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the wonderful love of Jesus I had two
young men in two young preachers in my
office this past week and what a
testimony they are it was a great joy to
have Nikki Cruz and sunny aranone in my
office Nikki Cruz was the mama gang
leader gave his heart to Christ he’d
been saved 30 years in preaching he was
the uh one of the key characters in The
Cross and switchblade uh story and sunny
aranone was the first drug gtic uh we
reached for the Lord when we came to New
York City 3 years ago Nikki was on his
way to a crusade in London he travels
all over the world preaching to
thousands and I’ll never forget how the
love of Jesus touched him I every time I
go past Fort green projects here in
Brooklyn I get a lump in my throat I
was5 pounds 28 years old but feeling the
love of Jesus just rushing through me
that Jesus had for drug addicts
alcoholics prostitutes and I walked into
this city and a uh drove in rather 1957
Green Chevrolet slept in the car I sure
wouldn’t do it now knowing what I know
but I slept in the car and put
newspapers against the window found out
the worst gang in New York City at that
time in fact they they had over over uh
300 gangs listed by Youth Department at
that time
1958 and I went down to to find the mile
miles and they were standing against the
fence in their Red Jackets of big double
M 28 kids have been murdered in 1958 in
gang
fights and I remember going up to one
young man his name was Israel the
president of the gang and he was very
kind shook hands and uh said hey
preacher okay I he had listened to me
preach for about five minutes I went to
shake hands with Nikki Cruz and he spit
on me slap my face and said go to hell
I’ll never forget that stinging on my
face and I all I could bur out I I don’t
think I did it in Anger Nikki Jesus
loves you and walked away thinking Lord
I know you love him but I don’t know if
you can save
him he’s the hardest I don’t like to be
slapped like to be spit on Nikki Cruz
could get that out it was like a stuck
record broken record all night long
Nikki Jesus Loves You Jesus loves you he
hated police he hated everybody else
some of you have heard his testimony
Nikki Jesus loves you and folks to sit
in my office and look at that young man
on his way to London having reached
thousands and thousands around the world
five girls five children I think two or
three in Bible school and all called to
some kind of ministry Nikki going on
with the Lord all I could say is Jesus
your love finds them your love is
Everlasting thank you Jesus Nikki never
told me never knew what the love of
Jesus was and what Christ had done for
him until his little girl his first
little child came to hear him and one of
of his Crusades and he was telling the
story of all the terrible things he did
went home and she wouldn’t talk to him
said what’s the matter honey she said
you’re a bad man I don’t want to talk to
you that’s not my
daddy and it hurt him he didn’t realize
till then uh how God had changed how the
love of Jesus had manifested itself so
much in his life sunny aranson I met 28
years or or 30 years ago down in
Brooklyn under the elevated train right
off the Williamsburg Bridge
and I I I went up to him in front of a
pizza shop and I he was a drug addict
just waiting for his contact found out
his name I said Sunny Jesus loves you he
said man get off the block my mom’s one
of those Hallelujah
people and she’s a one of those tongue
talking Hallelujah you sound like one I
said yes I am but I I remember saying
Sunny Jesus sent me down here because he
loves you Sunny been in and out of jail
in and out of prison his mother would
see him dirty filthy and ragged on the
street and say Sunny please just come
home change your shirt let me give you a
clean Mill he said Mama go home didn’t
want anything to do with with family had
no thoughts of God been shot at in and
out of prison but I never forget the day
he came remembering that invitation to
come to the center remembering that that
just that one statement Nikki or rather
Sunny Jesus loves you his love will find
you and the love of Jesus found sunny
when he came in and heard Nikki preach
at our Center down here in
Brooklyn and he thought
that he thought Nikki while he was
preaching someone had gone to him told
him all about him because Nikki was
preaching his life and sunny sunk down
in his seat because he heard his whole
story being told and Nikki Cruz goes
over to Sunny laids hands on him and
said God save him and call him to preach
and sunny thought me preach
a drug addict a killer at heart oh but
folks I set in my office this past week
Sonny aranone is not only a pastor he’s
a bishop of hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds they’ve got churches All Over
America in fact he was in Philadelphia
helping set up another one of their
churches in their in their conferences
they have three 4,000 all of them
converted drug addicts alcoholics
prostitutes Sonny aranson is a preacher
to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
because the love of Christ was
manifested in
him now see there are many of you here
tonight you know what I’m talking about
because up up here you fellas from drug
from a drug life alcoholics many of you
not even in teen child maybe other
programs some of you here may be in
business you were a drug addict you were
an alcoholic you were drinking you were
lost you were hopeless but the love of
Jesus Christ came to you manifested
