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Would you go to Revelation 14, please?
Revelation 14.
Nobody comes to Times Square Church without their
Bibles.
So, let me hear the rustling of the
leaves, please.
Revelation 14.
My message this morning.
Without fault before the throne of God.
Verse 4, beginning to read.
Verse 5 also.
These are they which were not defiled with
women, for they are virgins.
These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth.
These were redeemed from among men, being the
firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile,
for they are, what?
Without fault before the throne of God.
Now, folks, the first three verses, don't let
that bother you about 144,000.
That really is not a good interpretation.
It's multiplications of 12, meaning endless numbers of
12.
It's the whole host of God.
It has nothing to do with Israel.
This has to do with the Israel of
the Holy Jerusalem, which is us who are
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
We are the virgins that stand before Him
without fault.
May God encourage you by what you hear
this morning.
My wife and I were dining with a
friend of ours this past week, and she
voiced what I believe is the feeling of
so many Christians in these perilous times that
we face.
She said, my husband's an oculus, and he
makes and places glass eyes.
He fits glass eyes.
She said, we've worked very hard all our
lives, and we've saved some money, and we
have a few additional retirement funds, but things
are getting very scary, Pastor Dave.
We see nations falling into depression all around
us.
We hear of possible computer disaster coming in
the year 2000.
We see terrorism on all sides.
We hate to listen to the news or
pick up a newspaper anymore because every day
some new awful thing is happening.
And she said, I know Christians are not
supposed to be afraid, but it's very hard
not to.
I personally struggle with fear about our mortgage
and our car payments because who wants to
buy glass eyes when the economy goes sour?
She said, I have to fight off these
human fears daily, and I feel bad about
having these fears because I know that as
a Christian I should be trusting the Lord
and resting in His keeping power.
But she said, frankly, in my flesh, it's
very scary, and it's hard to fight this
inner fear.
And I believe she's voicing what is in
the hearts of multitudes today who struggle to
keep their fear out of their hearts as
they hear these terrible reports and the struggle
to rest in God's keeping power.
And most Christians that I talk to really
don't feel prepared physically for an economic collapse
or the things that we see happening around
the world.
And if suddenly things go apart, very few
feel prepared for that.
And they do see something in the horizon.
Intuitively, something is happening to the nation that
it's disintegrating, that things are falling apart.
And there is that human fear.
Even the government of the United States is
preparing.
Last week, the Secretary of Defense said there
are 120 special trained units now.
They're like large SWAT teams that have been
prepared to move into 120 of our major
cities in case of a breakdown in the
year 2000, in case of riots and looting
if Wall Street collapses.
And on August 20th, just this past week,
in all the newspapers, I trust you've seen
that the Federal Reserve has announced that it's
preparing to put $50 billion more into circulation
because they anticipate a run on the banks
because of the year 2000, the Y2K problem.
And there's a fear that over $150 billion
in cash reserves now in the bank.
Most of you know local banks have 5
% of their money in the bank.
They have very little cash.
So they're going to put $50 billion more
to the $150 billion there because they believe
that most Americans, 70 million households will withdraw
an average of $450 to pay for necessities
such as food and gas should there be
a crisis or a collapse.
Now, folks, these are in our newspapers.
This is something you read every day.
Now, no matter how righteous you may be
here this morning, no matter how much you
pray, how deeply instilled the Word of God
is in your heart, humanly these things do
affect us.
They affect me.
I write about it.
I prophesy about it.
But it is in a personal level.
People say, well, Brother Wilkson, aren't you concerned?
Yes.
But, folks, I've learned a few secrets that
have absolutely helped me to focus not on
the problems that are coming, not on the
hard times that are coming, but he's put
something in me.
I'm a student of the Puritans, especially John
Owens.
And I got this secret from them because
I have extremely good news for you this
morning.
I've got incredible news for you.
And if you keep your eyes on this
news I'm about to give you and focus
on it every day when you get up,
none of these other evil reports or these
news reports from around the world are going
to faze you at all.
Are you ready for the good news?
We're all going to die.
Better yet, we're all going to the judgment.
Good news.
You say you're losing it, Pastor.
None at all.
It's appointed unto man once to die, and
after that, the judgment.
