, fornication.
And I'm going to look you right in
the eye and tell you that if you're
sitting there when Jesus comes, and you're watching
that filth, how do you expect to come
out of that cesspool suddenly into the arms
of Jesus?
Come on now.
How do you sit there and watch those
talk shows that are nothing but slop from
the very pits?
Absolute filth.
And you're going to feed on that?
You're going to drink that drink?
You're going to eat that food with the
drunken and get intoxicated with this?
And you come to the house of God
and you still think what's going to happen
to Mary because she's in her third husband?
And you're going to sit here, all these
things going through your mind.
Praise the Lord.
This is the end of side one.
The Internet.
Folks, no more clapping, please.
This is life and death.
If you think I'm putting on a show,
then you're missing the whole point.
The average time a person spends now, according
to New York Times, in front of their
computer is 35 hours a week.
Average.
35 hours.
And now there's an attempt to say this
is one area that will never be censorship.
Do not censor the information highway.
No, folks, it's about to become the highway
of hell.
And it's already on the way.
I'm telling you what's coming is going to
be indescribable.
There is going to be such pornography and
filth on the Internet.
It's going to be totally uncensored.
And it's going to be the eye and
door of hell itself.
The eye and door.
Thank God for the technology.
It can be used for the glory of
God.
But the enemy has come now.
Do you have a computer?
Have you sanctified it?
What are you eating and drinking from that
computer?
Come on, what are you eating and drinking?
And I say this for the young people
especially.
Ten years ago, I couldn't have preached this
because it wasn't there.
But you see, the devil has already.
Let me tell you his strategy.
He wants it totally uncensored.
He's got to have one media avenue that
is totally uncensored.
And so here we are.
First of all, we're legalizing marijuana now.
We're legalizing it.
That is going to lead us now into
growing it.
It's going to become a big cash crop.
And anybody is going to be able to
get it now.
Marijuana is going to sedate and mess up
the minds of a whole society.
We are going to pass euthanasia.
It may have a little legal setback for
a while, but soon we are going to
legalize assisted suicide.
And to the point that it will even
be recommended and offered for those who have
depression and mental disorders.
And if a man, for example, doesn't love
his wife anymore, and she's a little mostly
disturbed occasionally, and if he's got enough money
and the right doctor, he can have an
assisted murder in his hands.
That's where we are going.
And it's right at the door.
And I'm shocked that the number of Christians
even who are into this believe in it
and pushing it.
Folks, what we're going to see soon, very
soon, Here's what the Holy Spirit was speaking
to me last night.
Within the next 10 years, should Jesus not
come, it is going to be so beyond
anything you and I see today.
Folks, what's happening right now, we've got people
in the United States, in Iowa, little farms
in Iowa, little shacks in Kentucky, out in
the lonely plains of Texas, West Texas, and
all over the United States, a little 12
-inch disc now.
You can bring in anything from all over
the world.
We have grandmas and grandpas who never saw
a dirty thing in their lifetime, sitting watching
pornography, watching filth, preachers, politicians, farmers, young people.
It has gotten so bad that even the
politicians are asking for a little chip.
But folks, that's not going to do it.
There's a new disc coming out, a little
6-inch disc.
And this disc, they say, is going to
have a movie on each side.
The same movie, a PG version on one
side, the X-rated, R-rated on the
other side, but you have to buy, it's
all on one.
It's the devil's subtle way to get it
into your house.
You say, oh, I'm buying a PG disc.
But then on the other side, the devil
has gotten into your house so that he
gets you to eat and drink with the
drunken.
And folks, this is coming.
It is speeding down upon us so much
so that I was praying last night, and
here's what I see, that rape is going
to lose its sting.
It is literally going to be glorified.
Not only that, but 12-year-old girls,
11, 12-year-old girls will be featured
in major theaters and movies in X-rated
movies.
They already have one that they're trying to
get released, an updated version of Lolita, they
call it.
I was reading in the paper, and it
involves a 12-year-old girl.
This is where we're headed, folks.
And I'm telling you, it's going to, you're
going, if you are drinking and eating at
the wrong table, if you start eating and
drinking with the drunken, you will not make
it.
I say it again, you will not make
it.
I think of my grandchildren, 11 of them.
I think of your children in this church,
your little children.
And I say, Lord, if you don't come
within the next 10 years, I believe you're
coming in a moment, but if you should
wait until another 5 or 10 years, God,
how do my grandchildren stand against this moral
invasion, this moral landslide that's coming, that's accelerating
so fast?
Oh, folks, we have people now watching stuff
that 10 years ago would have made them
vomit.
They would have literally gone out of the
living room and vomited.
And now they sit there drinking it in,
wanting more.
Where will we be down the road as
it accelerates, according to Leviticus, 7 times, 7
times, 7 times.
