David Wilkerson - The Lord's Loving Response to Grief - HD | Full Sermon

the Lord's loving response to grief the Lord's loving response to grief that I've been amazed this past week in reading the fifth chapter of Mark it's incredible and loving response of Jesus Christ wherever he met grief scripture says he's surely touched with the feelings of our infirmities he's borne our griefs and he's carried our sorrows so it's not a strange work he knows the pain of the ache I don't know what you brought into the service with you physically mentally and spiritually but we serve a faithful God who knows how to meet those needs this is a church that worships and sings but we honor the Word of God we honor the word that we believe that when we're walking with Him he gives us true manna and fresh word from heaven this past week I was reading and rereading marked the fifth chapter from the 22nd verse down through the rest of the chapter but let me read a portion of that we have your Bible mark 5 beginning at verse 22 behold there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue the iris by name and when he saw him he felt at his feet and he besought him greatly saying my little daughter lieth at the point of death I pray you come lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live and Jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him a certain one which had an issue of blood twelve years and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had had nothing but had was nothing bettered but rather grew worse when she heard of Jesus came in the press behind him and touched his garments and she said if I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole straightway the fountain of blood was dried up and she felt in her BA and she was healed of that plague Holy Spirit will you open this to us and show us how that same Christ the same Jesus not another and such compassion and such hope and such healing for those who come but touch him even to the hem of His garment speak life to us show us how you bring life out of death in Christ's name I pray amen what a feature on this man G iris he's a ruler of the synagogue in Capernaum the city where Jesus did most of his miracles the scripture bears that out old al Capernaum which has been exalted above heaven you're going to be brought down to hell for if the mighty works which were done in thee had been done in Sodom they would have repented unto this day it's been said that the this is the same synagogue Jairus Aragog where a man's withered hand was healed stretched out and healed Jarius Jairus certainly was there when the multitudes flogged into that into Capernaum from all surrounding parts demons were cast out and people were healed evidently a withered hand being healed does not draw him to Christ he had to be there seeing those mighty miracles that so powerful that God indicted other other areas for indicted them for having so many miracles and not being changed by them JJ iris did not come on that account we don't know much about his contact with Jesus but we do know he had witnessed these miracles the does the truth is that this man came to Christ driven by grief overcome by grief he said master could you come with me my daughter is at the point of death it was not the miracles that brought him was not seeing firsthand the power of Jesus Christ it was the grief a sudden grief a sudden calamity came into his life it's it's probably it could be that je iris would have never come to Christ had it not been for the grief than this calamity that had come to his home his little daughter probably knew of Jesus I was thinking about that because all the children knew him and I'm sure she may have told her father go find Jesus bring him he'll make me right he would put me on my feet here is with a child at the point of death and says they were multitude too followed I think many of the multitude was watching the reaction to Joe Aris approaches Jesus he had to press through the crowd also and he comes and he falls at the feet of Jesus now this is an amazing thing because he belongs to an institution this mock in Christ and would have him killed here's an institution here's a church gathering here's a church body that rather see him dead than alive and here's a ruler of that synagogue bowing down in his feet before the master this was a challenge this was a big step because he could have been put out of the synagogue he could have been all of his friends and all of his acquaintances and those that he wined and dined with that would all end and there is a cost when you come to in present and it does affect your friends it does affect your social society it does affect the way you move in in your lifestyle it does affect you and many will not come to Jesus now this disciples could have looked at that man said Jesus why would you go with him he he didn't come to you when he saw the miracles he didn't want you when times were good and everything was well and now he wants you because of his grief he wants it because there's no other option I want you to know something this is I know this church is the Church of last option we don't mind if you come here as a last option evidently you've tried everything else we are the last option Church and there are many up in the United States the last option from because it's where is he going to go to whom is he going to go this man is in desperate these people are following to see what would happen Jesus responds to this man and the scripture said he big bird begged him urgently and Jesus went with him you see if Jesus responding to