This message is one of the Times Square
Church Pulpit Series.
It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times
Square Church in Manhattan, New York City.
Other tapes are available by writing World Challenge,
P.O. Box 260, Lindell, Texas 75771, or
calling 903-963-8626.
None of these messages are copyrighted, and you
are welcome to make copies for free distribution
to friends.
I think before I preach, talk to you
about Y2K.
Now, you know that we have been, for
a number of months, warning from this pulpit
that there should be preparation.
We had suggested it'd be nice if you
can put away food and water for 30
days or 60 days.
Many of you can't do that in a
very small apartment, especially if you're in a
one room efficiency apartment like many are.
You have maybe a little space under the
bed, but you can't find space.
Let me tell you, this is not a
prophecy or anything.
Let me tell you what I feel, and
I've talked this over with some people that
are well known all over the country.
If I mentioned the names, you would know
them in business and in religious realm.
The way I feel, and others have been
praying, feel that it may not happen July
1st.
There may not be major breakdowns.
I don't think the lights are going to
go off in Times Square here.
There'll be two and a half to three
million people, they claim.
By the way, folks from Times Square, don't
come near Times Square.
The reason we don't have services New Year's
Eve is because you can't even get near
the church in the first place.
We have to bar it up because it
gets wild now, break windows.
Last year at that time, someone broke in
and couldn't get out and busted windows, and
we're going to have to lock up the
place.
It's getting to be a drunken spree, and
you know what's going to happen this year
in a drunken orgy.
We prefer you not be anywhere near Times
Square.
I believe in Russia, the United States government
has already put out the word that Americans,
even embassy people, can come home before January
1st, and they recommend nobody go near Russia
for the whole month of January.
If there's nothing to worry about, why would
they be suggesting that?
Britain has already declared a bank holiday for
December 31st, I think January 3rd or 4th.
There could be a rush on the banks,
but we've been recommending what I recommend, and
I feel an obligation as a pastor of
this church to lovingly warn you that you
should have at least a week, two-week
supply of food and especially water.
If there's going to be a breakdown, it'd
be with the water.
It'll come back online, of course, but I
believe it's going to be a cumulative thing.
It may be April or May before the
cumulative effect hits this country, but when Japan
isn't even 30% compliant, when Russia hasn't
even begun, other nations of the world and
a trillion dollars a day in transit through
computers, and there are going to be mix
-ups.
I don't know if you heard about it
or not, but one of the states already,
their computers they had tested said it was
compliant, and people have been getting.
It went back to 1900, and people, instead
of getting a title for their car, got
a title for horse and buggy.
Did you read it?
They were compliant, they said.
It could get very scary by March or
April and into May, the cumulative effect, and
I think what may happen is that the
first week or two, it seems to be
because probably the United States is about 90
-95% compliant, but that 5% could
be disastrous, and nobody knows.
I don't think the things in your home
are going to break down.
Elevators they can fix quite quickly, so don't
worry about getting stuck in your apartment elevator
for too long.
I got stuck for 45 minutes, so I
spent time praying, got on my knees, and
the people come to the monitor and say,
look at the guy up there, and I
got down and said, you're the first person
who didn't complain.
I said, well, I had 45 minutes with
the Lord, but I'll tell you what, folks,
you and I are not to be afraid.
We are not to fear anything, because we
have an almighty God, but there will be
a run on ATMs, and I know some
of you can't, but if you can put
a few hundred dollars away, whatever you can,
put it there in case those, because here
in New York, people live day by day.
People don't store food, and as you know,
there's only a three-day supply of food
in the city.
You know what happens when a storm is
about to come, and within an hour, they
clear out their and if people don't get
their SSI checks or their welfare checks, the
city will be in turmoil, but folks, I'll
tell you what, the food that you store,
you can always, if you, see, after five
or six months, the storm passes, you can
use it or give it to the poor,
so you lose nothing, all right?
I just felt I had to say that
to you before I proceed with the word.
My message this morning, governed by the word
of God, governed by the word of God.
Go to Isaiah, the ninth chapter, please.
Isaiah, the ninth chapter.
Nobody comes to Times Square Church without their
Bible.
Nobody.
If they do, they're noticed.
It's not long until they do, so look
around.
You've seen nobody with a Bible.
They're visitors.
Again, to you visitors, welcome.
God bless you.
We trust that when you leave here, you'll
know you've been in his presence.
The ninth chapter of Isaiah, governed by the
word of God, starting ninth chapter, verse six
and verse seven.
For unto us a child is born, and
unto us a son is given, and the
governance shall be upon his shoulder.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace,
there shall be no end upon the throne
of David, upon his kingdom to order it
and to establish it with judgment, with justice
from henceforth and forever.
The zeal of the Lord's host, the Lord
of hosts, will perform it.
The Lord sent a word unto Jacob and
has lighted upon Israel.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we heard what Pastor Carter said
previously in this very service, that in these
days we need to be anchored in the
word of God.
We need to be clinging to the word
and know the word of God, because it's
going to be the only rudder.
It's going to be the only compass in
the days ahead.
