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the laodicean deception you know the
laodicean church mentioned in Revelation
3 let’s go there please Revelation the
third chapter
Revelation the third chapter
hello visitors
hello
delighted to have you here God bless you
I hope you’ve seen all the tall
buildings and you’re ready to hear the
gospel now
[Music]
let’s begin third chapter verse 13
beginning to read he that hath an ear
let him hear what the spirit saith unto
the churches
and unto the angel of the Church of the
laodiceans write these things saith the
amen the faithful and true witness the
beginning of the creation of God I Know
Thy works that thou are neither cold nor
hot I would thou were cold or hot
so then because Thou Art lukewarm and
neither cold nor hot I will spew thee
out of my mouth because thou sayest I am
rich and increased with goods and have
need of nothing and knows not without
wretched and miserable and poor and
blind and naked I counsel thee to buy of
me gold tried in the fire that thou must
be rich and white raiment that thou
mayest be clothed that the same and that
the shame of thy nakedness do not appear
and anoint thine eyes with I save that
thou mayest see as many as I love our
rebuke and Chase and be zealous
therefore and repent
amen my message again to laodicean
deception
one of the most difficult things for any
of us is to see ourselves as we really
are
can I repeat that
one of the hardest things in the world
is for us to see ourselves as we really
are and as others see us and as God sees
us
there’s not a
husband here
in this whole Auditorium
that knows himself like his wife does
hmm
and there’s not a husband here doesn’t
know his wife better than she knows
herself
and just ask them
we’re so quick to judge others and slow
to judge ourselves to see what we have
really become
we have no trouble seeing the Bible says
a little speck in somebody’s eye and we
miss the log that’s in our own eyes
how blind people are to the real
spiritual condition
I was walking down the street here on
50th Street
and some
man came running up to me and he says
stop
and
he was bitter and he was angry
and he told me he said I’d like to punch
you out
and he has been evicted from the church
here he he
is full of bitterness and Rebellion he
said
Pastor it’s not fair he said I know
where you live you live in a nice
apartment
and you drive a nice car I’ve seen your
car
he said it’s not fair I live on the
streets
he said it’s not fair and I’m angry at
God and I’m angry at you and I feel like
punching you out
I assured him I wasn’t afraid of him or
anybody else on the streets because I
had a bigger Angel behind me than he was
I’m not trying to be smart but folks I I
turned I said I’m going to tell you
something
I worked for everything I have and I
didn’t waste it on booze I didn’t waste
it on drugs like you and I said by the
way don’t you get a government check he
said yeah I get 682 dollars a month
I said you got it last week they said
yes I said what’d you do with your check
you’re standing here now saying you have
nothing what’d you do with your check he
said well I went to Atlantic City and I
gambled it
and then he teared up he said but Jesus
knows my heart
he says I would just try to get even
with you and God for what you’ve been
treating me he said in actuality your
church owes me an apartment and set me
up for a new lifestyle
and he meant it
he didn’t know he
goes down
wasted
as I check gambles it away and then
comes back and wants us to take care of
him and he really believes that he’s
absolutely blinding he doesn’t know
there’s a lie on his hands he doesn’t
know he just thinks well God excuses
then God understands I’m mad so I’m
going to gamble
he has no concept of his being right or
wrong absolutely totally blinded I tried
to love the man and and I said if you’re
hungry I’ll get you something to eat
today but I don’t want to hear any more
of that you’re blind
you say all but he’s crazy that sounds
like somebody who doesn’t have a right
mind but you know we’re just like that
the rest of us as well we really do not
know ourselves and if God really shows
it to us I don’t think we’re ready to
hear it
often we are not ready to hear what God
sees in US Paul warned
that in the last day Satan would come he
would be working signs and lying wonders
with all deceitfulness and those who do
not accept the truth those who will not
let it transform their life he said very
clearly because they will not receive
the love of the truth
for this reason God shall send them
strong delusion that they should believe
a lie
now folks that has to do with their own
with seeing themselves that they really
are believing a lie I’m okay I’m all
right
there are people sitting in this
Auditorium right now you are not right
