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With the sword of man.
Not with the sword.
There is no victory by the sword of
man.
Not by the sword of man.
I hope and pray that by the time
I'm finished tonight, you're ready to lay your
sword down.
Lay it down.
Not going to do you any good.
It's useless, it's worthless.
Put your sword down.
Your human effort, your human abilities, all of
it.
Heavenly Father, I pray tonight you take us
deeper into the new covenant.
I pray you help us to see it.
In the simple illustrations and the testimonies from
the Old Testament included.
And we go into the Old Testament, Lord,
to learn the New Testament truth.
Oh, Holy Spirit, I thank you for truth
that sets men free.
Lord, it's not just truth, it's the knowing
of the truth.
It's the revelation of the truth to our
hearts.
Lord, open our eyes.
Take the scales from our eyes.
Take the veil from our faces.
And help us to see more clearly what
you have accomplished at the cross.
Let us see the victory, the absolute total
victory.
And Lord, the agreement you've made to keep
us in these last days.
You're going to have a people, Lord, that
are going to stand.
Not in their own strength, not by might,
not by power, but by your Spirit, oh
God.
Hallelujah.
Lord, I need you tonight.
I need your strength, I need your power,
your unction and your anointing.
In Jesus' name, amen.
We're going to go back again and talk
about how to overcome the power of sin.
You said, Brother Dave, you've been preaching an
awful lot about that.
Why are you preaching so much about sin?
Well, first of all, I want you to
know that I'm not preaching out of some
kind of pain.
I'm not preaching out of some kind of
battle.
I thank God that he's shown me a
wonderful truth that's brought such a peace to
my heart.
I just want to share it with everybody.
I want you to enter into the joy
of the new covenant.
There was an old covenant that failed in
its purpose.
And God said, I'll make a new covenant
in the last days.
And this new covenant that God has made
with us is an irrevocable promise that God
is going to take the pressure off of
us.
He's going to take the burden off of
us, and he's going to take it upon
himself.
He said, I'm not going to trust you
to bring me a good heart anymore.
I'm going to take the heart of stone
out of you, and I'm going to put
a new heart in you that will have
a desire for me.
I'm going to cause you both to will
and to do of my good pleasure.
And he said, I'm going to keep you
by my power.
And the new covenant basically is the end,
the total end of the old I can
do man in my own strength.
And it's the introduction of a new man
says, I can't do anything in my own
strength, but I can do everything through the
power of the Holy Ghost.
And folks, I've been talking about being seated
with Christ in the heavenly place as being
a settled condition.
I've settled the matter.
I cannot strive or work my way into
the goodness and the grace of God.
I cannot battle sin in my own strength.
I cannot lick anybody, anything.
I am totally helpless in my flesh.
And until you come to that place, you'll
never be seated in heavenly places.
And I have found that seat.
That seat in a heavenly place is a
condition right here on earth.
I don't have to leave my body.
I don't have to imagine I'm out somewhere
in paradise.
Paradise is right here in my heart because
I have a settled condition.
I have a settled state of mind.
Hallelujah.
And then when the Lord began to talk
to me about this, God said, this is
the secret of the overcoming life in the
last days.
The enemy is going to come in like
a flood.
All hell is going to come against God's
people.
Demonic powers such as the world has never
seen.
And how are we going to have a
people that are going to stand, especially because
He has come even into the church with
deceivers.
He's come into the house of God with
lies, false doctrines.
We've got the deceptions outside, the incredible powers
of hell, that in the church we've got
false Christ.
We've got all of these things inside the
church, outside the church.
How are we going to have a people
that stand?
How are we going to have a people?
God says, I'm going to take it in
my own hands.
I am going to take it into my
hands.
Hallelujah.
And I believe the revival that's coming in
the last days will be a revival of
knowledge and revelation of the covenant that God
has made with His people.
And this covenant works by faith and faith
alone.
Hallelujah.
We told you that the old man is
simply the I can do man.
He's the one that looks at his sin.
He looks at his habits.
He looks at his besetting sin.
