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Thank you for this good music, Lord, that
awakens our heart and soul and causes us
to rejoice in your resurrection.
Lord, we thank you on this Easter day
that we're in God's house.
We're not in a hospital somewhere, but we're
here.
Lord, we think of the dear sister that
did come out of the hospital to be
in the service and she's been very, very
sick, but she's here today.
And others, Lord, I see a man who
brought his oxygen with him here that came
for prayer.
Lord, that's really hungering to be in your
presence.
Now, Lord, we pray you bless the word
that you open it to us.
Lord, you're building a church that's full of
confidence in you, trusting in you for deliverance.
In Jesus' name, amen.
There's prayer going on right now.
Anybody wants to join that prayer downstairs during
the preaching?
And during our preaching service, we have prayer
time down the lower rotunda.
They'll show you the direction.
It's right under stage.
In fact, when I preach right under me,
people are praying.
And that's encouraging.
The power or the resurrection of Jesus Christ
by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Hallelujah.
Now, you may be sitting here this afternoon
in total freedom.
You have no sin habit or lust problem
that's lingering in your life.
And you're happy and you're free.
That's wonderful.
But the majority, the vast majority of Christians
today are not living that kind of life.
The vast majority of Christians all over the
world, not just in the United States, but
all over the world are still fighting the
sin problem.
They know that they have been saved.
They know they've been protected by the blood
of Jesus.
They have a devoted heart to the Lord.
They want to live in freedom.
They want to live in victory, but they
don't have it.
And when you get deadly honest with yourself
and with God, many of you who say,
well, this sermon, this message may not be
for me.
Remember, you still have some battles in your
life.
I don't care whether it's pride.
I don't care whether it's sharpness with your
husband or wife or family at home.
I don't care if it's roving eyes.
I don't care what it may be.
There are things in our life that we
have still not conquered.
But we have to have in our spirits,
we have to have something deep in us
that gives us the secret on how to
overcome the dominion of sin.
The apostles in the epistles and all through
Hebrews and Romans, there is a great emphasis
on deliverance from the power and dominion of
sin.
Folks, I'm dealing with this because, as you
know, we have a large congregation here, probably
5,000 people that we call this home
now.
We don't have a membership.
We can only estimate that because of the
numbers of people that attend various services.
But in the process of pastoring, in this
ministry of pastoring to a large inner city
congregation, we come across so many, many battles.
I go home some nights and say, Oh
God, I'm glad I'm not in charge.
I'm glad this is not all in my
hands because it's more than I can even
contemplate.
The problems, the battles, the battles with temptation,
the battle with lust, the battle with life
-controlling habits that still hold on, and this
quest to be free, this hunger to be
free, to walk in freedom, to know that
I am pleasing the Lord.
I'm walking in His righteousness.
I know that I can stand before the
throne of God, and I'll hear, Well done,
thou good and faithful servant.
But, folks, I'm going to tell you something.
I've been preaching since I was a child.
When I was four years old, you've heard
me tell this, when I was four years
old, I had a little Bible, and I
went and sat by my dad in the
pulpit, and my dad said, What are you
doing?
He tells me this.
I said, Well, I'm preaching tonight.
He said he regretted not letting me try.
It was about eight years old, I think,
when I first delivered my little message, but
when I was a teenager, I was preaching,
and by 17, preaching to rather large crowds.
And I've always had this burden on my
heart for years to understand the new covenant,
the agreement God has given, an oath, an
irrevocable oath, that God says, I'm going to
have a people in the last days that
I'm going to keep.
I'm not going to let them be destroyed
and devoured by the enemy.
I'm going to keep them secure, and I'm
going to give them overcoming power, and I'm
going to put into their head, into their
knowledge, and into their grasp what they need
to live that overcoming life.
And I've been in that quest because when
I first was called to preach, God gave
me Psalm 25.
Who is he that feareth the Lord?
Him shall he teach in the paths that
he shall choose.
His soul shall dwell at ease, and his
seed shall inherit the earth.
