My father I need you.
I need your touch I need your anointing
and I pray Lord that you say something
So cutting so real so powerful to our
hearts will never be the same You're saying
something to the Church of Jesus Christ Something
that needs to be heard and I thank
you for this message.
I give it to you now in Christ's
name Amen Revelation 18 to and The angel
cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon
The great is falling is falling and has
become the habitation of devils and the hold
of every unclean and hateful bird Babylon has
fallen has fallen Now Martin Luther and other
Reformation preachers taught that Babylon was a Catholic
Church and the Pope was the beast Many
believers at that time were being martyred by
the orders of certain primitive popes Now if
you know church history, you know, the Catholic
Church is stained with the blood of many
godly martyrs But if you understand church history,
you also know that have been nearly as
many Catholics killed by Protestants Even in Ireland
today, you see it Catholics killing Protestants Protestants
killing Catholics.
No What John is talking about is not
the Catholic Church.
The beast is not the Pope Something far
more powerful than a Catholic Church of the
Pope It's a world power that's visible before
our very eyes tonight and I want to
show it to you I want to expose
it and show you what God is talking
about Babylon was a physical city at one
time that God used to judge Israel It
was destroyed by the Chaldeans in 536 BC
And if you understand your Bible history every
time God wanted to chastise Israel He sent
Babylon down carried him away in chains took
him into captivity Remember they were there for
70 years in captivity in Babylon No Babylon
Represents something more than just that physical city.
It's a type of something that's in existence
today Just as surety as Zion is not
just a physical city in Israel Zion is
a type of the church the true Church
of Jesus Christ is called Zion Babylon is
a harlot backslidden Church Babylon is a Spiritual
condition.
It's a church within the church.
It's a visible body Coexisting with the invisible
body within the Church of Jesus Christ professor
Milligan 1885 said this and I thought what
God was showing me was from the original
and it's not it's been believed for years
1885 professor Milligan said this Babylon is not
the Church of Rome in particular No doubt
that church is deeply sinned, but it is
not the spiritual harlot of revelation Babylon is
all professed Christians who love the world It
consists of those who love the world's favor
rather than its reproach It is those who
esteem the honor of the world rather than
its shame It is those who love ease
rather than sacrifice Self indulgence rather than self
-denial Grasping covetous, but having no compassion on
the poor Babylon is all who anywhere professed
to be Christ little flock But they are
not because they deny him by their actions
in their lifestyle Babylon as far as I'm
concerned and many others in church history is
Any church any ministry any minister any Christian
who is in league with the world?
Seduced by a spirit of worldliness and covetousness
doing God's work and worldly methods it can
be Conservative it can be liberal can be
Catholic it can be Protestant And of course
it includes the super world church that is
going to be in existence when Jesus comes
and he said he's going to Destroy it
with the breath of his own nostrils But
you see God is more concerned about the
true Church of Jesus Christ and what's happening
to the church This is the thing that
grieves the heart of God God is vitally
concerned about how we are evangelizing he's vitally
concerned about how the church is taking on
the character of the world and I tell
you Babylon is falling Babylon is coming down
God is soon going to shake and sift
every unspiritual church He's going to expose and
bring down every unspiritual ministry every backslidden minister
the gospel Every lukewarm worldly Christian is going
to be shaken to the core of his
soul The Bible predicts that everything that can
be shaken will be shaken and the only
things left standing are those things that cannot
be shaken When John the Baptist saw Jesus
coming he didn't see him coming as a
divine Santa Claus No, he saw him coming
with an axe in one hand and a
fan in the other and with the axe
He'd lay it to the root of the
tree and cut off the root of sin
and with the fan He'd appear in his
floor.
That's his church and he would blow that's
with the Holy Spirit and He would blow
out of the house of God all the
chaff and the only thing that would remain
when Jesus comes is the wheat John in
his vision saw a harlot riding on the
back of a beast and One of the
angels talked with me saying come hither I
will show you the judgment of the great
whore that sitteth upon many waters That means
upon many lands worldwide in influence So he
carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet colored beast Full of names of
blasphemy Having seven heads and ten horns Those
are just fallen empires and the restored Roman
Empire the constant worldwide influence of this beast
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet
colors and she was decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls as she had in
her hand a golden cup full of Abomination
and filthiness and upon her forehead was a
name written mystery Babylon the mother of harlots
Folks this prophecy is not complicated at all
In fact, this is speaking of the backslidden
Laodicean church the last day church before Jesus
comes described in the third chapter of Romans
This is a church that would come into
being who would have a public confession of
prosperity It's a church that says she is
rich It's a church that will say she
is increased with goods She says he's in
need of nothing a positive confession of wealth
and success But unaware that she is naked
wretched poor and blind Does that sound like
something you've been hearing lately of a confession
of wealth and prosperity?
