This sermon emphasizes the imminent return of Christ and the need for the church to prepare by repenting, seeking God's presence, and forsaking worldly desires. It warns against false teachings, pride, and self-centeredness, urging believers to focus on knowing and glorifying God. The message highlights the importance of experiencing God's resurrection power, being transformed by His presence, and being ready to stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Sermon Index Classics, featuring the vintage audio sermons from the past century. Welcome again to Sermon Index and today's program featuring some of the best sermons preached in the last century. This program is provided by the Ministry of Sermon Index. For more messages, log on to our website, www.SermonIndex.com. Now, here's today's program. The Redeemer is coming to Zion. Heavenly Father, if we knew tonight how close we are to the coming of Christ, if we really knew how short our time was, we would not be sitting here so nonchalantly in your presence. There would be a detachment from the world. There would be such a hunger in our hearts. We would be lifted out of ourselves into the very presence of God. Oh, Holy Spirit, I invite you to come now. Take over this service in a supernatural way that no flesh should glow in your presence, but that we would hear from the very tone of God. Oh, Holy Spirit, minister your word. Minister to us, Lord, and give us hearing ears so we can hear what the Spirit would say to us. In Jesus' name, amen. I'm going to bring you a prophetic word from the Lord tonight. The Redeemer of Zion is about to appear in His glory in our day in His church. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression and Jacob, there's the Lord. Now, the vision of Isaiah the prophet is about to be fulfilled. God is about to move with vengeance toward all who twisted the truth of the gospel and all who have become covetous. Isaiah spoke of our day. He spoke of the conditions in the church of the last days. He said, truth has fallen into the streets. Yea, truth has failed. And he that departed from evil maketh himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment. And Isaiah is saying to us right now, let it be known that God is angry. Truth is being twisted and trampled upon. The church of Christ has become victimized by those who preach false doctrines. And God is displeased because no one will stand up and judge the perversions of truth. No one's standing up to judge the perversion of truth. And it displeased Him that there was no judgment. God's ministers were sitting idly by while the truth was being thrown to the ground and trampled upon. Lying spirits had found a voice in the church, and no one stood against it. True men of God refuse to judge the false doctrines creeping in. Therefore the Lord said, I'll judge it myself. The Redeemer of Zion is going to come, and He's going to judge the carnality. He's going to judge our wickedness. He's going to judge our covetousness. And He's going to judge all the mockery of the truth of Jesus Christ in these last days. And He, the Lord, saw that there was no man. And He wondered that there was no intercessor. And He said, where are the men with discernment? Where are those who have sold the people the truth? Because truth is falling. Few people care, few people understand. And the Lord said, I wonder why. Where are the men who stand up and discern and show my people the truth? The Redeemer Himself is about to clothe Himself with vengeance, the Bible said in Zeals. And He's going to move quickly through His church with fury and holiness. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation is on His head. And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing. And He was clad with zeal as a cloak. According to the deeds, the Lord says, I will repay. He's coming back to His church. Even now, the Bible said He's putting on the uniform of a glorious captain. He's coming wearing a breastplate of holiness. And He said there's vengeance and there's fury and there's judgment. For the Lord shall judge His saints. The Lord shall judge His people. Something new, something awesome, something eternal is about to happen in the house of God. He said it's going to be sudden, it's going to be glorious. Now you've heard that the Bible predicts that the last day everything that can be shaken will be shaken. But let's ask God now by the Spirit for an understanding. Why is He coming to His church with vengeance and fury? And why must the Lord Himself return to Zion? Why is the Lord going to take the matter out of the servant's hands, out of the old minister's hands? He's going to take this matter of defending His truth. Why is He going to do it in His own sovereign power? It's all clearly laid out by the prophets. First of all, the Redeemer is coming to Zion because the enemy has come in like a flood against the church. The enemy has come in like a flood. Isaiah said when the enemy shall come in like a flood. Satan in these past few years, especially the past five, maybe ten at the most, has been flooding the church with one new doctrine after another. There's been a spirit of covetousness and carnality. Satan has poured out a demonic flood of adultery and immorality and filth. John the Revelator saw it coming. This is what he warned