English Christian Sermon : Putting on the Lord by Evg. Daniel Kolenda

introduce the preacher for tonight his name is Daniel kolenda he's my co evangelist and he's the one who will continue to carry that burning button for for the next generation people say how how did you how did you know him well I tell you it's absolutely miraculous it's the Holy Spirit who brought him I didn't even look for a successor but then he just walked into our offices from the street and four years ago we came to know each other closer and we he traveled with me at times and ministered alongside me and I felt he carried the same anointing that I also carry and God uses the same the various God uses him in the same manner as he uses me and the anointing that breaks the yoke is upon him as well so I truly thank God for him he's a real American imagined he's a Floridian and he's a 5 generation preacher not something maybe he tells you something about it 5 generation preacher please welcome evangelist Daniel kolenda hallelujah come on somebody say hallelujah this evening now I know some of you have been here for a long time I know some of you been here since this morning and through the fire conference how many of you have received something today that you will never lose in Jesus name I tell you what I can still feel the residue of that anointing that was released this afternoon and we're gonna flow in it today in Jesus name tonight I am going to preach the gospel now I know that many of you in here are church people I know that some of you are Christians and maybe you feel like the gospel is beneath you but I want to tell you tonight what Paul said that the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness but for us who are being saved it is the power of God now tonight you fit into one of two categories either you need to be saved or you are being saved for those of you that need to get saved I'll tell you another thing Paul said I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation and tonight I believe that this message is the message that will transform this nation you know we've heard a lot even this afternoon in the prophetic word about America being touched it's America's time and I believe that with all my heart that it's America's time but let me tell you what will change America it's not better it's not better Church buildings it's not it's not better dress preachers it's not more pyrotechnics it's not more modern methods it is the preaching of the gospel under the power of the Holy Ghost that's what will change this nation and tonight I want to preach the unadulterated gospel of Jesus Christ and I believe that it has the power today to set you free from every sickness every sin every disease is every bondage every fear in Jesus name and if you will receive what I'm about to tell you tonight I want to promise you something your life will never never never never be the same in Jesus name right now I'd like to ask everyone to stand with me we're going to pray a very simple prayer together in preparation for the Word of God just lift your hands right now and I want you to pray this prayer with me say dear Jesus give me eyes to see give me ears to hear and a heart to respond in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody said amen you may be seated tonight I'm going to be preaching from the text that comes from the book of Genesis chapter 3 beginning in verse 6 if you'd like to turn there Genesis chapter 3 it says and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and that it was a tree to be desired to make one wise she took the fruit thereof and did eat and then she gave him to her husband with her and he did eat and the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked so they sewed fig leaves together everybody say fig leaves and they made themselves aprons and then they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the Lord amongst the trees of the garden and the Lord God called unto Adam and said to him where art thou and he said I heard your voice in the garden but I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid myself skip down to verse 21 unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them that's my text tonight now I want to read one more scripture to you it comes from the book of Romans chapter 13 verse 14 this is my theme Romans chapter 13 verse 14 it says and put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof say Amen tonight I want to talk to you about putting on the Lord Jesus Christ now if you came to me and you said evangelist kolenda I want you to preach the gospel in one sentence I would turn my Bible to the book of Romans chapter 13 verse 14 and read this passage because in it the gospel is contained in one command put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ now we've done a lot of traveling recently you've heard evangelist bunkie and Reverend Peter talk about how we just come from Africa and we're always flying from place to place I told a flight attendant the other day I said I think I fly more than you do and we were sitting there on the the airplane I think we're flying to Africa and here comes a flight attendant walking down the aisle and she's stopping at every seat checking everyone's seatbelts and then she steps up to my seat she looks at me and then she asks me a question sir she said are you wearing your seat belt now I thought that's a funny question she didn't ask me if I believed in seat belts you see if she had asked me that I would have said oh yes ma'am I believe in seat belts I know that seat belts have saved countless lives in the midst of car accidents seat belts are very important but she didn't ask me if I believed in seat belts she also didn't ask me if I appreciated seat belts which I do very much but she didn't seem to be interested in how I felt she just wanted to know