By people who have never dealt with sin
totally ignorant that they're wretched and blind and
filthy and naked Claiming all the riches of
the glory of Christ Jesus having never dealt
with sin in their lives Now Babylon is
not an apostate church just because I say
it is every prophet of God Knew who
the harlot was Jeremiah said have you seen
what backsliding Israel has done.
She's played the harlot Israel has a horse
forehead and refuses to be ashamed Remember what
John the Revelator said?
She has a horse forehead Mystery Babylon the
mother of harlots written on her forehead and
listen to what Jeremiah says he's speaking of
the backslidden people of God He's speaking about
the apostate church of the time Israel has
a horse forehead Backsliding Israel has played the
harlot and she refuses to be ashamed Ezekiel
said How weak is thine heart become saith
the Lord God?
Seeing you do all these things in my
presence the work of an impudent harlot woman
in The Old Testament days when you wanted
to show a sign of impotence you picked
up a stick You held it under your
nose and you flipped it at a person
that meant you were putting them down a
sign of impotence Nowadays, they threw the stick
away and they use the thumb and they
thumb their nose And that's what God's saying
my people many of my people become so
impotent.
They're thumbing their noses at me Isaiah How
has the faithful city become a harlot speaking
of Jerusalem God's Holy City?
It was once full of righteousness, but now
full of hate and murder And you'll find
it in Joel Amos Micah and Nahum all
these prophets in essence said the same thing
My people have become degenerate plants.
My people have become harlots You see these
people of God that were once faithful called
out of Egypt called to go in and
possess Canaan They began to go a whoring
after the heathen ways Scripture said thou has
gone a whoring after the heathen and it
become polluted with their idols and their ways.
Oh You see that pollution today creeping into
the house of God and so many careless
living Christians Who have gotten so mixed up
with the world?
So involved with the world they've got a
whoring after the heathen ways The Prophet said
the holy place has become defiled by strangers
Uncircumcised ungodly men were coming into the holy
place to minister before the Lord This thing
have they done unto me.
They've defiled my holy place Isaiah said Israel
now finds pleasure in the children of strangers
Jeremiah strangers are now coming into the holy
place of the Lord's house There was a
terrible thing happening in Israel that frightened all
the prophets.
There was an outer court That's where the
sinner the transgressor brought his sacrifice But into
the holy place No one was allowed to
go except a holy person a holy man
of God separated sanctified set apart No one
could minister the holy oracles of God Unless
they were totally sanctified they couldn't even have
a spot or wrinkle on their garments or
they'd be defiled But you see the church
becomes so black slidden God's people become so
polluted with the things of the world the
spear the age had so corrupted them that
ungodly men were coming in and offering strange
fire before the altar of God and All
the Prophet Ezekiel saw what was happening and
he thundered a message That is a message
that needs to be heard all across America
I'm going to give you the prophecy if
Ezekiel this thundering message You keep it in
mind when you think of all that you've
been seeing on so-called Christian radio and
television hearing and listening to Think of all
the half converted Hollywood celebrities that give their
cute little Jesus commercials Think of all the
show business gospel and all the choreography think
of all these uncircumcised half converted people Coming
into the holy place so to speak to
minister the holy oracles of God and then
you listen to this Say to the rebellious
house of Israel you are brought into my
sanctuary or my holy place strangers uncircumcised of
heart and in flesh To be in my
holy place to pollute it even my house
you have not kept the charge of my
holy things Listen, you have hired keepers in
my holy place for your own pleasure Thus
saith the Lord God no stranger.
No alien at heart.
So enter my sanctuary You see when John
was looking at this Harlot riding the back
of a beast he was looking into our
generation.
He saw a church riding on the back
of the world The beast got its power
from the dragon, which is the devil And
he saw a backslidden church riding on back
of the world riding on top of the
crest of the world Doing God's work with
worldly methods with strange aliens in the house
of God in Collusion with the temple service
in the worship of God He saw a
church was so weak and so worldly it
had to desperately depend on the world for
its strength Now, you know as well as
I do that the world is creeping into
the church It's creeping into the ministry ministers
today borrow the music of the world the
styles of the world the Choreography of the
world and now borrow their stars who one
day can be on a Christian television program
or in a Jesus rally Talking about their
conversion and the very next night.
They're in Las Vegas Dancing and singing in
front of a bevy of nudes singing drinking
cursing gambling songs And you know what grieved
prophets they saw the worldliness in the temple
they saw unsanctified men standing for the altar
to minister and All these strange fires And
the Prophet said with grief in his heart
my people love to have it so This
is what bothers me the lack of discernment
in the Church of Jesus Christ nowadays people
sit and watch television programs And they go
to meetings and a lot of our crusades
today are entertainment and much of Christian television
is entertainment I'm not going to name names
But something you got to be said and
I'm not I'm not afraid to say because
God put this on my heart I'm not
I am not Putting my hand on God's
anointed Because if you remember Nadab and Abihu
were two great priests of God Who along
with Aaron had the spiritual care of over
three million Jews?