And what do we do with our children?
And I pray so many times, oh, God,
what do my grandchildren do?
How are they going to stand?
How are all the children in Times Square
Church?
How are Christian children, our children, our grandchildren,
how are they going to stand?
Because Jesus says, the Bible says, clearly evil
men are going to wax worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived.
And you and I cannot sit here now,
if we had the full vision, we would
all be on our feet weeping or on
our knees and on our face if we
knew what's coming.
And we have a whole generation of young
people now from Christian families, they're going to
face this flood.
How are they going to make it?
Now, let me tell you what the Holy
Spirit told me.
Hallelujah.
First of all, you must have in your
home a renewed vision of the soon return
of Jesus Christ.
There has to be a cry in you
so that your children hear it.
Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.
That's the cry of the Holy Ghost.
Folks, I was born and raised in this.
I was raised.
I was raised with this message.
We expected Jesus to come any day.
Camp meeting days, when I was a boy,
Oh, there were some nights that I would
just go out to power.
God would come down and people would be
crying out.
Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.
And I thought he was coming that night.
I never wanted to do anything wicked because
my mom said, David, Jesus is coming.
Do you want to be anywhere doing anything
that displeases him?
I said, no.
And my mom could always tell if I
did something wrong.
I didn't have to say anything.
She'd come in.
She said, David, what if the Lord had
come?
And I'm standing.
Who told you?
There was a motivation.
There was a yearning.
There was a way.
Yes, there's some fear mixed in because the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom.
And all these people said, well, you can't
serve the Lord with fear.
Well, you better believe I do.
Oh, the fear of God.
The glorious, marvelous fear of God.
Thank God for it.
By the fear of the Lord, men depart
from evil, the scripture says.
And this has to be uppermost in your
mind.
If you don't have this truth burning and
alive, a flame in your hearts.
And, oh, Jesus, I believe that you can
come at any moment.
I want to be prepared.
Oh, God, by your Holy Spirit, enable me.
Give me power to live for you.
It's not the fear of going to hell.
It's the fear of failing a loving Savior
who loves you and died for you.
Christians who truly believe that he's coming, they
will watch.
They will pray.
They will yearn for him.
And I'm going to tell you, you really
don't believe the Lord is coming at any
time.
If you're living a lazy, apathetic Christian life
right now, you really don't believe he's coming.
And secondly, no matter how vile and wicked
society becomes, anyone can and will stand if
they eat the right food and drink the
right drink.
Listen to me, please.
Your children, you say, Pastor, how are my
children going to make it?
First of all, you're going to teach them
about the coming of the Lord.
I believe you should do this every single
day.
We made that clear in our family.
My children all believe in the imminent return
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we'll be preaching it more and more
from this pulpit.
Jesus is coming and he's coming soon.
Hallelujah.
And I want to be watching.
I want to be waiting.
I want to be ready.
Hallelujah.
And that means I want to be eating
the word of God.
I want to be feasting on Jesus.
I want to be drinking, being satisfied.
I want all my thirst satisfied in him.
Folks, when it's all said and done, you
see, when you get to in your mid
-60s, so many of your friends are dying.
You know, they're maybe 10 years older than
you.
And you see them dying left and right.
And you begin to see, hey, all that
is in this life.
Thank God for family.
Thank God for friends.
Thank God for his blessings.
But this is not the real world.
This is not the real world.
We're going somewhere for eternity.
This is just a little piece of eternity
cut out called time and space to repent.
A little time and space to prepare our
hearts for the glory of God that awaits
us.
I'm not living for today.
Why would I trade this for a few
moments of pleasure?
That's why Moses said he'd rather suffer the
children of God than to enjoy the pleasure
of this earth but for a little season.
I'm not trading that for anything in the
world.
Hallelujah.
But if you're eating and drinking this filth,
then you really don't believe that he's coming.
Now, let me tell you in closing, something
bad may be even worse than putting the
coming of the Lord out of mind and
not believing in his imminent return.
And that's to say, I believe it and
yet not live up to its warnings.
In other words, I believe the Lord can
come at any time.
I believe Jesus can come at any time.
And yet you continue in your sin.
You continue carrying on that little secret thing
that God's been dealing with.
You say, I believe Jesus is coming.
If you really believe that Jesus is coming
and that you have to stand before him
and give an account.
You're going to stand before him.
It's appointed unto man once to die after
this, the judgment.
And folks, we're going to go to the
judgment seat of Christ.
We're going to stand before him as believers.
Now, I want my last days.
I want it whenever he takes me or
if he should come today.
I want to be able when I stand
before him to stand there with joy.
Unto him was able to keep you from
falling and present you faultless before his throne
with exceeding great joy.
I want to be there before him and
say, Jesus, it's not on my goodness.
It's not on my merits.
