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.
again this is my sixth
message on what is coming
i’m i’m pretty much uh coming near at
the end of a book that i’m
writing i finished a book and sent it
across the nation
called america’s last call on the brink
of a financial holocaust
and the response has been phenomenal
people driven to their knees and seeking
the face of god
returning to their first love and a
follow-up book now called the
preservation of zion
god’s plan to keep his people in the
coming depression
and i want to i i can only preach what i
get
from god i don’t invent these messages
and i have to obey him he’s made me a
watchman
one of his many and uh when i pray and
seek god and i spent many many hours
along with the lord
and what i give you i believe came
from the heart of god and his throne in
fact what i preached this morning is the
heart
of the book that i’m writing and
i’ve had many people say well pastor
david if you’re going to warn
people if you’re going to warn the
church then why don’t you seek god
for an answer how to prepare for what is
coming and that’s my message this
morning
preparing for hard times heavenly father
i thank you for the word that you’ve
implanted in my heart
and i pray the unction the anointing of
the holy spirit
lord i got this from your heart i didn’t
invent it i didn’t think it up
it came on my knees it came through
seeking your face
and i believe i have your mind lord
you’re going to set a lot of people’s
hearts free this morning
you’re going to deliver them from fear
and from bondage of
those things that are coming lord you
made it clear that we as saints of god
we as christians and believers when we
see all of these perilous times coming
upon the earth
while men’s hearts are failing them for
fear we are to rejoice and look up
because our redemption draws nigh so
lord remove
all fear let the glory of the lord be
manifested in this word we pray
in jesus name amen now friends you may
not want to
hear it you may not want to believe it
you may put it out of mind but very very
hard and perilous times
are just ahead they’re looming right in
front of us now
i’m amazed that many at the attitude of
many in america today especially
young married couples and especially
those who are investing
their funds in markets and stock markets
and
currencies around the world one of them
stated
in essence the following you said we’ve
never known anything but prosperity
at our age we know only good times
growth prosperity we simply can’t
believe that things are going to fall
apart
we have rebounded after every other
crisis we will rebound
after every coming crisis we’ll rise up
no matter how bad things look we refuse
to think that hard times can come
we doubt we will go anywhere but up
up in our income up in our prosperity
that’s the thinking right
now the market dropped last week 300
points and
they were interviewing these young
investors and they said it’s nothing
it’ll come back
you see for 10 years these new investors
have known
nothing but good times nothing but
prosperity same with our young people
our young people
have lost their worth ethic they have
they’ve had
nothing but prosperity they’re 125
dollar
pair of sneakers they don’t work for it
they go and ask mom and here’s the
credit card go get your whatever you
need
well folks that’s all about to change
now folks here we have so many people
that are blinded to what is coming now
folks
there’s there’s something coming
that is so ominous and
so perilous the very things that jesus
said would come
on the other hand you know
you have these who are totally
unconcerned then on the other hand you
have growing number of christians who
believe
the world’s heading for a violent storm
and that it’s
the country and the nation in the world
is uh
on the brink of a crash and they’re
making preparations to survive this
they’re making all kinds of preparations
now
these are christians
and many of them are christian
investment advisors
and they put out newsletters and they
they’re on the internet and
they’re warning christians to prepare
and
basically their advice is this if you’re
in the city
move go to the country
buy yourself uh some acres acreage in a
in a an abandoned or uh
isolated area have your own well dug
and put up a barn or something and store
a two three year supply of food and on
and on and on
and now these are christians and they
are
advising this and it’s it’s circulating
now all over the united states it’s
become a wave
of preparation now an elderly
lady wrote to us this past week because
her friends had been advising her she’d
better get prepared
because they’d been getting these
advisory newsletters
and they were getting prepared
themselves and she wrote to me the
following
dear pastor david what can i do to
prepare
for the hard times coming i’m 87
years 4 months old with limited funds
87 4 months old with limited funds
she said it’s impossible to do all the
things they’re telling us to do to
prepare for
i would dearly love to live in the
country and have my own whale water
i’ve been brought up in a farm one of 12
kids and i know what it’s like to live
without modern conveniences
i have always kept on hand a good supply
of food anyhow but i still
put all my trust in god and i’m a
praying person
but what shall i do to prepare well this
message is for this dear lady
and for all other christians who are in
a tizzy about how do i get ready
and prepare for y2k or for the collapse
of the government or for the collapse of
the economy
folks i believe these things are coming
it may be worse than any of us know
but let me
give you god’s mind on this all right
the message i want to share with you
is how to prepare god’s way not man’s
way but god’s way
the way that i want to share with you
you don’t need any extra money
you don’t need to leave your apartment