Nadab and Abihu two great prophets of God
had been on Mount Sinai for six days.
They had Been rolling in the thunder of
God as the earthquake shook that mountain The
Bible said along with Aaron they saw God
walk on sapphire stones these two great prophets
of God came down out of the mountain
and They came one day into the holy
place Now God said the only fire that
could go into the censer had to come
from the holy altar.
It was a perpetual fire No hand no
human hands touched it and that was the
fire that was to go in to the
censer before the incense cap went on to
be waved before the altar of the Lord
But you see these two priests became so
busy and careless One day they came walking
right past the altar and they went into
the holy place and they struck up their
own fire human hands and They offered strange
fire and what happened to these two great
men of God they dropped dead In the
holy place.
They dropped dead.
They offered strange fire before the altar of
God We are saying strange fire being offered
before God and I watch some people and
I go into their homes turn this on
to this Isn't that wonderful?
Look at that celebrity.
Look at that Hollywood personality talking about Jesus
and all friends agrees me because I just
happen to know that I've seen a newspaper
clipping where they're going to appear in that
same city in Some kind of a benefit
or some kind of an ungodly Club a
drinking club mind you I am a Jew.
Did you hear me?
I'm a Jew by faith the only kind
Paul recognized I'm a Jew by faith But
can you imagine any Jewish rabbi inviting me
an uncircumcised Gentile into the synagogue?
You think he'd allow me in to open
the law and preach the Jewish gospel and
the law No, because I'm uncertain and I
don't blame him I respect that but by
the same token, why should any man of
God permit in the holy place any half
-saved?
unsanctified celebrity God
said it's all coming down Babylon is falling.
Oh now that dwellest upon many waters abundant
in treasure thine end is common the measure
of thy covetousness God says it's enough I'm
going to put a stop to all the
spiritual foolishness in my house Now, what does
that mean to you and me sitting here?
Today, it means so much that the Lord
says I'm going to tingle your ears And
I'm going to astonish your eyes.
That means it's gonna be headline news.
Here's my prophecy Listen closely and Then start
watching the news in the months ahead We
are on the verge of seeing the bankruptcy
of some of the major ministries in the
United States Men who have built their empires
without a mandate from God.
We're trying to build memorials to their own
name They're going to come crashing down.
They're going bankrupt God is going to shut
down every Christian television program.
That is preaching the gospel with ungodly methods
and people God's going to shut it all
down.
It's all going bankrupt Churches who have overbuilt
without a mandate from God are going to
go bankrupt Liberal denominations are going to have
their funds cut off because God says it's
enough God's going to instead raise up spiritual
men to fill the gap They're going to
be men of God that hear the call
of the Holy Spirit they're going to say
it's enough and they're going to purge their
churches their ministries and themselves and They're going
to ask God to help them preach a
pure clear unadulterated gospel of Christ Unmixed with
the world in its spirit God
is getting ready to do a new thing
in his church He's going to bring down
the proud and the famous and the ambitious
and the ego trippers And God's going to
lift up humble unknown ministers to bring the
church back to repentance and holiness The days
of the superstar evangelist.
They're all over No more one-man shows
No more stealing God's honor no more glamour
no more showmanship No more world directed choreography
in the holy place No more big-time
religion The Holy Ghost is going to shut
down corporate religion and my friends what religion
has become in many circles is big business
Nothing else but big business The Holy Spirit
is already Making people sick of all the
money raising that's why that program pray TV
came to birth The world that was a
sign of the secular world being very fed
up and tired of all the money appeals
Aren't you a little tired of all the
money appeals Aren't you tired of seeing men
of God on radio on television and listening
on radio?
Weeping and crying as though God has become
a pauper All the unbelievable gimmicks the house
of God is being turned into a den
of thieves Folks I don't want anything to
do with that.
You say be careful.
Mr. Wilson what you're saying about men of
God Oh, I believe God's saying that to
a lot of us.
I believe many of us have been guilty
There've been times past in my life.
I was guilty of the same thing and
God been dealing with me And I say
God's not dealing with me only thing with
every minister Everyone who hears the sound of
my voice God is saying he's going to
woo his church away from the bigness the
brightness and sensationalism and their soulmanship He's going
to rule people away He's going to show
people the difference between the holy and the
profane the clean and the unclean God is
going to bring down every minister who's wrapped
up in go-go religion busy busy running
Listen to it.
I'm against you babbling.
I will lift up my hand against you
and roll you down from your heights I
will leave you a burned-out mountain.
You shall be desolate.
You shall be completely wiped out.
I Was in Washington Square Park doing personal
work last summer met a minister sitting in
the park.
He left his church He left the ministry.
He was sitting there in a daze.
He didn't even work had no job Completely
burned out he had run so far.
