In this sermon, the preacher focuses on the parable of the talents from Matthew 25. He explains that the talents represent the measure of grace and revelation of Jesus Christ given to each person. The preacher emphasizes that God wants His people to trust Him and have joy in Him, rather than seeing Him as a hard taskmaster. He warns that in the last days, there will be a harvest of what has been sown, both good and bad, and that there will be economic suffering. However, he also highlights the positive side, stating that those who sow to the Spirit will reap a wonderful harvest. The preacher concludes by emphasizing that in the last days, God will have a great host of willing sowers.

Welcome to From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons. Each week we bring you a different message from some of history's greatest speakers in the Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern printers too. This week we have David Wilkerson with his message, You Really Do Reap What You Sow. You really do reap what you sow. Amen. Good and bad. You'd be surprised we're going to talk a lot about the good tonight as well is the bad. Why don't you go to Matthew the 25th chapter if you will please. Matthew 25. Matthew 25. Let's begin reading at the 14th verse. Very familiar. Verse 14. Very familiar. Kingdom of heaven says a man traveling into a far country he called his servants and delivered unto them his goods to when he gave five talents to another two another one to every man according to his several ability straight away took his journey when he received he had received the five talents went and traded the same made them another five talents likewise also he received two he gained another two the one who received the one of course remember what he did he digged into the earth he had his lord's money after a long time the lord those servants come cometh and reckoneth with him he that received five talents came and brought another five talents saying lord thou deliverest unto me five behold i've gained beside five more his lord sending well done good and faithful servant you've been faithful a few things i'll make you rule over many things enter the joy of the lord he received two talents came and said lord you delivered me two i've gained two more the lord said unto him well done good and faithful servant you've been faithful over a few things i'll make thee rule over many enter into the joy of the lord he's received the one talent came and said lord i knew thee thou art a hard man reaping where you've not sown together strawed i was afraid i hid it in the earth there thou hast that is thine the lord said unto him you wicked slothful servant you knew that i reap where i sow not gather why i've not strawed you should have therefore i put my money to the exchanges and then at my coming i would receive mine own with usury take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him said ten and of course he was cast into outer darkness very familiar scripture that has to do with reaping heavenly father thank you tonight for jesus holy spirit i need to be quickened holy ghost come and quicken my body let me speak as the oracle of god tonight lord don't let anybody stay in this service tonight without being moved by the holy ghost changed by the word of the lord quicken us lord sanctify me i take your authority jesus over every demon power every prince upon in power of nothing in this house can disturb or or hinder the word of the lord from going forth quickened by the holy spirit in jesus name amen now this matter of sowing and reaping you know goes two ways it's both good and bad you know all my life and all your life you christian life you've heard this whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap now that has a bad connotation but it also has a good connotation in fact probably most of my message tonight will deal with the good connotation the bible said in due season you shall reap if you faint not now there is a sowing to the flesh there's a sowing to the flesh that brings a terrible awful harvest how many people do you know that showed to the flesh and you know you look at their life but they are reaping on all sides have you ever seen a day where there's been such awful reaping such terrible reaping for sins that have been sown physical problems mental problems family problems on all sides people who have been sowing to the flesh and sowing to the flesh and now they are reaping what they have sown it's an awful harvest you can see the effects of the sowing to the flesh here in the united states let's talk about what america's reaping now let's talk about the nation first not just individuals but corporately as a nation look what we are sowing for example in our public schools you know all through new york now the schools are in absolute chaos we have teachers that are afraid to go into the classroom anymore let me remind you that in 1940 that's just one generation in 1940 all classes opened with prayer and the pledge of allegiance they would pray first and then pledge allegiance to the american flag but there was prayer every morning in school that was one generation ago god's blessing was asked upon the school they prayed for the principal they prayed for their teachers and over the PA system there was public prayer school was open with public prayer and they said one nation under god and folks he honored that he honored our classrooms this nation was number one in education i don't even know where it is now many nations have passed us many of our kids can't even read or write anymore in 1940 just a generation ago the top seven disciplinary problems in our schools were as follows the number one problem in school in 1940s right up to 1950 number one problem was talking in class number two was chewing gum number three was making noises number four running in the halls number five cutting in line number six improper clothing number seven not taking out the garbage not