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Oh God, come down with the word now.
Bless and anoint it.
Let everyone that hears the word be changed.
Lord, we want the word to change us,
to strengthen us.
Oh God, that we may serve you faithfully
in these last days, in our daily walk
with you.
Let us know the meaning of the resurrection
in a new way today.
In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
You may be seated.
At 1.30 today, there's a missionary film
being shown here in the main auditorium.
The afternoon service is at 3 o'clock.
This choir will be with us all day
with this presentation this afternoon and this evening
as well.
There's no eating in the auditorium, please.
If you go out, please do not bring
your food into the main auditorium.
We ask that if you will keep that
in mind.
Now let me talk to you from the
word.
I want to talk to you about the
power of the Holy Ghost in the resurrection
of Jesus from the dead.
The power of the Holy Ghost.
Very, very important.
Now there's a powerful scripture found in Romans
6, verse 5.
Don't turn there now.
I'll tell you where to turn in just
a bit.
But I want you to listen very closely.
If we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also
in the likeness of his resurrection.
Now the word says that we are crucified
with Jesus Christ.
The Bible said we are buried with him.
The Bible said we are raised in him.
And all in the same way that Jesus
died, was buried and resurrected.
In the likeness of his death and in
the likeness of his resurrection.
That is the path that we trade also.
And if that's the truth, if we are
in the likeness of his death, his burial
and his resurrection.
That is one of the most glorious truths
that you and I can ever comprehend.
And if you get a hold of it
this morning and ask the Holy Spirit to
fully reveal it to you.
It can absolutely change your life.
Because the resurrection of Jesus Christ has everything
to do with our victory over the power
and dominion of sin.
It is our resurrection out of the bondage
and the death of sin into the walk
of newness of life that Paul describes.
We've got to understand that.
We talk about the resurrection.
We like to picture it.
We like to tell the story.
We listen to the story of his going
into the grave.
The angels rolling away the tombstone.
And we love to hear the story of
the revelation of Jesus to Mary at that
time.
But few of us really know how the
resurrection affects our everyday Christian life.
This is not just a Bible story, even
as glorious as it is.
This has to do with God saying something
to the church.
To all of his people.
You do not have to live under the
dominion of sin in your life.
You don't have to live with a life
controlling luster problem.
You can be delivered.
You can be set free.
That's what the resurrection of Jesus Christ means
to me.
And that's what I wanted to mean to
you also this morning.
Now, we are encouraged in the scripture to
identify ourselves with the death, the burial and
resurrection of Jesus.
Didn't Paul say you'd reckon yourself dead with
Christ?
In other words, to believe that with all
your heart that you are dead with Christ.
And folks, we try to figure out this
theology.
We try to figure out what Paul the
Apostle means by being dead with Christ, dead
to sin, identifying with his death and his
resurrection.
How his death, his resurrection becomes mine.
How I reckon myself to be a part
of that.
And folks, outside of a revelation of Jesus
Christ, outside of a revelation of the Holy
Spirit, you cannot fully comprehend or understand that.
I'm asking God to make it very, very
simple to us today.
In fact, in Acts 2, I want you
to go to Acts, the second chapter, and
we're going to show you how clearly the
Holy Ghost has made it.
It's a simple way to understand our death
and burial and resurrection with Jesus Christ.
Thank God the word is not complicated for
those who seek it with all their heart.
Second chapter of Acts.
Now, this is Peter's message on the day
of Pentecost to the gathered throng.
Acts 2, 24, beginning to read verse 24.
Acts 2, 24.
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death, because it was not possible
that he should be holden of it.
For David speaketh concerning him.
I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that
I should not be moved.
Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue
was glad.
Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope,
because thou wilt not leave my soul in
hell.
Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to
see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the ways
of life.
Thou shalt make me full of joy with
thy countenance.
Now, look this way, if you will, please.
