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The hunter from hell.
I can't tell you why he put this
on my heart, but the Holy Spirit sent
me to my office and said, get it
and preach it.
And so I'm going to do that.
Now I want you to go to Proverbs
6 chapter.
A familiar verse you've heard me repeat many
times in this pulpit.
Proverbs 6.
6 chapter of Proverbs.
One verse we're going to read.
Powerful verse.
I'm sorry, 626.
Proverbs 626.
For by means of a whorish woman, a
man is brought to a piece of bread.
And here's my message.
And the adulteress will hunt for what?
The precious life.
And the adulteress will hunt for the precious
life.
The Lord has made it very clear to
me that there are some people here tonight
that need this message.
And before I'm done, I want you to
be able to walk out of this church
tonight, understanding again how precious you are in
the sight of God.
Before I came into the service, I sat
in the back of the office and I
just began to drink it in.
The Holy Spirit was speaking to my heart.
How precious I am to the Lord.
How precious he is to me and how
precious I am to the Lord.
Until you understand your preciousness, and how he
loves you, and how he just hovers over
you, and how he's concerned about everything in
your life, you can't really make it in
these last days.
Heavenly Father, I pray that this evangelistic message
tonight will touch the hearts of those you
intended to touch.
Lord, you promised me sitting in the chair
right over here just a few moments ago
that you would anoint this, that you had
this message prepared tonight, that there are those
that are coming, that are going to be
in the service tonight that need it, and
even some who've heard it way back, Lord,
are going to have to be stirred once
again so that this truth will not be
lost.
Sanctify me.
Oh God, let the blood of Jesus Christ
sanctify our ears to hear it too.
Lord, speak mightily, we pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
You've heard of the hound to heaven?
We're talking about the hunter from hell tonight.
Talk to you about, first of all, an
angel who was one of the most spectacular
of all the angels, and he turned against
God in pride.
He was renamed Belial, or Satan.
But before he was cast out of heaven
for his pride, and this is what amazes
me, how he could seduce one-third of
all the angels of heaven.
Now, this had to be some kind of
an angel.
This had to be some seductive creature that
he could go in to the purest, holiest
creation on earth, the holiest of holies, and
how this angel could seduce, in a sinless
environment, how he could seduce one-third of
the angels and bring them down into the
pits.
It's incomprehensible to the human mind.
You talk about seductive power of Satan.
This is where it began.
How thou art fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning.
Thy pomp, meaning your majestic pride, is brought
down to the grave.
Now, when he was brought down, he became
a type of an adulteress, a seductress who
seduces.
And that is what Lucifer means, a seducer,
a seductress, an adulteress who tries to seduce
God's people.
And the Bible says the adulteress, that's the
devil, will hunt for the precious light.
He goes after those who are the most
beloved, the most valuable in the sight of
God.
In fact, the word precious here in Greek
is interpreted valuable, beloved, most highly esteemed, the
dearest, those most highly regarded for their spiritual
and moral quality.
The devil goes after those who have the
most potential for God.
He's a roaring lion, goes about seeking the
precious light.
Let me tell you, folks, even though some
of these things in my mind that I
tell you about tonight are back a number
of years ago, I've never forgotten them.
I think of these precious souls that I
have met over the ministry years that God
has called me.
I met a young lady before service tonight.
I think she said she met us in
a crusade in 1974.
Some of you attended our crusades, or you
read the Cross and Switchblade, you know the
background of this ministry.
I was reliving it today.
Some of those precious five teenagers up in
Harlem years ago, I was told that there
was a deaf mute gang and that they
were all heroin addicts.
And they took me and a young man
that knew sign language took me into a
little dilapidated room in Harlem.
And there in the corner was a teenage
girl, pretty little girl, probably 15, 16 years
of age.
And we went into the room and four
other young mutes, deaf mutes came into the
room and they were all signing to one
another.
They could not speak, they could not hear.
Fortunately, they could see.