He'd gotten ahead of God God is warning
every sincere Christian to get out of Babylon
now Flee out of the midst of Babylon
deliver every man his soul Be not cut
off in her iniquities for this is the
time of the Lord's vengeance He will render
unto Babylon a recompense said I'm going to
send judgment God is warning every minister the
gospel to get out of Babylon to read
his soul of the spirit of Babylon.
I Would to God That we could have
a one-year moratorium on every building program
all plans of Expansion that all through the
church for just one year every evangelist every
minister every church would just stop for one
year and give themselves The fasting and praying
we could turn the world upside down.
I am NOT against building new churches Oh,
no, God calls men like Ezra Nehemiah to
be builders.
God knows that we have to have roofs
over our head But oh something's happening America
now we've become so interested in our drawing
boards, we're not into the word I Can
say to any minister who hears me around
the world?
That if you have a mandate from God
Woe to the person stands in front of
you or tries to stop you and Saints
Listen to me if the man of God
in the pulpit is really heard from the
Lord And you know, it's not an eagle
trip if there is a real need to
build and expand Then you'd better stand behind
him with everything you have or you're in
danger of your very physical life but once
the plans Have been settled upon I've been
asking pastors to turn the building plans over
to their elders and the deacons let them
build it so the pastor gonna shut himself
in with God and fast and pray and
stand in the pulpit with a word from
heaven every time he preaches God is going
to spew out of his mouth all the
preaching that is light and frivolous Jeremiah rebuked
the ministers of his day He said you
have healed the herd to the daughter of
my people only slightly saying to them peace
peace when there's been no peace Slightly means
light silly lacking substance Do you hear that?
He said my ministers were preaching a light
silly gospel lacking substance And this is what
bothers me about some of the programs we
see now around the country Here's so light
it is so frivolous.
Oh, there is some healing as he said
you healed the herd of the daughter my
people slightly It's possible to produce all kinds
of testimonies of healing But folks until people
deal with the sin in their lives and
tell the axes laid to the root that
can be no healing God will not allow
ministers any longer just to lift their hands
and say to people Do you have a
burden you ever need you have a sin?
I'm gonna release it.
You can't release it That's like standing in
a confession booth and having the priest forgive
your sins No, you can't be healed until
you deal with a secret private sin in
your life And that's what God is trying
to raise up.
Now.
He's trying to raise up ministers We're going
to preach against in effect The Bible says
that the best test to know whether the
man of God in the pulpit is truly
of the Lord If you want to know
your pastor's a real man of God Here's
the test if they were mine saith the
Lord they would turn my people away from
their sins Now you if you go to
a church and I'm sure that's the way
it is in this church You hear a
pastor make you so uncomfortable.
You think somebody ratted on you He told
him all about you And he preaches a
message in spite of what the money people
in the church or the deacons think and
he preaches it even though It's going to
cost him his pulpit and you know it
You better thank Almighty God and hold on
to him because he's a man of God
Jeremiah said these priests these ministers overpassed they
overlooked the deeds of the wicked Ezekiel said
the priest they have put no difference between
the holy and the profane Neither have they
showed my people the difference between the clean
of the unclean They're not showing the people
the difference between the clean of the unclean.
I Take care of that.
Oh My friends This is the message of
the hour that God is going to appear
in his church And he's going to raise
up ministers of the gospel that are going
to cry out loud as the mighty Prophets
of God and the Old Testament and God
is going to purge his body of sin
God said he's gonna put the blush back
into the gospel We don't bless anymore The
red cheeks you'll get hot in the cheeks
because you feel the guilt and shame because
God is exposing it by the power of
his Holy Spirit Were they ashamed when they
sinned?
No, they weren't ashamed.
Neither could they blush but God's gonna put
the blush back in Here's something God said
he's going to do To the ministry when
I read this one day.
I was so glad I'd been fasting and
praying and seeking God I was so glad
he'd already touched my values and straightened him
out Because when I read this, I don't
think I could have taken it and I
think this is the one One scripture that
could send an arrow into the heart of
any minister the gospel who is honest here
it is Jeremiah said the ministers the pastors
have transgressed Walking after things that do not
matter Chasing after the wind Involved in things
that don't count.
Oh Think think of it ministers of the
gospel Who have lost their burden?
Who are chasing after things that have nothing
to do with the ministry?
chasing after things that do not count I
Say to the men of God in the
pulpit if you want to be a businessman
go out and get a job as a
businessman You're gonna be a politician run for
Congress But if you're gonna preach the gospel
give your life to it and don't chase
after the wind Jeremiah said for the pastors
have become carnal and sensuous Carnal and sensuous
getting divorced all over the country I could
stand here and just rattle off one famous
name after another of ministers who have left
their wives and picked up with somebody else
I could name you right now three outstanding
books that every one of you read reread
and The men who wrote the books are
now married to their secretaries or somebody else
and I've talked to most of their wives
and the wives Are heartbroken?
Seeking the Lord the prayer life is gone.
I had one pastor.