One minute in eternity, you'll know how insignificant
all of these things are, that they never
really did matter, that he was there all
the time in his keeping, saving power, and
it didn't make any difference whatsoever.
One second into eternity.
I can imagine someone thinking this morning, Pastor,
how can this be good news?
I'm trying to just rid my heart of
the fears about the coming depression and the
rioting and looting.
You say he's going to come to this
city.
And now you tell me I'm going to
stand before God and give an account of
every thought and every deed, because he said
every thought's going to be brought into captivity?
Every evil deed that I've ever committed in
my life, I've got to give an account
of all the good and bad in my
life?
That's a fearful thing.
What are you talking about good news?
Folks, if you understand your Bible, if you
understand the Word of God, and you're rooted
and grounded in this book, you're going to
find that if you keep your mind focused
on the new Jerusalem state of mind, if
you keep your mind focused on the day
you stand before almighty God, and it's a
time of joy and thanksgiving, and that's what
I'm going to prove to you this morning,
that it's your coronation day.
It's a time preceding the married supper of
the Lamb where God or rather Jesus Christ,
the Lord himself, is going to embrace you.
Hallelujah.
Wonderful news.
That if you're trusting in Jesus, you are
under his cleansing blood, if you've been sprinkled
by the blood of Jesus Christ, you are
submitted to the lordship of Jesus Christ, you
are going to stand before the throne of
God without fault, you're going to stand before
him without fear, and you are going to
be acknowledged before every sinner, before the devil,
and every demon in hell as the bride
of Jesus Christ.
Let me tell you that you will not
face a single sin that's been against you.
You will not be exposed for any failure.
You will be there without spot or blemish.
In fact, on that day, all your bad
works will have been done away with.
Only your good works are going to be
expressed or exposed to the multitudes of the
nations that are gathered.
Now, I'm not going to get into discussion
this morning about the judgment seat of Christ
or whether there's one general resurrection and one
general great white throne judgment.
The Puritans and many, many theologians down through
history believe in one general resurrection.
Others believe that there are two, that the
Christian goes to the judgment seat of Christ
first.
Let me tell you this, that on that
great white throne judgment, the Bible says we
are all going to be there.
And I'll tell you before I'm finished where
I stand on that, because I'm going to
prove to you, I believe, from the Scripture
that if there is a judgment of Christians
separate, it's going to be a one-by
-one, one-at-a-time judgment, not before
the clouds, and if there are works to
burn, it'll be between you and Jesus and
nobody else.
I can prove that powerfully here.
And then I believe there's one great white
throne judgment where all stand together.
You say, but doesn't the Bible say God
shall bring every work into judgment with every
secret thing, whether it be good or whether
it be evil?
You say, how can it be then that
the saints are going to stand before God
without fear if all of the bad works
are going to be brought into the light?
Now, keep in mind that the great white
throne judgment, there are two classes of people.
There are sheep and there are goats.
There are the faithful and unfaithful.
There are the saints and the sinners, the
sons and the slaves.
The Bible says there's going to be wise
and foolish, believers and unbelievers.
And at the great white throne judgment, every
sinner is going to face his book.
Every sinner is going to face every evil
thought that he's ever thought, millions upon millions
of evil thoughts, every sinful deed, every rejection
of every scripture, every sermon he's ever heard.
Every sinner will stand before God and give
an account of everything that is bad, everything
that is evil.
But listen to me, saints.
When you stand before him, you stand complete
in Jesus Christ.
You stand complete in nothing you've ever said,
anything you have done that is under the
blood of Jesus Christ will never again be
mentioned, never brought before the crowds of darkness.
This same judgment Christ will make known to
the devil, to the demons of hell, to
the fallen angels, and all the wicked of
all ages.
He will bring to the open every known,
every prayer that every Christian has ever prayed,
every heart cry of the righteous.
He will remember every tear, every fast, every
groan of the spirit, every trial, every suffering,
every word of praise and thanksgiving.
He will remember even the cup of cold
water that you gave to the thirsty, every
morsel of bread to the hungry, every piece
of clothing to the cold and the naked.
He's going to bring it all out in
the open.
You say, how would there ever be time?
Well, time shall be no more.
Folks, he could do this in a situation
where we are not even aware of time.