But I had been in many shooting galleries,
but to watch five teenagers who were, they
could not speak, they could not hear.
And to see them boiling this stuff and
sticking it in their vein and then be
told that they supported their habit by mugging
and robbing and stealing and that there were
a whole gang of 16, 18 of them
in Queens, I believe it was.
And they were part of that gang coming
into Harlem to cop their drugs.
And I sat there and watched it.
And then, with the interpreter through signage, able
to witness to these children.
Folks, I remember my own thoughts at that
moment.
Lord, there's enough hell with them not being
able to speak, not being able to talk,
not being able to hear.
That's hell enough.
But how is it the devil was able
to get these kids when they were so
young?
I think the girl started when she was
12 years old.
And how?
Why?
How did it happen other than the fact
that the devil, the seductress, goes after the
precious life?
I remember leaving that shooting gallery, remembering how
I felt, how precious those young people were.
I lost touch.
I was never able to go back there
because they were from the Queens.
But I remember feeling that, oh God, and
tears in my eyes when I walked out,
how precious those young people are.
Not just because they're deaf or mute, but
because they seem so innocent.
They were not killers.
And all they were doing, really trying to
support their habit.
I remember in Brooklyn, a teen challenge, going
in the Red Hook 6 district to pick
up a teenage boy.
He said he was desperate, and I went
to pick him up.
And I went up a flight of stairs.
It's just like it was yesterday.
The mother's out on drugs.
There's no father in the home.
And I'm taking this boy.
He has a few belongings, and we are
about to leave.
And I look back, and there are two
little children sitting on a couch, three, four
years of age.
Little girl, little boy.
I said, what about them?
They said, this food there, and on the
kitchen table was a quart of warm milk
and some Oreo cookies.
I said, well, where's your mother?
They said, well, we don't know.
I said, you're leaving now, and you're going
to leave these children.
He said, they watch themselves.
They take care of themselves.
Three and four years old.
Folks, that's the time the devil goes after.
That's the precious life that Satan goes after.
We went back later, but the mother didn't
want us to interfere with the children.
She as well as said, leave me alone,
let me do it my way.
There was a preacher.
Somebody got a pastor from Brooklyn, came to
my office with two sons, two teenagers.
This man put his hat on my desk.
He said, Pastor, I never thought in the
world in my lifetime I'd be here in
your office.
I've heard you preach.
I've read your books.
I know all about your ministry.
He said, and I preached against drugs.
I preached against sin in my pulpit, and
I was called this week down to the
police station.
They had my two sons, and they had
them for possession and pushing heroin.
They rolled up their sleeves and showed the
marks on my boys' arms, and I discovered
my two boys were heroin addicts.
And he began to weep.
I remember him getting down on his knees.
He said, Brother Dave, I don't know what
I did wrong.
I have no idea what I did wrong.
These boys were brought up in Sunday school.
They used to sing the songs.
They used to love the Lord.
They got in with the wrong crowd, and
I remember they were sitting in two chairs
opposite my desk.
He got in the middle and turned, weeping
to both of them.
He said, Please, let Brother Dave help you.
Come into the center here.
Please, you're killing your mother.
She's going to die over this.
The mother had suspected marijuana.
She'd found something in the boys' trousers when
she was washing, but didn't suspect they were
mainliners.
He fell on the floor prostrate because those
boys just looked at their father with an
absolute hardness.
Hard-hearted.
Just teenagers and hard-hearted.
He laid on the floor and started to
weep, and he got up and walked over
his body and left.
I never forgot it.
And when they walked out, I said, God,
here were kids that were in church.
They knew all about you.
How did it happen?
The adulteress.
The devil goes after the precious life.
He goes after those who have the potential.
I think one of the saddest in all
my travels was a 17-year-old boy
that a teenage girl brought.
I think it was Indianapolis in the crusade.
That's when speed and LSD were sweeping the
country.
She brought to me a vegetable.
That's all he was, an 18-year-old
vegetable.