He says, I can do that.
I can lick it.
Give me time.
Give me enough tapes.
Give me enough preaching.
Give me a little time.
It may take a time.
I may fail, but I'm going to do
it.
I'll do it.
They call it biting the bullet.
They have all kinds of names for it.
And effort and strive and strive and strive
and promise and promise.
Sin confess, sin confess.
And it never works.
And God's people end up in despair trying
to finally say, Well, I know by faith
I'm saved, but they don't know how by
faith to live.
See, it's one thing to come out of
Egypt, but when you get out of Egypt
and Pharaoh's dead, you've settled the sin question,
the salvation question's been settled, you still have
to cross a Jordan.
And you're going to find when you get
there, you're going to have the Jebusites, you're
going to have all of these enemies coming
at you to try to get you down
and destroy you.
You're under the blood, but you still have
all the Canaanites to fight.
You've got all the habits.
You've got the lust.
You've got everything coming at you from all
sides.
How are you going to stand?
But he'd tell them, the battle's not yours,
it's mine.
He was just beginning to intimate the glory
of the new covenant.
The new covenant says if you will finally
die, you know what it is to be
dead to sin and dead in Christ?
It's finally, I've said it, and I want
you to understand before I go into the
Old Testament and show it to you in
the Old Testament, it's such a clear picture.
God says, you know the Bible says you
reckon yourself dead?
You just reckon yourself helpless.
The Lord, I cannot, I acknowledge that I
am helpless.
I have tried and tried to get victory
in my life over covetousness, over lust, over
problems.
Now folks, please again, I'm not talking about
my own life.
God has brought me to a victory.
I speak to you from a point of
victory in Christ.
I thank God for it.
And it's through the new covenant that I've
seen the glory of it.
Listen closely.
To be dead to sin is to be
able to say, I am no match for
it.
I am helpless before my sin in my
own power and my own strength.
Now if you're in the flesh, your flesh
doesn't want to hear that.
I've told you and told you that if
the flesh is at enmity against the Holy
Ghost, it's going to be at enmity against
everything in your life.
It's going to fight the Holy Ghost until
the day you die.
The flesh doesn't want to be put aside.
The flesh says, I can do it.
It's going to rise up and try to
take the throne.
The flesh doesn't like to hear it.
We like to say, well, that's just easy
believism, and that's going to make it, people
are just going to sit back and relax.
No, no, no, no.
Follow me.
Tonight, God's going to take you into the
Old Testament now, and I want to show
you in an Old Testament picture what we're
talking about.
God's going to make it clearer and clearer
in the days ahead.
Now the Bible says very clearly that these
things happened to Israel in the Old Testament
as examples to us upon whom the ends
of the world have come.
In other words, the Lord says, do you
want the keys?
Do you want to know how to overcome
sin, flesh, and the devil on all your
lusts?
Do you want to know how to battle
the enemy?
Now some of you may be sitting here,
Mr. and Mrs. Goody Goody, and you're saying,
no, no, no, wait a minute.
There's no lust in me.
There's no pride in me.
I'm humble.
Well, you've just blown it right there.
You just blew it.
There's none of us righteous, the Bible says.
And I'm going to tell you something else.
Your righteousness, unless it's accomplished by the power
of the Holy Ghost, is not going to
be acknowledged by God.
He acknowledges nothing except that which comes through
the mind and the will of the Holy
Ghost.
The Holy Spirit alone, he will not accept
any righteousness of your own.
Anything that's accomplished by your flesh, God will
repudiate.
He will not put up with it.
He will not endure it.
All our righteousnesses of the flesh are as
filthy rags as stench in his nostrils.
I can't do man stands before God and
says, I did it.
And he says, no, you didn't.
I don't accept you.
The only way I accept you is in
Christ Jesus.
You're accepted in the beloved and no other
way.
And so he says, go into the Old
Testament, because these are examples.
Now, you see, I'm going to take you
into a battle field tonight in Isaiah, and
I'm going to show you a picture.