the hurt and the pain in this man see it could be that you're here and you're like this man job is up to now you have not given much time and thought to Jesus you've not thought of forsaking all to follow him and be his disciple but I'm confident because I heard the whisper of the Holy Spirit that this morning some of the walk have walked in here now and you're here because of the need something Jew you're here maybe you're from another country but you're here but you're here seated a miraculously by the Holy Spirit and he is here right now speaking to need but also feeling the pain and feeling the grief this word by definition grief is deep sorrow sadness caused by an extreme distress and I'm asking if there is a extreme distress hanging over you now or burning in your heart and you hear and you say well I've never given him much time to see the Lord in his gracious Providence he leads people I've talked to many over the years Church now I think is 22 years this month and over the years we've talked to many that walked in here and they were you couldn't tell by looking at them they've never said anything but you see the Holy Spirit knows everything he knows every mind and I've talked to people who said it was a miracle that I was here because God dealt with me today and he's dealing with you now even though you can forget every rejection you have made of him you may be a part of a society like Jay Iris was that mocked Christ mocked Christ you would have nothing to do with him but you can step out of that place right now because the Holy Spirit wants to minister Christ to your need he wants to minister to your pain into the grief that is in you even in the Old Testament you find God's response to grief on one occasion in Jude a judge as a tenth chapter the verses 9 to 16 God was so so angered at at the evil among his people the Bible said his anger was had grown hot but he began to see the cries and the tears of the people under the chastising hand of God in Bible says and God mourned and he pained the grief of their hearts overwhelmed our father he answered and brought them through to a victory it says over and over again God repented because of their groanings and in the Hebrew because he wanted to pity them give them sorrow and to consult them and to comfort them and to ease their burden even when David sinned against the Lord by numbering the people and seventy thousand military men and others died of a plague and the Death Angel was standing over the city of Jerusalem and about to destroy the city and God looks at this brokenhearted man this David who had sinned now he had already murdered a man in he committed adultery but he sinned a very Grievous sin it cost seventy thousand lives now Israel was partly to blame because of their pride and arrogance also but God looks at David and he sees that terror he sees that grief of his heart and he's trying Oh God I'm the one judge me and the scripture says and they ain't when the Angel Lord was about to stretch out his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people that's enough stop your hand now you see God's heart answers to honest grief the cry of a heart that is so so burdened down so overburdened by grief there is something in the heart of God and if you if you want to see it and search what you'll find it in number of places through the scripture the psalmist said and he remembered his covenant for them and he repented according to the multitude of his mercies in fact he made his enemies to pity them as they carried them about this is a picture of the heart of God and beginning to understand his ways when there's something of grief that leads to repentance in injustice and even when God is is having to chase and his people it says good god those he chases he loves he loves in a chastening times many listening to me right now may be burdened with the heavy grief the pain of somebody in your family I was trying to list some of the grease that I've experienced over my 78 years of life now I remember the grieving times how many times in the hospital bed looking at Glenn's over 20 operations folks I've known grief and we've all known grief you may be sitting here with some kind of grief in your heart now maybe some loved one or friend that's it in face to face with terrible sickness friction you may be going through the affliction of your life I think it's wonderful when we come to church and we worship and we praise and we clap our hands the Holy Ghost helps us to read there is a release in all of that and it's glorifying to God but if you only knew if you had only if God could show it's just a few on Sunday nights our testimonies that we hear and we we get a little inkling of what goes on in the lives and what they've been delivered from but if God could show us on the screen and just take five minutes out of maybe 50 people and show some of the grief and the afflictions up there and we would be on our face would be so overwhelming Jesus responded to this man who was overwhelmed and Bible says and he went with him but let me tell you when you start walking with Jesus and you hear his voice and you were stepping step with Christ you're going to know delays and this is exactly what happened to this gyrus he was going to be brought to a point of utter hopelessness he's walking with Jesus he's been on his face but a deadly delay is coming regarding his prayer his hopes are dashed to the ground and calamity is about to strike his home he's going to be surrounded by miracles happening to others and not get his on the time Jairus miracle is delayed because Jesus