itself to you how how beautiful wasn’t
it the love of Jesus when you first
heard of it what a flush of Glory when
you realize that in spite of what you
done Jesus loved you and you rejoiced in
that love you went a long time just
basking in that love and then you
started going around telling everybody
how Jesus loved them some Of You’ been
witnessing you’ve been saved 5 years 10
years but what’s happened since then
many of you have backslidden about the
love of Jesus for
yourself somehow along the line you you
you got the idea a that because you have
allowed a coldness or a failure into
your life that you can preach Jesus and
his love to others but you can’t
appropriate it to
yourself now this is where I’m going
with the message tonight I want to talk
about his love for you as a Christian
his love for you as a Believer and for
me you know I was preaching a number of
years ago in Harlem in a street meeting
and I was going through a very difficult
time in our ministry very very difficult
Gwen had cancer and in fact I think this
is her second cancer she hadn’t back in
the hospital and I had the burden of
teen CHS and it was weighing heavy on me
traveling trying to raise funds trying
to keep the whole thing afloat and
centers PE cities all over the country
calling and and I was absolutely at the
end of my rope at this particular time I
I and in my burden and in my struggle
over I got so burdened over needs I went
down to about 115 PBS skin and bone and
just there was no joy because I was so
burdened down by the needs of the city
and in that I I shut Gwen out and in her
pain she she she couldn’t stand being
cut out from my life it it wasn’t that I
don’t I don’t think I was a bad husband
or anything but I didn’t really bring
her into the burden that was on my heart
I should have shared it with her and we
were going through a rather difficult
time and I remember one day just losing
my temper and going off for a street
meeting and I felt so dirty and so
unclean has that ever happened to you
where you know you want God with all
your heart you love him with everything
that’s in you and and you fast you pray
you seek him but suddenly there it is
just like a flood it just comes and hits
you and sweeps you off your feet you
lose your temper you do something stupid
and you feel dirty and unclean and
filthy
and I had to go up into Harlem and I’m
standing there in my pain and I’m
preaching my heart out Jesus loves you I
don’t care what you did drugs alcohol
prostitute come on up Jesus loves you
give your heart to him and after I
preached this profound message I thought
how Jesus could love anybody on the
streets I’m standing there after the
meeting in despair watching drug addicts
and alcoholics with our personal workers
drinking in the love of Jesus and
suddenly in my despaired my head down
feeling so low the holy spirit said to
me
David why don’t you appropriate some of
that love you’ve been preaching for
yourself why don’t you let me love you
what gives you the idea that you can
just preach it and not practice it not
appropriate it to yourself and friends
from that day to this there are many
times I’ve had to just step back and say
Jesus I’ve been out preaching it I tell
the whole world that you can save body
anybody from anything now Jesus come and
love me love me I remember one time when
one of Gwen’s last uh times in the
hospital she was so wiped out she she
had uh lupus had about 30 l pounds of
water on her and and was in the hospital
and she she had said David this is
enough I can’t after all these
operations can this is just too much and
she went in the hospital just at the end
of her rope and I went to a hotel room
near the hospital and I said oh God when
does this ever stop lord I love you I
see there’s no I can’t figure it out it
she can’t go through much more pain and
you know I said Lord give me something
and you know it’s not a good idea to
just say Lord give me something open
your Bible because you know where it
fell it fell in Jeremiah whoa whoa
whoa you know you know I did I closed
and said no Lord not today I I’m hurting
enough and you know what the Lord whis
in my heart David just lay still let me
love you so help me the Holy Ghost
brought Jesus his presence in that room
and he put his arms around me and began
to love me and I said Jesus now love
Gwen and and then the Holy Spirit put a
scripture Psalms so I went there and you
know what said he makes all wars to
cease I said that’s it that’s it he’s
made taking all seat I ran to the
hospital Gwen was dressed he said David
I’m Healed I’m getting out of here let’s
go home I have
Victory it was the love the absolute
love of Jesus Christ being manifested
the Bible said the husbandman that labor
must be first partaker of the fruits you
can’t counsel other people that they
they are loved without appropriating
that love for
yourself now there there are some of you
here that love Jesus dearly but you’re
not persuaded that Jesus Christ loves
you youve preached to others you you you
picture yourself though is is having
failed the Lord and he’s cast his side
as a result of it I want to speak
directly to you tonight I I really
believe God put this on my heart and
that’s why I struggled so much with all
the imps of Hell to get through but
here’s I was laying on my face last
night and God began to speak clearly to
me to speak directly to those that be
here tonight who felt that you’ve let
the Lord down you feel you’ve let the