disposing of the garbage proper leaving apples on the desk for example now today the most recent survey let me give you the top seven disciplinary problems in our american schools today since we took god out we took prayer out we took the bible out we want nothing to do with god we chased him out we want nothing that resembles god in our schools now i say we we're talking about the liberal mind we're talking about the godless people who have pushed this upon our society the number one problem in our schools today rape number two and this this is documented robbery number three assault number four burglary number five arson number six bombing number seven murder that's one generation folks we are reaping all of these are related to drug abuse every one of these problems have to do with young people that are on drugs i don't know if you know that in brooke up in the bronx in one of the schools just recently a seven-year-old boy in first grade came and laid on his desk a whole bag of marijuana he was going to pass it out to his classmates seven years old in first grade with a bag of marijuana i don't even know where he got i don't know the whole story but it all has to do with drug-related problems well we wanted god out we let the devil in it's payday we are reaping in american our schools what has been sold to the flesh they're calling now for free condom distribution in our schools even to seventh and eighth graders and now you know what the latest latest thing is now condom vending machines in all of our schools supposedly to protect our young people from aids but you know what that's saying to our young people we condone your sex we know you're going to do it so just protect yourself what an awful awful harvest that we are paying right now one half of all the births in our city now are illegitimate fifty percent of all the babies born to our young ladies now are illegitimate one half of all the children born this good according to the latest report one-fourth of all pregnancies are now being aborted every one-fourth of all pregnancies are ending in abortion than 22 million abortions already and some believe it may be 25 million abortions and many of them just girls going without their parents even knowing it in just one generation we've come from chewing gum to machine guns now are you understanding how far we've gone and what kind of thing we have in a bronx school a student brought an uzi machine gun to class hidden under his jacket loaded the reports of teachers now all over new york and in all of our schools even in country schools now have saying there's no respect for authority they curse the teachers i don't know if you heard now that uh this past week two days ago i think it was uh the pope was in in uh germany in east berlin and hundreds of young people were cursing they stripping off their clothes and they were throwing paint bombs at his popemobile first time any kind of reception like that young people wild and absolutely uh and these were young people who admirers of hitler right out of school out onto the streets no respect for any authority then of course we they called uh 20 years ago almost 30 years ago for a sex revolution in the united states the liberal press and backslidden theologians called for a new day of sexual freedom they said we don't want any more of your puritan moral standards i said anything goes between two mutually consenting adults anything goes if you're adult and you consent anything goes and so now we have homosexuals that have come out of the closet who were in the closet for many many hundreds of years now out of the closet on the streets parading and now moving into the schools to teach their lifestyle and then taking to the streets and now it's become in your face perversion in your face like it or not they'll parade down the street signs we'll get your kids like it or not some harvest we've paid some payday now it's payday with aids oh god help us the new diseases now four million cases of chlamydia chlamydia shuts the womb and it looks to me like god's going to have to shut one womb for every abortion with chlamydia there there's there's a new papillion now a new cancer uh a sexual cancer that is horrible there are things that we just can't even understand so far beyond our comprehension payday syphilis is returning now to this to to the uh sexual generation this revolution sexual revolution has brought back syphilis i have a christian doctor who's on our board he was here last sunday sitting on the platform and dr rice he said pastor dave he said just 15 years ago i had to give six six hundred thousand units of penicillin six hundred thousand units for syphilis he said today i have to give four million eight hundred thousand units and it still doesn't kill this virus think of it four million eight hundred thousand units and it doesn't touch it because it's it's uh becoming absolutely uh immune to penicillin and now with this uh papilloma it's called virus that's attacking many young women especially and there's no end in sight almost every time you pick up the paper anymore there's some new disease sexually transmitted disease folks it's payday we are reaping what we have sown to the flesh in our society now what does this word mean you reap what you sow folks the the lord means that the bible means that look what we are reaping with our children now when we allowed child pornography it is allowed child pornography is allowed it's it's it's right all over the united states now and now listen to me folks in the past 10 years one of the number one problems in our society is incest and primarily parents molesting their own children now we don't like to hear these things but folks that is the what has happened to our society it's payday you can't keep feeding this garbage into the minds of the american society without reaping in it what we what we are reaping right now we've become such a degenerate nation of some parents that are like wild