or your house you don’t have to move out
of new york city
you need no private source of water
you need no guns you don’t have to
stockpile anything
because i’m going to give you god’s plan
now i know that there are pastors
all over america today who don’t utter a
word such as you’re hearing this morning
it’s evidently because they don’t see
what is coming or don’t want to see it
because if they did see it
and didn’t warn the bible said blood
would be on their hands
so either they ignore it or they don’t
want to
stir up the congregation and especially
build a new building and they have a
heavy mortgage they’re sure not going to
preach
gloom and doom to their money people
but you see if if you
hear the sound of the trumpet the bible
says and you don’t warn the people the
blood is on your hands
and i’ve heard the sound of the trumpet
and i can’t do anything but
make it sound and i know there are some
of you here that have been listening to
me the past six weeks saying
i sure wish our pastor would move on
i don’t mean out of the pulpit
but out of this stream
but if i know my heart
and the hours i spent with the lord i
know what i see coming
and i know that i’ve been appointed to
be one of his many watchmen
and i know how much time i’ve spent
seeking the lord
about what is coming because as pastors
of this congregation
were responsible
this past week i i was
out on a country road in new jersey
the moon night night the moon was
shining bright and i had a number of
hours
from twilight right on up into hard
darkness
and i was seeking god about this
congregation
and what is the responsibility on us
as pastors to prepare a congregation for
hard times
now folks i i warned three i mean four
years before
the iraq war i reckon war
that and i warned there would be 500
fires burning in the mideast
everybody winked
if you remember there were 503 fires set
by saddam
saddam hussein i’ve been able to
see these things since i was a child
i was i was writing these things down
when i was a teenager
things that god would show me he’s never
said that i was a prophet i’ve never
believed that but
as a watchman and i see what’s coming i
i see i was walking and i was in my mind
seeing new york city a flame over a
thousand fires burning riots
troops and tanks on our streets not only
here but
everywhere and folks i had just heard
that same day
this past week that our secretary of
defense
has a special trained army special unit
to move into 120 cities now in case of
riots and
and difficulty and crisis 120
there are trained our troops are trained
ready to move they’re like super swat
teams
ready even now standing it alert
and and i began to see the grocery
stores being
mobbed and new york only has a three-day
supply of food in reserve
and mobs out of control looting
and i thought of all of our dear people
we have probably now
seven to eight thousand people that
worship here and call
times square church their home and
i’m i’m saying lord we have a people
that can’t run to
we can’t run out of this city some
people just
many people even paycheck to paycheck
hardly able to pay the rent
let alone have enough money to run to
vermont or
somewhere in pennsylvania or idaho or
montana wherever you are and
buy some land then it’s enough to get uh
tokens for the subway
lord we’ve got people live in little
one-room apartments they can’t store
food
lord how in the world what do you want
me to tell these people do
do you want us to stockpile food and boy
god begin to
to show me some things he he mildly
lovingly rebuked me said
david wait a minute you’re looking at it
from your point of view and not mine
and i want to show you from god’s
viewpoint
but i became so overwhelmed by
what i saw coming i grabbed a
picket rail fence beside the road
and i almost fell weeping and broken
before the lord and i said god
if you had me warn people
now why won’t you give me a word
that will take away once and for all the
fear
and show us what we’re to do
and god heard my cry and he spoke to my
heart and i’m going to share that with
you this morning
here’s what god spoke to my heart first
of all listen very closely
the only trustworthy preparation
for hard times is in the heart
and not for the body this is a spiritual
matter
more than it is a bodily or physical
concern it’s a
spiritual thing of the heart that god is
looking at
first and primary of all and let me tell
you this here’s what i’ve heard clearly
from the lord those who set their hearts
to seek god
with everything in them their heart
their mind their soul their body with
all their strength
those who are saturating their hearts
with the word of god
those who are cleaning up their hearts
by faith in the work of the holy spirit
trusting in the sprinkling of the blood
of jesus christ
growing passionately in love with jesus
you are better prepared for the coming
storm
you are safer you’re more protected than
those
christians who have a year or two of
supply
of food and live out in some remote area
and have all kinds of gear
everything saved up to ride out the hard
times you
are safer if you’re making preparations
in your heart
than those who are half-hearted called
in christ
and making all kinds of physical
preparations you are ready
the children of israel were told to
stand by to leave at any moment
and folks they were headed for hard
times they were
leaving from the security of egypt and
even though it was a
furnace of fire a burden to them
and though they were slaves and in
bondage they had everything they needed
to eat there were supplies and they were
going to move into a wilderness
where there was no water there was no
food there were no resources whatsoever
and moses said stand by
he didn’t give them any instructions to
stockpile
to get wagons build wagons and and load
them down with food to last
