David Wilkerson - What it Means to Live by One’s Faith | Full Sermon

did you hear what you were seeing God is always on time he knows where you live he has your telephone number he's got your address did you hear it what did you stand up one more time just one time if you will I want you to ask the Holy Spirit to give us open ears to hear what he wants to say we prayed that for every service among ourselves but let's do it publicly this morning these are very difficult times and I I would not believe I know for myself and for every one of the pastor's here and those that we invite as guest speakers never approach this pulpit without having been with God and pleading for a word from the Lord to lift up the church to correct the church to do what God says so we can be built up in the faith and I'm praying now that God would speak through my lips and sanctify the Lipson I just let this come forth I not going to shout at you this morning I'm not capable of that much anymore but you'll hear the voice of the Lord you'll hear something from God's heart and let's pray for open ears and we can mix the word that we hear with faith mix it with faith I have no rebuke I have no bad news this is good news from the Holy Spirit and he will speak if we open our ears Lord we pray for open ears to hear what the Holy Spirit has to say but I don't have anything to say worthwhile I have only the word anointed by the Holy Spirit it can't be just a dead letter it can't be a sermon Lord this is not the time not anymore this can't ever be the answer there has to be something from your throne room and I'm asking you Lord to take over and possess my body my mind my spirit that I may speak as an Oracle of God not of man that you would open up our ears get our eyes off of the economy get our eyes off of all the fearful things happening in the world today and refocus on you and understand the majesty of the glory and the power of our God who's at work even now we will hear your word pray it with me Lord Jesus I ask you to give me an ear to hear what the Spirit says amen be seated please thank you I would speak to you about what it means to live by one's faith what it means to live by one's faith ibaka now that's if you want to find this wonderful little four chapter book and Bible just look to Zephaniah and if you can't find go to Nahum and it's not but a few books over from Myka I'm not being facetious some of us have a hard time finding this I'm going to wait for Moses till you find it and go to chapter 2 if you will please this is Habakkuk speaking I will stand upon my watch and sent me upon the tower and I'll watch to see what he's going to say to me he's waiting alone he shut himself in with God and I will find out what he's saying to me and what I saw answer when I'm reproved and the Lord answered me and said write the vision and plan it make it plain upon tables that he that may run that that he may run the reads it for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it's going to speak it will not be a lie though I do it Terry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry now here's my text verse 4 behold his soul which is lifted up in him is not upright but the just shall live by what no you skipped a word he shall live by what the just shall live by his faith no this is the first time this phrase is used in the Bible the very first time Paul the Apostle quoted him in three times and Galatians believe in Ephesians it's one of the most preached text in all the Bible the just shall live by faith or by his faith Paul made it a foundational truth for the doctrine of justification of sanctification the purifying of the heart by the Holy Spirit literally salvation itself by faith the just shall live by faith you receive joy by faith everything is received by faith this is where I'm going in my message today he had a dreadful vision this prophet had a dreadful vision of a great calamity that was coming to the land and surrounding nations and the Lord said you write it down you may understand it right now but write it down and what I tell you is going to be fulfilled and he said if I told you how severe is going to be and how high as it could be you would not believe it I will not tell you that but I am going to tell you this man if you look at the beginning of this book Habakkuk it says the burden of the Prophet the burden he was a burden man because of the grief he carried over the despising of God's Word in his time the law he said was not just the rulers the judges were ruling in favor of those who were wicked the laws of God were totally despised there was violence there was fraud the rich were taking advantage of the poor and stealing their houses and there was grief over the flaunting of the sins in the original he says in one of these descriptions in the first chapter you you you have described the grief and his what he had been seeing in the spirit and God says I'm going to bring against this nation an enemy there's going to be my rod why here is the prophets cry before the Lord even told him what was going to come and in Malachi or Habakkuk 1 3 and 4 the Prophet says why do you show me these iniquities and why do you cause me to behold grievances for spoiling in original perversions and violence that I have seen before me they are there that rise up strife and contention therefore the law was slacked the judgment the judges never their true judgment never goes forth the wicked compass the rights is therefore wrong judgment proceeded and here is his complaint and here is his cry how long O Lord shall I cry and you don't