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  THE END (ACHARYTH) (VIDEO)
  by Michael L. Brown
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of considering the
consequences of our actions, urging listeners to focus on the 'Aharit,'
the final end or consequences of their choices. It warns against envy of
sinners and encourages a life of wisdom and righteousness to avoid
destruction and regret. The speaker passionately calls for repentance,
confession of sins, and surrender to God to receive forgiveness,
cleansing, and a fresh start.

Duration: 1:32:09 Topics: "Consequences of Actions", "Repentance and Forgiveness"
Scripture References: Proverbs 19:20, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 23:29, Proverbs 23:17, Proverbs 24:19, James 4:8

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of considering the consequences of
our actions, urging listeners to focus on the 'Aharit,' the final end or
consequences of their choices. It warns against envy of sinners and
encourages a life of wisdom and righteousness to avoid destruction and
regret. The speaker passionately calls for repentance, confession of
sins, and surrender to God to receive forgiveness, cleansing, and a
fresh start.

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Let me just ask you one question. Let me just ask you one question. We
asked this last night when we had a similar eruption.

What do you, the word tells us first Peter that that we love him without
having seen him. Some here may have had a genuine vision but otherwise
we've never seen Jesus the way we see one another and we followed him
and rejoiced in him by faith. We've experienced him in a real way but
we've never seen him and we've talked about his return but we don't have
the slightest glimpse of what that moment is going to be like.

But we know among other things that there'll be a shout and I wonder
what the shout will sound like when we see Jesus. Are you Jesus? Jesus!
Jesus, Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh
Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus, oh Jesus who knows when God may
just break out in fresh power revival came suddenly and moved us into a
place we haven't been before who knows when we break into that next
level something struck me so plainly and then Lendl began to talk about
it something struck me so plainly it wasn't anything new but it just was
so plain to me there was a time when we talked about seeing people
running to the altar maybe we'd seen a glimpse of it here and there now
it's so commonplace we can be in an auditorium Steve or someone can
preach and we can see thousands of people and hundreds running and we
rejoice it touches our heart every time but it's no surprise if we
didn't see it we'd be surprised when we hear about people during the
summer running in wearing shorts and they come running to the altar and
they and they get carpet burn as they run and skid in on their knees
well you know one of the young men that was baptized tonight I was
especially excited to hear it because he he got remember he said he
didn't plan on being here he went to a basketball court to buy drugs and
instead ran into students from the School of Ministry Jesus well you
know we we talked about some of these things and knew that these kind of
things would happen with regularity and seasons of revival and we're
seeing it but there's so much else that we listen let's just be honest
we're just not seeing and and there are too many sick people that we're
praying for that are dying and too many and too many crippled people
that we're praying for that are still crit and it just struck me with
such plainness the power is not there but you know in a moment of time
when God arises because there's been so much hunger and there's been so
much thirst and there's been so much desperation that when that wall of
unbelief crumbles and when that power is released we're going to see
things that'll take our breath away come Lord in power release your
might stretch out your hand stretch out your hand not next month not
next year this very day Lord we thank you for everything you've done we
acknowledge every work of your grace every work of your power everyone
you've saved everyone you've healed everyone you've delivered but Lord
we'd be insulting you if we stopped there we'd be taking spiritual
pennies when you're offering millions spiritually manifest your power
manifest your glory is it not written if we believe we will see your
glory God we believe God we believe Jesus Jesus anointed worship leaders
know exactly what to do at moments like this sin your power Oh Lord our
God sin your power Oh Lord our God show your power Oh Lord our God sin
your power Oh Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord our God sin your power
Oh Lord our God we believe the nations will worship we believe the river
will flow we believe your glory is rising we believe every dam is about
to burst and go we believe we will see your glory we believe we will see
your power we believe we will see anointing flowing in this hour sin
your power Oh Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord our God show your
power Oh Lord our God our God we gather here and wait on you Lord cause
our hearts are hungry for you and we've seen a lot of this world but
we've seen only small amounts of what you can do with one touch of your
glory the nations can crumble with one touch of your power lives will be
transformed just a minute in your presence Jesus just a little time at
your feet we'll heal the broken lives and ruined ashes that lay on the
sea Lord we're waiting for your glory to come sing it now sin your power
Oh Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord
our God sin your power Oh Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord our God
show your power Oh Lord our God one more time, sing it sin your power Oh
Lord our God sin your power Oh Lord our God our God it's our desire Lord
Jesus Father we're asking for something we've never seen we're asking
for something we don't even know about but when we read your word Lord
we know that you're a God that's able we're so tired of seeing the
church profess what they don't possess we're so tired of doing it
ourselves Lord so we just pour our heart out and we just tear our robe
we wait on you Lord show your power that the world will know you are God
move into every church in our nation every church across the nations
Lord those that are dead and dry and so full of everything but you break
religion Lord and let the true fiery believers rise to the top Lord show
your power ha ha whoa whoa show your power let the people of God sing
show your power oh show your power let's do it one more time before we
change show your power oh show your power oh Lord Jesus Jesus I want
everyone here just to close your eyes whether you know the Lord whether
somebody brought you in here tonight and you don't even know why you're
here won't hurt you to pray these words and if what we're saying is real
and we know it is then God's going to hear you just close your eyes
right where you are just say this out loud Heavenly Father you know me
you know where I live you know who I am make yourself real to me tonight
touch me speak to me change me in the name of Jesus amen amen thank you
Lord you can be seated blessed be your name Lord Jesus I found out I had
a flight to Minnesota last Sunday 7 in the morning and I talked to my
assistant Scott I said we gotta change the tickets I want to leave later
and he was about to do it and I said just forget it leave it and I got
on that plane and was flying out then the next flight from Atlanta
Pastor Kerry Robertson actually believes that if you're a Christian and
you die in Pensacola you go to heaven by way of Atlanta well anyway I
got on the next flight and a man sat next to me turned out to be just 26
years old and he had a colleague behind him and I thought well why don't
I switch seats so he can sit next to his colleague and I thought well
maybe he wants the window seat I'll just leave it then another woman
came on began talking with another colleague and I thought why don't I
offer to switch seats with her so he can talk and I thought no I'll just
stay there turns out he was on his way from Baton Rouge through
Cincinnati to Minnesota when last minute they wheel off the flight
attendant she's suddenly been stricken with appendicitis they wheel her
off in a stretcher and they said we don't have sufficient flight crew
for this we're going to have to re-route you through Atlanta and last
minute he ends up on my plane and about two thirds through the flight
he's watching me right at my computer and he says are you an author I
said yes religious, spiritual stuff, yeah and he said you know the last
9-10 months and I fly a lot and this is not your normal flight
conversation trust me he said you know the last 9-10 months he said I've