Now, this is a historical account of a
battle that happened in Jerusalem and Judah.
It's a literal battle, but it's history.
God could have just wiped it away and
said it's history.
They've learned their lessons.
It was for that generation.
God says, no, I recorded it.
It's written for you to get your lessons.
Now, folks, if you want to get into
the fullness of God, you're going to be
a student.
You're going to study.
You're going to pray and ask God diligently
for revelation.
Doesn't come to those who just try to
float through.
Doesn't come at all.
You can't become a doctor unless you study.
You can't become a psychologist unless you study.
You can't become anything in this world unless
you study and prepare for it.
We've got Christians who want to be mature
Christians without studying, without digging into the Word
of God.
So let's put on our Holy Ghost thinking
caps, and let's do what God says.
You go into the Old Testament.
These are examples to you.
The lessons are learned.
The secrets are there, hidden.
If you go in and dig them out
by the Holy Ghost, I'll show them to
you.
Oh, one of the most powerful.
See, I see the New Covenant everywhere I
turn in the Bible now.
Everywhere I turn.
Every Old Testament truth comes alive now.
Go to the 31st chapter of Isaiah.
Isaiah 31.
Now, if you get Isaiah 31, would you
leave it open on your lap?
And then just look this way if you
might.
A king by the name of Sennacherib and
the Assyrian army is besieging Jerusalem.
They've already marched through Judah and captured most
of the cities, and now they are surrounding
Jerusalem.
Sennacherib means successful.
The Assyrians, Assyria means sin on the increase.
Sin on the increase and success.
You put them all together, it's a picture
of the success of the enemy coming against
God's people, how successful he's been.
In fact, that's what Rabchak has said.
He's the captain of Sennacherib's army, and the
first time they come against Judah, Sennacherib is
not there.
His army is there, and his captain, Rabchak,
is there.
And he is mocking them.
He said, we have been successful.
Nobody's been able to stand against our gods.
He's surrounding Jerusalem now.
And there's a panic.
Now, folks, this is important because Assyria represents
every sinful, demonic, lustful thing that comes against
you.
Didn't he say that these are examples for
us upon whom the ends of the world
have come?
Sennacherib is the devil himself who's convinced he's
going to succeed in defeating you and bringing
you down to despair.
I don't care if it's a demonic temptation
of lust, covetousness, whatever it may be from
all sides.
And sometimes, I'll tell you folks, you can
be in a situation where it looks like
you are surrounded and it's hopeless.
And the princes of Jerusalem, rather than turn
to the Lord, they turn to the old
man, the old nature, the old can-do.
We can do it.
All we need is a little help.
They look at this huge army.
They are surrounded now, and they decide they're
going to go down to Egypt.
They sent ambassadors down to Zoan into Egypt,
and they were loaded down with gifts and
silver and gold, and they were going to
hire the Egyptian army, the whole cavalry, their
horses, their horsemen and their army, to come
and push the Assyrians away.
You see, this is the arm of the
flesh.
And look at verse 1.
Woe to them that go down to Egypt
for help, and stay or may depend on
horses and trust in chariots, because they are
many, and in horsemen, because they are very
strong.
But they look not unto the Holy One
of Israel, neither seek the Lord.
Look at me, please.
These are Christians.
These are a type of Christians, and the
Lord recorded this so that we can see
the mistake they've made.
Now, God gives them two chances.
He gives them first a chance.
They opt to trust in the flesh.
And if you read on in verse 3,
now the Egyptians are men, and they're not
God.
Their horses are flesh and not spirit.
There's the dependency on the flesh.
God says, you have revolted against me.
You'll find that in verse 8, I believe.
You have revolted against me.
And God considers it's a revolt among His
people when they believe that through their own
power, they trust in the strength of the
flesh, they trust in man and his methods
to deliver them from the powers of darkness.
God says, you've revolted against me.
It's not just saying, well, God knows that
I don't have enough faith.
God says, no, you have revolted against my
ways.
So they're sending down to Egypt.
They're going to hire.