hear me even when I cry out of violence when I see this violence and you do not hear me you do not save and the issue now is that this thing in the prophets buddies I see this in the spirit Lord you show me these things and they grieve me these these are the sins that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and you're showing me this bit when I I cry for you to do something about it you don't answer me I cry I grieve you you place the grievance on the you put the burden on me and folks worry is their true heart where is there a true spiritual person who loves Jesus with all their heart who has not grieved over the planting of sin in the face of God who is a Christian who is a believer would just say well what will be will be and we can't stop it and many of us we pray this prayer if we don't print we think it we think this God it looks the same thing I have a it looks like the wicked are winning it looks like those who push their perversions upon us are prevailing there's no other generation in history that ever proposed what we see in here being foisted upon us now by the courts and by those who want to foster their perverse natures and perverse lifestyles upon the whole of society that men should marry men and women marry women and in this something innately and us or something in the heart that says Oh God how long how long how long does this go on when do you stop it we will this next generation who thinks all of these things are not only right but perhaps preferred and and will God stand by and just let it all happen this is just going to let it is God going to let the rich Rob the houses of the poor and five million people lose their homes because of fraud because of rich men they're dancing according to one profit on the thresholds of the poor how long do we expect it we expect God to just and this is the cry of the profit Lord you know these things they've piled up to heaven and what do I do because I cry and I pray and you're not hearing me and folks this this problem of God seemingly not to answer our prayers is sweeping through the body of Christ I hear it from so many young people from different states and from college students who've drifted away from God and those who have never had a heart for God and you you find almost every time you asked the questions the right questions you'll say well for me my prayers don't work God has never answered my prayer you always find that to the back of it and this is what is going through the mind of the Prophet and he says in verse 13 your you are much purer than to behold as evil you can't just look on iniquity wherefore are you looking upon them that deal treacherously and hold your tongue while the wicked devour the man is more righteous than himself he said God you are pure eyes then to allow this to go on such an overwhelming burden he said I have to get away and he isolated himself in a tower I can't go into that somewhere he got along with God he said I'm going to wait until God speaks to me and then he says God speak to me first I want you to deal with me now he had some things that he had to face it's first of all had he had to face this thing in him that says God is not answering God is winking it's in God's just allowing these things to go and he's not doing anything about there's no evidence that God is judging sin and so he gets away and God gives him a vision but first of all he says I'm going to wait to see what the Lord says to me how he rebukes me are there any words how is he going to rebuke me he knew in his heart he had to have the right Holy Ghost view of how to face what was coming it couldn't be his own zeal God would not allow him when this child D&R me said God said they're going to go from from all through the land from east to west they're going to devastate the whole notion and it devastated that's what is coming but he didn't go any further than that until he dealt with the attitude of this this humble prophet and his attitude but before he goes into the secret closet and seeks the face of God his attitude was God I'm just going to go in and and wait and what he expected to hear is all the details of what is coming and he wanted to know all about that but God says nobody deal with you first he had to do with probably the Jonah syndrome where you know the the prophets God said you dare not do this you dare not stand as I told you so I warned you and what that really says look I want to be confirmed as a prophet I want to be acknowledged Lord you're sending for the people now you're telling me there's calamity coming and God has to deal with this man because he goes he goes into it with this mindset behold all you among the heathen and listen and wonder marvelously because I'm going to do it work in your days which you will not believe though he told you all he saw was the devastation but this is the scripture when I heard God God told him he says that the Chaldeans are going to come I'm going to devour march through the length and breadth of the land when I heard this my belly trembled my lips quivered at the voice rottenness entered my bone I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble when he cometh unto the people he will invade them with true but he remembers now that he has been called as a prophet and he knows that the body those those godly people are going to ask questions all right if God is going to raise a rod of chastening against the nation that has pushed you out of there very society if this is how we face it you're getting a word of judgment what's what's the word how does the church respond to