a year or so they were given the
following instructions and they were all
spiritual
these were spiritual instructions the
instructions were
get secured by the blood
they were to kill a lamb and sprinkle
that blood on the doorpost
and they were to trust in that blood as
long as that blood was applied and
sprinkled on the doorpost
they were secured they were secure
physically
not only spiritually but physically
their human bodies
their children their families their dogs
their cats
everything was secured in that house
folks if you want to get ready for what
is coming make sure you’re
under the blood you’re secured and you
have your confidence in the keeping
delivering power
of the blood of jesus christ secondly
they were told to eat the lamb
they would have feast that lamb is jesus
christ a type of christ
that is his shed blood that is his body
we eat and drink christ what are you
feasting on are you building up your
spiritual body
getting spiritually strong for the
wilderness experience to come
where there are no resources human
resources available
then you better be feasting on the word
on the lamb this is the lamb
this is the word this is christ you
better be feeding on it
this is the food that you store up right
now you store up until you’re so strong
in faith
nothing can shake you
[Applause]
store up the word of god thy word have i
hid in my heart
that i might not sin against you and you
the sin he’s talking about his unbelief
all right that’s spiritual you
get secured by the blood you eat the
lamb
what are you feasting on don’t tell me
that god should give you a plan of
survival
if you’re sitting in front of a filthy
television
program or you’re in a dirty movie
feasting on
filth or you’re on the internet i our
mail is swamped with letters from wives
preachers wives included
saying i don’t know what to do with my
husband one woman wrote she said i
i went into the room and i saw my
husband watching
child pornography
she said i divorced him immediately
he said a good man who’s gone bad who’s
ruined
feasting his mind on filth
don’t talk to me don’t talk to god about
protection
or getting ready for what is coming
brother sister when it hits
you will run in fear you will run in
fear
he said you feast on the lamb and then
he said be ready to go
in other words don’t be tied down to
this world
don’t have your eyes focused get your
eyes on eternal thing get a new
jerusalem state of mind
this is not my home i’m not living here
i’m living here in my body but my spirit
my soul is with the lord
and my body and my soul my mind cries
out even so lord jesus come quickly
[Music]
they had just enough dough in there
needing trials to last a day or two and
then it’s gone
the lord said you’re going to trust me
you’re going to cast your
future you’re going to cast everything
into my hands and you’re going to learn
to trust me
the cry if the scripture is still
when i see the blood i will pass over
you
judgment was on the land awful judgments
were falling upon a sinful
idolatrous nation and yet there were a
people secured
because they said when i see the blood
the judgment will not hit you
i see the heart of grieved over this
poor spiritual condition of the bride
god chose a bride for his son you didn’t
choose the lord he chose you
he said you haven’t chosen me i’ve
chosen you i’ve called you and i bought
you with the price
you’re not your own
here’s a blood purchase bride waiting in
waiting for the bridegroom
this bride of christ is the overcoming
church it’s the holy zion the new
jerusalem coming down out of heaven
which he purchased with his own blood
this bride is spoken for
this bride is set apart she’s agreed to
be espoused to christ who’s the
bridegroom
folks you and i sitting in this
congregation you’re listening to me
right now we if you are under the blood
if christ is your passionate love
if you are walking in the spirit you
are a part of the bride company you’re
in the bride
now what should be the focus of the
bride no matter what conditions are
what is the focus of the bride the focus
of the bride is to get ready for the
wedding
to get ready to go to
ready to be with her beloved
but sadly many in the bridehood of
christ
have eyes for other lovers many
in this company have corrupted
themselves their garments are stained
and soiled
ephesians 5 25 even as christ also loved
the church
gave himself for it that he might
sanctify
and cleanse it with the washing of water
by the word
that he might present it to himself a
glorious church
not having spot or wrinkle or any such
thing
but that should be holy and without
blemish holy
and without blemish in revelation 21
1-2 you read of a holy people coming
down
out of out from god prepared as a bride
and i john saw the holy city new
jerusalem coming down from god out of
heaven
prepared as a bride for her husband
now folks those that are seated with
christ in heavenly places
every time you go into the secret closet
every time you get alone with the lord
every time you open that door and come
out to meet the public
or your family or to do your business
you’re coming down out of god
you’re coming down out of heaven this is
the new jerusalem this is a holy
people hallelujah overcoming spiritual
children of god
beloved let me tell you something there
are a people in this world today
it’s a remnant it’s a small people
who have eyes for no one but jesus their
eyes are not on the things of this world
they’re not coveting the things of this
world
they’re not wrapped up in materialism
there’s a
there is a magnetic draw to their heart
they are reaching out to the lord
every time they get up in the morning
every single day of the week they say
lord there’s nothing here for me
thank you for my family thank you for my
job i thank you for everything you
provided for me
but this is all going to burn my heart