They're going to depend on these horses because
they're strong, and on this army, these chariots,
because they're swift.
And God said, you are turning to the
arm of the flesh, and you have not
turned to me, your only source of victory.
We have our own chariots today.
We have our own horses today.
These are the vehicles by which we try
to achieve victory over the flesh.
We've got books by the thousands on how
to, how to improve the flesh, how to
charm the flesh, how to subdue the flesh,
how to submerge the flesh, ten ways to
get victory over loneliness, six ways to find
a new wife or a new husband.
AA's got twelve steps to victory over alcoholism.
They've got all of these man-made tapes
and seminars.
Folks, we've got it coming out our ears.
People running everywhere to find, leaning on some
man, leaning on the arm of the flesh,
looking for a word, looking for a man,
looking for a vehicle, for something to deliver
them from their bondage.
They go to revival meetings, want somebody to
put their hands on them, zap them, or
go over here.
There's a man over here.
He has a word.
He uses scripture and he can tell you,
he can read your mind.
And I'm going to run, I don't care
if it costs me $3,000 round trip,
I'm going to go.
I need a word.
And this man stretches out his hand.
They're leaning on horses and chariots from Egypt.
He says, no.
Now, the Egyptians are men.
They're not God.
Their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord shall stretch out his hand,
both he that helpeth shall fall, and he
that is hopin' shall fall, and they all
shall fail together.
That says, all right, you go ahead and
you exercise your will.
Folks, God has given us a will, but
that will was perverted.
That will was perverted back in the garden
of Gethsemane so that we cannot, without the
help of the Holy Ghost, choose properly.
We always choose wrong in the flesh.
We lean on the arm of the flesh.
God says, all right, go ahead, make up
your mind, use every bit of your ability,
dig deep into the inner man, pull out
all of your strength and your energy, do
everything within your power and grit your teeth
and say, I'll do it, I'll do it,
I'll do it.
Do everything you can, but you're leaning on
the arm of the flesh.
It's not going to work.
I hope by now most of you come
to the realization that you have tried so
many times and failed so many times, you're
about to give up on the flesh.
God will let you really go through it.
He'll put you in the wringer until you're
totally convinced that you've got to die to
your efforts in the flesh.
Hallelujah.
He said it's all going to fail.
So why go that way?
Why battle in the flesh anymore?
God said it's bound for failure.
Folks, that's when you die, you see.
I know from experience it doesn't work.
I know that the flesh cannot give me
the victory.
Hallelujah.
They lean on them because there are many
and because they are very strong, but God
says these, that's flesh, that's flesh.
I told last Sunday, I believe it was
about Marshall Applewhite, this 68-year-old gentleman
that took 38 into suicide with him.
And Mr. Applewhite, you know, was the son
of a Presbyterian preacher.
In fact, he was a choir director and
very active in church.
And even when he was in Houston, he
was active in a church there and called
to a ministry.
He was married.
He had two children.
But you see, he had a problem.
He had a homosexual drive in him.
In fact, he checked himself into a hospital
in Houston and wanted to be delivered.
He said he'd tried everything, and he acknowledged
to a psychologist that there's a beast in
me that's driving me.
A beast.
The flesh.
This homosexual drive in him was destroying him.
This man tried everything.
He went to doctor after doctor, hospital after
hospital, and finally he said there's no way
out.
He talked about weeping, crying, praying, and couldn't
find deliverance because he was trying so hard
to lean on the arm of flesh.
He was looking for some man.
He was looking for a psychologist, a psychiatrist.
And finally, in total despair, he castrated himself.
In fact, at least a third of those
who committed suicide were also castrated.
You see, he took it in his own
power.
You see, if you're going to believe that
you have the power, if you're going to
believe that you can do it, it's not
going to be much of a giant step
to believe that a spaceship is going to
come and deliver you.
And so, Haley Bob, the new comet, you
can see it out there now.
You go outside, now you can see it
there.
The comet's out there, and it's riding high.
And they committed suicide because they said in
that trail, there's a comet.