Lord, I pray that you bring forth out
of my lips and out of my heart
what you've implanted.
Spirit of the Lord, I got this from
you.
You put this in my heart, and I
ask you, Lord, to bring it forth with
your unction, with your anointing.
Lord Jesus, let us hear what you have
to say.
Not what I have to have to say,
but what the Spirit has to say.
He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear what the Spirit has to say.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Isaiah here said a child is coming.
He's going to have a kingdom, and he's
going to have a people he's going to
rule over, and the government of those people
be upon his shoulders.
Not the shoulders of the people, but on
his shoulders.
He's going to have a people submitted to
his supreme authority.
Prophet Isaiah, he said he's going to be
a supreme authority, and every one of his
people are going to come under that authority.
This wonderful prince of peace, this almighty counselor,
he's going to counsel and be the peace
to those who come under his authority, and
those alone.
Let's just speak of Christ, our Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns today.
This is what the prophet was referring.
That's who the prophet's referring to.
And we live now in a time when
that kingdom has come.
That kingdom is here in my heart and
in your heart.
The Bible says of the increase of his
government and peace, there shall be no end.
That means from now until Jesus comes, he
is still going to be ruling and reigning.
He's still king of kings and lord of
lords over the whole, over all nations, and
over every one of those in his own
kingdom.
Now, what does it mean to be governed?
According to the dictionary, to be governed means
to be guided, to be directed, and to
be controlled in actions and behavior.
In other words, if you're being governed, that
means that you are being directed, you are
being led, and you are under the control
and authority in your behavior and all of
your actions.
And I'm wondering how many of you can
say that and know it honestly this morning
that you are being governed by this word.
This word controls your actions and your behavior.
Everything you say, everything you do is submitted
to this word, because Jesus is this word.
He was the word, became flesh.
This is his scepter.
This is where he rules through his revealed
written word.
He even now rules the nations of the
world, the scripture says.
He ruleth by his power forever.
His eyes behold the nations, let not the
rebellious exalt themselves.
The Lord hath prepared his throne in the
heavens and his kingdom rules over all.
The United States of America is not governed
by the Republicans or the Democrats.
It is not governed by Wall Street, any
other business entity, no other power, heaven or
earth, rules and reigns over this nation and
every other nation.
He is still king of kings.
He is still lord of lords.
The devil is not in control.
God is in control.
He said, let not the rebellious rejoice.
I get amused when I hear politicians here
in the United States talk about how we
took down the Iron Curtain and how we
have become we've made ourselves the mightiest nation
on earth and how we have done this
and how we have done that.
And the Lord must have a sense of
humor.
He'd have to have a sense of humor,
not to blow it all away.
They say we have done it, but the
nations of the world, the kings, the dictators,
and all the presidents are according to scripture,
but a speck of dust in the eyes
of God.
He shall judge among the nations, the scripture
says.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of
a bucket, and they're counted as the small
dust of the balance.
Behold, he taketh up the aisles as a
very little thing.
All nations before him are as nothing, and
they are counted to him less than nothing
in vanity.
It's amazing what the Lord is saying here.
He's drawing a picture.
He has scales, and God puts himself on
the scale on one side, and he takes
all the nations of earth from the very
beginning of time and puts them on the
scale opposite him.
The scale drops, and here is this speck
of dust.
All the nations of the world, he said,
are nothing but a little pile of dust.
In comparison, he puts himself on the scale,
on the balance.
He said, if you want to measure my
power and the power of all the nations
of the world, think of all of our
atomic armaments, hydrogen bombs, and all of our
armies and navies and everything, and God says
there's nothing but a speck of dust.
All of your leaders, all of your dictators,
everything on the face of the earth, nothing
but a little pile of dust.
I am still king of kings and Lord
of lords.
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations, and
all the ends of the world shall see
the salvation of God.
In communist China right now, they're jailing tens
of thousands in a cult called Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is a cult that is operated
right out of New York City here, a
Chinaman who communicates by way of computer and
the internet with his followers in China.
They meditate, they're passive, they raise their hands
in exercises, and consequently, many thousands of Christians
are being jailed at the same time, in
five to eight years, according to the Times,
to the front page of the New York
Times.
And I was just reading it last night
before retiring, and I can't prove this, but
I think I received this from the Lord,
the reason many of these Christians are being
jailed at the same time, they are being
tied into the Falun Gong cult, because Christians
raise their hands, and they meditate, and they're
also passive, and so they've been tied into
the Falun Gong and being imprisoned.
But it is tearing China apart right now,
and thousands of Christian leaders now are in
prison.
But I've got news for Chinese leaders.
They may not hear me, but God hears
it.
God knows it.
He said, if they're just mere dust, he's
going to blow down.
If the Iron Curtain was just dust, and
God blew it away, I can guarantee he's
going to blow away the bamboo curtain.
He's going to blow it away, and all
those jails, he's going to blow them open.
And all those Chinese leaders that are trying
to say, we are going to stamp out
everything that has anything to do against communism,
God is going to blow on those leaders,
and it won't be long until they're all
gone.