Here, in this passage I've just read to
you, we have a picture of what the
apostle Paul and Peter and all the epistles
tried to bring to our attention, tried to
explain to us about how you and I
are crucified with Christ, buried with Christ and
raised with him.
All in this.
You say, well, I don't get it.
Well, let's ask God to open it to
us now.
It begins, whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pains of death.
The pains of death.
Now, he's talking about being in the garden
of Gethsemane.
The apostle Peter is saying he went into
the garden and there was a crisis, an
incredible crisis, a travail.
He was sweating, as it were, drops of
blood.
Now, what was that battle all about?
We know that Jesus said to the disciples,
I come not to do my own will,
but to the will of the Father.
He said, I am determined, that's why I'm
here.
I do nothing but the will of my
Father.
So we know from the beginning he was
set to do the will of God.
He was always, in this life, putting aside
his will and taking on the Father's will.
Everything, he said, I do nothing except what
I see and hear my Father do.
He was completely given to the will of
God.
But now he's facing death.
And you see, I think his battle is,
and it's in the flesh, because he was
man and he was God.
And he had to die to this going
into the grave.
And I think, in my own heart, I
sense this more and more the more I
study the Scripture, that Jesus is thinking about,
could it be possible that I could ever
be isolated, could lose that fellowship, and facing
this terrible thing of going down and finally
dying.
Now, he had to die to this, this
human will that is looking death in the
eye.
And he had to die.
He didn't die physically, but he had to
die to this thing.
I must die to my flesh.
I must die in this flesh.
This is the end of my flesh.
Now, he's going to be still man when
he's glorified, because he's both God and man
in glory.
He still has a body.
But he's going to change out of this
role of humanity.
And he's going now into death, into the
grave.
Now, we know he had to die to
this, otherwise he wouldn't have said, Please, Lord,
if it's possible, let this pass from me.
So we know that he had a battle
with that.
Now, this is the same battle that every
Christian fights.
This battle of dying to your own will.
Every true Christian that has a heart for
God, if you love Jesus with all your
heart, I tell you, you know what it
is to sweat and strive, trying to please
God, trying to die to your own will.
How many of you know right now the
battle that you've had against lust, the battle
you've had against a besetting sin in your
life?
I had a young preacher in my office
a few weeks ago.
He'd been delivered from drugs for 15 years,
fell back into heroin.
He said, I've been clean now, brother Dave,
for four or five months.
But he has marks on his face.
He said, I lay on the carpet, and
I've rubbed my face in the carpet, pleading
and begging God to take away the desire
for heroin that's still in my heart.
I love Jesus with all my heart, but
I'm still in a battle with his flesh.
And I said, I'm going to tell you
something, son.
That's probably going to be there for a
long time.
But the Bible says you're not to make
provision for that lust that's in your heart.
It's there, but make no provision for it.
But don't let it bother you, because there's
victory for you when you understand that you
can't do it in your flesh anyhow.
You have to die to all of your
thoughts of ability and human effort and human
energy.
And this is what the death of Gethsemane
means.
This is what the death, this battle that
has ended.
And the Bible said he endured, I read
it again, having loose the pains of death.
And in the Greek, the pain there means
pangs of birth.
You say, no, it says pains of death.
No, it doesn't.
In fact, the original Greek uses this, the
throes such as childbirth.
He's not only dying to something, he's birthing
something in Gethsemane.
He's going to die completely to his will
about death.
He's going to die to any possibility that
he can do anything to raise himself.
Jesus went into the grave having been loosed
from that battle.
You and I have to be loosed from
the battle of the flesh.
You have to be loosed once and for
all from this idea that you can save
yourself from the power of sin.
I don't care what you face today.
I don't care what your battle is.
And folks, the temptations of this last day
are greater than any other generation.
The enemy is coming.
He's taking over all the media now.
He's taking over even the computers now.
They're talking about child pornography on the internet
now.
Using every avenue trying to get to your
eyes and fill your heart with lust and
bring you down.
