In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the presence of filth in the world and the need for believers to stand as a testimony to the existence of God. The preacher calls for believers to turn away from sin and seek God, so that He can show His strength on their behalf. The sermon highlights the declaration of God's existence in nature and emphasizes that every person will one day stand before God without excuse. The preacher shares a testimony of a man in Iran who heard the gospel and cried out to know if it was true, demonstrating the longing of people to understand who God is.

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If you'll turn there in the Old Testament, I want to talk about living in fear where no fear is. Living in fear. How many are living in fear tonight? You don't have to raise your hand as Pastor Neal said. We don't want to deal with that. But you don't have to live in fear if you're a Christian because there's no fear where you are. Hallelujah. Father, thank you, God, with all my heart for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for the strength that you give every time your word is opened and every time the hearts of your people embrace truth. Oh, Jesus, anoint me tonight to be able to bring this with clarity and with authority. And anoint every heart to hear it. God, let your kingdom advance tonight with great power in the hearts of the hearers. And I thank you, Lord, that as in the day of Jonathan and his armor bearer, all they took is a half an acre. And it brought a terrible shaking into the camp of the enemy. I pray, God, that every person who's living in fear would get up and advance in the strength of God. Father, thank you for this with all my heart tonight. We give you praise and glory for your anointing in Jesus name. Psalm 53, a Psalm of David. And I'm going to share with you as we go on. I believe that David is looking back in retrospect on something that we're going to talk a little bit about this evening. The fool has said in his heart, there is no God corrupt. Are they and have done abominable iniquity. There's none that do it good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand that did seek God. Every one of them has gone back. They're all together become filthy. There's none that do it good. No, not one. Have the workers of iniquity, no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread and they've not called upon God. There were they in great fear where no fear was for God that scattered the bones of him that encampment against the. Thus put them to shame because God has despised them. In verse six, David cries out or that the salvation of Israel will come out of Zion. When God bring it back, the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. When we read this scripture and I've heard it quoted so many times, verse one, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. But folks, that's an incredible statement. And it's a little more complex than it appears on the surface. When we think of the fool, it says in his heart, there is no God. We think initially of the person who just makes this kind of a declaration. The foolish man who walks around in our society or the woman today who just makes this declaration. There is no God. This is the person who argues with the reasoning that God gave him that the God who gave him the power to reason doesn't exist. It's an amazing thing when you begin to think about it. Think about having a child for a moment. And one day that child walks into your house and says, I don't believe you exist. Whether or not you used to be my father or my mother, I believe you're just a figment of my imagination and you no longer exist. You'd look at that child and say, am I not the one that did I not give you life? How do you get clothing on your back? Where did this roof come from that's over your head? And the breath that you breathe every day and the beat every beat that comes into your heart. Do you think that just happened naturally? Did you just all of a sudden exist? Was there not somebody involved in the creation of who you are? And if that child, of course, continued to deny that you existed, imagine going into the marketplace and meeting your friends. And you say, well, this is my son, the fool. This is my daughter, the fool who believes that I don't exist. And how embarrassing, for lack of a better word, it must be to God when he looks down at those he's created and they walk around the earth, the earth that is in the universe that moves like clockwork, that is held by the word of his power, where there's a testimony every day with the rising of the sun and the setting of the sun in the evening that God is, in fact, alive. And yet in the midst of all of this, there are men and women born who've been allowed to breathe the breath of life by God almighty himself, who run around in our world saying there is no God, as foolish as that may be. Romans chapter one, verses 20 to 22, talks about the fact that there is a declaration in nature itself that God exists. And therefore, every man, every woman, every child that will ever be born will one day stand before God without excuse. Every nation, every culture, every language have an opportunity by the very heavens themselves, by the very majesty and the clockwork of the universe to know that there is a God. And God allowed it that way so that every person ever created in the image of God would be able to cry out and say, Lord, who are you? I want to know who you are. I heard a testimony recently of a man that we once employed in this church to preach the gospel, to re-preach the gospel that was preached here in Iran. I heard a testimony of a person who heard the voice of this man in Iran and went out into the yard and cried out and said, Is this true? Is there a God? And if so, who are you? Will you declare yourself to me? And