I didn't know then that my books would
be covering almost every language on the face
of the earth, and God kept that word
to me.
That seed that he gave me has gone
all over the world, and I thank him
for that.
I don't boast in that, but I thank
him for keeping his word.
But then the rest of that agreement he
made with me.
Who is he that feareth the Lord?
Him shall he teach in the path he
shall choose, and the Lord will show them
his covenant.
And all these years I've been seeking, and
now he's beginning to open it.
And what I preached this morning was a
part of it, and what I preached this
afternoon is a part of the revelation of
the new covenant.
That new covenant is an agreement God has
made to help us understand his keeping power
and our dominion over sin.
There was no dominion over sin in the
Old Testament.
Not by the law.
The law could not deliver.
But God promised, I'll make a new agreement,
I'll make a new covenant, and I'm going
to put my laws in your heart, and
I'm going to keep you from the wicked
one.
God says, I'm going to take the heart
of stone out of you, and I'm going
to give you a heart of flesh.
A heart that feels after me.
And he says, I'm going to cause you
to turn to me.
There's going to be something that I do
supernaturally for you.
First of all, I'm going to tell you
what our part is in that, and then
what his part is.
How many there are, though, all over the
land, even in the ministry today.
I have friends that I've been my friends
in the ministry for years, and I watch
one after another go down.
One of my friends recently caught in a
hotel ordering an X-rated movie to his
room, not knowing that the boy down there
was a Pentecostal boy who was going to
report him within the hour.
And one problem after another, I see them
going down, and then when I call them
or talk to them, they're so defeated.
And after 20, 30, sometimes 35, 40 years
of preaching the gospel, they don't have in
their knowledge and in their hand the keys,
the secret of living and overcoming life.
They've preached about it, but they really never
understood where the power was.
They talked about the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, you should receive power after the Holy
Ghost has come upon you, but they never
in practicality knew how to use the power
of the Holy Ghost.
They preached about Him, talked about Him, but
really didn't believe in Him.
No, you can be baptized in the Holy
Ghost, you can talk in tongues, you can
exercise all the gifts and still be living
in sin, and not having dominion over sin
and lust in your heart.
Folks, I've heard, I sat under a preacher
who preached with many of the gifts and
spoke in tongues during his preaching and went
right out.
It was found out later he was living
in a motel during the whole conference with
another woman.
Never had victory over it.
He said he couldn't shake it, it just
drove him.
We have people being driven by their sins,
captivated by their lust, and trying everything within
their power to break it.
You've heard me tell of the young drug
addict who came to Teen Challenge, and the
night before he came he was so desperate.
He said, I've got to be clean.
Came from a Pentecostal background.
In desperation he stuck the needle into his
vein, filled the syringe with blood, laid down
on his bed, and sprayed on the sitting
the words H-E-L-P in blood.
Help!
Fortunately God heard that cry and delivered him.
But he had tried everything in his power
to break it, finally coming to the throne
of grace.
Another drug addict was looking at his track.
He'd been using for about 15 years, and
every time he looked at the track he's
reminded of his need for heroin, and how
many years he shot it and he could
taste it.
He said, and I don't know where he
got this, because sometimes the devil can just
deceive people so much they become given over
to reprobate minds.
He said, if I could just burn off
that track, I think I can be clean.
And he put an iron skillet on a
gas stove, got it white hot, wrapped a
towel around it, pressed it against his skin.
To burn off that screamed in pain, had
to run to the pusher to get heroin
to kill the pain.
He said, if I could just, anything, anything
to get free.
One drug addict, I told this once in
this church I believe, came to Teen Challenge,
so bound by the heroin habit, so designed
to be free, tried everything, in and out
of hospitals, tried methadone, tried everything.
Every promise he made to himself he failed.
Every effort failed.
Promised his mother, I'll change.
Watched his mother in despair over him and
so many broken promises, broken dreams, broken efforts.
And one day he got a pair of
handcuffs, no key, because he thought he had
a key, might open it.
Handcuffed himself to the radiator, steam radiator, little
room he was renting.