one thing are you wearing your seat belt are you wearing it well I looked down and I examined myself and I saw that my seat belt was not fastened so sheepishly I looked back at this lady and I said no ma'am my seat belt is not buckled and that's when her friendly Inquisition turned into a command she pointed her finger at me and she said put on your seat belt and I didn't argue she had the power of the United States government and the airline that she worked for deputizing her to make that command and so without opposition I buckle my seat belt now I'm an evangelist tonight I haven't come here to impress you with big words I haven't come to deliver a can company of hermeneutical mendacity I've just come here tonight to preach you the simple message of the gospel I'm coming to you like a flight attendant as you're on your journey of life and I'm walking down the aisles tonight and I have a question for you are you saved are you sure that you're saved if you die tonight and stood before the throne of God would there be any question in your heart as to whether you're saved have you put on the Lord Jesus Christ and if you're not absolutely sure about any one of these questions tonight I'm going to give you a command it's not a request it's not a suggestion I'm commanding you in the name of Jesus Christ backed and deputized by the power of heaven and the blood of Jesus to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and you all are going to be my fellow evangelists tonight all right maybe you maybe you weren't called to be an evangelist but tonight you are one so I want you to turn to the person on your left and on your right and I want you to say to them point that evangelist finger in their face and say you put on the Lord Jesus Christ amen more evangelist here than I thought praise the Lord now I want to tell you something that you will probably not believed at first because I had a hard time believing it myself but I promise you that this is true I have the newspaper article printed out right here I read in the newspaper a story about a young man he wanted to go skydiving and so he went to skydiving school did you know there was such a thing he took the skydiving class and at the end of the class they gave him a certificate he was so happy he graduated from skydiving school he went out he bought all kinds of new gear there he had a jacket for his skydive he had new goggles for his skydive he had a helmet for his skydive in fact he even went out and bought a brand new camera for his skydive finally the big day came he went down to the airport he got in the airplane and it took off climbing in the air higher and higher until it reached 10,000 feet and there one by one all of these skydivers were barreling out the door Geronimo it came time for this young man he put his goggles down on his eyes he grabbed his camera he ran and he jumped out of that airplane it was the greatest experience of his life he was falling from 9,000 or 10,000 to 9,000 to 8,000 he was videotaping this entire adventure to show all of his friends and probably to put on YouTube when he got home the time finally came for him to pull the ripcord and come down safely but when he reached for it he made a discovery he had forgotten to put on his parachute I am not kidding you this young man fell to his death because he forgot the most important thing he could have thought of in that entire day he had his helmet but how many of you know that a helmet without a parachute is nothing more than a soup bowl he had his new goggles he had his new outfit but the one thing that mattered most he forgot now many of you are sitting here tonight thinking to yourself what an idiot who could possibly do something so ridiculous but before you judge that young man I want to tell you something every day across this nation and across this world people do something infinitely more foolish every day people are jumping into eternity without Jesus Christ if you jump out of an airplane without a parachute when you hit that ground you're gonna splat like a bug on a windshield but if you jump into eternity without Jesus Christ my brothers and sisters you will split hell wide open because there is only one name given under heaven whereby men might be saved and it is the name of Jesus Christ let me tell you another thing that's a more foolish than jumping out of an airplane without a parachute if you walk out of this building tonight without having put on the Lord Jesus Christ I say you are more foolish than that skydiver was because you are not guaranteed that you will make it home tonight from this building you have no promise that your eyes will open tomorrow morning to see the light of another day you aren't promised another heartbeat every one of us every moment of our lives is only one heartbeat away from eternity and for you to go one more day one more hour one more evening without having put on the Lord Jesus Christ your only safeguard you're more foolish than that skydiver tonight say Amen now at the beginning of my message I read to you the text for tonight comes from the book of Genesis chapter 3 and it's a story about the fall of mankind when Adam and Eve first sinned there in the Garden of Eden they had never sinned before and when they disobeyed God when sin entered into the human race suddenly Adam and Eve felt something that they had never experienced before in their lives it was a terrible thing it was more than just a feeling it was more than just a pain it was coming from the pit of their stomachs it was annoying at their soul they never felt something so uncomfortable before it was the incredible weight of the guilt that sin brings my friend sin and shame and guilt always go together in fact they were so ashamed that the Bible says that the made the reaction was to go out and to hide themselves what did they do