animals and they're like beasts folks i can't imagine a father or a mother raping their own child it's a that has to be a beast where does that come from we are reaping what we have sown in what we call sexual freedom and now folks we're about to reap another kind of harvest and that's an economic crash because we have become a greedy nation wall street right here is the the the bed the hotbed of all of this greed everybody trying to get their hands on one big last killing and what's happened folks let me let me i quote you something i just read in a newspaper by the federal reserve officer he said don't worry about multi-billion takeovers now with their 10 to 1 debt load he said there's too many other unknown forces out there now folks out there has become a term every politician understands it every economist understand out there is a whole unknown thing about society about our economy nobody even knows where it's going nobody can explain what's happening one day i've been warning about it for a long time now one day overnight and i've told you the vision i've had repeat at least five times i've seen i don't know who the president is i just see his chair he's turned his seat toward the window and he's got all of his cabinet and all of his counselors in the room and he turns and he says how did it happen and every man in the room has his head down and everybody's shaking his head nobody in the room can explain what happened and the president is saying what happened how did it happen folks is going to happen and nobody going to be able to explain it because it's payday we have been reaping greed or sowing greed and we're going to reap a harvest god has warned us and he's given us many many opportunities to repent but there's been no repenting the bible makes it very very clear that we are going to suffer economically there's a good side to this now that's the bad side i've just given to you i hope you're ready for the good side the bible said you reap what you sow but he said if you sow to the spirit you're going to reap a wonderful harvest hallelujah this whole story in in matthew the story that we just read to you we went through it i want to show you that the lord is going to have a great host of willing sowers in the last days how many believe that god is going to have a whole host he's going to have an army of people that are going to go out and sow the good seed and before jesus comes there's going to be a great harvest there's going to be a great harvest before jesus comes now this parable proves to me that god is going to have in the last day those who are bearing fruit now often we focus on this one servant who goes out and he wraps his his talent in a napkin he wraps it all up and buries it and many people think the church is going to be like that that there's going to be so much sin there's going to be so much wickedness and all these things we talked about the church is going to be downcast christians are going to be defeated and they're just going to take their talent and bury it out of fear this man said he's afraid and he buried his talent and people have the concept that the church of jesus christ is going to be so inundated with all kinds of problems that the cities are going to become so wicked and so violent that is true but this parable if you see it in the spirit is saying no that there that the majority in god's house in the remnant the holy remnant are going to be bearing great fruit they're going to be coming with their arms full they're going to be joyful they're going to serve the lord with gladness the bible said these men said i have gained i have gained there's going to be gain hallelujah the closer we get to the coming of the lord the more fruitful times for church ought to be and i believe will be as the days come the you know the lord is not affected the kingdom of god is not affected by the economy the kingdom of god's not affected by anything the devil does the devil can do everything he wants to he can do all the demons of hell out he can come down with great wrath but that does not hinder in one eye odor the plan of god god's plan is not going to be affected by it hallelujah i was looking at this this afternoon in preparing for the service tonight our our lord is the one who's the bible said who's traveling to a far country and after a long time he's going to return and the talent here represents the measure of grace and revelation of jesus christ some one man was given a great revelation of jesus he was given five talents another was given two talents not not as much revelation but it was the true revelation of the grace of god and the other was given a measure of the grace and revelation of jesus he buries his but what happens god says in the last days he's trying to tell us that in the last days he's going to have a people who trust him he's going to have a people who are joyful in him they know that he's not a hard task master if you think our god's a hard task master you're serving the wrong god you have the wrong image and that's why you bury your talent that's why you have such a poor revelation of who jesus is because you have a perverted view you have never seen his grace and his mercy and his love for a lost humanity folks i'm telling you god is god is absolutely totally committed to saving a people you understand he's committed to saving and keeping you from the power of the devil he's committed to bringing you to his throne room he's committed to presenting to you to father without blame blameless before the father he's committed himself to that he's committed himself that there is going to be a harvest in the last days hallelujah so you can look at what the homosexual uh community is doing and and say that doesn't concern the kingdom of god and his program you can look at what is happening to our schools and you can grieve over it you can pray about it but that's not going to hinder the program of god and and i was i've been very concerned