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A Great Apostasy
David Wilkerson

David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011). American Pentecostal pastor, evangelist, and author born in Hammond, Indiana. Raised in a family of preachers, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at eight and began preaching at 14. Ordained in 1952 after studying at Central Bible College, he pastored small churches in Pennsylvania. In 1958, moved by a Life Magazine article about New York gang violence, he started a street ministry, founding Teen Challenge to help addicts and troubled youth. His book "The Cross and the Switchblade," co-authored in 1962, became a bestseller, chronicling his work with gang members like Nicky Cruz. In 1987, he founded Times Square Church in New York City, serving a diverse congregation until his death. Wilkerson wrote over 30 books, including "The Vision," and was known for bold prophecies and a focus on holiness. Married to Gwen since 1953, they had four children. He died in a car accident in Texas. His ministry emphasized compassion for the lost and reliance on God. Wilkerson’s work transformed countless lives globally. His legacy endures through Teen Challenge and Times Square Church.
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of maintaining a childlike trust and confidence in God. He criticizes the modern methods and techniques used in churches and ministries, highlighting how they have shifted the focus away from Jesus Christ. The preacher warns that relying on worldly strategies and entertainment to attract crowds is not the same as having a passion for souls. He also points out the danger of being destroyed by the very blessings that come from depending on the Lord, as they can lead to turning away from God and serving other gods. The sermon references the book of Deuteronomy, specifically chapter 31, to support these warnings.
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We gather to worship and Brother Phillips will be ministering brother Phillips as a spirit filled Baptist preacher boy Is he spirit filled and what a powerful word God has given to him. I love him in the Lord He's been such a blessing to my heart and you'll not forget him. Believe me You better have your Bibles with you. Don't don't dare come to a session without your Bible like like Bob says if you come without your Bible you came naked and you've got to have the word with you. I Can't tell you the burden of our heart for all of the workers like teen challenge workers and other parachurch Ministries that are here from all over the United States and we Bob has been weeping all day yesterday. I had my weeping time the Holy Spirit came upon me and Made it so very clear to my heart That there was going to be a breaking But there's also going to be a great time of healing and some of you need healing some of you need healing in your marriage Some of you need healing in your ministry. Some of you are worn out. You're burned out. You're tired It's evident here tonight. I can sense that tiredness in many of you I want you to ask the Holy Spirit that that that will be taken from you tonight and lifted Now many of you it may be just a physical thing some of it's a spiritual thing Listen, we're not trying to start us another camp, you know a repentance camp We don't this is just something God's laid on our hearts. We have these gatherings Scheduled now the Lord's raising up all over the world in Poland, we're having some repentance gatherings and then also in Hungary along with our Crusades and Los Angeles and Toronto and Georgia and all of the United States and we are praying in the next two years We'll be over 20,000 ministers and their wives gathering in these meetings and that should make some kind of an impact on the Church of Jesus Christ and Believe it or not. There are many others that are Feeling sensing the Holy Spirit saying the same thing in their churches and various small groups It's not being done in big ministries. It's not being done in a big way it's being done in just small gatherings like this where people are hungry for the Lord and I know he's prepared my heart and I want him to repair your heart to receive the Living Word Believe me it's not just in preaching and brother Warnock when we came in the service tonight prayed a beautiful prayer that Christ alone be honored there be a pure word come forward forth from our hearts that the Lord be honored in it But I tremble tonight at the responsibility that is ours to unburden our hearts to you And before I preach I'm going to introduce a lady here that many of you who are my mail on our mailing list have prayed For many times no clapping, please I just want to introduce Gwen to you so that during the conference you can say hello to her and she maybe want to minister To you, honey. Where have you got? Will you stand please? When where are you right here? Keep standing right here in the middle Keep standing honey, so people all right that this is Gwen and feel free to go up and Say hello to her She's been healed. No lupus. No cancer. Just healed marvelously and we give the Lord glory and praise for that Hallelujah. All right. Let's get this good word I want to talk to you tonight about the great apostasy the great apostasy we go to second Thessalonians second Thessalonians The second chapter Second Thessalonians 2 I'm going to read just one verse there before we get into the message first Thessalonians, please I'm a second Thessalonians second Thessalonians first second Thessalonians chapter 2 second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 1 now we request you brethren with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him Go down with me to verse 3, please Let no one in any way deceive you for it will not come and I'm reading from New American Standard It will not come unless the apostasy in King James a brief says falling away The great falling away or the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of destruction Read it again for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first It will not come until the great falling away First there's a falling away that precedes the coming of the Lord Now if you will turn to Isaiah the 30th chapter and just leave it open there while I pray We're gonna we're going to go into a prophecy here in just a moment from the book of eyes from the prophet Isaiah a very powerful profound prophecy for this our day and I want you to just keep your Bible open to Isaiah 30 while we pray Heavenly Father I thank you for gathering people from around the United States From Canada who have come together for one purpose and that's to open their heart to the light of the Holy Ghost Spirit of living God come forth now with your divine word with unction and with anointing Lord, this is not our word the words of men. We believe that you gave this to us in prayer We come to you now Lord for that special unction and anointing that alone makes the word come to life to our hearts And we believe Lord that if you created the word if you gave it and brought it forth in the heart You will send it forth with that unction and anointing that will change our lives change our lives tonight Lord, let it begin tonight and Tomorrow all day tomorrow and all day Friday as the word comes as a hammer as a sword and as a bottle of oil to Heal and to open the wound and then to extract the poison Oh God in Jesus name Transform our lives. Let no one leave the way they came. Oh God, you know what the need is tonight Holy Spirit, you know the need of this hour, you know the need of this people seated here right now You know the need of those hearing this message at this very moment. You've prepared this word for those who hear it now Send it forth. Holy Spirit with your unction in Jesus name. I pray Amen the great apostasy Now an apostasy of course in the Greek is a falling away and a falling away is that? From which we once believed it's a giving up of once was dearly held as the truth So what we're talking about tonight all through this message is the great apostasy of the great falling away Now look at me, please, you know as well as I do from the study of the scripture That before the Antichrist is revealed. There's an Antichrist spirit a spirit of lawlessness that comes upon the earth It's called a mystery of lawlessness and that mystery of lawlessness is already at work in the land Have you ever wondered why there's so many expose books now about? seductions and apostasies in the church Because there's to be a furious activity of a spirit of lawlessness just before Jesus come Satan and the powers of darkness are going to be setting the stage Trying to shipwreck and destroy the faith of many Christians and the Bible said because sin will be rampant the faith of many will grow cold and Many many Christians are going to be shipwrecked in their faith. Many ministers are going to be shipwrecked in their faith Now God's great concern is not so much about What Christians are falling into as what they're falling away from and that's what I want to deal