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.
and leave it open there i’m going to be
preaching almost exclusively from john
the 8th chapter the holy spirit’s opened
this chapter to me i’ve been in it for a
number of weeks
now when you get that
i’d like you to
uh open it to john the eighth chapter
and then look me in the eye for a minute
let me talk to you as pastor the
congregation
uh i’m a senior pastor
uh i’m not that old i don’t like the
word senior even but um
i have to be the oldest of all these
young men around here
and
you didn’t need to say myanna
you know what i meant
[Applause]
here’s what i want to say to you
if
any one of these past including myself
tonight if we get to sound them like
we’re preaching right at you
then we’ve got the mind of god
because if if i’ve ever been in a church
where i say does he know something about
me or is he aiming right at me
then i know it’s god
but if i can generalize and say well i
can relax this is for somebody else i
wonder if the man’s really been praying
like he should i i believe i’m gonna
make you feel
like
i’m
preaching right at you tonight everybody
hallelujah because i’m preaching at me
too
glory to god
so i i honestly
uh
i can’t think of when i was working on
this message for a number of weeks now i
said lord i really can’t see in the
congregation who this would apply to
because uh our people are growing and i
don’t see counterfeit spirituality among
our people but the lord made it clear i
had to preach it so whoever it is
we’re going to find out
heavenly father we thank you for your
holy word
this is a church that trembles at the
word of god
we tremble at your holy word we shudder
at it it’s our joy and it’s our terror
hallelujah it gives us comfort it
changes us and we love it because jesus
is the word hallelujah now holy spirit i
ask you to quicken me that the word
would come forth
not in sensationalism that would come
forth in the power of the unknowns and
the anointing of the holy ghost i need
your help lord in fact i need every
power of the holy spirit that you have
available to me tonight i bind in jesus
name every line spirited every
principality power of darkness that
nothing shall hinder the word from
finding answers to our hearts
lord we love you we thank you of your
presence tonight you’ve been good to us
you’ve been here
and i thank you lord for continuing now
thank you for what you did this morning
continue the good work tonight
amen
before i get into the message don’t
forget the great service tuesday night
powerful preaching
god’s been bringing forth a powerful
word on tuesday nights also and uh
communion service and prayer and then
the powerful
intercessory prayer leading friday night
friday night at seven o’clock
and remember uh bible still starts a
week from this thursday a week from this
coming thursday 6 30
to 8 30.
brother phillips is preached going on a
long uh 12 week uh of course we’ll be
telling you more about it as time goes
on
counterfeit spirituality you have your
bible open to the eighth chapter of john
now look at verse one jesus went under
the mouths of olives and early in the
morning he came again into the temple
you see that now look this way please
let’s just stop right there for a minute
this is a feast of tabernacles and jesus
has been there two days after the first
day
there’s very little response to his
message people are still mocking him the
whole religious system has turned him
off and he goes up and sleeps the first
night in the mount of olives he comes
down early in the morning right in the
temple in the treasury
and he begins to teach again and again
it seems like he’s not making much
progress and the big question all over
jerusalem is who is this man who is he
anyhow he claims to be the son of god
but who is this man everybody in
jerusalem was asking that question
and i wonder if his disciples didn’t get
just a little disillusioned and say
master they don’t want to hear what you
have to say
the the pharisees are mocking you
the the rulers are trying to kill you
the people are not obeying they’re not
listening let’s move on somewhere else
but on the second day
it appears that there’s a break that
comes like a spiritual breakthrough it
seems like the word was finally getting
through it look at verse 30 verse 30
john eighth chapter and as he spake
these words
what does it say
many believe on him i could just see the
disciples i excited they were finally
we’re going to have a revival they’re
hearing master they’re hearing
now if that was today and it said many
believed on him
we’d have the pastors running into that
crowd i mean they’d be made members of
first baptist first pentecostal church
right off the bat
they would have been brought in no
questions asked these aren’t believers
they would have been told they’re the
sons of the living god arabs and joint
heirs with jesus christ that have been
signed up made members because it says
here many believed on him
many believed on him
they would have been called christians
they would have been told they are the
sons of god with every right in the
bible
but not so with jesus
jesus discerned a counterfeit faith in
them a counterfeit spirituality jesus
was looking at them and he said
something’s wrong and it’s almost as
vision wait a minute stop everything
i know your disciples are excited about
this but there’s something not right
and boy when god begin to open this
chapter to me he showed me salvation in
a new life
and i want to speak until your love
tonight
he’s saying not so fast with these
believers
they’re not coming to me with all their
hearts
in fact there’s a line spirited here
and we’re going to judge it by my word
now i want you to look at verse 31 then
said jesus to those jews with what
believed on him step down now to verse
55
this verse 55 855
look what jesus calls these believers
yet ye have not known him
but i know him and if i should say i
know him not i shall be what
a liar like unto you but i know him and
i keep your sayings now from from the
30th verse of john all the way to the
end
you’re going to find that jesus is
talking to these jewish believers who
said they believed on him would you look
at the last verse they took up stones to
cast in him that’s how it’s going to end
these believers are going to try to
stone him
so we know there’s something wrong jesus
is calling them liars i’d be a liar like
unto you
the lord jesus look at me now our lord
jesus christ will have nothing to do
with surplus faith
he will have nothing to do with it
you see he’s saying these people are
hypocrites
they’re showing
that they’re saying that they have a
belief in me
but my word has not touched them
my word has had no place in them yet
they’re just giving mental ascent
you know that there are people today
just like these jews
who can say i believe that jesus christ
to the son of god i pray jesus god in
the flesh
they can believe every promise in the
book they believe everything yes god is
jesus is lord they claim it all as if to
say so what and move on