about our young generation we pray for our teenagers and that but i'm going to show you in just a minute what god prophesies going to happen he's not going to let this generation be lost there are going to be thousands and thousands of christian young people in the last day coming to the lord let me ask you do you believe that the last day just before jesus comes there's going to be a clearer and clearer vision of who jesus is do you really believe what the scripture says that though hell rages the gates of hell will not prevail against the church of jesus christ that's the word of the lord hallelujah the kingdom of god is not affected by demons or by the economy by communism by violence or any world conditions hallelujah this parable proves that god will have a last day army amen now before i turn there remember jesus quoted this prophecy paul quoted it and it's quoted seven times in the new testament so clearly this is a last day prophecy of conditions in the church just before jesus comes now this is good news go to psalm 110 psalm 110 i'm going to show you a prophecy about our young people if you're a teenager tonight oh ask god to let this lay hold of you tonight in fact if you're under 25 i'd say that's young at my age anything is young martin luther said of this chapter a glorious prophecy concerning the kingdom of christ it ought to be one of the nearest dearest scriptures to everyone in the church one of the dearest most precious chapters of prophecy in the bible the lord said unto my lord sit thou at my right hand until i make thy enemies thy footstool what's gonna i'm gonna do with the enemies of jesus they're going to be under his feet that's the prophecy the lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of zion who is the rod of his strength that's jesus hallelujah in the midst of thine enemy to rule rule down the midst of thine enemies thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning thou has to do of thy youth now let me show you what this means follow me if you will please amen there's a day of his power look this way please the bible says there's going to be a day of his power now we know there's been a day of his power ever since jesus arrived ever since he was on this earth and ascended the floor it's been the day of his power he's shown his power for the last 2000 years but remember how god showed his power in israel in egypt first of all he he shook the earth and then he literally shook the heavens with thunder and with darkness and he kept increasing the day of his power and increasing it and what did he do a final rage of death to the firstborn there was a burst of power and do you know what the lord said he's going to do he's been shaking everything but he said there's going to be one last shaking he said i'm going to shake everything there's going to be a day of his power and we're living in that day of his power and he said in the day of his power when god comes down to start dealing with his enemies and folks he is dealing with his enemies now oh yes even presidents of the united states they can hide and hide it but if if if god says it's time he exposes it that was watergate for example and and no matter who's in washington you can't hide from god you can't hide i don't care who it is republican democrat you can't hide from god god god's going to have his way you're some of you're too too young to remember khrushchev he came to the united nations here and sat there and took off his shoes and banged it and said we're going to bury you he's in a grave and he's dust now all of these world leaders these these dictators god just snaps his finger blows on dust he said that the nation the world a drop of dust in a bucket he has all power and all authority and folks we're living the day of his power when the holy ghost came that was the day of his power and he's increasing his power because he's about to come and he said in that time my people are going to be willing hallelujah he said whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath promised yet once more i'll shake not on the earth but the heaven my people shall be willing hallelujah now the scripture says it's this people this prophecy says that they're going to see the beauty of holiness now folks you've got to stop here and listen to me because god really spoke this to my heart they're going to be people last time that don't heal that holiness is a burden that that you know this reproof and all of this oh no i can't live like that god says they're going to be people so willing and have such a heart for him that holiness is going to become a beauty to them it's going to be a joy a wonderful experience and they're going to thank god for reproof that provokes them to righteousness because they're going to say and really from their heart they see these are beautiful words because it produces a beautiful effect in my life it's producing righteousness my people i'm going to come in power and it's going to be my day of power and in my day of power i'm going to have a people god's not going to send angels down to do his work he's got us to do it and he said i'm going to make you willing not only going to make you willing to go out and sow the revelation i gave you of my heart and of my son you're going to folks we're going to have people going around who know jesus in such an intimate personal way that everywhere they go that's the witness they're going to say i know you know jesus they can see it on your countenance everything about you is the revelation of jesus you're not going out with four little scriptures you're not going out with some little thing that you have learned to quote you're not just mouthing scriptures you are living testimony who jesus is and the bible says you're going to have such a beauty about you it's going to be the beauty of holiness that you fully accept you know we've got preachers in the pulpit screaming we don't live by law anymore the law is dead it's gone