with God you really don’t know him Jesus
is just somebody who was hung on a cross
but you don’t know him intimately you
have not brought your sins to him you
are sitting here this morning thinking
everything’s all right going to be all
right do you understand sir and Matthew
do you understand that one day you’re
going to stand before him the Bible said
it’s appointed one once to die after
that to judgment you’re going to stand
before God and give an account he said
for every word every deed everything
done in your flesh have you been
forgiven have you been pardoned have you
been to the blood of Jesus Christ
there are people that are absolutely
convinced amazing uh
these who are taking their life uh by
this doctor death Dr Kevorkian
it’s amazing when to hear the way they
talk some of these have never known God
never known Jesus Christ and they have
heard as a child they know that they’re
going to die they know that death is not
the end that there’s still another life
they’re going to stand before the
Judgment seat of Christ and they know
that and they just go out and say I want
to get out of my pain there’s no concept
that go out terribly blinded to their
own condition and many people say well
I’ll get right with God just before I
die if I get cancer just before I’m
about to slip into eternity I’ll cry out
to God and I’ll get saved I’ll get right
with God
no
not at all my sister died just recently
never a day of illness healthy and no
sickness and goes to the hospital one
day she can’t breathe just a few weeks
ago and
did an x-ray and found her full of
cancer
and when my wife and I talked to her
three days later she was in the hospital
and losing strength her whole body was
full of cancer had no warning whatsoever
in five days he was gone
in the last three days last two days she
was unconscious she couldn’t talk there
was no way and you see you don’t know
when you’re going to be called
I wonder if you’re really thinking about
that oh you’re right with God or are you
blind to your spiritual condition are
you blinded
don’t you understand that you’re going
to stand before almighty God
that they will have a strong delusion
that they should believe a lie they’ll
be under delusion I’m all right I’ll
take my chances I can’t understand
anybody would try to take their chances
with their Eternal Soul
credible
now the laodiceans that I just read to
you about here in Revelation the third
chapter we’re under a great deception
they were believing a great lie about
themselves to hear them testify
they were one they they were in a
wonderful blessed spiritual condition
they told the whole world we are rich
increased with Goods that have need of
nothing they’re not just talking about
material riches they’re talking about
the riches of the Gospel our church is
flourishing we’re increasing it’s all
about increase everything is increasing
but they are totally blind to their
spiritual condition and how God sees
them
no we know that they said under the
preaching of one of the most anointed
teachers on Earth that was Paul the
Apostle in fact the letter to the
Colossians we knew we know positively
was read to these people in their Church
Colossians 4 15 says salute the brethren
in laodicea and cause this epistle to be
read before the church there
and so Colossians if you read Colossians
it’s a call to examine yourself it’s a
call to such affection on things above
and not things on the Earth
they had been preached to they had been
told to Humble themselves they’ve been
told to examine themselves they’re told
to let the gospel listen to what it says
Paul said let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom teaching
admonishing one another in Psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs he’s saying
let the word that you hear from my
letters and from the preaching in your
in your church let it change you let it
judge you let it convict you
so that you don’t stand before God
deluded one day
Paul warned them examine yourselves
whether you be in the faith prove your
own selves
and here they are boasting about being
under the blessing in favor of God
increased on every side lacking nothing
and they’re saying God must be with us
look at all the needs that are being
supplied look at the numbers we’re
growing God is blessing us God’s smiling
on us we must have the truth
folks when when I was a younger
I was a young Pastor I went to a tent
meeting of a of a very popular tinny
evangelist of the day
and that seeded probably 5 000 and there
was there were healing lines and
the associate was a friend of mine the
associate of this evangelist
and everywhere he went behind the pulpit
a makeshift pulpit
he had a big sign
no man could do these Miracles except
God be with him
no one could do these things and that