He said, I believe if I can stay
here three days, I can be clean, I'll
be free.
If I can just kick it for three
days.
And he just sat there on the floor
by the radiator, asleep in a little pillow,
and handcuffed.
The second day he was so desperate, so
needing a fix, and he had no key.
He couldn't break it, he tried, and almost
bleeding, and in a rage of desire, driven,
literally shook that radiator until he pulled it
off the pipe, put this heavy radiator on
his back, handcuffed to the pusher, walking down
the street with the radiator on his back.
What have you tried to be free?
How many promises have you made?
What have you done?
39 people commit suicide.
Mr. Marshall, he's a Presbyterian preacher's son.
Sixty-five years old, I believe he was.
Did you hear that he was active in
the church?
He was a choir director.
He was a musician.
He had a heart for God.
He had a family life.
His father thought he was a wonderful family
man.
Sports-minded at the time.
A heart for God.
But he had a homosexual drive in him,
which finally drove him out of his home,
drove him into the arms of a friend,
and he moved in with a man.
But he hated his homosexuality, despised it, and
this battle was raging in him how to
be free.
He's got this background of the gospel.
He knows the Word.
He's preached it.
He's been a choir director.
He's been active in the house of God,
and he knows better, and he can't get
free.
He tries everything.
He went to psychologists.
He went to psychiatrists.
He went to hospitals.
He checked himself into a hospital in Houston
and said, this is driving me.
There's a beast in me that I can't
conquer.
I'm driven by a beast of homosexuality.
You know the story.
How, in final desperation, he castrated himself.
Castrated himself.
And then, starting Heaven's Gate cult, they found
the majority of them castrated.
All of them trying to find freedom.
Everyone was saying, there's nothing left in this
world.
You know why they said that?
Because they tried to get free.
They tried to find a place of rest,
and there was none here.
So they put a roll of cords.
Can you imagine this?
Can you imagine how reprobate the mind becomes?
Can you imagine?
They're expecting, through Haley Bopp, the comet, that
in that trail, there's a spaceship.
And they pack a bag, a roll of
quarters, and some crisp new $5 bills and
a passport.
Now, what does extraterrestrial people want with passports
and United States quarters and $5 bills?
You know, we don't laugh at that.
We feel the pain of this tragedy.
But the man who was masterminding all of
this was formerly a minister of the gospel
trying to get free.
And if you don't get free, it'll drive
you to this kind of madness, all in
an effort to try to find some peace
of mind and rest.
How many have said, what I hate, that's
what I do.
What I want to do, the good things
I desire, I have no power to do.
Oh, woe is me.
Who will deliver me from this bondage?
How many would say with David, my iniquities
have gone over my head.
As a heavy burden, they're too heavy for
me.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of
my foolishness.
I'm a troubled person.
For I'm bowed down greatly.
I go mourning all the day long.
A mourning, a longing, a yearning to be
free.
The monasteries were built by men who couldn't
conquer their lust and their passion.
They were so driven by lust, so driven
by passion, they thought, many of them were
rich people, rich men.
And they thought, well, first of all, if
I give all my money away, maybe God
will honor me and deliver me because I've
become an ascetic.
I'll isolate myself from society and maybe by
isolation I can be free.
And many of them gave away their belongings
and gave away everything, walked away from families,
everything, to shut themselves in to meditate.
And folks, that didn't deliver them because their
imaginations ran wild and those monasteries became hotbeds
of wild imaginations, the vilest of imaginations, and
writings of the flesh.
Awful, awful scenes and sights that went before
their minds.
And then when that happened, they decided to
beat it out of them.
And you see pictures of it in history
of the flaglets who would take chains and
thorns and whip their backs until they would
bleed.
They would sit on high poles for months
with somebody feeding them occasionally, isolating themselves, denying
the flesh, not feeding themselves, not eating, not
drinking, crippling their bodies, thinking if they hobbled
around crippled that they would conquer the flesh.
They tried to beat down the flesh.
They tried to cut the flesh.
They tried to starve the flesh.