She had to lead him.
His hair had fallen out.
His teeth were rotting.
And he had just gotten out of the
hospital.
She said, Mr. Wilkinson, this is my boyfriend.
He said just a year ago, he was
a star on the football team.
He was a fine-looking young man, and
I still love him.
He went to a...
They won a game, and they went to
a high school party, and everybody was dropping
acid.
And they called him a coward if he
didn't.
He said, well, I'll just try it.
Someone had evidently mixed some strychnine with the
acid, and he just tripped out, wound up
in the hospital for months, out of his
mind.
He was only half there.
He could just grunt at me.
She said, he knows about you, Brother David.
If you'll pray, I think he'll respond.
I looked in his eyes, and I saw
nothing but hollow eyes.
I said, oh, God.
Where does it end?
Here's a kid who's never used drugs, never
been involved in anything like this.
I just got angry at the devil.
I got angry at drugs.
I got angry at our society.
And I said, oh, God, in Jesus' name,
heal him, open his eyes.
I lost...
I don't know what happened.
She let him off the stage.
I prayed, and I believed God, but she
just let him...
went down the stage.
But I've never forgotten, and I will never
forget him as long as I live.
I would love to hear whatever happened to
him.
But you see, the devil went after the
precious life.
He goes after the precious life.
That's what this is all about.
Some of the most wicked sinners on earth
were at one time the most precious children,
because the doctors hunts for the precious life.
Innocent children, just like yours, Dad, Mom.
Jesus said, for such is the kingdom of
God.
I believe that all children belong to the
Lord.
All children belong to the Lord.
He said, supper them, come unto me, for
such is the kingdom of God.
West Coast.
His name was Stanley.
And I was in a crusade.
And witchcraft and occult had swept all through
Oregon.
I think it was in Oregon.
A young man came up and introduced himself
to me at the altar area.
Dozens and dozens had come forward, and the
Lord was saving drug addicts and alcoholics from
the occult.
And he said, Mr. Wilson, my name is
Stanley, and I'm a witch.
And I'm over a cove in here.
And he said, I've been in witchcraft.
And he said, the reason I'm here, I've
got to have help.
He said, though I've worshipped the devil for
two years now, and I'm in this coven
of witches, and I am a witch.
He said, the problem is when you worship
the devil, you never believe that you will
be possessed by the devil.
And you don't think of demons, you just
think of the power that the devil can
give to you.
And he said, I went to bed the
other night.
And he said, while I was sleeping, about
to fall asleep, he said, I saw incredible
masses of demons massing around the ceiling.
And they were making a funnel, and they
were about to come in and possess my
body.
And he said, I got so frightened, I
yelled, Jesus!
He remembered something, and he cried Jesus, and
suddenly they all fled.
And he said, the next night it happened
again.
And he said, this time there were many,
many more.
They brought a whole legions of demons and
they were surrounding, they were just about to
leap upon me and possess my body.
I stood up in the bed and cried,
oh Jesus, help me, let me escape.
And they fled again.
And he said, I have, he came to
the meeting, this is the third night, he
said, I have got to give my heart
to Jesus.
I don't want to serve the devil, I
want to be delivered.
And I, he, the next night he brought
back, he brought to the meeting a whole
suitcase full of his witchcraft and paraphernalia, the
stuff that he used to worship the devil
and all of his books and his curses
and incantations, he brought them all.
He told me something, he said, Mr. Wilkinson,
when I was a little boy, about six
years old, I used to go out in
an open field with my Bible and preach.
He said, God called me when I was
a little boy.
You see, the devil saw the potential in
that boy.
The devil saw a precious life beginning to
develop and he went after him and seduced
him.
He goes after the precious life, those who
have potential.
I lost touch with Stanley, I don't know,
I do know for a while he went
under a great test and a great trial,
but I don't know the rest of it.
You know the story of Nicky Cruz, one
of 17 children, a home of witchcraft, his
mother a witch and his father into witchcraft.