that was the thing that really
he thought he was all about
don’t judge My Lifestyle look look at
what I’m doing I’m people being healed
and and I’m casting out demons and
casting out Devils I have to be of God
no man could do these things unless God
be with him the only problem was he was
an alcoholic
and most of the time they had to sober
him up to get him out on stage
and I knew that my associate knew that
my friend that was associated with him
that evangelist died drunk
in San Francisco in a motel
you see the Bible says many will come on
that day saying we have done many works
with cast out Devils we heal the sick
the reason the Devils would leave when
they were commanded to leave is simply
because those demons wanted to confirm
that man in his sins
it’s not because the devil’s aren’t
because of Jesus Remember the demon said
Jesus I know Paul I know but who are you
they’re not going to obey a drunken man
they’re going to obey him only to prove
to him that he must be of God let him
continue in his sins and try to bring a
reproach on the body of Christ
but the man was totally blinded I talked
at advances once and you would have
thought he’s one of the sweetest man
Godly men and absolutely judicially
blinded
we went out into eternity
in his drunken stupor
but the Lord says of these boastful
Believers in laodicea he said you don’t
know it but you are wretched you are
miserable you’re poor and you’re blind
and you’re naked
what a shocking indictment from God
himself you’re blind to your spiritual
condition you’re not what you claim to
be you’re hiding your real feelings you
are not as righteous as you think you
are you’re not seeing the truth about
yourself
now is this possible for Christians to
to be a part of a holy ghost Fellowship
where there is preaching that is from
the very Throne of God piercing
convicting healing
is it possible to be a part of a body
like that and hear
preaching that is Anointed
that should be life-changing is it
possible to sit in a church like that
for week after week month after month
even year after year and not see
yourself
that’s exactly what’s happened to the
laodicean people and that’s the laodice
in delusion they could listen to this
piercing gospel of Paul the Apostle they
could listen to Apollos a great man of
God and gifted in the word of God and
Timothy they could listen to all these
Great Men of God and they are unmoved
they are boasting about their spiritual
condition and they don’t know that
they’re blind and they’re miserable and
they’re naked they’ve covered it all up
it’s not changed them they can say a man
yes folks it’s possible to attend a
Times Square Church or any church like
this where the word of God is preached
with authority where pastors weep as
they deliver it and they bring to you
something from the very heart and Throne
of God
and pray and beseech the holy ghost to
drive the word deep into your heart
and change you
let me tell you right now
some of you have heard and heard and
heard certain truths
that were designed by the Holy Ghost to
get down into the very root of your
problem
to change you
and folks if you don’t allow that Holy
Spirit to come and change you by the
power of the word you get a hard heart
you get a hard heart
the word of God is sharper than any
two-edged sword that pierces but it will
not Pierce a hard heart it cannot God
will not thrust his sword into a hard
heart and you get hard by not applying
the word not assimilating it into your
life and saying oh God
that’s me
God it’s me it’s not somebody else
there’s not somebody behind me around me
it’s not somebody I’m thinking about war
that’s me
now we know that these this church is
full of the Holy Ghost because this is a
new testament church and God Jesus when
he speaking said he that have ears to
hear what the spirit has to say let him
hear it so we we know he’s talking to a
Spirit-filled people these are not
atheists
these are not heathen these are children
of God these are believers
who are blind and miserable and naked
going around saying I’m okay in fact
they no doubt thought that like many
others in the New Testament churches
that had problems all right uh
you know the the officials they may have
lost their first love
you’re not Smyrna they have their
problems and some of the churches around
may have Jezebel teachers
but we are rich in the word
we
we have no need
no matter what the others need God has
so filled us we have everything folks if
you come to Times Square Church
believing that here at Times Square
Church we have the only gospel we have
everything we don’t need to be broken we
don’t need anyone else telling us what
to do that’s wrong
that’s terribly wrong
I want to hear God’s spirit we don’t
have it all
I said we don’t have it all
I want to go to Romans 2.