it never touches them
it never the word doesn’t do anything
for them they pick up their worldly ways
and go their way they claim to be
believers but the word has found no
place in them and according to jesus
they’re not saved
they can give nothing a sense out yes
he’s the son of god every word he
preaches is true
but that word does nothing in their
heart they don’t expect to do anything
in their heart they’re satisfied with
the way they are
and i’ll tell you the lord is
uncompromising you see jesus coming
almost ruthlessly against
these people who said they were
believers there’s a ruthlessness in them
i’m gonna show you it was done in
kindness and love and reaping
but the lord was bearing down on these
and i’m telling you if jesus stood where
i stand tonight
and he looked out over this audience
nothing about me we all call ourselves
believers
i wonder how many jesus would point to
in his discernment and said no
liar
hypocrite
in fact it goes it gets stronger than
that in this in this lesson tonight
see the lord’s uncompromising stand
against those who claim to be believers
has given me such a courage to reach out
i’m beginning to understand something
about the church
there’s a there there are massive
counterfeit conversions in the church
massive counterfeit conversions bringing
in to the church a counterfeit kind of
spirituality
the gospel is so been so watered down
you can go to i mean there are demons
should be comfortable in many churches
today
there are demons that could say amen
everything is being preached in the
prophet
you don’t believe that well let me read
to you thou believers that there is one
god that’ll do does well even the devils
believe and tremble
even the demons believe that god is lord
and they shutter that word is shutter
they tremble you say you bring you’re
not even shaking the team is shake
why is the church
today
polluted with absolute punk rock
we’ve got kids standing in pentecostal
churches today dressed in tight spandex
they have purple hair spiked out four
feet tall
one of that group was in my office in
texas and i said how do you get your
hair to stick out like that
he said you bleed down like this in the
bed comb it down and get three cans of
hairspray and spray it after you colored
it
they said in my office
i mean
you see they were second to rock and
rollers they they said they believed on
jesus so they just brought the rock and
rolled everything in that you should
dress like that now they’re dressing
like that for jesus the only thing it
changed is they put jesus words through
the same melodies
and you know what they said to me i got
my bible out and tried to go through
they said they wanted help
and you know they told me after
brother dick
none of these kids listen to old
prophets like you anymore we’re the new
prophets of this generation
and why are our kids now dancing in the
outside heavy metal in our churches
the kids dressed squirming around in
tight planet spandex pants purple green
hair
and i mean dancing down the aisle
sensuously with less than their eyes and
calling it a spiritual experience
why is there no more difference between
the ungodly and the religious in many
christian circles today
we’ve got christian television stations
and christian television programs that
parade before the church today a whole
generation of celebrity believers
celebrity believers
who one day are standing up in a
conference a spiritual conference
talking about how jesus has saved them
and the next time you hear about them
they are on some dirty filthy soap they
are on some filthy television program
that in some dirty r-rated movie and
they’ve been applauded by the church
you see them in las vegas performing in
nightclubs
there’s one christian brother who
whoever if i named him you’d be you’d be
shocked and he he’s concerned what
concer uh considered one of the great
celebrity christians in america today
but he goes to las vegas for two weeks
every year with the nudes behind him
buddy you see
he holds prayer meetings after his
show
in his room
and that’s supposed to make everything
all right
what’s happened to words like separation
coming out from among them being
separate and clean and not sitting in
the seat of the scornful
[Applause]
you know why
the church is becoming
more like hollywood than jesus
i want to show it to you it’s because we
got greedy dogs in the pulpit
you’re saying hey that’s strong language
well i didn’t say it isaiah said isaiah
that fast-spoken prophet of all the
major prophets isaiah 56 prayer i want
to show you what’s happening in the
church of jesus christ today and why
we’ve got this holy spirituality we’ve
got this counterfeit thing that that
undiscerning christians are praising god
and saying this and it’s wonderful but
it’s of the devil
isaiah 56
i feel like holy ghost about to wind me
up
isaiah 56
verse 10
his watchmen are what
they’re they’re what
this watchman his his watchmen are blind
they are all ignorant
they’re all what
my english mike king james says dumb
dogs
my bible says they cannot bark
they’re sleeping lying down loving to
slumber yea they are greedy dogs which
can never have enough and they are
shepherds they cannot understand they
all look to their own way everyone after
his own gain from his own quarter
come you say that i will fetch wine and
we will fill ourselves with strong drink
tomorrow shall be this day and much more
abundant in other words we’re prospering
today we’re going to prosper more
tomorrow
every day is the same and it’s going to
get better the way we’re going but look
what it says here these watchmen are
blind they’re ignorant they’re dumb dogs
they cannot bark anymore
listen to me look at me right in the eye
now
god has called me as a preacher the
gospel is his watchman to bark in the
house of god
and i’m tonight i’m barking
he’s taught every one of us to bark he
said only the dumb dogs only those who
look for their own interests only those
who have their own dreams will not bark
they’re sleeping they’re lying down
now i know a lot of people don’t want
that kind of preaching today
and i’m not trying to pray to the crowd
but if you go to a church where there’s
a man that tries to wake you up and say
no sin and he cries and he barks
you thank god for it
you thank god for it he said there’s in
fact there’s no more barking many
pulpits today
and that’s why listen if we had some
barking shepherds who could stand up
when this stuff started coming in and
stand up with the word of god and say
sin this is wrong this is not of god
this is the devil we would have built it
out of house of god long ago it wouldn’t
be here now but the shepherds went to
sleep shepherds were building big
churches trying to have the world’s
biggest church
they were trying to build these super
domes they were trying to have 10 000 in
sunday school and their kids were going
to hell
they can’t bark they’re lazy on sin
shall seeking while they slept the enemy
came in and planted counterfeit gospel
mixture
i’ll tell you this is the church of the
barking dog shepherds tell everybody