it's all grace yes it is grace but he said i'll put the law in your hearts you will love to serve me you will love to fulfill my law because i'm going to give you the power to do it hallelujah folks that that's a wonderful church when people are serving the lord just because they love him because there's a beauty in just walking with him hallelujah that helps make you willing to obey him now it says in verse three thou has to do of thy youth now folks i'm not the only one that saw this i was surprised that uh jonathan edwards calvin rogers and some of the great prophets of god and writers from way back for the last 300 years i i thought i had some new revelation you know when you go out in the morning and you see the dew on the grass now you'd have to go to central park in new york to see that anybody been in central park when the dew comes folks i was raised in the country and when you go out in the early morning and you look at the dew it's like millions and millions of diamonds those little drops of dew and he says god says i'm going to have the dew of youth i'm going to have a whole sea of diamonds i'm going to have the youth and that's before he comes to go me too late after he comes this prophecy is being fulfilled and these are very days they're going to be fulfilled and i believe it with all my heart god is going to have the dew of the youth oh these are his diamonds and that's exactly exactly and here's the meaning these are young converts servants of the lord they shall be like beads as numerous as drops of the morning dew that's the meaning as numerous as the drops of the morning dew folks you don't go out in a morning and the field when the dew comes and just see a drop here and a drop there the fields are covered with these diamonds they sparkle in the sun when the sun comes they just sparkle has anybody seen that am i the only okay all right i thought i was the only one who saw that hallelujah there is absolutely nothing in heaven or earth that's going to stop this last day harvest now there's there's something unique and special about these last day servants this this these young people especially that god is calling and these willing people they're not going to be afraid to plow in the cold the scripture says the sluggard that's the lazy christian he will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing you know who these people are that they're not going to have anything it's harvest time in the bible there's going to be some they're going to be churches just dead they're going churches in this city while we are packed and our alders are filled and people getting saved your families and all over the dew is falling everywhere and the diamonds are shining and god's people willing in the day of power they're going to be people saying oh it's too cold out there you know the the demon powers are out there the the the rapist and and uh people don't want god you know when i came to new york city and talked to some pastors about my vision of coming here in the time square church they said they don't want god here i've been here 15 20 years nothing happens you can't have a church sunday night it's too cold you know people are not going to come out people are not going the the subways are so dangerous the city is getting so wild they're not going to come to they might come sunday morning and that's it everywhere i got you can't do it can't do it's too cold too cold i don't mean you know the weather but i that that's what it means it's too hard it's too difficult can't help it i got so sick and tired of that i got so sick and tired of that everywhere i went if i listened to what i heard from my minister friends god bless them i'd have never come to new york but tried to scare me to death one pastor hasn't seen a soul saved in 10 years at least that's the impression i got death everywhere it's too cold to plow god says you go out in the cold and you plow doesn't matter what the weather is doesn't matter what people say you go and plow and you sow your seed i'm going to give you a harvest hallelujah you when i first came here drug addicts can't be changed nobody can see a drug addict when i first came to new york there were there were no ministries on drugs in the united states we were the first to prove to the world that jesus could save a drug addict up to that time it was hopeless because at that time in 1958 there was no heroin very little most of it was pot then in 19 after we were here about a year all the drug addict all the gang leaders i working with i was preaching to gangs first because there wasn't there were no drug addicts on the street just musicians smoking pot and few things 1958 1960 heroin hit and all these gang members that i was working with were on the streets now they weren't fighting they were just trying to get money to support their habit and i noticed kids out in in the cold of night you know it was zero out and they had no jackets on they didn't feel the cold and i was figuring out man these kids don't even feel the weather i went up to one so he said i'm high i'm high he couldn't feel the weather and and and i began to suddenly see these kids vomiting and laying all over and suddenly i didn't know anything about drugs but nobody and nobody believed in not even the church believed that a drug addict could be saved too cold to plow god said i'll save them and folks thousands and thousands have been saved now all over the world hallelujah these willing servants are not going to be afraid of the lion out there roaring the scripture says the slothful or lazy christian saith there's a lion without i shall be slain in the streets proverbs 22 13 proverbs 26 13 the slothful man says there's a lion out there in the way a lion is laying and waiting in the street devil's too powerful they say he's got the whole world in his hands you know that song he's got the whole world in his hand they're talking about the devil quickly into the streets and laying to the