well they found some fig leaves there and there they stitched those who fig leaves together and made for themselves aprons and then they went and hid themselves among the trees of the garden when they heard God coming now God was their friend God had given them every good and perfect gift God had given them this wonderful world of pleasures to enjoy and the Bible says that every day God would come down in the cool of the day to walk and talk and commune with his two people Adam and Eve but when sin entered the picture when they felt that terrible weight of guilt in their lives they couldn't face God anymore God had become their enemy they hid themselves from his face they cover themselves with the works of their own hands my friend there's somebody here tonight that you are you feel so guilty that you don't even want to pray your sin has weighed on your soul to such an stent that you don't want to go to church anymore even tonight as you sit here you're squirming in your seat you feel uncomfortable maybe your heart is pounding because you feel the weight of that guilt and the greatest a desire that you have is just to keep it covered to keep it suppressed to keep it subdued my friend I was reading a couple of papers by psychiatrists and I found something amazing they were talking about the incredible effects that guilt has on people and and all of these psychiatrists seem to have a consensus that somewhere between 70 to 90% of all mental illnesses of people that are right now locked up in mental institutions could be cured if those people could just find a way to get rid of the incredible guilt that weighs them down every day every year thousands and thousands of Americans commit suicide because they're so ashamed they feel unable to face the world they don't want to show their faces they live with guilt and shame and so what do people do when they feel guilty well they try to cover that guilt how do they do it with smiles with positions with jokes with appearance just like Adam and Eve covered themselves with those fig leaves but underneath the facade those people are dying inside their hearts are burdened bleeding and broken imagine that you have a table that's a family heirloom it's been passed down from generation to generation it's the most prized pieces of furniture in your entire house it's made of an antique wood it was your great-great grandmother's and you value this beautiful table above every other piece of furniture one day one of your children comes out comes inside from playing and with him he brings a leaky car battery and puts it on your table by the time you discover it that acid has eaten a hole through your beautiful antique family heirloom when you discover it you're horrified but there's nothing you can do so what will be the solution you'll go out and you'll buy a tablecloth and you'll cover up that table when your friends come over they'll say wow what a beautiful table you have you'll smile you'll nod your head but underneath you know that there is a catastrophe underneath the tablecloth this is what happened with Adam and Eve they tried to cover up the catastrophe this is what happens with so many of us we try to cover up the catastrophe there was a series not too long ago on NBC and Dateline you probably heard of it because it was very famous it was called to catch a predator how many of you ever saw that show and I remember watching an episode where they had a man who worked for the court system a very a very respected man in the community right outside of Dallas here a very respected man in the community now if you saw this show you know that what would happen is that the producers of Dateline would get on the internet and try to lure Internet pedophiles and predators and arrest them and so what they had done is they had they had found this man online and they lured him into a location where they could expose him he thought he was going to meet an underage boy when he arrived at the house he went inside he heard the voice coming from another room and this man this very prestigious respected man began to disrobe in the living room of that house suddenly out from a back room come two cameras out come the lights out come microphones out comes Chris Hansen suddenly this man whose sin was hidden in the cover of darkness he thought no one would ever know about it suddenly was being broadcast on national television suddenly it was primetime news this man was so ashamed he fell down on the ground he began to weep he began to cry he was begging for mercy but there was no mercy to be found in that moment I would that that man would have preferred for a mountain to have fallen on top of him to hide him from the eyes of the world he would have welcomed an avalanche covering him up just to hide the guilt and the shame that he felt in that moment so great was his guilt that a few days later they found this man in his house he had committed suicide he was dead as a result of that incredible guilt in his soul now I want to ask you a question what if we could bring the cameras of Dateline into the private chambers of your heart what if we could expose your most personal intimate sins to the world what if suddenly tonight the whole world knew the most dark secret in your soul my friend you'd want to crawl under the seat tonight what if on these big screens here suddenly those moments you thought no one would ever know about suddenly they're published to the world my friend that incredible sense of guilt and shame would cause you to want a mountain or an avalanche to cover you up but I want to tell you something there is a day coming when you are gonna stand before the throne of God and on that day my friend the eyes of God that burn like fire are gonna peer into your soul and on that day everything you've done in the body is going to be exposed everything is going