Suddenly, they get cancer.
Suddenly, they get some kind of disease, and
they're gone, and they go to dust.
They just go to dust.
Folks, don't fret about China.
Pray about China, but believe God.
God is still in control of all the
nations of this world.
Hallelujah.
Please don't think for one minute that the
homosexuals are going to take over this nation,
as militant as they may become.
Don't think that the devil and all the
hordes of hell that have been released are
suddenly going to take over this nation.
Now, Pastor Carter saw just a little bit
of what happened down in Greenwich Village last
night, primarily a homosexual parade, and it is
a vision of hell.
It's indescribable, this Halloween parade of nudity and
with signs, Jesus is gay, and all of
this mockery of everything that is righteous and
holy.
And sometimes we get depressed because of the
immorality and the moral landslide in America and
the blatant homosexuality, in-your-face kind of
immorality, and we get depressed.
It almost seems like sometimes they're gaining power
and authority.
Forget about it.
The Bible says, The Lord hath broken the
staff of the wicked and the scepter of
all the rulers.
How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer?
How art you cut down to the ground,
which did weaken the nations?
Thou shalt be brought down to hell.
They that see thee shall say, Is this
the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake kingdoms?
The devil is going to be changed, and
God's going to throw him into hell and
seal hell for eternity.
He is not in control.
He is allowed to move and operate only
by permission of the Heavenly Father.
And when God is finished with him, he's
going to lock him up and throw the
key away.
Satan may have his day.
He may be able to threaten kingdoms and
cause them to tremble.
He may shake nations according to what we've
just read, but the Bible said his day
is coming, and he has his day now,
the day of darkness.
But that is going to change in God's
moment of time.
The prayer of Hezekiah puts it well, O
Lord of hosts, God of Israel, thou art
the God, even thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth.
You are the one who made heaven and
earth.
Do you remember when Satan tempted Christ?
He took him to a high mountain and
showed him all the kingdoms, the world, and
the glory of them.
And he said, If you bow down to
me, I give you all of this.
Well, I've been thinking about first place.
This had to be some kind of apparition
the devil tried to place, because there's no
way from one mountain you can see all
the kingdoms of the world.
You couldn't even see the kingdom at the
bottom and see any of his glory.
If you were talking in the physical realm,
it had to be some kind of apparition
that he tried to plant before the eyes
of our Savior.
But you see, Jesus was there when God
already declared that all the nations of the
world and all this glory are nothing but
dust, nothing but dust.
The devil does not have control of all
of the kingdoms of this world.
He rules in only one area, one realm.
God himself is ruler of heaven and earth,
the Bible said.
All things are in his control and in
his hands.
This was a fantasy.
It was a lie.
It's not his to give.
But Satan tried to present to him a
pile of dust and say, If you fall
down, and the Lord Jesus was God in
flesh.
He knew this.
He was the one who said it.
All the kings of the world are nothing
but a drop in a bucket.
It's just dust that I blow away.
Hallelujah.
The Bible said we're to fear no evil.
Now, in no other kingdom does God rule
more supremely than in his own kingdom, the
kingdom of God.
Jesus said, Behold, the kingdom of God is
within you.
Luke 1721.
And in this kingdom, he rules supreme.
Now we know he's he's he's ruler of
all the heavens and the earth.
But this heart of mine, this heart of
yours is a believer.
That is where he must rule absolutely supreme.
It's where he must be our counselor.
It is said of the increase of his
government, there shall be no end.
Now, primarily, that speaks of his literal rule
and reign over all the powers of of
hell and darkness and all the kingdoms of
the world.
Now, there will always be increase of his
government, but more significantly, it speaks about his
kingdom in our hearts.
And I'm asking you, has there been an
increase of his government in your life week
after week, month after month?
Can you honestly say that this he governs
by his word?
He governs by his revealed word.
He is not here on earth.
He's seated at the right hand of the
father.
He's now ruling and reigning.
The Bible said he rules the nations with
a rod of iron.
Even today, nothing happens in this world without
his permission, without his control.
He's the one who moves the hearts of
men.
Of the increase of his government, there shall
be no end.
And I got to thinking about that.
I said, Lord, that is what I want
to deal with in my own life.
That's what I want to see at Times
Square Church.
This is what I'd like to see in
the body of Christ that day by day,
week after week, and month after month, you
and I are becoming more and more under
the government of the Lord Jesus Christ, governed
by every word in this book that we
bring our life into compliance.
You talked about being compliant.
Why 2k compliant year 2000?
Yes.
Under the book, the living word of God.
For the increase of his government, there shall
be no end.
I pray, Lord, that that be so in
my life.
Now let me talk to you again about
how he governs his kingdom.
He now governs his kingdom by his scriptures,
by his revealed word.
God, this scripture said, spoke to our fathers
through the prophets in the Old Testament.
He spoke through prophets.
The Bible says, but now he speaks to
us by his son, Jesus Christ.
And Jesus said the reason he sent the
Holy Ghost is that the Holy Spirit would
bring to our remembrance every word that he
spoke.