Tell me who has time to pray anymore
It's too busy.
He said the church demands too much of
my time Therefore they shall not prosper and
all their flocks shall be scattered All folks
I'm not down on the ministry not at
all I stand with these men I am
one of them But I'm preaching to myself
tonight.
I'm preaching something.
God's been teething with me about That God
would chase all the carnality and sensuality out
of my life And so that I would
dig down and fast and pray as never
before When God began to reveal this to
me, he first took stock of my own
life And he showed me something.
I realized I hadn't fasted in 20 some
years I had read one day about the
fast in Isaiah The fast that he has
chosen ordained.
It's done.
Do the heavy birds and set the captives
free nothing Well, who's fasting more than I
am?
I'm I'm sitting drug addicts alcoholics free in
the power of the gospel I'm really fasting.
So I went my merry way just eating
to my full content Until the Lord showed
me that's not enough.
That's not enough now fasting has no merit
in it as far as getting merit with
God The real value is fasting is that
it gets your mind off of food and
the things of this world it gives you
time and energy to put into seeking the
things of God read his word and seeking
God and focusing attention on your unsaved loved
ones and real spiritual needs and folks when
God showed me that I began to push
myself away from the table and I begin
to spend days fasting and praying And I
wonder now Where I would be if God
hadn't shown me that because when I begin
to fast and pray he showed me so
much garbage in My life, he showed me
pride and ego He showed me things that
made me wonder how God could have ever
allowed me to stay in the pulpit Even
though I've been preaching around the world had
a national international pulpit and preach the thousands
and having results I saw discovered things in
my life that I wondered looking back how
God could have ever allowed me in the
pulpit I wondered at times why God didn't
strike me dead Now what an adultist don't
go thinking things like that.
I thought I was humble until God showed
me the pride The sin of pride is
worse than any other sin in our lives
God began to deal with me.
He showed me this scripture many pastors have
destroyed God's vineyard.
How is God's vineyard being destroyed?
They said many pastors have destroyed his vineyard
and all I got a hold of that
and said, oh God I don't want anyone
to leave my crusades anymore with a false
sense of security I want them to know
that they've heard from heaven and that God
has been speaking through my lips God is
calling the congregation out of Babylon all his
people For the Lord of hosts says Babylon
is like the wheat upon the threshing floor
in just a little while the flailing will
begin So we move out of the midst
of Babylon and go forth out of that
place Go forth Isaiah Wrote a letter to
the captives in Babylon He was trying to
analyze why God had allowed this these people
had seen the peace of Jerusalem These people
who had lived in such peace and security
and joy It had all been robbed from
them.
They're in captivity now They're like scattered sheep
and Isaiah wrote a letter to the captives
in Babylon And this is what he said
you did not take the things of God
to heart You were living in pleasure You
lived carelessly You didn't take the things of
God seriously, he said you quit trembling in
my presence You quit trampling in my presence
You see the ironic thing is that the
Bible said even the devils believe in tremble
And while the devil believes in the power
of God because he knows what he can
do He's trembling in the presence and power
of God, but God's people are not And
it's something He said you you're living in
pleasure And you're living carelessly And you're really
not taking the things of God seriously And
one of the prophets said you come and
cover the altar of God with tears, but
you go home and mistreat your wife You
cheat on your family I've seen that all
over the country people who come and weep
and cry and pray in church and go
home and live so carelessly Cheating Involved in
secret sin, and they come and cover the
altar with their tears You have lost respect
for God you no longer tremble in his
presence Jeremiah 5 22 from the Living Bible
Take a look around you folks Here we
are at the brink of the coming Lord
Jesus Christ and Where are a majority of
the Saints of God today?
They're at the beach They're checking out the
latest Academy Awards, you know They're going to
the shows to see if they were really
worth the Oscars if they're in California The
big thing right now even among Pentecostals is
to trade your wine list Or They're parked
in front of TV all afternoon watching as
the world turns inside out and upside down
Well, they like to go to they like
to go to music Conventions and all kinds
of concerts and when there's some big entertainment
in the church Well, they flock it especially
at Christmas and the pageants.
They love the pageants Mm-hmm and a
lot of you men saying give it to
him brother Dave You have time to hunt
and fish and watch hours and hours of
sports But you don't have one hour in
the whole blessed week to shut yourself in
the secret closet The secret closets are vacant.
They are vacant people are not praying people
are no longer students of the word I
say to you that's what the Prophet is
saying.
You have lived carelessly It is carelessness absolute
carelessness to be on the brink of the
coming of Lord and see your family going
to hell knowing that members of your family
unsaved and you have time to sit and
watch hours and hours and hours of movies
and television and not pray I Say
it's carelessness that you should sit at a
table that we should sit at our tables
and Eat and eat and eat and become
gluttons and neglect the spiritual welfare of our
souls Carelessness the scripture says absolute carelessness I
think it's absolute carelessness to be in this
last day and age when all the ends
of the world are coming upon us There's
depression of spirit and mind and body And
there's despair Homes are being split up and
to see all of these things coming apart
and not know where to turn How many
of us are really students of the Word
of God come on I Didn't say do
you read your Bible I?
