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#home #family #parents #children #JesusChrist #God #Faith #Hope #Love When we #think of the #victory of the #Cross we have to remind ourselves that the #blood of #Jesus #cleanses us from all our #sins and we are #forgiven in Christ. At the Cross #Jesus bore all our #grief and #sorrows. All #guilt and #condemnation is lifted because of His #blood. At the Cross #mercy and #peace took on a #human #face. #Jesus #Christ made a #covenant with His #Father and His #blood brings us #everlasting #peace. About David Wilkerson David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade. 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. David Wilkerson had a strong burden to encourage and strengthen pastors throughout the world. From 1999 to 2008, he traveled around the globe holding conferences for Christian ministers.
now folks there’s a Full Gospel
it’s not all joy it’s not all peace it’s
not all happiness
it’s not all Victory there comes a time
when God has to show us his heart
and part of his heart is the grief he
has against sin in his church among his
own people
and I want to talk about sharing that
grief tonight
see things have already gotten very
quiet
Lord I would never be able to understand
why you put me here tonight with this
particular message I don’t know
I had no way of knowing who’s here I
don’t know who’s here I don’t know who
walked in here tonight from another city
or from this town and Lord I pray that
you help me now to forget all of that
and do what you told me to do
Lord at this church we’ve learned to
hear your voice
we’ve learned to hear your correction
we’ve learned to hear reproof we’ve
learned to hear about Victory and joy
and the overcoming life all of these
wonderful things but oh God speak
clearly to our hearts tonight I ask that
you sanctify me that you speak clearly
to My Heart Lord let me be under the
blood the Precious Blood of the Lamb so
that the word I speak comes from the
very Heart Of God lord I can’t invent
this kind of message I can’t bring this
out of my own gut or my own feelings
Lord this has to be born in your heart
and I pray Lord that this church receive
it tonight lord it’s not reproof it’s a
word from God’s heart but Lord Jesus
speak to us if we need reproof reprove
us because we love your word we Delight
in your word so help us sanctify me now
give us ears that are Sanctified to hear
what the holy spirit is saying and we
will rejoice in your faithfulness
tonight in Jesus name amen
now I’m convinced convinced totally
convinced the only way that a Christian
and a Believer can enjoy the fullness of
joy true Joy
I mean the joy that comes from the heart
of God the only way you can know that is
to have it on a foundation of
understanding and knowing the grief of
God’s heart
now let me tell you I can go to any
church at any time and I can hear
wonderful singing I can see it here hand
clapping but there’s a certain sound
there’s not true Joy that’s not true
Holy Ghost Joy lasting Joy the kind that
the Holy Ghost gives to a body unless
that congregation shares the heart of
God in his grief
out of that understanding his grief
knowing his grief and entering into that
grief comes the true joy and victory of
the Holy Ghost
in the days of Noah God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth
and that every imagination of the hearts
of his heart with evil continually and
it repented the Lord that he’d made man
on the earth and it grieved him at his
heart and the word there in Hebrews it
cut him it heard him it pained him it
cut him to the heart he saw the
wickedness of man it was the wickedness
of man that grieved and caught and hurt
and bruised the heart of God
Isaiah said of Jesus Christ he is a Man
of Sorrows and he’s acquainted with
grief
oh yes he was the Spotless Son of God
but this man Christ Jesus wept he
understood the heart of his father he
knew what Godly grief was surely he is
born our griefs and he’s carried our
sorrows Isaiah 53 4.