Lord down you’ve not lived up to the
standard you’ve heard preached in this
Pulpit or wherever it may be now friends
if you’ve been coming to this church we
hold up a high standard we preach a
strong message of righteousness and
Holiness and many of you feel that you
can’t live up to that that you failed
the Lord somehow it’s not that we’ve
been putting a heavy trip on you we
we’re we’re trying to preach what we
believe is the standard of the word of
God but in your striving to be more like
Jesus you have failed the Lord You’ve
sinned somehow and you sit here this a
this evening with failure in your life
you have tripped you have
fallen Satan has bruised your
heel now remember that’s what the
scriptures in it was originally said
that the serpent will bruise your heel
and when serpent bruis your heel does
not mean you’re damned or you’re lost
outside of the love of
Jesus he’s bruised your heel but there’s
healing for that but now you’re here
tonight you’re living with guilt and
condemnation you can’t see how Christ
can still love you because deep in your
heart you know you may have griev the
Holy Spirit and you you somehow walk
right into the devil’s trap or you’re
still in the satanic snare but I want
you to know friends and listen closely
you and I were reconciled to God when we
were still enemies when we were out in
sin not even thinking of God Jesus loved
us let me read it to you for when we
were yet without Strength In Due Time
Christ died for the ungodly for God
commanded his love toward us and that
while we were yet sinners yet sinners we
weren’t even thinking of him when you
were at do you remember when you were
out there do you remember when you had
no time of for him do you remember the
those days and the Lord said even then I
loved you even then you were reconciled
to me if you would have only repented
and come while you were yet sinners
Christ died for us for if when we were
enemies we were reconciled to God by the
death of his
son much more being reconciled we shall
be saved by his life the Lord saying if
I loved you when you were out there not
even thinking about me do I not love you
now when you’re going through a struggle
when your heart still loves me now I’m
not talking about those who have just
put God aside they’ve given themselves
over to their sin they don’t want
anything to do with God they’re not
interested in Repentance I’m talking
about Christians and others who have
backslidden
somehow in fact the closer you get to
Jesus the least thing will seem big to
you in the sight in your own eyes you’ll
feel the grief of having grieved the
Lord now I don’t have anything profound
tonight but I want to share you just a
few things that the holy spirit’s
putting in my heart about his love
first of all God wants us to be fully
persuaded fully persuaded that nothing
absolutely nothing can separate us from
the love of Jesus Christ I want you to
go I want you go to Romans 8 want you go
to Romans
8 8th chapter verse 38 beginning to read
do you have it Romans 8:38 oh I love the
word don’t
you for I am this is Paul speaking I am
persuaded other I’m completely convinced
that neither death nor life nor angels
nor principalities nor powers nor things
present nor things to come nor height
nor depth nor any other creature shall
be able to separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our
lord nothing shall separate us from the
love of God now that’s a truth that the
devil doesn’t want us to be convinced of
he doesn’t want you to hear that he
doesn’t want you to know it
it because here I want you to know
something if you can come if you can get
a hold of this truth you can come
through any trial you can come through
your Temptation you’re going through now
in your trial you can come through any
failure and be more than a conqueror if
you’re fully persuaded that Jesus loves
you look look look at verse five who
shall separate us from the love of
Christ shall tribulation or distress or
persecution or famine or nakedness or
Peril or sword for it’s written for thy
sake we are killed all the day long we
are counted as sheep for the slaughter
nay in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us
you’re conquered through the love of
Jesus Christ for you look at me folks
The Cry of this book is be rooted and
grounded in love that you may be able to
endure you may be able to stand in a
troubled time rooted and grounded in
love I’m afraid we’re not rooted we’re
not grounded in the love of Jesus Christ
many of us were’re afraid to appropriate
it Philippians 1:6 don’t turn says being
confident of this that he that have
begun a good work in you will perfect it
to the day of Jesus Christ when you came
to the Lord now listen closely to me you
came to the
Lord he decided he’d not let you
go listen to me now you came to the Lord
Lord and it was known in heaven and hell
and Earth that Jesus Paid for you with
his own blood and he put a stamp on you
and he engraved you in the palm of his
hand and he said devil this child
belongs to me now no matter what problem
you’re going to no matter what failure
at if you confess it repent you’ll come
back by his love you’ll be drawn back by
his love you’ll be drawn back by his
precious love he that’s begun a good in
work in you will perfect it till the day
of Christ you’re not going to let the
devil interrupt his work in you Satan’s
lying to some of you right now he’s
trying to tell you that Jesus has given