this what's going to happen how do we get a hold of something from God and he's seeing this and folks this I have I'm going to quote you a pig at the conclusion of my message this morning this is a page from a message I preached in 1992 from this pulpit called the desolation of America but I'm going to show you what hope I saw back then because the Lord told me I couldn't preach all these prophetic messages I couldn't warn the people of the whole économique Holocaust that was coming I couldn't do it until I got a vision of God's true heart and for his people and that when the questions are asked what are we going to do how do we face this we still have to go to the word we have to go to the word and God deals preciously with this man's heart let me find his prayer here just a moment I oh lord have heard your voice in your speech and I was afraid Oh Lord he said now you've given me this message of coming desolation not tremble folks I tremble when I see in the book I trembled at God's power I tremble it the way he works in wages judge them tremble it is holiness and there is a human fear if there's anyone listening to me that it really close to the heart of God and you tell me you don't have that first flush of fear when these things are suddenly it swiftly upon us that's not so we need to be honest about it and not being denied but now listen to what God is doing in this man's heart he said Oh Lord I've heard your speech he was afraid and here's his prayer now Oh Lord revive the work in the midst of these years in the midst of the years make known in Wrath remember mercy he said Oh God now we have to understand obtain mercy and he begins to plead for mercy that's what these firm meetings are going to be about I understand the pleading with God's heart in Wrath or in times of when the rod is being applied and there's chastening upon a people a nation and the nations of the world folks he has a new vision now he's ready to go to the people with a message he said in verse 4 behold his soul which is lifted up in him is not right not upright what he saying the message I'm going to give is not for people who are proud he said those that are proud of her they're not going to hear they're not going to understand they're not going to be able to hear that the Bible says the Lord is known by the judgments he executes and that's in Psalm 9 16 and when the hand is lifted up he's speaking of the wicked in Isaiah 26 11 when the hand of God is lifted up the wicked will not see it they will not understand what's going on they won't know who cause they won't know how that originated and how it happened so suddenly they won't understand it they said God's people they will know they will know they will understand they'll know that this is God at work and then he says but the just shall live by his faith now this is not just some kind of theological trick or something another disbelief that's a little bit I just did just believe if I asked you this morning how do you live by your faith faith is an action it's something you do after you've received it is not a merit that is a gift of God it's something that you can train it's something you can work on it's something you can bring as a gift to him and it can grow and it can become a steadfast gold like faith you can build up your faith the scripture says but if I ask you this morning I'm going to ask you how do you live by your faith what how does what is the what are the out workings of this faith in your heart let me give you just a few things that I believe the Holy Spirit has worked into my own life and has helped me so much in what we see in here coming because I been a student of the Old Testament and how God works in both Grace Mercy and chastening first of all to live by one's faith is to see God's hand and his holiness in every judgment and every shaking it is to understand not God said to the Prophet I am going to do work my hand is behind this now folks I have tried in fact I've on my notes I've scribbled out some things because I said lord I don't want to say this because it's going to be as so offensive to so many people but if you a Bible believer and you know your book and you know the Bible you know that God judges sin you know that there comes a time he warned us it'd be like Sodom and Gomorrah he said you understand that when it comes I'm going to judge there will be there there will be and it's in mercy that God these are redemptive judgments there's some that don't appear to be redemptive judgments but God was always purging preserving and and how merciful how long God waits because the Bible says that God gets no delight in judgment he gets no delight and the death of sinners it gets no delight when he has to judge I've never gotten any delight whenever I've had to chastise my children thank God I don't have to do that with my grandchildren and thank God my kids are grown enough and I don't have to do that except by my mouth but folks my soul cannot be at ease and the deeper and the darker conditions get in any time if we don't understand that the heavenly father is at work that the heavenly father is doing what he promised to do in the scripture and when I know that my father's at work I my soul can be at peace my soul can be at rest because my God my my god is doing what he warned he would do what he said he would do who but a merciful loving God could look on a whole society gone money crazy how but a merciful God could stand by well one man frauds fifty billion people and perhaps half of it going to charitable societies bankrupting many and stripping them how