In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of relying on God's provisions and resources when we reach the end of our own abilities. He tells the story of a young man who squandered his inheritance and ended up feeding pigs, realizing that he had nothing left to turn to. The speaker highlights that as children of God, we have access to the abundant love and blessings of God through Jesus Christ. He encourages listeners to come boldly to God's throne and claim His mercy and grace for every need, assuring them that God's provisions are wide open and available to them.

This message is one of the Times Square Church pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing World Challenge, Post Office Box 260, Lindale, Texas, 75771, or by calling 903-963-8626. None of these messages are copyrighted, and you are welcome to make copies for free distribution to friends. Holy Spirit, come down upon me right now. Holy Spirit, I yield my body to you. I yield my voice. I yield my mind, everything I am and all that I have. I yield here as an offering before this people to you. I lay my life down before you, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Lord, what I say tonight is not profound, but I believe it's come from your heart. Oh, Holy Spirit, take words and use them tonight to open up hearts, to bring healing, to bring strength, to open our minds, open our understanding, Holy Spirit. I can't do it, but you can. Let your precious word come forth, anointed of the Holy Spirit, because the letter kills, and it's the Spirit that gives it life. In Jesus name I pray, amen. You could keep your Bible open to the 15th chapter of Luke. Just open it to the 15th chapter, start in verse 11, and don't read it now, but that's about the prodigal son. We'll be coming back to that. The unclaimed treasures in glory. Now in recent weeks, the Holy Spirit's been leading me to pray for a greater understanding of the love of God to me. I thought I knew something about that until I read 1st John 4 16. You don't have to turn there, but John wrote, We have known and believed the love God has to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Now, most Christians know about the love of God to them because you've heard it preached. You know the scriptures. Many of you could quote to me many, many scriptures about the love of God. Now, you know it theologically, you know it from scripture, or you know it from preaching. But most of us are limited to a line out of a children's course. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. But that's not enough. How many of us here tonight can sing, Yes, Jesus loves me, because I understand fully what that love is, and I have apprehended it, I understand it, and I live in it. It's not enough to know the Bible tells you that God loves you. You have got to experience. John said, We have known and believed, and then he goes on to talk about dwelling or living in that love, because if you live in love, you're living in God. That's a profound statement. You know, you and I are convinced that we believe every verse in this Bible. We, we, if I came to you say I believe every word of it. But you know the majority of Christians, the daily walk is not a walk of love. Their daily walk for Christ is under a cloud. There are people sitting here now that have walked with Jesus for years, and they've never been free of guilt. They've never been really free of condemnation, and the enemy is able to come in with all kinds of lies, all kinds of confusion. They may have weeks or months and even maybe a year or so of peace, a measure of peace. They're able to sit in church and rejoice. They're able to raise their hands, and outwardly they look like everything is fine. Outwardly they look happy, but they carry a secret baggage with them at all times. There is never a period when they are not free of this nagging, this nagging of guilt, of condemnation, of unworthiness, of never really pleasing the Lord, that there's always something lacking that I am not measuring up to some standard. Either a standard you believe a pastor or evangelist has set for you, or a standard that you believe is your interpretation of God's Word, and you can't measure up, and it's left you guilty. It's left you condemned, and in spite of your joy, in spite of everything that you do, there is this nagging that's inside nagging. There is this little bit of fear that brings confusion into your life, and I want to address that tonight. Paul said, Walk in love. Walk in love, or your daily Christian walk should be walked in love as Christ has loved us. In other words, it means Jesus truly loves you, so walk as somebody who is truly loved. Walk as somebody that's truly loved by God. Folks, I've heard the confessions of Christians that have walked for God sometimes 30 and 40 years, who have never really known the joy of being truly loved by God. They have never entered into the peace that that is supposed to bring to the heart. For 30, 40 years, not that they're hypocrites, not that they're phonies, but they've never understood, they have never truly understood in their spirit and in their mind the love of God in Jesus Christ for them. They have never appropriated it. They have never experienced it. They've just had a measure of it, but they don't know the fullness of it. They've been confused. They've never understood this love that God has toward them. They drag on and on. Now, let me tell you something, and listen closely, please. You will never go after a revelation of God's love to you until you get sick and tired of the