up on you he telling you that Jesus is
mad at you that you’re just wicked and
evil you’ll never Mount to anything
you’ll never be holy you’ll never be
clean you can hit hear hear Brother Bob
preach you can hear me you hear Gary
hear one of the pastors preaching say
I’ll never I can’t measure up there’s no
way I’m going to measure up everybody
else is measuring up but I’m not
measuring up if you ever sat here
thinking you’re the only one going
through problems only one having a
problem anybody sitting here right now
thinking you’re the only one failure in
your life you said but what are you
going to do one of those TV evangels
things on us no I’m not not standing
here in any known failure in my life but
there are some of you sitting here now
and the devil lying to you right now
he’s saying see you tried and you can’t
make it Bob did hit this so strong this
morning and here you sit wondering if
you should even go on we’ve had people
people leave this church they have
absolutely quit on the Lord because they
say I can’t make it I can’t I I will
never measure up to what he wants I want
you to know that God’s given you a word
you can take it right to the devil and
you can throw it right at him just as
Jesus did in the wilderness and the
devil going to
run it’s right there in the eth chapter
of Romans look at it the 34th verse 34th
who is he that condemneth well you know
who that is don’t you were you condemned
this afternoon before you came to church
have you been sitting here doing the
worship being condemned we we’ve got
we’ve got a condemner who stands Before
the Throne of God accuser of the
Brethren trying to accuse you saying
you’ll never make it but who is this
that condemneth it is Christ that died
ye rather that is risen again who is
even at the right hand of God who also
maketh intercession for us you stand
right up against Satan and you can say
this with everything in you I refuse
your condemnation in your lies Jesus
paid for my sins I Repent Jesus Loves
Me I I’m on his mind right now in fact
devil right now when you’re accusing me
he has me on his mind he has me on his
lips he’s talking to the father about me
right
now he’s talking to the father about me
this very moment he’s interceding before
the father and you can tell the devil
that glory be to God and then you can
quote in this scripture I write unto you
that you sin not but if any man sin we
have an advocate with the father Jesus
Christ the righteous you go back to him
you say father I’ve sinned I’ve had four
children and I never kicked them out
because they failed me I took them aside
sometimes I had to take him to the
Woodshed sometimes I had to spank the
meanness at him but all along there were
my children and I loved them and the
only reason I spanked them was for their
own
good when did Jesus throw you out tell
me
when did he write a bill of a
divorcement I divorce you go on out on
your own when did he do it you can’t
tell me when he did that he said I’ll
never leave you I’ll never forsake you
I’ll go with you to the end I’m going
through you with your troubles I’m going
through your trials hold
fast now notice a very interesting verse
Romans 8:35 look at it who shall
separate us from the love of Christ now
who is a person isn’t that you know who
that is that s but then look shall
tribulation or distress or persecution
or famine or nakedness or Peril or sword
now those are things that’s not a who
those are things who is it that brings
these things on us Satan himself trying
to bring all these things to Rob us of
the love of God but I notice look down
in verse 37 nay in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him
that loved us hallelujah now to separate
us who shall separate us from the love
of Jesus Christ Christ that word
separation is to isolate in other words
to make you feel like an island of
rejection that you’re not loved and I’ll
tell you what the devil does he’ll first
try to strip you of Love of those around
you he’ll try to interfere in the love
of your family interfere in the love of
your friends and try to isolate you in
fact this separation means to put a
great golf between it and isolate it as
an island some of you sitting here right
now knowing what that means
you have felt rejection you felt
isolated and you you you feel what you
feel just what they felt in Israel it
says but Zion has said the Lord has
forsaken us and my Lord has forsaken
forgotten me can a woman forget her
sucking child that she should not have
compassion on the son of her own womb y
they may forget yet I’ll not forget you
behold I’ve Graven you on the palm of my
hand your walls are continually before
me and then in Hosea it says I will heal
their backslidings I will love them
freely for my anger is turned away from
him hallelujah thank you Jesus friends
God wants to heal every backslider here
tonight he wants to offer you his love
and to heal that backsliding of your
heart now the Holy Spirit has really
been putting me under
conviction about the danger of
presenting Jesus is a hard man do you
remember that Parable there were three
servants that were given talents one was
given 10 one was given five and one was
given one talent and the man who had the
one Talent went and hid it in the earth
and one day the master comes and calls
him to
account and he said I I want what I gave
you I want my return and you know what
he said master I knew thee that thou art
a hard man and I was afraid and I went
and I hid my