Jesus Christ carried the grief of his
father
he entered into the very hurt and pain
of his Heavenly Father
if you go through the Old and New
Testament you’ll find that men who
really knew God
really knew his heart they were really
intimate with him understood what grief
was all about
you find this in the in David in the Old
Testament here’s a man who really knew
what true Joy was he rejoiced in Jehovah
as few other men in all the scripture
but it was born out of his great grief
for the transgressions he saw in the
Lord’s people now David wasn’t perfect
but he had a repent in heart and through
that repentance through that intimacy
with his Heavenly Father God shared his
heart and what he saw was not just
through his eyes he saw through the eyes
of the Holy Spirit folks you can’t
grieve over the sin that’s in the church
or in the world or in your own heart
until you see it Through The Eyes Of The
Lord
you can’t come to Jesus and just say
well I want to be free from my sins so I
can have joy peace and eternal life
you’ll never get victory over sin until
you see your sin in the eyes of God and
the grief it causes his heart
you have to you have to have his grief
against sin period
not just against your failure personal
failure but the whole body of sin
David said I beheld the transgressors
and I was grieved he said I was watching
what’s happening among God’s people and
it grieved my heart because they were
not keeping your word Lord they weren’t
abiding by Your Word
do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee
and am I not grieve with those who rise
up against thee
David learned to hate what God hated and
to love what God loved and what God
detested David said I will detest
the prophet Amos cried out against those
who at ease in Zion now here’s a man who
knew what it was to grieve for sin I
want you to go to Amos uh the sixth
chapter with me if you will please in
the Old Testament that Prophet Amos
and for the new Believers uh if you get
to Jonah turn left a few chapter a few
books and if you’re in Joel just keep
turning right there it’s in the middle
there Amos the sixth chapter
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I think this is probably the one message
the church doesn’t want to hear but
needs more than any message on the face
of the Earth today
because we’re folks before as soon as
you get to look this way please
I know what the holy spirit’s been
saying to my heart prophetically that
the Church of Jesus Christ is in the
transition period right now we’re behind
we’re between the Eli Ministry of
compromise and mixture about to enter
into the Samuel company Ministry of
those whose words never fall to the
ground because they are in prayer and
set in with God
we’re in a transition between a corrupt
adulterous Ministry and church full of
mixture and we’re right in that
transition period And in that transition
period
the denominational church that the
church body that has lost the touch of
God
is going to be moved out of the picture
and God’s going to bring in a whole new
way of doing things before he comes and
everything in the Old Testament is the
type and sad of what he’s going to do in
the last days
and God began to open my eyes on that
this past week and even sitting here
before I got up to preach God began to
speak to my heart about the transition
began to open my eyes to see why the
devil would bring in a laughing Revival
when God is calling for a Revival of
grief
because the enemy knows that the
transition is taking place a transition
is in place and every time that
transition has happened the devil has
come in with a counterfeit he’s always
moved in with something to try to hinder
that work
Beloved the call of the Holy Ghost today
is grief over sin in the house of God
anybody can grieve over the sins outside
anybody can grieve over the over the
murder rate and and the homosexuality
and the drug addiction and the murder
and we can grieve over the little making
girl and that was killed this that we
can grieve over those that were were
killed and uh in these explosions that’s
that should be we should all grieve over
these things but I’m talking about God’s
grief over his people over his church
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with me just follow me Amos 6. verse
verse 6 verses woe to them that are
eased in Zion
and Trust in the mountainous and Mary
which says named chief of the Nations to
whom the house of Israel came skip to
verse 3. ye that put far away the evil
day and caused the seed of violence to
come near
that lie upon beds of Ivory and stretch
themselves upon their couches
and eat the Lambs out of the flock and
the calves out of the midst of the stall
and chant to the sound of the vial and
event to themselves instruments of music
like David they drink wine in bowls and
they anoint themselves with the chief
ointments but they are not grieved for
the Affliction of Joseph here’s aimless
looking at a society that’s about to be
destroyed judgment’s about to come on
the house of God God’s about to deal
with his church and all the leaders all
the religious leaders and all of the
people that call themselves by the name
of Jehovah here they are an ivory cops
is drinking out of their wine bowls and
singing inventing new ways to entertain
themselves it was a mixture an absolute
mixture he said you ought to be grieving
because judgment is at the door you
ought to be Weeping at what you see
around here you’re not weeping you’re
not grieving you’re playing games you’re