And it didn't work until one day the
Holy Ghost moved into one of those monks'
cells and the Word of God came to
just so live by faith.
And Martin Luther came out of that dark
cell and proclaimed to the whole world that's
not the way to victory.
It's not by flesh.
It's by faith in the living God.
Hallelujah, through Jesus Christ.
Never in history, never in the history of
the church have we needed a new revelation
of the power of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
Let me tell you in simple terms what
I believe the resurrection means to me.
It was not just a man who came
out of the tomb.
It was not one man that came out
of that grave.
It was a corporate man.
It was the church of Jesus Christ.
Jesus didn't come out of that grave just
for His own glory.
He had that before He came.
He didn't come out just so that He
could go back to His Father.
He didn't come now just so that He
could go back and roll and reign over
the universe.
No, He came out of the grave to
bring you out and bring me out.
We came out of that grave.
That was a corporate body.
That wasn't one man.
I walked out of that grave.
You came out of that grave.
We are all delivered at the resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
That was our resurrection.
The Holy Ghost invaded that tomb.
There was no rock or stone that could
hold Him.
There was no power.
Pilate couldn't do it.
Herod couldn't do it.
All the armies of that day couldn't do
it.
The Holy Ghost swept into the tomb, breathed
life into that corpse.
Hallelujah!
An angel at the head and one at
the tail.
Remember, at the mercy seat, the two angels,
one at the head and one at the
foot.
This was the mercy seat.
And they said, the mercy seat is not
here anymore.
The mercy seat is not here.
Oh, beloved, if we could only see that
coming out of that tomb, God did something
on our behalf, not for the benefit of
His soul.
He came for a purpose.
And that purpose was accomplished when He came
out of the grave.
Christ's resurrection was performed by the energy and
the power of the Holy Ghost.
No other way.
As I said this morning, Jesus did not
strive.
He did not, through His own human effort,
nothing that He did on the human level
brought Him out of that grave.
It had to be a supernatural work of
the Holy Spirit.
And when you're bound by the grave clothes
of iniquity, when you're down dead in trespasses
and sins, you can't resurrect yourself.
You can't deliver yourself.
It has to be an operation of the
Holy Ghost.
Hallelujah.
Jesus laid silently in the grave, no striving.
The moment Jesus died, He broke the devil's
power to hold us in sin, that through
death, He might destroy him that had the
power of death, that is, the devil, and
deliver them who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage.
He said He came to a generation who
all their lifetime lived in fear, bound by
their lust, bound by the power of sin.
He said He came, was resurrected to break
the power of Satan.
Now, listen to me, please.
This is where you begin.
If you sit in this church this afternoon
and you're fighting a homosexual lust, a heterosexual
lust, a tobacco lust, an alcohol lust, a
drug lust, a pride lust, roving eyes lust,
name it.
You know what it is in your heart.
Whatever the battle may be, whatever the situation,
and some of you sweet, sweet, kind, gentle
saints who people look at and say, Oh,
now I know she, I know he has
nothing wrong in their life.
Beloved, nothing is as it appears.
Nothing.
The most pious, holy people are capable of
getting in the flesh.
Mm-hmm.
But you see, the Lord says, I come
to this kind of society and you have
got to know that I have broken the
power of the devil.
I have defeated his power.
You say, well then, why is he so
strong in me if he's been defeated?
I'm going to tell you why in the
course of this just before we finish.
Now, the most glorious truth of all is
that the very same power of God that
raised up Jesus abides in you and me
and we are raised to newness of life
by that same power.
Now, listen to this, please.
Listen to this.
But if the spirit of him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also raise your mortal bodies by his
spirit that dwelleth in you.
By his spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now, Paul calls this the operation of God.
I'm going to tell you something about the
resurrection I don't think you've heard yet.
It's not because it's new, it's been here,
we've just not seen it as clear as
we ought.
Listen to, don't turn but Colossians 2.12.
Buried with him by baptism.
Have you been baptized?
Buried with him, the baptism itself signifies to
the world that you have died to sin
in Christ wherein also you are risen with
him.
You are risen in him.