He's out to destroy the church.
He said even the elect he would come
after to deceive if it were possible.
So we have a whole generation now of
Christians still in struggle.
They've been saved but they're still in a
battle.
There has to come a time when you
have it out with God.
You get along with Him and there will
be striving.
I know what that striving is over my
past life.
To get along with God and say, Lord,
I have failed in everything I've tried to
do in my flesh.
I've made you promises.
And folks, we get on that seesaw, sin
confess, sin confess.
We make vows.
We make promises.
We do everything within our human power and
energy to defeat the onslaught of the enemy.
We try to defeat temptation.
We try to defeat every lie of the
enemy.
And almost every Christian has come to a
place where at one time they said, well,
I can do it.
And I called the old man.
Remember the I can do man?
I can do it.
Just give me time.
Give me enough books.
Give me enough sermons.
Give me enough time to rally my energy
and I will win over this battle.
But folks, that's what Gethsemane is.
You go in there until you say my
flesh has failed me.
There is nothing in my flesh that pleases
God.
I can never be free from the power
of sin and its dominion in anything I
do in my flesh.
You have to die to that once and
for all.
There's a death.
And when that happens, you're loose from the
pains of it.
You are loosed.
He was loosed from the pains of that
death, the pangs.
He gave birth suddenly to the will of
God.
And he says, now I commit my body,
my future, my life.
I commit everything into the hands of my
Heavenly Father.
And oh, what a wonderful thing it is
as a Christian to come to this place
where you have made up your mind once
and for all.
I'm not surprised at my flesh.
I don't trust my flesh.
As long as I live, my flesh will
lust against the Holy Ghost.
As long as I live, there's going to
be a man in me that I don't
trust.
Paul said, I don't trust in my flesh.
So I turn to the Holy Ghost and
His power.
I say, oh God, you alone have the
power over sin, death and the devil and
hell.
It's not in me.
I acknowledge it.
As long as I die to any hope,
I come to a place where I'm absolutely
helpless.
And you go into the grave just as
Jesus did.
And Jesus is in that grave and He's
not striving for resurrection.
He's a dead man.
He's not thinking how He can get out
of the tomb.
He's not lifting a muscle.
He went into the grave believing what God
had told Him.
He had committed Himself completely into the hands
of the Heavenly Father and He was at
rest.
And that's how you go down into the
grave with Christ.
You go down saying, Lord, all my striving
is in vain.
I come now.
My part is to come to death.
My part is to see that my flesh
is no longer my hope and my confidence.
You say, what is God's part?
That's the power of the Holy Ghost.
My part is to come to death where
I come to this realization that I am
totally, absolutely helpless humanly to resist this enemy,
to fight the enemy in my own power.
Who are you to think you can fight
the devil and all the powers of hell
in your own strength?
I don't care how many promises you've made.
You failed every one of them.
Every promise you made to yourself and God,
you have failed.
And if you think you've done it in
your own strength, you're going to stand before
God because the Lord calls that revolting.
He said, that's a revolt against me.
You're trying to do it in the flesh
and it can't be done by flesh.
Flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
Hallelujah.
See, the Bible said we are in the
likeness of his death.
Death means I'm at the end of myself.
I am not going to strive in my
flesh anymore because it has brought me nothing
but despair and guilt and condemnation and fear.
And then we get loose from the pains
of this death the moment we surrender and
say, Lord, I'm going to trust the power
of the Holy Ghost from this time on.
That's the moment you pass from death into
life.
You've come to the realm of the Holy
Ghost power.
It was not possible, the scripture says, whom
God hath raised up from the dead having
loosed the pains of death because it was
not possible that he should be held by
it.
It was not possible.
Beloved, no sin, no flesh, no devil can
hold you or keep dominion over you once
you've committed completely your life into the hands
of the power of the Holy Ghost.
See, there's a revelation that came to him
in the garden.