been trying to find God and uh he said I don't know if this is the right
question to ask he said could you tell me how to find God well we talked
for about 45 minutes and I didn't feel just to pray with him I wanted
things to go even deeper I wanted him to understand more talk to him
about sin and need for salvation and why it only comes through Jesus and
uh he got off the plane I got his his card with his pager number I said
listen I'll give you the details where I'm preaching tonight we paged
him he called back he said listen I'm tied up tonight I've got work to
do I'll see if I can make it out tomorrow night instead Sunday night
there he is he said I changed my schedule to be here and he was raised
Catholic and dragged to church and just like a man talked about being
hurt by the Southern Baptist Church friends people have been hurt by
every church every name every denomination and um he was raised in a
church that was just full of tradition but no God and uh he was uh at
the service and people were dancing and celebrating and I said to him a
little different than Catholic church and he said yeah but it's a good
different and uh the end of the night uh he was on his knees with
hundreds at the altar and the college pastor from that church went over
talked to him and next thing he's praying next thing tears streaming
down his cheeks and he comes up to me afterwards just hugging me he said
I never dreamed I had no idea and uh the next night without us calling
him or anything there he was the next night in the service and uh you
know the neat thing is Jesus is working the Holy Spirit is working all
over the place I know there are plenty of places where there's
resistance but that was just God's reminder his spirit's working his
spirit's moving everywhere I called Nancy on the phone I said if this
guy doesn't come to Jesus there's something to matter with me I mean if
a fish comes to you with an open mouth and says do you know what a hook
looks like I mean hallelujah the Lord is good Steve Hill with Pastor
Kerry Robertson and Bill Ansara our worship leader at the school our
music director and Lisa Ansara who works in the music department here
they're just getting back from New Zealand but we've gotten wonderful
reports about the moving of God there and uh uh in fact uh I was just
told by the daughter of the pastor who coordinated the event not only
were altars filled with people getting right with God and crowds grew
but uh one day they had a question and answer session and Pastor Kerry
Robertson was there and they said to him someone asked him and said well
we've heard about the cost of revival the price of revival what about
the fruit and before he could answer he just began to weep and the
spirit just broke out they had to cancel their meetings through the
afternoon the spirit just fell in power God's moving in New Zealand
God's moving in Minnesota God's moving in Pensacola God can move
wherever you live amen God can move wherever you live we're so glad that
you're here let me just find out again how many are visiting with us
this is your first week visiting the revival why don't you just stand if
this is your first week visiting the revival whoo God bless you let me
ask this how many of you came to the revival this week from outside the
United States would you raise your hands if you came from outside the
United States remain standing okay if you came from outside the United
States to be with us okay great well bless you folks we're thrilled that
you're here welcome all the Americans that are here let me encourage you
to get everything you possibly can while you're here to open your heart
to God not to be in any hurry if you're not leaving tomorrow morning
then by all means join us in the Family Life Center at 11 o'clock
there's a message that a theme that I've come to hundreds of times in
study and prayer and preached on it many times through the word about
the fire of God fire is an awesome subject of the word Rod Lashberg who
works with you just sharing about the work going on among the people and
Klaus is a real hero to me to many of us he's labored sacrificially for
more than two decades in conditions I don't know how dark dark gets when
you're out at the end of the earth by yourself sometimes but the Lord's
faithfully blessed our brother and I just want us to pray for Klaus and
his wife Doris and in fact if we could just have we've got a couple of
faculty members standing there Bert and Ron and Sonny and our pastoral
staff if you could just Klaus just raise your hand so folks know who
we're praying for just stand right over there we just want to bless you
brother we want to hold your hands up we want to say that you're never
forgotten doesn't matter where you are that we feel a sense of standing
with you in the work there can we pray the blessing of God down upon him
gracious Father Lord you've been so faithful you've done such an awesome
work there's so much light where there had been so much darkness there's
hope oh God where there had been none before Lord there's a kingdom Lord
of your people saved redeemed healed set free Lord I know there's a
great crown awaiting your servant I know as he and his wife have
sacrificed much Lord the enemies come against them with everything he's
got and I pray for blessing we ask for blessing blessing upon Klaus and
Doris and their children everything they need give to them oh God shower
grace on them may the years that lie ahead be brighter than anything
they've known in the past may every burden be lifted Father do a new
thing in their lives do a new thing among the five people glorify Jesus
in them and through them and show your fatherly heart of concern and
graciously and tenderly meeting every single need they have bless them
Father bless them and Lord we ask that you would speak to us and change
us in the name of Jesus amen amen you can be seated you can be seated
what I'm about to say to you I don't say lightly but for many of you
tonight's message will be the difference between heaven and hell the
difference between life and death and many of you have heard thousands
of messages and have forgotten most of them just like I have heard so
many messages and could not tell you what many of them were about years
later but I tell you, you will never forget this message my heart has
been bursting with this as I've looked out at you sometimes it's been
difficult even to back away and just to worship because of the burden of
this years ago a truth opened up to me from the word that's so basic and
simple and plain and over a period of many years there was never a theme
that I preached on twice in the same way from the word except God would
bring me back to this one and I'd preach it in different parts of the
world and I'd see somebody years later and they'd come up to me and
remember this I've been in the revival now for almost four years preach
many Wednesday night and Thursday night services and some Saturday night
services and now some Friday night services and in the revival service
I've not yet preached on this it was not until I wrote my 10th book, Go
and Sin No More that I even put this in print I have to have a special
sense from God to bring this I never wanted to be trivialized in my own
heart in my own life, I never wanted to be common I tell you this has
saved me from sin I want you to turn with me to Proverbs the 19th
chapter I don't think it's going to take me a long time to deliver this
Proverbs 19 verse 20 and then we'll be elsewhere in Proverbs before I
get into this message though I'm going to give you a Hebrew lesson you
say a Hebrew lesson? you said this is the most important message some of
us will ever hear, difference between life and death, a Hebrew lesson
correct, in fact I want all of you to begin by clearing your throats and
I want you to repeat a word after me that word is acharit say it again
acharit here's your little Hebrew lesson in Hebrew Hebrew and Arabic and
the other related languages called the Semitic languages, sometimes
prepositions, sometimes words having to do with the order of things or
direction, they come from parts of the body for example if I want to
talk about someone being right next to me in Hebrew I say they're by the
hand right next, they're by the hand when I'm standing in front of
someone I'm literally to the face I'm facing that person to the face,
when I want to talk about something that's on top, the top of a
mountain, I talk about the head of the mountain and because this is on
top this comes first words for first, words for beginning come from the
Hebrew word for head the word acharit is related to the Hebrew word for
back and it literally refers to that which comes after this is the
principle from your vantage point, looking on at me you cannot see my
back everyone in front of me, looking at me, you cannot see my back here
I've got a suit on, everything looks fine but if I sat on something
maybe I sat on wet paint and the back of my suit was completely marred,
