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David Wilkerson

David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011). American Pentecostal pastor, evangelist, and author born in Hammond, Indiana. Raised in a family of preachers, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit at eight and began preaching at 14. Ordained in 1952 after studying at Central Bible College, he pastored small churches in Pennsylvania. In 1958, moved by a Life Magazine article about New York gang violence, he started a street ministry, founding Teen Challenge to help addicts and troubled youth. His book "The Cross and the Switchblade," co-authored in 1962, became a bestseller, chronicling his work with gang members like Nicky Cruz. In 1987, he founded Times Square Church in New York City, serving a diverse congregation until his death. Wilkerson wrote over 30 books, including "The Vision," and was known for bold prophecies and a focus on holiness. Married to Gwen since 1953, they had four children. He died in a car accident in Texas. His ministry emphasized compassion for the lost and reliance on God. Wilkerson’s work transformed countless lives globally. His legacy endures through Teen Challenge and Times Square Church.
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the need for believers to go deeper and further in their relationship with God. He highlights the importance of having clean hands and a pure heart in order to experience an open heaven and hear from God. The preacher calls for a commitment to evangelism, stating that when believers truly understand their position in Christ, they will speak His words and do His will. The sermon concludes with testimonies of individuals who were drawn to God and made a decision to surrender their lives to Him.
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John 14 1 to 7 I'm going to read it and just leave your Bible down there take my word it's all as I'm reading it. Let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you by the way in my father's house so many mansions that means you and me we are a temple the Holy Ghost would you get your eyes off of some material thing that's not God my father's house are many mansions many temples that you and me my father's house of many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also and I'm going to see this in a whole different light tonight I don't want to blow your theology and I'm not trying to take anyone as blessed hope away from them by the way my blessed hope is not the rapture my blessed hope is Christ in me now the hope of glory Christ in me the hope of glory Christ in me now the hope of glory and whether and where I am going now listen this where I am going you know and the way you know Thomas saith unto him Lord we don't know where you're going and we don't know the way Jesus said unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh under the father but by me if you had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and have seen him now here it is the most profound revelation the Holy Spirit has ever given to the church we've missed it we have missed it and the Holy Spirit's opening it these last days not just to me but many people are seeing it right now this was Christ trying to introduce his disciples into a new dimension a new way of thinking a new kind of life in a new realm ascension life he was trying to say I'm going to leave you now and prepare a place for you in another realm in the spirit and I'm going to bring you into that new realm to a glorified resurrected realm you're going to be united with me in the power of an ascended life I'm going to put you above the world I'm going to put you above the circumstances of this life you think it registered with these disciples what he said not any more than it's registered with you and me as we look at that Christ was going into a supernatural realm and he was going to prepare a place with them there and come immediately in the spirit sending the spirit to bring them into the new world into this new realm he said I am going to seek you in a heavenly place with me I'm going to bring into the full riches of my glory look at the incredible blindness of these disciples they spent three years listening to Jesus talk about an abundant life that he was preparing for them about his ascending to the father and to bring them to himself and they they were told that even when he left there was to be no breach no break in their relationship to him it was just going to go into a greater realm he said if any man serve me this is what he had told if any man serve let him follow me that where I am there also my servants shall be if you say well brother Dave he was going to heaven he was going to the father to be seated at the right hand of the father yes and he said follow me there where I am there you shall also be where I am there my servant shall be where did he go he went to the father to the right hand of the father where's the servant supposed to be with him at the right hand of the father that where I am there you may be also God help us to see what these disciples did not see that Christ ascended into heaven to the right hand to repair a place there with him in Christ he said I will never leave you I will never forsake you that didn't mean these just going to come down but he's going to bring us to himself he's not going to forsake us because the Spirit is going to bring us into heavenly places to be seated with him at the right hand of the father when he said take up your cross daily and follow me where do you think he intended us to follow where are you going to follow him you follow him where he is he is not here that's what they said it to him he's not here he's gone all you say well two or three gathered my name didn't he say he's going to be in the midst yes but where are two or three people that gathered his name there at the right hand of the father there in his presence that's where I am you'd understand that when he ascended he was a flesh and bone man just like I am though he had no blood he was a flesh and bone man and he ascended physically bodily into the father's presence and he said that where I am you're going to follow