In 1987, David Wilkerson returned to “the crossroads of the world” to establish Times Square Church. As a pastor of the church, he faithfully led this congregation, delivering powerful biblical messages that encourage righteous living and complete reliance on God.

if I make my bed in hell it means here’s

somebody that’s in rebellion listen

closer somebody’s in rebellion says look

I can’t take this anymore

I don’t see the hand of God on my life I

don’t I just don’t want this anymore

and there’s a spirit of rebellion rises

up and says I’m going my own way in

reading what it means in the original

Hebrews I give myself over to the devil

I just give myself I’m going to give

myself into hell I’m going to lay down

in my sin and in the psalmist David is

that this almost ear is saying if even

if I I say that’s enough and I give up

and I try to make my bed in hell even

there your hand will hold me the hand

that touched you will hold you you say

Billy Wilkerson are you trying to say

that I could never back sleight I’m not

saying that I’m saying that God knows

why some people give up he knows the

despair he knows people come to the end

of the rope he knows that they come to

the wit’s end and he knows we make

stupid mistakes but when the Lord puts

his hand on you he’s not gonna let you

go he will go with you into your deepest

despair of going to your deepest sin and

he goes say I’m not letting go I’ll put

my hand on you I’m not letting go

how many have left Timothy house brother

remember how many have walked out went

up so that’s enough and they go out for

a night a week and all hell breaks loose

and suddenly they find themselves in a

room with a Bible again and they’re

looking in and the Lord said I’ll

cleanse your blood and something rises

up and to get on the phone said can I

come back what is it it’s the hand of

God you tried to make your bed inhale

and God says I have my hand on you

hallelujah

devil tried to destroy my son Gary came

home one there’s a senior in high school

said throw himself on the bed he said

dad there’s no God there’s no God the

devil tried to literally destroy him the

devil wanted to make his bed in hell the

devil wanted that boy to say go out and

be like the rest go out and give

yourself to the devil just go out and

give yourself and I was so shocked and

yet the Lord didn’t let me show it on my

face and I couldn’t reason with me

because sometimes when you go through

this testing of your faith as a young

person no dad no mom nobody can help you

you’re all alone with Jesus but the Lord

if you have a heart for him he’ll bring

you through that if you just say Lord I

don’t is that help me understand he’ll

give you the understanding and all I

could do is pray for three months my son

went through that but I know one thing

the hand of God was on him and I didn’t

have to worry I prayed for him but I

knew God was going to hold him through

it some of your going through the test

of your life and God’s hand is on you

and my Bible says even though you make

your bed inhale I’m going to hold you

even the devil tries to destroy you

I’m going to bring you out glory to God

let that be hope God keeps breaking

through your darkness with light

verses 11 12 if I say surely the

darkness will cover me even the night

shall be light unto me may the darkness

hide if not from thee but the night

shines is the day the darkness and the

light are both alike to thee all right

look at me please this is so important

David said thou art my lamp O Lord the

Lord will lighten my darkness

in verse six thou has laid it in Psalms

88 I don’t I’m not going to read it if

you go to Psalms 82 they for you go to

bed you’ll hear one of the most mournful

pitiful chapters and books in all the

Bible absolutely Oh God

you’re forgotten me you’ve laid me in

Chains I’m in prison I’m like a

forgotten man and all the confusion and

the hurt and the pain David knew what

that was all about darkness and in

Psalms 88 the writer says you left me in

darkness and in Hebrew says you left me

in darkness plural not just one darkness

but darkness and you have left me in a

pit then the writer says Lord there’s

darkness but the darkness hide it not

from the light and here’s the difference

when the Lord has his hand on you there

may be times that you go through

darkness not this one darkness but many

darkness but Jesus always comes through

with his light he always gives you peace

and rest and you begin to see the face

of Jesus in your trouble hallelujah

do you have that in you in any measure

at all are you able in your darkness to

still worship Him you’re still able to

praise the Lord and the light breaks

through that’s one of the evidences of

the hand of God upon your life if you

have a growing knowledge in you that

your birth was not in vain but God had a

plan for your life even when you’re in

your mother’s womb even in your mother’s

room we’ll verses 13 to 18 well thou has

possessed my range thou has covered me

in my mother’s womb I will praise thee

for I’m fearfully and wonderfully made

marvelous are thy works that my soul

knows right well my substance was not

hid from thee when I was made in secret

curiously wrought in the lowest parts of

the earth your eye did see my substance

yet being unperfect in thy book all my

members will

written which in continuance when as yet

there was none of them how precious also

all thy thoughts under me O God how

great is this some of them if I should

count them they’re more a number than I

then the sand when I wake I’m still with

thee look at me please

David said Lord I know something I know

that you called me when I was in my

mother’s womb I know the folks listen

young people listen to me good now I

know this is yours I stand here and I

have the mind of the Holy Spirit if