is responding to somebody very desperate who just touched him you know the story of the woman that had the chronic issue of blood earth quite chronic hemorrhaging for 12 years he'd been to every doctor she'd been everywhere to the specialist and Luke who himself was a physician said they helped their nun and she would tell them the problem have you ever been through this routine where you your situation go from one doctor to another doctor another and you tell the same story and there's not much they can do but they make you promises and you go back and it doesn't work and and you and then some run to Mexico I mean running everywhere looking for an answer she had spent all her living upon physicians and none could healer of her disease Bible says it was growing worse every day I have this something of the Holy Ghost there's been burning in my heart all this week that there's something of the Holy Ghost speaking my heart and God made it real to me that there would be those in this service this morning we don't know who you are and the Holy Spirit is trying to reach you in a very unique and special way but you see this woman came back trembling because Jesus Oh who touched me chicken back trembling because under the law she was unclean she should have waited three days for purging or for cleansing and she was not to touch any clean thing and certainly she touched a clean thing and touching Jesus and so Sarah Monali according to the law she's unclean she comes trembling the feet of Jesus there are some that come to this church you may be here now and you come knowing in your heart there's something unclean and I want to talk to you in in love and the mercy of God you've come to a clean place Jesus is here and you see under the law the law would condemn and convict but under Christ in this day of grace if the Holy Spirit does the work and he he brings he said when the Holy Spirit Bible says well Holy Spirit comes he will convict the world of sin of righteousness and judgment and if you're honest before the Lord and you don't have a hard heart right now the Holy Spirit is doing his work because he lives in this church he abides in this church this is a spirit-filled spirit believing church and you've come wherever you've come from and you're sitting in here now now and you have a bleeding heart in a way you're like this woman spiritually in your heart there's something unclean that you battled with for years maybe twelve or more years just like this woman battle with her problem and you've tried everything in you that you've counseled with people you've done many many things trying and you feel this uncleanness in you because nobody has to call you that that's something your conscience calls you and you you want freedom but you say if I do come to Jesus then what about my past huh how do I make up for my past and and what about those around me do I are they going to turn me in you're playing with the cost in your mind you say well pastor David you don't know what I've done you don't know how I go to bed at night and you talk about bleeding you talk about no hope I had a dear drug addict friend delivered drug addict he was director of one of our centers our drug centers been saved for a number of years but in a downtime of testing he went back to heroin and one by one his boys walked out because they recognized something unclean in their director and he kept shooting heroin he called me and he said brother Dave I feel like I'm the dirtiest man on earth and he said I have marks on my face where I get down on my rug and cry and weep and plead with God to deliver me pleading with God I want you to know that that he didn't come through he came through he was healed and not later died it wasn't through works it wasn't through effort it wasn't through making promises it was through him trusting what God said don't be afraid I'm with you don't be afraid just believe just believe he began to trust God and God began to deliver him and he had his last year - with a wonderful ministry down in Florida and then the Lord glorified him and took him home you see this church doesn't matter how much you've sinned this church doesn't matter how bad you've sinned you're among of people who serve a holy God but you've come to the right place if you bleeding in your heart because the doctors in I said the doctor is in Jesus suddenly stops turns about and said who touched me the she fearing and trembling knowing what had been done to her came and fell before him and told him all things you know see here's Jay iris very nervous now because Jesus has already started to walk toward his home and he surrounded and this woman now does him and and Jesus there's a delay he stepping you can be a step and step with Jesus you could have been on your face before him and made your petition known and the delay there's a delay your answer hasn't come and that many of you know what that is you have been there maybe you're there now you have your situation is very desperate a point to at the point of death of the point of despair and Jesus is listening the woman because she told him all and I wonder if Jairus is wringing his hands and and saying he looked my daughter's 12 years old can't this wait she's been that this 12 years seasoned adult and I'm wondering if he's looking over the crowd anxiously to see looking toward the path to see if there are any messengers coming and and Jesus listens to this woman I see two reasons why Jesus delayed I was this hit me yesterday he first wants to relieve her of her sense of defilement and he wants to remove her reproach he