me that where I am there you may be also he's ascended at the right hand of the father where are we off we are with him we are ascended at the right hand of the father hallelujah I've been raptured already I have been raptured if you don't like that term call it in rapture I've been evacuated the Lord's intention all along was to go up as the first fruits and prepare a great in gathering of his children into his kingdom life and we've missed it he said I will come again when did he come again when he poured out his spirit to bring us to himself I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also and we've made the mistake the disciples didn't we put it off in some far-off rapture in the meantime we just try to get by we tried to pray for me we say that I'll hold out to the end God never intended that his people go through this life living misery and lonely divorcing in sin and degradation God's intention was never to be that he sent the Holy Ghost to link us to himself in a heavenly place seated the right hand of the father we were to live in ascended overcoming life this was never his plan and we've missed it no I'm I tell you right now I said it this morning gonna repeat it he said he's not coming until until what until his enemies are made his footstool and you see all of his enemies made his footstool yet and it will not happen until God raises up a new people by a new name an overcoming race of people who take dominion in the name of Jesus over all power and authority on in heaven and earth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he's coming back for an overcoming people he's coming back in glory for a glorified people hallelujah my Bible tells me that right now I'm seated in the heavenlies you don't believe that will believe this but God but God hath raised us up together and made us to sit together in what heavenly places in Christ Jesus what did Jesus say he would do as soon as he went to the father prepare us a place that where he was we would be with him he said follow me that where I am there you may be also God raised him from the dead speaking of Christ and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places by faith that is where you and I belong that's where you by faith should know and understand and the Holy Spirit wants you to understand tonight that that is where you and I are we are in Christ the right hand of the Father seated in heavenly places hallelujah we are not to be in an earthly realm conformed to this world a victim of lust and evil Christ intended our life to be lived in the full presence of his glory we were to lose our earthly life and find it in him the Bible said we were to go out meet him as a bride adorned for the bridegroom we were to go out of the world out of our things set our affection on things above we were never intended to be tied down God intended if you have a car that transportation was all you needed you didn't need the bigger better he he didn't mean for you to have just a palace it was to be sufficiency was to be just enough God's not trying to condemn anybody in their lifestyle but if you're never satisfied you're reaching more and more if you can't just say Lord I have enough and I'm satisfied I glorify you in it but now Lord I want to go beyond all of this and I want to see this new life in a new realm I want to get away from the earthly I want to become detached here and attached to the throne I want to understand my position in Christ Jesus and go on now listen to this incredibly the disciples Jesus was saying you need me now not after some evacuation you need my supernatural power and strength to live a full abundant life now and by my spirit you'll be linked to me I'm gonna put you in the vine linked by the Holy Spirit I was with you on this earth but I'm coming to you immediately in a new realm you were attached to me on earth by my teaching and by my presence but I'm going to give you even a more vivid expression of my presence you're going to be closer to me in the new realm than you were when I walked this earth and incredibly the disciples didn't know what where Christ was going Jesus suggested or he said where I'm going you know where I'm going and you know the way and listen to to Thomas he said Jesus said whether I go you know and the way you know it was if Jesus was saying to his disciples don't you know I've made it simple to you I've made it clear I'm going back to my father and while I'm there I'm going to prepare a place for you so that where I am you'll be also I'm going to ascension life I'm going to bring you into ascension life you see it don't you don't you see how simple it is and listen to Thomas Lord we don't know where you're going now we don't know how to get there and you know where the church is right now oh our Lord is out there somewhere in the universe every once in a while we get a spurt of overcoming victorious life and it feels good but we go right back down to our despair and our loneliness and our emptiness and like Solomon he walks the streets saying withers my beloved God where is he where is he it's not where he is it's where are you you're supposed to be with him he knows where he's at I get tired of his people so I found Jesus well he was never lost we keep living our lives like spiritual beggars and paupers we're swallowed up with fear and loneliness and worry we're victims of lust and sin and the principles and powers of this world oh occasionally there'll be some Christians that feel a pull to a greater thing they'll start fasting and praying and they'll start out but something happens and they stop and they don't press in something drags them back down they never do press into this glorious ascended life that Christ has opened now that the Holy Spirit believe me and I'm prophesying and I know it his spirits on me now the Holy Spirit's trying to bring back the truth to the church of the supremacy of Christ a truth that he's provided in the last days when the devil's going to come down to us angry having great wrath and all the dregs of hell are going to be vomited out onto this earth the very atmosphere is going to be polluted but God is going to raise up a new name people who live in