Something came to him that set him free,
that birthed his confidence, this wonderful rest.
He said because my soul is no longer
troubled.
You read it in the next verse.
He says that I should not be moved.
And in Greek it's troubled, that I should
not be troubled.
He's now at rest.
He can go and face the cross because
he's totally at peace.
He's totally at rest because he's crossed the
line.
He's already crossed the line.
He's into the grave already in his heart
and in his mind.
I can face this now because only the
power of God can raise me from the
dead.
And the Spirit of God upon him, the
revelation that came to him, you're going down
into that grave, but that grave can't hold
you.
You're going to come out new.
You're going to come out in newness.
For it was not possible that he should
be held of it.
Oh, folks, you want to be free.
You're tired of carrying the burden of sin
and the dominion and the hold of sin
over your life and lust.
If you will give up on your flesh
and you will go to the Lord and
begin to cry out to him and say,
Lord, I trust you, the same power that
went into the grave that raised up Christ.
I'm raised up from the same likeness, the
same power.
And if I'm to believe that the Holy
Ghost has power to raise Jesus from the
dead, I've got to believe he has power
to raise me from the death of sin.
Hallelujah.
It was not possible that he could be
held.
And when he came to this place where
he is in total at rest, he says,
I am not going to go any further
than this.
My part now is to just submit to
the will of God.
I turn my future.
I turn my eternal destiny into the hands
of my Heavenly Father.
And then the Bible said the angels came
and strengthened him.
And that's what happens when you give up
on the flesh.
You know once and for all that your
flesh cannot deliver you.
Your human willpower will not do it.
And you commit yourself completely to a life
of trust in the power of the Holy
Ghost to raise you out of this bondage.
Then is when the strength of God begins
to come to you.
Hallelujah.
Now let me bring you to a glorious
secret that is known only to those who
walk intimately with the Lord.
Those who walk intimately with the Lord know
something that others do not know.
And it brings wonderful deliverance.
Do you want to know how to die
to sin?
How to walk in victory over the power
of sin?
The secret is found in the next few
verses.
In verse 25 it says, For David speaketh
concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is on my right
hand, that I should not be moved.
I foresaw the Lord before my face.
Folks, this is a definition of intimacy with
Christ and his Heavenly Father.
He said, the Lord was always in my
face.
And in the Greek it says, He and
I were always in one another's presence.
Now intimacy, listen to me.
The definition of intimacy.
It's something that's very private.
It's very personal.
It's a close union of hearts.
It's sharing innermost secrets from one deepest recess
of the mind to the other.
It's a close sharing of two hearts about
things that no one else knows.
It's the sharing of the innermost secrets of
the heart.
That is intimacy.
And this is how Jesus knew the mind
and voice.
I do nothing except what I see and
hear my Father do.
It was because he spent this close, wonderful
quality time with his Heavenly Father and he
got to know the mind and the heart
of his Father.
This is intimacy.
This is why those who are closest to
the heart of Jesus are always talking about
intimacy.
And you can always tell somebody who knows
the Lord in the closest way because whatever
is in your heart is going to come
out.
If you're intimate with the Lord, that's all
you're going to talk about.
Intimacy.
Before their faces at his right hand.
This is what the intimate Christian can say.
I have him.
I saw the Lord always before my face.
I'm always before his face.
He's on my right hand.
He's near me.
He's right here because I'm always with him
and he's always with me.
He's intimate with me.
And there's perfect security.
In the presence of Jesus.
Now, this whole passage I'm reading to you
from Acts is taken directly out of Psalm
16.
It's the prophecy of David.
And the Scripture says, The Lord has given
me counsel and instructed me.
If you go to the 16th chapter of
Psalms, when you see this first prophesy, right
out of this intimacy, and this is Jesus
talking, even through David.
You're to go.
And as soon as it speaks of he's
at my right hand, the next thing you
hear from Jesus is this.