And here's a little boy who used to
cry a whole lot until seven years old.
He hears his mother say he's an unwanted
son and cursed him.
And I heard Nicky, he was at Brooklyn
Tabernacle about three weeks ago and gave his
story and someone sent me a tape and
I listened to it and heard things I'd
never heard before.
But when he's this little boy, out of
17, the devil saw he was going to
be, the devil saw some potential.
The devil's not omniscient, he doesn't know what's
going to happen, but he can read activities,
he can read desires.
And here's a little boy that cries out
and wants to be different.
He calls out on God even though he's
in a home of witchcraft.
An amazing thing.
The devil can put that together.
Oh, 17 children, witchcraft, he gets saved, what
a testimony he would be against my kingdom.
The devil came against Nicky Cruz, never cried
again, chased him into this city and the
devil, the seductress, seduced him right in this
city, tried to destroy and kill him.
Thank God, he's a testimony for Jesus today.
Christian parents, you don't have to worry tonight
if you're sitting here and say, well, if
I have one of those precious children, do
I have to sit around worrying the devil's
going to come and pounce on them?
No, no, no, because you see, there's a
difference.
If you cover them with prayer, if you
will, that's why I warn parents, I warn
them everywhere I go, all my lifetime, don't
yell at your kids, mom.
There's nothing that kids hate more than that.
Almost every drug addict and alcoholic that had
a mother or grandmother would tell you, I
couldn't stand the yelling anymore.
You don't scream at them, you build a
wall of fire around them, you pray for
them, you minister the word to them if
they're precious and you see a heart for
God, minister to that.
Stand with it and pray with them.
You don't have to worry about the devil
taking them.
God said, you'll build a wall around your
children.
These others had no parents to help them,
they had no help in that direction other
than the preacher's son and those boys hardened
their own heart.
Have you ever wondered, mom and dad, about
any of your children that are in sin
today?
I had a mother tell me once and
it bothered me.
She said, I've got two good sons, one's
a doctor, the other's a bad apple.
What a horrible thing to say about one
of her children.
Now some of you, I had a pastor
friend who had three sons and two of
them, while they're growing up, seemed so on
fire and they were so involved in this
one black sheep.
In fact, they treated him like a black
sheep.
They mistreated this child.
It's almost, oh yeah, well, he'll just have
to make it his own way.
There was no attention given to this boy.
You know what I did?
And I knew it then, I told my
wife, I said, you watch, that's the one,
that's the precious one and those other two
showboat kids are not going to make it.
And this kid, who did nothing, the only
thing he had, it was in the country,
and all he had was a 4-inch
club and he had a cow that he
loved and showed at these 4-inch clubs
and he was so dumb, they thought all
he could do was brush a cow.
Oh, that kid is the one who made
it.
The other two, forget it.
This boy is on fire for good.
He wasn't a black sheep, he was the
precious one.
But if you ever wondered about your children,
the ones that are not serving the Lord
right now, have you ever wondered?
Have you ever thought there was an evil
seed in you or an evil seed in
that child and that's the reason the devil
got them?
That's the reason they're on drugs or alcohol?
I think you've got it all wrong.
You've got it all wrong.
Why did the devil go after that son
or that daughter?
Because of the preciousness, because of the potential.
The devil, the seductress, goes after the precious
life.
What about you?
Have you ever wondered why you had to
go through what you did?
Have you ever wondered why you had to
go through a period of life?
You're here serving the Lord tonight, I presume
some of you are not, but some of
you, most of you that are serving the
Lord, have you ever wondered why you had
to go through a time maybe on drugs
like our fellows here or those from Sir
House and you had that period when you
disgraced the Lord and yourself and you went
down to the very pits of hell?
You were at the gate of hell?
Have you ever wondered, did you say, well,
what kind of an evil person was I?
What terrible thing in me that the devil
could come and so easily trap me?
And how many people feel their absolute unworthiness
and think that there's some evil seed?