ascended life above it all they're going to have an open heaven they're going to be a testimony to the whole world of righteousness and holiness and purity the more wicked the world becomes the more holy and righteous they become they're going to take their place at the right hand of the Father above this world and I see that hunger and thirst everywhere I go but you see most of the hunger and thirst is just kind of dreamy right now I found a scripture in Isaiah 29 8 said it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eats but he wakens and his soul is still empty or as a man the thirsty man dreameth and behold he awakens behold he still faint and his soul hath appetite the spiritual famine that we've had in America the past 10-15 years the spiritual famine has exposed the emptiness the soul hunger I want to tell you something if you've been seeking God at all now you look me right in the eye and if you can tell me yes to this then you don't even know him you're not even a Christian you're not even a follower you're not even in the outer courts you're out in the desert but if you're even in the outer courts you've got to know that your soul has been empty and hungry and there's more hunger in you than you've ever known in your whole spiritual life right or wrong there's a hunger why because it's been a famine and you you go to church all over America now this church I'm sure is an exception I hope it is but everywhere I go people say I hate to get up Sunday morning I hate to go to my church anymore there's no life the preacher is dead there's no life in him my son the services are dead and I get mail from all the United States they say I'm so hungry and people go anywhere you know when people get hungry they'll eat dung according to the Bible that's why they're going out and getting all this false junk because they're hungry and they should be getting it in our pulpits but there's a hunger to sign and people are waking up and they're dreaming about being satisfied they wake up and they're hungry they come to church dreaming they're gonna have the thirst satisfied and they go out of the churches this thirst in hungry or more so and the Bible said their soul is hungry there's been a spiritual famine gentlemen pastors evangelists prisoners I'm telling you something right now God is doing a new work in the land and if we don't go out after him and prepare our heart and spend time with him alone get away with a beloved and that's what happened to Solomon the man who missed Christ was Solomon his beloved said come Solomon away with me come my beloved into the lily of the valleys I want to show you the rose of Sharon come to the mountain and pan after me like the deer pant on Mount Bethel calm my beloved away in the Bible said and he went not and the man who doesn't go after the high calling of God in Christ Jesus soon loses the presence of his beloved and you could see Solomon leaving his brothel spending the night drunk on the wine of lust with those prostitutes and all those concubines of his and then when he'd filled his heart with lust he'd wander the streets saying whether is he gone he saw him through a lattice he saw him through a dark window but the beloved was gone and so he winds up with nothing but a dream he's empty inside and I see that emptiness in pulpits everywhere I go thank God there's a stirring now thank God there's a stirring and if you look at Solomon he tried to recreate with his hands everything he lost in his soul he missed the brook the still waters of Psalm 23 so he built himself pools he missed the heavenly mansions so he built himself for 13 years of palace he missed the heavenly throne so he built an earthly throne and I can show you some of the men of God that are building great buildings today and they're trying to recreate with their hands what they've lost in their spirits that's why we have such a building boom in America today when a man turns away from his beloved he turns to his architect and I've been down that road God told me to give it all up and out I'm not even going to build a chicken coop again I don't want to build anything I want to go to I want to build a heavenly kingdom hallelujah I'm not against it God has his builders but those who really build only do it out of necessity not out of an ego trip how do you get to him if he is in the heavenlies how do I get to him you get there by dying Peter said Jesus said to Peter Peter where I'm going you can't follow me now Peter wasn't ready but you're gonna follow me afterwards not something well that means when he died oh no no no Peter said master why can't I go with you right now I'm ready to die for your sake he wasn't ready to die remember when Peter denied him said I don't know the man he wasn't lying he didn't know him he'd been with him three years but he didn't know him there was no intimacy I know people been to church for years don't know Jesus they really don't know they sing about it they don't have that intimacy they're not walking close to him they really don't know him Peter wasn't ready to die he was ready to deny but not die and as soon as Peter went up the mountain and died to himself he entered right into ascended life on the day of Pentecost hallelujah he never came down Jesus made his point he said you're not ready for a sense in life until you died everything that's in the world you can't ascend my holy hill till you have clean hands and a pure heart you're gonna forsake your evil you're gonna lay down your idol you're gonna get rid of your lust hallelujah it really dying is quite easy you just get sick enough of sin you get sick enough and you die and and when you die you get an open heaven according to Scripture and once you see the door heaven open and that you're accepted you have access all you have to do is go in by faith and take your place Stephen entered into ascension life while he is still here on earth listen to it but he they were they taking him out of the city were stoning him to death but he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly where into heaven and he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God and said behold I see the heavens open and at that very moment