guilt. And you get sick and tired of the condemnation, and you get sick and tired of being blessed one moment and straight and thinking God is speaking to you in the next moment confused and mixed up. And until you come to the place where you get sick and tired of that, and you say, I know God never intended that I live like this. God never intended that I'd be up and down. God never intended that I'd be swayed by winds and waves of doctrine. God never intended that I'd be teased by the devil or his lying spirits. God is not a tease. God is not the awful confusion. God did not put guilt on you. He did not put fear on you. The Bible says that very clearly. He's not given us the spirit of fear. So wherever you got it, you didn't get it from God. And my feeling is if God didn't give it to you, I put up with it. But you see, you've got to come to the place where you say, this is not a way to live the Christian life. Surely, I'm not living up to something in this. I'm missing something. Because as much as I love Jesus, as much as I believe my sins are forgiven, why am I bombarded? Why do I have to carry this guilt? Why do I have to be so condemned? Now, let me tell you something. The Holy Ghost convicts, but he never condemns. He convicts of sin. That's his ministry. But it's only to heal. It's only to bring you to a place of peace and rest in Christ. And he does it redemptively. He does not do it with wrath. You've got to wake up one day, and I hope you wake up tonight during my preaching. I hope something strikes deep in your heart and say, that's right, Brother Dave. That is me. I carry this sense of never measuring up. I carry this sense of unworthiness, or that I'm going to fail God, or that the devil's going to be able to trip me up and drag me back down to some old temptation. Or you may be carrying a temptation you can't seem to shake off. And you say, how could Jesus love me when I have this thing that keeps coming back and badgering me in my mind? Now, God didn't save you to let you go on living with guilt and condemnation. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth in him that sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation that is passed from death unto life. Now, the word condemnation here means two things. It means wrath. You won't come under the judgment. You are free at the judgment day. There are many of you scared to death of the judgment that shouldn't be scared at all. If you believed this book and rested in the blood, you wouldn't be afraid. Some of you are carrying fear needlessly. Your sins are under the blood, you're forgiven, and you've allowed the devil to lie to you that you're not ready to meet Christ at the judgment. Jesus said, He's passed from death unto life. He shall not come under condemnation. That means He shall not come under the feeling of never... Now listen, this is it. He shall never have to come under the feeling of never measuring up. All right, there's so many of you here tonight that I'm talking to that you have lived that way. I just don't measure up. You see others that are apparently more holy than you and making more progress. But you know one of the greatest things God ever taught me? Nothing is as it appears. I see some people, I say, Oh, I wish God would bless me like that. I wish I could be like that, and then when I find out what they're really like, I say, Thank God I'm not like that. And there are other people I've seen that seem to be so down, and I wonder if they're ever growing. And then when I talk to them, I know they've grown more than anybody else around them. And they don't know it, they just don't boast about it. So nothing is as it really appears, because man looks on the outward appearance. Only God's a mind reader. If anybody here has learned how to read minds, see me backstage after, I've got a good job for you. Romans 8, 1 says, There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. All condemnation and guilt is from the devil. Hear it again. All, in fact, here's the scripture for it. Paul was warning Timothy of those who fall into the condemnation of the devil. That's in 1 Timothy 3, 6. He warns of those who are going to fall into the condemnation of the devil. It's a fall. When you are in condemnation, you've fallen from grace. You've fallen from the security that God has offered us through His blood of His own Son. Who is He, the scripture says in Romans 8, 34. Who is He that condemneth? Who's condemning you? He's the accuser before the brother. Who is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that's risen again, who is ever at the right hand of God, who's also making intercession for you. Hallelujah. But it says, who's condemning you? Why are you walking around the condemnation? Because Jesus, your heavenly Lord, your Savior, is right now before the Father, pleading your cause. Hallelujah. The only condemnation is upon those who refuse the light of the gospel and who prefer darkness to light. Now I'm going to ask you, do you prefer darkness to light? Do you love the light? Do you love to have the word of God come and expose everything in your heart? Then why in the world are you allowing the devil to put you on trips of guilt and condemnation, fear and confusion? Why? Because here's the scripture. And this is the condemnation. Here are the only people to be condemned. That light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. Now if you're covering something up all the time and you don't want God to expose it, that's different. But the condemnation is meant only for those who are hiding sin and those who love darkness. So if you're sitting here now and you can say with all grace and all assurance, I thank God for the light of the Holy Ghost. Turn your light on Holy Spirit. Then you have no reason ever to have guilt or condemnation upon you. Now Christians who live in guilt and condemnation and fear, they do so because they're not rooted and grounded in love. Here's the scripture. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, Paul said, that you're being rooted and grounded in love. Rooted and grounded in love. And you know what that means? To build a steady, deep foundation of knowing and understanding the love of God. In other words, he's talking about an understanding. He said, you don't understand. You're not rooted. You're not grounded. That means dig deep and get a stable foundation. Let me tell you. A knowledge of the love of God to you is the foundation upon which every other doctrine, every other truth must build. You must have under you a firm foundation. You have got to be fully persuaded about God's love. That is where the fear of God builds upon. And folks, this holy dread of God is the dread of his holiness against sin, against the world, and what he can do to those who love darkness rather than light. It's not living under a dread that God's going to strike you down or that he's trailing you looking for some little fault and says, I got you. I got you. I knew if I waited long enough I'd catch you. No. That's not our heavenly father. He sent his son to die for that. No. But he said you've got to be rooted and grounded that you may be able, listen to this, that you may be able to comprehend, and that word in Greek means to eagerly seize it, to lay hold on it. Are you one to have a knowledge, an understanding of the love of God to you? Then lay hold of it. Get a hold of it. Get your spiritual hands out and say, I'm going to grab hold of this. That's what he means, that you may comprehend, that you may seize this truth, that you may get hold of it and make it the foundation of your Christian life. And everything else you build it upon the fact that you know in your heart God truly loves you. We'll talk about what that means in just a moment. In the same message Paul says that you may be able to comprehend or seize, lay hold upon it. Now let me share with you tonight what the Holy Spirit's been showing me in Revelation about the love of God to me. And I believe to you and to all who hear it. Just a few simple truths, and I really believe the Holy Spirit revealed this to me. Didn't get it out of a book. First of all, and listen closely please, the love of God to us has to do with his treasures and glory. You cannot divorce his provisions from his love. Now I want you to, if you can comprehend this, it's going to change your whole thinking about the love of God. It has to do with his bountiful resources that's been laid up in glory for us. It has to do with unlimited provisions available to you and me in everyday life. Love has to do with God's unlimited treasures in heaven. It has to do with his bountiful provisions for the body of Jesus Christ to live victorious at all times. All the provisions for every crisis in life. Now, folks, I had been praying for weeks, literally months, for a fresh revelation about the love of God to me. I said, Father, I want to know your heart. I want to know, and I'll tell you why, I just got starved for his love. Are you starved for his love? And it dawned on me, well, here I am, one of the pastors of Times Square Church, and if I'm starved for love, what are the people like? They must be starved like I am. I knew he loved me, but I wanted to experience, I said, I want a revelation. And I said, Lord, I don't want to go to my library and get it out of a book. I don't care if it's one of the holiest men of all history. He can't implant it. It has to come from the Holy Spirit. Lord, I want my own revelation directly from your heart, and I want to see it so clear it'll change my way of living. Not that I'm living in sin, but I'm just frankly tired of putting up with guilt and condemnation. I'm tired of it. I woke up one day and said, I don't want to live like this. That's not what the Bible says I'm supposed to live with. Folks, please don't think I'm living in sin. That's not it. The devil can bring guilt and condemnation for not praying enough, for not reading your Bible enough, for making you feel unworthy. Folks, I have come home from a busy evangelistic tour sometime where I preached to thousands, and I'll sit and two days later I'll say, Gwen, I don't feel like I'm doing anything. And I feel guilty if I rest for two days. Guilt trips from every corner of hell put on me. You know what I'm talking about. I don't know where you got your guilt, I don't know where you got your condemnation, but you sure didn't get it from the Holy Ghost. And I prayed, Oh God, you must open up heaven to me. I want it from your heart. Shine the light on. I don't know what I expected. I don't know whether, I thought, well, maybe it's a revelation of his love that's going to flow over me like oil. I'll feel oil just coming all over me, and I'll feel sweet and tender, and I'll see these big arms coming out of the cosmos and reaching out and saying, Come on, David, and pulling me right to his heart. And I could get up here and tell you this great story of, Oh, I had a vision of his love. I thought that's the way it might come. Or maybe it's some new insight that will make me so breathless I can hardly stand up here and say, Folks, it's so wonderful, I can't tell you about it. So Paul said, I