this person makes the claim that they saw the virtual image of Jesus Christ in the heavens appear to them. I believe with all of my heart, I've heard testimonies over the years of people in prisons in China who began to cry out and say, If there is a God, would you show me who you are? I've heard testimonies of Christ manifesting himself in prison cells in various ways and giving the revelation of who he is right into a person's heart, just like he did to the apostle Paul in the book of Acts. Anyone who cries out, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord, the scripture says, will be saved. Whoever calls out and all of heaven and all of the universe makes a very plain and open declaration of who God almighty is in Christ Jesus. David said in Psalm 8 verses 3 and 4, When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him? David says, God, I look into the vastness of your universe. I see the magnificence of your power and creation. I know what you are capable of doing. I see this incredible majesty. God, why is it that you have such a concern about me? That's what David was saying. What is man that you even think about him? For David, of course, knew what's, as we should know today, what's in the hearts of men who have rebelled against their own creator. What is it, God, that causes you to look upon us? Have you considered tonight how special you are to God? Have you considered that the universe only continues to operate in its present order because God is waiting for you to come home to him? He could quite easily fold the whole thing up tonight and start over and recreate it. Why doesn't he do it? It's because he's mindful of you. It's because he gave you the breath of life. It's because he loved you with an everlasting love. It's because you were created from his heart. You were created for fellowship with him for all of eternity. It pains the heart of God, the thought of losing you for eternity. The ultimate tragedy of the fool is finally one day realizing this unmeasurable depth of God's love. Finally one day standing before the throne of God. One day having your eyes opened. If you're here tonight and in your heart you've not bent your knee to the lordship of Jesus Christ. If there's a stubbornness in you that in a sense says there's no God that has the right to govern my life. There's no God to whom I should bend my knee. There's no God that has the right to call himself lord of my life. And to one day stand before the throne of God and in a moment of time you will have an understanding of a love that has come from the one who created you that is so unmeasurable. It's so beyond anything you can think or even fathom. And for a moment you will realize it only to be put out of the presence of that love for eternity. We have only a dim concept of what hell is really like. The bible declares it to be a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Declares it to be a place of burning and torment. And I often wonder, God what is the very source of that torment? What's the very source of that weeping and gnashing? And I do believe in measure. It's having stood before God and having finally understood the mercy, the incredible compassion, the incredible depth of God's love. What you could have partaken of for all of eternity. How you could have walked in this incredible and unmeasurable peace forever. And been part of this great cosmos that is always ongoing by the creative power of the word of God. And yet because of foolishness in the human heart you pushed his love and his life away from you. Not just for time but for all of eternity. How foolish. The fool says in his heart there is no God. The fool creates his own standard of right and wrong. The fool says there is no God. I think also of the man or woman who fashions in his thinking a God who will not hold him accountable for willful and wrong actions. Which he commits which are in violation of truth. There's something in the heart of man. Fallen man always wants to create his own God. You ever notice that? Aaron is only a few days away from Moses in a sense who is bringing the revelation of who God is to that particular generation. Just a few days away and he's collecting earrings and throwing them into a fire and fashioning a cow. How stupid can people be? Fashioning a cow and saying these be thy gods who brought thee out of Egypt. Oh Israel. Let's hold a party now to our cow. And let's worship this thing. There's something in the heart of man who wants to form his own God. It's the kind of a God he would like to serve. And have you noticed today that churches have become like shopping malls for God shoppers? Who pass through churches and say well no that's not quite the Christ that I'd like to serve. And so they move on and say what kind of a Christ do you have? What have you fashioned? Oh that's nice. I like this Christ. Yeah he doesn't ask you to go to the mission field. He tolerates your sin. He doesn't request or require separation from the world or repentance for wrong. Or restitution for past things that can be restored. No this Christ just accepts everybody. I like this Christ. A shopping mall. Where errands of our present generation have taken gold and they've fashioned their own God. It's like a marketplace now where whoever can create the most palatable Christ is getting the crowds. God shoppers. Psalm 50 verse 15. Here's what the Lord says to the God shoppers. Unto the wicked verse 15. He says God says what have you to do to declare my statutes or you should take my covenant in your mouth. Seeing you hate instruction and cast my words behind you. When you saw a thief you consented with him. And you've been a partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth evil and thy tongue framest deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. And slanderest thine own mother's son. These things