I mean, there's a spaceship, and that spaceship
is going to pick us up.
But you see, the despair of these people,
the absolute despair, one after another, in their
videotaped last message, they talked about, some talked
about castration and talked about how they finally,
what they're saying, God failed us, but we
took it in our own hands and we
did it.
You see where it ends, don't you?
You see where it ends when you take
matters in your own hands and try to
do it in your own power and your
own strength.
We grieve over what happened.
It seems so incredible that anybody could believe
that.
But that's where flesh ends up.
That's where flesh takes you.
It takes you out in outer space.
The more I search God's word, the clearer
it becomes to me all human striving for
deliverance over sin and the dominion of sin
and the energy of the flesh is bound
for failure.
Israel attempts here to defeat their powerful enemy
at the gate through flesh, through man's power,
and it's immediately denounced by God.
When the Lord shall stretch out his hand,
both he that helps shall fall and he
that is being helped shall fall.
They all shall fail altogether.
God says, I'm dead set against your call
for help for man.
Hallelujah.
But listen to what it says.
Skip down to verse 8.
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword,
not of a mighty man, and the sword
not of a mean man shall devour him.
Look this way, please.
In the original Hebrew it says, not the
sword of your mightiest warrior will cause him
to flee.
You take the strongest Christian who has a
good will and he's got a good moral
background, he's clean, he's really not polluted in
his mind, but you take the strongest warrior
that you have in the flesh.
And the Bible said, God says that's not
going to work against the powers of hell.
He said the enemy's going to come down
but he's not going to fall by your
sword.
He's not going to fall by your efforts.
Now folks, we come into the new covenant
here right now.
The Lord says, you cannot, you have got
to come to the place where you put
your human sword down.
God says, oh yes, he's going to flee.
I read on.
But he shall flee from the sword and
his young men shall be discomfited.
He shall pass over to his stronghold for
fear.
His princess shall be afraid of the Enzyme.
For the Lord who fires Enzyme in his
furnace in Jerusalem.
God says, I have a fiery sword and
I will defeat your enemy.
He's going to flee not from your sword
but from the sword of the Lord.
No other sword.
Glory be to God.
Hallelujah.
Not with the sword of man.
He shall flee from the sword but it's
going to be a smiting sword that comes
from the voice of God.
Look at chapter 30, verse 30.
And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice
to be heard.
We sing that song in this church.
He shall show the lightning down of his
arm with the indignation of his anger and
with the flame of a devouring fire with
scattering and tempest and hailstone.
For through the voice of the Lord shall
the Assyrian be beaten down with smoke with
the rod.
How is your enemy defeated?
By the sword of the Lord.
The very voice of our holy God.
All he has to do is speak the
word to those who trust him.
All he has to do is say enough.
Remember in Revelation, he talks about coming forth
in the white horse and a sword piercing
out of his mouth.
A sword coming out of his mouth.
In verse 5, chapter 31.
As the birds flying, so will the Lord
of hosts defend Jerusalem.
In the Hebrew, it simply means as the
hen birds flutter over their young.
In other words, it's the mother hen that
stretches out her wings so shall the Lord
stretch out his wing over his people.
God says you want to be protected from
the onslaught of the enemy against your life.
He said only under the wings of our
heavenly father.
He said I'll stretch out my wings.
See, folks, when you go God's way and
you lay down your sword and say Lord,
I'm going to trust you.
I'm going to trust the power of the
Holy Ghost that you promised in me to
empower me.
I'm going to go your way trusting in
you completely live or die.
The first thing God does is secure you
under his wings.
He secures you.
Thank God for the security that we have
when we trust him.
The first thing God does when you trust
him is to secure you so that you
don't have to fear.
David said I will fear no evil because
you see, those of you who've been on
drugs or you've been on alcohol or you've
been into pornography or you've been into something
that has latched itself to your spirit and
you feel bound.
The enemy has halfway victory in your life
if you're walking around with fear you're walking
around on the streets afraid that a spirit
of pornography will grab you over here or
some drug addict is going to just grab
you and tempt you and everywhere you go
you're living in fear and nervousness that you're
going to fall.