verse 19 beginning to read
and you’re confident
that thou thyself are the guide of the
blind a light of them which are in
darkness
you’re an instructor of the foolish a
teacher of babes
which has the form of knowledge and the
truth in the law
thou therefore which teacheth another
teacheth thou not thyself
thou that preachers a man should not
steal does not steal
thou that saith a man should not commit
adultery does not commit adultery now
the divorced Idols does not commit
sacrilege
thou that maketh thy boast of the law
through breaking the law of dishonest
thou God for the name of God is
blaspheming among the Gentiles through
you as it is written now folks that’s a
terrible indictment do you hear what the
apostles saying he’s speaking to the
Roman Christians well the name of God’s
blasphemy among the Gentiles through you
as it is written and he said because you
you’ve been convinced that you have
grown in the Lord and to such a state
that you’re a teacher you you are a
teacher you bypass the others and you
are you’re lecturing people about their
sins and what he’s saying you know no
position you have not yet seen your
heart
you’ve not yet seen it you know I’ve
known to people who’ve been guilty of
gross slander and gossip
and they’ve said in my presence
and start talking I’ve had to stop them
they start slandering and gossiping
others
and and act they’ll say do you know that
brother so-and-so is a gossiper
well that’s gossip in itself
they’re talking about this land of
others and I’m sitting there saying
that’s you that’s you
you can sit down and explain to somebody
all of their sins and you can see it so
clearly here’s your problem
I did that once as a married couple
and I’m telling all these things and my
wife’s looking at me
and all of a sudden it hit me I’m
talking to myself
I’m not seeing it this is for me and she
goes um
there’s a young man
who literally tried to destroy my
Ministry with lies and slander and so
much so that even his friends warned him
that God would judge him if he kept
going on
but he went on teaching
the teacher kept on teaching never stop
in fact he he taught
against the very things he was guilty of
against me I never said anything but
word came to me by another party that he
would like to be reconciled but you know
how he started it he said I’ll forgive
him
I I turned them I said for what
I said I didn’t I I didn’t do anything
but he’s ready to forgive me
and see that that’s what happens you can
become so blind that you put on somebody
else your own sins what you really are
you you projected onto somebody else
this is not the kind of preaching gonna
make you shout
if it can change your life if you
receive it from the Holy Spirit
Hallelujah
it was a young evangelist
an acquaintance of mine
he was preaching a powerful message
against sin he was preaching Holiness he
was
thundering how men ought to treat their
wives with kindness and be faithful and
true and everything else and after the
service a lady went up to his wife his
young wife was sitting in the audience
and she went up this lady went up to the
wife and said
it must be something wonderful to be
married to such a Godly powerful holy
man
and the young lady turned and I know
this to be true she turned and said I
wouldn’t know what that’s all about I
don’t know that man that’s preaching
there that’s not the one that goes home
with me
he’s on his third wife
and he still doesn’t know you’d think
after after being married three times
he would say wait a minute
maybe I’m the one
he might you’d think he’d look in the
mirror and say wait one
two
three wives
and he’s having trouble with the Third
I think you would
say Oh Holy Ghost
is there something in me
but he doesn’t see it he’s totally blind
he’s still teaching he’s still preaching
Isaiah we read of a people totally given
over to a lie and not knowing Isaiah 44
I want you to see this before we go any
further Isaiah the 44th chapter
this afternoon I’m going to be an
evangelist this morning I’m a teacher
Isaiah 44.
I want you to start following me in
verse 14.
this is a story of a man who plants a
tree and he Waters it
and it could be a Cyprus the scripture
says or it could be a cedar and he
plants this and watches it grow and then
when it grows in verse 14 he heweth him
down Cedars and take the Cyprus and the
oak
which he strengthened for himself among
the Trees of the force he planted an ash
and the rain did nourish it
then shall it be for a man to burn for
he shall take thereof and warm himself
yea he Kindles it and baketh bread
he maketh a God and worship it he makes
a Graven image and falls down there too
he burns part thereof in the fire
with part thereof he eateth flesh he
roast his roast and he satisfied yea he
warms himself and says aha I am warm
I’ve seen the fire
and the residue thereof he makes a god
see half of it he puts in the fire Cooks
his bread and roast his roast and warms
himself when it’s cold but the other
half of it he carves into an image he
falls down to it and worships it and
prays unto it and says deliver me for
thou art my God
they have not known or understood for he
has shut their eyes that they cannot see
in their heart that they cannot
understand and none considereth in his
heart neither is their knowledge nor
understanding to say I have burned part
of it in the fire ye also have baked
bread upon the coals thereof I’ve
roasted flesh and eaten it shall I make
the residue thereof an Abomination shall
I fall down to the stock of a tree he
feedeth on ashes a deceived heart hath
turned him aside that he cannot deliver
his soul nor say is there not a lie in
my right hand
he has this little can you imagine you
you find it hard to imagine anybody
could be so blind to their spiritual
condition that a man could spend uh
years uh babying this tree and making it
strong he wants it straight and he
Waters it and he prunes it and then
finally it’s a tree and he cuts it down
Cuts half of it for firewood and the
other half he carves himself a god
and all this time he’s carving it he’s
cooking with the rest of the of the wood
and then he finally carves it polishes
it and stains it and he says you’re my
God and he falls down and he worships
and he Praises this piece of wood and he
says you’re my God now deliver me
deliver me and it doesn’t Dawn on him
hey I cooked half my God
I burned him
I burned my God
and here he is on his knee and the Bible
said he’s blind he literally actually
believes that that is his God
you know what this says to me that
you can be blind
you can be blind and not know it
who is blind but my servant or death as
my messenger that I sent
who is blind is he that is perfect in
other words he that’s been so favored by
God
and blind to the as the Lord’s servants
my servants see many things
but they observe not opening the ears
but they hear not
and what that means my people have had
long experience they’ve heard the truth
but it did not profit them it was not
mixed by faith it did not impact their
life it did not change them
Isaiah 42 would you turn left to Isaiah
42.