now
jesus
has revealed in this go back to john 8
jesus
has revealed in this passage how to tell
what’s counterfeit and what is genuine
i’m going to give you three ways to tell
the counterfeit
three ways
do you want to know what’s real what’s
counterfeit today do you want something
to help your discernment
i’m going to help you get your holy
ghost antennas up
it’s all right here all from this
passage
all right first of all
counterfeit
believers
are blind
to their bondage and slavery that
they’re under
they’re under bondage and slavery and
don’t know it and they get mad if you
try to show them
yes they do
when jesus told
these believers that they could not be
his disciples unless they allowed his
word to break their sins they got
offended look at verse 31
then jesus said to those jews which
believed on him
right off it says what if if
he throws this big up if in front of
them if you continue my work then are
you my disciples indeed you shall know
the truth and the truth shall make you
free and jesus is inferring to him
bondage he would have never said come to
my truth and be free if jesus
if they were not in bondage they it’s
right there very clearly
and what he’s saying you say you believe
in me but you’re not free you’re still
bound
if you really believe in me you must
obey my word and continue in my word in
fact the better translation is simply
this whosoever practices sin
is his servant
it’s his servant look at verse 34 jesus
answered them saying great i said to you
whosoever committed sin is the servant
of sin that that doesn’t mean you commit
one sin but he who practices sin as a
slave to sin that jesus is saying
but i mean
these people look at me they were
horrified they were angry they said what
do you mean
bondage what do you mean sin
we’ve never been in bodies to anybody
look at it in verse 33 that answered
they answered him
we beat abraham see
we’re never we were never in bondage to
any man how sayest thou you shall be
made free
what do you mean there’s sin in my life
what do you mean that i’m not a child of
god what you mean that i’m taking
direction from the devil rather than
from god my father and that’s what jesus
tells them you’re going to see it very
very clearly here
but they would they would say to jesus
but master you told one of us nicodemus
who was one of us you told nicodemus
whosoever believeth
on you shall not perish but have
everlasting life
for god sent not his son to condemn the
world but the world to him might be
saved
and they’re saying jesus
we believe we stand on your word you
said we believe we’re saved you won’t
condemn us
we’re your righteousness
and jesus would have to come back to
them said now wait a minute
i also told nicodemus something else
and it’s not something else that people
don’t want
it’s that something else it’s that big
gift that jesus puts there
before all believers
he said
you didn’t quote me right
see you go down from john 3 16 john 3 17
and you go to john 3 19 and this is what
you get
men love darkness rather than light
because their deeds are evil everyone
that does evil hates the light they will
not come to the light lest their deeds
should be exposed or reproved but he
that doeth truth cometh to the light
that his deeds may be manifest that they
are rotting god he said if you’re gonna
say you believe in me i’m the light
you’re gonna come to me and let me
expose everything that’s in your life
that i can change you
and if you won’t come to me and accept
my word and continue in the word and let
my word continuously purge you
and work in you then you’re not my
disciple you can’t be my disciples he
said he said unless you do that you
cannot be my disciple
you can’t say you’ll believe in me and
let you take all my word and let it work
in you
we say a lot in this church about
letting the word of god cleanse let the
word of god work in you let the word of
god do it
and
according to jesus now listen closely no
one is a true believer until the word
has a place in his heart
and these are the very words that jesus
uses a place in the heart
until the word is both uh terror to you
a hope to you
until you’re committed to obey every
word that proceeds out of the mouth of
god
until the word exposes embrace the
bondage of sin and tradition and false
doctrine
oh we’ve got an easy belief isn’t in the
church today
we’re telling just believing i’ll be
saved and we block off the whole rest of
the bible
we just mark it all up just as they did
is they would say well you told
nicodemus just believe in you won’t
condemn us
won’t even talk about walking into light
resisting the devil that he flees from
you
to these believers jesus said you seek
to kill me
because my word has no place in you
they should they weren’t they were
flabbergasted what do you mean
we’re saying we believe in you and he
said you’re out to kill me you have to
kill me
no you say well we don’t do that brother
how would that ever apply oh yes we do
that he’s the word isn’t he jesus is the
word and when we will not accept it and
we drive it out we put jesus christ
afresh to an open state we crucify the
son of god
by crucifying his word driving it out of
our lives
jesus is saying to them you cannot be a
doer of my word
because you’ve never laid down your sin
you still take orders from satan
you do that which you have seen with
your father
can you imagine jesus telling that point
of your finger lovingly at these people
these jews he’s saying you’re doing what
your father the devil tells you to do
you’ve never separated from the world
you’re still doing you have your old
habits your old ways you’ve hung on to
your old traditions
now we may not like it but listen close
i believe this is all my heart a great
majority in the church
today who call themselves believers have
never never been saved
they have never been touched by the
conviction of the holy ghost in the word
of god
they’re still slaves to their old ways
and old habits and old friends that that
one i ordered change in them
they have one foot in the world
they’re living a lie
they’re putting christ in open shame
they go to jesus and say i believe but
they’re doing more harm to jesus than
scorching is filled the last temptation
of christ the greatest grief of god are
those who say that i believe and will
not walk in his words
they can’t see that they’re bound
they get angry at you if you try to show
them
the bible says they’re going to be cast
out as unprofitable servants they’re
going to go to hell if they can get
believers they’re going to be damned by
a deception
they’re going to trust in some false
doctrine of security
did you hear me a false doctrine of
false security
they’re told they’re believers they told
everything is all right
do you know i believe there’s some
people the church more deceived than all
those half-dead junkies out on the
street
let me tell you what the lie is
here’s the lie that many so-called
believers are buying from the devil
those jews bought it
and now it’s happening again today
it it
it’s it’s someone who said i believe in