How?
How are you risen in newness of life?
How do you get the Holy Ghost into
your life so that you can be empowered
by sin?
Listen to it.
Through the faith in the operation of God
who has raised him from the dead.
That word operation means energy and power of
the Holy Ghost.
By faith in the energy and power of
the Holy Ghost.
Now that doesn't mean anything except to a
dead man.
God, listen, Jesus didn't need resurrection power until
he was dead.
Come on now.
I hope you see that.
He didn't come into Gethsemane and try infusing
him this resurrection life.
It was not until he was totally dead.
In fact, he was dead for three days
before the Holy Ghost came in.
He was truly dead.
You are not going to ever have the
power of the Holy Ghost to overcome in
your life.
We will never have it until we are
fully dead.
You say, what do you mean dead?
You've heard me explain that the old man
in the New Testament is the I can
do man.
You know, you look sin in the face,
I can do that, I can lick that.
You look at your habits, I can do
that.
Just give me enough scriptures, give me enough
time, give me a couple books and tapes
and just let me gather my resources and
let me think this through.
I'll lick it.
Sure you will.
For a day, two days a week, a
month, even a year, but it will come
back worse than ever because you haven't defeated,
you've suppressed it.
You see, you will not get resurrection life
if you're just suppressing sin because you do
it under your own strength and your own
power, your own will.
The new man is the I can't do
it without the power of the Holy Ghost.
I can't do it.
I'm helpless.
You have got to come to a place,
I'm going to keep drilling in this into
the congregation.
You've heard me now the third time and
you're going to go to school with me
until you get it, until this church rises
up in faith that you cannot look the
devil in your own power.
These things look you in the face, they
scare you, they look like they're going to
bring corruption and defeat and destruction, but there's
a weapon God has given to us.
There is a way out.
I would not want to serve a God
who saved me and then left me to
my own devices, who left me to fight
these battles alone.
Who am I to fight the devil?
Who am I to fight a legion of
demons?
None of us.
Folks, I'm going to keep drilling until you
get tired of hearing about it, until it
registers.
You go into school and you learn your
ABCs by going after them, ABC, ABC, ABC,
and you write it, you draw it, you
do it in little letters, you do it
in big letters, little A, big A.
Then you put it in sentences until it's
drilled, drilled, drilled into you.
You die by giving up your will, your
ambition, your desire to do this in your
own strength.
You die when you admit and you acknowledge,
I can't do it.
I am helpless in my flesh.
Now, the flesh doesn't like it.
We have doctrines of perfection that teach otherwise.
But folks, you don't have to serve God
very long before you come to this conclusion.
All it takes is about ten broken promises.
All it takes is a lot of effort
that drives you down to your face and
say, oh God, I didn't mean to do
that.
God, I said I wouldn't do that anymore.
God, I thought I had victory.
Lord, why did you let me do that?
Where's the power?
The Lord said, you're not dead yet.
You're not dead yet.
Folks, I've been preaching the gospel for years,
and I've just passed in the past few
years coming into this knowledge, coming to the
place where God has so convinced me.
I'm so convinced now I see it everywhere.
I turn in the Word of God because
in these last days, he's bringing a new
revival, and this revival that's coming is going
to be a revival of dying to the
flesh, and there's going to be a revelation
of the power of the Holy Ghost coming
in these last days where people are not
just going for a happy kick and just
being knocked down, walk out in the blessing,
and go back.
People, I've been invited all over the world
now to preach ministers' conferences, and I said,
God, maybe next year take four or five
because this is my home, and if I
do go, I'm going to go maybe four
or five times for just a week or
so.
In some countries, they say, we'll gather 5
,000 ministers.
I'm not interested in going to a country
and condemning preachers about their lack of prayer
and not reading their Bible and then see
hundreds of pastors fall and weep and cry
under conviction and go out unchanged.
This is the end of side one.
You may now turn the tape over.
If all there is is emotion, you're changed
because the truth lights in your head and
it frees you.
You lay hold of the Word of God
and it frees your spirit.