verse 23 beginning to read who among you
will give ear to this who will hearken
and hear for the time to come
who gave Jacob for a spoil and it is
real to the robbers did not the Lord he
against whom you’ve sinned for they
would not walk in his ways neither were
they obedient unto his law therefore he
hath poured upon him the fear of his
anger and the strength of battle and it
has set him on fire around about yet he
knew not and it burned him yet he laid
it not to Heart
that look at that last verse there he
was set on fire yet he knew not it
burned him yet he laid it not to his
heart
what God is saying I literally
turned them into the fire I judged them
with fire and yet they didn’t learn
anything from it they learned Nothing by
my judgment for example look this way if
you will please
over
the past few years if you’ve been
attending this church you’ve heard from
this Pulpit time and again from Pastor
Carter from myself and from visiting
pastors
the danger of gossip
the danger of prejudice racial prejudice
time and time again we’ve come with
weeping and Brokenness and the word has
been laid out as clear as it can be laid
out
and let me say it to you lovingly but
with the hand of God on my head
under the anointing of the Holy Spirit
if after all of this time if after all
of this time
you have not allowed that to work itself
into your spiritual life if you’ve not
had your eyes open so that you dare not
speak a word against your brother sister
or leadership
that you have no racial Prejudice left
in you
that you considered this church with any
color any race ethnic group you can sit
there and love just exuding from you
because of the grace of God that’s been
accomplished through the cleansing of
the word the word has found its markets
cleansed you we are cleansed by the word
of God if after all this time it has not
cleansed you if you still have that then
there’s a hardness that’s sitting in
there’s a hardness and you know it
finally comes the place where the
Judgment of God itself doesn’t work
because God is saying here I can turn
you over to the fire it you you can be
so inflamed with gossip that you just
gossip and gossip and gossip you you can
have Prejudice in your heart and come
and praise the Lord and think that
you’re on your way to heaven when in
actuality because of that thing in your
heart it’s going to block you from
entrance to the kingdom of God that you
can be so inflamed by it and be burned
by it and not even know it everybody can
see it everybody he knows it but you
oh God help Times Square Church in the
days ahead folks the riots are going to
come
there’s going to be an upheaval in not
only New York City but in every city in
America
there is already a racial tension Rising
everywhere
but oh God help us there has been a word
come forth from this Pulpit a loving
word a strong word a word from the very
hand of God it should be cleansing us
all it should be purging on everything
it’s unlike Christ it should be gone
and the only way that can happen is for
you every time you hear a message is to
Bow your head before the pastor starts
or the Vans and say oh God send the Holy
Ghost give me ears to hear give me eyes
to see melt my heart don’t let me be
hard
there’s never a Time Pastor Carter’s
preaching this Pulpit that I don’t sit
there and say God I’m ready to hear
anything you say I receive it prepare my
heart right now give me Faith to mix
with the word of God I want to be
changed Lord if it’s a hammer I receive
it break everything in me that needs to
be broken explosion me everything that
needs to be exposed
if not the easiest place in the world to
get a hard heart is in Times Square
Church or any other church that’s
preaching a straight loving Gospel of
Jesus Christ you can grow hard
you can grow better and not even know it
go to James
first chapter
are you with me
well don’t matter I’m going to preach it
anyhow so
James one
verse 22 beginning to read
but be ye doers of the word
and not hear is only
deceiving your own selves
that’s the land to see and deception
hearing it and not receiving it until we
come hard and blind
like the laodiceans
for if any be hear of the word and not a
doer he’s like to man beholding his
natural face in a glass or a mirror for
he beholdeth himself and goeth his way
and strictly forgetth what manner of man
he was but whosoever looked it into the
perfect law of Liberty and continue with
therein he being not a forgetful hearer
but a doer of this work of the work this
man shall be blessed in his deed
Hallelujah
do you walk out of church like for
example this morning
do you walk out after the mirror has
been held you know God’s by his spirit’s
been holding the mirror in front of all
of us he held a mirror up before me all
week while I’m preparing this
and I have to examine myself
do you go home and on the subway or the
bus do you rehearse do you replay it or
you just push it off and say well that
wasn’t me praise God that wasn’t me
when all in all it was you
did you examine yourself before the Lord
is oh God work that into me
deal with me God speak to my heart I
receive it Lord I do
and then he’ll remind you of every thing
that you did that was Grievous to him
and say in love not lay it down
and I’ll bless you I’ll bless you I’ll
change you Hallelujah are we changing
we’re supposed to be changing from glory
to glory looking at this mirror will be
changed into his own image because it’s
Jesus looking out the glass
Hallelujah
proverb don’t turn to proverbs 4 13 take
fast hold or get a firm grip on
instructions let it not go keep
instruction foresee your life
Proverbs 5 11.