you can't see that from this angle because you cannot see the acharit,
you cannot see that which comes after and Satan's great device that he
has used to destroy countless hundreds of millions of lives, is to blind
you to the acharit and your whole means of salvation and deliverance and
perseverance is to never lose sight of the acharit, that which comes
after, the final consequences, the end when the Hebrew prophet when
Isaiah spoke about in the end of days, he spoke of the acharit of days,
that which comes at the end, that which comes last and this verse
Proverbs 19, 20 sums up the whole purpose of the book of Proverbs and in
so many ways the whole purpose of everything God does listen to advice
and accept instruction and in your acharit in your final end, you will
be wise I remember one time after yielding to the flesh it was a
relatively minor thing you might say but afterwards I was grieved in my
spirit and I said to myself if I could only remember the way I feel now,
if I could remember that before I was tempted the next time I'd never
sin if I could remember the way I felt after sinning and hold on to that
the next time temptation came knocking at my door, I'd say no because
I'd remember the acharit I'd remember the final consequences I want you
to turn with me to Proverbs 5 what I'm going to talk to you about is
real life I've had close friends of mine destroy their ministries
destroy their lives destroy their marriages because they lost sight of
the acharit Proverbs 5 you will find more lengthy sections in the book
of Proverbs dealing with sexual sin than any other specific sin you'll
find the theme of wisdom throughout but if you're looking for one
specific sin that's nailed and spoken of in particular at length, whole
chapters devoted to it, it's sexual sin and when Paul gives lists of
sins in his epistles he lists sexual sin first and what we've heard
confessed to more at this altar than any other sin, including from
visiting pastors and ministers is sexual sin Nehemiah 13 reminds us
about Solomon, the one that we understand wrote these very words that it
was sexual sin that destroyed him my son pay attention to my wisdom
listen well to my words of insight that you may maintain discretion and
your lips may preserve knowledge for the lips of an adulteress drip
honey and her speech is smoother than oil wow she's so pretty she makes
you come alive she's got what you need look at her at the front of that
magazine cover look at her calling to you on your computer screen look
at you smile look at her smiling at you in the workplace her lips, her
face her curves, her figure look at her she's got what you need if
you'll only give yourself to her, you'll be satisfied if you'll only go
that way the fulfillment you're longing for will come she's special the
lips of an adulteress drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil but
her acharit in other words, the final consequences of associating with
her her final end the final end of those who join with her her lips drip
honey her speech is smoother than oil but her acharit is bitter as gall
sharp as a double edged sword her feet go down to death her steps lead
straight to the grave she gives no thought to the way of life her paths
are crooked, but she knows it not there's some stories that I've read
and people I've known and their stories have impacted me and some of
them I've never forgotten when one of our grads heard what I was
preaching on tonight, I just said the word acharit, he remembered it and
he remembered this very illustration there was a rich businessman on
Long Island married man and I read this account in a newspaper one day
while going to teach in New York City, years ago I never forgot it a
young lady met him offered him what he wanted sexually meet me at such
and such a place and we'll have some fun together here he is a married
man here she is young, beautiful giving him whatever she'll whatever
he'll want if he'll only come along as the story read and he met her at
the location but when he went in, instead of just her there was a whole
gang of people with her and they jumped him beat him up, tied him up
threw him in their vehicle and then brought him to an abandoned building
in the city there were extra thick boards on the windows so that you
couldn't hear him from the outside and they began to beat him they began
to burn him with cigarettes the men began to sexually abuse him to the
point of injuring his organs they were waiting for ransom money and his
wife was coming up with it but before the money even arrived, they beat
him to death they forced him to relieve himself in a diaper the last 5
days they gave him no food I began to think of that picture I began to
think of this man's Akharite if he could have only seen if he could have
only seen himself shut in that room, screaming for mercy burned with
cigarettes from head to toe, beaten humiliated, abused if he could have
only seen his Akharite, I don't care what that young lady offered him, I
don't care if a thousand young ladies offered him whatever he wanted, he
would have said, no I won't touch it but that's not the way of the devil
the devil comes with the emotion of the moment and the need of the
moment, oh he's just what you're looking for you've got one opportunity
to be with him, how can you say no, the lust and the passion rises see
some of us have forgotten something about sin sin is tempting the devil
knows the weakness of the flesh and sometimes we don't even need the
devil to do it, because we give ourselves over to the weakness of the
flesh the devil pushes people like Esau what do you need a birthright
for, what do you need these things for the future, you're hungry now
forget about the consequences, forget about what's going to happen
later, forget about the fact you'll end up in jail, forget about the
fact it will destroy your marriage forget about the pain forget about
the sexually transmitted diseases, forget about the unwanted pregnancies
forget about, right now you're hungry forget about the fact that you're
a minister and you've got to preach tomorrow that porno is calling to
you give yourself to the moment listen to the warning of Proverbs, now
then my son listen to me do not turn aside from what I say, keep to a
path far from her do not go near the door of her house lest you give
your best strength to others in your years, to one who is cruel, lest
strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house
and in your akharit you will groan when your flesh and body are spent I
remember visiting someone in the hospital I got a call from a pastor I
just met he said, is there any way you can get to the hospital there's
someone there, needs ministry I didn't even know the person she had
shacked up with a guy good relationship, nice guy not married, but
that's okay shacked up with this guy had a baby with him some years
after that the baby dies mysteriously, no one knows why until she comes
down with AIDS and they realize what killed the baby there she was in
the hospital, couldn't talk all the tubes in her mouth, withered away I
just began to talk to her, she hadn't received the Lord yet in her life,
I just began to talk to her, turns out later that night she was gone
later that night she entered eternity, I believe right with God by his
mercy I began to talk to her and say if you could have seen this could
have seen your baby dying could have seen your own life cut short, would
you have ever gone near this guy no only could have seen the akharit
only could have seen everything stripped away friends that have walked
with God for years, ministers of the gospel it takes a long time to
climb up that mountain takes a long time to climb up that place where
people respect you and you have a reputation for integrity and honor and
trustworthiness but you can fall from that mountain in one minute you
can open the door open the door, open the door, open the door open the
door and then take one step and you're through it in your akharit you
will groan if only if only I could go back and do it over if only I
could have seen what was coming you ever have a dream and in that dream
you've committed some horrible crime or some horrible sin and you wake
up and thank God it was just a dream the problem here is you wake up and
it's not a dream you wake up and there's your board sitting there, your
church board and you're confessing adultery and it's not a dream and
there's your wife out the door and it's not a dream God bless you
brothers from New Hope Home as the Lord is restoring your lives and
restoring your families how many baptismal testimonies have we heard
when people said I lost it all for what? for a little pleasure for
momentary satisfaction for fleeting fulfillment for what? to satisfy
some animal desire in your akharit you will groan when your flesh and
body are spent you'll say how I hated discipline why didn't I listen?