with you tonight They're falling away multitudes falling away including pastors and deacons and ministry people are falling away from Christ as the head Beginning to lean on the arm of the flesh Turning away from Christ as being the answer to every need for mankind They're falling away from that childlike faith. That is the solution to every man's problem There is an absolute wholesale turning away from the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ to the methods of men all the prophets in this book for Saul this apostasy coming and they cried out against it and Isaiah has given us one of the most vivid Prophecies and I believe it has to do it exactly with this day It's about a people who are going to leave their God and go back down to Egypt from which they've been delivered Go back to Egypt seeking for help Now God made no mistake About who this prophecy is directed to and if you turn with me to Isaiah 30 verse 8 I'm going to read to you beyond any shadow of a doubt proof that this prophecy has to do with our time right now Reading again from the New American Standard now go This is God speaking to the prophet Isaiah Now go write it on a tablet before them Inscribe it on a scroll that it may serve in the time to come as a witness Forever and the little translation is that it may be for the future generations for the latter days in the original Hebrew message for the future generations for the latter days and the entire 30th chapter of Isaiah is a Last-day prophecy for you and for me and I want to deal with it tonight First of all, the message begins with a revelation of God's grief over the cause of this great apostasy That's coming go to verse 1 chapter 30 verse 1 woe to the rebellious children declares the Lord who Execute a plan but not mine and they make an alliance but not in my spirit in order to add sin to sin Who do what they proceed down to Egypt without consulting me? To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the in in the shadow of Egypt Now look at me, please why does the Prophet call God's children rebellious now, that's a strong word You're rebellious people There's introduced a sin an ultimate sin in This chapter that is beyond any sin that we've ever named in any of these repentance conferences. It's a slap in God's face It's a compounded sin. He said it's adding sin to sin This sin that we're talking about tonight goes up beyond drug abuse or alcoholism adultery fornication gambling homosexuality fornication pornography any sin of the flesh that you name The sin that the Prophet is trying to get to the sin that has grieved the heart of God So much that he'd call his own children apostates and call them rebellious It's a sin that is a slap in the face of Almighty God And he said it's a sin of going back down to Egypt without consulting me You've turned away from me as the answer and solution to the problems of life And you're going back to that very thing that caused your pain and corruption in the first place You're going back It's personal indignity against the Holy God. He said now you're making all your plans without consulting me even He said now you're in league with those who lean on the arm of the flesh and not the spirit You're going back to the very thing I delivered you from You're going back to seeking help from those who originally caused your grief and your bondage I'll tell you something God's really been Dealing with me if you go to chapter 31 and look at verse 1 go just turn it to the page to Isaiah 31 verse 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And they rely on horses and they trust in chariots because there are many and in horsemen because they're very strong But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord. They don't look to him anymore Now we're talking about being delivered from the enemy now Remember Isaiah is talking about a people who under Hezekiah were being surrounded by the Assyrians the Assyrians with the gate Now this is this is something that we've got to deal with right here and now without going any further this message We're talking about deliverance We're talking about an enemy that had not been stopped was moving over Everybody and everything and now here's this greatest Syrian army surrounding Hezekiah King Hezekiah in Jerusalem In fact as Syria means successful enemy in Hebrew successful enemy There had never been a day that a Syria had not had a success This is an all-powerful enemy and here are God's people his elders his shepherds his parachurch ministries if you please and They're facing a formidable enemy at the gate. And how do you face this enemy? Are you going to trust Almighty God who delivered you from the first out of Egypt? Are you going to trust him who's had a reputation over the years of coming forth in his strong arm when you needed him? Are you going to do like this one panic? And are you going to gather your meters and you're going to load your donkeys with presents and silver and gold out of the national? Treasury, how do you going to go back through that wilderness? You're going to go back to Zoan the scripture says and to Haines to Egyptian cities and meet with the leaders of Israel and meet with their generals and ask for their help Under this panic and they did it they tried to do it from under the eyes of both Jeremiah and remember the Jeremiah and Isaiah and Ezekiel all three were contemporaries who at one time were prophesying in Israel there was a period about seven years for all three of these prophets were contemporary and They're trying to hide it from the prophets they're taking matters in their own hand and what a picture of emptiness and Anguish that Isaiah is painting for these people He said if you do that If you go back through that wilderness through which God delivered you and brought you out of and you backtrack Listen to what he says verse 7. Look at Isaiah 30 verse 7. In fact Go to verse 6 the Oracle concerning the beast of the negus And and really he's talking about this is a message for the hippopotamus, which is Egypt The the beast there means hippopotamus in Hebrew Through a land of distress and anguish From where come lioness and lion and viper and flying serpent? They carry their riches on the backs of their young donkeys and their treasures on Camels humps to a people who cannot profit them even Egypt whose help is vain and empty Now listen this therefore I've called her Rahab who has been Exterminated now. All right. Look at this now Rahab in Hebrew means Here's here's the scripture interpreted original Hebrew I have called Egypt great mouth It's called great mouth or a bragging people who have no power The original Hebrew is great mouth or bragging people. He said I once delivered you out of great mouth I brought you out of a bragging world. All they did was brag. There was no power This is a power who can't move This is a power that sits idle and you go back you're going back through a wilderness of grief and anguish Where the lion is where the viper and where the serpent is You show me people who leave their faith in the headship of Jesus Christ And go back and lean on the arm of flesh and all the burnout the anguish the despair And if you if you read from verse six and seven and eight and you you you'll see clearly he's painting a picture of the Anguish and the anxiety that's in the church of Jesus Christ today because we have a people going back to Egypt Going backwards Look at the church today armies of trained experts Shepherds and Christian workers where are most of them headed? They're headed to Freud They're headed to Carl Ong They're headed to psychology They're headed to seminars where they learn how the experts do it Well, they wants to pray once used to pray and seek the face of God and hear from heaven Now they know how to do it. They're experts. They have expertise Where is the church in Jesus Christ headed back to Egypt on its donkeys Swift horses back to Egypt back to great mouth Back to the braggart who has no power to move For This is rebellious people refuse to listen to the instructions of the Lord verse 9 This is a rebellious people who what refused to listen to the instructions of the Lord All right. Now go with me to Deuteronomy 31. Keep your finger at verse chapter 3. I'm going to come back We're going to go through that whole chapter It's a powerful prophecy and I'm going to share with you something the Lord shared with me this in the past few weeks hopefully Just ask you God give me the courage to share it tonight. I'm not baiting you just I Want God to open our hearts Deuteronomy 31 go to Deuteronomy 31 Deuteronomy 31. Are you keeping Isaiah 30? All right, put a marker there and go to Deuteronomy 31 go to verse 26 Moses speaking For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness Behold while I'm still alive with you today think of this He said I'm still living and you have been rebellious against the Lord how much more than after my death Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers that I may speak these words in Their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them