have you done and I kept silence. Now here's the issue. This is a type of a person who's almost in all wickedness. And yet in verse 21 he says these things you did I kept silence. And you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself. And that's the ultimate dilemma of those who fashion their own God. You thought I was just like you. Folks we're living in that kind of a generation right now. People are going to churches all over America today thinking that God is just like they are. Numbers chapter 12 and verse 1. Tells us that now Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses. Now this is an interesting thing. Because in the chapter just before this Aaron had been there. When people had murmured in the wilderness and the judgment of God came on them. And Aaron was aware of this. I want to suggest to you that Aaron had this propensity in his heart still to fashion his own God. And he's fashioning a God who would not judge as wrong. How does a man with this kind of knowledge come back to this thing again? He's never dealt with this issue. He's never really embraced the God of Moses. The God who judges wrong. The God who has a standard that will not be violated without consequence. He's never embraced this. He's still in his mind fashioning his own God. How else does he get to the place where he speaks against this man of God without any pangs of conscience. Without any sense of doing wrong. He's still fashioning his own God. Not believing that God would judge him. But God set these things in order. He says in verse 22 of Psalm 50. Now consider this you that forget God. Lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you. Whosoever offers praise glorifies me. And to him that orders his conversation of right will I show the salvation of God. God says I have a standard of right and I have a standard of wrong. And those who are mine come to truth. They embrace truth. And they do not try to mold God to their image of themselves. But rather they let the Holy Spirit mold them into the image of God. Those who are in Christ embrace the change that God brings into a life. Thieves start to work and make an honest living. Liars begin to speak truth. People who are unmerciful find the mercy of God not only extended to them. But extended through them to others around them. Selfish people become compassionate and begin to give of themselves. And the resources God has given to them to the needs of others. There is a change. There is a transformation. They are changed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the very image of the Christ who lives within them. This is the irrefutable evidence that truly you have been born again by the Spirit of God. Folks if there is no change. If you are trying to make God like you are. You are living in a deception. It is a fool's paradise. There is no true salvation there. If you are truly a Christian you are changing into the image of Christ. By the power of the Holy Spirit. And you are deeply grateful for it. You yearn and long for more. You can hardly wait for the next day. Because you know that God is about to make deeper change in your heart. Hallelujah. The Lord says I will set these things in order. And remember in Numbers chapter 12 that Miriam became leprous. There was a disease as it is. That came upon her because of the things that she and Aaron had done. And God set these things in order. Folks you are wise to allow the Holy Spirit especially in our generation we are living in now. To set your thinking in order about who Jesus Christ is. What we are called to be in Him. Don't be afraid of living for Him. There is no greater life that you could live than to be yielded to the purposes of God. And to let the Holy Spirit begin to change you. Hallelujah. I would hate to be in church living a religious existence. What a fool's way of worshiping God. To not let the Holy Spirit be changing you. Every day from image to image and glory to glory. Back again in Psalm 50 verse 2. We are talking about the, or Psalm 53 rather it says. The fool says in his heart that there is no God. Verse 2 says God looked down from heaven upon the children of man. To see if there were any that did understand and did seek God. The scripture tells us elsewhere that the eyes of the Lord roamed to and fro throughout the earth. To show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are right towards Him. I believe tonight the Lord is looking even in this sanctuary. Down from heaven looking to the children of man to see are there any here who understand? Are there any true seekers of God? If you have a true heart tonight you will be astounded at the power of God that is available to you. The explosion of knowledge that will come into your mind. The strength that God will give you. The power that will become yours over all of your enemies. You will find that there is no prison door that can hold you. There is no wound of the past that can continue to bruise you. There is no behavior that can continue to dominate you. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. God says, I look down from heaven. Who is willing to walk with Me? Who is willing to be conformed to My image? Who is willing to come into My presence? Who is willing to open their heart to My Word? Who is willing to walk with Me in this evil generation? Folks, many, many people in the church of Jesus Christ have played many, many games for many, many years. But we are living now in a generation where those whose hearts are not right before God are not going to make it through the coming days. We are inundated by evil. There is a huge turning away now from the things of God. The airwaves are filled with filth all around us. God says, I am looking. I am looking to the sons of men. Who understands who I am? Who is willing to turn from iniquity? And willing to turn to Me? And let me show myself strong on your behalf. Oh God, have a testimony in this generation is the cry of my heart. Have a testimony in New York City. Have a testimony in the Bronx and Brooklyn and Staten Island and Manhattan. All over the city. God, have a testimony in this last hour of time. When all people around in this city are foolish enough to say there is no God. Let there be a body of believers in this hour that proves them wrong. Let there be irrefutable evidence in you and in me that there is a God. He has to be reckoned with. He is supernatural. He does triumph over our enemies. In the scripture, the scripture says clearly that the age of the church is to be a compelling testimony in our generation that Christ is alive. My life is to be a compelling testimony. Not an argument. A compelling testimony. There is a difference. When people look and say only God could bring that man or woman through this situation. Only God could change him. Only God could have changed her. Only God could keep them in the midst of this crisis that they are going through. Only God could do this. My life is to be a compelling testimony. That the fool around me who says there is no God is confronted with the reality of the fact that Jesus Christ is alive from the dead. And does sit at the right hand of all power. The fool says there is no God. But God looked down to see if there is any that did understand and did seek him. Verse 5, David says, There they were in great fear where no fear was. For God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against thee. And thou hast put them to shame because God has despised them. Now think of it for a moment. This is King David. I believe he is looking backwards in retrospect. He remembers the day that he walked into the camp. Sent by his father with a bit of cheese and some bread on a donkey coming in to bid his brothers good. He remembers the day when the Philistines, the enemies of Israel were encamped against Israel on the other side of a great valley. He remembers the day when a giant called Goliath was standing up and coming into the valley every day and challenging the armies of Israel. Saying give me a man to fight with me. And if there is a man among you that can defeat me then we will be your servants forever. But if not, if you fight and I win then you will be our servants forever. He remembers the day when Saul and all the armies of Israel were standing around trembling. All around unable to fight. David says the fool says in his heart there is no God. When we see the power of our enemies and we magnify the power of our enemies above the power of our God we are in a foolish position. God is more powerful than any enemy that will ever come against you. He is more powerful than any struggle or any fear that you will ever have to face. All the devil has is a loud voice and a roar across the valley. That is all he has got. Christ has triumphed over him. You are free in the strength of Christ. There is no sin that has power or dominion over your life any longer. There is no cultural heritage. There is no lack of education. There is no words that somebody has spoken over your life as you were growing up that can stop the kingdom of God from progressing in your life. That can stop the greatness of God from using you. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. You are created to glorify him on the face of the earth. You are created to be a living testimony of the reality that Jesus triumphed over the powers of hell and death. But when you magnify your enemies above the greatness of your God you are saying in your heart there is no God. That is exactly what Saul was doing. That is exactly what the men of Israel were doing. They were looking down at this loudmouthed giant on the other side of the valley and in their hearts they were saying there is no God. Now David said there they were in great fear where no fear was. Here is a young boy who comes into the camp and the scripture says when the giant made this bold proclamation against the things of God and the armies of God, it says they all trembled. Saul trembled and the warriors trembled. There is a trembling. Now it is supposed to be the devil's camp that trembles. But here are the people of God trembling. And we are living in a generation where giants are on every side. Filth and perversion are all around us now. Confusion seems to reign even in the camp of God's people in many cases. All these giants claiming that they have the power as it is to eradicate the testimony of Jesus Christ. David says there they were in great fear where no fear was. Here is a young boy that comes in and he has walked with God and knows God. He walks into the middle of the camp and says what is everybody afraid for? This loudmouthed giant is attacking the integrity of God. Is there not a cause? Now people get very annoyed with him because he is exposing their bankrupt spirituality as they see themselves. David knew something. He said in verse 5, God has already scattered the bones of him that encamps against thee and he has put them to shame. In 1 Samuel chapter 17, if you will go back there with me just for a moment. 