Said are you a student?
I had a businessman come to my door
last week I Hadn't seen him in 10
years Last I'd heard of me was backslidden
and living in terrible despair He's a fine
man.
He's a Fine father and a loving parent,
and I love the man very much.
I didn't have any at Mossie.
I'd forgiven him But he hadn't forgiven me
And last week I almost passed out there.
He was my front porch Threw a bear
hug around me brother Dave.
I love you, and I knew God had
touched him He was so on fire.
He didn't bubbling over.
He said praise the Lord I'm going all
around the place making my wrongs right I've
been talking about you brother Dave for 10
years I've hated you, but God taking that
out Love you brother David my he didn't
want on and on and on talking about
it.
Just rolling out of it I said my
friend what in the world happened to you.
What revival meeting did you go to?
Who was the preacher I asked I asked
who was the preacher he said no revival
meeting brother Dave no preacher He said I
just decided one day that I was going
to read the Bible and become a student
Until I found some answers for my life.
I looked at them You mean to tell
me but nothing but Bible reading then he
told me something else that shook me up
He said brother Dave.
I went to a semi got church on
my life, and you know it And they
never did motivate me to read the Bible.
It was all experience I'm going to a
Baptist Church now, and they make me read
my Bible They make me read my Bible.
I've been motivated to read my Bible I
Think it's one of the great weaknesses in
the whole Pentecostal movement a lack of respect
a lack of People studying really digging into
the Word of God.
There's an answer for every problem in your
life You don't have to be divorced.
You don't have to live in depression You
don't have to live in fear if you
were into the good book God would give
you faith and power in your life over
all the power of the devil We
don't read our body.
You know we do we pick up a
tape or open a book or pick up
the telephone tape worms Put
up your tapes Put up your books for
the next six months or a year and
read nothing But your Bible and dig in
to become a student Don't just read a
few verses become a mighty student of the
Word of God and God will send the
greatest revival to this church It's ever had
through Bible reading God
is bringing Babylon down so he can raise
up Zion Thou Shall arise and have mercy
upon Zion for the time to favor her
yea the set time has come Is he
Zion is that true church at the last
day?
That's going to be raptured pure without spot
without wrinkle the Lord shall build up Zion
He shall appear in his glory.
I Believe that we're on the verge of
the greatest revival of holiness The church has
ever seen God said I will rebuild the
house of David which is fallen down I'll
restore the house of David.
I'll rebuild it I'm going to appear in
my house, and I'm going to be restoring
and I'm going to be rebuilding I have
never believed that God would stand by idly
While Christians are getting divorced and homes are
falling apart and a whole generation of kids
been given to drugs and sex and alcohol
I've never believed God was going to sit
by and do nothing about it The Lord
said when the enemy comes in like a
flood the Spirit of the Lord will raise
up a standard against him You know what
that standard is Those are holy sanctified people
filled with the Word of God the sword
in their hand going to stand against this
age God is going to start canceling divorces.
He's going to start healing the hearts of
the children and the parents There's a great
revival of restoration coming to the Church of
Jesus Christ.
That's the standard.
He's going to raise up in this last
day Hallelujah blow
the trumpet in Zion Sanctify a fast and
call a solemn assembly.
God's about to do something hallelujah.
I Tell you that if you've been praying
you've been sensing it in your heart Just
like I have you've been feeling a stirring
a drawing like you have never had in
all your life now That's only if you've
been praying and reading the Word God's calling.
He's stirring and shaking us hallelujah First thing
he does when he sends revival of holiness
is to purify the music and now Let's
see where we go I'm a student of
church history as I told you I have
seen it every time God sent a spiritual
awakening and brought a revival of holiness The
very first thing he did was to purge
the music in the house of God Now
you and I you and I know that
God's got to throw the junk music out
of the church.
I Give you a prophecy here.
It is from Isaiah and in that day
shall a new song be sung on Mount
Zion What new Holy Ghost wave music may
tell you what this music is going to
be he describes the message of this music
no more Who did it?
Who am I?
Where am I?
What shall I do?
Dear Lord, will I make it?
No here.
It says the Lord of hosts has spread
a wonderful feast for everybody He will remove
the cloud of gloom he will wipe away
the tears at last the Lord Whom we
have spoken of is appearing in Zion to
smooth out the road Hallelujah, there's a new
song coming the church.
I believe that there's going to be a
new Emphasis on worship and praise and the
great hymns of the church Our young people
have never heard them God's reviving them It's
an amazing thing that our young people today
when they begin to hear the great anthems
of the church They begin to respond to
it to begin to open up Now I
just wrote an article recently called the confessions
of a rock-and-roll hater I thought
God gonna be a message to blow all
the so-called Christian rock and roll out
of the church And the first thing God
showed me was this sing a solemn sound
unto the Lord and I thought there it
is solemn That's heavy That that's high church
And I thought boy, that's it Lord.