for I know that after my death you'll act corruptly you'll turn From the way which I have commanded you and evil will befall you when in the latter days For you will do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord provoking him to anger with the work of your hands Then Moses spoke in the hearing of the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were complete Listen to what he warned Israel. He said when I go you're going to turn away From the ways of God you're going to have evils befall you in the latter days If you just go over to Deuteronomy 31 just turn to 31 rather back to 31 20 Look at verse 20 For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey Which I swore to their fathers and they have eaten and are satisfied become prosperous Then they will turn to other gods and serve them and spur me Spurn me and break my covenant Now look at me, please Now I want to say something. I want you to listen very closely We are being destroyed by the very blessings That are result of our dependence on the Lord. Now, let me explain that you you you start out depending on the Lord He saves you from sin Jesus becomes everything you become totally dependent on the Lord and you walk in that dependence and that dependence Produces a blessing it produces a flow of divine blessing. I'm not talking about just material blessing But dependence on the Lord produces something miraculous and when that miraculous is produced we begin to be destroyed by the very thing That once made us dependent on the Lord And God's been dealing with me about that in my life David. That's the way you started When I started on the streets of New York you team challenge workers. Listen to me. I Had nothing but a little motor scooter And I scooted all over that city up and down those streets and I cried night and day I wept like a baby. I Didn't make a move There wasn't a prostitute in that city who could look me in the eye without turning aside She wouldn't dare come near me because there was a holy power of God on me There wasn't one thing in that city that attracted me. I Made no move until I was in that secret closet and I heard from God Do this do that. I laid hands on drug addicts and alcoholics and prostitutes and there were miracles and That's very dependence caused people around the country to sit up and take notice it began to have a money flow because people were responding to that kind of dependence and the very thing That dependence created in me began to destroy me Do you understand where I'm headed you understand what I'm saying We're destroyed by the very blessings that result from our dependence on the Lord So you have to keep going back you have to stop and say that's enough and you have to go all the way back to the beginning again Well, let's tie it down Right now to what the prophets trying to get at what does it mean when he says you've spurned the Lord you're going down to Egypt How do you interpret it in these last days? God's saying when I first called you not touched you and delivered you from the enemy. All you wanted was me You prayed about everything. Isn't that true? You Had a childlike trust and confidence in me Jesus says You knew I would guide you that I'd miraculously supply all your needs and I was your joy. I was your satisfaction You didn't get burned out You weren't confused then You had a yearning after me Now you have your books You've got all your modern methods You Have men to tell you how to write your newsletters now And I'll tell you go to some of these gatherings now where all the all the experts gather and it's an abomination to God At one such meeting that about 5,000 people the convention and one of my associates was there and they were introducing a little machine That signs the love the evangelist can sign his name. It says you can sign 50,000 signatures in eight hours And all these experts standing there giving advice on how to get money from the people You're supposed to make sure that you don't send any You don't send any blue envelopes. You don't send any green because that's moody Certain colors of paper you have to create crises you make up crises And we've got an army now Of experts Teaching us how to do the work of God Jesus Christ no longer the center of it Busy engaged in hard work for the Lord and it leaves you weary. It leaves you burned out. It leaves you empty Because you're on the road to Egypt I'm gonna make a statement and I hope you hear me and I kid you not When you're moving in the spirit and when you're holding the head and when it means hold the head It means you retain Christ at the center of everything You will not get weary you will not get burned out you will not get discouraged There will be an ever-increasing light dawning in your heart I've learned that the hard way Our churches no longer have the power of God to attract the people in many circles So they've gone down to Egypt and borrowed its music. It's dancing. It's entertainment hoping to get the crowd back It's not a passion for souls, it's just a passion for crowds I've got men who hate what I preach but they'd love to have me because they think I can get a crowd They just sit back. They're laughing at me as long as the church is packed Church growth at any cost look at the average church bulletin. It's like a theater package It looks like you're going to a theater But Then of course we have parachurch ministries that are falling away to apostasy apostasizing I Grieve when I think of all the teen child's workers and parachurch ministers all across the country parked in front of their TV sets hour After hour after hour the world going to hell How? How do you sit there and Watch What comes out of the very pits of hell How do you sit there allowing your spiritual life to just lose out of you And I'm going to look you right in the eye and tell you the day has already come that you can no longer keep the Anointing of the Holy Ghost and sit in front of your idol My Bible says thou shall bring no abomination into your house. You shall hate it. You shall detest it They should become a curse just like unto it We've got teen child's workers reading psychology books now All some of them still want to go out and witness for Christ, but even that's becoming a hype in many circles just a hype Just go go go no dependence on the Lord not getting alone with God and hearing what the Holy Spirit has in mind But having a committee meeting and trying to get together What do you think God is saying if you're a leader of one of these groups? You should be shut in the secret clause of the Lord You should come out with a dosset the Lord where God has spoken to your heart. You have a divine plan from the heart of God The Scripture the prophet Isaiah says This apostasy is going to include a rejection of the message of holiness judgment repentance Did you hear that was a mouthful? I'm going to repeat it The apostasy includes a total rejection of the message of holiness judgment repentance Go to Isaiah 30 verse 10 30 verse 10 If You obey the Lord your God To keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law If you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul For this command what's I command you today is not too difficult for you. Am I on the right one? Oh, I'm still Deuteronomy. I want to go go to Isaiah Isaiah 30 verse 10 Do you have that They say to the seers You must not see visions and to the prophets you what? You must not prophesy to us. What is right speak to us pleasant or smooth words prophesy illusions Look at me now an apostate church wants nothing to do with visions or prophecies of men of righteousness They don't want anything to do with it You know, that's the gospel. You know, that's the truth They want to hear messages they want nothing that disturbs the status quo Nothing to upset this successful world in which they move and live They refused any kind of correction Everything today is being excused under the banner of love Love We're getting ready to love the devil This is a perverted love I want nothing to do with it's all cliches. It has nothing to do with this book Our people clamor for entertainment They flock by the thousands now to concerts and plays and social gatherings while they ridicule the prophets They mock what they call the doomsday preachers, and they prefer the illusions They don't want any preacher or advances to tell them the hard truth And they don't want the sword of the Lord to come forth in their congregations They say preach to us smooth things bless us make us happy make us feel good I heard a preacher say you come to this church and feel good. God help us Pastor you have a church where people just come to feel good. You're not preaching the word They especially reject the message of holiness and separation verse 11 they say get out of the way Turn aside from the past. Let us hear no more about the holy holy one of Israel Look at me I never thought I'd live to see the day that I would have letters pouring into my office from assembly of God preachers condemning this ministry for bringing Confusion a