to be judged nothing will be covered everything will be exposed you won't be able to hide from the eyes of the Almighty with whom we have to do and the Bible says that there are many people on that day they're gonna call on the mountains they're going to say to the mountains cover us to the rocks hide us from the eyes of the one who sits upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb my friends that day is coming for every person within the sound of my voice be sure your sins will find you out that guilt that's in your soul I want to tell you it's not a bad thing but it guarantees you even if you're the most hardened skeptic even if you are the most skeptical agnostic or atheist that guilt is a voice inside your heart that tells you you're not gonna get away with anything your sins will find you out one day so what do we do with that guilt my friend the guilt is god-given God has put it in you for the same reason that we put warning lights on the dashboard of our vehicles they tell us that there is a problem and when we see there's a problem we'll take those vehicles into the shop to get fixed tonight that guilt inside of your soul that sense of shame is a warning light going off inside of you it's prompting you to take action it's prompting you to do something about the condition of your soul so maybe you say tonight evangelist what must I do to be saved what should I do about this well I'm glad you asked let's see the solution that God gave to Adam and Eve the Bible says that God made goats for them out of skins and clothed them this is what God did he rejected their fig leave garments he went out and he found an animal never Bible doesn't say what kind of animal it is but I'm pretty sure it was a lamb he went out and he found a perfect spotless lamb he killed it and he took the skin of that innocent animal and covered the shame and the sin and the guilt of Adam and Eve let me put it this way God covered Adam and Eve with the ultimate sacrifice of an innocent other being that lamb now the lamb and that whole story God put it there because it is a picture of Jesus Christ you see John the Baptist thousands of years later standing in the banks of the Jordan River looked up and saw Jesus and he declared behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world Jesus came into this world the perfect the spotless Lamb of God he died upon the cross for your sins and for mine the Bible says that it pleased God to bruise him we thought that he was despised and rejected of men smitten of God and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the punishment of all of our sins was laid upon him and by His stripes we are healed come on say Amen Jesus was that lamb Jesus is that lamb tonight the covering that God offers you is the ultimate sacrifice of an innocent other that innocent other is Jesus Christ his spotlessness his righteousness his holiness can be yours tonight but it's not just gonna cover you like that tablecloth covers the hole on the table you see God doesn't just come to you and put a bandaid on your festering wound the covering that he's going to give you tonight is complete replacement it's a complete replacement the old goes out the new comes in if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things have passed away behold all things have become new in the Bible it tells us that all of our righteousness is like filthy rags if you could see into the spirit world tonight and see every person in this room in their natural fallen condition this is what it would look like we would all be wearing mud stain dripped stinking rags that's what the Bible says even our best works even the best that we have to offer God is nothing but filthy rags but then the Bible tells us something else that God made Jesus who didn't know sin to become sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God can't you see it tonight it's an exchange God says give me your rags and I will give you my righteousness give me your sin I'll give you holiness give me your shame I'll give you my dignity give me our darkness I'll give you light give me your chains I'll give you freedom give me your troubled mind I'll give you peace that is the gospel of Jesus Christ my friend when you put on the Lord Jesus Christ this is the good news God never ever sees your filthy rags again when you put on the Lord Jesus Christ your sins are washed away he separates them from you as far as the East is separated from the from the West he takes those sins and he buries them in the sea in the sea of his forgetfulness they will never rear their ugly heads again those skeletons in your closet will never be resurrected they'll be swept out of your life forever and for eternity God covers and wipes and washes away every sin by the power of the blood of Jesus there's a story in the Bible about a wedding feast and I find this story amazing because I don't understand people who don't receive the gospel imagine tonight how many of you have ever been on at a restaurant in times comes time to pay for the bill and then you reach in your pocket and you realize you forgot your wallet anybody ever been there except me or you realize that you didn't bring enough cash and when that happens if you're there with a true friend that friend will look at you and you'll say don't worry about it I've got you covered I've got you covered now you can you can say no thanks I'm gonna go wash dishes in the kitchen until midnight you can do that if you want to but why don't you just humble yourself and receive the gift that your friend is extending to you my friend this the gospel is so amazing because Jesus has looked at you he has seen that you have a debt that you are unable to pay and this is what he says to you I've got it covered I've got it covered you don't have to go and work in the kitchen you don't have to burn