why didn't I listen before I went that way? I used to be free I wasn't
bound I wasn't a slave I was free to do the will of God I was free to be
holy I was free to say no to wrong relationships I was free to say no to
tempt why didn't I open the door to the devil? why didn't I listen? why
didn't I go forward at the altar that night? why didn't I completely
shut the door? let me just warn some young people here and I say this to
you by the spirit it's not just something that I'm throwing in and it's
not just percentage with several thousand people here, it fits I say
this by the push and unction of the spirit some of you here are playing
games with the devil by leaving the door open to the possibility of a
wrong relationship leaving the door open to the possibility of sin if
that opportunity comes and your only hope friend is to slam the door in
the devil's face and to turn the opposite way and walk away and leave it
behind otherwise you will go down you will say how I hated discipline
how my heart spurned correction anyone that works with me knows that I'm
easy going as far as people making mistakes I make mistakes, you make
mistakes I forget to mail this thing out you forget to make that phone
call we make mistakes and students can make mistakes and blow it in
certain ways and we're just forgiving and loving and compassionate but
when somebody won't receive correction that's it that's it when somebody
hardens their heart to loving rebuke, that's when I tremble when
somebody can't hear a word of life designed to deliver them from the
snare of the enemy pride comes up, or who are you to talk to me or
because they are holding on to the sin they are clutching to the sin
that's going to damn them to hell that's when it's dangerous you will
say how I hated discipline how my heart spurned correction I would not
obey my teachers or listen to my instructors I've come to the brink of
utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly I remember meeting this
family what a tragedy years ago I doubt the wife is alive anymore I
doubt one or two of the other kids are alive anymore unless God
miraculously intervenes I was preaching brothers told me a sad story
they introduced me to the family the husband was gone he was dead he had
been a preacher he had been used by God there are people that have been
in this revival touched by God that are in backslidden conditions right
now and others lost and in hell I wish with all my heart it were not
true and I hoped when we started to school that it would not happen
although I knew I was hoping against reality but I hoped we wouldn't get
a casualty report about a grad that messed up and blew it someone came
to me the other day with a broken heart and said you know so and so one
of the pioneer students in the school one of the first 84 to graduate
you know he's bound by sexual sin and messing up his life how can it be?
how can it be? here was a pastor used by God he was even a church
planter he got discouraged and friend remember if the devil can't come
in the front door he'll come in the side door the back door or window he
may not be able to get you to go out and get drunk dear man hear me and
if the women are here from waterfront hear me devil knows when you get
out of the program he can't just come and hit you from the front cause
you're strong cause you're grounded in the word but he also knows when
the wife says look I'm just not ready for you right now and when that
job offer suddenly leaves and when somebody betrays you and steals some
money and you're down or you just have a fight with your spouse or when
your friends reject you and you're down that's when the devil comes
knocking that same temptation that you said no to for the last six
months he comes knocking when you're vulnerable this pastor got
discouraged he got down he was in New York City he went out and got
drunk next thing he ends up at an orgy next thing he ends up having sex
with another man I don't know what his background was I don't know if he
came out of that or what think of the humiliation, think of the shame
think of the pain, think of the grief agony of heart, what did I do?