went to the third heaven, but I can't tell you anything about it. I thought, well, maybe it's a manifestation of such nearness and a feeling of being so special to the Lord. I thought, well, maybe it's, I'll be in a meeting and he'll just come down and touch me. I can feel his touch. It'll be just like a physical touch on me, and my face will glow and the whole church will see it. And he'll come up to me and say, What is that? I said, I finally got my revelation of love. I didn't know what to expect. But then he gave me this simple little verse, God so loved that he gave. That's where the key came. You can't divorce my love from my giving heart. That's where we begin. Now, I want you to follow me closely, please. Our love for the Lord, our love for him is evidenced by our obedience. That's how we prove to him we love him. If you love me, Jesus said, you'll obey me. He said, for this is love, that you keep my words and my commandments. This is how we prove to God, Jesus, we love him. That's what he said. That's his definition of our love toward him. But his love toward us is evidenced in another way. It's evidence in his love to give. You cannot know him as a loving God until you see him as a giving God. I say it again. You cannot know him as a loving God until you see him as a giving God. God so loved the whole world that he invested in his own son all the treasures, all the glory, all the riches, all the bounties of heaven. And he invested them in Jesus. And the scripture said, it pleased the Father that in him, in Jesus Christ, should all fullness dwell. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him. Meaning, in Christ, I provide for you every provision you need for every crisis in life. I provide for you all the peace and the joy you need to walk, no matter how worldly it may be around you. I have provided in Jesus Christ all the treasures of glory in your Savior. Everything is in him. Now, it's not that we doubt that Christ has all the glory of God and everything we need. And it's not that we doubt that he's promised it to us. There's not a Christian in this church tonight that wouldn't say, I believe Jesus has everything I need to take away my guilt, my fear, and give me peace and joy, and let me walk day by day, growing in his peace and love. Yes, I know that. There's not a person here that could tell me that you don't know that God promised it to you, and that you and I would have it. The problem is, we don't appropriate it. We don't go after it. It lays in glory, unclaimed. It lays in the heart of Jesus, unclaimed. That's why I've called this message, The Unclaimed Treasures in Glory. And boy, what a shock it's going to be when we get to heaven, and God begins to show you all that was available. And you and I didn't use it. We lived like paupers when we were multimillionaires. I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about the life of Jesus Christ. Now, God's love is profoundly revealed in the story of the prodigal son. Now that's where I want you to go to Luke 15. And it begins in the 11th verse. Quickly, it says, A certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that follow to me. He divided unto them his living. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, took his journey to a far country, and wasted his substances with riotous living. You know the story. He ended up, a friend sent him out to his pig pen. He was feeding and slopping the hogs. He was feeding the hogs, the swine, and even began to yearn after the pigs' food. Then he remembered his father's house, and he goes back, and his father forgives him, and then, well, I don't want to get ahead of my story. I want you to listen, please. First of all, do you remember what I told you? The love of God cannot be divorced from the bounties of God, from the goodness and all the treasures of His storehouses. How many understand it right now that our Savior has been invested with everything that God has, and He's freely offered it to you and me? How many believe that? Alright, you understand, that's where you begin. Alright, secondly, God's love, listen close, God's love insists that we come to the end of all human resources, and claim and appropriate His bountiful treasures. You've got to come to the end of your own resources, and that's what the whole story of the prodigal son is about. Prodigal means runaway. The runaway or prodigal son, there are two sons in this story, one who comes to waste his own resources, comes to the end of his resources, and the other son who would not claim the resources. And I'm going to show you that the older son is the one who committed the greatest sin. Not the runaway son, but the elder son who would not move in and claim the bounties that his father said were his. The wayward son, now I want to show you this very clearly, the wayward son comes home, or comes in one day and says, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. In fact, the Bible says the substance that he gathered together was his own goods. These were his. This represents the innate human resources that God gives to all of us. All of us have a certain intellect, we have a certain wit, we have a certain fortitude. And really, this is the story, when you see the spiritual side of it, of a man who goes out and says, I can do it on my own. I've got good wits. I can make it on my own. I'm doing it with my hands. I've got a good background. And he goes out. He really doesn't need God. He doesn't need all the resources of his father. He's just going to take what he has. I'm going to go out and face it. I'm going