1 Samuel chapter 17, now David knew this. The scripture says in verse 45, and this is exactly the man who knows or the woman who knows there is a God. It says he came to the Philistine and he said you come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel whom thou hast defied. Remember he said in Psalm 53 where we started, he has already scattered the bones of those that are encamped against you. It is already done. Do you know tonight that your enemies are already defeated? Do you know that those things that are roaring at you have already been triumphed over? They are simply an illusion. Standing and trying to make you believe that they have authority, they have power, that you can't defeat them, you can't beat them. When their bones have already been scattered round about in the valley, Jesus Christ arose from the dead. And when he breathed his last breath he said it is finished. The reign of hell and terror is over. The power of evil is triumphed over. And David said this day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand, verse 46, and I will smite you and I will take your head from you. And I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the air and the wild beasts of the earth. And all the earth may know there is a God in Israel. David says the fool says in his heart there is no God. But that day David knew there was a God. David knew the Philistine army was already defeated. Before he went into the battle he saw Goliath dead. He saw his head taken off his body. He saw the host of the armies of the Philistines scattered about and vultures literally eating from them. He saw it before he even went into the battle. That's why David said the fool says in his heart there is no God. I want to ask you a question tonight. What do you say about God? What is he able to do for you? You have a choice to make tonight. I have a choice to make tonight. You can sit on the hillside and listen to the voice of your condemner for the rest of your life and amount to nothing in God. You can go to Bible studies. You can study about God. You can polish your armor until you can see the reflection of your face in it. But there is a point where you've got to believe that God is able to give you the victory. There is a point, folks, when you've got to get up and you've got to go into the valley. If you have no more than just one promise from the Word of God, you've got to go into the valley and face your enemies. And say you're not defying me. You are defying the God who created this universe and bought me with his own blood. He has interwoven the very honor of his name in keeping me and sustaining me and using my life for his glory. You're not defying me. You're defying the God who bought me with his blood 2,000 years ago. Hallelujah. There's a point where you have to stand up and say there is a God. And he's bigger than everything that's come against me. He's bigger than my struggle. He's bigger than my fears. He's bigger than my past. He's bigger than my concept of myself and my own future. He's bigger than all of this. He's bigger than my frailties. He's bigger than my weaknesses. He's bigger. He made my mouth. He made my eyes. He's able to create and recreate me according to his Word. I believe him with all my heart that he will use me to honor and to glorify his name. David said in verse 47, The battle is the Lord's, folks. I believe with all my heart that's one of the reasons why God has called me to preach his gospel. I was the bound of the bound. I was the weakest of the weak. I was the hopeless of the hopeless. But Jesus Christ came into my heart, and I believed him and stood up against the powers of darkness. I'd rather die believing God than live in unbelief. Hallelujah. There's a point. I remember when I was a young believer. The Lord began to speak to me that he wanted to use my life for his glory. Now, you're looking at a man that if I was in a room of 12 people and somebody singled me out, I would run out of the room. And if I didn't run out of the room, I would panic. And I ran the danger of passing out. It had happened to me a couple of times. But I read in the scriptures where it says, God's not given us a spirit of fear, but a power and love and a sound mind. You say, well, where did you start? Did you just all of a sudden pop into a pulpit somewhere and start preaching to people? No, do you know where it started? I stopped running out of the room. The Lord told me, stop running out of the room. And that's where it started. I'd been in a room of 12 people. And I knew in the classroom, especially when I went to school, and I knew that eventually the teacher's attention might focus on me. And the Lord said, hold your ground. You remember Jonathan and his armor bearer? They only took it half an acre. It only seemed like a small insignificant victory. But when that half an acre was taken, folks, it sent a shudder right through the ranks of hell. The Bible says an earthquake actually happened and a trembling went through the whole host. Because finally, somebody, again, was believing God. They didn't look at their victory as insignificant. It was an incredible victory for me, folks, to stay in the room. But I stayed in the room. And I would quote that scripture, God has not given me a spirit of fear, but a power and love and a sound mind. Therefore, Paul said, be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. And I remember sitting there and I'd quote that scripture in my heart. It was the only stone I had against this giant of fear. But I stood my ground. It was a small victory. But it was a much greater victory than I'd ever anticipated. And then from holding my ground in the room, then the invitations began to come to speak to little groups of people. Ten here, eight here, half a dozen over here. Folks, I would be in the bathroom before speaking to these small groups. And I'd be throwing up. I'd be so sick. I'd be so nervous. But I'd be quoting that scripture. God has not given me a spirit of fear, but a power. Not only am I not running out of the room, now I'm running into the room. And I'm running into it in the strength of my God. And I began to speak to these little groups of people. And, folks, I would walk in and I'd be sick in my heart. But I said, God, I am not backing away from this battle. And I would start to speak, and the anointing would come every time. People's lives would be challenged. I'd be dumbfounded walking out. You see, the battle is not ours. The battle is the Lord's. God says, I'll fill your mouth if you'll just open it. I put a river of living water in you. If you'll