It was your blood.
I've trusted in the justification, sanctification of the
Holy Ghost through the blood of Jesus Christ.
But Lord, you kept me.
You fed me.
The word of God was my life.
Hallelujah.
You convicted me of my sin.
I listened to the ministry of the word.
The word of God was a knife that
cut and I yielded to the surgeon's knife,
Jesus.
And now I stand before you with exceeding
great joy.
Hallelujah.
I'll tell you what those who stand before
the Lord like that.
I don't believe you're going to stand before.
I believe you're going to leap before the
Lord.
I believe you're going to be shouting before
the Lord.
What a shot that's going to be.
No, I think it's why he's coming with
a shout.
That's the saints.
That's all of us shouting at the wonderful,
glorious truth that we have been redeemed.
He's kept us.
You are what you eat.
Spiritually, will you stand?
Is your living room a bar or is
it a tabernacle?
I think the one thing that breaks my
heart more than anything else is to look
out over congregation.
The people that we love dearly.
And to know, absolutely know beyond a shadow
of a doubt, some of you are going
to be damned.
You're not going to be saved.
Lord's going to bind you hand and foot
and cast into outer darkness for an eternity.
And your hell is going to be so
much more terrifying than the heathen.
Because the Bible says, to whom much is
given, much is expected.
You've given so much preaching.
You've heard so much.
Do you think that a pastor is mad
at you for really digging deep into your
soul and provoking you?
Maybe even getting you angry?
That's love.
That's the love of God.
Sadly, some of you who can look at
Brother Carter, you can look at me.
You say, I love my pastors.
I love these men.
But you're still going to hell.
You're going to die and go to hell.
Because you have never fully yielded.
You're still not, you don't even pick this
up at home.
You're not into it.
You never get alone with him and seek
him.
You're not eating and drinking, Christ.
You've not become that faithful, wise servant.
You still speak doubt.
You speak on belief.
If you loved him and you believe he's
coming, you'll run to him.
The Bible says absolutely, the law is meant
to bring you to such a state of
helplessness and terror that you're driven to Christ
and his mercy.
And preaching like this is intended to become
a law to you that exposes your laziness,
exposes everything that's unlike Jesus in you to
produce a holy terror that you would say,
I will run to his mercy.
His mercy is for those only who have
already been convicted of their sins and admit
I've sinned and know that their sins are
going to damn them.
And once you know that, you run to
Jesus and that's when his mercy is given
to you.
He floods you.
That's when the peace, that's when the miracle
happens.
And that's why there's not much conviction in
the church anymore.
That's why people are not really turning to
the Lord with all their heart, because the
law of the Lord has not been laid
down as a mirror to convict them of
their sins.
There has to be conviction.
And if you're here this morning and you're
convicted, there's something turning and twisting in your
heart.
This wasn't to be cute this morning.
This is to tell you if you've been
sitting there drinking schmuck, lay it down.
I'm telling you, you're going to go to
hell, folks.
This is not a game.
It's your eternal soul.
And I will not stand before my maker.
I'll not stand before my blessed Jesus.
I tell you, I will not.
And have anybody's blood on my hands when
I stand there and you were there beside
me to let you know in all love.
I told you Sunday morning I preached about
his coming.
I talked about that stuff you were drinking
was going to damn you.
I prayed that you would turn.
I begged you.
I pleaded.
I did everything.
I use God's hand.
I use this law.
I use this mercy.
You don't pay me for this.
Nor Brother Carter.
Are you ready to meet him now?
If Jesus comes at noon in ten minutes,
say, oh, brother Dave, those are old fashioned,
older techniques from a century ago.
No.
I don't care what anybody calls it.
I'm after your soul.
If you're here, the balcony, the main floor,
and you're not right, if you're not ready
to meet Jesus.
Now, folks, some of you've been running down
here for every invitation.
I don't want you to move this morning.
You've been coming for every invitation.
Are you saved or aren't you?
If you're saved, why are you running down
here all the time?
I'm reserving this this morning for those who
know in their heart they're not right with
God.
They are not.
If Jesus comes now, you know it in
your heart.
You know it.
If you're right with God, there's a peace
flood in your heart.
And it's not a false peace.
It's a genuine peace of the Holy Ghost.
And there's something in your heart says even
so, Lord, come right now.
Come.
That's the cry in my heart.
Jesus, come right now.
I know I'm ready.
I know in whom I believe.
I'm persuaded.
He's able to keep me.
Hallelujah.
Up in the balcony, in the main floor,
if you are not ready to meet Jesus,
I want you to get out of your
seat and come here now and say, Jesus,
and if you've been eating and drinking the
wrong stuff, you say, Lord, I want to
lay all that down.
And if you have an addiction of any
kind, bring it to Jesus right now to
be broken and set you free right now.