No, the Lord says if you'll trust me
I just spread out my wings and you
come under my wings.
You don't have to live in fear.
You don't have to be afraid of it.
The first thing you have to do is
get over your fear of sin.
There's a fear of God, yes, but we're
not of David said, I will fear no
evil for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
The devil will keep whispering you're going to
fall, you're going to fall.
Don't pay any attention.
Your flesh will try to take over and
bring that fear on you.
Don't listen to your flesh.
Glory to God.
You know, the scripture makes it clear that
the first thing God does when he comes
when you lay down your sword and you
take up his sword by faith and you
say, Lord, the battle's not mine anymore because
I've failed so many times.
I come to you now in simple faith.
First thing he does is give you assurance
that your enemy is going to be defeated.
He's going to be totally defeated.
The Assyrians shall fall by the sword.
That's, God said he, that's settled.
Now folks, that's good enough for me.
God said your enemy's going to fall, not
you.
I'm going to keep you from falling but
your enemy's going down.
Is that what it says there?
Your enemy, the Assyrians shall fall?
The Assyrian is that sin dominion that's coming
against you.
He said it shall fall.
He shall flee from the sword.
You and I don't run from the devil.
We resist the devil and he runs from
us.
Resist him by faith.
And secondly, he promised to come down and
fight for us.
So shall the Lord of hosts come down
and fight for Mount Zion and for the
hill thereof.
He shall stretch out his hand and cause
the enemy to fall.
This is the end of side one.
You may...
Could you go to Isaiah 35, turn to
the right to Isaiah 35 for just a
minute?
No, make it, I'll tell you what, go
to chapter 37.
Go to chapter 37.
Now I don't have a long sermon tonight.
But I want to bring some hope to
you right now.
Are you beginning to hear what the Holy
Spirit's saying tonight?
That you're no match for the devil?
And you need to quit making promises to
yourself and to God?
And you need to quit striving in your
flesh?
You see, God gave...
Hezekiah was king at the time.
Isaiah was the prophet of the day.
In fact, Isaiah lived in...
was in Jerusalem all this time.
He's the one who's speaking against this.
He's saying, now look, you're going to fail.
And God let them do it their way.
And they failed.
Literally failed.
First of all, Egypt didn't respond.
Egypt was a broken reed.
There's no hope.
It failed.
And folks, the flesh always fails you.
And so, Sennacherib's army comes again.
This time, Sennacherib comes with his army.
He's got a huge army.
It could have been as many as a
million men.
And he comes and he surrounds Jerusalem again.
And this time, in chapter 37, Hezekiah allowed
his princes to go to Zoah and Wonsan.
I think he's saying, now we're going to
do it God's way.
We're not going to lean on the arm
of the flesh this time.
And look what happened.
It came to pass, verse 1, when King
Hezekiah heard it, that he ran his clothes
and covered himself with sackcloth and went into
the house of the Lord.
He humbled himself and went to prayer.
He humbled himself.
Folks, let me tell you what humility is.
It's not that down-in-the-mouth poor
look.
Poor me.
Humility is coming to the end of yourself.
Humility is coming before God.
I have nothing to give you, Lord, but
my faith.
I have nothing in myself.
It's the end of self.
That's it.
It's the end of self.
It's no feeling.
It's an absolute condition of saying, God, I
am nothing.
I have nothing to offer you.
I can't fight.
I'm helpless in my own strength and my
own power.
It has to come from you.
You go to the Lord.
You go to his presence as Hezekiah did
and said, Now, Lord, what do we do?
What do I do?
Look at the army around me.
I'm surrounded.
I don't know what to do.
And God says, Go to the Word.
And the Word was with Isaiah.
And so he sends Elikim and Shebna the
scribe and the elders of the priests covered
with slack cloths to Isaiah the prophet, son
of Amos.
And they said to him, Thus said Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble and
rebuke and blasphemy for the children who come
to the birth, and there's not strength to
bring forth.