talent and I was on my face before God
the Lord was saying David there’s
something you’re not hearing you’re not
seeing yet and I want tell you I don’t
believe you can be a Holiness preacher
of any kind you can’t be a preacher of
righteousness unless you’re
teachable and I’m telling you now God’s
telling me I’ve got a lot to learn and I
confess it before you here now and I’m
not trying to be sentimental or put
attention on myself but God began to say
there’s so much yet I’ve got to learn
before I can be a Shepherd to the
the to the Sheep here even all of us as
pastors are are open that God would
teach us but I got to thinking Lord was
showing me what what kind of teacher did
this man have the other two sered the
Lord with joy they had no problem they
made their investment it was a glorious
experience but this man comes and he
said boy you’re hard and he was afraid
and he hit his
talent who was his teacher what kind of
message did he sit under that made him
see Jesus J is hard because Jesus is the
master here brother Bob had to he he
felt the same grief that I felt one time
when when some people that sat under his
teaching had had gone to a pastor and
tried to correct him as if you know they
knew it all now because they’d come into
Holiness message and Bob was alarmed and
he got on the phone he says tell me did
my preaching produced that in you and it
was Terror in Bob in my own heart are
are are we going to preach a message
that would produce that kind of thing
are they misjudging what is being
said I got to thinking Lord what kind of
a a pastor what kind of a teacher what
kind of a message was he sitting under
that he perceives Jesus as a hard man a
Friday night a young Pastor met me back
I don’t know if he’s here tonight or not
tears in his eyes visiting from another
state and he said brother Dave I’ve been
preaching Holiness in my church and I
preach it hard and he he said the people
are not receiving it and they’re leaving
left and right but I can’t compromise on
my
message and I felt pain in my heart
because all over the country now there
there’s a message of Holiness coming
forth there’s a message of
righteousness but folks too many are
preaching it his hardness they’re not
presenting Jesus in
fullness I remember something Bob told
me that changed my life he said David
when we preach Holiness we must never
Veil Christ we must never Veil the mercy
of Jesus
Christ but you see I don’t want to be
that hard man or that man that preaches
a message that pictures Jesus only as a
hard man because that produces fear and
fear has torment and then people go and
hide because they feel they can’t make
it I don’t want to be one of those
preach you know there are times when I
when I have to preach a strong message a
prophetic message especially I know that
there are some people that are out there
that they’re just they they want to say
yeah preach it brother Dave get it hit
it hit it hit it it’s almost like a
cheering section hit it and sometimes
Pastor I know there have been times I’ve
been carried up in it I confessed to Bob
today about a time down in Georgia I was
preaching at a camp meeting two years
ago and I on that Campground I saw these
great big satellite dishes and you know
my hatred for
television the superintendent of the
movement there was great big biggest
dish I ever
saw I tell you what I got up there in
that pulpit and boy I skinned them
alive by the way the Lord doesn’t want
hides he wants Souls you know skinning I
tell you what I thundered and
I ever since I felt the pain for what I
did and later some pastors said boy you
were hard brother Dave but you know
there were some people in there just fed
something and them they wanted to hit it
they wanted hard hard hard now I’m going
to tell you now I’m not going to
compromise on my message I’m going to
preach it but there have been evangelist
you know that it preached a hard message
and you were there watching either on
television some yeah there give it to
them that’s right and he they’ll say
I’ll not compromise I’m going to preach
and tell it like it is but I’ve been
hearing the Holy Spirit say to me David
how are you present send in me to the
Sheep are you showing them my mercy and
my love and my longsuffering along with
my hatred for sin are you making them
afraid so afraid that they’ll hide and I
want the Lord to help me preach Holiness
stronger than I’ve ever preached but I
want to preach it with Brokenness I want
to be like Paul who said I came to you
like in the tenderness of a nurse I’m
going to read it to you Paul said but we
were gentle among you even as a nurse
cherisheth her children so being
affectionately desirous of you we were
willing to have imparted to you not the
gospel of God only but our also our very
Souls because you were dear to us I
confess to you I’ve never known that I’m
beginning to know it I’ve never passed
I’ve been an evangelist and I’ve
thundered all over the world I don’t
think I know what it’s like to be a
nurse to look out over congre ation of
people living in a wicked City hurting
carrying all kinds of burdens and
garbage from your past and I wanted I
want to see you walk in Holiness and all
the pastor we want to see you walk in
Holiness so much now I I can’t speak for
Bob I know these men Bob has a tender
heart Gary has a tender I need
this I need to have that gentleness as a
nurse cherish their children not trying
to spank them because there’s a sickness
there’s a disease there’s sin and Paul