out on my own. And folks, when you go out on your own, it doesn't take long to run out of all resources. Ah, how quickly you spend everything that you have inside of you. When things get hard, you come to the end of your human resources. You know, there are some problems you can figure yourself out of. There are some hard places that you can just grit your teeth and you just mule your way through. There are some things that you can just walk your way through, you can talk your way through, you can think your way through. But oh, there comes a time in every life you say, uh-uh. You look inside and there's nothing left. You're at the end of your resources. Everything is crumbled. There's nothing to turn to. There's no voice of a friend that can save you. All your human resources, you've come to the end of it. And that's what happened to this young man. He came to the end of himself. There's nothing left in him to draw on. He's run out of all human resources. Now, I want you to see something here. Some of you in this place tonight can say, I'm a child of God. He's my Father. But you have been running. You're still hanging around the devil's pig pen. You've been trying to... You have worked out a gospel all of your own. I get so sick and tired of people saying, well, I may not serve Jesus like you do, but I serve my own way. And you know what that is. My own way is all human resources. I'm doing it on my own. No strength of the Holy Ghost. No calling on God for His provisions. And look what it finally ends up. You have problems that you can't solve. You have deals that are too big for you to handle. And suffering too much to bear. And then you wind up saying, hey, this is getting to me. It's bigger than me. Now, what was it that woke up the prodigal son? He's sitting in a pig pen now and he's starving. And I'll tell you one thing. He didn't come home because of love for his father. There's not one place here, now maybe he did, but there's not one word mentioned that he sat there saying, oh, he loved me so much and I have abused him. I've got to go back. I love him so much. There's not a word about his love for the father. You know what the Bible said? He loved us first. Not because we loved him, but because he loved us. You see, God loves, this father loved this boy unconditionally. There were no strings attached. He didn't come back and the father starts on a right away, said, where have you been? Give me accounting. Open your wallet. Let me see how much is left. How many harlots did you lay with? He didn't go over the list of his sins. In fact, he fell on his neck. He kissed him and he said to his servants, kill a padded calf, put a new robe on him, put a ring on his finger, new shoes on his feet and let's have a party. Let's rejoice and be happy and be merry. Do you know what brought him back? This statement. In my father's house, he said, I'm hungry, I'm famine stricken, but in my father's house is bread enough and to spare. Do you know what brought him back? He was reminded of his father's resources. He was reminded of the provisions that were really available to him. And he comes back. Now, he's repentant. Yes, he is. He said, I'm sorry, Father. I've sinned against you and I've sinned against God. I'm not even worthy to come into the house. Now, folks, you tell me, where is the revelation of love in this story? Is it when the father so freely forgives him? He doesn't judge him. He doesn't condemn him. Is it when he falls on his neck and kisses him? Is that the picture of love? Is that the revelation we're looking for? Is it when he puts a ring on his finger, a new robe on his back, or new shoes? No, that's not the heart. All of these things are evidence of his love, yes. But it's not the heart of love. This is the end of side 1. You may now turn the tape over to side 2. The heart of love is when the father unconditionally forgives him, yes. Kisses him, yes. But the real evidence of love, the real revelation of love is the father could not have full joy until he knew that boy was in the banqueting hall. Song of Solomon says, he brought me into his banqueting hall, banqueting room, and his banner over me was love. There's no revelation in its fullness of the love in this story until the father is in the banqueting hall, sitting at the table, and he has made sure that that boy knows that he's forgiven. He knows that his sin is wiped out. And they're eating at the table of the father. Of course, you know who the lamb is, slain from the foundation of the world, and they're feasting on the lamb. And you look in that window, and some of you need to get up that window like I had to do. You need to get up the window and take a look inside and see a young man has just returned, and he is dancing, and he's happy, and he's got no burden of guilt. He's not feeling condemned. He's not listening to the lies of the devil where you've got a streak in you, and you're going to go right back to that big bed. He is dancing, he's laughing, and he's happy, and his father's sitting there enjoying it all and smiling at him. He's smiling at him. Here is the evidence of his love. Here's the hard one. Bring forth the fatted calf. Kill it. And let us eat and be merry. And they began to be merry. Hallelujah. The Bible says we love him because he loved us first. Hallelujah. I'm sure that prodigal son learned to love his father. But inside that banqueting house there was a feast of love. Now we have an even better promise. To know the love of Christ, Paul said, which passeth knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness or all