in entertainment you’ve lost the touch
of God and he’s screaming he’s crying
here he said you’re not greed you are
not grieved for the Affliction of Joseph
the Affliction of Joseph was the inroad
of sin and compromising mixed her in the
house of God
he said I don’t find anybody grieving I
don’t find anybody everybody’s laughing
everybody’s playing everybody’s in
entertainment he said why are you not
grieving
while you are Weeping
the word here for grief is sickened why
are you not heart sick he’s saying
that’s the Hebrew word the sin and
Romans God’s people is not sickening
your heart it doesn’t disgust you
anymore because you become Blinded By
The Good Life
you have all these material things now
and you don’t have your concern that you
once had
the greatest detriment to the burden of
Jesus Christ and the grief of God is our
modern blessings
all the good things
now folks God wants to give them to us
if we can trust them with this and the
truth is that he can’t trust many of us
with his me included
the more I have seen the blessing of God
the more material things that I am
blessed with the harder it gets to keep
that burden
I have to stay on my knees like it did
this past week and lower God and just
walk and cry and scream oh God break my
heart don’t let me get addicted to the
easy life
Nehemiah was grieved because he
understood something that nobody else
understood
and folks when you’re shut in with God
and you bear his heart and and you know
his mind you’re going to understand
things that few others understand and
God will reveal
the hideousness of sin but Paul called
the exceeding sinfulness of sin
why don’t you go to Nehemiah
turn left for new Believers all the way
back past Saul and
just before you get to uh job
Nestor Nehemiah I want you to go to the
13th chapter of Nehemiah
Nehemiah was greed because he understood
the evil that he infiltrated the house
of God
beloved let me tell you something
look this way
I don’t think I don’t I don’t think I
understand
I don’t think
there are a handful of people on in this
nation
that understand the depths of corruption
the depths of sin
that has crept in to the house of God
the mixture of entertainment the mixture
of the world the inroads of divorce
adultery fornication homosexuality
I had a few dear black pastors tell me
he said some of their their churches
they can’t understand it that
homosexuals are taking over the whole
music departments moving in moving in on
all sides in the pastors are stiffing by
afraid to say anything about it or do
anything about it I don’t think we begin
to comprehend what has happened
Nehemiah
saw what was happening
I want you to read with me the first
nine chapter 13 verses chapter 13 the
Nehemiah
on that day they read in the book of
Moses in the audience of the people
therein was found written that the
ammonite and the moabite should not come
into the congregation of God forever God
said no mixture no idolatry nothing of
this world no ammonite
no Heathen nothing of this world is to
come and be mixed in my house
amazing number two because they meant
not the children missed with bread and
with water but hired Balaam against them
that he should curse them how did our
God turn to curse into a blessing
now it came to pass what they had heard
the law that they separated from Israel
all the mixed multitude
you see when when you are really walking
according to the word of the Living God
you will not permit sin in your life or
you will not allow it if you’re a
minister in the house of God
it came to pass when they heard the law
they separated from Israel all the mixed
multitude God says no mixture in my
house verse 4 and before this Elias the
priest having the oversight of the
Chamber of the House of our God was
Allied with tobiah and it prepared for
him a great chamber where a fourth time
they laid the meat offerings in
frankincense and the vessels and the
ties of the Corn the new wine and so
forth verse six but in all this time
was I not in Jerusalem
verse 7 and I came to Jerusalem and I
understood the evil Look at me now look
at those words I understood the evil
beloved
I want God to help me understand the
evil
that is in his house and I’ll show you
why in just a minute why it’s important
to understand
I understood the evil that Elijah did
for tobiah in preparing him a chamber in
the courts of the house of God and it
grieved me sore it grieved me sore
therefore I cast forth all the household
stuff of Dubai out of the chambers then
I commanded they cleansed the chambers
until they brought eye again the vessels
of the house of God and the meat
offering the frankincense now let me
tell you the importance of what I’ve
just read to you Elias said is the high
priest and his name means Unity through
compromise
Anything Goes
just keep the peace
folks you can join some Pentecostal
churches Baptist Churches Evangelical
churches any kind of sin in your life
you can join because the church does not
walk in the Holy Ghost except anybody
Anything Goes
Unity to compromise and that’s what
their communical movement has become
it’s unit everything’s Unity compromise
Doctrine compromise anything just in the
sake of love it’s called a love I call
it a love trap
Unity through compromise and this high
priest who wanted Unity through at any
price through compromise brought into
the house of God first of all he took
all of the wine and the oil out of this
big room where it’s being reserved and
used for the purpose of the Sanctified
priest he moves that all out that