long would God stand by and not for this for the sake of the poor and the widows and the thousands of Mexican in California that were taken into offices and they didn't have jobs and thousands and thousands of men who work for these companies lying on their applications that they had jobs putting in false amounts telling them lies we're already two and a half million of those those junk bonds those fraudulent think folks if that doesn't make you weep inside I can't handle it and I don't have those pure eyes of a holy God how long does God stand by and let institutions and the rich wallowing and billions and one day fact in two weeks in mid-october just about three months ago it all ended the day the Lehman Brothers down the street here went down and within two weeks three trillion dollars vanished on the earth the monies that were supposed to be nest eggs all gone the rich man's wealth proverbs 18 11 is his strong place there is his security but folks how how is God going to wake up a whole world how is God going to wake up when he just let this by and and just appear as though he was asleep does he allow this to go on until what five million more losing their homes how long does this go before God says it's enough the sins have reached into heaven and until into two weeks it was all over it was all over entire credit system the whole world froze who would God who but we don't like to hear that because you see we're so we preach as we should love we preach love but in many circles in many churches now we have ripped out most of the Old Testament and we don't believe anymore now I know that this is not where you are but can't believe can't accept that God is at work but but I I can't have peace in my heart I I hate what I see coming I weep inside and I grieve and I know that we're all going all going through the same battle same struggles and the same things are facing all of us but God in His grace and His mercy sent forth his spirit because he's trying according to this to renew the face of the earth to renew it he can't do it until he deals with those things that were out of control that would have destroyed and devastated secondly if I am to walk and live by faith I have got to stop worrying about the future of the Church of Jesus Christ I have to have an assurance my faith has to be lay hold of the truth that God said I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall never prevail against it that is the Living Word of God now I know what the Bible says in the last days there's going to be perilous times men are going to have a form of godliness and deny the power they'll be a falling away the Bible says many will lose their faith love for Christ will grow cold and lukewarm but at the same time the Bible says in the midst of all this I am going to pour out my Holy Spirit and he's doing that there's a reservoir the Holy Spirit has never been used up the Holy Spirit never drains himself out he has got the power and the authority he can do it at any time and he can do it in the midst of hard times he can do it and does do it in the bits of of calamities and when that happens people come flocking to God's Word into his house there's a scripture in Zechariah is his 10 men out of all nations so take hold of the skirt of him that's a Jew or or one who knows God they shall say we will go with you for we heard the gods with you we have come to that time folks we are there we are there the world is going to see something in the Church of Jesus Christ by the way he's purging out all the dross every every minister the gospel who focused on wealth and prosperity how does God stop it no denomination can stop it how he's done God says I'll just shut the bank accounts I just shut it down shut it down this is already happening I don't gloat over that I grieve over that and I pray for every everyone who's misled the Church of Jesus Christ I pray for their soul and I pray the opening of their eyes but now with cliches a false hope and cliches that everything is just going to be rosy dozy that's not going to work anymore that doesn't work anymore that times are too areas but there's a word from the Lord and I want to give this to you function it's in Malachi you don't have to turn there it's in the third chapter verses 15 and 16 they that fear the Lord now folks we are at this time I get it please if my faith is going to grow if my if I'm going to live I have a faith that I'm going to live by this is how I'm going to face this is going to be my model this is how I'm going to not only survive but I'm going to overcome I have got to say that the same God that is faithful to his walls faithful to his warnings faithful to his judgments is the same God is going to be faithful to me the folks I have to include something here that I think it is very important if I can just find it folks will you bear with me I'm not trying to preach a sermon and I don't care I you've probably won't shot and I'll tell you if you're not shot by the end when I show you what where we're going then I'll leave that to the Lord let's just stick with who go to the third this is still a Habbakuk I found it now verses 15 and go to if you have your Bible open go to 3 verse 15 let's start verse 17 although the fig tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be on the vines the labor of the olive shall fail the fields shall yield no meat the Fox will be cut off from the fold there shall be no herd in the stall yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the Lord God is my strength and he will make my feet like Hinds feet he will make me