Give me some more The next one he
gave me was sing a loud song unto
the Lord and I found 15 reference to
loudness I said well Lord, that's not what
I want But you see the Lord showed
me that the loudness of the young Generations
music doesn't bomb the drums don't bother them
to the louder the better Make a joyful
loud noise unto the Lord Well, that's not
what I wanted Then he took me into
the Pauline teachings about me you see the
controversy in Paul's day wasn't music it was
me and And there was meat that was
certain that was sacrificed and dedicated to idols
I had a worship and then it was
sold in the shambles.
That means the marketplace and Some of those
Christians been saved from that kind of thing
couldn't in all good conscience eat that meat
But then there were a lot of Gentile
Converts that didn't mean anything because they never
worshipped idols and the idol was taken out
of it and to them was just prime
rib and So they ate it without it
being feeling Any kind of conscience about it?
you see the reason I hate rock and
roll is because I grew up with Shelby
checker and Elvis Presley and I Remember an
Elvis Presley appeared on Ed Sullivan show the
day after I heard a reporter say Elvis
Presley's rotten tomato ought to be squeezed And
boy everybody in a pulpit, you know Man
after him and then this rock spread around
the country rock and roll music My first
book I ever wrote was rock and roll
the devil's heartbeat First book I ever wrote
when the Woodstock thing hit America I left
New York and I bought a motorcycle and
a black leather jacket and I spent months
on that motorcycle going to music festivals and
To me rock and roll was what I
saw these festivals I had to put kids
into ambulances some of them died.
Their friends were so stoned.
They didn't even care and to me It
was rebellion.
It was communism.
It was Sex it was rebellion.
It was drugs and alcohol and I really
despised it because of all that I've seen
but you see Janice Joplin died Jimmy Hendrix
died and these kids got shaken up, you
know, and many of us start getting saved
a whole generate the Jesus movement All the
Jesus hippies that came in remember the whole
Jesus move.
They all got say so what they do
They brought their music in the church.
They brought it with them.
That's all they knew and Some of them
were so godly.
So I mean I used to talk to
them and and they saw brother Dave, you
know These parents putting us down.
They love that country western stuff.
That's that's drinking cheating stuff Yeah, and some
of you people sitting right here You don't
let your kids listen rock and roll but
on the way to work.
You sure love to hear your country western
over the cheating and gambling and Oh, yeah,
you know what I'm talking about They got
Stonely-sided there just a minute But these
kids to see the idol had been taken
away from what Paul said It's not a
sin to eat that which was once offered
idols.
It's not a sin No, he said every
man has to judge by his own conscience
If you can't do it with faith, then
don't do it because it's sin to you
But don't judge another in meat and don't
judge another in music.
And so right now I don't put kids
down I don't to me rock and roll
music Christian rock and roll music is no
longer an issue because I believe it's all
over anyhow God's doing a new thing in
music and I'll just say this to young
people and hear me give me your good
ear and I know this to be a
fact The closer you get to Jesus the
more you'll want to hear the songs of
worship and praise God
is going to bring Zion back to the
altar.
He's bringing the church back to the altar
You know David said the altars of God
have been so forsaken that the birds have
made their nest there The swallow has found
a nest for herself even God's altar Can
you imagine a bird building a nest the
altar and it's so neglected wasn't even perturbed
That's why I said how cry out he
ministers of the altar Well, God is going
to do a new thing.
He's gonna bring Zion back to the altar
Now I know that there's a tradition in
evangelical churches, especially Pentecostal church called going to
the altar It's a wooden rail that goes
in front of the church.
They call it the altar we're just kneeling
on the steps and it's a tradition and
a lot of ministers don't feel they had
a meeting till the The front is filled
with people and I feel real good go
home I had a real meeting and people
go home.
I feel so good.
I went to the altar No, you didn't
that's not the altar now It can be
if something happens there in your heart because
the altar is in your heart It's in
your heart This is the altar that you
erect and that can be in the secret
closet and folks the greatest work of God
is not done Right here.
It's done when you shut yourself alone with
God in the secret closet The greatest worship
the greatest power that you receive is in
your secret closet Now Don't don't say that
I don't have to go to the bench
anymore But don't go just out of tradition
Don't you ever again get up out of
your seat and run down and kneel in
an altar just to feel good Or just
to say I went to the altar if
you've got sin in your heart Do you
have a need of prayer do it, but
don't do it out of habit.
Don't do it out of tradition.
That's sin That's sin better to stay in
your seat Than to play the game God
said I'm going to erect a true altar.