In our time element, it could last for
ages, and yet go judge like that because
we're in eternity.
We don't understand that.
But he's going to bring before the devil
and throw right in his face every worship,
every praise, every groan of the spirit, every
time I've been alone with Jesus and poured
my heart out.
It's going to be rehearsed before the devil
and all the crowds of hell.
There's nothing you've done to his glory that
will not be expressed on that day.
There will be no condemnation for the righteous,
none at all.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Jesus said
that he that heareth my words and believeth
on him that sent me hath everlasting life,
shall not come into condemnation, and in the
original Greek, shall not come into judgment, but
is passed from death unto life.
You shall not come into judgment, but to
everlasting life.
Glory be to God.
God said through Isaiah, I, even I, am
he that blotted out thy transgressions for my
own sake, and I will not remember thy
sins again.
Isaiah 43, 25.
Isaiah 44, 22.
I have blotted out as a thick cloud
thy transgressions, and as a cloud all thy
sins.
Return unto me, for I have redeemed thee.
Call the apostle, for I will be merciful
to their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews 5, 17.
This is the covenant I will make with
them after these days, those days, said the
Lord.
I will put my laws into their hearts,
and in their minds I shall write them,
and their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
And you know that all-encompassing Scripture in
Micah 7, 19.
He will turn again.
He will have compassion on us.
He will subdue our iniquities.
This is good news for everybody who's sweating
in their own flesh, trying to keep and
mortify the deeds of the flesh.
How many bullets have you tried to bite?
How many promises have you made?
How much sweat have you sweated trying to
please God and walk in holiness and fight
your own lust and your own habits?
My Bible says God, through the Holy Ghost,
will subdue them.
You can't do it in your own strength
and your own power.
But then he says, if you allow the
Holy Ghost to do it, this is the
promise, and thou, God, will cast all their
sins into the depths of the sea.
Not only does he cast, you want to
know how he does it?
He takes your sins and flips them over
your shoulders.
This is what it says, Thou hast in
love to my soul delivered me from the
pit of corruption, for thou hast thrown all
my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 38, 17.
All through the Scripture, God said, When I
forgive you, I forget every sin, every transgression,
all iniquities I have forgotten.
Why can't you and I?
Why do we allow the devil to dig
up something in the muck and mire of
our past that's already under the blood?
Oh, folks, one of the biggest sins on
the face of the earth is to doubt
the cleansing, forgiving power of the blood of
Jesus Christ.
What an awful sin it is.
The Bible says on that day, the books
are going to be opened.
Would you go to Revelation 20, please?
It's been to read.
Let's just start with verse 10.
And the devil that deceived them was cast
into the lake of fire and brimstone.
Thank God he has everything under control.
The devil's time is limited.
Where the beast and the false prophets are,
and shall be tormented day and night forever
and ever.
And I saw a great white throne and
him that sat on it, from whose face
the earth and the heaven fled away.
There was no place for them.
Found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God, and the books were opened.
And another book was opened.
Now notice, there are books.
Every sinner has his own book.
Can you imagine the sinner standing before the
judgment to answer for every deed, every thought,
everything?
If you're here this morning and you are
rejecting Jesus Christ outright, you rejected his offer
of love, you've heard his appeal, you've been
convicted by the Holy Spirit, and yet you
go your own selfish, stubborn way.
Oh, the day comes when you stand before
his throne, and you answer, that book will
be opened, and every deed and every thought
will be opened and exposed.
Wouldn't it be something incredible, incredibly frightening to
hear Hitler's book opened in the name of
every Jew that he murdered?
Can you imagine what it's going to be
like when the transgressors stand before him, all
the mass murders and all the politicians and
all the lies that they've covered, everything that
they've done, and it's all brought out into
the open, everything, until they're screaming, no, no,
no, enough, enough, and it's only the beginning,
and everything is brought into the light.
All those numbered among the transgressors, what a
time.
All the kings of Israel and kings of
Judah from all the way back, the murderers
and the rapists, and the books are opened.
The sinner, your book will be opened.
The Bible says, and the books were opened.
But you see, in comparison to all these
books, I don't know if these are literal.
We're not talking about literal books.