he entered heaven he was still on earth but he entered into ascension life the rocks didn't hurt him he felt no pain he was above the whole world because he saw Christ seated to the right hand of the Father he ascended immediately he was above the world couldn't touch him no man could hurt him now he was ascended with Christ the right hand of the Father Stephen went out singing blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten me to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to my inheritance incorruptible undefiled reserved for me in heaven heaven is not streets of gold heaven is not mansions heaven is simply in the presence of Jesus well he is that's paradise that's heaven that's here right now I've got heaven in my soul there any streets of gold I'm walking on them right now hallelujah I'm walking on streets of gold in his glorious presence glory to Jesus a few months ago I buried my 33 year old assistant Ron Porsche he was like a son to me died of cancer the liver in the last few weeks of his life I was with him for hours every day and this is when God began to speak to me about ascending ascension life about a new name people and through this revelation the Lord has given me Ron immediately three weeks before he died entered into ascension life and even though his body was swollen with cancer I remember the first Sunday this broke through to him he said brother David I'm already there I'm in the glory if the Lord heals me I'll be terribly disappointed because I have that magnetic pull I'm already seated I'm with him I've taken my place by faith hidden in Christ at the right hand of the father he said it's so glorious it was Sunday and he'd been an avid Dallas Cowboy football fan but he did he the television was on he said turn it off he said what does the game mean now what's a cow buzz mean I'm in heaven his little blue sports car lost its value he said brother that's just a piece of junk I'm going home on a chariot of fire he said you know those clothes my closet they're just a pile of rags he said I'm getting a new robe he said you know this house is comfortable it's just a pile of bricks has no meaning now he said brother if you know I've enjoyed working with you but he said that means absolutely nothing now he said I see my beloved he looked at his wife and two little girls and they were just leaving the room and he said you know something brother Dave you know how much all of my family but the Lord has weaned me away from them to himself I've been totally weaned he's become my whole life he's become my love and everything he said I've been a weaned away from every earthly thing Christ has become everything and when the Bible said he's to feel all things he means just that not in eternity but right now Christ is to be the whole focus of our life to feel everything in us to give us total satisfaction not truth historically about how he came and died not future about how he's going to come again but right now how he gives us power and our eyes focused on him for overcoming life and the day before he died Ron said and I wrote it down brother Dave if I had to do it all over again I'd live every day all my life just as I've lived at the last three weeks on the brink of death I would live my whole life focused only on Jesus my work my home my family everything would be secondary Christ would be my whole life I would never live in fear or worry or be earthly minded I would enjoy the fullness of Christ just like I've enjoyed him the last few weeks he said brother Dave I've missed it my life should have been lived like this all along and he said please brother Dave don't miss it press in and live like a man in heaven live dead to this world and alive to him and really enjoy him and the life that he's given he just Nisha called and said brother Dave he's calling for a bit before I could get there he had gone into a coma rushed in the hospital before I got there he was in glory he had no pain a smile on his face he just slipped off to be with the Lord 33 years old I made up my mind I made up my mind that very day that I would not miss this heavenly place in Christ Jesus I would not miss the fullness that Christ has offered I want to see him who's invisible I want to move into that good large land a land that's flowing with milk and honey a spiritual Canaan I want to be where I want to be near him I want to be blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus I'm going to be raised by faith to take my place seated in the heavilies in Christ at the right hand of the Father God helping me I will not live my life in fear and defeat if I'm a heavenly man seated in Christ Jesus and have any places I should be above the beggarly elements of this world I'm to believe that Christ what he tells me that I'm to enjoy a bonded victorious like came that you might have life and that more abundant what is abundant life ascension life in his presence lived every hour every waking hour in his presence aware of his presence would Jesus go here with Jesus do this it's 20 it's every waking hour discerning the body discerning the body do you know what it means to discern the body oh how many times we've come to commute into the Holy Spirit saying I want you to discern the body he wants to see Christ in you and me I'm to look at my wife and not see her just as a wife but I'm to see her as Christ in her and if I hurt her I hurt Christ and that's when the Holy Spirit King Jesus came to Saul he said Saul Saul why do you persecute me he was persecuting the church and that's Christ that's his body he was persecuting Christ very body it's as though Paul was Paul was actually sending Christ to jail trying to crucify him afresh and put him to open shame because he was doing it to his body and how many times I prayed oh Lord I want to see you better I want a glimpse of you and the loyal say well I was there yesterday in your office you might remember that 25 year old man so full of Jesus that was my body and you missed me and when I started discerning the body God begin to send people to me that are feeling like I do and I could discern that they're they're hungry for God and they're reaching out they're sick and