is not here
my heart is with you lord
they are not focusing on the things of
this world they’re not trying to save
their skin
they’re trying to adorn themselves as a
bride
to adorn in greek is
to make preparation and to set things in
order
this bride is setting her heart in order
she’s making arrangements she is not
looking to the things of this world
she’s not
afraid of anything because her heart is
drawing her to her beloved
folks the bride is not preparing for a
storm
it’s not preparing to save their bodies
they are making preparation to leave to
a wedding feast
the bride is adorning herself
reading herself purifying herself
her heart is not here
there’s not a day there is not a day
anymore and i must
tell the lord a thousand times a day
lord there’s nothing here i thank you
for your touch on my life i thank you
for the people you’ve raised up
i thank you for my family my children my
grandchildren but oh god
this is not where my heart is
that that should be the heart cry like
paul the apostle
i would rather go to be with the lord i
remain here with you just because you
need me
i have a question for you are you making
serious arrangements to prepare
now not for a crisis
y2k not for the
smashing and the breaking down and i
believe god’s fist
is coming down on our stock markets and
bond markets
no question about it and very soon
the pastors who heard me preach that in
a couple cities now and who walked out
saying that’s foolishness after 300
points last week they’re thinking now
i just got a call from one of those
conferences
the leaders of the conference that i
preached warning like this and
suddenly my tapes warning of that in
such demand they can’t keep
up with them after the stock market went
down 300 points
amazing calls for
i want to hear it now someone hear it
after it’s too late
but it must be the grief of heaven it
must be the grief of god’s heart
to see so many of god’s people so
serious about making
sure they’re earthly secure that they’re
secure that they have
food they have they’re making all these
plans and it must be the heart of god
the grief of the heart of god that so
much is going in so much thinking
so much preparation trying to get things
in order to ride out a storm
and absolutely neglecting god
neglecting their prayer life neglecting
the word of god
not preparing their spiritual minds and
hearts it must be the grief of god
saying all that you could give me that
kind of intensity all that you can make
such preparation for me in your heart
i’m not against christians storing
food and prepare for calamity probably
makes sense to have
two or three weeks or 30-day supply of
food around if you
if you can and if you don’t eat it you
can always give it to somebody who needs
it
but those who are preaching uh these
kinds of preparation
even though they’re and they’re mostly
believers and they quote the scripture
and the two
the scripture they quote most and i’m
not putting this down and i’m saying it
lovingly
they quote proverbs 22 3 a prudent man
foreseeth the evil
and hideth himself but the simple pass
on
and are punished and that’s repeated
word for word in proverbs 27
12 and they say if god repeated it twice
he must mean
that you’d better listen and act on it
but you see this very verse
that is quoted as a motivation to
store food and prepare physically for
the coming storm
proves my point right now that
a prudent man foreseeth the evil and
hideth himself
and what does isaiah said a man shall be
the hiding place from the wind
and a covert from the storm as rivers of
water in a dry
place and there’s a shadow of a great
rock and a weary land
if you’re prudent if you’re wise you’ll
get
under the blood you’ll come to christ
and hide yourself
and put your faith and confidence there
there are all kinds of people that have
put their eternal destiny in the hands
of the lord but they’ve not put their
earthly destiny
in the hands of the lord your earthly
destiny has to do with what you eat
what you wear the clothes on your back
this
security the house over your head your
apartment whatever it may be
that is your earthly destiny
and it’s amazing that
you can ask questions do you really
believe yourself are you going to heaven
when you die are your sins under the
blood and they’d be offended
of course it is i have by
faith given my eternal destiny in the
hands of the lord
by faith the whole thing is by faith
why then is it so hard for us
to put our earthly destiny our future
where our paycheck comes from where our
food comes
why can’t we put our you know what
jesus killed a man
they brought a palsied man to the lord
and jesus healed him and he
got up and walked away and the scribes
said to themselves he blasphemes you
know what jesus said
what’s easier for me to say
your sins are forgiven or rise up and
walk and the man was still in his bed he
said your sins are forgiven and they’d
said eat blasphemes
and jesus says rise up and walk i’m god
which
is easier for me
which is harder to keep
to keep this man make him whole and keep
him secure and send it back to his
family as a whole man
or just forgive his sins now god’s
saying
think gentlemen i’m god if i can forgive
sins and i can save your eternal soul
how hard is it going to be for me to
take care of you
[Applause]
you see
if all you’re going to do is prepare
physically you’re in
trouble you see
they say have a 30 day supply of food
and some say one year supply some say
two year what if this thing
lasts 10 years 12 years and i’ve
listened to many sane economists saying
that we’re going into
uh either a major recession or a
depression it’s going to be 12 15 years
long
now if jesus carries where are you going
to get that kind of
place to store all that i had a
gentleman tell me that
about 20 years ago he got scared to
death and he
he bought a warehouse and filled it with