God, listen, I'll tell you what, if they
can put a whole library on a little
floppy disk, can you imagine what God's mind
can do when you talk about books being
opened?
But there's one book for all saints, all
believers, one book, and there's nothing in it
but your name.
And it's a new name that only God
knows and He's going to reveal it to
you at that time.
It's going to have something to do with
your nature here on earth, I believe.
I hope mine has something to do with
Overcomer.
One book will be opened.
Folks, there will be no sin, no evil
thought, nothing you have ever done because it
is under the blood of Jesus and the
simplest, most uneducated Christian.
You don't have to be a theologian.
You don't have to walk with God for
50 years.
It is right now just believing with all
of your heart and mind that Christ shed
His blood.
You claim the victory of the cross of
Jesus Christ.
You submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
You set your mind to seek Him with
all your heart, your mind, soul, and spirit.
And folks, your name is written in the
book of life.
The books were opened, which is the book
of life, and the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the
books according to their works.
According to their works, the Scripture says.
Glory be to God.
Now, you that are here this morning listening
to me who were guilty of scarlet sins.
Now, there are scarlet sins.
I mean they are blood red with the
stench of hell, drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, prostitution, you
name it.
There are some of you that sit here
this morning, you don't even want to think
about your past.
And folks, you don't have to think about
your past, but you are told to remember
the pit from which you were dug.
And there are some of you sitting here
right now, you blush to think of what
you were, how close you came to falling
into hell.
And you really should be dead.
I mean physically, you should be in hell
right now.
Stop and think about that.
You could be in hell now, but for
the work of the Holy Spirit in this
good book.
But I want to tell you something.
I've got a Scripture for you that can
take you to the judgment seat of Jesus
Christ.
It can take you to the right way
throne, judgment with exceeding great joy.
Hallelujah.
Because when you're under the blood, he does
not look at you anymore as a piece
of filth.
He doesn't look at you as a junkie
or a prostitute.
He looks at you as a spotless, precious
bride.
Isaiah 118, Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, they shall
be as wool, white as snowy wool.
Are you under the blood?
You had the sprinkling of blood on your
heart.
You sit here now with every right to
say, I am clean.
All my sins were crimson red, but they're
as white as wool.
My name is in the book of life.
Hallelujah.
Let's talk about that moment you stand before
the great white throne judgment.
How can the bridegroom charge his own bride
on that day with iniquity?
How does the husband-to-be look at
the wife-to-be and charge him in
front of all the wicked?
Impossible.
He's your judge, yes.
He's the judge to the wicked.
But the Christ who called you, the Christ
who saved you, the Christ who interceded for
you all these years, who cleansed you, who
purchased you with his own blood, who branded
you on the forehead as his own beloved,
he, your Christ, will be at the judgment.
Your husband, your redeemer, your friend, your advocate,
your intercessor still, he will be all of
that.
You will be complete in him without spot
or wrinkle or without fault before his throne.
How do you sit there without saying at
least a big amen?
I mean, incredible.
And you being dead in your sins and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all your
trespasses.
Now unto him that is able to keep
you from falling, present you faultless before the
presence of his Lord with exceeding joy.
And if you're faultless, how does he condemn
you?
Faultless.
I want to get out of your mind
once and for all that the great white
throne judgment for Christian is a fearful thing.
It is something that should bring the greatest
joy possible to your heart.
Glory to God.
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was
against us, which was contrary to us, and
he took it out of the way, nailing
it to the cross.
Folks, the Bible said we are the body
of Christ and he is the head.
You think for one minute he's going to
sever his head at the judgment day from
his body in front of the wicked?
Bible says he's the cornerstone of the church.
Is he going to bring the whole building
down at the judgment?
No way.
Now, I want to bring the hammer down,
the hammer of God's Word, and completely smash
once and for all any fear you have
as a true believer of standing before the
judgment on that great day of accounting so
that you can anticipate it from now on
with great joy and thanksgiving.
I'm going to give you a few irrefutable
Bible reasons why you have no reason to
fear but every reason to rejoice.
Hallelujah.
I told you that I see all these
things coming in the earth and don't bother
me because, folks, the Bible makes it clear
that this life is just grass.
It's just fading away.
It's grass.
It's here and gone.