tired of the things of this world the sick and tired of material things and they want to reach out and satisfy their soul and suddenly you're discerning the body I discern it there's some here tonight that are reaching out like that there's a hunger in you and you you you become a part you're a joint that's applying the need that's in the body I believe the Lord when he tells me that I've got a high priest at the right hand of the father and that I should draw near to him I believe him when he said I'm accepted in the beloved I believe him when he said he's made me free by faith I believe when he said I have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens that I can be clothed upon with my house which is from heaven I can be clothed upon right now with this house from heaven his presence think of it a life abiding in his presence where he is what about this world he said here we have no continuing city but I seek one to come I desire a better country that is heavenly for you prepared for me a city what is a city that's a place he's prepared for me a place in his own heart you realize that God only sees one man it's a many membered man his body is still here on earth and the head is in heaven and you are and I are the actual body of the Lord Jesus Christ with the head in heaven that's why I said you to behold the head but we are his actual body hallelujah John the Revelator said I looked and behold the door was opened in heaven and a voice like a trumpet said to me come up either I'm going to show you things that must be here after and immediately I was in the spirit now marvelous John said I see it open heaven's open and the spirits come to me and said come on up come on here there come up oh that's the call the Holy Spirit you've got an open heaven come on up come on that's why the spirits been given to link us to Christ to bring us out this world into heavenly places in him it's really not mystical this is strictly a detachment from the earth and an attachment to him where he is in his actual presence remember what Jesus said to disciples he said in a little while the world is not going to see me anymore but you're going to see me because I live you also shall live and then he went on to say you love me and if you love me you'll obey me and I'm going to reveal myself to you when not on some far-off day but as he ascends to heaven so a little while I'm not going to be physically here but you're going to see me you're going to be with me in the heavenlies you're still going to be with me in this new realm hallelujah did the Bible say he led captivity captive he came down and captured us and kept took us in captivity to his own heart and planted us in his place beside himself now see we're not taken out of this physical world because Jesus said now I am no more in the world but these are in the world now listen to what Jesus say I am now no longer in the world where did he say that in the garden still in his physical human form he said I'm not here anymore they're still here but they're not going to be here long because listen to what Jesus said I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world that means the physical world but in the spirit but thou should keep them from the evil but then he went on to say father they are not of this world even as I am not of this world that you believe that or don't you I learned all my children they are not of this world please turn the tape over for the remaining part of this message now let me let me type down stronger than you're not going to get out of this one father I will that they all through whom thou has given to me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou has given to me listen to this they're not of this world just as I am not of this world I'm going to my father father I want them to be with me where I am so that they can see my glory Paul saw that ascended life he said I was in the third heaven Paul never came down oh he came down physically to minister but he lived in his spirit man he lived in the heavenlies with Christ he was constantly walking in the presence of the Lord he said that's why I said I've determined nothing among you at Christ and crucified him crucified he said my conversations in heaven he said I'm sitting there talking to him all the time Jesus said and you shall be witnesses unto me beginning at Jerusalem the new Jerusalem at the right hand of the father the city of God a new race of people beginning at his own heart beginning at New Jerusalem you go to the heavenlies by the Holy Spirit and you come out of his presence to minister and if you don't come out of his presence you're going to be speaking in the flesh and God won't support anything he doesn't originate now listen to it I'm going to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth the seed shall go forth from there prosperous divine from there so give forth her fruit and the ground shall give her it forth her increase I will call forth the remnant to possess all these things where does the truth go out from New Jerusalem Zion this holy city of God made up of this new name people Isaiah 2 3 says and many people shall go and say come ye let us go up to the mountain of the Lord let's go into ascension life let's get above this world once and for all come ye let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and there he will teach us of his ways and we will begin to walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord shall go forth from Jerusalem what's the scripture say Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all that's the womb from which we come the new holy Jerusalem get back to Jerusalem begin there and then come down and minister don't talk to anybody until you know you're in heaven least don't do anything until you're in his presence and you know you're in his presence begin in Jerusalem Moses saw this promise of ascension life and he sang this song thou shall bring them in and plant them in thine inheritance in thy place O Lord which thou hast prepared for thee to dwell in in thy sanctuary O Lord which thy hands have established in other words you have established a place you prepared a place in the whole sanctuary the