Jesus has touched you you’re going to

know it the Holy Spirit’s going to know

it by showing you somewhere along the

line he’s going to start showing you my

life has a purpose to it God is not

going to let me waste my life I wasn’t

born my mother didn’t bring me into this

world just to end up as a waste of drug

addict or an alcoholic or a bum I wasn’t

born for that I was born for God’s

eternal purpose for my life and even

before I was born God named me in the

womb mom dad mom may have given me a

name but the Lord has a name for me also

that he chose and even when I was being

formed in my mother’s womb the Lord put

his hand upon me he the Lord didn’t put

his hand on me just when I was down

there he put his hand on me when I was

in the womb in fact before I was born he

had thoughts good thoughts toward me he

said I’ve got a plan for David I’ve got

a plan and there are many of you sitting

here right now the Lord had a plan for

you even in your mother’s womb I don’t

care if your mother was a drunkard God

could have put his hand upon you he

there’s a sense there’s a sense it’s not

just I don’t call it a sense of destiny

I have known all my life I never felt

special

I never felt great I’ve had a hard time

all my life of feeling in Syria and

that’s not been it but I have no I know

it when I pray I know it when I preach I

know everywhere I go I know when the

enemy comes against me I know it every

waking hour that when I was a baby in my

mother’s womb Jesus put his hand on me

not it you could be like Bernie shaver

Jesus could have caught it Jesus didn’t

call him ten years ago Jesus called him

before he was born

and put his hand upon him he had to go

through so much trial and testing before

he came into the realization but the

Lord had his hand all away even though

it made his bed in hell and so many of

you here right now

it took a long time but God had his hand

on you he has his hand on you tonight

hallelujah there’ll be a voice in you

that keeps saying you’re here for a

purpose you’re here for a reason

God said I’m going to show it to you I’m

going to use you hallelujah and when you

feel hurt over the sinfulness of wicked

people that’s in verse 19 and 20 to look

at it sure surely that will slay the

wicked Oh God depart from me oh bloody

men they speak against the wickedly Oh

God the enemies take thy name in vain do

not I hate them O Lord that hate thee em

not agreed with those that rise up

against thee I hate them with a perfect

hatred I count them my enemies now that

doesn’t mean you hate people

but you hate their sin young young

people I’m going to ask teenagers here

you heard last week about the two

teenage lovers who gave birth to a baby

in a motel and the autopsy shows that

the baby evidently was beaten on the

head and skill

how do you feel about that do you have a

cry inside you cry about that is there a

cry you see the amazing thing is that if

they had waited just earth they had just

called an abortion doctor ten minutes

before and he did but his suction

machine in and pumped a hole turn the

baby around and poked a hole in the

brain and sucked the brain out it would

have been a legal death it would have

been legal maybe fifteen minutes apart

I don’t justify what those kids did but

there has to be a grief in your heart

where we have a society that is robbed

children of their fear of death robbed

children their value of life so that

these things can be done you see young

person you here tonight and when you see

all the wicked things are being done

against the name of Jesus does it grieve

you when you hear your friends curse you

have a grief in your sight and is there

sadness there taking the Lord’s name in

vain if you have to touch a God on you

you hate sin you hate it you can’t go to

a movie like I preach this more you

can’t go to a movie where the name of

Jesus is cursed you can’t sit and watch

a VCR movie where the name of Jesus

Christ is taken in vain because there’s

a cry in your heart and you’ll turn it

off immediately because you have a grief

at your heart you grieve the way they

treat your Savior they you grieve about

it hallelujah search me O God and know

my heart try me and know my thoughts see

if there be any wicked way in me and

lead me to the way everlasting if you

have the hand of Jesus on you you don’t

want anything in your life that’s evil

or wicked you don’t want anything that

would grieve the Lord in your life

listen don’t go the hard way come the

right way say Jesus I’m going to

surrender to your hand right now

I’m going to ask the Holy Spirit in the

next 10 minutes to speak to everybody in

this building 21 years

surveys in under in a special way if

you’ve not yet had the hand of Jesus on

you there’s something in you says

brother David I want the hand of Jesus

on me I want Jesus to touch me in this

meeting tonight let’s make it 25 and

under let’s make it those who are single

only first now I’ll get to the rest of

you I’m going to pray I’ve been asking

the Holy Spirit to go all through

balcony and the main floor I’m going to

ask the Holy Spirit go all through this

church I’m going to ask the Holy Spirit

to put his hand to find everyone that’s

reaching out if you say brother David I

want Jesus to touch my life tonight I

want to get up out of your seat and come

down here and let me pray for you right

now because where you’re calling to

right now is the touch of his hand

you’re coming for the touch of his hand

all through this place every father find

every young person 25 and under find

every one of the Lord that you desiring

right now that you want to touch Lord

bring them down to this altar and let

them stand here and say Jesus tonight I

want to give my whole life to you I want

everything to be given to you Jesus

touch me touch me Jesus put your hand on

me touch me Jesus