us. And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth and persecuted the woman which brought forth the man-child, and the serpent cast out of his mouth water of the flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood, this flood of Satan is all-out war against the true church, against the overcomers. And the dragon was angry with the woman and went to war with the remnant of her seed, which kept the commandments of God and who have the testimony of Jesus Christ. We are witnessing right now the devil's final attack against the chosen, the very elect. The Bible said he will seduce, if it were possible, even the chosen of God. And Daniel suggests that for a season he'll prevail. For a season he'll be successful. The horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them. He prevailed against the saints until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints would possess the kingdom. I ask you now, is Satan prevailing for a season right now? Come on now, in the United States and Canada, I tell you, for a season Satan is prevailing. You and I know that the gates of hell will never prevail against the church of Jesus Christ in the end. But is he prevailing for a season now? Has Satan established a beachhead in the church, a stronghold? Are many, many of God's chosen being deceived? What happens in the church to this woman in the wilderness until the Redeemer comes with fury and vengeance? Satan will come with another gospel, the Bible says. And Paul told us exactly how he's going to come against God's holy people to try to deceive them. We're not talking about homosexuals and drug addicts now. We're talking about overcoming saints of God. We're talking about preachers of the gospel. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. Paul, that's awesome. Many will come in these last days who are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Satan's stronghold in the church in the last day is a host of teachers and ministers who've been transformed by our gospel of the flesh. They have come to us as the Lord's most enlightened ministers. They sound just like the preachers of the gospel. They freely use the name of Jesus. They speak of righteousness. They use the scripture. They cast out devils. They heal the sick in the Lord's name. They do many wonderful works. But their message is not of God. It's another gospel. It's a deception. It's of the flesh, and it's not of the spirit. And many of these teachers have been so deceived by the devil, they're blind to what they preach. They're preaching lies, and they believe it to be the truth. They're not even aware that they're tools of Satan. You understand that they are men who started out white, but they're transformed by the gospel they're preaching. It's doing something in them and to them. And right now, these false doctrines of Satan are prevailing in the church in many areas. Multitudes of God's people are flocking to conventions and meetings to hear this other gospel, this gospel of self and prosperity and success. The gospel of the flesh is riding high in the church. Come on, Christian, wake up. Are you and I being deceived? Have we been trapped into the teachings of an angel of light from Satan? Are you being swept away by this flood that the prophets told us would sweep the church and for a season would prevail? Get into God's Word and hear the true gospel of Jesus and begin to judge not what we see and hear and compare what Jesus said to what they are saying. This picture proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan's new flood, his new gospel, is gain, is godliness. Gain is godliness. Listen to this. Clearly, if you don't hear anything else, I say hear this now. It's a compromising message without repentance or godliness. It promises forgiveness without repentance. All we offer people now is forgiveness. Turn on your television and get listening. Happiness and forgiveness, it's all offered freely. No repentance. It's a gospel of gain. It's based on the supposition that the godlier you are, the more gain you will have. Oh, listen to Paul's frightful warning. If any man teach otherwise, even other than the words of our Lord Jesus, into the doctrine which is according to godliness, that man is proud. He knows nothing. He's destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Paul cried out, turn away from them. Turn away from this other gospel. Do you want to hear the true gospel, Christian? Do you want to hear what Jesus really said in this day and age of success and prosperity? Do you want to know what the gospel says? Are you interested? Here it is from the words of our master himself. Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep not, for you shall laugh. Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and they shall separate you from their company, and they'll reproach you, and cast out your name of evil for the son of man's sake. Now, here's what the gospel says about people in these modern times, and the church who's seeking after material things from the lips of Jesus himself. Woe unto you that seek to be rich, for you've received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full, for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did the fathers to the false prophets. The gospel of James despises poverty. It rejects and despises the poor. Listen to what James said. He said, But ye have despised the poor. You say unto him that's prosperous and dressed best with the gold rings and the fine apparel, sit up here in the good place. And to the poor you say, sit here in the low place. Sit at the footstool. This is a gospel of partiality to the prosperous and successful, and it's an indictment against the poor, to whom Jesus ministered. It exalts prosperity and success. James said, Are you not partial? Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom? And for you preachers of the gospel, who try to tell me that he became poor, that we could become rich in houses and land? You don't know your Bible. There it is. It says, Hath not God chosen the poor, rich in faith? How blind is the church today? How blind? Is this the gospel for a dying world? Gain is godliness. Faith is for prosperity. Poor people lack faith. Christ became poor so that we could be rich in material goods. He came to give us abundant life. Is abundant life supposed to be worldly goods? No, that's eternal life. Abundant life is the fullness. You and I don't have the life. We have just the seed. The life is encapsulated in that seed. And one day we're going to have abundant life, and that's eternal life in Jesus. We don't have it now. We're going to get it then. One billion people on this earth are near starvation. The heart of Jesus is breaking over the sight of weeping mothers who hold starving babies with their bloated stomachs. Millions are unemployed. The ends of the world are coming down on us. The world's head is for Armageddon. Our cities in America and Canada are about to explode again in riots. Persecution and stipulation are coming. The Bible said the elements are going to melt with the fervent heat. The world's on fire. All over the world, God's chosen people are being jailed. They're being persecuted. They're losing all they possess. They're taking joyfully the sporting of their goods. And you tell me that God's going to send a man of God to tell me that I have a right to be rich? Is that a man of God who comes to me in the face of a starving world and said, use your rights, use your faith. You can be rich. You can be prosperous. You can have a bigger car. You can have a better home. What's happened to us? How blind can we be? You say that's an American message. No, it's sweeping all over Canada right now. We got it all wrong. The rich man went to hell. The poor man went to heaven. From such turnaways, these preachers have no burden for repentance. They don't preach against sin. They offer blessings without sorrow. They are accumulators of this world's good. They accumulate. I heard a preacher say, I have to be successful. I have to drive a nice car. I have to prove what I'm teaching. Makes me want to cry. Amos the prophet cried out, woe to them that are eased in Zion, unconcerned about the evil day ahead. They lie upon beds of ivory. They stretch themselves upon their couches and they eat the lambs of the flock and they drink wine in bowls. And they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph. They're not grieved. And I shudder to think of standing before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, having preached that kind of a message. The Redeemer is coming back to Zion to break down every stronghold of Satan. And He's coming back to Zion to raise up a standard of truth. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. What is this standard that's going to swallow up the flood? What kind of sovereign fury is going to be released very soon in the church, folks? It's a sovereign fury. You can put all your books on video way. A hundred ways to every Bible. Put them away. This is a sovereign work of God to be released in the church. What is this vengeance the prophets are talking about? Hear it. It's the actual presence of God. The actual living presence of God. The church in these last days is going to experience God actually appearing in their midst. The Redeemer shall suddenly come to Zion. That's the church. He's always come suddenly. He came suddenly at the day of Pentecost. He came suddenly to Paul. He comes suddenly, folks. One day it's not there, the next day it's here. He's going to suddenly appear in His actual presence. This time the Judge is coming Himself to the church. The General of the armies is coming. He's coming in power and awesome glory. Now you and I know that wherever two or three have gathered His name, there He is in our presence and our midst. But folks, that's like the ray of the sun compared to the heat of the sun. The closer you get to the sun, the brighter and the hotter. The Lord said He's going to remove Himself out of His chamber and He's going to suddenly come forth. He's going to appear in His church. The Lord will come who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness. And He will expose the counsels of the heart. Every preacher in this building listens to Him. Every evangelist, every missionary. You and I know God's not going to raise up a new prophet. The days of big time evangelism are over. They're over. Babylon's coming down. All the men who shine, they're not going to shine anymore. All the bigness, all the greatness, all the glory is coming down. And the Lord is going to appear in Zion's midst. There'll be no new revelation. Folks, there's no new revelation coming. You