whole inheritance comes to that place physical Canaan is not the rest of God's people hallelujah it's a spiritual Zion come unto me all you weary and heavy laden I'll give you a rest well where do you go where is the rest in him in Zion in a heavenly place in Christ Jesus now Jesus gave us a secret a one verse secret to overcome the world when I began to see this I've never been the same I'll never be the same I'm going to give you a secret of overcoming the world listen to it this is John 331 and I've seen that many times I'd never never knew what it meant until the Spirit opened it here it is he that cometh from above is above all hmm he that comes out of the New Jerusalem he that by faith takes his place in the heavenlies is above all nothing can hurt him here on earth everybody can gossip about him hydrogen war that doesn't mean anything to this man because he's he that cometh from above is what he that cometh from above is what is he above hydrogen war is he above depression is he above all the bigger elements of this world is he above it yes it doesn't mean anything I don't care what happens this whole world that's in his hand because I'm with him I can't get any higher than I am right now did him we have ascended he that cometh from above is above all he that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth he that cometh from above is above all and what he has seen and heard that is what he talks about and no one but believe what he says I could come here tonight and preach healing and everybody believe me I could come here and preach prosperity a lot of you believe me I come here and see tell you what I've seen and heard out of the heavenlies I've been studying with God I've been in the heavenlies and I've seen a vision of glorious life for this last day and the Bible says they that are of the earth are earthly they won't believe you but there's going to be a heavenly man that's going to hear you there'll be some people here I don't expect many many minutes of the gospel to understand this except those the Holy Spirit is awakening but God is saying enter into it now don't just preach I believe more than ever in a second coming I am stronger than that than I've ever believed it but folks I'm not looking off some far-off place I'm looking right now to this glorious ascension life in this but the right hand of the Father in Christ Jesus hid in Christ hidden in him anchored in him focused on him the Bible says they they go into the heavens they above the earth and they tell people what they've seen and heard and people just won't believe it now let me show you what happens when you ascend to him and you see him in his brightness and glory where he is you see this is Paul speaking and Christ is already dead and ascended to the heavens now listen to Paul this beautiful Paul said have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord haven't I seen him when did Paul see him he'd already gone to the Father well remember when Jesus that bright light he saw who do you think the bright light was that was Christ the Son of God he saw him face to face he saw him when he went into the third heaven he saw him Paul said he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve and last of all he was seen of me also as one born out of season now you and I are as Paul born out of season other words we were not there when Jesus walked on the earth but Paul went on to say even though I was born out of season listen to this I labored more abundantly than them all Paul said they walk with him they talk to him but I've got a different relationship with him I am ascended I live in the spiritual realm and I'm attached to Jesus in the heavenlies and this relationship has accomplished more in my life than it did in there seeing him face to face I labored more than all of them you get it do you see that this is sense in life right now if you see it and open up and realize your position in Christ Jesus that it will prepare you out to do more than all the disciples ever did that this is a call to evangelism because you see him when you really see your position in him you'll come out speaking his words doing what he wants you to do and that's what God wants he wants every minister in the pulpit to be so shot in with him that everything they do they've heard from the father because they've heard conversation from heaven and they do nothing except a mandate from God himself they've overheard the heart of God and they're doing what God said to do and God's support and everything to do because they're here and everything they hear is right directly from the heart of God hallelujah now boys I was born out of due season but I labored more than all these who were with them before the resurrection my heavenly vision produced more love and devotion and evangelism than their earthly vision for that gives me hope hallelujah now let's get down to the final words here now in in Hebrews 3 3 1 there's a an admonition and it starts to all the brethren that are partakers of this heavenly vision this heavenly calling I what is the message to brethren who want to see the heavenly calling no I I stand here tonight wondering how many of you're getting just even a little bit excited about what I'm saying I just wonder how many there are that say Lord I've known all along there was more but I've known all along you didn't want me to live like I'm living in despair and lonely and fearful that I should be living every day of my life so excited I can't go to sleep at night so excited can hardly wake up now I wake up in the morning that's what it is me I'm so excited I can't go to sleep hardly I told the Lord Lord that man can build all the big resorts this man over here can have national television give me the Revelation Lord give me the heavenly place let me see you Jesus I want the glory I want I want to see you all right listen finally here's a message to all who are partakers of this heavenly calling if you're going to partake of it I want to show you something God is building his house his son a house that's a people a new name people God's building he's getting it together right now he's putting it all together listen for every house is