gets right with God, receives forgiveness confesses little by little is
restored goes back to ministry everything's okay, no one night, one sin,
one time AIDS kills him kills his wife, kills his kids if only he could
have seen his if he could have seen his wife and kids weeping as they
lowered his casket into the ground I don't care how discouraged he got I
don't care how hot the temptation was I don't care how severe the pain,
the rejection was he never would have touched alcohol he never would
have gone near those people he would have said to his family, chain me
to the bed don't let me out of the house if only he could have seen the
Aharit there are people, I've got friends in this room dear co-workers,
and they know some of these people and my wife Nancy knows every one of
them people that we worked with, people that we labored with people that
I submitted to as pastor or leader over me over a period of 17 years
four main men and three out of the four destroyed their ministries
through adultery I'll never forget the face of one of them when I heard
what was going on, I knew there were problems in his life, I had no clue
it had gone that far when I heard what had happened, and God confirmed
to my heart he was guilty, and I called him he didn't want to talk to
me, so I pursued him I went to his house and he finally opened up, after
all, he finally opened up he confessed, he began to cry we went down to
the basement of his house he had this horrific look on his face this
contorted, anguished look this agony and as my heart was breaking for
him I was still praying a prayer, God don't ever let me forget what he
looks like don't let me forget this face some beautiful young lady came
along, he had opened the door he had opened the door, he had played
games he had hardened his heart he let a little sin in here he let a
little sin in there, a little disobedience in there and dropped a
standard here and dropped a standard there, before that he was a prey
somebody came right along he had his fling he took off for a week,
instead of going to praying fast as he told us he was doing, he took off
with this lady oh, he may have had the time of his life, he may have had
more pleasure than he ever had before and all he's got now is a mark in
grief lasting grief that mark hanging over him reproach in your Acharit
you will groan hear me friends people have said this for centuries, it's
so true Satan shows you the bait he doesn't show you the hook all the
advertising campaigns all perfect plastic surgery this, this, this, this
oh, if you could only have that oh, if you could only touch that and
it's always out there the glitter of the moment I remember when I worked
in New York City when I taught Korean students training for ministry in
the mid 1980's and I'd go at lunch time and walk over to a Christian
book store to get some books to read as I'd take the train back and I
remember walking and on one side of the road was this nude theater nude
women advertised and on the other side was the identical thing except it
was all men and I remember saying to myself I remember saying to myself
even though the all men thing was no more in my background than it was
in my background to be the next Martian president of the United I mean
it was unrelated to my life I remember saying to myself if the devil can
get you in here he can get you in there see once you become a slave once
you become chained as we preached before as we lay out in the opening
chapters of Go and Sin No More sin leads to more sin sin leads to worse
sin and before you know it you're doing things you never dreamed of
doing before you know it there are cop cars around your house and you're
being carted off for child abuse how did it happen? the devil blinded
you to the he blinded you to the consequences and I want you to see
something young ladies in particular please hear me look in the sixth
chapter of Proverbs chapter six you go home you get on your knees you
read through all the five and six and seven in the book of Proverbs and
ask God to everlastingly burn it in your hearts and minds verse twenty
my son keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's
teaching bind them upon your heart forever fasten them around your neck
when you walk they will guide you when you sleep they will watch over
you when you awake they will speak to you for these commands are a lamp
this teaching is a light the corrections of discipline are the way to
life keeping you from the immoral woman from the smooth tongue of the
wayward wife do not lust in your beauty after her in your heart after
her beauty do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her
captivate you with her eyes for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of
bread and the adulterous preys upon your very life can a man scoop fire
into his lap without his clothes being burned can a man walk on hot
coals without his feet being scorched so is he who sleeps with another
man's wife no one who touches her will go unpunished now I know
temptation can go both ways I know women can be tempted with the eyes
and men can be tempted to display themselves in certain ways but for the
most part and in our culture and the images that we have in front of us
constant alluring sinful sensual images of women disrobed in every
different level calling appealing to the eyes of men appealing to the
lusts of men we used to tell our daughters as they were growing up
they're 22 and 21 now we used to tell them young men that are not right
with God they're just like dogs going after some other dog in heat
they're just driven by these hormones and unclean assume that they're
unclean in their thinking towards you you say that's extreme, it's more
right than it's wrong and I'd rather be too extreme and warn there's a
pit there, there's a pit there and there are only two pits instead of
three pits then say everything's okay and watch them perish young ladies
hear me there is tremendous pressure on you to look a certain way to
dress a certain way to behave a certain way to have a certain kind of
perfect shape and perfect body and I urge you young men as well, older
men, older women as well of all ages but young ladies in particular,
hear me do not ever yield to the temptation to dress in a way so as to
draw sensual attention to yourselves never, never do that never be a
stumbling block to your brother or to your sister you say are you
telling us brother that we ought to dress like the Islamic women and
cover ourselves from head to toe I'll tell you if I had to choose
between that and contemporary American dress I'd choose that is there a
happy medium sure there is but if you're going to go to the extreme go
to the extreme of modesty, not immodesty trust me you're not going to
stand before God and God's going to say why were you so modest why did
you go to such an extreme with this purity stuff God's not going to say
to me on that day Mike why were you so strict I don't mean laying trips
on other people I don't mean putting you into some legalistic bondage
and let me tell you, you can cover yourself from head to toe in burlap
sacks and that won't save you and that won't make you right with God and
that won't bring you forgiveness of sins that's a gift by the grace and
mercy and goodness of God and we receive it as a gift as I was writing
my book on revolution that I wrote at the beginning of this year one of
the chapters is an uncompromising holiness that's the theme of the
chapter the standard of the revolution and I was sending some of the
chapters as I was writing them to dear friends here in the worship team
Benny and Hazel and I talked about dress in that and conduct and Benny
just sent me a note a principle that they've taught their family two
things about dress clothes the clothes that we wear should draw
attention to the face and the purpose of dress is what we're trying to
cover up not what we're trying to reveal I like that come on my brother
is it just that you ran out of money to get new shirts once you started
lifting weights is it just just in case somebody's car is stuck and they
need a push that you want to let them know that you're ready to help and
you've got, come on young lady you lost some weight do you have to show
everybody does it have to be the look at me look I can get into this
tight thing if you're conscious as you're dancing and celebrating before
the Lord and you're drawing attention to yourself and you're doing it in
such a way look at how I look look at what I'm showing off see how I
look in this new outfit see my legs see this, see that you are working
with the devil my friend you are a co-worker of hell you may be saved
but you're playing with fire and you may just get your heart's desire
some animal guy may just get you on the way home he may find in you just
what he wants but he may not want you to tell anybody about it either
let's rise higher let's be holy people let's be people of modesty and
godliness let me say it again never dress in such a way I'm talking