is saying I came to you
people my dear sheep is a nurse
cherishing her children so being
affection the desires of you we’re
willing to impart to you not just the
gospel only but our very Souls because
you’re dear to
us Paul then added we exhorted and we
comforted and charged every one of you
as a father to charge his children no
wonder Paul’s message of Holiness was
received it wasn’t rejected people
didn’t walk out here because he said
when you received this word of God which
you heard of us you received it not as
word of men as it is in truth the word
of God I told this young preacher what I
want to tell every preacher of
righteousness and Holiness in America if
you’re going to be preaching a strong
message preach it through Brokenness
preach it through
tears and folks that’s what I’ve asked
God to do for this
Pulpit you may have heard people say
Times Square Church you go down there
and you just get beat no you don’t get
beat here you won’t get beaten here
because God’s breaking this ministry he
breaking the hearts of the pastors
telling us that we need to be like Paul
we need to share with you as precious
children not trying to whip you not
trying to drive you but to go to the
throne of God touch his righteousness
touch his Holiness see a vision of Jesus
so clear and then come to you and say
here he is in all of his love he hates
sin and that’s why we preach so strong
about it we feel his wrath against it
and we don’t want you to be damned we
love you too much but to do it as a
nurse to do it as a father with looking
with love to his
children and I confess before a holy God
I’ve not had
that I’ve not had
that but I want
it make
Jesus present Jesus in his
fullness sometimes we’re like the man
who was forgiven a great
debt then we walk right out and choke
somebody who’s not living up to our
standard the Bible says of Jesus for he
is kind unto the unthankful and to the
evil be ye therefore merciful as your
fathers also
merciful that’s Luke
6:35 Jesus is kind to the unthankful and
to the
evil be ye therefore merciful as your
father’s also
merciful James said the Lord is very
pitiful and of Tender
Mercies now God showing me he just
pounding in me with love he he he’ been
speaking all week to me so strong how
serious this matter is of how we present
Jesus to the world how we present him
Paul said we are ambassadors for Christ
you know what that means we represent
him the only thing the world’s going to
see of Jesus is what we show it what we
show the world of
him there there’s a down in Brazil I
think it’s in Brazilia there’s a
Cathedral and there’s a t one of those
uh glass windows colored glass Leed
glass windows and it’s it’s it’s Jesus
you see all these people kneeling before
him and Jesus is standing with a great
big Club in his
hand ready to Smite them and that’s
their vision of Jesus that’s a perverted
view of
Jesus and and and those people come
there with that great fear of this man
in heaven with a club over their head
God’s word says he is very pitiful and
of Tender Mercies and he’s saying if
you’re going to witness out in the
street or you’re going to counsel
anybody if you’re going to talk to
people about Jesus you’ve got to be a
faithful Ambassador you’ve got to
represent me for my who who I really am
and what what the word says be be ye all
of One mind having compassion one of
another love his Brethren be pitiful be
courteous be pitiful be courteous 1
Peter 3:8
you know much of the street preaching
here in New York City is very
discourteous very
discus it’s
confrontational it’s
mean sometimes it’s ugly I I I would
imagine we’ve got 10 15 Street Preachers
here
tonight but if you’re a Street Preacher
or if you’re a witness or you are
counselor you’ve got to understand what
the holy spirit’s saying tonight be
careful this isn’t awesome
responsibility how you present Jesus are
you presenting him in his fullness are
you just showing one sight of him you
know uh Steve and I were walking down
42nd Street few weeks ago and Steve was
carrying a
briefcase and this Street Preacher God
bless his heart up in the 42nd Street
here in
Broadway he stopped we just I just
stopped to listen and he said look at
this two
me and Steve two computer junkies
they’ve got their computer with them
they’re so hooked on
computers you know what’s in that box a
microphone this microphone I have right
here with a big box we carried it
computer junkies they’re so wrapped up
in the world I mean he stole it us to
hear that dear brother we were headed
right down to
Hell sliding right down on our computer
we we were tempted to open the
box what what what are you telling them
out there you shaking an accusing finger
in their face and this Lord who is very
pitiful of Tender Mercies are you making
him out to be a monster are you I don’t
want to misrepresent Jesus
Anymore be ye also pitiful be
courteous now look the Bible said those
who sin must be rebuked before all
that’s 1 Timothy 5:20 the Bible said we
are to exhort and rebuke with all
authority Titus 2:15 unruly miles Must
Be Stopped you’ve got to rebuke them
sharply Titus 1113 but we’re also
commanded to rebuke with all
longsuffering now that word
longsuffering means very lenient patient
and understanding you know what this
scripture said Street Preachers listen
Witnesses listen counselors listen
preach the word be instant in season and
out of season reprove rebuke exhort
which means counsel with all
longsuffering you’re to do it but you’re