jesus
they say god is with me this is what the
jews were saying we’re we’re children of
abraham we belong to god god’s our
father
and this is what you get from people who
don’t want to break away from the world
they’ve got a career they’re in show
business
they’re on broadway they’re in
television they’re performers and you
get it everywhere you go
all i have is what god gave me
all my talents and abilities
are gifts that he’s given to me
i’m doing exactly what god’s told me to
do
god and i are on good terms
there’s a young lady started coming here
almost when we opened the first two
months
and she’s an excellent concert type
pianist
and uh she hasn’t come in months in fact
she got angry
because she was playing
in a drinking
nightclub and
she as well as asked
if we could approve what she was doing
and her idea is this i’m a child of the
king
god opened this door for me
yes i do perform where there’s a
drinking cursing crowd
but yes i’m in the middle of a
wickedness
but god put me there as his
representative god told me it’s all
right
i had another
uh young starlet
who uh
doesn’t come anymore
not
the one that’s saying acquire anything
else just visit the church yes i play a
role that’s off color
get a movie piece but that’s not the
real me the real me is the lover of
jesus that’s just something i play
how do you separate the two
how do you separate the two you know
what my bible says
jesus said when he puts forth his own
sheep he goes before them and the sheep
follow him this jesus come before you
and you follow him there
see it’s this line it’s the worst kind
of counterfeit spirituality
see there’s no there’s never been a
surrender there’s never been a
separation from the world
there’s been no heartbreak over sin
there’s been no laying down of the past
life
and jesus knows that he tells it like it
is jesus said you people
really don’t want my word
you don’t tremble at it you don’t really
want to hear it you don’t stop and let
it sink in if my word means nothing to
you you say you believe in that my word
doesn’t have any meaning to you
whatsoever
he said you you say you’re my disciples
but you’re not if any man love the world
the love of the father is not in him
god said to malachi
if then i’d be a father to you where’s
my honor and if i’d be your master
where’s my fear
you’re going to call me master why don’t
you tremble at my word
why don’t you believe what i’ve given to
you why don’t you believe my servants
the prophets
you know i i have been among young
people so addicted to their uh rock and
roll so addicted to heavy metal even
punk music
and i tell you as i stand here an angel
from god’s heaven can come down in fact
jesus christ himself could come in the
flesh
and stand there and they could know he
was jesus and he could preach to them
they would not let it go
they would not let it go i’ve had them
stand up against me i don’t care what
you say god told me it’s all right i
don’t care what it says there god told
me it’s all right
you see
that these tight have no sense of need
no need to repent no need to change
nothing to lay down and forsake for
jesus just pick everything up and go
with jesus
you see
they don’t see jesus as an emancipator
from sin they see him as an enhancer of
their career and of their personality
they enhance other words i’ll add jesus
he’ll help my career
you know that uh
most of these
rock groups that are in the church and
i’m not just dealing with rock groups
here at all
you know that they just used jesus
that not one of them could make it in a
secular world so what they do they come
into the house of god their second and
third rate to start with and they come
in and the shepherds are blind and they
say if the kids want it let’s get him we
don’t want to lose the kids
so they bring it all into the house of
god and it’s they set up their
entertainment they bring this pollution
into the house of god the shepherds are
asleep greedy dogs the scriptures said
no i’m not indicting all of my indicting
those who allow this stuff in the church
i better i better smile when i talk to
you you’ll think i’m mad i’m not mad i’m
just burning inside with the zeal of god
but
you know what they do
they they use jesus
they can’t make it but i add jesus words
to this and they use all of these poor
blind misguided shepherdless teenagers
in our churches to walk on their backs
to give themselves a reputation and try
to make it and i’ll tell you the first
time cbs or anybody else would lay a
contract down there they jump to the
secret right on the nose they jump just
like that to get a contract many of them
are doing it right now
he said you are doing the deeds of your
father
jesus said i don’t have anything to do
with this business you call it
spirituality no it’s of the devil jesus
said it’s a satan
and the second all right did you get
that first one now
you can’t correct them because they they
say i am right i don’t care what you say
i don’t care how much you preach i don’t
care how you prophesy god told me i’m
more i’m god’s child everything’s all
right
me
well it just says it right there we’ve
never been in bondage to any man and we
won’t be in bondage to you
you won’t put a guilt trip on us
no bondage
these people were bound by sin they were
taking direction from their father the
devil and didn’t even know
they looked right at the son of god and
say bound never not us
all right number two
they won’t even believe jesus when he
calls them fornicators and idolaters
they won’t even believe jesus
jesus boldly said to these people
what you are doing is of the devil
all these deeds you think are approved
by god are deeds of the flesh
verse 41 you do the deeds of your father
and they became absolutely indignant i
want you to look at verse 41.
what does jesus say you do the deeds of
what
you do you did your father
then said they to him
we be not born of fornication
we have one father even god
all right look at me please
here’s the excuse
we are doing nothing wrong
we’re not evil we love god we’re
absolute there’s absolutely nothing
wrong in the way i’m living my life
the devil is not in me
the devil’s not directing me it’s the
spirit of god that’s in me
we’re children of god we’re special
we’re chosen that’s what these jews were
saying to jesus
we’re not born of fornication we have
one father even god he’s our father
we’re being directed by god
jesus didn’t buy it
jesus didn’t buy it at all jesus said
and i i want i’ll tell you what if jesus
stood here today you know what he would
say
i made it clear who my children are you
say you’re a child of the father child
of god my father
well my children the sons of god are
free from all ties to this world my sons
are not unequally yoked with unbelievers
my sons have no fellowship with the
works of darkness my son has no
communion with the workers of wicked
iniquity my sons refuse to take my
temple into guns of iniquity
my sons have separated from this world
they touch not the unclean thing and if
you want the worst for that that second
corinthians 6 14 to 18.