in hell for eternity you don't have to carry the weight of those sins on your shoulders anymore you don't have to suffer with those addictions anymore Jesus will give you peace and freedom tonight he extends it to you and yet the incredible thing is some people still resist I'll never understand it as long as I live listen to this story that Jesus told in Matthew chapter 22 it was about a king who held a marriage feast for his son and the king sent out invitations but the people that received those original invitations they all were too busy they all had better things going on and so they rejected the invitations so in verse 11 the king or verse number 9 the king says go therefore to the main highways and as many as you can find invite them to come into the wedding Pete feast those slaves went out into the streets and they gathered together all that they found evil and good and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests but when the king came to look over the dinner guests he saw there a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes he said to him friend how is it that you came in here without wedding clothes and the man was speechless the King said to his servants bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth for many are called but few are chosen now you know the King had sent out those invitations to all the poor people and in came the lame the halt the blind the beggars the vagabonds the whole they were filling that that banquet-hall and then when the King found one of these poor people that wasn't dressed in a tuxedo he said friend why didn't you come in here without the appropriate attire now at first glance you might think to yourself why was this King so abrupt I mean after all this is a poor peasant that he is invited in off the streets who expects a vagabond to have a three-piece suit can I tell you why the King was so upset because the King had provided the wedding garments the King had given them to every person who came he offered it to them freely he had purchased it with his own money he extended it to them but this man refused to put it on tonight I want you to one more time take that evangelist finger come on get it out everybody pointing at the person that you're riding your left and tell him again say put on the Lord Jesus Christ put it on tonight would you dare to appear before the Almighty in your fig leaves when he has paid for your wedding garments with the blood of his son when Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice so that you could be clothed in righteousness what a slap in the face of the Almighty to reject such a gift my friend tonight the gospel is not a good suggestion these garments that I'm speaking about are not just a good idea this is the command from the throne of God this is the gospel imperative this is the gospel ultimatum put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ tonight amen and I love how that verse ends it says for many are called but few are what that verse also translates this way listen very carefully for many are called but few make a choice many are called but few make a choice everyone of course wants to sit at the table of the Lord everyone wants to taste the goodness of God everyone wants to be blessed but this evening it's not automatic it's not good enough that Jesus died on the cross it's not good enough that your salvation has been purchased it's not good enough that you have received a letter from the governor that says you're pardoned there's still something you've got to do you've got to make a choice you've got to put it on tonight and what is the choice that everybody in here needs to make this is the choice you've got to take off the old to put on the new the Bible says that Adam and Eve made for this themselves aprons with those fig leaves aprons an apron doesn't cover very much does it I'm sure that Adam and Eve thought that they were dressed in Gucci they thought they were wearing Armani but my friends I have to tell you I'm sure they looked pretty ridiculous why were they so confident in those garments while I'm sure that Adam looked over at Evy said what do you think Eve Eve looked at him and she said you know it's not a bad look at him I'm glad to see you're taking care of yourself more seems you've turned over a new leaf that was corny wasn't it Eve said well what do you think about my outfit Adam and Adam probably did what most of you men do when your wife asks you that same question after she buys a new dress he said honey it's beautiful it's you you couldn't look better but my friends you know whether a mistake came in they were listening to the opinions of a man they were comparing themselves to each other they were looking to each other and this is what so many people do they look at somebody else and they say well I'm not as is that person they say well this person thinks I'm pretty great we listen to what society tells us we listen to what culture tells us if culture tells us this is okay or this is normal or that's good then we accept it but my friends it doesn't matter what Adam says it doesn't matter what Eve says there are only one set of eyes that matter tonight there's only one opinion that matters and it's the one that comes from heaven what does God think he sees even your best even your most righteous deeds as filthy rags as insufficient you know I got a chance several years ago to hear Elizabeth Elliott who was the wife of the famous missionary Jim Eliot who went to Ecuador and preached to the angka Indians he was murdered he was martyred there for the gospel and then Elizabeth went back several years later and she was able to win that entire tribe to Jesus and I heard her speaking about the the the natives that were there in this tribe she said that they used to wear a string around their waist all of them they all would