to walk over my high places God's the prophet after all of this he's saying here's what could happen but he said if so I'm going to rejoice in my soul because I know that I'm not just living for today I know that I have an eternal purpose and folks we we have got generation after generation 2,000 years of generations and those who trusted God in difficult times martyrs who have died for Christ those who were sawn asunder and all of those in Hebrews 11 and a whole host of witness in heaven right now who went through fires and floods and depressions and recessions and you name it they've been in there seen it all done it all and have been rescued from it all and they would be that those hosts of witnesses that say to you and now the Church of Jesus Christ shall prevail this will not bring down the house of God Time Square Church will be here it's not the building that it'll be here no I believe until Jesus comes in one form or another God will never let the seed die he will water it and if he's watering it by the Holy Ghost there's going to be fruit there going to be those ten men taking a hold of one Christians skirt or his faith and saying I want to go with you because I see God in you I see faith in you I see God holding you in keeping you one everybody around you is in fear and panic I see something in you and I want what you have I want what you have went to God they could see that when you walk out when you get on the subway or bus and everyone you shake hands with and everyone that you deal with in a retail shop wherever you're at they could see a countenance not some pasted smile not something put on but something comes the from that deep quietness in your soul where you can back away and you don't have to have all the details you say God your hand is at work you are working your God and if you're if you God says he told to job he said I I made the snow I made the ice I put the wings on the foul I divided the darkness from light I've created every being there is and he said I have found out I have found every proud man and brought him down I brought him down to Lois now listen to what he what he says God God says and this is what he told Jo he said look if you want to understand my heart I'm telling you you've got to look at my Majesty and my power and folks we are seeing a demonstration of God's saving power purging power like the world has never seen and I can say I stand here now you you couldn't if this doesn't witness with your spirit you do you go God and let him settle it but as for me I don't care I guess I do care but no matter what the message is tomorrow in the next month and the next year as time proceeds I'm settled on this God is at work and if God if God said he has located every problem man on earth and brought him low then surely he found me he knows where I'm at and as I said he has my name and if he can bring all the proud down and abase them will he not take care of his children he knows everything where we are every condition we face let me tell you something about the Church of Jesus Christ Malachi 3:16 they that fear the Lord and this was spoken I'm going to try to wrap this up in the next five minutes this was spoken in times such as we're living in now and this was spoken to Malachi the Prophet they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the Lord and those who thought upon his name God says they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and I believe this is where the church is going there's there's going to be a spiritual comradery so to speak that there's going to be a just knowing and all knowing of the precious remnant those who've anchored in faith those who are going to believe and trust God that you're going to know you're going to recognize there's going to be as something there's something of spiritual fellowship that is coming he said they're going to speak off to one another and there goes our encourages these are those speaking faith into the hearts of the lives of the body of Jesus Christ and those willing to share their hurts willing to share with others their needs and not been afraid to call somebody when you're in need because the Bible says those that feared him those that knew he was at work they're going to speak often to one another and God says these fear my name these know what I'm doing these are not ignorant of my ways because it I will do nothing till I reveal it to my servants the prophets and that word means also Watchmen and there are many Watchmen God says I'm not going to act until I'm going to give a hint I'm going to I'm going to let you know what I'm about to do and he says those that fear the name of the Lord and this is where the chairs going it's not going to be held or scale there they're not going to be off isolated someplace they're going to be joined one together the true saints of God are going to be one in Christ there is a tremendous unity and the Lord said I'm going to have a book of remembrance this is not the book of life this is the book of jewels he said I'm going to write those everyone God's going to keep a record of everyone let me read it to you and they will be to me as a possession saith the Lord of Hosts in the day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him I should at least get any man somewhere this is a book of remembrance God is going to this is a this is a special thing in the heart of God and I know at my age after 56 years of the seven years of preaching I know I know that I have never in my lifetime seeing such a hand of God at work and I've never had more hope for the Church of Jesus