builded by some man in other words there's got to be a builder and God's the builder for he that built all things is God but Christ is the son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing the hope firm unto the end God is putting this thing together and he's saying to those who want to be a part of this heart calling God in Christ Jesus get a hold of your confidence maintain it in this last hour and reach out reach out by faith and allow the Holy Spirit to bring you in it's not enough to be brought out you've got to be brought in half the church came out of Egypt and got stuck and died in the wilderness only two of them got out Joshua and Caleb man I hope there'd be more not get out of this one I hope they're more not come into a sense in life get into the rest that the Lord you see the prodigal son he got into the house you see it's not enough just to be accepted the prodigal son comes to the father puts his arm around him and loves him he's forgiven all the past is gonna be still not in the house he's still standing outside a lot of you've been kissed by the Lord you've been forgiven you've been accepted but you're still not in the house you've not entered in because inside the fatted calf in the feast there's a table prepared so he had to go the door that's access the father invited him in and it wasn't till he was at the table he knew he was home the church has been outside the door and with the arm of the Lord around them kissed and a new robe on them but they're afraid to walk in the house and one of them didn't get in the house the other brother he's standing outside the house and the father went out to him that's where 99% of the Christians are 99% of the charismatics are there they're outside the house because there's a whole group of people now just getting saved they're young people they're coming in this glorious revelation all they are all they have is Jesus Jesus Jesus people they're full of Jesus they're devoted to him they're detached from the material things of this world they're moving into the house they're moving into the holy of holies and there are those that are outside and they say man all these drug addicts and prostitutes and alcoholics are feasting Lord why are you passing us by he said was there all the time but you wouldn't take advantage of it so God says I'm going to call my people by a new name you don't want if you get he's got a people he's got a people now I may be a little hard this morning so I'm not gonna preach too many churches I'm gonna I have done before five more this this year but I'm going out in the street simply because I believe that there are people out there that are ready to walk in I was down on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale last month and the boat was boats were coming in from Grenada Grenada and from Lebanon right out on the beach carousing drunkenness drugs and held a beach rally I hadn't spoken five minutes not felt the most awesome holy hush fall over that beach big circle I didn't preach more 10 minutes about entering in to the glory in the presence of Jesus one soldier after another came up crying one man from New Hampshire he said I came down here just wondering looking for truth and reality and looking for God I didn't even know there'd be a service here he said I heard you speak and I drew near and he said I feel a drawing I feel pulled he said I feel Christ pulling me out of this world and I'm coming I'm going all the way that man was gloriously marvelously saved just walking the beach soldiers is that I should have died in Grenada I should have died in Lebanon but the Lord spared me and I know there's more for my life I'm tired of the drinking I'm tired of the drugs I'm tired of the sex I want to go in to see him cry and press into the kingdom of God and then go to some of our churches dead and dry and see people all wrapped up in their things so wrapped up in this world so far away from what they once were so far away from the anointing so far from attachment to the Holy of Holies and I say Lord I was down in a backstreet in in Miami preaching in a black community the troubled black community and we were right in a main thoroughfare and traffic light right across right on the street there where we're at and I was just yelling into my when you can't run stop and a big black Cadillac put on the brakes two black gentlemen looked out the window didn't even go through but they stop check so they pulled off drove up they got out inching closer close enough that they're two big mafia brothers get down there find ones a backslidden preacher and the other man was from New Jersey living with a woman with five children not married precious black brother who said mister I've been running for God for about 10 years and I came down here last week just to forget it all and try to carouse and lose myself and get drunk and party he said I haven't been able to party one day this week because all day long and all week I've been hearing you can't run stop and you yelled you can't run stop that was it that was God speaking out of heaven boy I'll pray with him he said I'm going home and marry that woman I knew he was saved said I think she loves me that's what after five children I think she may as sure as I stand here I have a man visiting me right now that's come from North Carolina he's 35 years old a Bible teacher we've just been spending the last three days all day tomorrow we're shut in just talking about this new name people he calls them the Judah people somebody down here is calling overcoming people kingdom people whatever you call it it's a new race it's new people that the Holy Spirit is raising up saying you're going to press into the kingdom now you're going to have clean hands and pure heart or you don't go a step further God's going to say I just have to leave you where you're at and bypass you and go to those who are hungry hallelujah I've taken my place in ascension life that ascension life flows through my veins right now I tell you I am right now seated in Christ Jesus at the right hand of the Father where the pleasures are forevermore joys that never cease those who know me say brother what's happened to you there's