say radio. We've had radio for 50 years now. We've had millions and millions. The sermon's on radio and the world is still lost and America's undone. Television. No, television is not the answer. That's a part of it but that's not going to do it. We've had that now for 20 years and still didn't do it. So we've had the best preaching in the history of the world. We have the best pastors. We have all the machinery. Oh no, no, folks. There's only one hope. There's only one hope left and that's the awesome presence of God. God breaking through everything and coming in His presence to the church. I prophesy right here and now we're on the verge of the revival of the actual presence of God. The Holy Spirit's going to open the eyes of His people. He's going to pull the scales from our eyes and you and I are going to come up against the terrifying presence of God. The earth shook. The heavens dropped at the presence of God. Even Sinai was moved at His presence. And the Lord whom ye seek. Folks, you understand that we're so deaf and dumb and blind now we hear this and don't hear it. We have ears to hear and we don't hear. But I've heard it and I believe it. The Lord whom ye seek shall certainly come to His temple. He shall come, saith the Lord, and who's going to bear up on the day of His coming? Who shall stand when He appears? Do you know that all the preaching of Gain is gone and this is going to melt in His presence? All the pride of success, all the secret hidden sin is going to melt like wax before the presence of God. The Bible said this, wax melteth before the fire, so that the wicked perish at the presence of God. For He is the refiner's purifier. He shall sit as refiner and purifier of silver. He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. The first thing He's going to do, folks, when He appears in His church again, He's going to work on the ministry first. He's going to sit as refiner of fire and He's going to purge Levi. This is the ministry. And, folks, I tell you the day is coming, whether we want it or not. He said, I'll manifest myself to those who weren't even seeking after my name. And God said, we'll remove out of my place and I'm suddenly coming to my church. And, oh, He's going to come in a melting power. Who's going to stand on that day? Who's going to glorify Himself on that day? Who's going to talk about the church He built or the ministry He's established? I don't care if you pastor the biggest church in the world, it's not going to mean a thing in the sight of God. It doesn't matter. All idolatry is going to come down. For, behold, the Lord shall come forth out of His place. He will come down. He will tread upon the high place of the earth and the mountains shall be molten under Him and the valleys shall be cliffed as wax before the fire. Isaiah said, oh, that He would render heavens, that you'd come down, that the mountains might flow away at your presence. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causes the water to boil, so make thy name known to the adversaries that the nation may tremble at His presence. Jeremiah cried, will you not fear the Lord? Will you not tremble in His presence? God said to Ezekiel, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at My presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and every wall shall come tumbling to the ground. Every wall coming down. Listen, if the ungodly were going to shake and tremble in His holy presence, how is anyone going to stand in the presence of God in His house? How are you and I going to stand when He appears? He said, every wall is going to fall to the ground. Down comes all the boasting, all the books and teaching on success. Down comes all the idols of self, down with self-promotion, down with merchandising the gospel, down with all the thieves that are trading in God's house. This house will be a house of prayer, no longer a den of iniquity, no more seeking after the things of this world, no more squandering your faith on temporal things, no more trying to make a name for yourself, because Jesus is going to begin in His house. His presence is going to frighten and melt everything in sight. He's going to humble His servants. No minister will be allowed to boast in His presence. It's going to become fatal. Listen, it's going to become fatal to harvest your secret sin. I believe we're going to see many whose flesh is going to be destroyed, that their soul may be saved. People are going to die in the house of God once again. There's no blessed glory in His presence. How can you preach like that, Brother Dave? It's very easy. I've had an experience like Paul had, and Peter. I heard my summons a few weeks ago, and he told me, in my time of departure. And at that moment, I renounced the world and everything that's in it. And from that moment, I knew what he said, when he said, many, many shall come on that day and say, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name? Have we not cast out devils? Have we not healed the sick in Your name? And He'll say, I never even knew you. And the other side of that coin is, you never knew me. Do you understand that? Not a few, but many, many, many who have built churches, who have had ministries around the world, and they were so busy, they didn't take time to know Him. And it suddenly dawned on me, if I have my