to do it with pity compassion and
longsuffering Paul preached with that
longsuffering he said I obtained Mercy
that in me first Jesus Christ might show
forth all longsuffering for a pattern to
them which should Hereafter believe on
him to life Everlasting do you know that
you’re a pattern of his longsuffering
Jesus come on now tell me it wasn’t his
longsuffering that found
you how patient has he been with
you that that’s what God told me about
television too you know last time I
talked about television here I did it
with the tears in my eyes I did it with
a broken heart and if I ever tell you
again God hates it I’m going to tell it
to you because I love you and I’m not
trying to rail against you but I I’ve
got to tell you right now if it weren’t
for the longsuffering of Jesus I
wouldn’t be standing in this Pulpit now
folks somewhere along the line uh I I
would have turned my back somehow not on
the Lord but something would have crept
in my family would have been
disintegrated and everything else but
for the longsuffering I stand here like
Paul’s a pattern of the patience and the
longsuffering of Jesus Christ how long
he bore with some of my foolishness how
long he put up with me and yet he
brought me back to this place and I
stand now in his holy Freedom how
patient he’s been with you why will you
not be patient with others then why will
you not be patient with those that you
deal with all around you now
truthfully the love of Jesus never gives
up on
people I want to show it to you
Revelation
3:15 Revelation 3:15 I’m not going to
preach much longer Revelation 3:15 you
you know this he’s talking about the
lean Church don’t you know that’s the
backsliding church that’s the Harlot
Church look at
verse Revelation
3:15 the Lord is saying and I Know Thy
Works speaking the lean church that thou
art neither cold nor hot I would you
either cold or hot so then because you
lukewarm and not cold or hot I’ll spew
you out of my mouth because thou sayest
I’m rich and increased with goods and
have need of nothing you don’t know that
thou wretched and miserable and poor and
blind and naked I’d look this way for
just a minute if you will
please you you
see Jesus standing at the door well fact
just look at
verse 20 he’s already told him he’s
going to spew them out of his mouth
hasn’t he now look what he said behold I
stand at the door and knock If any man
hear my voice and open the door I’ll
come into him and will s with him and he
with
me listen very closely to me
now it’d be easy and I I think there was
a time in my my Ministry I could have
stood in a
Pulpit and I I I would have said
something like this
look there it is in black and
white I’m going to spew you out of my
mouth folks is it in your Bible there it
is in black and white I’ll spew you out
of my mouth you’re compromising you’re
backslid you’re naked you’re cold you’re
lost you’re undone and God said I’ll SP
you out of my mouth and i’ had been
preaching the truth halfway because look
at verse 8
there’s
Jesus he doesn’t want them to be spewed
out of his mouth look he’s counseled
them he said please buy of me gold tried
in the fire that thou mayest be rich he
didn’t want him to be poor in spirit and
white rment that thou mayest be clothed
and that the shame of thy nakedness do
not appear he’s trying to cover their
shame he’s not trying to expose anything
he’s trying to cover it by his blood and
anoint thine ey with i s that thou
mayest see and for as many as I love I
rebuke and chasen be zealous therefore
and repent he’s offering Mercy he’s
offering Grace and see if I had just
come and preached I’ll spill you out of
my mouth I would have had scripture to
prove it but I would not have preached
Jesus in his fullness I would have
missed behold I stand at the door of
your heart and
knock before I’ll SP you out of my mouth
I’m going knock on your door cuz I
really don’t want to SP my MTH I want to
sit down and eat with you I don’t want
you standing naked before the world I
want you
covered but see we give up on our weak
Brethren if we’re working with people
and they fail
us especially after the second or the
third time it usually I know it’s I’ve
said it so many times look I’ve tried I
can’t waste any more time he doesn’t
want
God he knows where I’m at if he wants
the Lord I’ll be here but I’m not going
out of my way I don’t think you’re going
to make it anyhow if you said that about
your husband or your
wife I don’t know what it’s going to
take I’ve prayed and I’m tired of
praying man I’ve done everything I know
how to do there’s nothing else and most
people we just give up on people I’m so
glad Jesus doesn’t I’m so glad Jesus
didn’t give up on Peter Peter didn’t
deny him once he didn’t deny him twice
he did he denied him three times he
cursed him he said I don’t even know the
man I don’t know him he told me Satan
was after me to try to sift me he warned
me I heard the word I was warned and yet
even in spite of the word that I heard
I’ve been sitting under this kind of
ministry and I went right out and I did
something to grieve my Lord how could I
have done it does that sound familiar
come
on don’t hide the Holy Spirit knows
where you’re
at oh but Peter Peter remembers
something Jesus J said and I can Peter
says oh the look in his eyes I’ll never
forget that look what was that look it
was a Look of Love because Jesus said
Peter I got to read it to you Peter I’ve
prayed for you that your faith fail not
and when you’re converted strengthen