city bring in here to the poor the main and the halt and the blind bring them in he said don't be afraid of the lion some of you remember uh about two years ago there was so much talk about crime in the subways and everything i got to thinking boy one of these days it might affect our people won't come on sunday nights and tuesday night they only come sunday morning because of the crime and so on a tuesday night or friday night i opened up the microphone and i said if the lord's delivered you from uh you know somebody tried to attack you and everything come up and tell us about it i'll tell you what i i heard one after another we were here for about an hour remember hearing testimony after testimony of people who've been delivered one lady she said i carry my i don't know if she's here tonight or not i carry my bible in the subway anybody come around to hit me she i'll use this my club this is my club and i i had i had sisters all over the church said brother don't be afraid don't be afraid i was the only one afraid nobody else how many are not afraid of the lion out in the street come on now i'm not afraid of the lion out in the street he said go out into the streets and lanes of the city he didn't say go out in the lanes of the except new york city in 1995 they go out quickly in the streets and bring in the hit of the poor and the maimed and the halt the blind but you know there's a growing number of christians and i'm going to preach about five more minutes there's a number of christians now that are heading for the hills they're hiding in fact i get letters now from people on my mailing i said brother dave and they said i'm prophesying to you i heard from the lord you have to get out of new york city quickly you've got about six months left it's going to be bombed i've got others saying brother wilkerson god's telling everybody to flee to the hills go to montana go to wyoming go somewhere and get a farm there's a book just been written and it's it's by a christian who's a member of the coalition on revival and let me let me read to you what he says christians have to do now they have to go out in the country and get at least five acres you have to have five hundred dollars of silver u.s dimes six months supply of dehydrated food a home water filter system water storage facilities chemical toilet kerosene heater lamps survival stove fire extinguisher at least 145 colt automatic pistol this is this is a in fact this man's a preacher who wrote the book you've got to have a 30-06 rifle with a four-time scope a 12-gauge shotgun with pump action you you must have ammunition 500 rounds 22 long-range ammunition air rifle reloading equipment high quality first aid kit battery operated shortwave radio citizens band radio 50 pounds one can pounds of coffee for exchange 106 out 10s of cigarette tobacco so you can trade when the crash comes 20 pounds of inexpensive pipe tobacco one case of expensive whiskey preferably jack daniels a wild turkey that's what it says 30 mexican gold coins five u.s 20 gold coins and he says the booze and the tobacco is to bribe the law the sheriff in time of anarchy you bribe people imagine this is christian this is a preacher he sent me the book and i started reading through this i said i got thinking i can't find any of that in the bible i can't find any of that my bible says go quickly out into the streets bring them in you know where i want to be when the crash comes right here you're going to be safer here have you been reading the news about those people out in montana at a farm with the fbi they've got their guns they got their kerosene they got all that they're in jail and we're here winning souls bible said he that seeks to save his life shall lose it he that loses his life for my sake shall find it hallelujah hallelujah you know bible says they're going to cry for the rocks in the mountains to fall on them while we are praising god we're going to go out in a blaze of glory hallelujah hallelujah turn around to these three people and say god has everything under control god has everything under control everything stand please you said bro dave if you believe hard times are coming why aren't you storing food i've been storing food right here a stash of food our security just to this time hasn't he no matter what happens he's going to keep his people he's going to keep you he's going to keep me hallelujah and the last thing we'll say to you the lord wants you to come to church with hope he wants you to have hope about the salvation of your family he wants you when you walk the streets to know that angels walk with you he wants you to know that he wants you to be absolutely fearless and he wants you to to boldly tell everybody you can about jesus and believe believe that god's going to give you a harvest that that many may reject it but folks you're going to find more and more people are open people are hungry they want to hear and folks you've got to believe what the scripture says and someone is i believe that with all my heart to me that's not theology to me that's not just something i read and forget i believe that with all my heart and that gives me hope for the young people and not only in this church but in this city no matter how they curse no matter how they drink it may be look i've thought for a whole while we've lost the whole generation and then i go to the word that says no he says he's going to have the due of the youth he's going to bring diamonds out of these kids they're going to be diamonds that shine look at look at timidness all these guys in the front rows here these were guys that society and everybody else gave up on and for for sarah house here and folks we've changed the name from hannah to sarah we had to because there's a whole bunch of other hannah houses all the united states and people are mailing us were confused by it so it's called hannah house but these girls that are up here in the front they are diamonds that people would