He speaks.
He rules in our lives in this his
kingdom through his revealed word and no other
way.
Who being the brightness of his father's glory
and express image of his person, he upholds.
This is Christ upholds all things by the
word of his power.
He doesn't rule through manifestations.
He doesn't rule through the words of men.
He does rule when that word of God
is brought to you through the foolishness of
preaching under anointed men and women of God.
For the word of God is living, powerful
and sharper than any two edged sword piercing,
even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit of joints and marrows and as a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
Now, I'm going to take you just for
a few scriptures through the 119th Psalm, the
longest Psalm in the book of Psalms.
No, I'm not going to read all 176
verses, but I want to read to you.
I want you to hear the heart of
a man who is governed by the word
of God.
His life is governed.
The reason David's life, especially toward in the
beginning of London, David had his problems, but
his life quickly, even though there were times
of confusion, because he was governed by the
word of God, always divine order came back
quickly because he was under the reign under
the supreme authority of God's word.
David said, Thy word have I hid in
my heart that I might not sin against
thee.
Thy word is a lamp to my feet,
a light to my path.
I esteem thy words concerning all things to
be right.
Order my steps, Lord, in thy word.
I will always rejoice in thy word.
This is coming from the heart of a
man who's made a decision.
I will not move.
I will not make any decision.
I will not go contrary to anything that
is revealed in his word to me.
Now, folks, I want you to know, I
believe this with all my heart, just like
most of you do, that America and the
nation's world are racing toward hell, such flood
of immorality.
And I believe America is going down so
fast because it has rejected his word.
It has outlawed his word.
His word has been pushed out of our
schools.
His word has become an object of mockery
and derision.
When I was called for jury duty last
year, they take you into a room, twelve
at a time, and they question you, and
they're going to pick the jury.
And I was flabbergasted and grieved when an
attorney stood up and threw questions at the
twelve of us.
And first thing he said, he said, when
you see somebody come and swear on the
Bible, does that mean they're obligated to tell
the truth?
He said, no, doesn't mean anything.
Doesn't mean anything.
And it doesn't mean anything anymore.
They swear to tell the truth, so help
me God, they put their hands on this
Bible, and it's just an exercise that means
nothing to them.
There's no respect, there's no honor in this
nation.
A Bronx school teacher, a Pentecostal woman, lost
her job, was fired as a teacher because
she displayed a Bible on her desk.
He wasn't even reading it, displayed the Bible
on her desk.
She was fired.
Now, she could have put a Playboy magazine
there.
No one said anything.
She could have put the Koran there.
She could have put a book on the
occult and the witchcraft, and nobody would have
lifted a voice.
But because there's such a despising of God's
word in this nation today, she was fired.
Alabama, a Christian judge hung a plaque on
the wall with the Ten Commandments, and it's
been in a jury fight.
It's against the law to display the Ten
Commandments or anything else from the word of
God on any wall in any government property.
Evicted from our schools, pushed out of government,
this word is despised and rejected by the
political social systems of the United States.
Absolutely despised.
In 1986, the federal government gave legal recognition
to witchcraft as a religion called Wicca.
Wicca means neo-pagan, new paganism.
New paganism is now recognized as a legitimate
religion, and it's amazing that I can go
to Russia and carry my Bible anywhere, and
I could go into their Supreme Court with
my Bible, and most people would say, you
have one for me.
And here in the United States, this book
is despised and rejected and mocked.
Now, you may not agree if you're here.
You may not be a Christian, for example.
You may not agree with many of us
who preach and teach that God's going to
judge this nation for its bloodshed, its 25
million babies that have created an ocean of
blood, and the Bible very clearly says that
God will judge bloodshed.
He's going to send awesome judgment on bloodshed.
You may not believe God's going to judge
this nation for its immorality and for its
mockery of church and religion, but I'll tell
you one thing.
The Bible makes it very, very clear that
when a nation rejects his word, judgment is
right at the door.
I want you to go to Isaiah 30,
and I'll prove it to you.
Isaiah, the 30th chapter, please.
The 30th chapter of Isaiah.
I'm going to read from verses 9 through
14.
This is absolute truth that God is going
to judge in the United States of America
very quickly and very soon, and it's going
to be awesome.
Verse 9, this is a rebellious people, lying
children, children that will not, this is Isaiah
30, verse 9, children that will not hear,
what's it say?
Children will not hear the law of the
Lord, which say to the seers that the
prophets see not, and to the prophets prophesy
not unto us right things, speak unto us
smooth things, prophesy deceits.
Get out of the way, turn aside out
of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease and be worse.
We don't want anything to do with this.
We want to hear nice smooth word.
It's going to upset us.
Folks, there are churches like that all over
the country.
I got a, I got a, in a
letter, an ad, somebody sent me from a
California newspaper, an ad for a church, and
the ad says, this ain't your mama's church,
45 minutes limit to all meetings, come casual,
football updates.
Our goal is to make you happy.
A 15 minute sermonette on human goodness.
How biblical and scriptural literate will those people
be?
How are they going to measure anything and
test anything by the word when they don't
know the word.