how have I hated instruction they will
say and my heart despised to be proof
have not obeyed the voice of my teachers
nor incline my ear to them that
instructed me and here the writer is
telling us that those are going to face
death one day in their last days are
going to mourn why didn’t I listen why
didn’t I take heed
the scripture says this good all
scripture is profitable for Doctrine for
reproof for correction for instruction
and righteousness
all the preaching is to instruct Us in
righteousness that we may grow in Grace
listen to this poverty and shame
shall be to him that refuseth
instruction but he that regardeth
reprove shall be harmed
let me read that again poverty and shame
shall be to him that refuses instruction
now there have been a few people over
the past few years that have come to me
and they were in error
they were not walking in communion with
the leadership of this church
and they were in Rebellion
and they said we’re leaving I said all
right that’s all right but let me tell
you something
because you we sit down try to instruct
in the grace of God
and I’ve said to all right when you go
you can expect poverty and shame
you can expect to be turned over to
poverty and the word would come back to
me and says Brother Davis curse me
saying that I’m going to have poverty
the rest of my life all I was doing was
quoting this scripture that’s all I was
doing it wasn’t from me it was from the
word of God I read it again poverty and
shame shall be to those that refuse
instructions
and folks
the the word of God that comes forth is
for instruction in righteousness
instruction and growth and if you if
it’s not received when it’s given in
love remember what I said it brings
Hardness of Heart
now I want you to go to one last
scripture Matthew 7.
seventh chapter of Matthew
verse 22 this is one I’ve already quoted
it but I want you to see it before I
close
verse 22 many will say to me in that day
Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy
name in thy name have cast out devils
and in thy name done many wonderful
works then will I profess unto them I
never knew you depart from me ye that
work iniquity now look at me folks I’ve
been thinking about that I’ve been
thinking about that I’m going to close
soon
but I’ve been thinking hard about that
how is it
that they’re going to be so many said
many these are Christians doing Mighty
works it’s in the name of Jesus in the
name of Jesus in the name of Jesus
it’s in that image these people are
believe that they’re Christians and
they’re going to be saved and and
they’re doing Mighty Works they’re
casting out devils and all these things
they’re Healing The Sick
and they’re going to stand before God
and he said I don’t even know you
how how could it be that that people can
go like this and
this causes me to tremble and say oh God
search my heart
let your word cause me to tremble we’re
to tremble at this word
God means what he says
now he’s merciful he’s kind he’s loving
he’s tender
but he said when I speak to you
hear it
do it
obey it and if you’ll set your heart to
obey it I’ll give you the power to do it
I’ll Empower you to do it I’m going to
close with this uh
confession
time
this message is so important to me that
the only way I know how to illustrate it
is how God dealt with me
God gave me a vision a number of years
ago I wrote a book on it called division
about things that are coming
and it was pretty scary in fact I
couldn’t have handled it unless God had
given me that that one phrase at the end
of the vision God said when you preach
this make sure you tell the people this
God has everything under control and
that finally I preached for an hour on
the vision and everybody just I mean it
was so heavy
and then I said folks I got a word from
the Lord for you God has everything in
control and the whole place would come
alive because there was some hope
but I got to seeing all these things
that are coming and that’s all I talked
about I talked about the depression that
was coming I talked about I mean
everything about terrible things that
were coming no I’m not a prophet I’m a
Watchman one of his many he has millions
of Watchmen
and
and I got to
I got consumed with it
and I didn’t know it was affecting my
family
and it was changing me
because I was at this time I wasn’t
seeing the cross as clear as I should
and I wasn’t seeing the hope
it was bringing despair
and I I I I would go into meetings and
I don’t know how it happened I’d sit
there there’d be
these were all large conventions amazing
I sit there
and I wouldn’t wear it till later I was
sitting there with a little bit of pride
you know
God told me something nobody else knows
I got the word
and if if I didn’t like the meeting and
there was some silliness and I’d say