I'm going to get my people to praying
again the fasting again and seeking my face
God has promised that he's going to bring
about a new kind of prosperity preaching a
New kind of prosperity preaching not After the
things of the world has nothing to do
with Cadillacs It has nothing to do with
success has nothing to do with a new
home or a better job or anything like
that Those things come automatically to people who
are obedient to the Lord that comes under
the covenant will of God The blessing for
those who have read their hearts of sin
those things happen automatically to those who walk
close to Jesus Those are automatic blessings, but
you see we don't do that now we
seek after these things Now that's called Gentile
faith in the Bible only the Gentiles Seek
after these things But the Lord said don't
even give a thought What you shall eat
what you should drink or the clothes you
should put on and if you can't even
give a thought Now he commanded us not
to even give a thought.
How can you give any faith to it?
That's Gentile faith only the Gentiles only the
uncircumcised only the worldly do that He said
set not your affection on the things of
this world, but on the things above There's
a new kind of prosperity preaching coming to
the church and that's the preaching about the
true riches of God in Christ Jesus The
spirit the soul being prospered Rather than just
the body God is about to bring down
all the dainties of Babylon.
That's what the scripture said dainties mean elegant
things here's the prophecy and The good things
that thy soul lusted after are departed from
thee and all things which are dainty and
goodly Are departed from thee and thou shall
find them no more for in one hour
all of these riches All of this prosperity
will come to nothing one hour God can
shake it out of the church in one
hour and I believe that's exactly what he's
about to do He's going to blow all
of that worldly Three-minded Gentile faith out
of the true church of Jesus Christ And
the only thing that's going to be left
is a hunger and thirst after Christ Jesus
and his holiness and his righteousness That has
to matter to you more than anything else
in the world He said I'll take care
of those other things.
You give me your faith.
You give me your love You give me
your time seeking my face hallelujah Rejoice holy
apostles and preachers.
She who lived deliciously shall be thrown down
in one hour.
Oh What a dainty gospel we've been hearing
lately full of dainties God said all those
dainties you've been lusting after going to come
to nothing Folks, do you know something that
you're all you're if you've got one two,
three cards all gonna burn It has to
come burn You say when when Jesus comes
it's all gonna burn doesn't matter anything you're
gonna leave it to somebody believe it to
the devil I don't care You leave it
to the only thing that matters now is
what you have in your heart You that
you're growing in the Lord in the might
and the glory of your spirit.
That's all that counts Nothing else really matters
I've got a book It's a out-of
-print book one of my favorite books.
It's it's I'm gonna have to get it
rebound.
It's falling apart It's about Edward Payson, they
called him praying Payson.
He was a Presbyterian preacher in Portland, Maine.
This is 1807 1807 I don't know if
many of you know that the United States
was in another Great Depression at that time
and He wrote a letter to his mother.
He said dear mother The Depression is bankrupted
almost every business in Portland Many are taking
their lives because they have no Christ to
support them The poor houses are filled to
overflowing People being scattered to the four winds
He said many in my church and most
of the young married couples have lost their
homes But they've taken joyfully the spoiling of
their goods and he said Mother, I'm living
on pennies.
I can't afford to get married.
I'm living on pennies myself But he said
mother don't say poor Edward say blessed Edward
Because the Lord has been showing us the
true riches of Christ Jesus Beyond anything we've
known he's opened the windows of heaven and
before he closed his letter He said this
I know how different from what we're hearing
today in the land Wish every minister gospel
could preach like this.
Listen, this man prayed eight and ten hours
a day He died a cripple with every
bone in his body aching and Before he
died.
He said I want you to know it's
been worth it all I've seen into the
other world and it's true There's nothing in
this world of any value but Jesus And
his love and here's what he said.
He closed the letter He said dear mother
It is my prayer that if God has
any worldly blessings in store for me He
would be pleased to give me his grace
instead or change them all into spiritual blessings
God if you've got any worldly blessings in
store for me change them all into something
spiritual Hallelujah, you know what we should be
saying in the Church of Jesus Christ Lord
if you've got anything in store for me
in a physical material way turn it into
grace mercy and spiritual things Now in closing
I've been asking God to give me something
for the church.
That would be uplift and exalting I didn't
want it to be just a negative message
and the Lord gave it to me I'm
going to give it to you.
And if you haven't heard anything else I've
said in this message here this please This
is the final word from Jeremiah speaking to
those in Babylon and Babylon shall be left
in ruins I will bring it down like
a lamb to the slaughter Think of it.
They're in captivity They've forgotten all about Jerusalem
because they've been so messed up for so
long and here comes the Prophet Jeremiah And
he said flee from Babylon Let Jerusalem come
back into your mind Start thinking Jerusalem here.
They are in Babylon here.
They are in captivity He said don't think
captivity anymore.
Don't think bondage think Jerusalem.
You're going home I'm going to restore Jerusalem
start thinking Jerusalem you and I are headed
for where new Jerusalem Start thinking Jerusalem Saints
get your mind off the things of the
world think Jerusalem this
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