Verse 12, wherefore, thus saith the Holy One
of Israel, because ye despise this word and
trust in oppression and perverseness and stay there
upon or trust in it.
Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as
a breach, ready to fall the swelling out
of a high wall.
Could that be Wall Street?
Who's breaking, cometh suddenly at an instant, and
he shall break it as the breaking of
the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces.
He shall not spare so that there shall
not be found in the bursting of it,
assured to take fire from the hearth or
to take water with all out of the
pittance.
I'm going to so smash it, there won't
even be a little piece that you can
pick up or drink a little piece, a
little bit of water from it or pick
up anything, even from a shred.
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy
One of Israel, in returning rest, so ye
be saved in a quietness.
Confidence shall be your strength and easy, but
he would not.
You see, he said, you reject my word
and you have crossed the line of judgment.
That is when the mercy of God says
enough.
Beloved, there's not anybody in this church, I
don't care whether you're a believer or not,
there's no one in this church who can
honestly tell me that this country, this nation,
has not despised this book.
They have despised, they have, it has been
outlawed, and I wonder how soon it will
be before the president no longer puts his
hand on this Bible and the courts remove
it out of that.
It's an amazing thing, you can't have it
in school and they still have it in
the courtroom.
Amazing.
Folks, I don't care if the stock market
goes to 5,000, I mean 50,000.
I don't care if they say that this
economic boom will never end.
I know what the Bible said and I
just read it to you.
The Lord said you despise this book and
there'll come a day when suddenly I'm going
to smash you into shreds.
We don't like to hear that kind of
preaching, but that's the word.
I'm not called here to preach smooth things
to you, neither is Pastor Carter.
He's past and we're here to tell you
exactly what God says in his word.
Isaiah said, all flesh is grass and all
the goodliness of it is the flower of
the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades because the
Lord blows on it and surely the people
is grass, but the word of God shall
stand forever.
He said everything else is grass, it's all
going to burn, it's all going to fade.
This is the only thing that's going to
last.
Hallelujah.
But folks, let me tell you, there's something
far worse than a nation despising the word
and that's a Christian or a child of
God who lightly esteems it or ignores it.
Did you hear me?
Far worse than a nation despising the word
as a believer or Christian, one who calls
himself a Christian, who lightly esteems or ignores
God's word and does not come under his
government.
That in the eyes of God is far
worse and we see a horrible spectacle happening
in America and around the world today as
multitudes of Christians are Christians who don't read
the Bible, they never crack the book, they
don't read this book at all and these
are Christians who sit in church and bored
to death when there's a good message on
sound doctrine.
They're bored to death, they think it's a
dead meeting because doctrine is being preached and
they say, we don't want anything to do
with doctrine.
Well, that means you don't want any rudder
on your ship, means you don't want a
foundation under your house and your building on
the sand.
As long as we're in this pulpit, you
will get sound doctrine.
It's the only thing going to keep you
in the windy turbulent times that are ahead
of us.
But we see a spectacle now, Christians running
all over the world who won't read their
Bible, who are bored with sound doctrine, trying
to get a word from some celebrated prophet.
Oh, you got to go and say, here
brother so and so, he's such a great
man of God and he told me things
about my past nobody could know.
He told me about my future, charismatic fortune
killers, clairvoyance, under a spirit of divination.
I'm going to give a sound or as
loud as warning as I can from this
pulpit this morning and this tape goes all
over the world this morning after today and
I want to know their multitudes of Christians
that are falling under grave deception, horrible deception.
They're deceived by the flattering words of false
prophets are speaking out of their own hearts
and minds and many through a spirit of
divination.
I believe there is a word of knowledge,
but that word of knowledge will always take
you to this book.
It will always.
It is the knowledge of the ways of
God.
It's the knowledge of the book.
It's the knowledge of scripture.
Now, here's the formula for deception and listen
closely, please.
You that come to Times Square Church, there
should never, ever be a time that you
get in a bus or train or any
other kind of conveyance and you go off
to some prophet, you go off to some
meeting where you hear word from the Lord.
If you're not willing to submit yourself to
this book and take time and read it
and study it, if you're not willing to
sit in Times Square Church and come and
bring your life and your body, all of
your actions, all of your behavior and conform
it to this book, you are going to
be a candidate for deception.
And I'm going to give it to you
straight because I love you.
There should not be one of you ever.
This proves to me that you are not
grounded.
It means that you have not brought yourself
under the government of this book.
You would not be looking elsewhere because you
would find an answer to everything you need
from this book.
You don't need to have a prophet or
a prophetess lay hands on you.
Somebody you don't know they could be an
adulterer.
They can be a fornicator.
They can be a homosexual and they're going
to lay hands on you and prophesy over
you.
And yes, they will tell you things that
you don't know because it's a spirit of
divination to deceive you.
And here's the formula.
This Christian harbors a secret sin, a habit,
a lust that you won't deal with.
You come under the loving word of the
Lord.
You've come under covenant preaching where the Lord
says, if you come to me and ask
the Holy Spirit, if you just take your
sin, I will give you my fear.