The Lord has given me counsel and he's
instructed me in the ninth season.
He's instructed me.
Listen to me, folks.
Everywhere.
I must get this through to you through
the power of the Spirit.
You can go to every book in a
Christian bookstore.
You can go to your commentary to try
to find out how to live a victorious
life in these troubled times.
You can go to seminars.
You can go to spiritual life conventions.
You can get thousands of tapes.
You can set yourself in hour after hour.
And you can come to times for a
church and you can hear sermon after sermon
on overcoming life, how to get victory.
You can get all the how-to books.
But unless you are studded with Jesus, unless
you are intimate with Christ, you'll never grasp
it.
You'll never understand it.
You'll ever be learning and never coming into
the knowledge of the truth.
And that's why we have so many, many
books.
How to conquer loneliness.
How to do this.
13, 12 steps of AA to conquer alcohol
problems.
And all of the instructions of man.
Man-made methods.
But you've got to move away from those
man-made methods.
And all of the instructions of man, it's
not by the flesh at all.
You get along with Jesus.
You set yourself in with him.
Say, Lord, I'm going to trust you.
But I'm also going to walk close to
you.
The old puritans talked about climbing into the
lap of Jesus.
And I believe that.
You get into the lap of Jesus and
let him embrace you.
And he'll share his heart with you.
He'll tell you things that nobody else knows.
You know, those who are intimate with Jesus,
the Christian life seems so simple to them.
It's uncomplicated because they're so instructed by the
Lord.
You know, while people are running all around
looking for keys for deliverance, they just slip
away into their secret closet.
And they just talk to Jesus.
And they come out and they have the
answer.
They don't get on an airplane or a
bus.
They don't go anywhere.
They slip into their secret closet and get
along with the Lord.
They come out uncomplicated and simple.
I was struggling a number of weeks ago
with a theological problem.
And I called a minister friend of mine.
Explained this theological problem.
And I went through all my commentaries.
And I studied and everything.
Every book I could get my hands on.
All my libraries trying to get this.
And this minister friend said, That's no problem.
In the next two minutes, he explained the
whole thing to me.
I said, Where'd you get that?
On my knees.
I went in my library, closed my books.
I said, Lord, it's the only way I'm
going to understand.
The Holy Ghost has to come and reveal.
The Holy Ghost has to come and reveal
it.
Hallelujah.
I could stand here and give you step
-by-step how to overcome the power of
the flesh.
But I agree with, and I said this
Friday night in my message here at the
church.
And I agree with John Owen, the great
Puritan writer, who said, God never delivers someone
he knows you'll never hear from again.
Jesus said, I stayed in his presence.
I was in his right hand.
And he revealed to me the way of
life.
And that left me full of joy.
See, something comes out of this intimacy with
the Father.
He has an ironclad promise that he'll never
be abandoned to the power of the devil
or to the power of corruption.
Thou shall not leave my soul in hell.
You see, that was, that was, that was
what Christ needed to hear.
That's what our Savior needed to hear.
The Father, by his Spirit, saying, Son, you're
going into the grave, but I'm not going
to abandon you.
I'm not going to let the devil take
over.
I'm going to deliver you.
Death and hell can't hold you, and corruption
cannot destroy you.
Now, that's good news to me.
If I'm in the likeness of his death,
his burial, and resurrection, this promises to me.
He said he would not allow his Holy
One to see corruption.
Now, in the Sethid text, it translates Holy
Ones, Holy Ones.
He wouldn't let his Holy Ones.
You say, well, I don't like that translation.
And some commentaries and some theologians don't like
that translation, Holy Ones, and say it's only
Christ, the Holy One.
But then I fall back on the passage
I just read.
We're in the likeness in Romans 6, 5.
We are in the likeness of his burial,
the likeness of his resurrection.
And if I'm in the likeness of his
resurrection, and God tells my Jesus, the devil
can't hold you, he can't destroy you, there'll
be no corruption, take your life, then that's
for me if I'm in the likeness of
his resurrection.