about your public dress never dress in such a way so as to draw sensual
attention to yourself never dress in such a way so as to be an object of
lust let me just tell you one more gruesome story and then I'm going to
move on another story that I never forgot 15 year old girl on Long
Island having problems in the home broken family mother, stepfather
constant battles, constant conflicts she was a good looking young lady
and god may have blessed you with good looks and god may have blessed
you with a good figure let me ask you something if god blessed you with
an ability to break into homes, I mean you're just real slick with
breaking into homes does that mean you ought to be a thief? perhaps if
god's really blessed you with a beautiful body why be in church, why not
be a prostitute make a lot of money I mean let's just wake up, let's
just use a little common sense, let's just be honest you say well,
you're stealing my joy if your joy is being an object of sensual lust
then get saved but don't go around parading as a believer I love to look
out at our student body men and women of all ages and look at a beauty
on their faces look at their enthusiasm as they're going after god and
just there's a beauty, there's something special I look at some young
couples I say what an awesome young couple look at that look at how they
glow don't degrade yourself friend young lady, 15 years old but she
looked very mature for her age finally couldn't take the conflicts in
the home decided she was going to leave home went with a friend they
started hitchhiking down south picked up by a trucker and he paid them
some money to perform a particular act with them and afterwards they
wept in shame they got out of that truck and they wept in shame, they
could not believe what they had done well she made it down to Texas and
wrote her family, everything's fine, I'm working as a waitress in a
restaurant what she didn't tell them was that she needed some money
because she was young and good looking mature body for her age and all
this, good personality well she ended up, not quite as a waitress but
she ended up working in a bar with pornographic movies in the background
and then would come in and pick out which lady they wanted, it was just
house of prostitution it had only been a few months earlier that she
wept with shame over something far less degrading but the heart gets
hard you say man I can watch people take their clothes off on TV, I mean
Steve Hill preaches about that what's he so fanatical about, that
doesn't bother me friend it doesn't bother you because your heart is
hard what's your problem man, you don't go to the beach with all these
bikini people walking around what's your problem, my problem is I love
Jesus, my problem is that that stuff is unclean and defiling and brings
lustful suggestive thoughts into your mind and if it doesn't bring them
into your mind it's not because you're so holy but because you're so
hard this may be a little extreme statement but friends this is life and
death and I'm doing my best to speak in such a way that whatever I'm
saying as radical and extreme as it is, is not using certain words and
terms that are going to send kids scurrying to ask what I'm talking
about but you know there are people that actually hang out in nudist
colonies and they're not turned on being around that is that because
they're really holy people is it because their standards are so high no
it's because they get used to it we've gotten so used to the smut we've
gotten so used to the junk we've gotten so used to the low standards
listen as bad as things have been on television radio, I got this report
last night just checking the news and saw it on the internet from 1989
to 1999 one decade there is now three times as much sexual content on
network television three times as much we get used to it we lose touch
with reality watch them shoot them up on television shoot them up on
video games go in the school and shoot them up what's the problem, what
did I do wrong this young lady was now in prostitution she became the
most popular girl there just 16 years old now became the most popular
girl in the place and then realized that the other girls were getting
jealous and decided she had to get out of there while she could but they
caught her the owner and his wife caught her when they pulled her naked
body out of the river when the police pulled her out they said it had
been the most terrifically tortured body they ever saw 16 years old
cigarette burns from head to toe broken jaw shot to death thrown in the
river she could have just seen the video of her life advanced a little
bit she could have just seen it watch them pull that body out heard her
screaming for mercy and she only could have seen her Aharit she would
have let her parents scream and yell at her she would have let her
stepfather say whatever he wanted she would have taken all the verbal
abuse she would have just sat there and smiled anything but going that
way friend when that end comes when that Aharit comes you can't reverse
it you can't go and turn it around when you stand before God and he says
depart from me you can't say but God now that I understand can I have
another chance you can't pull that Aharit back look look with me in
Proverbs 23 it's going to take a couple more minutes give you a word of
encouragement and call you to a decision a life decision Proverbs 23
verse 29 who has woe, who has sorrow who has strife who has complaints
who has needless bruises who has bloodshot eyes those who linger over
wine who go to sample bowls of mixed wine do not gaze at wine when it's
red when it sparkles in the cup when it goes down smoothly it's Aharit
bites like a snake and poisons like a viper you ever see the beer
commercials on television my dad who died 1977 my dad was a senior
lawyer in the New York Supreme Court of course knew laws very well when
I was a kid he said you know on these commercials on television it's
against the law to show anybody actually drinking I didn't realize that
most people never realize it that's why they got to make that cup look
so good that mug look so good that glass look so good here it is, you're
hot, you're sweaty you've been out there working hard you've been
playing hard oh it's been a long day and you come in and there it is
they pour that beer that gold and beer that white head just on top of it
oh it looks so good it just gets to the lips they never show you
drinking it not allowed to in the commercials it's glowing just what we
need I remember as a boy my friend and I decided we just had to have a
beer my dad used to have a card game at his house and some of his
friends would drink beer and he had it in the house my mom and dad went
out one night my friend and I decided we're going to have some fun we're
going to drink a beer we got those big pretzels those big hard pretzels
and it was winter time and there was snow on the ground but we wanted to
go out bike riding just so we could get like in that commercial all
sweaty and hot even though it was winter with snow on the ground my
parents had this tandem bicycle it was a two seater and we'd drive out
on this thing on a flat tire actually out there in the snow and we came
back home we were good and sweaty and all that and we took out those
glasses and we poured oh it looked just like it looked in the commercial
we poured that thing in took a pretzel get our mouths nice and dry and
it was absolutely horrid not what we expected at all how many of you
remember that first puff of a cigarette we still tried it another time
because we saw so many commercials we were convinced it must be better
again I was on a train one time going into New York City and I looked
and there was this champagne ad it was one of these perfect settings you
know an exotic island somewhere that's just the field you got looking at
and the perfect couple they were not born they were chiseled you
understand I mean perfect features perfect everything and they're
looking there they're sitting there and there's that glass of champagne
on the table and you know the light's hitting it in such a way that
there's that reflection in the eyes oh and there you are sir 674 pounds
with warts from head to toe and no teeth if you can just get that
champagne you just kind of enter into that and she'll just be sitting
there glowing looking at you oh do not gaze at wine when it is red when
it sparkles in the cup when it goes down smooth it'll calm your nerves
so much pressure so much on you come on nobody can handle just that one
little drink it'll calm your nerves and it does I don't feel so bad the
world's a better place I'm going to make it life is alright I'm feeling
a little happy I just need another cup I need another bottle I need
another drink man that white powder just snorted just heat it up with
that little spoon there and shoot it in your veins you'll feel like a
king I have a friend in ministry for a while his ministry funds went
down he couldn't figure out why monies didn't seem to be coming in like