They feel that they never really feel comfortable
in the presence of God because of their
background, because of all the things they've gone
through and the devil plays it, replays it
in their mind and then when they're tested
and trialed after they get saved, they say,
well, you see, the devil will say, you've
got that evil seed in you.
You're no good, you're unworthy.
Have you ever thought that the reason the
devil dumped on you and the reason he
came after you with such ferocity, have it
ever entered your mind that the devil marked
you because he saw something in you that
bothered him?
He saw some hunger for God?
He heard a little voice cry out to
Jesus?
He saw you like a little Catholic boy
who used to just go into church and
he'd see Jesus there and love Jesus.
He didn't know anything.
He just, Jesus, I love you.
And the devil sees that.
What in your past that you don't even
remember and the devil saw your little heart
reaching out to God and he saw the
potential.
He saw that you were going to be
a threat to his kingdom and he dumped
on you, he come after you.
And by the way, the next time the
devil comes at you and he is trying
to destroy you and trying to dump on
you and lie on you and what did
you do?
Say, devil, what is there about me that
scares you?
What is there in my heart that bothers
you?
Why are you so determined to get me
down?
What do you see that I'm going to
do to your kingdom?
What do you see of faith in me?
What do you see of Jesus in me
that you have to try so hard?
Do you ever stop and think why he's
after you?
And why he's coming so hard at you
tonight?
You've been hunted down because you're precious in
the eyes of the Lord.
His eye seeth every precious thing.
Hallelujah!
God sees what you're going through.
You know, the holiest, most precious people on
earth are those who are tempted the most
severely.
The Bible said, Whom the Lord loveth, he
chastens.
But you could also add, Whom the Lord
loves, Satan hunts.
We're not to think it's strange when we're
tempted by fiery trials and temptations.
Remember Joseph?
Who could be more godly than this moral,
godly young man?
And the Lord was with Joseph, and he
was a prosperous man.
The Lord made all that he did to
prosper in his hands, and Joseph found grace.
The blessing of the Lord was upon all
that he did.
No sooner do we hear of how precious
Joseph is, how godly, how blessed he is,
and it says it came to pass after
these things, after all of these descriptions by
God himself of how precious Joseph is in
his sight, and how beloved, came to pass
after these things that his master's wife cast
her eyes upon Joseph and said, Lie with
me.
The adulteress hunts the precious life.
Now, folks, listen to me, please.
There were hundreds of men in that palace
because later, the Bible says, she called for
the men.
She could have had her choice of any
man.
She didn't want any man because this was
the devil incarnate, the devil in this woman
going after one life, one precious life that
was going to shake the kingdom of hell.
The adulteress went after what?
The precious life.
Satan will throw the most severe, horrible temptations
at you at the very peak of your
usefulness for God when you've never been closer
to the Lord.
I want to tell you something.
In all my years, when God blesses me,
when he draws me close to his throne
and he's revealing his heart to me, that's
when I get on guard because all my
lifetime, the greatest trials, the greatest temptations, everything
comes at the peak of your hunger and
usefulness for God.
When you have a whole heart set on
the Lord, the devil sees that.
He will seek to destroy every dedicated, devoted
Christian on the face of the earth.
The roof caves in and suddenly you develop
a fear.
Many people get a fear when they come
to this place.
The worst thing that can happen when the
enemy comes at you is to think that
you're less holy and less beloved or less
valuable to the kingdom of God.
You're being tempted not because God hates you
but because he loves you.
He allows it.
But I want to tell you something.
You know, God whispered to me just before
the service tonight.
He said, tell the people.
He said, first you take it and then
tell all the people in service tonight.
The devil can tempt you.
He can harass you.
But he can't have you.
He can't have you.
Was Job a holy man?
A righteous man?
And his righteousness attracted the adulterous, didn't it?
The devil stood before God when the sons
of men gathered and he says, he's just
serving you because you bless him.
You let me take away his blessings and
he'll curse you.