represents the true word of God and the
true anointing of the Holy Ghost and he
moved it out and he brings in he brings
in tobiah whose name means Prosperity
pleasure good life
can you figure it out
can you see what’s happening in American
churches in the past 15 years
where the prosperity messages come in
the church moved out
the convicting preaching of the word of
God
moved out to prayer meetings and the
waiting on the Lord and the preaching
against sin
and now the sake of unity
compromise in comes the gospel of
prosperity and the good life come to
Jesus and get rich
you know we preach the blessing of God
here upon those who walk in humility but
we’ve always said the blessing of God
begins with the spiritual truth the
spiritual things the spiritual riches in
Christ Jesus
together
see this is
this was a new thing in God’s house
there was a crop Ministry now in League
with paganism
the people began to yearn for prosperity
and for the good life and all now they
forget they forget there’s no more grief
for sin there’s compromise and mixture
in his house Elijah of the priest having
the oversight of the Chamber of the
house of God was Allied with tobiah he
was Allied with him he was in cahoots
they were joined together
Nehemiah understood this evil that was
going on and it was all sponsored by a
Ministry that was soft on sin
and I came to Jerusalem and I understood
the evil
that they did for to abide preparing him
a chamber in the courts of the house of
God and it grieved me sore he said it
tore my heart apart the grief of God he
was not acting on some legalistic
impulse he was seeing through God’s eyes
and he’s feeling God’s eyes God’s
looking down and he feels the grief of
God God’s looking at his church and he
sees such foolishness he see such
wickedness he sees his own servants
serving now just for what they can get
there’s no weeping there’s no Brokenness
everybody is light and frivolous
and it sickens
Nehemiah because Nehemiah had been shut
in with God and he’d heard the heart of
God and he shared his grief
Paul had that Ministry he looked over
the backsliding of God’s people and he
warned for many are walking of whom I
told you so often and I tell you now
even with weeping
that there that they have become the
enemies of the Cross of Christ whose end
is destruction is God is their belly
whose glory is their shame who mind
Earthly things he’s talking about the
church
and the word weeping here in grief is a
loud sobbing a piercing sobbing cry out
of a broken heart
a piercing cry out of a broken heart he
said I tell you with my heartbreaking I
Cry
the gods of their bellies now
the glories of their shame
their minds are unearthly things now
it’ll seek me
anymore
like they used to
Nehemiah is just a vessel
intimate with God it comes forth
with this and it wasn’t a silent despair
a lot of people have silent despair
a lot of people are resigned they sigh
with that resignation oh God
isn’t it all
not so the Apostle Paul
he said I cry to the church I scream a
piercing cry
the ministry of grief
was Samuel’s Ministry now folks I’m
going to tell there is a minister of
grief and God gives it to certain ones I
don’t know how he chooses It’s a
Wonderful calling but God has a minister
it’s called the Samuel company
and they’re very rare oh to God that he
allow me to be a part of that company
here’s a young man called to that not
his own grief or grief of humanity but
the Deep unfathomable grief of the heart
of God you see God was grieved over the
backspliding in Shiloh here’s an Eli
Ministry here’s a man the Bible says a
trembles for the Ark of God he trembles
at the Ark of God but he’s trembling a
tradition it was just tradition because
that Ark had no it didn’t have enough
spiritual meaning to him to give him a
voice against sin
he’s got two sons are committing
adultery and foreign fornication right
at the Tabernacle gate
two sons who represent a backslidden
Ministry who can’t cry out against sin
because of the wickedness of Their Own
Heart
a corrupt Ministry and God is about to
remove his hand from Silo
there’s a transition about to take place
a new ministry is coming in after the
heart of God
a righteous Ministry is coming now from
the heart of God and God’s about to
bypass this fact
backslidden easy on sin
generation he’s about to move it away
here’s a man who trembles for the ark
goes out and fights God’s battles
but he has no power he has no Authority
he has no discernment whatsoever God’s
about to do a new thing and he has no
idea no concept of it even happening he
doesn’t even know what’s about to take
place totally blind to what God’s saying
and what God is doing
he only had a token hatred for sin the
Bible makes it very
clear
that
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God sent to Eli unnamed prophet
and he said you honor your sons above me
to make yourself fat with the chiefest
of all the offerings and you know the
only thing that this man could say to
his sons he knew his sons were
committing fornication he knew that they
were sons of Belial the Bible says they
didn’t know the Lord can you imagine
this they are ministering in the house
of God they are offering the sacrifices
in other words they’re standing in the
pulpit
and the Bible said they didn’t even know
the Lord
didn’t even know him
they were filthy
and they were still ministering the
things of God they don’t know of the
heart of God and folks God is going to
do away with that Ministry but the Eli
Ministry that God’s dealing with today
this soft on sin generations of