reproach on the body of the Lord Jesus Christ For what for preaching righteousness holiness and judgment? We're bringing reproach we're condemning the body of the Lord Jesus Christ Well, some of these very men can't fill their church up on Sunday night without a rock concert They say No more preaching of this holy one of Israel Jeremiah was sent to prophesy against the apostate Jews the Lord's own people. You know what God said to Jeremiah He said I send you forth with my word of judgment and holiness and righteousness, but they will fight you The dread of the Lord is no longer in them. They prefer to drink from cisterns rather than the living water You go to Jeremiah 1 2 3 and you'll find it chapters 1 2 and 3 Don't turn in now, but you'll find that whole thing there. God said he said go preach to them But your preaching is going to make their eyes hard. You're going to make them insensitive to the truth And I'll tell you what when the Word of God comes forth in its power announcing it'll do one of two things It'll either break you or harden you It'll break you or harden you it'll judge you The word will judge you or break you And I've seen that happen in these Repentance gatherings. I've seen the Word of God come forth from brother Bob and some of our other speakers like a hammer Tomorrow you'll hear the hammer coming down the Word of God And I've seen people sit there who later confessed they were living in adultery sit there grit their teeth Because they weren't willing to lay down their sin the Word of God was judging them and they were rejecting the word Let us hear no more of this. Holy one of Israel Turn aside. We don't want you in our churches Why is it that people are flocking to prosperity preachers Why is it when you preach prosperity you can draw a crowd simply because it suits the lifestyles of those who gather They flock to these teachers because they feel comfortable With them because of their world of materialism They're in no mood to give up anything or to sacrifice or to hear about crosses or losses They're into buying and acquiring enjoying and climbing the social ladder folks if that's all I was going to do if I wanted to if I wanted to get rich and if I if I had All these things and I felt condemned. I'd go to a preacher go set my mind at ease But when you've got the fire the Holy Ghost burning in your heart and Jesus Christ is the head you can't go near it because the Fire the Holy Ghost will burn it out Then we'll tell you now that's a doctrine of devils I'm not saying it all who preach it or devils. I'm saying it's a delusion and Those who are holy and righteous are going to get out of it before Jesus comes or else They're not righteous men If you sit here now and you've been preaching that and are even if somebody God churches are split right down the middle now Preachers don't know what to preach anymore. If they preach this they offend this group. They preach something else. They offend this group brother forget what the people saying preach the Holy Word of God an Apostate church simply endures the prophetic voice They pass it by with a condescending smile I'm gonna read to you. Listen to Ezekiel 33 don't turn me just to listen to it He said they come to you as my people come and they sit before you as my people and they hear your words But they don't do them for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth and their heart goes after their own gain in their idols and Behold you're to them like a sensual song by one who is a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument and they hear your Words, but they do not practice them. All right, it grieves my heart. I After writing the book of the trumpet books, I spent hours and days weeks in fact months shut in with God When the Spirit of God would come upon me I began to prophesy against the idolatry of television and rock music of devils in our churches And I could feel the wrath of God against it I'd go in the backyard and prophesy to the trees because I didn't think anyone listen I just raised my voice and prophesy you've been bringing unclean Offerings you brought bruised and bleeding lambs to my table and the tables of Lord are filled with vomit And I was prophesying and prosperate on the grass and feeling the wrath of God breathing down my neck against it all and I get up and I bleed my heart out and I can quote a hundred scriptures against this kind of idolatry and And people come up and pat me on the back and say good preaching brother Dave I believe it and go right back that very night and sit and watch filth And it's kind of an amusing message. It's kind of a novel thing to hear someone prophesy on there What's it going to be for you brother sister? Is it gonna be that you hear the prophetic word of the Lord come and then you walk out and sets a sweet sensual song And go right back and do the same very thing As if you were never delivered from your idolatry in the first place. I Don't understand l anyone who loves God with all their heart I don't understand anyone who knows that one day soon. They're going to stand before the judgment seat of the Lord Jesus Christ I don't see how you can sit before your idols anymore knowing that you stand before his holy eyes But they don't do it they still going to go about their lustful desires they love to hear it they love to say man But it doesn't affect them just a sensual song according to the prophecy of Isaiah The apostate church of the last day is not going to accept this message of repentance whether I preach it or any any other man of God preaches it. It's not going to be accepted by the masses It's going to be accepted only by a holy separated view Isaiah 30 verse 15 For thus says the Lord the Holy One of Israel has said what in repentance and rest you shall be saved In quietness and trust in quietness and trust is your strength, but you are not willing and you said no You're not willing you said no Go brother sister listen to me the message of the Holy Ghost of this last day church Is that in repentance and rest is your only hope the only hope left for the church? Is to return to him with all their heart and to get out of Egypt in the world Try to tell that to the modern Huge multi-million dollar television ministries today that the only hope is repentance tell them that Tell that to the money mad crowds Tell tell this sensuous prosperous Self induced Self-centered generation of Christians tell them that their only hope is in repentance. Tell them that see how many listen They don't even have time to consider the question let alone the answer And not a handful Assembly of God preachers coming to any of our conferences I'll send out 2,000 invitations and get like we did here 25 answers We have about 25 here No time No time I'm not in I'm I love everyone God knows my heart. I love every brother in Christ and I know many can't come because of Financial problems everything it's not because I'm not coming here, but there is not even a note that's saying I can't come It's almost in fact The input is why should I come? Why should I even think of repentance? As it says they will reject the message of repentance They'll reject the message that in the last day the thought of quietness and rest and simple trust No, he said we want the swift horses of Egypt Swift horses of Egypt All right. Now look at me, please. I'm gonna Approach this very cautiously Because I've I hear so many prophecies today they're off the wall I Hear so many saying God told me and it's so clearly flesh And I don't want to be a part of that But I know That God has to bring a word tonight and I want to Share it with you go to go to verse 12 chapter 30 Isaiah predicts there's going to be a sudden collapse of Ministries who reject the message of repentance now want you to look at this verse 12 13 and 14 therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel Since you've rejected this word You put trust in oppression and guile and have relied on them Therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall a bulge in a high wall what whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant and Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar so ruthlessly shattered Would you look at that again with me for just a minute whose collapse Comes suddenly in an instant and whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar so ruthlessly shattered Now would you look this way? And I want to look you right in the eye when I tell you from my heart that the Holy Spirit is Going to do something very shortly in this land He's going to start smashing ministries left and right and some of you that are seated here tonight listening to me your ministry is going to be shattered like a jar and Unless you get ahold of God and quit running down to Egypt and get back to the head God's going to stop the money flow a Week ago in the middle of the night I Had a visitation in prayer The Lord didn't appear to me just the Holy Spirit speaking to my heart. I Can't begin to share Everything that I see but it was stronger than the vision was stronger than the trumpet book