dried foods
and he went in this past year to check
it out it was all rotted and
it was it was all wormy and it’s all
gone
i told you how years ago i was going to
prepare i went out and got a country
place
and 50 headed black angus cattle
and built ponds and filled them with
fish
[Laughter]
the cows got bangs disease had to sell
them all off and i told you it cost me
more to raise the fish and to go the
store and buy it
i had big gardens and it was costing me
more to keep those gardens than to
get it in the local grocery store
and the lord cured me
i’m not i’m not against any of that but
i’m saying if that’s your main focus
then
what are you going to do because we’ve
got many people now saying jesus not
coming until
we go through three and a half years of
the tribulation and some say we’re going
to go through all the tribulation for
seven years
how are you going to starve for seven
years if that’s what you believe where
does it
end
i’m telling you by the spirit of god if
you’re preparing your heart
you’re getting your spiritual heart in
order you’re making changes you’re
dealing with sin and lust
you’re calling on the lord more and more
with intensity you’re trusting in his
word
and you’re building up your faith you
are ready for a depression
you’re ready for any privation you’re
ready for the earth to tremble
the mounds to be cast in the midst of
the sea you’re ready for troubled waters
you’re ready for floods and fiery
furnaces and lions dens and persecution
crop failure drought shortages
sickness trial of all kind most of all
you’re ready for the coming of the lord
and for the wedding feast of the
bridehood
[Applause]
he said seek ye first the kingdom of god
in his righteousness and
all these things shall be added unto you
now let’s go on and i’ll show you a
little more of the heart of god on this
i believe what i’m going to show you now
sums it all
up god has made a covenant to keep and
protect those who stay passionately in
love
with your son i’m going to say it again
god has made an everlasting covenant to
keep him protect those who stay
tastily in love with his son if you
believe god’s word then you have got to
believe
this covenant in fact if you get a hold
of this truth it’s the secret
to having all fear cast out of your
heart i don’t care if the whole world
shatters apart this covenant was first
made with abraham in genesis
15 1 fear not i am thy shield and thy
exceeding great reward
shield here is protector hedge and a
wall of security
and what an amazing promise what amazing
covenant god made with abraham
abraham he’s saying wherever you go
whatever nation you’re in
whatever crisis you face in life no
matter what you face
never be afraid i am going to be all you
need i’m going to be your wall of
protection i
am your shield you’re exceeding great
reward and that exceeding great reward
in hebrew is
salary wages compensation benefits
that’s what it means i’m going to be
your boss i’m going to be your pay
master
everything you get’s going to come from
my hand
everything in other words i’m going to
protect you
take care of you all your physical needs
all you have to do
abraham is walk before me righteously
put your trust in me and love me with
all your heart
this covenant was made with abraham’s
son also
isaac it was made with his son then
jacob
it was then made with israel and finally
to the whole seed of abraham
psalm 105 the whole psalm is about god’s
promise to the seed of abraham
now listen to me please you’ve heard me
say this before and you’ve got to get
ahold of this truth
every blood-bought blood-washed
child of god everyone walking with jesus
christ by faith
living in overcoming life are you are
the seed of abraham the
natural jew is not the seed of abraham
now if you’re a jew and you believe in
jesus christ you are of the seed of
abraham
there are no jews no gentiles now
there’s only one jew and that’s
who is it you by faith the scripture
makes it very very clear
now listen to what the bible says they
which are the children of the flesh
these are not the children of god but
the children of the promise are
counted for the seed the seed of abraham
that’s romans 9 8.
listen to this please know ye therefore
that they which are of faith the same
are the children or the seed of abraham
are you trusting jesus as lord and
savior
are do you belong to christ
are you his by faith then you are the
seed of abraham
say well how important is it for me to
see that why should i be so concerned
about whether or not i’m the seed of
abraham
because the promise that god made to be
a shield and a protector and a wall was
made to abraham and to
all his seed if that be the truth
then if i lay hold of this by faith i
get the same power i get the same
deliverance i get everything
that was promised abraham i am a child
of abraham i’m the seed of abraham
god has made an everlasting covenant i
will keep you
you don’t look at the storms you don’t
look at that you look at my covenant
i’ve made a covenant with you
i’ve swore it out and i cannot lie i
will keep you by my grace and power
forgive my screaming and my falling hair
here i’m
getting excited here
but you see god put a condition on this
covenant
this covenant was given to a thousand
generations and believe me that covers
us
he hath remembered his covenant forever
the word which he committed
the words which he commanded to a
thousand generations
the same covenant he made with abraham
the same covenant he made with abraham
to a thousand generations hallelujah
psalm 165 10 he confirmed the same
speaking the covenant to israel for an
everlasting covenant
showing mercy unto thousands of them
that love him
and keep his commandments the condition
is to
stay in the love of god in jesus christ
this is the covenant condition this
covenant is not for every christian who
says lord lord.