ministers now I’m not I’m not painting
every minister with that but I’m talking
about the denominations today
listen this is all the protest this man
can offer name my sons it’s no good
report that I hear you make the Lord’s
people a transgression transgress
naughty naughty
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too bad you shouldn’t do that it’s not
nice
it’s not nice
that’s the candy cotton preaching coming
from many pulpits today
folks that’s not nice
it it doesn’t look good
no anointing no holy ocean
no fear and dread of a holy God
and that’s why we have a church today
that’s become sensual worldly and
self-serving
because they’ve made themselves fat with
the cheapest of the offerings of Israel
you know why Eli couldn’t reprove his
sons
because
when the offering was brought to the
door of the Tabernacle and the animal
was slain
a portion of that went into a seething
pot a big Boiling Pot and there was the
three-pronged hook a long Snicker
three-pronged hook and after it was
soddened or cooked boiled The Boiled
meat would be brought out whatever came
out on the three-pronged uh prong went
into the priest on to the priest table
that belonged to the priest that was
their portion but you see these young
men didn’t want sodden flesh they didn’t
want boiled meat they didn’t want the
bad cuss
what they were doing at the temple gate
they were cutting out the filet mignon
this is the truth they cut out the filet
mignon and this was going right onto
Eli’s table
and that’s how he got fat
he deals with his sons
no more filet mignon
you see
this is what happens when you get into
it when churches and Ministries get into
that trap and and they build magnificent
buildings and the budget goes higher and
higher
who would take a strong man of God to
stand In a Pulpit and point out to some
big money Giver in the church that just
gave a million dollars and he knows that
that man’s living in adultery to point a
finger to him not in public to go to him
and say John you’re living in sin we
can’t endure that I can’t have you on my
Deacon board anymore I don’t care if you
gave a million dollars you’re living in
sin I’m here to help you but it can’t go
on
[Applause]
the ministry that’s been soft on sin has
lost its discernment
here’s a Godly woman by the name of
Hannah she’s weeping bitterly in the
house of God at Shiloh
because you see when a church
dispensation is in transition
the new thing God’s going to do is birth
and weeping
there’s always a Hannah
there’s a cry of a Hannah
and she is at the altar daily crying out
because God’s birthing a new movement
his birth in the womb of this crying
Weeping Woman not some laughing saint
I tell you to your face I am poor
I have more
this foolish laughing
and mockery
of the holy God that’s about to bring
something new to his church
it is going to be born out of the womb
or the Weeping charts
[Applause]
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forgive us
she’s in the spirit
now Hannah she’s faking her heart only
her lips moved
no silliness
only her lips moved but her voice was
not heard
there he lie therefore Eli thought she
was drunk
you talk about losing discernment
didn’t even know that God was birthing
some new work
how blind can we be
she’s in the spirit conversing with God
under Divine unction and this man
doesn’t even know what’s happening
he’s standing on the threshold of a
profound new work of God that’s going to
affect Israel’s future he’s so out of
touch with God he thinks his flesh
foreign
but he’s become so indulgent so
comfortable so steeped in cold
traditionalism
he doesn’t have the slightest hint that
God’s about to do away with his ministry
he’s out of touch with God
he has no fresh word to give the people
he’s facing a people consumed with lust
addicted
that they become agents of Satan and
blind to the impending judgments are
about to fall
and folks when God’s about to do
something
there’s a reflection of his heart
according to his eternal purposes he
brings forth a weeping brokenhearted
Ministry and then he brings out of that
a Ministry he brings out Ministers of
the Gospel that are going to be his true
voice in a time of spiritual declension
this company is going to be made up
women who care for nothing of tradition
they’re not going to promote
denominational things it’s not a kind of
come through any denomination believe me
there it is not going to come through
any system at all God had to go outside
the system and find a Samuel outside of
the denomination outside of the church
he found at this young broken-hearted
young man and he hears from God
he’s been shut in with the Lord and God
speaks
God told Sam he’s going to judge
This Old House
this old way
for I have told him
I will judge his house forever he’s he’s
speaking now
God speaking to Samuel about the Eli
Ministry I’ve told him that I will judge
his house forever for the iniquity which
he knoweth because his sons made
themselves vile and he restrained them
not he restrained them not he was afraid
to do with sin
folks there’s a dead judgment coming
when every minute of the Gospel going to
stand before the Judgment seat
and give an account
I know that more than anything else
not to stand one day and give an account
not on my own life but of my preaching
I’ve preached to you and brother
Carter’s preached him this pulpit
the Covenant we’ve preached the
priesthood of Christ we’ve preached the
security of those who walk in faith
before God we’ve talked about the
blessedness of the blood we’ve covered