that he gave me And I see what Isaiah saw Isaiah said this is a message for the latter-day. Didn't that know what he said in verse 8? For a last-day people And this last day God is going to shatter ministries left and right We're on the verge of seeing every major Television ministry go down except those who are preaching repentance and those who are righteous before Almighty God. They're going to be gone In a three-month period they're all going down every one of them They're going to be churches going bankrupt left and right A Building standing empty in that time many of those preachers are going to repent those banks not going to want those churches because there's going to be such a tragedy in the land and those who repent are going to pray it but go back into those churches and Use them and the Lord's going to set him free of that debt for a while But he said there's coming a collapse Suddenly in an instant and whose collapse is going to be like the smashing of a part is jar so ruthlessly shattered Those who preach prosperity are going to become hated preachers in the land I am already getting letters 10 and 12 a week from people especially from the Houston area and other places where the farms are going bankrupt who are members of congregations that preach nothing but prosperity and Now these people are going bankrupt left and right and they're going back to the pastors who priest it and said why isn't it working now? I don't know of any reason why this should happen to me. I have as much faith as I ever had There's no sin in my life. Why isn't it working now? And many of them are losing their faith in God They're turning their back and we've had letters from people now who have such hatred toward their pastors who preach this message absolute hatred and Brother sister the time is coming soon When God is going to cut off the finances there's going to be a bankruptcy Probably of a European nation. They're going to default on their international loans It could be Poland Poland owes over 30 billion dollars. They haven't even paid their interest It's up to 36 billion dollars now because of their interest can't even begin to pay it Philippines can't begin to pay their money back And I'm going to tell you something a moment. You see the first country go down that can't pay its international debt You know that you've got just a few weeks before Mexico goes down and when Mexico's down the panic hits this nation There's going to be a panic like this nation has never seen and when that happens This country will never be the same again till Jesus comes never and all I can do is warn you That's all I can do. They're gonna be people here this on tape All I can do is to warn you All I can do is to say when the first nation goes down if you have anything in the bank get it out Get it out you people that are here right now. You said my house isn't paid for don't worry about it Don't fret about it. God said my people are gonna have to beg for bread There's gonna be privation, but God's gonna take care of those who hold Christ as the head God's gonna meet every need There's going to be privation there's going to be suffering but God is going to shake everything that can be shaken Talking to God said Lord and I've seen such I've seen something coming that's so frightening I can't tell an audience the Lord won't even let me go public with all and I'm not trying to tantalize with it All I know is I said Lord, how can I believe what you're saying to my heart right now? How can I believe this and God spoke to my heart? Would you believe me in January if I told you the oil it was $34 a pair was going down to $12 Would you believe me? No If I'd have told you that that satellite would blow up and a prophecy from the book of Acts would be fulfilled right to the letter In the last days I'll show you signs in heaven blood and fire and vapor smoke and when it blew up the blood of those seven Astronauts mixed in that fire and three vapors of smoke. Did you see it blood and fire and vapors of smoke? Would you believe that that's a fulfillment? Would you believed it? Would you believed it? No You'd better believe it now If I had prophesied or anybody else had prophesied those things I'd have been laughed and any other watchman in America would have been laughed out of existence But now the judgment doesn't it's not just earthquake. It's not famine pestilence. This oil situation is in the hand of God Down in Houston right now. It's the it's incredible. What's happening down in Houston? some Some churches down there feeding as many as a thousand people now just coming for food Jobs being lost left and right the oil may come back maybe for a while But it's going to cause bankruptcies of nation after nation. They're going to fall like dominoes and the church is not ready God's people are not ready and what blows my spiritual mind that here the enemy is at the gate The Holy Ghost raising up watchmen and men of God who seek in his face night and day this message I received came after just being shut in with God night and day and I'm not boasting It's just it didn't come out of my own heart and I see it coming and I cry because the church is not ready The people are not ready. We're not ready to trust Lord. We've talked about trusting in the Lord, but folks We're gonna lose a lot of things. We're gonna be forced into trusting him if we're not going to do it now What grieves me is that we still have evangelists building resorts? The enemy at the gate and it's all coming down and they're still begging and screaming for money. Send me money money money build my dream It's abomination in the sight of Almighty God Pastors, why aren't you standing up and crying out against it in your pulpits? Why aren't you telling your people you're going to be a partaker of their sins if you send a dime? Oh God's gonna terrorize this nation. He said 1,000 will flee at the threat of one man You shall flee at the threat of five until you are left as a flag on a mountain top and as a signal on a mountain He said you're just gonna be a shell of what you once were Just gonna be a testimony to what you were just just a flagpole not even a flag God said I'm gonna terrorize the nation You're gonna be only a shadow of what you once were the kingdom of self and pride and ambitions coming down The warnings of Isaiah will not be heeded. My warnings will be scoffed at and when it comes and it will come What good are all those messages of prosperity going to be then? What are these men going to preach then when it all comes down around us when it comes down If you and I knew how soon it was we'd been our face tonight We'd been our face and Oh God, do I have what it takes to see me through? Now God's preparing a people not a people to run in high not a people in fear because there's a good part of this I'm going to get into it in just a minute the glorious part But you're going to see in about a three month time Major ministries all of America come tumbling down within three months. They're all going down except a few We're preaching repentance with men are walking in righteousness and are not robbing the poor You know what God's been telling our ministry sell everything you can Give it away curb your lifestyle Don't spend money for anything now except is what is absolutely necessary You've got an old car. Thank God for it. Don't buy a new one You got a mortgage on the house fine commit it to the Lord say Lord it's yours If I have to live in a tent, you'll be with me. I Live to see the day when I was a teenager When there were over a hundred and five Great healing ministries in America huge tents men riding jets Two and three hundred workers huge tents huge trucks were going up and down the land huge eating meetings Many of them were men of God But all much of it got into the flesh Filth running after money and women And I live to see the day God took it all down One of the great men of God that I admired the most when the best preachers among them Lives in his car now. He's 72 years old and he has the shakes. He curses God and he lives in his car Another who is one of the third leading healing evangelist when I was a teenager as a night watchman in a hospital down in Miami Many of them died as drunkards One is a homosexual and I live to see the day God took it all down I work with Catherine Coleman for five years and she said David when I'm gone, I'm the last I'm the last and she was a woman of God a great woman of God She said when I'm gone David, that's the last of the great so-called healing evangelist It's a whole new realm God's gonna do with individualism. He's gonna raise up a body the healing belongs to the church It's going back to the church And We're going to see the day now soon It's coming that ministry start tumbling left and right and God's gonna purify his body He's got to shut off all of these voices before he can get his true word into the hearts of this people. I I'm trembling here tonight Because I know that this is going to go out now and people say David has certainly had a nervous breakdown Is Isaiah lying