Christ and I I see this in the spirit and I see that God said I'm going to spare them I'm going to take special note of those who speak often one to another and I will hear it and I'll write a book of remembrance that those who wait on him and those who fear the Lord thank God the Church of Jesus Christ is not going down we're going up we are going up very very quickly if I'm going to live by my faith I'm going to prepare an ark Noah move by faith build him an ark folks there's no other place to turn if you're looking to politicians if you're looking to the government they're talking about a trillion dollars who do this and do that folks there's only one safe place everybody's looking for a safe place I get so many letter where do I put my money where do I invest whether is it I said I don't know I've invested in one thing I know that the only answer is Jesus Christ the rock there is no honest godly preacher on the face of the earth that can back up in the Word of God anything that would hint to you and to me that we're not going to suffer in hard times he's going to rain on the just and on the unjust there's no preacher that can come to you and say you will never lose your job you'll never lose your house you will never lose anything but you are a special people you will not suffer you're going to be free of all this no no no no the big because there's a whole the 2,000 years of martyrs and all the disciples according tradition died as martyrs those who gave the very faith that we believe today and the Bible said they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods they lost everything and I I have people write to me one lady said you wouldn't believe the Shack I'm living in now but but she says I'm trusting God and God has been faithful he will be faithful he's going to be but the only hope is to be so anchored in Jesus Christ I pray that era I pray that all the intelligent minds in in the government I prayed for the months ahead that God will give wisdom that that there will be hope that there will be deliverance but folks don't put your trust in anyone but Jesus Christ put no more trust in man man doesn't have the answer last administration spent three hundred and fifty thousand billion three hundred fifty billion dollars to juice up the economy and it didn't work they had the answers then they thought and it didn't work folks we are not going to make it if we aren't so anchored that I am a son of the Living God Jesus Christ lives in me and I'm going to live on this this is how I'm going to walk by my faith I'm going to put my trust in Jesus Christ because he alone can deliver I want to just read I looked at my archive this past week and I just pulled this out out of a whole box this message was preached Sunday a.m. March 23rd 1992 about 18 years ago and I'm reading word-for-word from my notes is what I preached from this pulpit the subject was the coming desolation of America and here's how I ended it here is what the Spirit is saying to the righteous we need not fear when the desolation gums do not be afraid the scripture says a sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it comes for the Lord shall be your confidence he will keep your foot from being taken dear Saints this is your antidote for fear the Bible said men's hearts are going to fail them as they see all the desolations falling on the earth and indeed there will be incredible fear all around the earth but beloved learn this well the same power that God uses to chasten is going to and if the wicked will preserve the righteous we are going to see the warnings of Leviticus 26 Deuteronomy 28 being fulfilled to the letter before our eyes much you you'll be able to say to your soul in spite of all of these if God fulfills his promises of judgment so faithfully how much more I can trust him to be faithful to preserve me by his promises with every piece of bad news crisis God's people must look up and rejoice the power behind it all is my God at work he's keeping his word he will keep my where his word to me the time has come Christ alone will be the only security and hiding place Jesus himself is going to gather up his body of believers he's going to embrace them and pull them into his home had the technique was own heart and habitation and he's telling his people I'm going to hide you from the storm when it rages and a man shall be a hiding place from the wind and a covert from the storm Christ the Lord is the only hiding place you don't need anything else you don't need a nest egg you don't have to have an underground shelter because in Jesus you're safe is you're ever going to get thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble you will compass me about with songs of deliverance and then stand up while I read this last will you stand for in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle so he hide me and he shall establish me upon the rock there's no fear need to fear no need to be distressed because when desolation falls you are going to be hidden in the arms of Jesus 18 years ago raise your hands to say thank you Jesus thank you Holy Spirit for a promise you will hide me in your habitation in your arms safe in the storm take him thank him fear not for I am with you my rod and my staff had comfort me folks I had to go the long route to get to these words of comfort but God has given this church over the years a spirit of faith a spirit of faith to be a testimony to this city hallelujah lord I thank you for the trust and the confidence that we can place in you and have a faith that would take us through the fire