just about everything that can be
covered in this pulpit
but I tell you now
that we must not forget
never forget
God’s grief
against sin
in his house in our own lives
and that God raises up Ministers of the
Gospel to remind us
and that’s a sign of his faithfulness to
anybody any church but that’s
faithfulness I wouldn’t want to go to a
church where there’s there wasn’t a word
that convicted me
I want to go to God’s house and be
convicted of everything in my life
that’s unlike Jesus Christ
I don’t want to hear some preacher
whisper sweet reassurances that God
loves me I know that but I don’t want
somebody tell me God loves me in my sin
I I want to God does love Innocent but I
don’t want him to tell me it’s okay I
don’t even want to intimate that I want
to have conviction of the Holy Spirit
then know how through the power of the
Holy Ghost to find Victory Hallelujah
we don’t have that grief of God in our
pulpits today
now
the scripture says
Samuel told
speak of Eli Samuel told him everything
and hid nothing from him
this is what the holy spirit’s doing
with me about narisse night I I didn’t
want to preach this tonight and the Lord
said well
are you going to tell them everything
will you tell them everything
not just part of my gospel but the whole
gospel and I said yes I will because the
message of this family company is not a
pleasant message sometimes Bible said
Samuel feared to tell Eli the vision in
the original he trembled or he grieved
because of what he’d seen and heard
because he’s got to go to to what
represents the the picture of godliness
and and dignity and righteousness here’s
a here’s an old man of God that’s what
for years with God and he knows that
judgment is coming he’s got to stand up
he’s got to protest
and folks when the Samuel company comes
we you will know that your church or
this church is in transition and coming
in that’s moving out of the Eli Ministry
into the Samuel Minister you when I will
know we’re getting there when this
protest against sin in your heart and
against the church in the Church of
Jesus Christ becomes more than a sigh
but a loud protest no matter what
happens no matter what the consequences
of protest
yeah
the Lord said to Samuel behold I will do
a thing in Israel at which both years of
everyone who hears it shall tingle he
said I’m going to do something that’s
going to make that people won’t believe
it they’re going to look at my house and
say why why would God do that why would
so many ministers be moved out of the
way why would God be doing this to his
church to his people they don’t
understand it he said it’s going to
cause their ears to tingle but God says
I’m moving I’m going to do what I
promised to do in the last days
hallelujah through the pouring out of
the Holy Ghost God is going to sanctify
his church he’s going to sanctify his
pulpit
oh
and to the very end of his ministry
Samuel bore this grief of God over his
people remember when Israel began to
Lust For A King
they wanted to be just like all the
nations
and that’s the reason we have what we
have in our churches today because we
want to be just like the world just like
the world
and listen to Samuel he falls on his
knees he’s grieved
God shares his grief with him and he’s
speaking for God now here’s all of
Israel gathered together they’re
clamming clamoring they’re not they’re
not totally dependent on God anymore and
folks that’s what happens when sin
enters the church it takes away robs it
of its Faith the church no longer is
intimate with Christ no longer depended
holy on God dependent on the Holy Spirit
but running around with schemes and
plans and dreams and networking and
strategizing and committee meetings
trying In the Flesh and sweat trying to
make it rather than depend on God
almighty God
when Abraham was Covenant when God made
Covenant with Abra Abraham he didn’t
tell him what he’s going to do he just
said
Abraham
I’m God almighty
he didn’t tell him what he was going to
do
he just said I’m God Almighty that’s all
you need
to trust that I’m almighty God he said
well then what will my reward be saying
that I don’t have a son he says I will
be your reward
the church doesn’t need anything else
but God Almighty on his throne
you don’t need any more than that
glory to God victory over sin God
almighty
I am God Almighty I’m your reward I’m
everything you need you don’t have to
turn anywhere else but now they’re
turning to a king and the Lord said to
Samuel hearken to the voice of the
people and all they say unto thee for
they have not rejected thee but they
have rejected me that I should not Reign
Over them
now therefore hearken Under The Voice
how be it yet listen to this protest
solemnly unto them and show them the man
of the king that shall reign over them
he said
you’ve got to make a protest
beloved
when the Samuel company
is where it should be and coming into
its fullness
you will hear that protest
solemn protest
against the mixture
against the sin and the corruption
and the individual speaking in the
pulpit and in the pew
there’ll be this protest that’s the mark
of this Samuel company that comes forth
weeping
comes forth to do to bring Israel into a
new realm of Holiness and Victory
is going to come right in the midst of
this clamor to be like the world
to have a king that we may be just as
other nations
but now let me close
with this
a call to grief
is really a call to rejoicing
I started out by saying you can’t know
true Joy until you know the heart of God
in his grief