If I go out, I'm going to preach
a new covenant.
I'm going to have pastors begin to thrill
at what God wants to do for them
and their congregations, and I want to go
back, not just preach conviction.
The Holy Ghost will take care of that.
I want them to go back into their
churches and say, you can be free from
your sin so that thousands of Christians can
approach the coming of the Lord free, free,
free indeed.
I'm getting a little excited, so give me
a breather.
How do you get the resurrection power of
Jesus to overcome sin?
How do you come out of this grave
walking in newness of life?
I'd die.
You know what the Bible says?
I reckon myself dead.
I've just come to the conclusion I'm helpless.
That's all it is.
I've settled the issue.
It's finished.
I don't even talk about it anymore to
myself because I've convinced myself.
I don't care what anybody tells me.
I don't care what anybody preaches to me.
I'm on the Word of God, and I'm
going to stay there.
I cannot, in my own power, my own
strength, my own resolution, my own ability, defeat
sin in my life.
So what do I do?
I stand on this Word.
And what does the Word of God say?
Ye are risen with Him.
How?
Through promises?
Good works?
Good deeds?
Self-effort?
Oh, folks, there'll be a lot of effort.
There'll be a lot of wonderful works.
There'll be all these things once you're moving
in the realm of the Holy Spirit and
doing it through His might and His power.
But listen.
Ye are risen with Him through the faith
in the operation of God, through the faith
in the energy and power of the Holy
Ghost who raised Him from the dead.
The same Spirit that raised Christ from the
dead shall also raise your mortal body.
And that doesn't mean in the resurrection.
It means right here, now, resurrection, here and
now on earth.
When I'm dead, I turn to the Lord
and say, Lord, You have promised me all
through this book that You have all the
power I need to overcome sin.
You said that You will lead me and
guide me.
And I said it this morning.
God said in His Word, I know how
to deliver you out of temptation.
You don't have to know how right now.
You just trust in Him.
Say, Lord, and what you do.
When the enemy comes like a flood, you
run to the secret closet.
You run and you just cry.
You may be in a bus.
You may be anywhere.
I told the congregation this morning.
Some of you weren't here at the altar.
I said, God is wonderful.
He knows how.
He said, I'll send angels to camp around
about you and deliver you lest you dash
your foot against the stone.
I told the congregation, if you have a
lust problem and you're trying to sneak in
8th Avenue down here in one of those
dinky little theaters, there may be an angel
appear.
It's probably one of our angels sitting here
in Times Square Church right now with a
name and an address and a telephone number.
Just one of God's saints who's going to
be an angel to you and just happens
to be there.
You're just about to go in and there
is the angel.
Hello, brother.
I've been an angel to some of you.
You were just about to light up.
You had the cigarette right here.
I said, praise the Lord.
Right over here in 8th Avenue, 49th.
Here's a lady who just walked out of
church.
Went in the store to come out and
she had a paper bag and a great
big bottle of wine.
She's gurgling it and I'm standing right in
front of her.
She holds it up and looks at me.
She says, but I passed out 200 tracks.
The Lord's been making an angel out of
me for so many places.
My point is, you know what it is?
God knows how and He does it out
of love.
Not to condemn you, but to save you.
You see, God's not mad at any of
His children.
I'm not mad at any of my children
or my grandchildren.
I'm here as father and grandfather to answer
their cry for help anytime they need me.
I so reach out to them with great
love and your heavenly Father reaches out to
you now and says, I have provided all
the power you need, all the strength that
you need, but you must first quit trying
on your own strength and on your own
power.
Give up trying to figure it out.
Give up trying to do it yourself.
Get along with God.
Get to know Jesus more.
Stay in this word right here.
Now I'll tell you why I trust the
Holy Ghost because He wrote this book.
He revealed Jesus in this book.
This is the living word of Jesus Christ,
the Lord and the Holy Ghost penitent.
You know why I trust in the power
of the Holy Ghost?
He was there when this world was created.
He called all things into being.
He sent the waters and the rains.
He divided the earth from the land.
He caused the rain, the flowers.