All over the house, up in the balcony,
you go to the stairs on either side.
And here, the main floor, just come right
now.
I don't care if ten people came.
I want those.
I want those in this audience right now.
Nobody needs to know why you're coming.
No one's going to ask you anything or
say anything to you.
You come as the Holy Spirit draws you.
Holy Spirit, come now.
Holy Ghost, breathe on this congregation.
Folks, let's pray.
There are people here who need to get
right with God.
People need to lay their sins down.
Lord, have your way.
Holy Ghost, come and breathe.
Breathe conviction.
Lord, let conviction come.
And when we're convicted of our sins, Lord,
when we're convicted of our sins, we can
run to you and find mercy and grace
to help in our time of need.
Wherever you're at, come join these that are
coming right now.
I know many, most of you, love the
Lord passionately.
You truly love Him.
But if you're that wise and faithful servant,
and little by little, some of this eating
and drinking is creeping into your life, will
you deal with it now?
Will you deal with it now with the
help of the Holy Spirit?
The Lord's not mad at you.
He holds a mirror up.
He says, look what's happening to you.
Look, you were that wise, faithful servant.
Don't become that evil servant to eat and
drink with the drunken.
Folks, don't let the spirit of this age
get into your heart.
Put a wall of the Holy Ghost.
Ask for that wall of the Holy Spirit
around you.
You can still come.
While I'm still talking, you can come.
God bless you.
Amen.
You that have come forward, look this way,
please, all of you that are here now.
The wonderful thing about coming to Jesus is
that He said, if you come to me,
I'll never cast you out.
I'll never put you aside.
Hallelujah.
The reason you came forward, I hope, is
because something stirred.
There's an awakening in your heart and said,
I have to deal with this.
I have to do something about this.
And if you will right now, the Lord
will come.
He will cleanse you.
He'll forgive you.
And then if you ask and believe, the
Holy Spirit will come to give you the
power to deal with every attack of the
enemy.
But there's going to have to be decisions
you make.
You're going to have to turn off that
box.
You're going to have to say, no, I
will not do this.
There has to be a determination of your
will.
You have to make up your mind while
you're standing here now.
I am not going to eat that stuff.
I'm not going to drink that stuff.
I'm not going to watch it.
And I'm not going to listen.
I'm not listening to stuff that feeds my
mind.
And I will get into the word.
I'll have a time with seeking the Lord
in prayer.
I want to feed my soul.
I want the meat of Christ in me.
Hallelujah.
I want you to pray this prayer with
me.
First, let me pray with you.
And then you pray with me.
Father, I pray now for a miracle of
deliverance for all of these who came forward.
Lord, I pray that Holy Ghost conviction go
deep.
Let the knife cut down till it gets
to the disease.
Till it gets down to the root.
Lord, cut the root of the sin.
Lay the axe to the root.
Holy Ghost, only you can do that.
I preached your word.
Now, Holy Ghost, you have to accompany that
word.
And you have to make it life.
You have to deal the death blow to
sin.
God, we do this only because we want
them to come into freedom.
We want them to enjoy Jesus.
Let nothing stand in the way of having
a marvelous blessing in favor of the Lord.
I want you to pray this prayer with
me right now.
Jesus, I come to you to be cleansed,
to be forgiven, and to be changed.
I need a new mind.
Oh God, forgive me for eating and drinking
the wrong food and the wrong drink.
Give me strength and a desire to feed
on Christ and His word.
To pray and to seek the Lord with
all my heart.
Forgive me, Jesus.
I know you're coming soon.
I want to be ready.
Touch me, forgive me, cleanse me, and give
me this hope.
Now, let me pray for you again.
Father, you said out of the abundance of
the heart, the mouth speaks.
And we pray this humbly.
And we believe, Lord, that the good work
that you've begun, you will finish.
It's the work of the Holy Spirit.
I have nothing I can say at this
moment that can change any life.
It has to be the Holy Ghost.
It has to be the word of the
Lord.
Now, God, I pray that those who came
down here, they don't have to cry a
river of tears.
They don't have to make you a lot
of promises.
But, Lord, they have to make themselves a
promise.
By God's grace, I will obey whatever Jesus
tells me to do.
I will not let filth come into my
eyes and my ears.
I will watch what I eat and what
I drink.
I'll turn to the Lord this morning for
renewed heart.
In Jesus' name.
Hallelujah.
Now, I want everybody in this congregation to
pray this prayer with me.
Everybody, Jesus, forgive me for eating and drinking
the wrong food and drink.
Oh, Jesus, be my meat.
Be my drink.
I focus on you.
I ask forgiveness and for cleansing.
In Jesus' name.
Now, thank Him right now.
Thank you, Jesus.
I give you thanks.
Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah.
This is the conclusion of the tape.