He says, Look, we're going to go God's
way now, but we're totally weak.
There's no strength left.
What do we do?
And that's where God wants you.
Where you have finally come to the end
of everybody, everything, and you say, Oh, God,
here I am.
Take me.
Show me what to do.
God has told me time and time again.
If God has ever spoken to me in
my life, this I can tell you, He's
spoken.
David, your part is just to cling to
me.
Come to me and pour out your soul.
He said, You seek me with all your
heart.
I'll take everything.
I'll take every enemy.
I'll take everything around you.
I'll protect your ministry.
I'll protect your family.
You walk in covenant.
Your part is simply to humble yourself and
seek my face.
And in seeking my face, you'll get your
word.
You'll get your direction.
The word of the Lord was with Isaiah.
He will send you to this word.
He will speak it into your heart.
You will hear a word behind you saying,
This is the way.
Walk ye in it.
Isn't this where you've been for the children
that come to the birth?
There's not strength to bring forth.
God, I have no strength.
Are you facing a situation in your life,
in your home, that needs an absolute miracle?
Glory to God.
Get on your knees.
Don't get on the phone.
Don't pick up a book.
Don't put on a tape.
Not mine.
Not Brother Carter.
Not Greg's.
No tapes.
No books.
No seminars.
No how-tos.
Get along with God.
Humble yourself.
Say, Now, Lord, this is your job.
Now, Lord, you're responsible.
I turn all responsibility over to you.
I'm going to stay on my knees.
Do you know something?
That's all they did to get their victory.
They weren't running around now.
They weren't spending money.
They weren't sweating.
They weren't figuring.
They weren't looking for money.
They weren't giving money.
They weren't doing anything but praying, seeking God,
and trusting Him, waiting for the Word.
Isaiah had the Word.
And Isaiah said, verse 6, unto them, Thus
shall you say unto your master, Thus saith
the Lord, Be not afraid of the words
that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of
the king of Syria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I'll send a blast on him, and
he shall hear a rumor, return to his
own land, and I'll cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land.
God said, My sword.
He said, Don't you be afraid of this
man.
You know what he's saying, this?
Any enemy as yours, God says, now is
my enemy.
You've made him my enemy because you've turned
it over to me.
Anybody talks against you, anybody abuse you, anybody
hurts you, any demon against you is a
demon against me.
Verse 10, Thus shall you speak as the
king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God,
this is the enemy talking now.
Hezekiah says, Don't believe that the God in
whom you trust, you're deceived that he's going
to deliver you.
You've heard what the kings of Syria have
done to all the lands, destroying them.
Folks, listen to me.
You can see people fall all around you,
but that doesn't mean anything.
Doesn't mean a thing to you because you're
walking in covenant with the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Verse 33, Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning
the king of Assyria.
That's your enemy, folks.
That's your lust.
That's your besetting sin.
That's the dominion of sin.
He shall not come into this city, nor
shoot an arrow there.
Glory to God.
Nor come before it with shields, nor cast
a bank against it.
By the way that he came, by the
same shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the Lord.
For I will defend this city to save
it for my own sake and for my
servant David's sake.
Listen.
God must have one incredible sense of humor.
They go to Egypt because there are many.
He sends one angel.
One angel.
What a paradox.
What a difference.
One angel.
Now listen to this.
Then the angel of the Lord went forth.
All they're doing is praying and humbling themselves.
Isn't that amazing?
Well, you know, wonderful folks, when you don't
have to sweat and strive.
Do you know that I preached this morning
about Jacob saw a ladder, there're angels coming
and going?
Do you know I still have those angels
coming and going for me?
You got them coming for you?
They're there.
The angel of the Lord went forth and
smote in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred and four...
It's 185,000.
When they rose in the morning, behold, they
were all dead corpses.
Folks, they wake up in the morning and
blow reveille and hardly anybody comes.
And they start peeking into tents.
They're dead.
And they examine the body.
There are no sword marks.
There's no bleeding.
There's nothing.
