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

[Music]

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

[Music]

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