wants to publicly move her reproach and he did just that the second reason is the impatience of this man Jesus had to have seen it a group of men came from his home and said don't bother the master your child is dead and Jesus overheard that and he said just don't be afraid just believe don't be afraid just believe but she goes on here's the problem I see it's possible that he's so consumed by our own needs we can't stop and rejoice when we see others being healed and blessed and I see this is what Jesus is dealing with and this is what Jesus wants to accomplish and in some times this is how he does deal with this in our grief and sorrow we God knows how desperate your situation is he knew all about it there was nothing hidden to him and he's wanting this man first of all to have his faith and courage and whenever you see people around you being healed and your healing hasn't come or they're getting answers to prayer and yours I'm sure Jesus saying can't you just can't you just wait a little bit you see this woman has been 12 years that's it's when your daughter was born 12 years ago she's all that time that you've enjoyed the fellowship that child this woman has had this hemorrhaging it's the same woman who's not allowed in your synagogue it's just this is the woman that needs help she needs me now Lord just saying you see there's something about Jesus he can be healing a thousand people around you and still have his eye on you he had his eye on Jae iris and I think that's what God is saying to us and I want you to get this out of the message out of what I'm saying today we are so focused on our pain when I was going over this last night I went into my office and just looked at what I had written and I became in Gwen was on the the couch sitting and I said by her and I just broke down weeping with joy I started praying in the spirit when Holy Ghost just told me he knows all about it and he's going on with us and he's going to give us faith to belief it's not going to be our faith is going to be his when start walking and getting under the spirit and I was walking bumping into her in the hallway and you see we have something that Jay iris didn't have and we have something this woman didn't have they didn't have the abiding Holy Ghost they didn't have the comforter living in them they didn't have the promises being made will from inside their very hearts and we've got something no other generation had we have the Holy Ghost that comes to comfort us in our time of sorrow and suffering there's something else this man has to come to place where he looks death in the face there comes a time when Jarius must have that moment that some of us are going to face and we all must face one day when you go into a confused room you go into the face of confusion see he went home Jesus went with him then there's doubt and fear at all sides and the people said there was no use there's no use let the master alone and something I we don't know if it's Jairus his faith held up but we do know that he went on with Jesus we do know that he went to the house and I would picture his wife falling in his arms saying where are you it's too late and why is Jesus here and outside the door these paid minstrels are playing their flutes and wailing and screaming and Jesus saying what's all this to do about she's just sleeping and they laughed him to scorn and he walks in to that surrounding and he's looking death right in the face there comes a time to walk right into the house of confusion with death and terror looking you in the face and you hear a word do not be afraid only believe Jesus turns to him face to face with death don't be afraid yeah if the Holy Ghost doesn't come and make those words real don't be afraid only believe and that has to be what we say time and time again in the face of death in the face of hopelessness death he represents hopelessness all human possibilities are gone humanely nothing can be done and you will hear as I've heard time and time again for after 58 years of preaching in every crisis that God has brought us through David don't be afraid just believe and I say Lord then you're going to have to help me you're going to have to put your faith in me I can't do this on my own but folks if we're going to live in on a spare we allow ourselves to wallow in our sorrows we're putting kindling on the fire of despair it just goes deeper it gets worse there comes a time where you have to take a stand and I have to take a stand and I believe junior's did and this woman did too if I could just touch the hem of His garment and how Jesus responds it's not just that he responds but it's how he responds he has he who absolutely breathed the Stars David said this he breathed to pass the Stars the very breath of his mouth he put all of the galaxies in place hanging on nothing and racing through space and this God who who has created billions and billions of stars and galaxies after galaxies folks all you have to do is stop and say if God can do this he certainly can meet my need I do that every day I concentrate on the majesty and the glory of God I don't think that any preacher from any pulpit can give you answers to everything I can't give answers anymore to many many things but I do know this in 78 years walking this walk God has never failed me one time never and you may think God has failed you you may think he's not answered your prayer but it's on the way he's at work the first moment you prayed he began to do something in the supernatural realm and he's not going to forsake you I'm telling you the hills may shake and the mountains