Your righteousness gets the attention of hell.
You get justified by faith.
You walk in his righteousness and your soul
is at rest and nothing frightens the devil
more than a Christian who is at rest
in the justifying grace of Jesus Christ and
his shed blood.
The devil doesn't get scared of Christians who
are rushing around in legalism and trying to
please God in the flesh.
That doesn't scare the devil at all.
He'll leave those people alone.
But he'll not leave you alone when you
have come into that rest.
He'll try to take that rest away from
you.
Hallelujah.
That's what he tried to do with Job.
Job was tempted so severely not because he
had sin in his life.
He was not a secret indulger.
He was not leaning toward the world.
He was precious in the eyes of God.
The Lord was testing him and Job was
able to say though he tried me I
shall come forth as gold.
Hallelujah.
What about God's own son?
Didn't the adulterers chase him in the wilderness?
Try to tempt him away from his Heavenly
Father?
Whose life is more precious than our blessed
Savior?
And yet you find the devil going after
him.
Now see, the precious life when it's seduced
by Satan and carried away captive has to
be redeemed.
The scripture says in Psalm 72 He shall
spare the poor and needy and shall save
the souls of the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit or
seduction and violence and their blood shall be
precious in his sight.
Beloved, your blood, your very blood is precious
in the sight of God.
Your very blood shall be precious in the
eyes of the Lord.
For he shall deliver the needy when he
crieth.
Whenever you are under the seduction of the
enemy, whenever the adulterers, Satan comes against you
with his lies and with his fears and
tries to condemn you out of the peace
of God and tell you you will never
amount to anything in God, that you're really
not precious in the eyes of the Lord
and that you're going to fall before it's
all over, the Bible says all you have
to do is cry.
For he shall deliver the needy when he
crieth.
The poor also and him that is helpless.
For God shall spare the poor and needy.
He shall save the souls of the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and
violence.
Their precious and precious shall their blood be
in his eyes.
Hallelujah.
Praise you Jesus.
For some reason or another tonight, the Holy
Spirit put it on my heart to bring
to this congregation the need, the absolute need
for you and me as his children to
know how delighted he is in us.
I look back over my walk with God
and so many of those years I never
had the peace.
I preached peace without having it.
I strived so hard, pleased the Lord never
felt like I was measuring up to what
he wanted.
Many times allowing unneeded fears, unneeded guilt and
condemnation and everything else, allowing the enemy to
run rampant through my brain.
I wish there had been a preacher somewhere
that had been able to tell me how
precious I was in the eyes of God.
That could bring my soul to peace and
rest in the finished work of Jesus.
And in this pulpit, we've been trying to
bring you that.
There have been times we stood here, we
preached a hard message.
We preached repentance, we preached forsaking your sins
and we preached that if anyone's a friend
of the world is an enemy to God.
But when you repent and when you turn
to the Lord with all of your heart,
you may not have it figured out you
may go through struggles, you may go through
battles and some of you are going through
that now.
And you get to the place where you
say, oh God, am I ever going to
understand it?
Am I ever going to feel your worthiness?
You don't have to feel your own worthiness
because if you sit around thinking you are
worthy, then you're going to go into despair.
But you have to rest in His worthiness.
He made you worthy.
You can go to God at any time
and say Jesus, bring my soul to peace
because I have no other plea but the
blood of Jesus and the faithfulness of my
Savior.
I have not arrived.
I don't want to tell you something.
My soul is at peace.
My soul is at rest.
And that's the one thing the enemy will
try to take from you and from me
is that peace and that rest.
And you know what brought my soul to
that rest?
That I am absolutely convinced of two things.
And with this I close.
I'm absolutely convinced that Jesus loves me.
And I am absolutely convinced that I am
precious to Him.
I am absolutely precious in His sight.
Not because of any good thing in me.
Not because I have any kind of talent.
Not because of anything in me.
Not anything.
I have nothing.
