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