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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.
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This sermon warns about the deception of false teachings in the Church, focusing on the rise of ministers transformed by Satan into angels of light, spreading a gospel of the flesh and prosperity. It emphasizes the need for believers to discern the true gospel of Jesus amidst the prevalence of deceptive messages promising gain without repentance. The speaker urges Christians to turn away from these false doctrines and align themselves with the teachings of Jesus, which prioritize humility, righteousness, and faith over material wealth and success.
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He's going to judge the carnality, he's going to judge our wickedness, he's going to judge our covetousness, and he's going to judge all the mockery of the truth of Jesus Christ in these last days. I ask that everyone sing for a season right now. Come on now, let's sing. God is seizing time, I tell you, for a season great in His prevailing. You and I know that the King of Hell will never prevail against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But as He's prevailing for a season now, as saints establish defeat in the Church, a stronghold on many, many of God's children being deceived, Satan will come with another gospel, the Bible says. And Paul told us exactly how he's going to come against God's holy people to try to deceive them. We're not talking about homosexuals and tragedics now, we're talking about preachers of the gospel. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it's no great sin if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. Well, that's awesome. Many will come in these last days where Paul's apostles deceive the workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Satan's stronghold in the Church in the last days is a host of teachers and ministers who have been transformed by a gospel of the flesh. They have come to us as the Lord's most enlightened ministers. They sound just like the preachers of the gospel. They freely use the name of Jesus. They speak of righteousness. They use the Scripture. They cast out devils. They heal the sick. And the Lord's made them do many wonderful works. But the message is not of God. It's another gospel. It's a deception. It's a bequest, and it's not a description. And right now, these false doctrines of Satan are prevailing in the Church in many areas. Multitudes of God's people are walking to conventions and meetings to hear this other gospel, this gospel of self, prosperity, and success, the gospel of the flesh that's riding high in the Church. Come on, Christian, wake up! Are you and I being deceived? Have we been trapped into the teachings of an angel of light from Satan? Are you being swept away by this flood that the prophets told us would sweep the Church and where Jesus would prevail? Get into God's Word and hear the true gospel of Jesus and begin to judge not what we see and hear and compare what Jesus said to what they are saying. The Scripture proves God has shattered a thousand faces. This new flood, this new gospel, is saying, is godliness. This is godliness. Listen to this. Really, if you don't hear anything else, I say, hear this now. It's a compromising message without repentance for godliness. It promises forgiveness without repentance. All we offer people now is forgiveness. Turn on your television and listen. Godliness is forgiveness. It's all outward feelings, no repentance. It's a gospel of gain. It's based on the supposition that the godlier you are, the more gain you will have. Oh, listen to Paul's graceful warning. For any man he otherwise, even other than the words of our Lord Jesus and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, that man is proud. He knows nothing. He's destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Paul cried out, turn away from them. Turn away from this other gospel. Do you want to hear the true gospel, Christians? Do you want to hear what Jesus really said? In this day and age of success and prosperity preaching, do you want to know what the gospel says? Are you interested? Here it is from the words of our master himself. Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep not, for you shall last. Blessed are ye where men shall hate you, and they shall separate you from their company, and they shall reproach you, and cast out your name of evil for the blood of man's sake. Now here is what the gospel says about people in these modern times when the church is seeking after material things from the lips of Jesus himself. Woe unto you that seek to be rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full, for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did the fathers to the false prophets. The gospel of gain despises poverty, it rejects and despises the poor. Listen to what James said, he said, but ye have despised the poor. You say unto him that's prosperous and dreadful, that's what the gold brings to the plight of the poor. Sit up here in the good place, and to the poor you say sit here in the low place. Sit at the footstool. This is a gospel of partiality to the prosperous and successful. And it's an indictment against the poor, to whom Jesus ministered. It exalts prosperity and success. James said, are you not partial? Have not God known to the poor of this world, rich in faith and heir to the kingdom? And for you preachers of the gospel, who try to tell me that he became poor, that we can become rich in houses and lands, you don't know your Bible. There it is, it says, have not God known to the poor rich in faith? How blind is the church today? How blind? Is this a gospel for a dying world? Jain is godliness, faith is for prosperity, poor people lack faith. Christ became poor so that we can be rich in material goods. He came to give us abundant life. Is abundant life supposed to be wealthy goods? No, that's eternal life. Abundant life is the fullness. You and I don't have the life. We have just the seed. The life is encapsulated in that seed. And one day we're going to have abundant life, and that's eternal life in Jesus. We don't have it now. We're going to get it then. One billion people on this earth are near starvation. The heart of Jesus is breaking over the sight of weeping mothers who hold starving babies with their bloated stomachs. Millions are unemployed. The ends of the world are coming down on us. The world's headed for Armageddon. Our cities in America and Canada are about to explode again in riots. Persecution and stimulation are coming. The Bible says the elements are going to melt with the perfect heat. The world's on fire. All over the world, God's chosen people are being killed. They're being persecuted. They're losing all they possess. They're taking godliness as part of their goods. And you tell me that God's going to send a man of God to tell me that I have a right to be rich? Was that a man of God who comes to me in the face of a starving world and says, use your eyes, use your faith, you can be rich, you can be poor, but you can have a bigger car, you can have a better home? What's happened to us? How blind can we be? You say that's an American message. No, it's speaking all over Canada right now. We got it all wrong. The rich man went to hell. The poor man went to heaven. From such turn away. These preachers have no burden for repentance. They don't preach against sin. They offer blessings without sorrow. They are accumulators of this world's good. They accumulate. And so the preachers say, I have to be successful. I have to drive an F car. I have to prove what I'm preaching. Makes me want to cry. Amos the prophet cried out, O to them that are heathen, Zion, unconcerned about the evil day ahead, they lie upon beds of ivory, they strut themselves upon their couches, and they eat the lambs of the flock, and they drink wine in bowls, and they must grieve for the afflictions of Joseph. They must grieve. And I shudder to think of standing before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, having preached that kind of a message.
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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.