the provisions of God. You may be filled with all the provisions. You may go to the storehouse and claim all that I have offered you, in other words. Now unto him that's able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us. Here's God's love. He's saying, I offer you exceeding abundant fullness, provision for every crisis, joy throughout all your Christian life. Hallelujah. Now the older son is out in the field working and he hears this great noise and he comes near and he calls his servant out and said, what's going on? And he said, come on, look in the window. And he looks in the window and there's his wayward brother who's wasted his father's substance with harlots and riotous living. And he sees the father dancing with his son, the prodigal, the runaway son. And he sees the joy. And he gets mad. He gets angry. The scripture said he was angry. He wouldn't go in. Therefore his father came out and entreated him. And there was an anger in him. And he said, father, this is not right. He said, all these years, all these many years I've served you, neither did I ever disobey you at any time, and yet you never gave me a goat or a party, in other words, that I might make merry with my friends. Folks, listen to it now because probably 90% of us are represented by this elder son. And we're standing outside. I've been there. I've been outside that window, and I've looked in there, and I'm tired of being out here looking in. And I said, I'm not going to do that anymore, Lord, because, you see, I got saved when I was just a child. I got called to preach when I was eight years old. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. I've never had a drink in my life. I've never lived in adultery. I've never gambled. I've lived a moral, upright, moral life. I'm like that young man. The older son said, Lord, all these years I've kept your commandments. And then I look at somebody that's lived in sin, and they come back to the Lord, and within two weeks, they're dancing, and they're praising the Lord, and they're happy, and they're free. They've come with simple faith, no guilt, no condemnation, no memory of their past. Everything's new. And I said, that's all right. And I walk in. I'll take a peek in the door and say, oh, yeah, look at them dancing, but are they holy? I paid a price for where I'm at. I worked for what I've got. And here they come in. It's like the one who labored all day for a penny, and somebody comes in at the eleventh hour and gets the same pay. I've been out there. And I said, Lord, that's not right. They're so free, and I've got all this complicated theology. You talk to them, and they'll say, Jesus loves me. I'm so happy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You know what bothers me most of all? I know Jesus is sitting there smiling at them. They're forgiven. And here I am walking with all this load. You know, I really believe in my heart that that older brother went right back to his shack out in the hills where he's watching sheep. And you know what he's saying? Well, you just wait. He's waiting for death to roll in so that he can get his inheritance. He's waiting. You see, after death rolls in, then he inherits everything. He's waiting until another... This is the person that says, well, I may not be happy now, but you just wait till I get to heaven. One of these days, I'm going to have peace and rest, and we dream of heaven. Oh, in heaven, no more tears. In heaven, peace and rest. And some of you think you've got a private cloud and a little harp, and you're just going to float around all through eternity. Ninety-five percent of you are just going to be glad to get to heaven so you don't have to go to work anymore. Our heaven is with Jesus in eternity, but Jesus' heaven is with us on earth. That's His heaven. And we don't give Him a chance to have heaven. His heaven is when He rests in us. When He's able to see you come right in, the greatest joy that you can give Jesus is to go in and claim what He's freely offered to you. I hope you're getting sick and tired of guilt. I hope you're getting... I hope there's an anger rising up and you say, I don't have to live like this. You know what the Father said? And I believe He was heartbroken. He looked at him, and I don't believe it's the first time He told him, I believe He told him this over and over again. He said, Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. You know what's His? Food enough, bread enough, and to spare. The more you take out of His storehouse, the more it grows. You're not going to keep anybody else in the blessing by getting it yourself. It's just like the bread that He broke. The more He broke, the more it multiplied. God has more than enough for every one of us on the face of this earth. I think of the multitudes in China. If God sends a revival to China, multiplied millions, the Lord has enough grace for everyone. He has mercy, forgiveness, and love for every one of us to meet every need. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You see, the greater sin was not wasting or rejecting this sustenance and the provisions. The great sin was not in the sensuous living and the runaway spirit. It was this grievous sin of rebuffing. It's this sin of living so needy and so burdened down when the Lord is waiting and He's told you over and over again. He's told us, look, everything I have is yours. Come and get it. Come and claim it. Come lay hold of it. Now, I'm not naming it and claiming it. That's not the gospel here. But this is a matter of entering in and claiming the resources that the Lord has provided. Now, finally, before I close, God's love, listen closely now, God's love insists that we stop focusing on our sins and our failures and instead focus on the riches offered to us in Christ. The runaway son was not chastised or rebuked or reminded of his sin. In fact, God wouldn't even let the elder brother bring up his sin. He said, no, he was lost, but now he's in the house, he's forgiven, and it's time to rejoice and get happy. Folks, I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a party. I'm ready to rejoice from now till Jesus comes. Oh, yeah, there'll be trials, there'll be heartaches, yes, there'll be temptations, but through it all, we ought to be in His banqueting hall and His banner over His love, and He said, I have everything you need. And I'm tired of living like a pauper when I've been promised everything I need. Glory be to God. Some of you have had the wrong focus. You've been looking at your failure and your sin and your past, and the Bible says, my Bible said, look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. If you'd quit looking at your failure and start looking to Jesus every day, get your eyes off of your failure, and I'll tell you what, the devil will come to you, he'll stand before the Father and accuse you, and then he'll send a lying spirit to you and say, let me tell you what I told your father. Not until you get every right to say, my father already knew that. That's what the Bible said, for if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. He knows all about you, and He still loves you. That's the miracle. He knows all about me, and He still loves me. He loves me enough to say, come on in and get all you need. The storehouse is open. You know there's a scripture in Genesis about Joseph storing up all these provisions in the storehouse for a famine that was coming? And then when the famine comes, the scripture says, and Joseph opened up all the storehouses. Can you imagine the kind of theology that we have or we've allowed to be ingrained in us that we can believe Joseph would open the storehouses but not our Lord? Why did he store it up? To give it out when it was needed. Why has God laid up all of these provisions of God in Christ Jesus our Lord? So that we could go to Him when we have a need, when we're guilty and condemned, and say, Jesus, I don't have to live like this. I'm not going to live with it. You're not condemning me. It's either the lying spirit or it's my own flesh condemning me, and I'm not going to live with guilt and condemnation anymore. You know what He said? Come boldly to my throne. You can claim mercy and grace for every hour of need. Then He said, I'll give it to you full, pressed down and running over. Now, in closing, I'm going to try to answer very quickly in just two minutes here, how do you get what you need out of this storehouse? How many of you believe God's provisions in His storehouses are wide open? Some of you have both hands up. Now, if you don't believe it, it's a double lie. Believe it. Now, how do I go in and get what I need? First of all, He said, come boldly to the throne of grace and ask largely so that you can have. You've got to go to prayer and say, Lord, I'm weary. That's what I did. I went to Him and said, Lord, if I live like this, I'm going to die. You say, well, Brother Wilkson, is that what you've been doing, sitting up here loaded down with guilt and condemnation? No, not at all. But there are times it just comes in. Have none of you had a lying spirit come to you and tell you how unworthy you are? Have you ever heard the devil lie to you and say that you're never going to please God? I'll tell you what, he's got a million ways to make you feel jealous, fearful, guilty, condemned, confused, all of these things. And then when you get confused, the devil comes and says, you know why you're confused? You know why you have guilt? Because you're a sinner. Because you've got all this junk in you. It's never been out. It's still. If you knew what's in your heart, I quit looking in my heart because it's always black. I don't want to look in there. But it's black to the flesh, but it's white to him because he's covered it with the blood. Hallelujah. It's all covered with the blood of the Lamb. Hallelujah. I don't care how you feel. I don't care if you feel condemned. I don't care if you feel guilty or confused. Look to Jesus and what he's done. He has wiped the slate clean. Don't let him put these lies into your soul, into your spirit. In prayer, when you go to prayer, remind God that it was his idea for you to come to him. It was his idea for you to ask him. It was his word that says, all I have is yours. You didn't go to him and say, Lord, I want everything you have. The Lord said, you have everything I have. You come and get it. And you're not going to get any infusion while you sleep. You've got to go after it. Hallelujah. Glory to Jesus. God said that everything that we obtain from him is obtained by faith. No other way. A spirit of faith has laid hold of my heart the past 30 days or so. A dear sister came to me after service this morning, twinkled her eye. I think she's in the choir. Yeah, she is, because she had a robe on. She blessed me. She said, oh, Brother Dave, I see a tenderness coming out in you. You know what that's from, if it's there? I hope it's beginning. It comes from being rooted and grounded in a revelation that His love to me is not a feeling. His love to me is a word that He Himself has spoken. In my house is bread and enough to spare, which means provision for everything you need. All I have is yours. Glory to God. All the peace, all the rest I need is yours. Come and claim it by faith. Hallelujah. Do you know you can have it by faith tonight? You don't have to work it up. You don't have to come up here and say, well, maybe if I get up there and cry for an hour. If I walk down the aisle and I really say, oh, God, I'm so sorry. You've already told Him that a hundred times. When are you going to believe it? When are you going to say by faith, Lord Jesus, come flood me with peace. It's mine. I'm going on the job tomorrow claiming peace. I claim rest for my soul. I'm going to bed. Let the devil lie. My Father knows it anyhow. He's forgiven me. He's cleansed me. I'm free. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. No guilt, no condemnation. I am His. Hallelujah. Let's stand and praise Him. Just stand on your feet and worship Him. Lift your hands and say, thank you, Lord, I'm free. Thank you, I'm free. I'm free. I'm free. I'm free in the name of the Lord. I am free. There is no condemnation. There is no guilt. Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Folks, I can't, you can't sing this down. We can't work it up. You can't clap it down. It's when you lay hold of the Word of God. And if you'll ask the Holy Spirit right now, before we leave this church, if you ask the Holy Spirit to help you seize it and lay hold on it and get rooted and grounded in it, this next week will be the greatest week you've ever had. Because you won't be focused on the lies. You won't be focused on the guilt. You'll be focused on all the power of Jesus that he has for you. You say, Lord Jesus, yeah, I know I'm not where I should be yet. I know I'm going to make mistakes. But nothing going to shake me. That you have everything I need to get to victory and live in it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My last statement to you, the victory is not in you anyhow. It's in Jesus. It's not in you. I hear people say, I got the victory. No, he got the victory. You just take it. He did it. Hallelujah. I'm going to have an invitation only for one particular group of people tonight. While your heads are bowed, please. And I'm not trying to create a mood. I mean this with all my heart. Balcony and here on the main floor. If you're here tonight and you are not walking with the Lord. You have been running from God. You're like that runaway son. I invite you to come and take full possession tonight of what Jesus wants for you. He wants you to have joy and glory. He wants to give you his full acceptance and forgiveness. If you just bring your repentant heart to him right now and say, Brother Dave, I know I'm not, I came here tonight empty. I came with a spirit that is not truly right with the Lord. We're not going to close this service until we give you a chance. Whoever there is in this building, I want you to come and let me pray for you right now. I won't beg you to come because the spirit has touched you and he's drawing you. And say, Brother Wilkins, I've been living like I was poor and hopeless. And I want to claim my inheritance in Christ. I want the fullness of Jesus. I want to be drawn close to him tonight. Up in the balcony, go to either stairs and down and come down any aisle. You that are here while we're singing. Folks, we're going to sing come and go with me to my father's house. And what are you going to the father's house for? To a banquet of love and to claim his provisions. Hallelujah. Everything you need, glory to God. Now, folks, if you're happy, it'll show. It'll show. And these that are coming here, God's going to break out in joy. These people that are coming, God's going to give them joy before they leave this house tonight. He's going to replace the agony, replace the emptiness, fill their hearts, and let a great thing happen, a great miracle happen in their lives. While we're singing, come on right down the aisle. Follow these for a great miracle in your life. Hallelujah. Until something comes up, until the word of the Lord hits home. And you just, if you have to, just reach your hands out and say, Lord, I'm going to get this. I'm going to get it good. You love me so much that you want me to have everything that I need. Glory to God. Financially, physically, spiritually, you need healing tonight? That's what he wants you to have. You believe he's got all the healing power that you need? That was awful weak. He has all the healing power that you need? He can take away every lying spirit and set your mind free? Hallelujah. He's got everything in our Father's house. But first of all, let's pray for these that are up here right now. You that have come forward, raise your right hand. Raise both hands. Just lift your hands up to the Lord right now. The Holy Ghost is here right now. Pray this right out of your innermost. Pray it right out of your heart. The words alone won't save you unless your heart is in it. You have to speak out the abundance of your heart. Pray with me. Jesus, I came forward and I stand here now because I know you love me. And I've come to your love. It's not that I know how to love you, but you know how to love me. And I accept your love. Forgive me. Cleanse me. And I'm coming to you, Jesus, because I need help. I need your blessings. I need your power. I need your joy and peace. Lord, start it with me right now. Now, with your hands raised, thank him for peace and rest and everything you need by faith. Lord, forgive and cleanse and heal. Thank him right now. Thank him with your own words. I thank you, Jesus. I thank you, Jesus. This is the conclusion of the tape.