jesus listened to these people they said
we’re not committing idolatry god speaks
to us
and jesus
seems exasperated
he you know why jesus seems exactly he
can’t understand
why they’re so blind he’s made the word
so simple
he’s saying don’t be yoked with
unbelievers
don’t fellowship with darkness
what fellowship of light with darkness
come out from among them be your
separate and clean saith the lord that i
receive as my son or daughter how clear
could that be
i think and jesus is he seems
exaggerated because he knows their
anti-idolatry he knows their fornicators
and they have the spirit in them and
they’re saying we believe on you jesus
and jesus keeps backing away he said no
that’s not enough just to say you
believe in me
and he keeps coming down and you hear
this exasperation look at uh uh
down in
verse 43
why
see if you can see the exasperation
there why do you not understand my
speech
why don’t you understand what i’m saying
people look this way before you look at
that scripture do it i tell you that’s
the heartbreak of preaching especially
the young generation today
that’s the heartbreak of preaching to
people that you know as a pastor
are compromising in their life
and you come with the word time and time
again
and you say i thought i thought that was
as clear as it could be made a little
child could understand that
i i’ve known this desperation this
exasperation that jesus seems to have
here
why
why aren’t you saying it why don’t you
understand it’s not complicated i made
it so simple that a child can understand
it you’re confusing it because you’re
not a god you’re not hearing in the
heart because you really don’t want to
pay the price look at the verse again
verse 43 why do you not understand my
speech even because you cannot hear my
word 44 ye are of your father who
and the lust of your father you will do
you see there was a lust they could let
it go they lusted after the things of
this world they lusted after something
there and he said no as long as you
won’t lay that lust down
don’t talk to me about believing in me
no
he said you’re lying
that’s just satan you’re just doing the
lust of your father is that what he’s
saying
you remember he’s talking to believe
those who claim to be believers
i’ll tell you what jesus is not going to
buy a lot of the things we try to pass
off on him
why don’t you understand because you
cannot hear my words
look at verse 47
he that is of god heareth god’s words
you therefore hear them not because
you’re not of god
listen
saints
do you hear the word when it goes forth
from this pulpit
jesus warns that all idolatry among
believers is personally directed by the
devil
all idolatry
is whispered into the heart by the devil
you know after
jesus immediately told the believers
they weren’t hearing the truth he said
why don’t you hear me you’re not hearing
me
then he tells them who they’re listening
to
he said you verse 44 you are your father
the devil the lust of your father you
will do when he speaks alive he speaketh
of his own for he’s a liar and the
father of it
i got a letter here uh friday
from someone who’s from another nation
and visits this church occasionally when
in new york city and he said david i
travel frequently to new york
city
and uh he said i’m a hypocrite
i’m i’m just acting
i’m one whom the lord denounces
i’m sure that i’m saved but also think
that i’m playing games with god
you see i’m overcome with a sin that so
easily besets me the sin of pornography
sexual fantasy and lust
in two worst places i can be alone in a
hotel is london in new york
i have never physically compromised my
wedding vows
but my filthy mind has many times
i know many men
and christian men included
suffer from this same sin
but they lack the desire or the ability
to do anything about it
i have the desire
yet even this desire is sometimes strong
like right now and sometimes this week
like what hour before the r-rated movies
come on television
before these abominations are due to go
on at 10 o’clock
to be shown
i try to fight it
knowing i’m going to lose
it really is so hellish i guess it must
be like drugs
i’ve wondered about diving out of an
open window at times
but what would that accomplish the enemy
with just four points
brother dave i want to fight this thing
even i want to be delivered my problem
is i’m not sure if it’s an outside
influence coming at me or if it’s just
the deceitfulness of my own wicked heart
and he goes on he just cries
thinking you just says this sometimes i
feel like jumping out of a window here’s
a man fighting
raging against a lust inside
but you see there’s hope for this kind
of man there’s there’s hope for this man
because he sees the exceeding sinfulness
of it
he wants to hear the word of god and he
said i want to he closes i’d like to
come in and have your son in the word
try to
help me
but you see
many christians are allowing what this
man called an outside influence an
outside influence into whole
told you’re going to talk about johnny
carson or jesus christ
well here i go again
but i’m i’m going to be trying to be as
sweet and kind
as i know lord help me to be sweet
i’m going to ask you a question saints
oliver back here and here
i know right now some of you say here he
goes again
i mean you’re going to get your defense
mechanism up
but in light of what i’m talking to you
about right here
and jesus says why don’t you understand
even because you’re not hearing my voice
i want to get dead serious with this
church
talking about walking in holiness in
this church
we’re talking about certain examples for
the lost
we’re talking about being free to
worship the lord with clean hands and a
pure heart
and you hear us talk about
this idolatry
this idolatry
and yet i i get the feeling that some of
you are not hearing a word i say or any
other pastor that’s mentioned it that
you’re not hearing at all but i’m going
to ask you a question i want to say very
great love right now who told you
who told you it’s okay to sit for hours
drinking in filth in front of television
who told you it’s not idolatry to sit
and watch something that’s totally
corrupted out of the pits of hell who
told you that’s not corrupt
who told you it’s not an idol
was it jesus who told you that was that
the holy ghost said
you’re mature
brother dave’s just on a hang up right
now he’ll get over it
i have a preacher friend
who i thought was very close to me one
night in his church because i i sensed
the spirit of idolatry in that church of
wickedness
and i knew where it was coming from
and i i i began to thunder this message
and i did it in love with the holy
thunder of god i trembled as i preached
it
you know what the pastor did that was
sunday night wednesday night in primary
he got up
and he said please don’t it works so
much like please don’t take brother dave
too serious on that when he comes to my
house i hide it in the closet i bring it
out as soon as he’s gone he goes through
those stages
he goes through those stages
no folks i hear holy thunder in my soul
i hear god says you don’t sit the seat
of the scornful i hear a scripture that
says i’ll set no evil thing before my