Is He not able to deliver me?
He delivers me, the living word of God.
Can I not give victory in my life
according to the power that worketh in us?
What power?
Holy Ghost power.
Folks, if this is going to be a
Holy Ghost church, then it has to work
its way out into everyday life.
It has to be not just a shout
in the church, not just people saying, I
can talk in tongues.
I pray in tongues all day long more
than all of you.
But that's not what the Holy Ghost means
to me alone.
It goes so far beyond that.
The power of the Holy Ghost is to
be able, when the enemy comes in like
a flood, to say, Holy Ghost, this is
not my battle.
It's yours now.
I need help.
And to see how He comes in by
faith, miraculously surrounding, putting a hedge of thorns
around me, protecting me.
And I look back later and say, Oh,
thank you, Jesus.
I don't know how you did it, but
you delivered.
You kept me.
Folks, here I am, 65, and He's kept
me.
I rejoice.
How old are you?
Didn't He keep you?
He's kept you.
Did somebody come in yesterday?
A fellow come in yesterday here?
Son, sit down just a minute.
You were saved yesterday down at, I say,
a house.
Okay, now, I want to tell you something.
He kept me all these years.
He can keep you.
If He keeps you one day, He keeps
you two days, three days, four days.
You believe that now?
You believe that?
The devil's trying to get you to run,
isn't he?
And saying, Hey, this doesn't work.
God bless you, son.
Sit down.
If He keeps you a month, He keeps
you two months, He can keep you a
year, He can keep you on.
Hallelujah.
Glory to Jesus.
Folks, I'm just beginning.
I'm going to preach covenant and covenant and
covenant until you really are going to trust
the Holy Ghost.
Hallelujah.
Stand.
I want everybody in this church to look
up to Jesus right now.
And I want you to repeat this after
me.
We don't do this often, but I just
feel like doing it this afternoon.
I want you to repeat after me right
now.
Lord Jesus.
I have no strength of my own.
I have no power of my own.
I have no will that's worth anything.
I acknowledge my weakness, the frailty of my
flesh.
But I believe, Holy Ghost, You have all
the power I need.
Help me, Jesus, to die to my flesh.
And then come, Holy Spirit.
The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the
dead shall raise me from the dead and
keep me walking in newness of life.
Hallelujah.
Glory to Jesus.
Hallelujah.
He is Lord.
He is risen from the dead.
And He is Lord.
If you're here this afternoon, up in the
balcony on the main floor, you say, Brother
David, I'm losing this battle.
I've been fighting a battle in my flesh.
I've tried so hard.
I really try.
Listen, I believe you.
I believe there are people here, you want
the Lord so bad, you want victory so
bad.
You say, Lord, I just can't, I can't
keep on this merry-go-round of sin,
confess, sin, confess, sin, confess.
I've got to have a way out.
Why don't you come down here and die?
Walk down the aisle and die and say,
Lord, I'm not trusting my flesh anymore.
I'm not trusting my efforts.
But I'm going to seek you.
I'm going to love you.
And I'm going to trust you.
Our part is absolute faith.
Our part is faith.
Now, folks, the Bible said, you give them
what faith you have.
And this is God's, I'll increase your faith.
I'll give you the increase of faith.
All you have is a mustard seed faith.
Whatever it may be, you bring what little
you have.
It may be just doubt bordering on faith.
I don't know.
Bring what you have to the Lord, such
as I have I give unto you, Lord.
And he will increase it so that you're
able to lay hold of it.
Hallelujah.
But faith comes by what?
He infuses faith into your heart by your
reading and hearing this word as you read
it.
In other words, not just reading it, but
hearing what you read.
Hear it in your heart.
And up in the balcony, you can go
to the stairs on either side and come
down any aisle.
Also, those of you that once walked with
the Lord, listen closely.
You had a close walk with the Lord,
but you gave up.
You quit trying because you say, Pastor David,
it failed.
And I think you may have a little
anger in your heart toward the Lord because
you didn't get the victory.
You say, I tried, and I tried, and
I failed.