deuteronomy 10 12 and now israel
what does the lord thy god require thee
or what are the conditions of this
covenant
but to fear the lord thy god to walk in
all his ways and to love him
and to serve the lord thy god with all
thy heart and with all thy soul
he said here’s what i require of you i
want my fear in you
this all this respect for your heavenly
father
yes i have intimacy with him but my
blessed redeemer you’re also the one who
created the heavens and the earth you
spoke everything into being
and i have a holy righteous on fear of
you
you’re my friend you’re my kinsmen
redeemer but you’re also almighty god
creator of heaven and earth
and that’s what has been lacking in the
church this great all
respect for him i want you to go to
deuteronomy 11 please
deuteronomy 11 and show you this
condition we’re moving on quickly here
please
i trust you’re still with me
deuteronomy the 11th chapter
we’re trusting god’s word to drive all
fear out of our
minds eleventh chapter of hebrews
yeah i’m sorry deuteronomy deuteronomy
during my 11th chapter i haven’t lost it
friends i’m still here
let’s start verse 13
deuteronomy 11 verse 13 it shall come to
pass if ye shall
hearken diligently unto my commandments
which i command you this day
what come on now to love the lord your
god and serve with all your heart with
all your soul
now what’s he going to do he’s going to
keep covenant
i will give you the rain in your land in
his due season the first ring the latter
rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn
thy wine and
i always say you’re going to eat look at
me folks
he said you’re going to eat you’re going
to go hungry
i will get i will send grass in my
fields for thy cattle that thou mayest
eat and be full
take heed yourselves that your heart be
not deceived then you turn aside and
serve other gods
and worship them go to verse 22 if you
will please
for if you shall diligently keep all
these commandments so i command you to
do them to what
to love the lord your god to walk in all
his ways and to cleave unto him
then will the lord drive out all those
nations before you you shall possess
greater nations and mightier than
yourselves
every place one the soldier feature
treads will be yours
from the wilderness and lebanon from the
river the
river euphrates even onto the utmost see
your coast
be there shall no man be able to stand
before you
see you don’t need a gun
for the lord your god shall lay the fear
of you and the dread of you upon all
the land that ye may tread upon us upon
us he has said unto you
behold i said before this day a blessing
and a curse look at me please folks he
said
you love me and you draw near to me you
cleave to me
you don’t have to be afraid anybody
they’re going to be afraid of you
not because you have a gun not because
you have a stash of ammunition
but you’re full of christ in the power
of god
and all you’ve got to do is smile adam
i believe this with all my heart when i
came to new york city
god knew i was going to walk the streets
and have to work with prostitutes and
everybody else
and boy god said david if you just draw
near to me i’ll put such a dread
of you that any prostitute or any woman
ever looks you on the street
the fear of god will hit them and folks
god kept that word all these years
i i love their souls but i’ve had many
just get near and say oh they just back
away don’t even say a word oh
that’s the hand of god i’ll put the
dread of you
you get full of jesus they’ll know
you’ve been with christ they’ll know
you cleave to me go to 30th chapter
deuteronomy
you shall know the truth and the truth
shall set you free
let’s start in verse 6
deuteronomy 30 verse 6 and the lord thy
god will circumcise thine heart
and the heart of thy seed to what to
love the lord thy god with all
thy heart and with all thy soul that
thou mayest what
live glory be to god
the lord thy god will put all these
curses upon thy enemies and on them that
hate
thee which persecuted thee they also
return and obey the voice of the lord
and do all his commandments do i command
thee this day
the lord thy god will make thee
plenteous in
every work of thine hand and the fruit
of thy body the fruit of thy cattle
the fruit of thy land for good for the
lord will again rejoice over thee
for good as he rejoiced over thy
fathers glory be to god
verse 16. in that i command thee this
day to what
love the lord thy god to walk in his
ways and to keep his commandments and
his statues his judgments
that thou mayest live and multiply and
look at this
and the lord thy god shall bless thee in
the land whether thou go as to possess
it
and i’ll bless you i don’t care what’s
happening all around you i’ll bless you
with enough
a sufficiency i will bless you
there’s more verse 19 i call heaven and
earth to
record this day against you that i have