They call the camp physician, I'm sure, and
they examine these corpses.
This is amazing.
There's not a mark on them.
There's no bugs.
There's no skin-eating disease, you know, like
we have now that can kill people in
a few hours.
I mean, they're beautiful corpses.
They're all dressed in their nightclothes or whatever
they slept in.
And there's not a trace of anything.
The angel of the Lord, he just went
through the camp and smote them.
Folks, I don't care how he does it.
Let him do it his way.
So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed.
Oh, you better believe he departed.
His army's gone.
Doesn't the Bible say, he shall flee from
you?
And when he returned and dwelt at Nineveh,
it came to pass as he was worshiping
in the house of Nisroch, his god, and
Abrammelech and Sherezeh, his sons smote him with
a sword and they escaped him to the
land of Armenia.
Isn't that amazing?
His only two sons killed him.
What a picture.
What a picture God is painting for us.
All these things happened for an example to
us upon whom the ends of the world
have come.
I see it.
I accept it.
I believe every word of it right now.
I believe this, that the enemy's not going
to shoot an arrow at me that's going
to strike.
He's not going to come against me with
his shields.
He's not going to cast up a bank
against me.
And by the way he came, he's going
to leave?
God said, I'll defend David Wilkerson for my
own sake.
I'll defend him.
I'll defend everyone who believes in me and
puts down his own.
So I'll defend you.
Glory to God.
The battle is the Lord's, it's not mine.
Hallelujah.
Will you stand, please.
Glory to God.
Hallelujah.
Why don't you just lift your hand and
say, Lord, I'm going to trust you.
You're going to bring me out.
I'm going to have victory in my life.
I'm not afraid anymore, Lord.
God, take the fear out of the hearts
of everyone in this house.
Smite the fear.
Take away all fear, all bondage.
Hallelujah.
God, you said, the age of the Lord
encamps around about them that fear him and
deliver them.
Glory to Jesus.
Lord, you've won a glorious victory.
It's not by might.
It's not by power.
But it's by my spirit, sayeth the Lord.
Hallelujah.
It's by my spirit, sayeth the Lord.
My spirit spoke to my heart, and let
me tell you what he said.
There are at least 10 people here tonight.
There may be more, but no less than
10.
That God is speaking very clearly to.
Because before you heard this message, when you
came in here tonight, you came in with
this burden.
You were on the brink In fact, you
may have already stepped over and gone back
to an old sin.
And you've been in a struggle.
You've been in a losing battle.
And God delivered a word to you tonight.
You're here for a purpose.
Now, God wants you to take the second
step.
We don't count heads.
We don't try to pack an altar here.
We're here on a life and death mission.
Let me tell you right now, the Holy
Ghost is speaking to a number, and you're
balking in here on the main floor.
You stepped across the line or you're on
the brink ready to cross the line.
You're saying, I just can't fight it anymore.
It's too big for me.
I've tried and tried and it doesn't work.
Oh, yes, it does.
And the Lord says, you come now.
You take a step.
You cross the line.
Come back over the line.
You went this way.
Come back this way toward the Lord.
He says right here, even in 31st chapter,
just return now unto the Lord.
Return.
I want you to get out of your
seat if the Holy Ghost.
Don't come because I say so.
Come because the Holy Ghost is convicting you
and you feel the tug and the pull
of the Holy Spirit.
Come and say, Brother Dave, I don't want
to cross that line.
I don't want to give in.
I want victory.
I want God's way in my life.
I want victory.
Upstairs, go to the stairs on either side
and come down any aisle.
And we're going to believe God tonight for
absolute victory.
God's wanting to set a whole lot of
people free from the fear of what you're
going through He wants to give you peace
about it.
He wants to give you assurance that He's
going to bring you through if you will
trust Him.
Right out of your seat, wherever you're at,
and come, and let's believe God.
If you're backslidden, if you don't know Jesus,
you come with these that are walking down
the aisle right now.
Come and believe the Lord tonight for a
change that'll last you till eternity.
This is the conclusion of the tape.