I'll give you all power and authority of
your sin.
But you want to coddle it.
You want to play with it.
You hide it in the bosom of your
heart.
You won't give up that that sin.
And you've got some dreams that you've not
brought under subjection, some fancy dream that you're
going to be somebody great or do something
great rather than to be faithful in God's
house and pick up a broom if necessary.
And so you're going to run off and
you're going to hear a word.
And that word false prophets always flatter.
They always tell you 400 of them stood
before Ahab.
Ahab was going to his death.
He was going to die in battle.
And they say, God is with you.
I give you a word from heaven.
The spirit of the living God had told
me you're going to come back victorious.
The man went to his death.
So this man who won't deal with his
sin goes to some celebrated word speaker.
And this word speaker prophesies about his past
so can validate that he's a man of
God, Pope, and that he's going to hear
about his future.
And he's told some wonderful, great thing about
what he is or what he's going to
do.
And he goes home thrilled, telling everybody, I
have heard from God.
He doesn't go tested by the word of
God because he's not being in the book.
And he really doesn't care for the scriptures.
He says he does, but he's not willing
to bring his life under subjection to it.
So this man is now under delusion.
He believes a lot to be the truth.
And this is going to lead him.
He's totally deceived.
And what he has been told will never
happen.
Got a letter this week from a man.
He said, if I hear another prophet or
anybody come up to me and say, I
have a word for you, I'm going to
vomit.
He said, in the first place, I've got
a hundred other words before him that have
not come to pass that have to come
to pass before I believe another.
He said, brother David's getting ridiculous.
It's getting out of hand.
And you know what blows me away?
To bump into some of our people here
on the streets and not just tell me
they've come back from so-and-so's crusader
meeting and they've got a word from the
Lord.
You know what it tells me?
You've been sitting here for months or years.
And what we've been saying is going in
one ear and out the other.
And you've not been willing to submit.
And nine times out of 10, there's something
you're holding on to and won't let go.
And you want somebody to tell you what
agrees with what your mind has already attached
itself to.
And they're always going to agree.
It always has to do with agreement with
pride, covetousness, or sin.
Listen to the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God, every man that
sets up an idol in his heart and
puts the stumbling block of his nickety before
his face.
You know what they're saying?
There's a stumbling block.
There's a besetting sin.
There's a habit.
There's a lesson.
He won't let go of it.
And God has shown it to him.
The word has shown it.
It's right there in front of his eyes.
No, it's not hidden.
It's right in front of his eyes.
And God's been saying, deal with it, deal
with it, deal with it.
I'll give you power if you just deal
with it.
And he comes to the prophet.
I, the Lord, will answer him that cometh
according to his idols, because they are estranged
from me because of their idolatry.
God said, if you come to a prophet,
you come to somebody that is known to
give words, and you come to them with
sin in your heart, and you're not yielded,
you're not under the government of the scripture.
The Lord makes it very, very clear.
I will speak to you as an idolater.
In other words, he says, I'm going to
take the voice of that person you go
to, and I'm going to speak to your
idolatry.
I'm going to speak to you as one,
as an idolater.
And this is what the Bible said.
It's amazing.
I, the Lord, will answer you by myself.
And if the prophet is deceived when he
has spoken this thing, I, the Lord, have
deceived that prophet, and the punishment of the
prophet shall be even as the punishment of
him that seeketh after him.
Now, get that in your spirit.
Most dangerous thing you can do is stand
before a man or woman you don't know
their lives.
Do you know anything about that person you're
going after?
Do you know anything?
In first Kings, the 22nd chapter, King Ahab
asked the prophets for word.
Listen to what the scripture says.
A spirit stood before the Lord and said,
I'll deceive Ahab.
I will be a lying spirit in the
mouth of all of his prophets.
Behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit
in the mouth of all thy prophets, Jeremiah
said.
A lying spirit in the mouth of all
the prophets.
Can I go a little further?
In 2 Thessalonians, don't turn there, Paul warns
that in the last days God shall send
strong delusion.
God shall send them strong, not the devil,
God shall send them strong delusion that they
should believe a lie.
What lie?
He's talking about receiving the antichrist and recognizing
the antichrist.
A minister that I really respect, a man
of God, a man of prayer, said to
me recently, he said, Pastor David, he said,
you know what I believe?
I believe that there's such delusion in the
charismatic movement, such foolishness, such craziness.
People are being deceived by the left and
by the right that the antichrist first admires.
Those who receive him first are going to
be deluded Christians.
He said that may be the force that
brings him to power.
Deluded Christians who believe a lie.
The lie we're speaking here is the antichrist
lie, that the antichrist is the deliverer.
Why?
Why are they, why is God sending strong
delusion?
Because they received not the love of the
truth.
They received not the love of the truth.
They didn't come under the government of the
Word of God.
I can take a hundred Christians in a
room and play a video that sent to
me, like one I received last week, the
most bizarre manifestations I have ever seen.
Bizarre.
In fact, boarding on immoral, stupid, crazy, inane.