been a joy there's been a victory there's been a release it's him because God opened my eyes to what's been there all the time he said it was there all the time and you missed it it's for you it's for me to live an overcoming life not bound by lust not bound by sin you don't have to go anymore say well I can't help myself I've tried but I got this monkey on my back you don't have to walk out of that monkey on your back anymore you can be free hallelujah I'm going down to Miami week after next for 10 days from now down in the Cuban and black hair and just walk the streets and I've been finding it and spent all the summers in the streets because in Detroit my son Gary pastors a black church now he started about eight months ago they run about 200 people and that's up there preaching for him this past summer none of those wives have husbands they've all left them Gary just buried a little nine-year-old boy who hung himself Monday but you look out over that crowd I've never seen such hunger these are people just coming in off the streets and a body's being raised up right in the middle downtown black Detroit God's raising up his body of a new name people hallelujah it's happening all over America isn't it a shame that the Holy Spirit's having to go right in down the aisle and out the side door and say if I won't find him here I'll find the people I'll call my people by a new name I'll call my people by a new name and I'm not going to miss it hallelujah I believe that God wants to do it right here I believe he wants people to start hungering and thirsting as they've never done it before that's how it begins just a hunger and a thirst it's sitting in this audience right now saying I'm not satisfied God's been telling me for a long time I've got to go deeper and further than I haven't done it he'll come up to you and come at you and come at you but finally there comes a deadline where he says are you going to do it now are you going to press in are you going all the way with me are you going to lay down your lust and your sin are you going to go after this open heaven you're going to take your place with me with clean hands and pure heart here from heaven now I it's afternoon and waiting on the Lord and even while I've been preaching my heart's been racing inside and I say Lord why am I here and I'm not putting my appearance down I've enjoyed being here and I appreciate pastor you let me share your pulpit but what sense is there to it just to have another speaker stand in this pulpit and say well Dave Wilkins came to preach I'm nobody I'm nothing but what you know you heard some beautiful music we said a man who what are you going to you want to hear a little make a little message and go out and say well that was a new thought always learning and never coming into the knowledge of the truth never saying by God's grace this is the deadline I've had it I'm going on I don't care what it costs tomorrow I'm gonna live a different life I'm gonna live all day long tomorrow and we had a word from the Lord and that was right on target the Lord is trying to show us that what we're receiving right now you get up in the morning you look in the mirror and say I'm an ascended man I'm walking with Christ I'm not say anything or do anything except to his glory I'm gonna walk as ascended man I'm gonna show this world that there are people that come from above there above all hallelujah holy righteous people glory to Jesus I know the Lord spoke to my heart while I sit sitting here tonight before I came up to speak but I was gonna have to do something I'm gonna do it right now and it won't take long I'm not gonna ask you what it is I don't need to know who you are and here's what he told me to say if you're sitting here tonight and the balcony here before me or behind me and you are not experiencing the fullness of Christ in your life and there's an emptiness the enemy has tried to destroy you you know as yours you're sitting here right now that you have not at all entered into what he has for you you've not entered in in fact you've been going the other way the Lord wants to arrest you right now by the Spirit the same light that Paul that's all was apprehended by he's gonna apprehend you tonight stop you and say turn around settle it right now I'm gonna bow my head and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal himself to you in the moment you sense that if you feel a pull and tug in your heart that's the Holy Spirit showing you an open heaven saying come on up there that come with me come into the Holy of Holies look into my shining eyes and let me expulse the sin out of your life look into my holy flaming eyes until they become livid with love and the flame turns to a flame of love let me burn out the sin and the lust and let me put your soul on fire once again with devotion I want you the moment that happened let me pray with you I want you to come with me into the ascended life so I'm tired brother Dave I tired of living like this I've known all along that God wanted more for me Oh Lord you're calling us you're saying don't mock me anymore no more games it's too late for that I'm gonna step out and say that's it Lord Jesus by your spirit we're gonna settle it tonight gonna go on Lord we're going into the Holy of Holies tonight hallelujah we've passed the outer gate and the inner gate we're going through the final gate hallelujah going through the veil we're gonna pass through the veil Oh Lord Jesus let this be the beginning of a new name people right now a new name people a new name hallelujah called by a new name now Jesus overcomer overcomer called by a new name overcomer Lord Jesus by your spirit sweep over our souls and sweep out the dirt and the dust and the lust and bring us to your heart bring us to the ark and the mercy seat to your flaming eyes deal with sin Lord we lay it down Jesus by your grace I surrender everything in my life Lord sanctify me I lay it down thank you Jesus Lord I lay everything down at the cross do it right now by an act of faith in Jesus name I lay it down I surrender it all surrender
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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.