your brethren you know what Peter you
know what brought him back I’m convinced
of it Peter’s weeping over the hilltops
he’s walking up and down the hillside if
Judean said I’ve denied him I’ve
sinned I’ve grieved the Lord I should
have done it I’m his servant I’ve
preached his gospel I’ve laid hands on
the sick I let him down oh but he said
something to me he said he’s going to
pray for me he’s praying for
me he’s praying for me right now he’s
praying for me do you know that he’s
doing that right now for you and and for
me he’s before the father he’s praying
for us just like he prayed for Peter and
then Peter remembers something else
Jesus said I’m going to be converted I’m
coming back and when I come back I’m
going to be an example to my
brothers strengthen your brothers I’m
going to be an example of his
grace can’t you say that right now to
yourself and to the devil in the whole
world yes I’ve grieved him I’ve sinned
but I hate it I despise it and I know
he’s interceding for me right now and
he’s saying you come back to me and when
you’re converted I’m going to make you
stronger and I’m going to use you you’re
going to be a testimony to me and to
your brothers
hallelujah what kind of love is
that I’m going to close in just a minute
you remember you remember the prodical
son who just took his belongings and
went off and he wound up in a pig pan
eating the husk of the
pigs you ever been there
far some of you there I I have to close
now but this is where the Holy Spirit
has brought me for
tonight please hear me and I don’t I’m
not going to do it psychologically or
sentimentally anything else but I ask
the love of Jesus to make it real do you
know that whole time that prodical son
was out there feeding the pigs where was
his father his father was looking for
him waiting for him see the Lord won’t
force himself on you but he’s waiting
all you have to do is like the prodical
son come to the end of yourself say look
I’ve had it I can’t carry this guilt
this condemnation and more than that my
father has everything that I need do you
know that father was praying for that
son according to the scripture if you
put everything else together you you see
the picture composite
picture one day he gets up and he comes
back and that’s what God wants want you
to do tonight you in the balcony here
down on the main
floor you have that burden on you you’ve
slipped away from the Lord your heart’s
grown cold you’re under condemnation and
guilt lord said neither he he told the
woman I don’t condemn you go sin no more
where are your accusers he’s not your
accuser tonight he’s your savior he’s
your savior so this this boy gets up and
he heads back home and before he even
gets there his father sees him and runs
after him you know the that’s Jesus that
he comes after you take one step to him
and I mean he’ll come to you the father
didn’t go up to him since you spin every
look at I told you it
happen I knew you do it there was a
streak in you it’s been there all the
time you’re a brother your older brother
you ought to be like him stayed right
here faithful that’s not what he told
him what’d he do he fell on him his neck
and kissed
him he saw his dirty clothes and he said
to his servants take those clothes put
new clothes on his back lord said I’m
going to make you a righteous person I’m
going to clean you up Lord’s Master said
take off those filthy shoes he put new
shoes on him and the the the boy said
but I’m not worthy Master father I
failed you I’ve sinned against you I’ve
sinned against I’m not worthy in other
words Lord let me stay out here till I
work my way I’ve got to earn your
respect now no the father said right
into the house and he had a feast with
him
put on a
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feast why because the prodical son could
say I’ve sinned against God sinned
against you and I’m not worthy and when
you come to that
place then you come to the feast he
doesn’t want you just camping outside he
wants you at his table
tonight killed the fatted calf and says
come on home my son who is dead dead is
alive again Hallelujah some of you been
dead God’s going to resurrect you
tonight Hallelujah well I told you very
simple bow your
heads oh holy
spirit Holy
Spirit show us your love
tonight how you’re reaching out in love
tonight to say if you’ll get
up out of your
despair if you just get up out of your
flesh get up out of this thing that has
a hold of you and come to
me I’ll receive
you I’ll make you
righteous all you have to do is get up
and come come home come
home come home Lord
Jesus I feel your love tonight for this
people truly you love us
you love us with an Undying
Love Holy Spirit just come and put your
arms around the center here tonight put
your arms around the backslider put your
arms around those that are struggling
with the weight saying I can’t take it
anymore I I’m I’m Bound by this thing
and I want to be free and I don’t know
how to get free Lord put your arms
around them and by your spirit just draw
them and tonight break every chain that
binds them and set them
free if God by his spirits touched you
tonight and the Holy Spirit has said
this message is for
you and you’ve you’ve been backslid in
heart or you’re carrying a load of sin
or guilt or habit you say brother I want
to come home I’ve got to come I need his
love tonight I’m tired of sin I want to
repent but I want to be restored to his
love let’s all stand please so people
can get out of the
aisles