And I can put a hundred Christians in
a room and I can tell you within
10 minutes who those are that are under
the government of the scripture, and those who
have ignored and neglected this book.
Because those Christians who are grounded and governed
by the Word of God will start weeping.
They'll shake their heads, oh my God, and
they'll start walking in the room, I can't
handle this.
And they'll be, wonderful spirit of God, isn't
that wonderful?
It's happened to pastors all over the country,
stuff that makes godly people weep.
And they look at that saying, that's amazing,
I'd like to see, oh if I could
just get in on a meeting like that.
You don't know your Bible.
You don't know the book.
You're not under the government of the scriptures.
God help us.
We've got a charismatic circus going on, and
we've got Christians without discernment being deluded by
the thousands.
Tell you what it's driven me to.
It's driven me to this book.
It's driven me to get on my face
before God every day and say, oh Lord,
I'm going to bring my life into total
conformity by the power of the Holy Ghost.
This is going to rule and govern my
life.
It's not in the book.
I reject it outright.
I reject it.
It's not in the book.
Folks, something else I've decided.
I will never again in my lifetime counsel
anybody.
I haven't been, but I'll never again.
I will never counsel any married couple, not
counsel anybody, until I can call them into
my office and set them down and open
my Bible in front of them saying, now
before we speak a word, before we say
anything, especially married couples that are on the
brink of divorce.
And they are, they've just about had it.
The marriage has just about ended, but they
tell me we don't want our marriage to
end.
And I bring them into my office and
I say this, I lay it there and
say, look, do you believe this is the
final authority?
Will you bring your thoughts, no matter what
they are under conformity, will you change your
mind according to what I read to you
today in this room?
Will you accept this as the truth?
And not none of your feelings, nothing you've
been told, nothing else stand in the way
of you submitting to it.
And if they can't honestly say, yes, I
submit folks, I've had the joy of seeing
married couples who whose marriage looked hopeless.
And I've made this statement and I would,
I would see the husband or the wife.
Absolutely pastor.
I will, I want my life.
I believe the word.
I'll submit to the scripture.
And I know when that submission comes, when
I'm reading peanut dinner towards your mate and
that man or that woman's thinking of the
bitterness they had lately.
And I'll tell you, suddenly I see a
tear in the eye and I read on.
And as I keep reading scripture and that
word, they hold up and be able to
convict them.
I've seen the handkerchiefs come out in my
office.
I've gone to the table there.
I've got a big box of Kleenexes and
I've seen, I've seen a whole box go.
And just a few moments, the tears began
to flow.
And once at all, God, they begin to
see.
And I know the moment that there's a
brokenness, there's a trembling at the word of
God, that there's a healing taking place that
that marriage is going to be saved.
Sometimes I can see a husband breaker and,
and, and put the wife will sit there
or vice versa.
You, the eyebrows go up and you can
see him stubbornly digging in.
And I know there'll be no hope because
I'm not willing to submit to be governed
by this book.
To this man will I look even to
him that is part of a contrite spirit
who trembles at my word.
And that word trembled means to shake and
quake in Hebrew, to shake and quake at
his word.
Hear the word of the Lord, all ye
that tremble at his word, and he shall
appear to your joy.
Hear and tremble.
And God said, I'm going to bring joy
into your life.
Hallelujah.
Once you go one last place with this,
I close James, the first chapter, please.
First chapter of James.
If you get it, as soon as you
get it, will you stand with me, please
follow me?
I'm reading from King James.
Start verse 21.
Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word and
not hearers, only deceiving your own selves.
He said, if you're not going to bring
yourself under government, you open yourself to deception.
Be ye doers of the word, not hearers,
only deceiving your own selves.
For if any man being here of the
word and not a doer, he's like unto
a man beholding his natural face in the
glass, for he beholdeth himself and goeth his
way the straight way, forget of what manner
of man he was, but who so looketh
into the perfect law of liberty, and he
being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer
of the word, what's it say?
This man shall be blessed in his deed.
Everything that he touches, God will bless, because
he's a doer and not just a hearer
of the word of God.
Heavenly Father, I couldn't be a true shepherd
if I didn't grieve over the sheep of
this fold.
We're still not submitted to the word to
be governed by it.
Lord, I pray that as we read this
book now, as we read your scripture, help
us, Lord, to dig in as never before.
Lord, forgive those who have not been reading
their Bibles diligently.
Forgive those who are not studying this book.
Lord, this is the only foundation, this is
the only rudder for the ship of state,
it's the only rudder for individual lives.
God, this is the foundation, this is building
on the rock.
Everything else is building on the sand.
Oh, God, for all any who are hearing
me now who may be caught in a
web of deception, they've been given a word
by somebody and they've just been living, they
stake their very lives on that word.
They didn't stake their life on what the
book says, they stake their life on what
some man, a prophet or prophetess has said
to them.
God, you do have your genuine prophets.
You do speak to your word.
You speak to people.
And Lord, I believe in your voice.
We can't trust the sweetest frame, we can't
trust our own voices, those inner voices, they
have to be tested by this word.