The devil can't hold me.
The devil will never turn me over to
the teeth of Satan.
That lion can't get his teeth on me
because I have all my confidence in the
power of the Holy Ghost.
Beloved, the Bible said the same Spirit that
raised Christ from the dead shall also raise
you from the dead.
It's not another Holy Ghost.
It's the same Holy Ghost.
And he lives right here in my heart
with resurrection life and resurrection power.
Oh, hallelujah.
This promise is made to me.
Therefore, my heart rejoices, my tongue was glad,
and my flesh was at rest.
Why?
Because I'm trusting in the power of the
Holy Ghost.
Praise the Lord.
Now, go to Psalm 16 before I close.
Psalm 16, this is where Peter took this
text.
Sixteenth Psalm.
I'm not afraid of your amens.
I'm not afraid at all.
Psalm 16.
Beloved, look at me for just a moment.
With this, before I close now.
In two simple statements.
And this is a prophecy through David about
Christ.
Both 15th and 16th chapters.
Psalms.
In two sentences.
One scripture verse.
This whole resurrection plan.
This whole plan of victory.
Is described in two sentences.
If you get it now.
Oh, Holy Ghost, make this simple.
Make it known to us now.
Let's just say verse one.
Preserve me, oh God.
Let's stop right there.
Preserve me, oh God.
In other words, keep me.
Hold me.
Secure me.
In the Hebrew David word.
The Hebrew word used to preserve.
Means to put a hedge of protective thorns
around me.
Put a hedge of protective thorns around me.
That no demon, no devil, nothing, no power
of hell, no enemy can get to me.
Preserve me.
Put a hedge of thorns around me.
In fact, he uses that same Hebrew word
in Psalms 121.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.
He shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and
thy coming in from this time forth and
forever.
Listen to what David is saying.
This is a prophecy.
Marvelous prophecy.
The Lord shall put a hedge of thorns
around you.
And keep you from the power of the
devil.
From this time forth.
Now what does this time forth mean?
Well, it's explained in the next part of
that sentence.
For in thee do I put my trust.
Now look at it.
Listen to it.
The moment I put my full trust, full
confidence, in the power of the Holy Ghost,
to deliver me, not only to save me,
but to keep me, that's when the thorn,
the hedge of thorns goes up around me.
From that time forth, from this time forth,
I will preserve you.
Is that complicated?
From this time forth.
Psalms 121 too.
I will lift up mine eyes to the
hills from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord.
And as soon as he said that, from
this time forth, I will preserve you.
Oh, hallelujah.
Let's read on.
Let's read together.
If you have a King James, will you
stand with me please?
Everybody stand.
Go to Psalm 56.
Last passage.
Folks, as soon as you get there, would
you look this way for just a moment?
This has been just a half an hour
of simplicity.
A beseeching from the Holy Ghost to all
of us.
To me, to our elders, choir, staff, congregation,
visitors.
I know God put this on my heart.
I know the struggles of people because I
hear it night and day.
I hear from Christians who dearly love the
Lord, devoted to Jesus.
But there's still that one besetting sin.
There's still that nagging lust.
There's still those impure thoughts.
There's still that battle that rages with many.
Not saying everybody, but many.
And that comes and goes.
And I'm asking God to give us a
church here in New York City.
A people who are at total rest.
They're no longer striving in their flesh.
They're never trying to do it on their
own.
That the can-do man, I-can-do
-it man is dead.
And the new man, I-can't-do-it,
except through the power of the Holy Ghost.
That's the new man.
I want you to move into the spirit
of the new man.
This new man who, like Jesus, said, I
can do nothing of myself, but only through
Him.
And then when you read the Bible, everything
opens up.
You see God screaming it at us in
love all through the Bible.
I'm your fortress.
I'm your hiding place.
I'm your strong tower.