normal turned out there was a man on his staff that had been stealing
all cash that had come in in different forms he'd been an alcoholic
before he was saved and as a believer was walking with God for years
until one day he had one drink I've heard this story too many times I do
not believe you can make a case from the Bible that teaches clearly it's
just my own belief and understanding having studied the scriptures
carefully I do not believe you can make an airtight case from studying
scripture that says that believers under no circumstances should drink
alcoholic beverages wine, beer, anything else I believe you can make a
very strong case based on principle based on example that we ought never
to touch it, have it in our home period, in public or in private even if
you could justify it on any other level, somehow, somewhere, even if you
felt you could say well there's no drunkenness, there's no abuse there's
no this, there's no that, you open up the door for someone else's
destruction you get some other weak person, you say well I don't do it
in public, if they ask you about your private habit you should be able
to say I don't touch it that's why every night when Steve urges people
if you got booze at home pour it out, we say amen, pour it out get rid
of it you remember the old ads for Marlboro country Marlboro country
there's this big strong cowboy on a horse, he was on a horse, that was a
steed there's beautiful green pasture as far as the eye can see you just
take that cigarette, I was never a cigarette smoker most of my friends
were, you just take that cigarette just take a drag suck deep get that
poison in your lungs you're in Marlboro country you're now big strong
cowboy there you are living in your roach infested apartment in the
inner city but no now you're in Marlboro country just have that drink
and just enter paradise with the partner of your dreams you know where
Marlboro country is? it's the lung cancer ward of the hospital you know
what happened to the Marlboro man, I heard it from two relatives and
then I found out it was just public knowledge, he died of lung cancer
was it worth it? smoking cigarettes was it worth it? there's the dad
holding the kid's hand as his wife is withering away in a hospital dying
of lung cancer because of cigarette smoke never see him again in this
world she could have only seen her aherit seeing the final consequences
of her actions she never would have touched it is it worth it? you go
walk the streets of New York City and other major cities and you'll find
somebody laying on the ground in their own urine vomit all over them
bloody nose they'll have some bubble of glue there that they're trying
to huff to get high from two years before they were the CEO of some
company happily married with a family little cocaine little drink got
into their lives and destroyed them and took everything if they could
have seen their aherit seen them laying there seen the hopelessness of
it seen the shame I don't care what situation presented itself they
never would have touched it your eyes will see strange sights, your mind
imagine confusing things, you'll be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying on top of the ring they hit me you'll say but I'm not hurt, they
beat me but I don't feel it when will I wake up so I can find another
drink God help us you know there's something encouraging and I'm going
to close here and give you an opportunity to respond some of you right
here tonight it's going to make the difference between life and death
you're going to turn away from playing games you're going to turn away
from sin, you're going to turn away from the devil and turn to God,
that's what repentance is and the blood of Jesus is going to wash you
clean and give you a brand new start oh there's six months from now, a
year from now, five years ten years, temptation is going to raise its
head and the aherit is going to come back, you're going to remember and
as your hands ready to touch that thing you're going to say it's not
worth it every BRSM student and grad here more than anybody in this
place, my heart is knit with you I plead with you, I beg of you remember
the aherit one of the most painful things I've ever had to do is look
students in the eye as they've come sometimes they haven't even said a
word, they blew it had to be put out of school, we do everything we can
to see them restored and go on with God and come back and pursue the
call but to have to look at them and there they are crying and shaking
I've had them sit in my office they can't talk because they're crying so
full of shame why? why? I preach this to myself friends but look at what
it says in Proverbs 23 17 do not let your heart envy sinners always be
in the fear of the Lord NIV says always be zealous, it's just in Hebrew
always be in the fear of the Lord oh yeah it looks like they're having a
great time, the party life oh man you're so restricted, you're so bound
up in church there's rules, regulations old people telling you how to
live stealing your funds you need the party life, you need to step out
just do your own thing no, no, no don't let your heart envy sinners
there is an aherit for you your hope will not be cut off look at the
24th chapter verse 19 do not fret because of evil men or be envious of
the wicked for the evil man has no aherit the lamp of the wicked will be
snuffed out you know what that's saying? that the fate of the ungodly
will be cut off destroyed from the presence of God darkness who are
they? what about all their accomplishments? gone they were so big in
this world gone all they worked for, gone but the righteous have a
future hope the righteous have an aherit the righteous have something to
look forward to and I love to think about I love to think of seeing
people that I haven't seen in the rest of this life believers, godly
people and here we are in God's eternal kingdom here we are in the
heavenly kingdom and I look and there is somebody glowing bright there
is somebody I can hardly recognize them they are shining so brightly the
joy, the peace the pleasure of God all over them is that you? that's
you? look at you what an aherit what a final and forever and ever and
ever no joy forever and ever joy without sorrow no pain, no suffering no
grief, no temptation no problems, no tears but endless fulfillment
endless adventure in God endless joyful pleasure in his presence forever
and ever and ever and ever and ever without end that's aherit a weeping
and gnashing of teeth cut off friend the lord loves us so much he warns
us take heed to this instruction take heed to this counsel so that you
can be wise in your aherit everybody please stand everybody stand, those
with chairs please move them to the left and right otherwise nobody stir
in this place please nobody else stir except prayer team that needs to I
ask you I ask you tonight is your life right with God I ask you tonight
are there secret sins are there tendencies are there hidden things which
if allowed to reach their final culmination would destroy you I ask you
are there areas of compromise here's a very simple question you know the
way you're living you're getting closer to the lord you're getting
farther from God you're becoming more sensitive you're becoming harder
you're walking in the fear of God you're playing games if you continued
on the path that you're on how would you end up if you continued on the
path that you're on what would your aherit look like you may be here as
a minister you may be here as a visiting student you may be in our
school you may be an usher in the revival you may be a member of this
church you may be a visiting minister whoever you are God's searching
every heart God's looking at every life and this altar is going to be a
place of mercy and forgiveness of grace as Charles Finney said to a
weeping crowd in a city that was nicknamed Sodom as they were weeping
and wailing and screaming he said you're not in hell yet you can still
pray the final chapter hasn't been written your aherit has not been
sealed yet there's still time I don't care if you've wasted years you
can get right with God and the end can be better than the beginning what
will your aherit be don't hide in the back of the balcony don't hide in
your home listening on radio or internet if God's dealing with you right
now his convicting spirit is fishing you out if there's something in
your life if your life as a whole is not right with God if there's
secret sin if there are things hidden and covered there are things out
in the open whoever you are I remind you Jesus paid the price for every
sin you've ever committed his blood cleanses us his blood satisfies God
when we put our trust in him and say save me from my sins he'll give you
a brand new start whether it's a secret lust whether it's a relationship
whether it's the whole pattern of your life whether you've never known
Jesus when I open these altars I want you to come if God's speaking to