You and I have nothing to bring but
our simple childlike faith In closing, let me
say this and get ready now to open
your heart to the Lord in a special
way.
God doesn't do anything in vain.
God wouldn't have me...
I've only touched on the surface.
It used to take me an hour to
preach this message.
But I feel I've preached the part that
God wanted me to preach.
I've shared with you just a simple little
message.
But let me talk to you in the
Spirit now.
The Lord would not have delivered this to
you unless He knew what you were going
through.
There are some of you who need to
come up here tonight and just open up
your spirit and your heart to Him.
Because you've never felt worthy.
You've never felt worthy of His love.
You've never felt like you have arrived at
a place of peace and rest in Him.
You're always striving and you're always feeling like
you have messed up.
You don't measure up.
Everybody's passing you by.
You're weak.
And you're not making it.
When I look at the church of Jesus
Christ nowadays...
A pastor called today a Nazarene pastor.
Heartbroken.
He doesn't know what to do.
Because demonic powers have broken loose in his
church.
He believes there's a witch or some...
or some occultic people have crept into the
church.
He feels demonic powers in the choir.
His body's under attack.
Can't sleep.
And we're getting letters and calls.
In fact, I'm having my son Gary, if
there's a burden, and I'm having to call
many of these pastors and write to them
and try to help.
And I'm going to have to enroll our
staff in this very soon because it's getting
overwhelming.
And even the ministers are hurting so bad.
The people in the church is hurting so
bad.
Seems like just about everybody is hurting in
the churches all around us.
And there's some of you in this church
even right now that are hurting.
It's time to settle something right now.
It's time to receive the love of Jesus
Christ.
I don't care what you're going through right
now.
If you have a repentant heart and you
say, Jesus, I don't want to live in
my sin.
I'm sorry.
I have a repentant heart and I love
You.
Then you have got to receive that love
back in your heart.
You've got to understand You're precious in His
sight.
And stop trying to run around in your
flesh trying to do some good thing to
merit His love and attention.
You have His attention.
You have His love.
Rest in it.
Amen.
Just rest in that love.
Will you stand, please?
Hallelujah.
Heavenly Father, I pray tonight for those that
are standing before me.
I stand as a pastor tonight.
You have given me a heart now as
a pastor.
Lord, I hate sin more than I've ever
hated it.
And I will preach it faithfully as You
lay it on my heart.
As does Brother Carter.
But Lord, tonight I know every person standing
before me is lacking in this area.
Lord, You have got to help us to
be convinced by the Holy Spirit by the
Holy Spirit that we are Your children.
We are not illegitimate children.
We are Your real children.
Hallelujah.
We are Your children.
We are those that You created and You
died for, Jesus.
You blotted out our transgressions.
And we strive so hard to please You,
Lord, but we do it in our flesh.
We don't rest in what You did for
us and just simply by faith accept it.
Lord, I pray for those tonight that feel
wounded and hurt.
And I pray for those, Lord Jesus, who
don't feel very precious to anybody.
And especially to You, Jesus.
They have a feeling that You're mad at
them, that You've not opened doors for them
and You're not working in their behalf and
that somehow they must have hurt You or
wounded You and broken Your heart and so
You've had to set Your face on them.
No.
Lord, take that away tonight.
How You love the children of Israel.
Lord, the Pharisees mocked You.
They scoffed You.
And yet just before You left, You wept
over them and said, if You would have
only come, I would have gathered You under
my wings as a mother hen gathers her
little chicks.
You would have gathered them, even though they
mocked You.
Oh, Jesus, these are not mockers standing before
You.
These are Your children.
God, teach us to receive Your love.
Lord, if we have a knowledge of Your
love, we will love one another.
If we feel we're precious to You, everyone
around us will be precious to us.
Lord, there's not a soul in this city
that's not precious to You.
You love the lost.
Help us to love the lost.
But first, Lord, we've got to know that
You love us.
Lord, for those who don't know that yet,
those who are not walking in the peace
of that love, bring them to this altar
and fill them with love tonight.