and every storm hallelujah folks look at me please this probably been one of the hardest messages for me to ever breach but if it were my last and no when I stand before God I did what God told me to do and nobody's blood will be on my hands I stand before a holy God somebody said my world challenge ministry a very large check and I called him up he's a friend I said and somebody was thanks for the burden you put on me I said how to spend the money is off your hands now it's on mine and I was just kind of joking with him I said now pray for me because I have to stand before God and hey that's a very petty these are godly men this is treason the other one godly board in this church we've always told the truth and sometimes pastor Carter knows that my others are talking to Pastor card about the other day you go home and you rinsed inside and so God I would like to have people just shout and be blessed but then you're going to go outside the door and you're going to turn on the news and you're going to hear something and say Jesus said I told you things beforehand so that when they happen you will know that I spoke I'm not trying to play on your emotions god forbid those are things we we were judged for but God had a reason pastors he had a reason for establishing this church in this city at this time it wasn't a happenstance this was a work of God to put it on Broadway into one of the most spectacular theaters in America now I've never seen people in the last five years especially that come Lister's look up and admire the building they've always honored the word it came forth post car did I scare this congregation do you have witnessed the spirit not for me I don't want to leave this pulpit thinking I brought your spirit down there has to be a quietness there's a strength and quietness I have a peace in me that I want you to know Lord why we opened this message praying give us ears to hear what the spirit says the Lord were to rejoice in you he said when you see all these things begin to happen look up rejoice because you're going home your redemption is near this is a sign of redemption at the door redemption is at the door I'm going to stop I'm going to turn this over to Pastor Carter in other words that Pastor David spoke today were spoken as a spiritual father of this congregation he is the man that God gave the burden to to establish this church is a testimony in this city of the days that were coming but not only the days that were coming but the capability and power of God to keep a people now doesn't mean we won't go through hardship you know that we've spoken that very clearly but in the midst of it all to have that assurance in the heart that nothing has come my way that God hasn't allowed for a reason folks I have found personally that to be a mainstay in my heart as a Christian I have experienced some things that I've not liked I've gone to some places that have not been Pleasant but the knowledge that everything is working together for good I do love God and I'm called it as you are according to his purpose and everywhere we have to go folks without this calamity that we are facing today as a people as a nation as a city without this calamity think of how many would never consider Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior they'd never think about eternity about heaven think about that plane that came down in the river this week if if if that had not happened and people had been not on that particular vehicle they would not have joined in the permitting that started but it was the calamity that turned to good and we pray that they have the sense to realize that their lives have been spared divinely for a specific reason now in the midst of all that's coming our way in the coming days the Lord has sent you and I as a testimony to this city of the key of the fact that God knows everything that is happening and the Lord is well able to keep those who place their confidence in him and you and I have to have that firmness in our step we have to have that deep abiding trust in God because everything that we know might be taken away and it is being taken away gradually but it might in a moment of time get a whole lot worse than it is today but you and I have to have that trust I'm on this earth to glorify Jesus Christ that is number one in your life and in my life and if we will open our hearts and say God in my trial and in my situation Jesus Christ son of God be glorified in me be glorified in me just through the fact that my conversation is not the same as those who are without hope my trust is not placed in anything that I read in the newspaper I see on the news none of these things are governing my life none of these things are forming the testimony of my lips but I have the presence of God in me I have the Christ who created the universe living inside an earthen vessel somewhere along the line the reality of that has got to take hold in us we don't have just a figure of God or just a an idea about God we have the God who created the universe the very God who created the universe has bound his life with yours and with mine and he's promised that he will glorify his name whether that however that happens he's promised I know that some went into the arena in the days of Rome and even though their end seemed to be a difficult one his name was glorified here testimonies of people who stood up in their seats when they saw such courage in the face of such overwhelming adversity and they professed that whatever it is that they believe that is God praise be to God that may be the testimony that some