Bible said your life is like, you ever
been on a frosty day and just the
vapor, that heat vapor from your mouth?
He said it's your life.
Why worry?
You don't have time for it.
And you don't belong here anyhow.
And live or die, you're the Lord's.
Folks, it's all pointing to the marriage supper
of the Lamb.
We're going to a feast.
But before that, we're going to the judgment.
Hallelujah.
All right, reason number one why you need
to rejoice.
Fear is not compatible with all the wonderful
relationships he's proclaimed to us in his relationship
to us.
In other words, God himself has defined who
he is to us.
And it's not compatible to fear.
Listen to what he said he is to
us.
He said, I'm your father.
I'm your brother.
I'm your friend.
I'm your bridegroom.
I'm your head.
I'm your husband.
I'm your advocate.
I'm your kinsman, redeemer.
I'm your provider, your refuge, your shepherd, and
much, much more.
Now, God himself established that relationship.
That's how he defines himself in relationship to
us.
I didn't define it that way.
You didn't.
God said, this is who I am to
you.
And he is not going to change at
the judgment.
He's still your father.
He's still your friend, your advocate, your interceder.
You think for one moment in front of
the devil and all the raging powers of
hell, he's going to deny his relationship to
you?
No.
Put the hammer to it.
Smash it.
Another reason.
How can you fear on the day of
your restitution and coronation?
He hath not dealt with us after our
sins.
He has not rewarded us according to our
iniquities.
As far as the east is from the
west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us.
Anybody tell me how far the east is
from the west?
He said, that's how far I've removed your
sins.
You say, why do you call it your
coronation day?
Because Isaiah said of that day, as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so God shall
rejoice over thee.
And he was speaking of that very day,
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
And there you stand before him, and he
has eyes for you.
He is just reaching out to embrace you
in front of the whole multitudes of transgressors.
That's my bride!
On the right, the goat's on the left,
the bride on the right.
Hallelujah.
When the Bible says, the nations of the
world be separated sheep and goat, that's peoples,
not countries.
Can you name me any country on the
face of the earth that would fit the
description of feeding and clothing and housing and
all of these things?
There's not a nation in the world.
Never will be.
Talking about peoples.
How can you fear when the Lord is
gazing on you with love and rejoicing?
Hallelujah.
He's still the apple of his eye.
Another hammer.
The Lord will do on that day no
less than it requires of us today.
He will not require something of us that
he would not be willing to do himself
on the judgment day.
I want you to listen closely, and folks,
if you've got any remaining fear, let this
end it once and for all.
The Lord requires of us to hide and
cover and forgive the sins of our brothers
and sisters.
The Scripture said, If thy brother offend thee,
go and tell him his fault between him
and thee alone.
If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained
thy brother.
Now, if there's going to be a separate
judgment for Christians, this is where I get
it.
The Lord's saying, If you're going to forgive
your brother, you're not going to bring it
before the whole crowd unless they reject your
offer.
You bring it before the church, yes, but
there's a process there.
But first, it's one to one.
It's one to one.
You go to your brother, listen to it,
tell him his fault between him and thee
alone.
Now, folks, if there's going to be works
that burn, it's going to be Jesus and
you, Jesus and me, in a private conversation
with his bride, when he says lovingly, I
cannot bring this baggage with you.
I can't bring it.
I want to show you what you missed
and how it could have been.
There's glory.
Nothing but glory.
You're my precious bride.
You're under the blood.
There's no spot.
There's no wrinkle.
But let me remind you.
Let me speak to you.
It'll be one on one.
It's not for restitution.
No, it's to show the glory of Christ
Himself in His forgiving power so that the
bride will understand the glory of this love.
God is offended when Christians point out the
weaknesses and infirmities of other saints.
The Lord will deal with that.
He will do no less for us when
we stand before Him.
The Bible said the discretion of a man
defers his anger.
It's a glory for a man to pass
over transgressions.
Proverbs 25, 2, it is the glory of
God to conceal a thing.
The glory of God to conceal that which
is under the blood.
Hallelujah.
Christ is hidden.
He's covered.
He's pardoned.
He's absolutely wiped away the sins by His
own blood.
All His transgressions that He hath committed, they
shall not be mentioned unto Him.
Ezekiel 18, 22, they shall not be mentioned
unto Him.