eyes i hear the word that says bring no
abomination into your house i hear it by
the hundreds of scriptures and i don’t
understand why our people in this church
are not hearing it
you say you are a believer you say you
want to go all the way with jesus who
told you it’s okay did the holy ghost
tell you you can sit there watch dallas
and dynasty did the holy ghost say that
you’re mature you can sit there and
watch violence you can bring those
r-rated movies and videos into your
house and come into this house and
praise god who told you that
did the holy ghost tell you that
i ask another question in love as a
pastor who weeped over this congregation
who’s talking to you now is it the devil
going to tell you to tear it away and
get away from my dollar tree is it the
enemy is the devil saying get away from
iniquity
is it the devil that breaks my heart
over this kind of iniquity in the church
is it
all right and if it’s god
you’ve got a dilemma
you have to make a choice
you cannot say brother wilkerson is
legalistic
you cannot say i’m sick and tired of
hearing this
you have to make a choice
and i’ll tell you why the choice has to
be made because it’s getting worse
and if you can’t handle it now and this
gets a hold of you the less than the
filth that comes out of that truth if it
gets ahold of your heart any more than
it has now
no angel
nobody is going to ever break it from
you
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where
who told you that you can enjoy that
fatal attraction
even the devil calls it a fatal
attraction
he’ll kill you and destroy you who told
you that’s all right that you can come
to god’s side who told you you can run
out on your husband or wife
and you can walk right out the door and
come to the house who told you that
it wasn’t god
it was the devil
who told you it’s all right
to slip out occasionally and go night
clubbing
who told you that did that come from god
you are of your father the devil the
lust of your father you’re doing
why do you not understand my speech why
can’t you hear my word
you know what takes my soul to the very
core jesus is speaking to those who call
themselves believers but he’s saying
you’re the devil you’re doing the lust
of your father
that sets me up
because you can sit in this church
tonight being blind to who you are and
what you’re doing making excuses saying
that’s not me i love god i’m not a
fornicated we’d be not fornicators they
said we’re not committing a dog we’re
not fornicating you’ll say it’s i don’t
answer that i don’t see it like you see
it
you don’t have to see it like i said you
have to sit the way the word sees it
i i’ve begged the holy ghost i begged
the lord
in the ways of speaking said lord i
don’t want to i don’t even want to do
that anymore i don’t even talk about i
don’t want to glow in anybody’s flesh
but i know what it’s like i i know that
attracts in this thing it’s so satanic
even though i preach like this and
occasionally i’m in a hotel somewhere
there’s a tendency to turn on the news i
did it a few weeks ago i turned on to
get to 10 o’clock news
and there was something come on just
watch the next movie
and boy the holy s i i began to fuel
this pool this pool i said oh god if if
it’s not even in my home now that pool
is there just occasionally like this
what kind of an attraction is that
what kind of attraction is it that you
get angry at me for talking about it
i’m barking
i’m a barking watchman
and i wait for your soul
number three
oh my
god
all right here’s the here’s the trick
here’s the here’s this is this is really
cute the way the devil
this is something else and boy does this
hit the nail on the head
rather than deal with the sin
they try to switch the blame by crying
don’t judge
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you want to see it in black and white
i got this from the holy ghost brother
sister
look at verse 48
then answered the jews and said unto him
say we not well thou art a samaritan you
have a devil in you
look at verse 53
the verse the last part the last three
words four words in verse fifth well
let’s read verse 50. i thought greater
than our father abraham which is dead in
the
who make us now thyself
who are you
why are you judging us
now look at me listen i’m going to sleep
and i want you to hear good because it
strikes what’s happening in the whole
charismatic movement today and
evangelical circles everywhere and that
shocks me
the anger
that should be directed to their own sin
is turned around and directed against
the reprover
did you catch it
jesus is reproving them
and they say no wait a minute then they
turned the tables and they said no
you’re the one with the devil the
devil’s speaking through you
you’ve got a devil in you because we’re
of god
and you don’t recognize it if you’re of
god you’d recognize it and you’re wrong
because you’re judging and judging the
sin
so that makes you
the transgressor
so they take
the stretch light away from their own
sin
and they said i don’t want any preacher
telling me what to do i don’t want
anybody telling me what to do i know i’m
all right with god i’m not to let
anybody tell me different
what a clever device that’s been used by
the devil these last days to cover a
false doctrine he uses it to cover up
sin in the pulpit and in the pew
to cry everywhere today is don’t judge
because you’re trying to hinder
unity it’s i call it a love trap a false
love trap
if you you give me your good ear now
please
if you’re not careful somebody’s gonna
come to you here in new york city
you’re gonna get it from a preacher
you’ll get it somebody said don’t go to
transfer church
because those preachers down there are
judging churches they’re judging
everybody else they think they’re the
only ones that have the gospel and
that’s the furthest thing from the truth
not at all we fast and pray we seek
god’s other pastors and we’re praying
for revival in this city and we love
every one of them we’ll spend our last
moment and waking hours anyone who will
walk in righteousness with us
but they’ll say no there’s a unity
movement and those men are standing
there they don’t believe in unity there
is no unity outside of holiness there is
no unity outside of walking in his
righteousness
we are one because we come under the
word we come under the power of this
word we surrender to the word we are
united at the cross of jesus christ and
through your said blood
but i’m not going to walk with those
who will not deal with these issues that
jesus is dealing with
and the cry is don’t judge
and folks we don’t even begin to
understand and we’ve got a lot of people
so confused about this yes the bible
says don’t judge but then it goes on to
quickly explain don’t judge after the
flesh
it’s right in this chapter i’ll show it
to you
eighth chapter verse 15
jesus is still talking
saints would would you
uh agree that it’s i’m a pretty good
grounder jesus is doing the talking
is that in red letters in your bible
verse 15
you judge after the flesh i’ve judged no
man but he’s saying you judge people
after the flesh i don’t judge them that
way because next verse says yet when i
judge her if i judge my judgment is true