set before you life and death blessing
and cursing
therefore choose life that both thou thy
seed may live
thou thou mayest love the lord thy god
and thou mayest obey his voice that thou
mayest leave
mayest cleave unto him for he is thy
life
and the length of thy days no he’s your
security there it is
he is your security glory be to god
now look this way please
deuteronomy 6 5 says thou shalt love the
lord thy god with all thy heart
all thy soul and all thy might look
please
what more does god have to say to prove
to us
that if we will stay passionately in
love
see everything god has done has been
vested in his son
you stay in love with jesus and you know
what it means to be in love with jesus
first of all
he did have my commandments and keepeth
them he is that love with me
but to keep those commandments not they
have to be done through
loving submission now
a white the bible said is to submit
herself to her husband that’s what love
is lord i give you my body
every time i go to prayer lord i i go i
support i
i submit to your
will everything i have no will of my own
i give everything it’s submitting it’s
going to him
loving him in submission saying god my
body
my mind everything i’m going to trust
you you give me a voice
folk i’m going to tell you now you say
well what am i going to do about
the money that i’ve accumulated my my
iras or my retirement or the pension
funds what do i do
i’m going to tell you something you stay
close to jesus you’ll know his mind
he’ll speak you he’ll tell you what to
do he’ll tell you what to do
if god tells you that you you’re to
store food or you
you have the money to go it’s because
he’s trying to help you
to be a haven for everybody else and
folks i’m going to tell you god told me
in prayer
that when this time comes every home is
to be a haven
every home is a haven every home is a
place
i don’t care if i have to take uh some
other christian
into my family if we have to sleep on
the floor in sleeping bags whatever it
is
my home is a haven
we we are getting hundreds of letters
now from people who are saying that
right now they
the holy ghost is i’ve never seen
anything like the holy spirit speaking
to thousands and thousands of christians
and they’re not running they’re not
afraid they’re saying
i have been told by the holy spirit to
put away some things
and put away a little money that i’ve
accumulated so that i can help others
that are less fortunate than i am
that is fine every home of haven
but now let me give you the problem
and here’s where some of you have been
confused
for a long time you read and hear about
all these promises we just read to you
of god’s steeping power he’s your shield
he’s your protector a wall of fire
around you put your body in your earthly
destiny as well as your eternal destiny
in his hands and god will take care of
you
but then you say well what about hebrews
11 36
to 40. go there please hebrews
and and i want to tell you something
folks unless you deal with this
you’ll never have proper faith
the scripture i’m going to read to you
now i have been just absolutely
overlooked by many because they’re
afraid to touch
it hebrews
hebrews 11 verse 36 beginning to read
and others had trial of cural mockings
you know we’ve just heard
through faith they subdued kingdoms and
they wrought rights but they obtained
promise they stuck the mouth of lions
they quenched the violence of fire they
escaped the edge of the sword
out of weakness were made strong wax
vanity and fight
turned to flight the armies women
received their dead raised again
but others were tortured verse 35 not
accepting deliverance that they might
obtain a better resurrection
and others had cruel head trial of cruel
mocking
scourgings bonds imprisonment stoned
sawn asunder tempted slain with a sword
wondered about in sheepskins goatskins
being destitute afflicted torment
of whom the world was not worthy they
wandered in deserts and in mountains and
dens and caves
these all having obtained a good report
through faith received not the promise
god having provided some better thing
for us that they without us
should not be made perfect now folks
look at me please
you look at that you say all right where
was the covenant
where was the shield where was the wall
of protection
sean and sunday they were cut into
beheaded these were all in faith these
were all
pass me in love with jesus you say that
argues against everything you’ve been
preaching this morning brother dave
and there are many whose faith has come
up against this wall and it’s collapsed
folks you’ve got to understand something
that
this there are going to be until jesus
comes they’re going to there’s going to
be much more of this and i’m going to
show it to you go to revelation 6
9 revelation 6 9
there’s going to be incredible suffering
until
jesus comes
revelation 6.