and those who SOB over sin in the church
are often called doomsayers and
doomsdayers
I used to be called upon by the Lord to
prophesy so much
before I came to this church
and and I I got weary of hearing it
everywhere even among the Assemblies of
God in letters and calls and ministers
and uh they said Dave Wilkerson never
smiles
he’s so negative he’s the big doomsday
morose sad
preacher
he’s getting old before his time
well they don’t know me
and they don’t know any preacher that’s
called to prophesy they don’t know
that though you carried that bird and
the grief of God and I have to
acknowledge I don’t have it like I did
I’m praying diligently God don’t let me
get away from that don’t let don’t let
any blessing don’t let anything of this
good life rob me
of that Brokenness and that grief of the
heart of God against sin so that I can
stand in the pulpit and I can preach it
in love
and Authority
and stand at the very Gates of Hell
and say to those in Times Square Church
turn around
God knows where you’re at he loves you
turn around forsake your sin and get
back
Pastor Carter and I’ve been called to
set up church right at the gates of hell
we’re right outside those Gates
we’ve got the word of God in our hands
we’ve been on our knees and we’re going
to stand here and tell you what’s wrong
and we’re going to bless you yes but
we’re also going to tell you about the
grief of God against sin
but when we truly repented we come into
that grief
fully those who grieve with God are
given by God as a gift the true Joy of
Jehovah
the joy of Jehovah Hallelujah even in
the most evil days
they know that God is going to honor
them with his presence if they are
willing to accept his grief you’ll know
the presence of God like you’ve never
known before and you can say with
habakkuk though all else fails my heart
is going to rejoice in God alone
let me read it to you I’m reading it
from helis Farrell’s original Hebrew
although the Fig Tree shall not proof
neither shall be any provision on the
vines the produce of the olive shall
fail
the fruits will not yield substance
subsistence subsistence the flocks the
flocks shall be cut off from the field
neither shall there be any herd in the
Stalls yet will I leap for joy in
Jehovah I’ll exalt in the god of my
salvation because Jehovah has not become
my strength will you stand please
Jehovah’s become my strength
I will join the Lord even though I know
his grief
Hallelujah
glory be to God
now beloved it’s not the kind of message
make you want to shout right now I’ll
tell you when you’ll Shout
when God when when you say I’ve heard a
message tonight
and I don’t want it to go in one ear not
the other
if you will go home tonight before you
go to bed
and I’ll do the same
don’t forget it
and just get along with the Lord
and thank you for all his blessings
he Delights in blessing you there’s no
problem with that
but tell God
have my blessings has a good life robbed
me
of your heart
do I see things happening around me even
in the church that don’t bother me
anymore and it just rolls off my back am
I unconcerned now and all I want is hear
a good word from the Lord for me my
family and my friends
I just want the input of God speaking
encouragement to me all the time yes he
does encourage
we preach a lot of encouragement on this
pulp and you’ve heard a lot of it today
but oh God
I don’t want to be able to sin in my
life without grieving over it
I want to feel your grief for it
and I won’t obey you and I want victory
over sin and that’s because of the good
feeling and the peace I get from it but
because I know it brings Joy To Your
Heart
and Lord
when I see what’s happening to the
church body today
you should folks
if you and I are where we should be
in intimacy with Jesus it’s impossible
to be in dealing with Jesus without
sharing his grief impossible you tell me
you know the Heart of Jesus then you’re
going to grieve over the sin of the
church you’re going to agree
but folks you should be in a place every
one of us that we could go to any
meeting anywhere on the face of the
Earth and
deserve immediately the spirit of that
meeting
should be able to discern whether the
joy is genuine that comes from
Brokenness and weeping and or whether
it’s that Hollow laughter that comes
from not being willing to pay the price
being shut in with God and seeking his
face and and feeling his grief against
sin
you should be able in this church to
detect anyone who stands in this pulpit
whether they have the touch of God and
they’ve come from a broken spirit in a
contrite heart
that’s one of the reasons Professor
Carter is one of my favorite preachers
because I hear the Brokenness the first
time I was attracted to this ministry
God’s given to Pastor conlon is because
of a message
we’re in a pride becomes a prayer
I
heard a cry I heard a broken heart
I want that broken heart and folks we
need that we need that Brokenness and
then when we have that that’s why I
believe we have so many that have
entered into that that’s why I believe
there’s such a genuine Joy of this
church we have people come and sit here
and say I’ve never experienced never
seen such joy in all my life folks that
Joy
his birth
and the womb of a broken heart and a
contrite spirit
before God
now here’s my invitation to you tonight
I got a little loud here Jenna I’m sorry
but the
no no no questions
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if you’re standing here now up in a
balcony in the main floor for that
matter choir anybody
you said Pastor David
I don’t