you through this message I don't want you to worry about what anybody
else is thinking what it looks like God sent me to bring this message to
save you from destruction to save you from shame to save you from
destroying your ministry to save you from hell father bring your people
home save those who don't know you turn up the heat of conviction until
every last unclean thing is burned out of our midst in Jesus name amen
if God's speaking to you come right now don't wait for anybody else step
out and come step out I don't care who you are I don't care how it looks
step out if God's speaking to you come on step down from the balcony
make your way around people humble yourself in the sight of the Lord
Jesus God knows don't hide it if you harden your heart today you may not
have a chance tomorrow God's dealing with you come on step out humble
yourself humble yourself in the sight of the Lord come on friends Jesus
wash your screen Jesus show us the authority cast off the fear of man
and step out get right with God tonight Jesus Jesus are your hands clean
can you look me in the eyes and say my hands are clean my heart is pure
if not you need to be up here friend Jesus there's several dozen people
in their seats that have been guilty of viewing pornography in the last
weeks and you're standing in your seats humble yourself and get right
friend humble yourself and get right there's some guilty of every
attitude of the heart we've been speaking about and you're sitting there
humble yourself get right you say does that mean I have to leave the sin
behind absolutely Jesus God's dealing with you come on Jesus Jesus are
your hands clean can you look me in the eyes and say my hands are clean
my heart is pure Jesus young people it's time to get concentrated the
overflow get right with God get right with God Jesus just going to take
one more minute this is not a competition to see how many people we can
get to the altar when I preach this message at a men's conference that
was sponsored in this church here we got a letter subsequently from one
man who'd been living in adultery for years and it's brought tremendous
upheaval in his life to have to confess to his wife and the leadership
in his church but for the first time in years for the first time in
years he's free and he's on the path of restoration now listen some of
you here have been covering your sins covering your tracks you know just
how to do it but God's saying I see you and destruction is near I see
you you buried it, covered it, buried it, covered it buried it, covered
it, God sees it and if you don't deal with it tonight it's going to come
back and bite you I'm saying this to help you I'm saying this to help
you if God is dealing with you in the balcony, in the overflow in the
front row if God is dealing with you humble yourself and step out and
get right forget what the people on the bus think that came with you,
forget about that if you say but how am I ever going to tell my spouse,
you're going to have to because that which is done in secret is going to
be shouted from the rooftops according to scriptures, unless we get
right with God it's cleansed anyone else that needs to respond anyone
else the seeds that you're sowing now are going to lead to destruction,
the doors you're opening now are going to lead to destruction, the sin
you keep trying to bury is going to come back and bite you if that's you
friend and I give this last appeal, Lendl will sing this through one
more time, come now and get right come now and get right come now and
get right while the door of mercy and grace is open sing it through one
more time come breathe on me now oh life giving wind come breathe on me
now redeemer you're looking for hearts broken and contrite love with
faith restore me you're prepared restore me to save your friend restore
me restore us to find your joy restore me to save your friend restore me
restore us Jesus Father I just pray right now for those that haven't
responded I pray Father that that deep feeling of uneasiness and that
conviction would only increase every moment that they resist that you
bring them to the breaking point, Lord if they leave here still
resisting, turn up the heat of conviction, make them miserable in their
sin Lord I pray something I don't know that I've prayed before Lord I
pray this for me I pray this for everyone here who says Lord I want you
Lord I pray that you would embarrass us and expose us before you'd allow
us to destroy our lives for good Lord I'd rather be ashamed in this
world than in the world to come Father bring secret things to light Lord
not those things which are confessed and turned from and under the blood
but those things Lord which are only going to come to destroy us Lord
bring them to light in your mercy before it's too late Lord that man
that's in our midst that is fully planning on going back to his drug
life Father Lord bring it to the surface so he can get help before he
kills himself before he takes that one step and doesn't wake up to think
about it again Lord for that couple that stands here in our midst and
hears this message contemplating divorce Lord open their eyes to truth
to reality to the pain of it to the consequences of it to the blemish of
it to the hurt of it and save them and spare them Father and those that
just feel so ashamed and too ashamed to even come Lord show them that
you're a forgiving God show them Lord the only way out is to come clean
those that have committed crimes and are terrified to make it known for
the consequences Lord show them it's the only way to get out of the
prison of their soul Jesus just feel to say this one last time if
there's anybody that God's dealing with even as I pray just step out
right now because we're going to pray Jesus Jesus Jesus I'm not going to
have you turn to the person next to you I'm not going to have you prompt
anybody I just don't feel to do that there's one last person we're still
waiting for you Jesus Jesus there's some lives still in the balance I
hate to see you leave without the surrender everybody at this altar just
ask God to wash you clean and change just ask God for a fresh new start
ask God to put a hatred of sin in your life to show you how ugly it is
to show you that your worth and your identity is something a whole lot
different than what you've been living for Jesus Jesus Jesus I want you
to pray with me at this altar here's what I want you to do I want you to
get with these people as Lendl continues to lead us in quiet worship
because we're going to go right from that back into just pursuing the
Lord in his heart I know this is pretty heavy and pretty intense but
eternity will show the fruit prayer team if you make your way out we're
going to pray with these folks and then you're going to squeeze your way
in right where they are you're going to get with them if you can kneel
next to them put your arm around those that want to stand up you can
stand with them but let's seal this thing at the altar and someone's
going to pray with everybody right here at the altar nobody's going to
leave untouched here and if you've got to just confess the most terrific
thing get it out we've heard it all up here everybody at this altar pray
with me now say this out loud Heavenly Father I confess my sin to you I
don't hide it I don't make excuses for it I've sinned I've broken your
laws I've hurt myself this night I ask you to wash me clean with the
blood of Jesus Lord remove the guilt remove the stain remove everything
that stands between us this night I turn from my sins I renounce
everything unclean I say no to compromise and I ask you to give me a
brand new slate through the blood of Jesus I'm yours Jesus spirit soul
and body I hold nothing back from you my life is yours use me for your
glory give me a blessed acharit may my final end be one of joy and
victory this night I renounce Satan devil you lose I am not yours I
belong to Jesus Jesus is my Lord Jesus is my master Jesus is my king
Jesus is my friend he is with me and he will carry me through prayer
workers just get with these folks Jesus Jesus bless you Lord Lendl just
lead us those that want to stay on your knees for a bit go ahead and do
that those that feel you need to just come up to the altar and make a
fresh consecration of your life you go ahead and do that everyone else
at this altar just talk with a prayer worker first just say hey I came
up for this I came up for this reason I want to seal this I want to deal
with it don't leave the altar until somebody's just talked to you one on
one they'll come to right where you are stay on your knees stand up
whatever you want to do it's fine let's all just begin to worship the
Lord and consecrate our hearts and lives to him afresh Jesus my simple
prayer if you're a visiting pastor and someone from your congregation is
up here

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/Z_SxxnqDtwQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/michael-l-brown/the-end-acharyth-video/
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