just open your mouth, I'll speak through you. And lives will be transformed. It's been an incredible journey, folks. So I'm not standing in this pulpit tonight bringing you something that's just theory out of a book. I've walked this. I've lived this. I know this. This is an hour where God is calling for the Davids again of this generation, the young, the weak, the insignificant, the nobodies, who just finally said, I'm not living here anymore. I'm not sitting here anymore. I'm not encamping among the trembling. I'm going to get up and I'm going to fight this fight of faith for the honor and glory of God. I'm not going to be found among the fools of this generation who say there is no God. I believe there is a God. I believe He can change us. I believe He can use us. I believe He can vanquish the enemies of hell. I believe He can open every prison door. I believe that nations have to give up all of those that are captivated by the powers of evil. I believe He can bring peace and barundi between Tutsis and Hutu tribes. I believe it. It's time to stand up. It's time to get rid of this shopping God, shopping mall for God mentality, and stand up and say there is a God. I know His name. I know what He's done for me. And I'm not listening to these voices anymore. Hallelujah. David finishes Psalm 63 with a cry. Oh, he says that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion. David says, oh, that I could see it again. Oh, that Israel could lay hold of this. I've seen it. I've walked in it. I've experienced it. I've known it. I had the sword in my hand. I took this giant's head off. What a victory was won that day. I saw in my spirit the bones of my enemies scattered on the earth before the battle even began. I saw the defeat of my enemies. Oh, that Israel could lay hold of this again. Oh, that there could be this kind of faith that rise in the hearts of God's people. And then he finishes and he says when God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. David saw it again, but this time he didn't see it for the Philistines. He saw Israel rising again. He saw the people of God standing up perhaps time and again through the course of history. Someone here. Someone there. Someone here. Someone there. Stood up and said there is a God. There is a God. There is a God. And I'm not living in fear where no fear is. I'm going to stand up. I'm going to be counted for Him. I'm going to face my deepest fears. And God is going to be honored through my life. Now the choice is yours. You can sit here tonight and be a fool. It's your choice. And say there is no God. Oh, it's great that he did that for Pastor Carter, but he'll never do it for me. Oh, my enemies are too big. Oh, you can stand up. New York needs people who are going to stand up now. In the business world. In the entertainment world. And Wall Street. In every borough. In every company. In every neighborhood. In every apartment building. In every bodega. God needs people who are going to stand up. I want to give an altar call tonight. I want to give an altar call for people who are facing a fear that is crippling you. That's what the Holy Spirit has put on my heart tonight. You're afraid that God is going to ask you to do this one thing that you are so afraid to do. But you see, what you fail to realize is that's where you will find the strength of God. God will help you. And the Scripture says that right early. God will help you. And if you can see it tonight, the bones of your enemies are already scattered on the earth. The getting up and letting God be God in your life begins tonight. I believe that this is going to be the beginning of a brand new journey for many. Say, Lord, I'm yours. Use me now. Use my life for your glory. You'll begin to experience the supernatural life of Jesus Christ. He'll give you compassion, give you words. He'll begin to use you. Not everybody's going to preach to thousands, but you will have the compassion to speak to one or two or three. The giftings of the Holy Spirit will begin to flow through you. And you begin to realize that this is a supernatural kingdom. Power and the glory all belong to God. If you'll get up tonight and face your giant, I've known the victory. And I think I speak for every pastor on this platform. We've all known this kind of battle and we've known the victory. God. Will be glorified to you. It's the Holy Spirit spoken to you tonight. And you want to stand up. And in your situation, say there is a God. There is a God. I'm going to walk with him. I'm going to invite you to join me here and we're going to pray together. Please, if you would stand the balcony, you can go to either exit and make your way down. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, God. Hallelujah. There is a God. Let's let New York City know that there is a God. There is a God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord, we believe. God, we believe in you. Thank you, Jesus. That you take the weakest and the foolish. You say in your scriptures and you take the unwise. And you take those that are nobody and nothing. That you might bring to nothing things that glory in their own strength. Lord, that you might be glorified in the people. Father, we release our lives to you tonight. We ask you, Jesus, to come and be God to us and be God through us. Take us everywhere that you want us to go. And make us all that you want us to be. All that we ask, Lord, is that you be glorified in us. Be glorified in us, O God. Lord, put what we need into our hearts and into our lives. We don't want to try to mold you into the image of ourselves. We want to be molded into the image of our Christ. Holy Spirit, we invite you to come and form the very image of Jesus Christ within us. God, take us into the life of Christ. And let the life of our Jesus be manifested through us to this generation. Take us beyond our natural