I'm your keeper.
Go through, cover to cover.
I'll keep you.
Who are you to trust in the arm
of the flesh, He said.
I have a strong arm.
He is our deliverer.
We sing it.
We talk about it.
We usually don't believe it.
When it comes to fighting our sins and
our lust and the dominion of sin, we
try to do it ourselves.
Will you give up on that?
Will you say, Lord, I'll lay that down.
I'm going to die to that.
Hallelujah.
I'm going into the grave in confidence.
I'm going to come out.
The Lord's not going to leave my soul
in the devil's hands.
He's not going to let corruption destroy me.
He covers me with the blood so that
I will trust Him to deliver me.
Why did He save you and cover you
and give you freedom from the guilt and
the damning power of sin?
He saved you from the damning power of
sin to give you life for overcoming.
You understand that?
He secured you.
Those children of Israel, they had the blood
delivered from the death angel.
They still had all kinds of problems, but
they were covered by the blood so that
they could learn to walk.
He'd take them in the wilderness then and
learn to walk, still blood covered.
I thank God for the covering of the
blood, but I want now to learn how
to walk in faith in the power of
the Holy Ghost.
Why do you think God baptized you with
the Holy Ghost?
Just so that you could exercise the gift?
Thank God for the gifts.
I don't put those down for one.
I thank God for the gifts, the gifts
of the Spirit, the fruits of the Spirit.
But oh hallelujah, I thank God for the
power of the Holy Ghost that delivers me
from everything that Satan would bring against me.
Hallelujah.
That power is at work in my heart
and it's in your heart.
Now, are you ready to read this closing
statement?
If you have King James, read along out
loud, please.
Verse 1, Psalm 56.
Amen.
I will not fear what flesh can or
can't do.
Heavenly Father, you're trying to build up your
people in faith.
You want people that, you want children of
the grace of God that can walk in
newness of life.
But that newness of life will come only
as we believe you, only as we trust
you.
Holy Spirit, come right now with great encouragement.
Encourage your children today.
Let us know that we can walk in
the power of the Holy Spirit every waking
hour.
And Lord, we don't have to fear because
we are covered by the blood of the
living Lamb of God.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
We give you praise.
I want us to sing a chorus while
I wait on the Holy Spirit here.
Because he's saying something to us in just
a moment here.
Let's sing a chorus here for just a
moment.
Because I feel Holy Spirit birthing something in
my heart.
No one will say anything stupid to you.
No one's going to interview you.
You come to humble yourself before the Lord.
Two kinds of people that want to come.
I want those who are tired and weary
of the spiritual battle.
You're tired and weary of trying and striving
and failing.
You say, Brother David, once and for all,
I've got to learn this.
And I want to begin today to lay
down my fleshly struggle.
And I want God at this alter this
afternoon or this morning to instill me, infuse
in me his Holy Spirit to fight this
battle.
I lose it on my own strength.
Up on the balcony, go to the stairs.
Come down.
Now, the second class of people that I
want to invite, listen closely now.
You're here this morning.
And you once walked very close to the
Lord.
But you were defeated by the enemy in
your life.
And you're saying almost, your attitude is, why
try?
I tried and it didn't work.
I tried.
It didn't work for me.
It didn't work because you tried it in
your flesh.
You tried to do it on your own
strength.
If you'll come back to him now.
If you'll come back to him and say,
Lord Jesus, I'm coming to you not to
try anymore, not to strive.
I'm coming just to yield my body to
you and everything I am and all that
I have.
Will you please move in close, folks?
There are a number of people coming up
in the balcony.
Go to the stairs on either side and
come down any aisle.
Amen.
We're coming to surrender all to him.
The two people, two classes of people, remember.
You say, I'm tired of fighting this battle
on my own.
I'm not getting anywhere.
And I want to learn how to trust
the Holy Ghost completely and put him in
full charge.
Amen.
I'll finish this message this afternoon in the
three o'clock service.