have thought nothing could have been done up there down here if god can save you he can save anybody if he saved you save me he can save anybody yeah give us faith we are not a defeated people we are victorious people god god gave us what i believe is the best theater in this city right in the middle of broadway he's raised up a standard and he is saving people left and right people from all walks of life and he is moving by his spirit god help us to act and move not in cowardice not worried about a lion in the street or the coldness of conditions but to trust him in all things folks we intend to keep plowing god sent me here to sew and you can't sew till you plow we've been plowing and plowing and now we're sewing and we're going to reap hallelujah blessed be the name of the lord we don't try to pack this altar or anything else we're just here to serve god's people and to reach those who are in need and the lost but i feel that there's some balcony in the main floor and here's what the holy spirit put in my heart just just a moment ago some of you standing here have no joy i don't know if you lost it or you just misplaced it but the joy of the lord is not there you you you sat you heard the message but you sat with a burden hanging on you just hanging on you bring that burden to the lord now but please don't come unless you're going to believe with me that while i pray and we pray together that's going to be lifted from you because the bible said the joy of the lord is your strength and i don't want you to walk out of here weak and be a prey to the enemy so wherever you had up in the balcony you could go to the stairs on either side or in the main floor as we sing it again how i trust thee bring that heart to the lord you that have come forward if you can look this way for just a moment please i am so uh there's such a joy in my heart when i know how much he loves his children the lord loves his people if you can only get this down so you have to be totally convinced that god's not mad at you if god were mad at you he'd cut you off long ago we'd all been cut off because we deserve it but he's a god of love and mercy and compassion yes he's a holy god he's a just god but that that the wrath of god is against those who reject him those who reject his call his plea and his many many mercies that he extends to his people but you're not that kind you come here because you love him and you want him and you you want your heart given to him isn't that why you came you want to give your whole heart to him i'm gonna say amen to that i want to give my whole heart to the lord i want to hold nothing back now if you have a besetting sin often sin brings condemnation guilt and it cuts off the joy it's hard to be in sin and have any joy it's almost impossible the only joy you can have if you're living in sin is a false peace and a false joy so let the holy spirit bring that right out into the open and say lord i know why i don't have joy because i'm still living in sin and you're going to pray with me that god break the power of that sin through the holy ghost the holy god will put the holy ghost in you with such power that that you don't have to struggle the lord will just powerfully encourage you and strengthen you so that you're not fighting it in your own strength but in his power and his strength and listen if if you're listening to the lies of the devil the devil will lie to you and say that you're not going to make it uh he will bring depression on you sometimes it's physical sometimes it's mental and spiritual and many times then he will just come harass you with lies but i'll tell you wait you know how to deal with the lies of the devil just remind him of the truth of god's word hallelujah remind him of the truth of god's word the devil has to flee at the truth he can't handle the truth hallelujah you just say my bible says my bible says if i confess my sins he's faithful just forgive me to cleanse me to make me clean and when you're clean the devil has no rights no i'll tell you i want to tell you something no matter how long you serve the lord no matter how you are the lord he's always going to be an accuser of you you're always going to have him accusing you so just don't put up with it anymore say devil i've had enough of that i'm going to listen to you anymore i'm going to believe what god's word says i'm going to stand on the word of god that's when joy comes when you take your stand on the word not on your feelings if i live by feelings i'd never hardly ever be able to survive you can't live by your feelings amen pray with me now right out loud jesus i give you my heart and all of its weaknesses and i come to you for help forgive me and deliver me from all the power of sin oh fill me with the holy ghost that i may have power and authority against the devil take all the fear out of my heart of the devil's power or the power of my flesh and help me to understand that he who lives in me is greater than all things else all the things yes all other things greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world lord jesus i want my joy back give it to me by faith i believe you saved me and i believe you can keep me i've come like a child in simple faith i give you my heart my confidence and my love all right now once you just raise your hands and love jesus right now just love him right now love him lord i love you i thank you for your faithfulness i thank you for loving me i thank you for caring about me you'll never cut me off you'll never cut me off jesus you won't cut me off hallelujah won't cut me off oh the lord will not cut me off thank you jesus lord you will never cut me off you'll strengthen me you'll heal me deliver me glory hallelujah you've been listening to from the pulpit and classic sermons this week you heard david wilkerson talk about how you really do read for you so tune in next week for another powerful message from god's word or from the pulpit and classic sermons