abilities and our natural borders. Take us beyond what people have said about us, O God. And bring us into the supernatural life that you've won for us on Calvary. My God, my God, my God. I pray for every person at this altar, Lord. That you make us an irrefutable evidence of the fact that you are alive from the dead. God, do this. Do this in Times Square Church. Lord, have a testimony in this city in this last hour of time. God, we don't want just another church, just more songs in the city. My Jesus, my Christ, we want a testimony, O God. We're crying out for a testimony in our generation. God Almighty, God Almighty, here we are as Isaiah was. Here we are, O God. Send us, Lord. Send us, O God. Send us, God, into our neighborhood. Send us, Lord, into the workplace. Send us, O God, and use us for your glory. My Jesus, we stand against every weapon of hell. Satan, we resist you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You cannot stop the glory of God. You cannot stop the testimony of Jesus Christ. Your bones are scattered around the earth. You are triumphed over by the power of our God. You can't stop the testimony of God's glory. You can't confine the church of Jesus Christ. We have triumphed over you in our Christ. We tread you underfoot. We are going into this city to take back what you have stolen and to see men and women released to the glory of God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for using me. Thank you, God. Be glorified, be glorified, be glorified. Be glorified, oh God. Be glorified. Be glorified in us, oh God. Be glorified. Be glorified, Holy Spirit. Be glorified, oh God. Be glorified, be glorified, be glorified. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Be glorified, be glorified, be glorified. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank Him! Thank You! God, thank You! Thank You, Jesus! Thank You, Lord! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! My God! Pastor Neil, please come lead us in prayer. We're going to spend a few moments. It's only quarter to, folks. We need to just take this to the throne now. Take this to the throne. You've heard this truth. Do not leave here. You must not be denied. You will not be denied. Take this to the throne. Take it to the throne. Let it be deep in your heart. Let it go deep into the fabric of who God is in you. You will not be denied. You cannot be denied. You must not be denied. Christ will be glorified in you. Lift your voices and thank Him. Thank Him for His goodness. Thank Him for hearing your cry. Oh, God, thank You. We say, thank You, Lord. You're going to show yourself strong. God, thank You. You start by not running out of the room. If you can remember anything, remember that. Then once you've got that ground, then you start running into the room. One step at a time. Scripture says, line upon line. Little by little. But you start moving forward. And don't turn back. Don't let any enemy turn you back now from what God wants to do through your life. Father, bless this congregation tonight. God, bless us with the knowledge of who You are. Bless us with believing hearts. Bless us with the passion to never turn from You and to always turn towards You. Bless us with the ability to love the unlovable and to speak even to those that gnash their teeth against truth. God, give us compassion and power beyond our natural abilities. Take us, Lord, where only You can go and make us aware that daily we are living in the supernatural life of the Holy Spirit. Make us aware of this. I pray for words of knowledge to abound. True words of knowledge, Lord, not speculative speaking, but that which comes from the heart of God. I pray for compassion. I pray for tenderness and boldness. I pray for the absence of fear. I pray for an overwhelming love for lost humanity. I pray for the ability to stand in the marketplace and in apartment buildings and in our own homes and among our own families without shame and without fear, unashamed of the testimony of Jesus Christ. I pray, God, that You make each of us a soul winner. Father, that we not appear before Your throne with empty baskets one day, but God, we will have been used of You to reap a harvest that brings honor and glory to Your name. God, give us compassion for this young generation who are so confused, who are raised without the knowledge of God. They're so angry. I pray, God, give us compassion. Give us words to reach their hearts. Lord, send a revival among the youth of New York City. I pray, God, with all my heart that You fill this house every Friday night to standing room only with teenagers from these five boroughs seeking the knowledge of Jesus Christ. I ask You, Holy Spirit, to manifest Your glory in this sanctuary every time the young people meet in Your name. God Almighty, they don't need an argument about You. They need an experience with You. They need a supernatural touch from Heaven. Lord God, do this. We yield this church to these purposes. We yield our lives to these purposes. All we ask is that Jesus Christ be glorified. Be glorified here, O God. Be glorified. Be loved. Be appreciated, O God. Let Your power be glorified in this house, O God. And we will be quick to give You the honor and the glory. We know what we are without You, but we know that in You we can do all things. You have triumphed, O Jesus. We declare that triumph to our generation. We thank You from the very depths of our heart. We give You praise, honor, and glory. Be glorified in this last hour of time, O God, in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. Give Him one last shout of praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank You, God. We have reasons to rejoice tonight. Let's leave this house rejoicing. Let's leave here encouraged. Let's leave here believing God with all our hearts. God bless you. This is the conclusion of the message.