Listen to him a collapse is coming suddenly in an instant and whose collapse is like the smashing of a pot is just ruthlessly shattered Ruthlessly God is gonna ruthlessly shatter every ministry of the flesh It's going down. Oh There'll be others in the flesh. There'll be others rise in their place. Yes But Paul said whose mouths need to be stopped God gonna stop it I Can't tell you anymore. I'm gonna move on I Just maybe just don't have the the courage yet, but all I'm going to tell you folks we are on the brink now Of what God's been saying to this nation That he's getting his house in order And you'd better be where he can talk to you you better not be going down toward Egypt You not a better not be in the wilderness headed for Egypt. You'd better be holding the head Now you want the good part? It's a little heavy here tonight. I better get into this good part real quick All right, here's the good part. Look at me. Don't don't go over there yet. Just look here. All right Here it is out of this apostate thing God is going to raise up a holy repentant people who are going to yearn after him. Oh How the Lord has been longing for a people who long for him God's been grieving over this apostate thing That's arising in the land and out of his compassionate heart now. He's going to have a people after himself Hallelujah go to verse 18 Chapter 30 verse 18 Isaiah Therefore he's talking now about a people. He's going to raise up He's changed this to now you see he said as far as I'm concerned that apostate thing is dead It's already ruthlessly shattered and God's already said it's out of out of the it's already gone and now he's talking to his bride Now he's talking to a people are going all the way with him and hold their head There for the Lord longs to what be gracious to you and therefore he waits on high to have compassion on you For the Lord is a God of justice. How blessed are all those who long for him? Now Isaiah was dressing now people the future he's speaking to people are going to be a Zion Jerusalem a spiritual Zion Jerusalem A people will never collapse and the thing is going to characterize this holy remnant Is that they have yearning hearts for the Lord whose hearts long for him Now what was the mark of the apostate people they yearn for Egypt? But these people yearn for the heart of Christ. They long for the Lord Now that's the sad lack in the church. There's so little yearning for Jesus Christ So little yearning for the Lord people will witness for him. They'll they'll feed the poor They'll march for abortion they'll march for any kind of cause but it lacks the yearning for the heart of God God said in Jeremiah 232 my people forgot me days without number Look at verse 19 While all around there's a collapse and a ruthless shaking It says all people in Zion see these are the people now in Zion. Where's Zion? That's in the heart of Jesus All you people in Zion inhabitant of Jerusalem you will weep no longer He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry when he hears it. He will answer you Now I'm going to show you where the prophet Isaiah said in this time is shaking. They're going to be privations There's going to be an oppression from Satan from the world and from circumstances But God in the midst of this privacy is going to manifest himself Look at verse 20, although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression He your teacher will no longer hide himself, but your eyes will behold your teacher There's coming forth a pure crystal clear word of God The holy pure words going to come forth. It's already coming forth Hallelujah in all my lifetime I've never heard such clear word coming from some men of God who've been shut in between the ports in the altar weeping over the sins and the abominations of the land Those who come out of the secret closet I've been hearing a pure word and it thrills my heart Glory to God your teacher not going to hide anymore. And he said I'm not gonna hide the word from you anymore I'm gonna tell you something else folks Here we good. If you go to a dead-dry church You've got a bunch of praying people in there The first thing you do you get praying and get fired up for God and I'm gonna be speaking about that tomorrow night when I talk about the resurrection realm New realm that he's going to bring his he's bringing his people into into realm of resurrection and The first thing you do when you get on fire for God is the church gonna call you crazy The rest of the people they're gonna ostracize you think you've gone nuts Why because you're seeking the Lord with all your heart. You're not playing games anymore you Go ahead and get rid of your television. See how many people laugh at you Our whole staff gathered up $15,000 worth and we shot him with shotguns and everybody laughed at us I Somebody said Solomon, I don't sell idols and don't tell me it's a night. It's not an idol. Why is all the furniture facing it? You've got a pastor that's not seeking God Love him pray that God will wake him up And if he's going to go the other way pray him out Pray him out. He said I'll give you a shepherd after my own heart. I Said pray him out First pray him to his knees be patient and love him But then if he hardens his heart and you hear an uncertain sound Pray him into a congregation that wants to hear that kind And ask God to give you a shepherd after his heart and he'll do it If they're enough people in that congregation God will answer that prayer. I know I'm going to get a lot of flack on that Look at verse 21 and Your ears will hear word behind you This is the way walking it whenever you turn to the right or turn to the left This people not going to be confused or burned out. Are they they're going to hear a word a pure word This is the way walking it Glory to God Something else they're going to do they're going to tear down all their idols Look at verse 22 and you will defile your craven images Overlaid with silver and your molten images plated with gold you will scatter them as an impure thing and say to them be gone Be gone I Got a whole message on that I Think we'll tear down every idol. They're gonna say I can't stand before a holy God with these idols anymore be gone That's enough be gone Hey What in the world is so difficult about getting that idol out of your house? What is it's holding you? Come on, what is it? Give me one Holy Ghost reason But it's not just that idol it's all idolatry all of it some of you have a pornographic refrigerator You're so in love with food you It's an idol I'll tell you boy I Keep saying I want to tell you that's Bob help me with that Don. I got to quit saying that Let me say this The middle of this collapse when everything is going to be shaken to be shaken You really believe God means it when he says everything could be shaken is gonna be shaken Do you really believe that We shall see Everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken but during that shaking These people are coming under the pure word of God holding Christ as the head Knocking down all their idols going all the way with the Lord in his righteousness And I'm talking about a righteousness by faith his righteousness worked out in a practical way in our lives Even though it's his righteousness not ours not by works, but by faith, but worked out in a practical way in our lives Those people are going to have the greatest ministry they've ever had during this time. I'm gonna prove it to you verse 23 Then he will give you he's talking about this Zion people Then he will give you rain for the seed which you sow in the ground. That's the message you preaching and Bread from the yield of the ground and it will be rich and plenteous on that day. Your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture Almost wish makes you want to wish it was right here, doesn't it? This Yearning remnant gonna have a glorious harvest during a day of ruin and calamity. They're not going to be running They won't be hiding. They've heard the sound of the trumpet. They've prepared. They've hid themselves in Christ in the cleft of the rock They're not gonna burn out they're not gonna be discouraged they're not gonna be cast down there be no confusion in them They will know God has prepared them for this hour They're gonna be drinking from a divine spring of water Look at verse 25 and on every lofty mountain on every high hill There will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall When God brings down all these strong towers of ministries when he's slaughtering everything in sight that's of the flesh He's going to cause a stream of water to flow from his throne and the remnant bride are gonna drink from it living waters There'd be streams running with water Best of all these bruised but believing Saints They're going to have the greatest revelation of Jesus the world has ever had Do you know that we're seeing things that prophets wanted and longed to see and they couldn't see and we've been able to see it Do you know that the Bible proves that when everything's being shattered? They're gonna be a people who see it seven