They are blotted out by the blood of
Jesus Christ.
Now, I'm bringing you this message this morning
that it be an anchor to you in
the days, the dark days ahead.
There are many, many dark days coming, incredibly
confusing days, but all...
I remember what Martin Luther said.
Martin Luther, this was shortly after he was
ejected from his ministry.
He was penniless.
He had nothing to look forward to in
the future.
He was castigated.
He was considered a heretic by multitudes.
And Martin Luther made a statement at the
height of that.
He said, Dear Lord, now that You've forgiven
all my sins, You can do with me
as You please.
And what he's saying, this is the most
important thing, I know that if I have
a God who can forgive and cleanse me
of all my sins and bring peace to
my soul, why should I fear what man
can do to me?
Why should I fear if everything collapses around
me because I serve a God who is
able to forgive and give me eternal salvation?
Why would I not believe Him to keep
me while I live here on this earth?
Can you say that this morning?
Lord, now that I'm forgiven, now that I'm
pardoned, now that I'm able to stand before
You on the judgment with exceeding great joy,
do with me as You please.
Hallelujah.
I want to give you something further, but
I want you to stand before I do,
if you will, please.
Now, I know this has been a short
message, but I'm not in the habit of
dragging anything out just to put in time.
This gives us more time to praise the
Lord.
Now, I want you to listen.
I've got to read it because I wrote
it down and the Lord's just blessing me.
If, if, would you say that, if?
I'm going to tell you this.
If God can seal us eternally by the
blood of His own Son, if He can
translate these bodies and change them into new
bodies like His own, if He can melt
the very elements with fire and create a
new heaven and a new earth, if He
can send angels on that day to claim
us when Christ appears again, if He can
come again with tens of thousands of chariots
to display His glory, if He can present
me to His Son on judgment day with
exceeding great joy, if He can build me
a golden house in glory, if He can
pave His streets with gold, if He can
give me eternal life and everlasting celestial food
to feed me all through eternity, if He
can even now feed a world full of
fowls of the air, it doesn't say fowls
of the earth, the chickens that we feed,
the fowls of the air that God feeds,
He can even now feed every animal, the
millions and millions of animals in the oceans,
if He can do all of this, will
He not take care of you, all ye
of little faith?
Will He not care for His own?
Now while you're up, get your Bibles and
go to Matthew 6 and this is where
I'll close.
Matthew 6.
You can read better standing anyhow.
All right, here we go.
Chapter 6, verse 25, beginneth to read right
to the end of the chapter.
Ye shall know the truth, so it shall
set you free.
Hallelujah.
God bless this to our hearts, help us
never to forget it in troubled times.
Therefore I say unto you, take no thought
for your life, what you shall eat or
what you shall drink.
How much thought should you give?
No thought.
Nor yet for your body, which ye shall
put on.
Is not the life more than meat and
the body than raiment?
Behold, the fowls of the air, they sow
not, neither they reap nor gather into barns.
Yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are you not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add
one cubic unto a statue?
Why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow.
They toil not, neither do they spin.
And yet I say unto you, that even
Solomon all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of
the field, which today is and tomorrow is
cast into the oven, shall he not much
more clothe you?
O ye of little faith, therefore take no
thought what you shall eat or what you
shall drink or wherewithal you shall be clothed.
For all these things do the Gentiles seek.
That's Gentile faith.
For your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom...
Read it with me, folks.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these things shall
be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for
the morrow shall take thought for the things
itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Hallelujah to God forevermore.
Now, lift your hands and just tell Jesus
you trust him right now.
Lord, I trust you.
I believe you.
I rest in your promises.
You will never leave us.
You will never forsake us.
You will go with us to the very
end.
Glory be to the name of our Lord.
Glory be to God forever.
Yesterday, today, and forever the same.
Never changes.
You will keep us by your grace.
Hallelujah.
We bless your holy name.
We glorify you by your word.
Thank you for your word, Lord, that holds
us.
Hallelujah.
Lord, we truly worship you.
Some of you were uncomfortable in this message
this morning because of a sin problem.
Sin.
And when there's sin that's not forsaken, robs
you of peace, brings guilt, fear, and condemnation
in the presence of the pure word of
God.