Let's sing that again.
Your heart should be at rest.
There should be no turmoil in your heart.
The Holy Ghost is not out to keep
you always agitated.
He does convict of sin, but then he
says, my truth will set you free.
And the Bible said, perfect love cast out
all fear.
When you love him, when you understand the
provision he's made.
Now, please understand, you've come here right now
to say, Jesus, I am absolutely helpless in
my flesh.
And we're going to pray that in a
moment.
I'm helpless.
I can't fight it.
Have you come to that place now?
Come on now.
Have you come to a place where you
know, you know that you know that you
can't fight anything on your own power.
You can't deliver yourself from anything or anybody.
All power, all victory is in his hands
and in his power.
My part is to simply believe that and
commit my life to that.
Live or die, I commit my life.
How's he going to do it?
That's up to him.
I get along with him and he'll whisper
it.
He'll speak.
He'll send angels.
The angel of the Lord encamps around about
them that fear him and delivers them.
He'll send an angel if he has to,
to keep you from falling.
He'll put you, you may have had a
lust problem going into a pornography place and
something that you can't hit.
It's like a wall.
Or God will place another Christian right there
before you go in and say, hello, my
brother.
Hello, my sister.
And they'll say, come on, let's take a
walk.
And they'll walk you right out.
God knows how to deliver out of temptation,
the Bible said.
He knows how.
But will you trust him?
Will you trust his knowledge?
Let's pray.
It would be nice if everybody in the
house prayed it.
The Bible said, I would marry where I
lift holy hands.
They're holy only by cause of his righteousness.
Lift them up right now.
Say, Jesus.
I admit.
I confess.
I am helpless.
Against the power of sin.
And the dominion of sin.
I've tried.
And tried.
And I've failed and I've failed.
So I come to you, Jesus.
Confessing my sins.
Confessing my inabilities.
My weaknesses.
My frailties.
And I say to you, Lord.
I trust your word.
You have promised me.
You deliver me.
From the power of the devil.
And from corruptions.
The devil can't have me.
Because I am trusting you.
From this day on.
You know how.
And when.
To deliver me.
I ask you, Lord.
I call upon you.
Deliver me.
As I trust in you.
I give you my confidence.
I give you my heart.
And my trust.
I will trust in the Lord.
Who will deliver me.
Even from the fear of evil.
Now let me pray for you.
Father, in Jesus name.
I come to you.
Through the power of the Holy Ghost.
All power is given unto you, Jesus.
That power you've given to us.
The Holy Spirit who abides.
Hallelujah.
We shall be witnesses.
To the power of deliverance.
Through the Holy Ghost.
We shall witness to the world that it's
not by might.
It's not by power.
But it's by my strength.
It's by my power.
Not by human ability.
It's the Holy Ghost.
I want everybody that came forward to just
lift your hands.
And thank God for the Holy Spirit.
Thank God for the Holy Spirit.
Who empowers us to live for Jesus.
Lord, I thank you for the Holy Ghost.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit.
Who comes to deliver us from the power
and the hold of sin.
Hallelujah.
Look at me, Christian.
Look at me, brother and sister.
The Lord is not here to condemn you.
He said, I'm not here to condemn you.
I'm here to deliver you.
Why do they call him Jesus?
He's Savior.
He saves.
He's not mad at you.
You say, you don't know what I've done.
I said, he's not mad at you.
There's nothing you've done that can't be delivered
from him through the power of the Holy
Spirit.
Hallelujah.
If God can go into the grave by
his power and his spirit and raise a
dead man from the dead.
Here you are laying dead in sins and
trespasses.
He says, no, I will come.
I will deliver you.
You've called on me.
I've heard you.
Now I come to give you power.
Will you accept that power now?
Amen.
Let's sing.
There's power, power, wonder-working power in the
blood of the Lamb.
We haven't sung that in a while.
This is the conclusion of the tape.