and look at verse 26
i have many things to say and to what
judge of you
he said i’ve got many
judgments i’ve got to pass on you
all right would you look this way please
when jesus says don’t join the bible and
paul all the apostles any way you read
it don’t judge he said don’t judge after
the flesh judging after the flesh is
vindictive it comes from a mean spirit
it comes from arrogance it comes from
some doctrinal issue that somebody’s
trying to uphold it doesn’t come from a
broken heart
to judge after the spirit in the bible
calls it judging righteous judgment is
to judge redemptively this comes from a
broken heart this time from a pastor who
stands like tonight and says look i have
to preach like this because i see danger
here i love you too much i care about
you and i’ve swept over you and i stand
here now i’m not judging you according
to the flesh i’m judging you
redemptively hoping that you’ll see the
air of your ways and be saved and be
healed and i can hug you and i’ll know
there’s something of god’s character in
you
hallelujah
we’re not judging after the flesh we’re
judging righteous judgment according to
the word of god that comes first of all
for having a zeal for god’s word a zeal
for his holiness
and then
a love for the people involved
oh i’ve heard preachers just get up and
just bang their congregations over their
head i’m not banging you over the head
tonight
not at all
if you’re a christian and you’re delving
into the world i cry out like this for
one reason
redemption
that you can be redeemed from it because
i see the danger we see the date that’s
what god calls ministers of the gospel
for to show them the dangers of these
things
have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness but rather reprove
them would you go to ii timothy please
i’m going to close in just a few moments
ii timothy the fourth chapter because
you know if if we don’t judge righteous
judgment we’re going to be carried away
by every wind and wave of doctrine
and god help this church
if the time ever came we had pastors up
here afraid to judge his righteous
judgment
first timothy the fourth chapter
first timothy fourth
chapter verse 1
now the spirit speaketh expressly that
in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith giving he to what
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils
people listen to me
what kind of pastors would we be if we
saw these doctrines of devils coming in
if we saw this worldly spirit
of these fables coming in we didn’t
stand up and bark
to wake you up i wouldn’t be i wouldn’t
be a shepherd i have no right to be in
this pulpit if i don’t believe
when i’m alone shutting with god if i
can’t come here in this pulpit and fear
my soul is the holy ambassador jesus
christ to see jesus from then you
some of you that are are are off of
broadway and some of you are into all
these other things and you still dabbled
around
i’m not mad at you
i’m not i’m not trying to put you down
i’m trying to say that’s going to
destroy you
and i want to fellowship with you i’m
going to look you in there and see jesus
in you i want to see holiness in you i
want to have that comrade spread it with
you
and i’m not going to stand before the
judgment day and have to answer for your
assault you said in this stretch you’ll
hear that you’ll heard us preach and we
never try it out and we never botch no
no
it comes from a broken heart
because we see the devil trying to
destroy you
read the next verse
speaking lies in hypocrisy having to
concentrate with a hot iron
forgetting to marry and commanding this
thing for me look verse four
uh
i’ll tell you what i want to skip i
wanna i want you to go to uh titus just
keep going right to titus
first chapter
verse 10
for there are many unruly and vain
talkers and deceivers especially they
have the circumcision
whose mouths must be what
stopped who subvert whole houses
teaching things which they ought not for
filthy luke’s sake one of themselves
even a prophet of their own said the
creations are always liars evil beasts
no bellies this witness is true
wherefore what
rebuke them sharply the king james so
rebuke them sharkly that they may be
sound in the faith
all right look this way please i’m going
to close in just a few minutes
this morning in this pulpit god raised
up a word of warning against those who
say the blood of jesus christ is not
enough
that it did not atone for sin in fact
if you if you want to come to us
privately it’s not going to practice
with this pulpit to name names because
we’re talking about principles not
people we’re talking about about
doctrines and not those who preach them
but we can give you the name of almost
every prosperity priest in america your
favorite if you’re into it and we can
show you where every one of them now
believe that the god the blood of jesus
christ does not totally
in fact three of the major ones have
said
that
the blood of either one if
either one of the thieves isn’t that
correct the the blood of either one of
the thieves could have told if the blood
could atone for sin either one of the
thieves would have done we can talk to
you in black and white
we can give you tapes and you can listen
to them
now do we just sit back and say
don’t get burned
or do we stand here and say no here’s
what the word says
and bark and war that’s what we’re
trying to do
and in the next month or so there’s
going to be a lot of barking
holy ghost barking oh yes there is
not against men
but against doctrines of demons and
devils hallelujah
my bible says when this i close come on
out
i ask the lord to get before i close i
ask the lord to give me the key to this
whole chapter lord what is it you’re
trying to say in closing all right here
it is listen closely i’ll try to say it
very simply i want it to be clear in
your mind
how to fix spirituality
that is a person listen close enough who
refuses to lay
down
the world
to lay down anything for jesus
the spiritual man the truly spiritual
believer the true believer is the one
who lays everything down
that’s as simple as it can get the one
whose traffic holds on to the world his
habits his crowd his career he wants to
hold it and that’s what jesus said no
you can’t be my believer until you let
go let go and all the holy ghost i all
last night till probably two o’clock to
the morning i pray oh god what is the
key what are you trying to say tonight
make it real to the people make it
simple the lord said david the whole
thing the reason i couldn’t accept their
faith
i couldn’t accept what they said as
believers is because they would not let
go of their tradition they would not let
go of their own religion they wouldn’t
let go and come to me they wanted to
believe that i was god in the flesh but
hold everything they had they wouldn’t
let go they really didn’t need me they
were just adding me on top of what they
had
no jesus
is the lie
you come to him he’s the door everything
goes everything lord everything goes
it’s all yours i’ll let all down
stand please stamp
i would
tonight
that if you were angry at my preaching
i could see your backstage just hug you
and say no you didn’t hear me right