summons, there's only one thing left in this world that matters, and that's to really know Him. To know Him, because you and I have to stand before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ. Do you understand that, folks? We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account. And God's made it so clear to me, He's interested more in winning all of me than He is in my winning all the world for Him. Until He has all of me, I don't know Him. And I tell you, the time is coming soon that God is going to break through in our midst. Preachers are going to get up and confess their sins publicly. I've already seen it happen. I received a call, the revival just broke out in Chicago. It's happening there. It's happening in California. The day is coming. You will not be able to stand in the presence of the Lord. You will fall on your face, and you will confess your sins, and no flesh will glory in His presence. You're going to have to flee like Jonah from the presence of the Lord. You won't hold your secret sin any longer. How many times has the Holy Spirit dealt with you? How many times did He say, lay it down? And the only reason you still flirt with it, because you have not yet come into His awesome presence. I hear people say, Oh, the Lord is moving in our midst. We have seen and felt the presence of God. Folks, you and I don't know what we're talking about. We don't know what we're talking about. If God was really in our midst tonight, I would be the first one down on my face. I couldn't preach. Every man behind me would be on his knees saying, God, I am nothing. I have nothing. I'm nothing. None of us could stand in this house. No one could go another minute without confessing, lifting his hands, crying out to God. Your head wouldn't be in the air. It would be in the dust. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, hand lifted up. This train filled the temple, and above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face and two he covered his feet. Do you understand that the seraphim couldn't even stand to look until they covered their eyes? They were sure saints of themselves. They covered their bodies! They didn't want Him to look! And they couldn't stand to look in His face! With twain they covered their eyes and with twain they covered their bodies. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. And the post of the door moved, and the voice of Him that cried in the house was filled with smoke. Then said, I woe is me, for I am undone, because I'm a man of unclean lips. And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. And the message is, see the Lord and die. See the Lord and die. All success, all self-esteem, all secret sin, it's all going to vanish in His presence. It's going to turn to corruption. Daniel said, I lifted up my eyes, and I looked, and behold, a certain man was there clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with fine gold. His body was like burl. His face had the appearance of lightning. His eyes were lamps of fire. His arms and his feet like in color to brass, polished brass. And the voice of His words were like the voice of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men that were with me saw not the vision. But a great quaking fell upon them, so they fled and hid themselves. Therefore, I was left alone, and I saw this vision. There remained no strength in me, for my comeliness was turned to corruption. I retained no strength in me. Yet I heard the voice of His words. When I heard the voice of His words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground. And when He had spoken His words to me, I set my face upon the ground, and I became dumb. Couldn't say a word. When the presence of God comes in His house, people are going to stand and confess, or they're going to melt and harden themselves. We're going to cry, woe is me! I'm not a success. I'm not a winner. I'm undone. I'm Jacob's worm. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud woman. I know nothing. I have nothing. But for His blood I'm damned! But for His grace I'm damned! And then you'll learn to cry out with Paul, He's chosen the weak things of the world, the foolish, the nothings, that know a flash of glory in His presence. Now finally, the Redeemer is coming to Zion to prepare His bride for the wedding. To prepare His bride for the wedding. Lord, trumpet in Zion. Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders. Gather the children and the infants that suck the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth to His chamber and the bride out of the closet. Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. For His wife hath made herself ready. She is a raided wife in fine linen and righteousness. People, let me tell you what the real gospel is. This is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is this. Put on righteousness. Lay aside every waste and the sin that easily besets you. Don't become entangled with the things of this world. Go forth now to median. Get your lamps burning. Get your oil supply. Don't set your affection on things below, but on things above. Don't lay up treasures anymore here on earth. That's the gospel. I'll tell you why the Redeemer has to come to Zion with His presence, because the church is not ready to meet Him. We're not ready. There's too much hay, wooden stubble that's going to burn. God made this so real to me. He's been speaking to me night after night saying to my heart, I've got to come back to Zion. I've got to have people face my presence now. Let there be no hope for them when they stand there, because, folks, if we don't allow the fire of His presence to burn out the dross, if we don't allow Him to burn out the sin of the pride now, how do you stand before Him? I had a beautiful, last week, a beautiful six-hour experience in the Spirit when He laid me down and said, Come. The Spirit said, Come. And I found myself racing through the universe, past the stars, in an outer darkness, but there was no fear because I was racing further and further out into eternity, and suddenly the world was so small. There was nothing left. There was nothing but a speck up there in space. And the further out I got toward His presence, away from the world and all of its deguling elements, the more I was crying, I'm nothing. I'm nothing. I have nothing. I've done nothing. I could feel the utter nothingness, the emptiness, and I could say, It's only grace. It's only mercy. That's all I have, grace and mercy. And that's when the Lord said, David, there's something more important than your ministry, even more than your family and everything else, and that's to know Me. To know Me! We have to have this presence of Christ revealed to us now, before we go to judgment, or we cannot stand there! What's it going to be like to stand before the judgment seat? It's a private chamber, as far as I'm concerned. Forget the masses this time. You can put them at the great white throne. And just, He said, I stand one at a time at the door of your heart and I'll knock. You're going to wait outside His chamber, Christian. And He said, some of us are going to suffer loss. Do you remember when Satan took Jesus to mountaintop and showed Him in an instant all the powers of this world? He said, You're going to have it in an instant there before His throne. And you'll know as soon as you enter that presence and He opens that door and you're ushered in, and there's nothing there in that chamber but the Judge, Jesus Christ, the Judge whose eyes are a flame of fire, and you suspended in space, nothing, no place to stand, nothing, but His grace and His mercy, and He shows you all you've done. And in a moment of time, He builds your world again. And He told you your motives. And He said, See, you said to my glory that it was to your pride. You built your empire, and not my kingdom. Every secret sin, all that was contested, but still hold it clinging on, besetting you, vexing you. And that's going to be the greatest revelation of grace that you could ever receive. And how many, many thousands in the church of Jesus Christ and even ministers, because that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination of time. So the Lord from the greatest known men on this earth are going to stand there naked with nothing, going to be stripped naked. And they're only going to say, Mercy, Jesus, mercy. Oh, you'll get His grace, but you won't get His glory. I want more than grace. I want the glory. Jesus said that they may see my glory, which the Father has given to me. Oh, He's going to manifest His glory. We're going to go to glory with glory in our hearts. The glory is coming back to His church. And when that glory appears, remember what Jesus said to Mary. He said, Did not say to you if you would believe you would see the glory of God, but if you want to spend your faith on something worthwhile. He said, Did not tell you if you would believe against faith you'd see but material pleasure, not the glory. That's where I'm going to spend my faith. God said, You're going to see my glory. You're going to see my glory. I've already touched it. I've already felt it. You understand that your car, that you drive 20 years from now, that Jesus is there going to be on a heap somewhere just thrusting away. Do you know that your house and everything you own is going to melt? Do you know the only thing that you have now that's worth anything is the knowledge of His saving love and grace? If you and I have nothing more to give to Him but our love, I will glorify the house of my glory. Arise and shine, Zion, for your light is coming. The glory of the Lord is upon you now, and that glory shall be seen upon thee. That glory shall be seen upon you. All people are going to see it. What was that glory that Mary and Martha saw? What was the glory of resurrection power? Did Solomon come out of a tomb? Folks, after all these years, He's finally seen fit to show me what His resurrection power means. I'm not talking just about that day that He's going to come for us and take us out of the grave. Oh no, folks, I'm talking about resurrection power right now. I'm talking about being raised from the death of self and pride. I'm talking about being transformed into the kingdom of God where your soul is possessed with Jesus, where you want nothing more in your life than to truly know you are glorifying His name, that every word you say and everything you do is pointing to His majesty and His glory. We need a resurrection, a revelation of His resurrection power in the church right now. I've canceled all my meetings. I felt, let it God take this one. I've got next week three more and that's it. For the next five