times brighter Look at verse 26 and the light of the moon will be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun will be What? Seven times bright that doesn't mean there's gonna be something revealed. That's not already there. It's always been there Not some new word It's just going to be the God going to open it seven times greater than it's ever been open before and he's doing that now And God's not doesn't want that just for a few pastors or a few missionaries or thing He wants praying people who go in and they come to the house of God There should be a body right now that seeing what God is saying to his church People who say I see something fresh and new about Jesus glory to God and The light of seven days on the day of the Lord binds up the fracture of his people and heals the bruise he is inflicted Oh, hallelujah, I Almost feel like going into my next one the resurrection realm, but I'll wait till tomorrow night Hallelujah, I'm not afraid I've got joy in my heart Because I I feel that finally the time has come. I've prayed for years and years Lord When do you start bringing all this thing down? When do you start getting a hold of people's attention? Well, it's coming folks. We're worth it It's at the door. The enemy's at the gate. Ah, but the Lord is standing by ready to you know, he's been preparing some of you You've been in the fire You've been tested you've been thinking am I crazy am I the only one he ever felt alone Am I the only one who feels alone anymore brother Warnick's been feeling alone up there in Canada for 40 years But now he's not alone anymore, he's got some brothers around him feel just like he does and seeing the same things Hallelujah Lords had you didn't hide and hasn't he you've been testing and proving you he's been preparing the people He'd been warning them get your house in order. Don't be afraid and when it happened your son knew it. I knew it nothing new He said he doesn't do a thing till he warns his servants the prophets now I'm not a prophet, but I'm one of his many watchmen. Maybe one of the least but one of his watchmen and I stand here now And I don't know what else I can say when it comes people say why weren't we warned they've been warned for 10 20 years Now it's all coming in Hallelujah, and I've got a hope in me Abounding like I've never had because the word is coming forth now without all the hype It's coming forth now without all the entertainment Folks that's garbage and it's all over it's a stench and God's nostril and he said enough enough. It's all done I've passed by that now. I'm preparing me a people hallelujah a Repentant holy people and I really believe the words going to come forth so soon in this next tomorrow morning And tomorrow afternoon, there's going to be a word of repentance come forth, but the word tonight is force is this That We have got to repent Before we go any further than this conference and any further in this gathering. We have got to repent in our hearts honestly of anything that has to do with the flesh of Being removed from that simple childlike faith and the headship And the all-inclusiveness of Jesus Christ is the answer to every need in our life You teen challenge workers. That's the way you started Don't you get off? Repent of everything get it all out. That's what I've been doing. I said Jesus and in the last six months That's all I've been doing. I've been cutting all the strings of the world Cutting all the strings of the flesh Asking God to burn it all out. So we're cast Absolutely cast onto him. It's Jesus being everything But nothing else matters Are you gonna you're gonna hold on to that secret sin you're gonna cling to that thing That's dragging you down. Are you gonna let it go in this conference? You're gonna let it go and say Jesus. I want you With all my heart I want you I've never wanted him more than I do now Suppose the reason I tremble and I preach this is tonight that I almost lost it. I almost went the way of the flesh See the way the flesh includes crowds and money And prestige and honor it has all of that connected with it his way is a different way His way is the way of the outcast the rejected The lonely Those who are just looked down upon if you're gonna go this path don't expect to be somebody But it's going to be a holy people separated sanctified And Every day now lay on my face I say Jesus I've come to you open my heart Turn on the light Show me anything now and burn it up. I'll lay it down to you Jesus. I'll lay it down Stand with me, please I sense the Holy Spirit Just moving in my heart now to ask you a simple direct question And that's all just a simple direct question Are you where are you right now where you were? When you loved him the most You remember the time you loved him the most in your life. Are you there now? Do you love him less? You trust him less I ask you quit. What would you do if you lost everything you lost your ministry? You lost your paycheck You lost everything you had and you have nothing left, but him is that enough Is that enough? It's going to come down to that Paul said I've suffered the loss of all things I I count the whole world is done that I may win him We've we've had enough platitudes and cliches about how we trust Jesus now God said I'm gonna prove you I'm gonna put you in circumstances where there's no other choice no other choice and And I tell you you're not gonna be able to just jump into that position you're gonna have to be ready It's not just gonna dawn on you suddenly. You'd better be trusting him now You better be preparing in your heart right now Hallelujah Glory to Jesus glory to you. I just feel like worshiping him a moment Lord. We worship you we praise you We're not afraid We sense you Holy Spirit saying to our hearts Come back to the head come back to the head come back to that simple faith in Christ as being all in all the head of your ministry the head of your life Take all fear smite all fear Lord Jesus break all the bonds to materialism Break all the bonds to the flesh break it all Lord Hallelujah I'll tell you something look at me, please. I'm do something didn't expect to do And I feel so clear in the Holy Spirit to do it right now some of you that came here are backslidden you're backslidden That's right It's not a matter of trust nor you've lost your confidence in him You're in this conference this gathering and you're cold and hard You're cold And You're almost dull You say I want to get back But I can't there's a dullness in me and I sense that dullness and I believe I'm speaking in the spirit right now And he's ministering in the spirit. There's a dullness that the devil himself has put on you and the Bible says shake yourself. I Want you to get out of your seat and come here no one lay hands on you I'm gonna ask the brethren to join me over here my soul sits and I'm gonna ask God to bind that spirit and take it out Otherwise this gathering is not going to do anything for you Nothing's going to happen until that dullness is gone that spiritual dullness that emptiness Moving closer, please. Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus Jesus That dullness Lord The devil trying to destroy the ministry trying to destroy that usefulness You there standing look up here Not many of your perp are in parachurch ministries we've got a lot of youth pastors here and and I I Want to move in the spirit pit I Sense that some of you have actually Been in a spirit of seduction of the enemy where it's trying to get you to back to your old life Some of you were delivered Before you entered this ministry that God's given to you. You were on drugs or alcohol And all over the country. I see them going down left and right Ministers going down into deep sin And I don't know how else to do this and I'm not putting on a show but it's life and death I Want to know how many of you standing up here right now that's Satan has tried Put thoughts in your mind to go back and give up raise your hand Hmm Further more and I'm not going to belabor it. I'm not going to go any further. But some of you've already gone back You're doing things now that grieve the Holy Ghost and you know it deeply grieved I'm working with some workers now that say David even though I ministered for four years. I was going out and Do the little drugs and drinking on the side Be surprised how many preachers are watching pornographic materials and cassettes filled in their minds with filth And the Lord wants to cleanse and purge tonight Jesus minister, okay, I'd break that spirit break it now break it Jesus Restore this spirit restore both of you put your hands up both of the Lord Jesus a restoration right now a Restoration of the Holy Ghost in this heart the binding of all the pits of darkness and hell Audience I want you to join me up Many of these that are up here nice I I know that some of your pastors are up here, but many of you that are up here have been working with other people That brother right here Come here. Just a moment What ministry you with? We're at Midland, Texas the devil's just been trying to tear you apart raise both