of us have in the coming days blessed be the Lord I'd like Greg thank you for singing that song I'd like to sing that again if we can and those that are going through the trial of your life and you don't see any way out I want to tell you as you heard today Jesus Christ is the way out the promises of God are the way out there might not be physical way out of what you have been called to endure but there is a spiritual way out it's a heart of trusting confidence in God and you can give no greater offering to the Lord today but that you bring this situation you bring your whole future to the altar and lay it on the altar and say Lord if I have only another year to live on this earth let it be one where your name is glorified through me let it be one where there's a song of praise in my heart praise be to God let's sing it again and would you have the courage in the NX you can stand between the screens main sanctuary you can slip out of your seat in the balcony bring your situation to God whatever it is whatever impossibility you are facing whatever fears the enemy is trying to put in front of you bring these things to God and say Lord I trust you I trust that you will not fail me in the midst of everything that's going on in the nation Lord I'm asking you to be glorified in my life would you do that right now wherever you are to slip out of where you are join us at this altar and we're going to pray a prayer of thanksgiving to God he will not fail his people he will not fail his church the gates of hell will never prevail against you praise be to God praise be to God you can start rejoicing even on your way down now you can start thanking them even as you come down you can say Lord thank you God you will not fail me you'll not forsake me and no weapon that's formed against me is going to prosper your life is inside of me and you're going to carry me through even if even if it looks like I'm overcome in the world I'm not overcome in the spirit because God to leave this earth is to be in the presence of Almighty God Father thank you lord thank you giving praise even as you come down I'll give him thanks for his goodness praise be to God two things I'd like us to do today as a congregation those that are at the altar and in the main sanctuary annex would you think Pastor David for being a man of God to has the courage to speak with God we love you brother Dave thank you praise God praise God you pray for every pastor that touches this pulpit not only today but in the days to come that we have the courage to do the same speak every word to you that God is speaking holding nothing back and secondly now I'd like you to thank God because he's going to keep you now keep in mind he told his disciples not one hair of your head would perish but they all died as martyrs you have got to go home and think about that one but he was speaking about something eternal he said I've become I've begun an eternal work in you and even though physically you might have to go through some very difficult things this work does not stop with the demise of your body this is an eternal work that's where Trust really comes into the heart when I begin to realize that in Christ I'm created for God for eternity father we give you praise this morning we thank you Lord for your word we thank you God with everything that is in us in spite of what we're going to face in the coming days Lord you will have a testimony and a song Lord that cannot be taken away by time nor circumstance we thank you God that we can bring to you our circumstances the trials and difficulties that we're facing we can put them safe and square into your hands because Jesus you said that out of the father's hand no man could take us out no on no situation nothing can take us out of the security that is ours in God through Jesus Christ father we thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit now father we ask you for Christ's sake that you would pour out the Holy Spirit on this church on this city on this earth in unprecedented measure we need the Holy Spirit we need your Holy Spirit to get through the coming days we can't do it with any amount of goodwill we can't do it with any amount of self effort it has to be a supernatural empowerment of God to get through these days we cry out to your father Lord this is how Jesus will be glorified in us pour out your Holy Spirit give us strength of God touch every honest heart give us God the strength that we need to glorify you in the coming days turn us from iniquity convict us and convinces of sin God where we're embracing something we shouldn't turn us from it Oh Lord father we thank you Lord this church this chart will be here as a bright and shining star in the midst of Broadway until the day you come and take us home into yourself we thank you Lord that nothing shall prosper against it O God we give you praise and glory for this we thank you Lord for a song appraiser will be sung in this house a song of glory a song of trust a song of Jesus Christ God we thank you we praise you we praise You God with everything that is in us we give you praise and glory for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory both now and forever amen and amen give God a shout of praise in this house give him glory for who he is in what he will do polynomial and God we thank you love of God we praise you Lamb of God with everything that's in our hearts hallelujah oh praise God praise God praise God

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Length: 64min 8sec (3848 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 27 2014