may fall into the sea and everything that can be shaken will be shaken but he cannot be shaken his church cannot be shaken God's people will not be shaken there are some things that cannot be shaken and I want to tell you in closing I was sitting in this pulpit last Sunday ascending except Esther Carter and the Spirit of the Lord was on me and God said to me something that I will never forget it's a David your destiny is in nobody's hands but mine your destiny and my destiny has nothing to do with the economy our destiny has nothing to do with the Muslims are definitely has nothing to do with Congress or any world leader it we we are not under the hand we're not in the hands of these situations around us we are in the loving hands of Jesus Christ our Savior who's written us in the palm of his hand get your eyes off get your eyes off the things that we don't know about yes folks I I believe with everything in my heart that God would spare even America if God's if God's people would get a hold of God and renew their faith that there could be a time I believe God is so merciful and so touched with the grief there's such grief in the land 80% of the people they say now are in some kind of sorrow and fear and living in fear ah but God who made you God who made me God who made all things is still their creator if he can create and David a clean heart he can create a clean heart in me if if God would not take away his Holy Spirit from a man like David coming through adultery and coming through murder then he can save any sinner in this house and he can turn your life around where you stand this woman was here because she came to Jesus she pressed through the iris saw a miracle because it came to Jesus and he believed I'm going to ask you if you're here this morning and I'll make this simple clear and to the point no one will push you beg you no one will say anything to you you come willingly if the Holy Spirit has moved on you sometimes that's reflected by us real feelings in the inside of you could be conviction it could be their drawing but whatever it is and you relate to this story there's something that was said that touched your heart I'm not going to try to find that point but you know what it is this is a praying church this is a church were thousands of people turned to Christ in a year's time and every week people turn to Christ sometimes in many many services come to Christ those are backslidden come home while the musicians are ministering and music I simply invite you to get out of your seat up in the balcony can go the stairs of this I come down the steps and come to the front of this church and make a confession I need him I need him and if you're in grief of some guy God will respond to your grief you may not have faith even but he'll take your grief you he'll respond to your grief you get that grieving heart that hurt and that pain bring it to Jesus and we'll pray with you that the Lord will give you his faith and bring it to repentance and healing anywhere in the house is their ministering and music you can step up I'm talking about those are backslidden specifically I'm talking about those who are carrying tremendous grief those who don't know Christ as Lord or you have stepped away you have grown diff did you don't have that relationship with Christ Lord speaking mercy and grace and Lord bring home many that have been running from you you obey the holy spirit there people coming all of these that are coming if you came forward to surrender your life to Christ or to renew your life with him will you pray this prayer with me right now pray it that verbally that let it be heard dear Jesus I ask you to send the Holy Spirit and lead me and speak to me and comfort me I'm casting all my cares on you forgive me Jesus of all my sins and all that I've done against you all my pride everything that I've sinned I bring to your blood for cleansing and healing Jesus I want to touch you Jesus you told me not to be afraid so take the fear out of my heart and healed my grief Jesus you told me to believe I believe I believe that you're real I believe did you forgive me I believe you'll answer my prayer now would you just lift up your hands and say thank you Jesus thank you Jesus Lord we thank you now Lord for those that are burdened down with our overcome by grief we pray Lord Jesus that they would reach out by faith that's the only way by faith and say I take your word he sent His Word and healed now Jesus send your word in him let people that have there to come down here to the front who brought their burden cast it at your feet right now that's what he said cast all your burdens on him because he cares for you Oh audience people in the Annex and here would you lift your hands and would you hear him speak to you right now don't be afraid just believe would you just tell God you believe him now say Lord I want to believe I want to trust you no matter how dark it gets no matter what happens I want to be one of those who trusts you I want to be a testimony I want that testimony I want that testimony then I can't do it in my physical power Lord we have to come to you we have to we not we have to quit thinking about what we're going through and focus on on reaching you focus on seeking you focus on resting in your promises Oh God you will never fail you will not fail your church and you will not failed those who are in your presence right now we thank you now just give him thanks you

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Length: 43min 39sec (2619 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 29 2014