this is a stupidity
this is awful this is not of God and I I
was so critical everywhere I turned it
was the spirit of criticism broke into
my heart
and a dear friend of mine uh
where not to eat
and his wife said they’ve what’s going
to happen to the economy that’s all it
took
oh six months will be in depression
and I I went on and on and on and my
friend got up
said David that’s enough
he said I can’t stand being around you
anymore
he said you’ve taken all my faith All My
Hope
I’m a businessman and I’m having a hard
time just keeping things together and
when I’m with you I get so down
you just discourage me you have no hope
bless God
who does he think he is
I’m warning him
his business might fail he’ll be glad I
warned him and I’m sitting there stewing
and I went home and I said honey did you
hear what he said he said I heard
and he’s right
see others see it we don’t
I went to prayer I said God
is he right
not only did God show me he was right
God said that’s just the outer peel of
the onion I’m gonna peel you
and you know when you peel an onion you
cry
I’d say by the time he’d done peeling me
it took him a month
or there so I I began to see things God
said you become arrogant in the Pulpit
you’re arrogant
in my name
yes I’ve shown you these things but not
to bring despair you’re to preach that
to warn and then bring in the hope
otherwise people are just going to be
Despair and want to give up and I begin
to to see that there’s a pride in that
he began to just peel and peel and peel
I have to tell you today he’s still
peeling
but I I was open to it I said God I want
you I want to hear it from you now and
I’ll tell you if you want to hear and
know your own spiritual condition you
just go to the Lord because the Holy
Ghost is honest he’s ready to tell you
if you go with an honest heart he’ll
speak to you
[Applause]
you’ll be surprised what’s going to come
out
you’re going to be shocked what God
tells you but if you do it boy you come
out of that folks I I have not arrived I
still slip back into some of these ways
once in a while but God’s been faithful
because I go home after I preach and say
God speak to me let me take what I
preach now and apply it to my own heart
I’ve got to take some of this this
morning and apply it to my own heart
search my own heart unless I stand
before God and have to answer for
preaching to others and not applying it
to myself
will you stand
you know there’s a uh there’s a saying
about drugs just say no
that doesn’t work
I could say know yourself
that doesn’t work
but the Holy Ghost knows you
yes he does
he knows all about you is there anybody
here that loves Jesus trying to hide
anything from the Holy Spirit no because
you know you can’t
so the only alternative and the
wonderful alternative is to come to him
say Jesus
thank you for the word
I thank God that he that when I come to
church on Sunday I’m excited aren’t you
I’m excited about come to the house of
God I want to hear the word
[Applause]
Hallelujah
sister Condon preached the message here
Friday I’ve heard all about it
people got convicted so I’m anxious to
get my hands on and get convicted too
you should we want to be convicted I
won’t be convicted
I want to change I don’t want to be next
year what I am now I don’t want to be as
stubborn as I am now I don’t want a
temper like I well enough confession
sense enough
I want to know as much about myself as
my wife knows
are you open to that folks
Hallelujah
by your head let’s pray
Lord You’re a loving savior
you want us to you want us to become
like you
you want us to be humbled and broken
you want us to be aware of the things
that need to be fixed because you’re the
fixer
you’re ready to fix anything that’s
wrong
I love you for that Jesus because you’re
not here to pound me into the dirt
you’re not going to turn us over to the
Paul of the devil or the teeth of Satan
or the lion you’re here O Lord to change
this by your holy word to cleanse Us by
the word Lord give us a receiving heart
give us Open Hearts open our eyes give
us open ears and let us come to you
saying Lord deal with me
deal with me in love
Lord there are people here this morning
that need to come back to your love
they’ve drifted away from your love
and they’re standing here hurting and
broken folks I’m going to stop for just
a moment look this way if you will
please that’s the invitation I feel led
by the Holy Spirit to give this morning
if you’re
here this morning in
you’re going through a very very
difficult time and you’re you’re hurting
here you’re you’re grieved in you’re
hurt and you’re burdened
I want you to bring that hurt to him and
if the Holy Ghost has dealt with you in
any way
it’s pointed out to you this morning
unlike him I want you to come and bring