Oh, God, bring us under total authority, all
of our behavior and all of our actions,
everything we say and do under the authority
of God's word we pray.
Hallelujah.
I'm going to ask musicians to come.
Something the Holy Spirit is stirring in me,
but I need us to sing one verse
while I hear completely what he's saying.
Just be still for a few moments, just
sing this with us for a moment.
I know now what he was trying to
say to my heart, because some of you
hearing the message may have a fear in
your heart.
Well, brother Dave, I don't want to be
deceived.
Could I be deceived?
Folks, when you have this hunger and thirst
for his word, you stay on your face
before him and seek him with all of
your heart.
The scripture says the Lord then shall preserve
thee from all evil.
He shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out by
coming in from this time forth and even
forever.
You don't have to ever worry about deception.
You will not be deceived by prayerfully seeking
the word of God, feasting in this coming
to the house of God with an open
heart and say, Lord, if I hear a
message today dealing with my sin, I want
to come and lay it down and I
want to trust the Holy Spirit to clean
my life up.
God's looking for sanctified bride, a pure and
holy bride.
But I assure you, God is giving you
talking about.
This is where the word of knowledge comes.
This is the true word of God.
If God's going to speak anything to you
through a man's voice, it'll be through his
word and hear it again.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil,
all evil, shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out by
coming in from this time forth, even forevermore,
as long as you live until Jesus comes
or till you die.
God, I'm going to keep you.
I'm going to preserve you from the wicked
one.
Hallelujah.
Now I'm going to give an invitation upstairs,
downstairs and in the annex.
Those in the annex, if you feel moved
on by the Holy Spirit, as I give
an invitation, I want you to just step
forward, not blocking the screen, but the size
of the screen, if you will.
We have a pastor there.
We'll take you into a room.
I'll minister to you first, and then others
will come to minister to you in room
206, I believe it is.
But here in the main floor, I'm going
to open these altars now.
We do in every service.
There's hardly ever been a service in this
church without people being saved and getting right
with God.
I'm going to ask you right now, if
the Spirit of God is speaking to you,
that's all I'm going to say.
I don't have any other invitations other than
the Spirit of God speaking to you through
my message today.
You say, Brother Wilson, something was said in
this service this morning is meant for me.
I receive it.
It could be.
It could be having to do with the
neglect of the word of God.
I don't know whatever it is that God
speaks into your heart.
Now, if you're not if you're not saved,
this is the time to come.
But I'm not going to give any other
than this invitation.
I open it here.
I'm here to pray with you.
I'm here to take authority with you of
all the powers of darkness that are pressing
in on your life.
Up in the balcony, go the stairs on
either side and here in the main floor,
just come down any aisle and in the
annex, just step forward, if you will, please.
And I'm going to pray.
I believe God right now.
I believe God now that your life be
touched and changed before you walk out of
this church.
Don't walk out here today without being changed.
This is a wonderful time.
The Holy Ghost is here.
He wants to make.
We don't just try to look for numbers.
We're not trying to build up the numbers,
but we do want to minister to you
and believe the Lord for total deliverance in
your life.
Come as the spirit draws you upon the
Lord in distress.
The Lord answered me and set me in
a large place.
The Lord is on my side.
I will not fear what command do unto
me.
It's better to trust in the Lord than
to put confidence in man.
Better to trust in the Lord than to
put confidence in princes.
Trusting in the Lord means trusting in this
book.
Hallelujah.
Oh, folks, he said to them that love
is where fall in love with his word.
Fall in love.
Get it.
There's some prominent place in your house to
say, oh, God, convict me and help me
and remind me to go to the word
of the Lord.
You say, well, I pray every day.
That's not enough.
This is what gives you the faith to
pray.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by this
word right here.
Will you pray?
I'm going to pray right now.
I'm going to pray for you first, and
then I'm going to ask you to pray
with me.
Now, Heavenly Father, I bring all of these
that have come to you and to bring
this whole audience to you.
Jesus, we come to submit ourselves to your
word to be governed by you.
Lord, the governments of this world are crumbling.
The governments of this world are turning against
you.
The governments of this world have despised your
word, but we come to honor your word
here this morning.
We honor your folks.
Just lift your hands and I want to
say it.
Lord, we honor your word.
We honor your word.
Put a love in my heart for your
word, Jesus.
Forgive me for neglecting your word, Lord Jesus.
Establish me in your word, O God.
Establish me in the word.
Establish me in the scriptures, O God, that
I will not be tossed by every wind
and wave of doctrine, that I'll never be
under deception.
I'll never be deluded.
I will never turn to the Antichrist because
I will be so grounded in the word
of God.
I will recognize all that is evil.
Glory be to God.
Now, Lord, we take your authority over all
principality and power of darkness.
Every evil thing that comes against the children
of God, against their minds, against their homes,
against their hearts.
Lord, you said you'll be a wall of
fire around about us and the glory therein.
You said, I will keep you.
I will hold you in the palm of
my hand.
Lord, we take that authority now for everyone
in this house, especially these that have come
forward.
This is the conclusion of the message.