hands Jesus Oh Satan you're a liar Go go He's gonna hold you brother. He's holding you. He's holding you in his hands. Thank you Jesus Thank you Jesus All of you they're up here. Look at me right now I have a word for you know what you listen the Lord's not angry at any one of you. He's not mad at you He's not mad at you if your hearts open He's not gonna let you carry this burden another moment He will set you free and bring to your heart a spirit of rejoicing But there's got to be willings in your heart to so God I failed you. I Acknowledged my failure. I've not been seeking your face. I've been into the flesh. I've been down to Egypt I've not been trusting you Jesus at all my heart. Oh God You've got your hand in you you've got her in your hand Jesus lift up your hands. He's not gonna let you go He'll not let you go. He will not let you go audience Would you join me in prayer for all these you that are here raise both hands right now right now Jesus I confess right now been walking in the flesh. I confess right now Jesus. I've been walking in flesh My god, I bind Satan in Jesus name. This is a servant of the Most High God This is a servant of the Most High God Satan you're a liar Let the heart go out Jesus let the heart go out Reach out your heart to him right now. My heart goes out to you Jesus come Redeemer come blessed Redeemer Come blessed Redeemer now restore the joy of the Lord to my heart restore the joy of the Lord to my heart Restore the joy of the Lord to my heart take the dryness the dullness from me Restore the joy of the Lord to my heart Jesus Call my brother my brother That's God. He's seen your cry. He's heard your cry He's heard your cry Jesus. You've heard the cry Brother, he's heard your burdened heart Lord Jesus. You've seen the hunger the thirst and how Satan has tried to rob him if that anointing Hallelujah, hallelujah glory to Jesus Audience would you just lift both hands for a moment? Let's just lift our hands to him while we pray Lord Jesus Satan would try to rob the servants of the Most High God To rob them destroy them We come against Satan in Jesus name. We come against every power of darkness release people tonight Release them from this bondage of sin this bondage of doubt this bondage of fear Lord bring us back to the head bring us back to you Jesus to the head Bring us back to the head. Oh God we repent before you tonight We come Jesus now asking you to touch us We ask you to touch us. Oh Lord Holy Ghost break through upon us Break through upon us Oh Break through upon us. Oh There's there's there's someone standing up here right now and I don't know who you may be but Before you came here tonight You're on the verge of just quitting the devil's told you it's no use just quit you were going to quit Unless God did something for you. I Want this audience to hear your cry? So We can pray with you Would you just come up and share with me right now you said David I was going to quit I've just I've just been so defeated by Satan and so Absolutely just torn brother, where are you from? What ministry What church? Take it Why did you have to come hold it closer Lord the anointing has come to break the yoke The heart so hungry A Year ago, I was pastoring a very a Very spiritual church that we hit pioneered in another city And I was preaching the word as best I knew and praying and fasting and God was doing a wonderful thing and The Lord asked me to leave that said I was obedient and I did and I went to a church and I continued to preach the same way I had in a church I had pioneered and The spirit of lawlessness rose up so violently and for the first time in 14 years I Submitted to the fear of man And For five months I've gotten away from my prayer time and my quiet time and my fasting When God called me to the ministry I Was destined to Be a professional golfer. I was headed that way. I'd given my life to that particular Profession Two weeks ago for the first time in 14 years I Said I'm gonna get out of the ministry And I'm gonna get back into what I know I can do I can go I know I can be successful Go back to Egypt I Got a month ago. I got your your letter And I kept it on my desk for a month and I threw it in the trash three days ago And I decided that Egypt's not worth it I I Told my wife who's also At the same or was at the same point that I was of just throwing in the towel. I Said baby. I said if we lose everything You see when you preach against the spirit of lawlessness People stop paying their tithes They pass petitions to get you out of their church I I Said baby, I said if we lose our home our car Everything we have I Said we lose it all It'll be worth just having Jesus But the David I to started on the streets preaching and I'm willing to go back The Devil fought us all the way up here With our problem. I want you to see dawn right after this service So what we've been praying about the devil fought us all the way here when we hit Dallas We had an associate that used to work with us. That's in Tioga and we left our children there We decided to come Not even a day before we just left And when we hit Dallas going up to Tioga to leave our children and come back our car started dying It died it died And I recognized that it was the devil. That's right I said I will not submit to this and every time I stopped My cars died and I've had to put it in neutral and rev that baby up and throw it and drive and screech the tires And keep coming I said, I want to go because two days ago the Lord said you go you go. I Love the Lord tonight And I thank him for his presence pray for you now, Jesus You honor this step and you bring such a life to him now repentance that produces life and Give him a people Lord. That'll hear your word. Give him a people if it has to go out in the street Lord Give him a people Give him a people Lord. He's it got a shepherds heart now Lord a true shepherds heart. You've cleansed you've purged. Thank you, Jesus Beautiful brother. God bless your heart. God bless your heart Hallelujah Hallelujah What minister you with I just work in a factory Not right now maybe before the service we're going to have testimony last night that's as far as I want to go tonight See this is what I'm saying God's trying in gatherings like this to restore the strength and the power of the Holy Ghost in your ministry in your life a Heart pure before God and I'll tell you the word that's coming forth in this next few days. You're going to revolutionize you You will know I promise you will never be the same brother Bob the word It's all cut out for you tomorrow and brother Warnock and dawn God's God's preparing a word for this people because there's hunger God promises. There's gonna be great healing Are you is that husband and wife? What ministry you with? Okay, both have you give me a hand Lord Jesus in this gathering let there be such renewal Such an anointing of your Holy Spirit and a calling away from the world Lord life-changing life-changing hallelujah Big John come on join me here Amen, we never close unless we got some singing and shouting praising the Lord and every one of these meetings Glory to God. How many believe the Lord's here? I'll hey Where we gonna sing John, I mean, oh, I just feel like rejoicing right now I feel like rejoicing and how many believe the Lord's answering your prayer here right now Now the works not finished, but he's begun at work. He's begun at work. It just begun I'll tell you by Friday night though. You're going to know he's done a deep work in your heart you will know it the world will keep coming and coming and coming and digging and digging and Then start blessing you like you've never been blessed in your lifetime pastor if you're here just hold steady Please don't judge it till it's over and then do all the judging you want But God's gonna do a supernatural work in many many hearts. All right
A Great Apostasy
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David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011). American Pentecostal pastor, evangelist, and author born in Hammond, Indiana. Raised in a family of preachers, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at eight and began preaching at 14. Ordained in 1952 after studying at Central Bible College, he pastored small churches in Pennsylvania. In 1958, moved by a Life Magazine article about New York gang violence, he started a street ministry, founding Teen Challenge to help addicts and troubled youth. His book "The Cross and the Switchblade," co-authored in 1962, became a bestseller, chronicling his work with gang members like Nicky Cruz. In 1987, he founded Times Square Church in New York City, serving a diverse congregation until his death. Wilkerson wrote over 30 books, including "The Vision," and was known for bold prophecies and a focus on holiness. Married to Gwen since 1953, they had four children. He died in a car accident in Texas. His ministry emphasized compassion for the lost and reliance on God. Wilkerson’s work transformed countless lives globally. His legacy endures through Teen Challenge and Times Square Church.