verse 9 beginning to read
and when he had opened the fifth seal he
saw under the altar the souls of them
that were slain for the word of god
and for the testimony which they held
and they cried with a loud voice saying
how long o lord holy and true does thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them
that dwell on the earth white robes were
given to every one of them
it was said unto them that they should
rest for a little season until
their fellow servants also their
brothers
that should be killed as they were
should be fulfilled
to see what it’s saying he’s saying
there’s going to be many many others
persecuted saunas under betrayed
just like this folks in indonesia
i was given a a report an official
report
and i i get reports from the united
nations because we’ve people here from
the united nations who supply these
reports to it a report out of indonesia
all we heard in the news that there were
many chinese ethnic chinese that were
killed in the riots
a few months ago and very few realized
that most of them were christians
over 1500 of them brutally murdered
their wives and their women were raped
and it was it it’s still going on
persecution
but at the same time because of their
testimony now listen closely
the bible says they were slain for the
word and for their testimony
listen closely what has happened in
indonesia in the past three months
first of all the christians decided all
the christians
and they are opening there’s such a
revival now such an outpouring of the
holy spirit in indonesia
they’re opening dozens of churches every
week now all over the country
christians have bound together and
decided to eat one meal a day and they
went to the new
president new prime minister of
indonesia and told them what they were
doing
you remember the news he asked the whole
country to fast the day a week that came
from the meeting with the christians
and the christians were told by the holy
spirit that god was judging
indonesia because the the muslims
the islamic the muslims had risen up
against the christians and for the past
two years have been
violently persecuting the church
remember
my message the controversy over zion
that god judges nations not just for the
wickedness but primarily because they
touch his holy
apple of his eye
no let’s talk about this for just a
minute before i close
most of you don’t have to worry about it
you can forget it
put it out of mind it’s not for you
because god has more volunteers than he
can handle right now
of people that are closest to his heart
because you see these these these are
chosen people
who have such a testimony of intimacy
with christ
they are so heaven bound and so in
with christ now they won’t take
anything to give them a shortcut and a
quick route to heaven
the bible said they chose not to be
delivered
choosing a better resurrection and i
want to tell you
god only gives this gift of martyrdom he
only gives the gift that we’re talking
about in the
bottom part of hebrews to a certain paul
was chosen to suffer as a testimony
there are many many many christians
worried well how can i believe
listen everyone mentioned here we’re of
the gideon army
all of the fearful the lord says you go
home they’re still my children but you
go home
this battle is not for you this is not
for you
folks god’s not going to choose cowards
for this crown he going to bypass you
you shall thank god bypassing me
let me tell you something i’ve read
fox’s book of martyrs and i keep reading
about the martyrs
and every martyr story that i’ve read
they they all
said when the hard times come and i’m
tested i’m gonna fall i don’t have it in
me
but when the time came god’s spirit came
on them gave them the grace and the
mercy and the power
i read of one dear pastor who was in
prison they were about to take him
to the fire and burn him at the stake
and he left a note to his wife
he’d been in prison for a year he said
this has been the garden
of eden he said this has been like a
palace
i have never known jesus more than i’ve
known him jesus came into my cell every
day
and because of his presence he made it a
palace
this is a chosen people this is a gift
from
god
it’s only for those but that special
holy remnant
that have passed the mark they’ve
already gone through
they’ve really left the world they’re
here but they’re really not here they’re
with
christ and they have this testimony for
the word of god they’ll not let it go
they’re like the hebrew children said we
know god is able but if not
we trust him the promises of god and
every one of these people
who were who were caught asunder and
every one of these that wandered in
caves and
dens hungry every one of them
when if they could take voice right now
would tell you
every promise is true god will supply
god will keep
they would be the strongest to stand
here and tell you god is faithful to his
word hallelujah
folks we’re going to take a back seat to
all of these martyrs
they’re the ones who are going to be
around his throne
closest to his heart but take heart
folks
god still loves the faint-hearted like
me
and like you he still loves the
faint-hearted
his covenant still stands and he’ll give
you all the grace you need if it ever
came to this
you’ll have more it’ll be the most
blessed experience you ever had and
you’ll go out
shouting the praises of god so there’s
no need to worry
hallelujah you should anticipate that we
should look forward to it
paul said liver die i’m the lord’s
anyhow
let’s stand
i preached a little longer than i like
to but
i wanted to finish this word that the
lord has given to me
folks look at me for a moment hold
steady
we’re not done
your dinner can wait
make sure this morning
that you deal with every bit of
trepidation every bit of fear
i know the lord has took taking it
completely out of my heart
i love this congregation as pastor
carter and all the other
leaders of this church love you dearly
and i believe you love us
too equally
we are concerned about you but folks we
we have placed this congregation
into these great big strong
hands of the lord
he said commit your ways to the lord
and he’ll bring it to pass committed god
doesn’t want you
not listen folks listen closely to your
pastor now
the nuisance coming even before this
year has ended the news that’s coming
of of violent terrorism
you’ve seen just some of it this past
weekend as our embassies have been blown
up
in africa
they’re going to be some terrifying news
awful news
but there has to be something in you
so at peace with god so at rest
that nothing can shape you let the news
be what it is
let the shake the shaking is coming
but you see when the shaking comes take
comfort that my god’s behind it all
my god has everything under control god
is doing this
god has a purpose to it and folks he’s
going to clean up his church he’s going
to purge his bride
i i was sitting here while that that
wonderful
explosion of worship and praise broke
out in this meeting this morning
and the holy spirit whispered to me said
david that’s nothing compared to what’s
going to be
after all of these things begin to
happen and the saints
gather here he said you won’t be able
you won’t be able to contain the glory
the shouting and the worship and the
praising of god
what a time is going to be
[Applause]
this is the conclusion of the message