I don’t have the grief
all I’ve wanted was happiness
the folks genuine happiness will not
break forth in you genuine Joy the kind
of that can’t be taken from the last
till Jesus comes to see you through any
kind of situation comes through this
that I’m preaching about tonight
if you if you if you’re like me I’ve
acknowledged before I preaches I’ve been
confessing all afternoon oh God
I
I used to walk the city just weeping and
crying and broken you can’t produce that
but you have to get diligent before God
and go alone with him and say God don’t
let me get away don’t let the good life
don’t let all your blessing some of you
guys from Timothy house you’re on the
street you were you were messed up and
everything else and from Sarah house and
and God begins to bless you and begin to
do things open your mind and give you
health and strengthen everything else
thank God for all that give him thanks
but say oh God give me a burden for
those just like me out on the streets
don’t let me uh forget to grieve over
those that are still Bound by sin folks
that’s we’re not going to be on the
streets we’re not going to be Soul
Witnesses we’re not going to be winning
Souls until we bear God’s grief for the
sin over the lost and we will not pray
for the church as we should not just
this church but the whole church body
until we grieve over the sin that we all
know is there
I’m going to just open the altar because
that’s all I know to do tonight
if God’s spoke into your heart tonight
you said well Dave I want God
to break my heart I want God to give me
a true grief for sin
and then I want to know the true joy
that comes from a totally repentant
heart and if you’ve got a sin in your
life if you’ve got a habit that’s still
hanging on this just latched itself on
your soul brother Dave I Want to Be Free
come and join these now if you don’t
know Jesus if you’re not saved if you’re
backsplitting come with these that are
coming down the aisle right now I know
God wants to do a good work in your
heart tonight
is your Holy Spirit now
you’ve not come to condemn us be come to
stir us to stir our hearts
Lord for your church for your people for
this church for our own hearts Lord that
there would be nothing in our lives
unlike you that we become more
christ-like in all our ways but oh God
share your heart with us I want
everybody that wants to share the heart
of you look at me all of you that came
forward here right now I’m not I’m not
asking you to
to try to work something up to try to
force tears
or to try to force some kind of a
Feeling
there’s nobody here calling you to act
sad and put on a long face
but there has to be some cry inside
something deep inside your heart down
down in the innermost of your being
it says oh God I don’t want anything in
this world to rob me
of hearing your voice and knowing what
you feel I want to feel what you feel
and and speak what you speak and I want
to move with you Lord I want to be I
want to know I want to be a vessel that
can be used of God you don’t have to be
some great evangelist if you would just
get alone if you’d spend quality time in
those that are praying in your prayer
time why don’t you just look up the Lord
and say Lord Jesus I want to know your
heart show me show me give me and be I
tell you if you begin to pray for his
church just begin to pray for his church
begin to pray for the Church of Jesus
Christ and as you do he will open your
eyes and your understanding and God will
move on your heart and the Holy Ghost is
the one who does the melting he’s the
one who does the breaking you can’t
force it but I I do know it for I’m
speaking just for myself when when I
face the truth and I’m convicted by that
truth
I’d go to God I said I don’t care what
it takes I’ll put everything aside Lord
I’m going to have this out with you
I don’t want to get cold in my heart
I don’t want to get backslid in my heart
I don’t want materialism to overtake my
life I don’t want the things of this
world all the good things you’ve given
to me oh God to make me comfortable and
fat spiritually like Eli
I want to be a Samuel
I want to be hearing your voice
I want to come out of the womb of tears
and Brokenness
that’s why every one of you is standing
here in this church tonight
because this church was born in the womb
of Brokenness and cares
for months and months in a little secret
closet
the Green carpet staying with tears
and God wants to birth something new in
your life giving you a Brokenness all
what God can do with a broken heart and
a contrite spirit God that’s what we’re
talking about tonight God give me a
broken heart and a contrite spirit thank
you for your blessings not God’s not
trying to condemn you of that but say oh
God don’t let it Rob me
told her to take away from me your heart
lift up your hands pray it with me Jesus
thank you for your blessings
thank you for christ
father thank you for Jesus and for
sending the Holy Ghost
now forgive me
for forgetting
what you have done
open my eyes and my understanding
don’t let me get cold
break my heart
melt my spirit
keep me humble and broken before your
word
cleanse me Jesus I give you everything
in my heart
I give you my sins
I give you my unbelief
Lord hold me
embrace me
talk to me show me your heart I want to
know who you are I want to know what you
feel
I don’t want to live for myself I want
to live for you Jesus I want to weep
with you and I will rejoice with you I
will do it your way Lord
thank him right now just give him thanks
and give him praise
conclusion of the message