It didn't work.
That's because you didn't die.
You were still depending on your flesh.
You come in simple childlike faith and say,
Jesus, here I am.
I offer myself to you now.
I want to be free.
Balcony, wherever you're at, all over this building
right now, come.
Don't come unless the Spirit draws you.
But the moment you feel that tug, well,
I know some of you have struggled so
long.
You're striving so hard.
There's a cry in you.
Oh, Pastor, I want to be free.
I really want to be free.
Holy Spirit, draw now by your power.
Let the word of the Lord sink in
deep.
Let the truth bring freedom.
Let truth set people free.
Amen.
You feel that tug.
We sing it just a moment here.
Come and we'll pray.
We'll believe God for a miracle in your
life.
By coming down the aisle and standing here,
you're making a statement.
You're saying to yourself, to the devil, to
God, to all who see you, I've come
to die to my own ability, my own
strength.
I give up trying in my own power.
That didn't mean you run out and just
give yourself over.
No, no, no, no.
It means that you run to Jesus.
You don't run to your lust.
You don't run to your sin when it
overcomes you.
You run to a place of prayer.
You just close yourself out.
You could be on the street or anywhere
and say, now, Holy Spirit, your word says
that you have the power.
You came to Jesus when He was dead
and you raised Him.
You said the same Spirit that raised Him
is going to resurrect me into newness of
life.
I want to walk with a new life.
I don't want to walk in this bondage
anymore.
I promise you He's faithful.
He's faithful.
He that's begun a good work in you,
the Bible says we'll finish it.
Hallelujah.
I believe that with all my heart.
I wouldn't preach it if I didn't believe
that with everything in me.
I want you to believe that now.
I want you to believe that you can
be free.
The devil would like to tell you that
you've tried and tried and it doesn't work.
No.
See, when you give it all into his
hands, it does work.
I stand before you right now.
I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I
put my tomorrow in the hands of the
Lord.
I trust Him with it.
My children, I trust.
All my children, my grandchildren, I trust them
into the hands of the Lord.
I trust my life.
I trust everything I am and all that
I have into His hands.
I just take it and say, Here, Jesus,
take my life.
Lead me.
Guide me.
Put a word in me.
Direct me.
There'll be a word behind just saying, Go
here, go there.
Do this, do that.
He will speak to you.
He will lead you.
He'll protect you.
He'll put a hedge of thorns around you
to keep the devil from getting to you.
I want you to close your eyes and
pray this prayer with me right now from
your heart.
Jesus, I really can't do anything by my
own power, by just setting my will, but
just trying.
I've strived so hard and it's failed me
so often.
Lord, I turn to You as my only
hope.
Holy Spirit, You have the power to raise
the dead.
You had power to create this earth with
Your heavenly Father.
You have the power over the devil and
over sin and lust.
You promised me that no sin shall have
power over me.
I accept that promise.
I believe that promise.
Now, Father, help me to trust You when
I'm overcome, when I'm in a battle, not
to get upset, not to panic, and not
to run, but turn to You like a
little child and just say, Help.
I trust You, Lord, to help me, protect
me, and preserve me from the power of
the devil.
Now, let me pray for You.
Father, You heard that simple childlike prayer.
Thank You, Lord.
You're faithful to Your Word.
You'll back up Your Word.
Lord, I told these people that stand here
now that You would deliver them if they
would trust You.
Now, we put You to the test on
that, Lord.
We're going to trust You.
We're going to ask You to come and
show us how to escape our temptations that
we may endure them.
Come, Lord, send angels to walk around and
with us.
Put a wall of thorns and hedges around,
a hedge of thorns that the devil can't
touch us, our enemies can't defeat us.
Those that are wicked around us will not
be able to tempt us and pull us
down because we turn to You, not to
our friends.
We turn to You, Lord, in our time
of need.
Hallelujah!
Thank You, Lord, for Your power.
Thank You for Your victory.
Thank You for Your resurrection.
In Jesus' name, amen.
I'm so glad Jesus set me free.
This is the conclusion of the tape.