Let them know how precious they are in
Your sight.
Holy Ghost, there's smoke in Your heart as
we sing together with this and I'll pray
with You.
We'll believe Jesus now to fill you with
the knowledge of His love so that you
can say, Lord, I know I'm precious to
You.
I am precious to You, Jesus.
If you're not right with Jesus, if you're
not saved, if you're back sitting, get out
of your seat and come.
If the Holy Spirit's drawing you, come and
join right now.
You know, I heard last week a drug
addict used to attend this church.
He's in jail.
And last week, he got so depressed that
God didn't love him anymore.
Nobody cared.
And in prison, he tried to hang himself.
A friend of his called us in the
office this past week.
Said he attempted suicide trying to kill himself.
And you know what that is?
That someone says, I'm no good or I'm
not precious to anybody.
I'm worthless.
I'm no good.
All those are lies from hell.
None of us are any good, of course.
Not in ourselves.
Hallelujah.
Just embrace Him, son.
Just embrace Him.
Sister, embrace Him.
The son behind Him.
Don't be afraid to let it out.
Brother, that's alright.
Hallelujah.
He's precious.
Lord, He's precious to you right now.
I want everybody that came forward to just
look up to Jesus and raise your hands
and let Him touch you right now.
The touch of Jesus makes everything different.
Don't be afraid to cry.
That's alright.
You know, I watched some of you just
walking around here, just watching some of you.
Some of you were crying.
I noticed some people around just reach over
and put an arm around you or touch
you on the shoulder.
And you know something?
If you have that kind of love, if
you've got that kind of love for people,
how much more does the Lord love you?
How much more does He care?
I talked to a young lady recently in
this church, just been coming for a while,
and she said, Pastor Dave, I'm having a
hard time meeting anybody.
And that's something, you know, 2,000 people
at a time and finding it hard.
That shouldn't be.
We should look at people and talk to
people and reach out to people because the
worst thing that can happen, people that are
lonely walk in here and walk out lonely,
feeling unwanted and unneeded.
God wants and needs every one of you
that are here now.
No care who you are, what you've been
through.
Loves you desperately.
Loves you wonderfully.
Hallelujah.
You know, folks, I have to tell you
the truth.
It's almost a shame that we don't love
people more, that we're not loving one another
as much as we should.
There should be such embracing.
There should be such encouraging.
There should be...
You should be praying, Oh God, today, every
time you come to Times Square Church, if
this is your church home, you should be
praying, Oh God, lead me to some of
those lonely people.
Lead me to somebody that needs just a
touch, a word, a friend.
If there's so many hurting people, the pastors
can't do it all.
It has to come from the sheep.
It has to come from the congregation.
That's great love.
The Lord's been trying to build a people
who are assured.
They're not running around in fear and dread.
There's a blessedness and a tenderness about them.
Because if we're really drawn closer to Jesus,
it's going to show in our relationships, it's
going to show around.
It's always going to show in the congregation.
It's going to show.
Hallelujah.
I wish there was a way.
I would like to just leap off the
stage and just hug everybody.
But I want to tell you something.
I don't have the strength, nor does Brother
Carter.
It's not just the pastors loving you.
It's the people.
The people to people.
Lord Jesus, say this with me.
Jesus, pray this with me.
Jesus, cleanse me.
Forgive me.
I am repentant.
I am sorry.
And I love you, Jesus.
But I need you.
Help me to understand how much you love
me.
You care about me.
You told me.
Cast my cares on you.
You said you'd care for me.
I accept that now.
Oh, Jesus, show me that I am precious
to you.
That you're not mad at me.
You're here to help me and lift my
spirit and deliver me from the devil's power.
I love you, Jesus.
Raise your hands and tell him you love
him right now.
I love you, Jesus.
I worship you.
I praise you.
I love you, Lord, with all my heart
and all my soul and all my strength.
I love you.
This is the conclusion of the tape.