In all of the auditoriums in the annexes
and here in the main auditorium and downstairs
in the little rotunda wherever you may be
watching on screen, let me tell you the
Holy Spirit's here.
When His word is brought forth as He
declares it and is anointed of His Spirit,
He doesn't intend for it to just drop
at this stage right in front of me.
He intends it to accomplish its work.
And some of you were sent here by
the Holy Spirit.
You're not here by accident.
You're here today, right now.
And the Holy Spirit is dealing with you
about a sin.
Sin.
The Bible said we're to confess and forsake
our sins.
You say, well, Brother Wilkinson, there's a problem
in my life that I've confessed over and
over again, but I have not been able
to forsake it.
And I'm telling you there's power to enable
you to not only confess but forsake your
sins.
And you have to want that.
If you're flirting with your sin, you're comfortable
with it, and you've grown hardened in it
already, God help you.
It's going to take the absolute miracle of
God.
If I were in that position, I would
run out of my seat.
I'd say, God, I'm on the brink of
getting hard in this thing and not be
able to be convicted again.
God help me.
God help you if you've toyed and played
with it so long and you've shunted off
so much conviction of the Holy Spirit and
you've heard message after message.
I would get out of my seat quickly.
I would come down here and make it
right with God.
Those of you that are hearing me now,
say, Pastor Dave, I've got a sin problem.
I want to stand before the throne of
God with exceeding great joy, but right now
I am not ready to stand before Him
and enjoy what you're talking about this morning.
No one's going to put a microphone on
your face and ask you any silly questions
or embarrass you, but it's life and death
for some of you.
From the balcony, go to the stairs on
either side.
Here in the main auditorium, step out.
And in the annex, if you will go
to the lobbies, the ushers will show you
how to get into this building.
You'll come down the stairs and meet me
right here.
And I'm going to pray with you, and
I'm going to believe that Jesus sends you
out of this place free, cleansed, absolutely clean.
There should be something in your heart that
says, Pastor Dave, I want to be clean.
I want to look God in the eye.
I want to be able to stand before
the judgment and look Jesus right in the
eye and say, Thank you for your blood.
You've not only cleansed me, but you've empowered
me by your Spirit to live a victorious
life.
Get out of your seat and come and
join these that are coming.
Wherever you're at, all over, you hear me.
Downstairs, you come upstairs.
Upstairs, you come downstairs.
Come into the main auditorium while we're singing,
I need thee, oh, I need thee.
Come and join me.
Move in tight, please, for those that will
be coming.
And while they're coming from the annex and
the other auditoriums, Lord bless you, we'll wait
for you.
God is in no hurry, and we're in
no hurry.
Look, don't be afraid to cry.
That's all right.
Don't be afraid to cry.
Let it out.
That's all right.
God said he will not reject a broken
contrite heart and spirit.
Now, tell him why you came forward.
Talk to him right now.
Everybody came forward to tell Jesus why you
came.
Ask him to cleanse you and forgive you
right now.
And say, Jesus, I come to the blood,
the sprinkling of the blood.
Everybody, speak right out to him right now.
Nobody will hear you.
Nobody is going to think anything about it.
Lord, I have a sin problem.
I need to be pardoned.
I need to be cleansed.
Jesus, I come to hide nothing.
I come to open my heart to you.
I hold nothing back.
Nothing back.
I hold nothing back from you, Jesus.
I bring it into the light by your
Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, dig everything out that's hidden in
my life.
Bring it to the surface.
Expose it, Lord, to my heart that I
may deal with it through your Spirit.
Now, I want you to pray this prayer
with me.
Jesus, I acknowledge, I admit, I have a
sin problem, and I want to be free.
I confess it to you, Lord Jesus.
I can't get victory in my own power
or strength.
But you have promised me the Holy Spirit
to come into me and abide with me
and give me authority and power over sin,
flesh, and the devil.
I believe that, and by faith, I submit
to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, now and
here, in Jesus' name.
Now, I want you to just thank Him
for His faithfulness to you right now.
I want you to thank Him.
Jesus, I give you thanks.
I give you thanks.
I give you praise.
Hallelujah.
God, I thank you.
I give you praise.
Hallelujah.
This is the conclusion of the tape.