it now and leave it here with Jesus
Christ if you’re not right with God
are you ready by the way are you ready
should Jesus call for you
if the angel comes to get you
honestly are you ready this is not to
scare you but I’m asking all are you
ready to meet Jesus are you ready to
stand before him
if not come and let Jesus Come into your
heart and change you if you’re
backslidden if you’re not right with
Jesus if you don’t know him as your lord
and savior coming up in the balcony just
go to the stairs on either side and just
come on down any aisle here wherever yet
all through this building
Lord doesn’t want you to leave Jesus
doesn’t want you to leave this place
until you get things right
he wants to make it right he’s here to
bless you you may be visiting here and
God sent you here
to turn you around to bring you back
don’t run don’t run
probably never be a better time than
this morning to get things made right
Hallelujah Lord draw and woo and tug at
Hearts this morning right now so that
everyone will feel your drawing loving
power
hallelujah what a wonderful savior move
in close if you will please make room
for those that are coming move in a
little closer amen God bless you this is
your day
please
there has to be a work of the Holy
Spirit and you
before anything can be accomplished
man can’t do it the words of man can’t
do it
preaching in itself can’t do it there
has to be a work of the holy spirit that
takes that word makes it real to your
heart
and you should be praying silently right
now in Your Heart Holy Spirit
open my heart to receive
open my heart to understand take away
the blindness from my eyes
some of you been blinded because you’ve
been able to indulge in your sin and do
things unlike Lord unlike Jesus and not
be convicted of it you just kind of made
peace with it and you live with it God
wants to give you a hatred for sin
that’s where it begins to hate your sin
say Lord I’m not going to I’m not going
to make peace with my sin I’m not going
to live with it Lord I’m gonna I’m gonna
believe you to deliver me deliver me
from everything that is unlike you he’s
called a deliverer
Hallelujah and once you open your heart
he comes along he says I’ll be your
keeper I’ll establish you I will keep
you that’s the work of the Holy Spirit
to keep you now I hope you came because
you were drawn not because I asked you
but because the Holy Ghost draws you
the holy spirit is the one who has to do
it all
the Holy Spirit and he’s here
he’s faithful he’s dealing with you
right now
will you settle some things
I don’t have to name what it is the Holy
Ghost is naming it to you isn’t he isn’t
he speaking to your heart he knows and
you know
let’s pray together and and I can give
you words but it has to come from your
heart and after you finish with the
words that I suggest to you I want you
to speak then in your own heart and your
own words to the Lord and let’s believe
God together for out of the abundance of
the heart the mass speaks if it’s in
your heart let it come forth and trust
the Lord Jesus to hear he said his eye
his ears open to our prayer to The Cry
of his people
pray this with me Lord Jesus
I humble myself before you
and I come to you
to be cleansed and healed of all my
wounds my sins
Break Me Jesus of all Pride
and self-ambition
caused me to hate my sin
but to love my savior
I confess I need you
I confess that I failed you
and I’ve sinned against God
forgive me Lord Jesus
I open my heart to you now
I tell you Jesus
I must have the Holy Ghost
I need his power
I need his strength
to break the power of the devil
and the power of sin in my life
I can’t do it myself
I’ve tried and failed
now you come Holy Spirit
you take charge
lift up your hands right now and say
holy ghost come and take charge right
now call on his name talk to him right
now Jesus come and take charge Holy
Ghost come take charge of my life take
charge Lord show me my sins show me how
I failed you convict me let the Holy
Ghost convict me deeply o God and let me
turn from my sins Lord let this be the
beginning this is not the end all but
it’s a beginning and that which you have
started you will finish by the power of
the Holy Spirit God speak to these who
are here just tell them now you love him
just worship him Lord I love you and I
praise you and I thank you for touching
my life today Lord I need you
tell them you need him
if you’ve strayed away from them say
Lord I’m coming back to my first love
Holy Ghost bring back that first love
right now we Smite that unbelief in
Jesus name take my unbelief God take it
away
Smite it
thank you Jesus
thank you Jesus
now in your own words just think give
him a truth thank you from your heart
Lord
and say God increase my faith increase
my faith
this is the conclusion of the message