months, I've got a little prayer chamber and I'm going to wait because I'm repenting and I'm falling on my knees and I'm saying, Oh God, how many times you've come to me and said now, make your move, go all the way, humble yourself and seek my face and how many times we go so close and then we quit and we say some other time. And I'm so grieved at what I've seen around the country and around the world. I've preached in some of the largest assembly of God and Pentecostal churches in the world in the past six months. One pastor of a large church told me he hadn't prayed in one year. He has devotions every day but he doesn't pray. We've got men so busy running around the world trying to win the kingdom for God. But where are those? Where are those who shut themselves in to hear that sound of a trumpet? You understand people, you and I are not ready. You are not ready. Now folks, I can say some things because I've got nothing left to lose. I've got nothing to prove to anybody. I've already been given my divine detachment. We're here now in His unbelievable presence. I'm going to bring you what the Holy Spirit told me to tell you. This is the reason I came. Maybe you're not relating to everything I'm saying yet. The first of the Pentecostal assemblies of God in Canada. If all the leaders and all the pastors and all the people bless you and I repent, He's going to remove your candlestick. He's going to remove it. He'll pick him up a people who are given totally to His love. You put away your professionalism. You get back to the cross. You get back to the secret closet. You humble yourself. You go back to the meekness that you once knew. You go back to the sense of His sovereignty. Saying, not my will anymore, but yours. I've got a neighbor who got his summons two weeks ago. Well-known young singer in America, Keith Green. He lives next door from me. His plane came down. Twelve people killed. Twenty-seven years old. I talked to Melody, his wife, the other day. She said, he got on the plane and said, honey, if I don't come back, raise Daniel for the Lord. Suddenly, he goes up. Fifteen seconds later, he's down. The plane bursts in flames. The body's dissolved. Couldn't even identify the bodies. Oh, folks. We live like we're never going to die. There's some pastors here tonight. They need to repent. Just a few moments. He's going to move closer. He promised me. He'd give us just a little taste of His presence. He's going to appear among us. He's not going to let you sit in your seat comfortable anymore. He's going to bring you back. And the moment you feel His spirit breathe on you, humble yourself, just come and stand in His presence. Say, Jesus, I want to know you. He's going to tell you, you did so much in my name, but you didn't take time to know me. You didn't take time. You so busy, you didn't take time. You became a stranger to me. Use my name. You didn't know me. I don't care whether you think I'm a mystic or not. Because I'm just as much at home over there as I am here tonight. I've already seen His face. I don't want anything this world has to offer. Oh, I'm going to occupy it until He comes for me. I'm going to work. Do you understand that you haven't been given any more time? You've only been given the hour that you're in right now. You don't have a promise of getting out of this building. Every one of you could be summoned tonight. Now you think about that. If I only had four or five more hours to live, and I go into the judgment chamber, and I appear before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, I'm not going to stand. He said that you may be presented faultless with exceeding great joy. That's what He wants. The Lord wants on that day to reach out and say, come on, my child. Come on closer. I know you. You know me. We are one. Come, my brother. Come, my sister, into my presence. Folks, that's what I want. I want Him to embrace me on that great day. I want to be embraced by the Savior Himself. I want Him to reach out of that judgment seat and say, David, come closer. My son, come closer. Because He said you're going to be known even if you know. What you're doing right now depends, oh, it depends on what it's going to be like on that day. You're going to be known as you're known right now. Are you close to Him? Do you know Him? Are your sins really forgiven? Have you forsaken? Have you repented? Are you looking for His coming? Have you set your fictions on things above? Are you still so earthbound, so interested in yourself and your ministry and what you're doing? Oh, Lord Jesus, come, exhort yourself. Let the presence of Almighty Christ come. Holy Spirit, bring Christ. Reveal Him in our presence tonight. Don't let anyone walk out of here tonight carrying pride or self or sin. Humble us. Humble us in Your presence. Holy Spirit, turn Your flaming eyes on us and let us see now. The judgment must begin in the house of God. You do love Your people. You do love Your children. You're getting us ready for Your coming. You're getting Your bride ready. And You do love us. But You said to the church, repent. You said to the church, the seven churches, repent, repent, repent. This concludes the message. For copies of this message or a list of other messages by Rev. David Wilkerson, contact World Challenge P.O. 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