we want to see jesus formed in you
we don’t want to see the hypocrisy
anymore we don’t want to see that double
standard we don’t want to see the devil
plaguing your soul we don’t want to see
the devil coming after you trying to
tear your soul apart anymore we don’t
want to see your homes invited we want
to see the holy ghost come down on you
we want to see that first love that you
once had reduced
that’s what this service is all about
tonight
i want god by his holy spirit to deal
truthfully with you
will you by your heads and ask the holy
spirit to deal with you would you open
up your heart your mind to the holy
spirit tonight
while i pray
holy spirit
i can’t do anything now
you have to do it
holy spirit fall on us tonight everyone
in the balcony everyone on this main
floor holy ghost fall on us right now
fall upon us
convict us
are we doers of the word
did we hear something tonight and just
fluff it off or are we going to take it
to heart and said yes jesus i’ve heard
you tonight i’ll obey you
i heard if i never heard before i heard
it tonight
i lay my sin down i lay my idolatry down
yes lord i’m going to obey you i will
obey
i feel light of the lord tonight to give
an invitation
up from the baptism for everywhere
listen
for those who are bound
by a habit or a sin
you’re carrying this burden and you want
to be free tonight
i want you to get out of your seat
wherever you’re at and ask god tonight
to set you free by the power of his
spirit his word
all over the house tonight or have yet
you’re bound you have to admit david and
i don’t have to know what it is you have
to see people leaving now they’re the
counselors that are going to the back
room they’re just counselors going to
the back room
but if you want prayer tonight you say
brother wilson there’s something you
said your message tonight
there’s something you said was meant for
me
i want to get right out of your seat
right now up in the balcony just go to
the middle right up there and you’re
made for get out of your seat and come
and stand here right now so we can pray
with you and bleed jesus for a miracle
in your life tonight
wherever you’re at up in the balcony
there just that little aisle and come
down either side
here in may 4th
get right out of your seat now while
we’re praying while we’re speaking to
you you feel the poor time of the holy
spirit that’s jesus saying tonight i’m
gonna change
gonna deliver you
and set you free
i’m gonna set you free tonight
move in real close move in real tight if
you will please
please don’t resist the holy spirit the
moment the holy spirit talks to you you
obey him
did the message touch you tonight was
there something that was said that was
meant for you take it to heart and obey
him now you feel the tongue
come and join these
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is
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he will not
walk
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with the crowd on
the spawn
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let’s just the whole city for just a
minute
i’ve got to say something to this
congregation tonight
please hear me
my heart’s breaking
because i know some of you’re going to
leave here
and god’s been dealing with your descent
tonight
come on back to where you once were
you once had my fire you had my touch
but you drifted away your heart’s grown
cold
you know
the enemy
is tearing you apart
are you going to walk out on him again
tonight i feel their couples husbands
and wives need to take each other by the
hand just walk down here tonight they
say let’s go let’s settle tonight let’s
get back to that love we once had in
jesus
some of you are single you may not be
married but wherever you’re at this
house the lord saying tonight
tonight
get it settled
are you going to walk out on his word
again like you’ve done before
well kevin is singing his skin and the
singers saying
we’ll wait for just a moment you feel
that tug of the holy spirit i implore
you in the name of jesus
don’t resist the holy spirit
come on down
join us
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yes
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foreign
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oh
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difficult situation
so here’s the young man we’ve been
praying for in our prayer meetings
we’re going to believe jesus to break
the power of satan against him we find
satan in jesus name
tonight
lord let him understand and hear the
word tonight break through to him
break through father in jesus name
break through right now jesus hallelujah
you that have come forward
we just keep your head bowed in this
presence before jesus right now
did you come up here to me business
give me business tonight you say lord
jesus the best i know how i mean this i
don’t want to walk out here the way i
came i want your word to get into my
heart and change me i want to lay down
the world and everything it represents i
want to lay it all down i want to
forsake it
all right raise your right hand
just raise your right hand
pray this prayer with me from your heart
pray it loud and clear
dear jesus
i admit
i failed you
i’ve sinned
and i’m sorry and i repent
come lord jesus
with your spirit
and your power
cleanse me
forgive me
and set me free
i’ve been bound but i want to be free
every habit
every lust
everything that holds me down
i want to be free
free me jesus free me tonight i give you
all my heart
i’m coming back
to my first love
i love you jesus
with all my heart
i confess that
to this church
to this people and to you jesus
now raise both hands
and tell jesus you love him right now
lord i love you i want you and i need
you i’m going to give you everything
that i am and all that i have
i’m going to give it to you right now
jesus
right now jesus i’m going to give it all
to you
ask him right now to give you power over
sin lord break the power break the holy
on me right now
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break the holy
jesus as we stand here now in your
presence i ask you to break the power of
sin through the word of the spirit
to the word and the spirit in jesus name
through the words of the spirit
artist let’s raise our hands everywhere
let’s ask the holy spirit come down
confirm the work right now ask the lord
to break these things all over the house
let’s praise it right now lord come and
break through to this house break
through and real conversation
let us be true believers
true believers tonight
to be true believers
true believers
lord we want to be true believers
will you say that lord i want to be a
true believer
not a counterfeit believer but a true
believer a true believer tonight
thank you jesus a true believer
a true believer
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oh jesus come down on this now
fall upon us holy ghost
fall upon us at this altar lord
jesus we give you our hearts our sins
our lives
i
you can put your hands down
i want to know how many of you came
forward tonight for the first time in
this conclusion of
Thank you for this great & so true message, really spoke to my heart.
God Bless