get up in the morning and put a string around their waist and one day she asked these these naked natives she said why do you wear this string around there around your waist and you know what they said to her they said if we take off the string will be naked somehow that string provided for them a sense of safety somehow they felt covered but my friend any honest person looking at those people would say that string doesn't nothing for you it covers a nothing it solves no problems in fact of anything it just makes it worse this smoke this evening when you stand before God and he looks at those fig leaves that you've designed for yourself the best that you have to offer it's nothing more than a string around your waist it covers nothing it solves no problems so what do we need to do tonight we need to make a choice and the choice is to rip off those old fig leaves before the Lord some of you tonight are wearing fig leaves made out of pride I'll tell you pride is probably the most damning sin of all pride is what turned an angel into a devil it turned Lucifer the Archangel into Satan pride will make you sit here tonight and say I'm not gonna go for when the altar call is given because I'm worried about this what this person or that person will think pride is what will make you say I'm gonna go back to my house and then I'm gonna pray I'm not gonna respond to the gospel tonight I'll do it later in secret and quiet pride is what makes you worry about what someone else thinks about you more than the way God thinks about you and tonight my friends pride will send your soul to hell tonight you need to rip off those fig leaves of Pride and you need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ some of you are wearing fig leaves of self-righteousness you know hell is going to be full of church-going people hell is going to be full of some of the people that looked the most spiritual on the outside some of the most pious some of the most religious some of the most liturgical people are gonna go to hell because I don't care what church you go to that church cannot save you I don't care how many candles you like those candles will not save you I don't care how many Hail Marys you say those Hail Marys will not save you no religious trapping no liturgical practice can save your soul only Jesus can only Jesus can only his blood there is no other answer only through Jesus some of you go to church every week and you think that being in church makes you a Christian my friend listen being in church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in McDonald's makes you a hamburger [Applause] I'm not telling you to be saved by going to a church I'm not telling you to be saved by being a religious person maybe you say evangelist kolenda I'm not a very religious person don't worry I'm not religious either you don't need to be religious to be saved what you need is Jesus you need to put on Jesus you need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and some of you tonight you need to rip off those those rags of religiosity you need to pull off those rags of self-righteousness you think you're so holy you think you're so good you think you don't need a Savior but my friend Jesus came to save sinners amen some of you are wearing fig leaves of excuses tonight you know if you try hard enough you can always find someone to blame all of your problems blame it on your parents blame it on your teachers blame it on your genes believe it blame it on society blame it on culture but my friend all of these excuses are what the prophet called a refuge of lies a refuge of lies they give you a sense of security but inside of them you are a prisoner I had one man that came up to me after a meeting he said he said I have a problem and I need you to pray for me he said I'm addicted to pornography and I can't get free from it but he said the problem is that the pornography is my escape it's my way of escaping and he kept saying escape escape escape and it suddenly occurred to me you don't escape by running into prison his escape was just a refuge of lies it was a prison for him and for many people those excuses have become to you a refuge of lies they become a prison around your soul tonight it's time to rip off the fig leaves of excuses don't blame it on your mother don't blame it on your father don't blame it on your pastor don't blame it on your teacher don't blame it on your genetic disposition come to Jesus and expose it before him and he save you and set you free tonight David was a man after God's own heart but David committed a terrible sin there he was standing on the top of his house and he looked they saw a woman bathing and he began to lust for her in his heart he proceeded to commit adultery with Bathsheba and then to cover up his sin he had her husband murdered one of the most despicable stories that we can read in the Bible of course if you know the story you know that there was a time where the prophet Nathan came to David and exposed David's sins and then he repented but I want you to listen to Psalms 32 David was a man who knew what guilt felt like he knew what sin felt like he knew what it was like to carry that weight on his shoulders day after day after day and he knew what it was like to be set free I want you to hear his words in Psalms chapter 32 he said how blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered how blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit when I kept silent about my sin my body wasted away through my groanings all day long day and night your hand was heavy upon me my vitality was drained away as with a fever heat of summer but then I acknowledged my sin to you and my iniquity I did not hide listen to this I acknowledged my sin my iniquity I did not hide and I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and he did forgive me of the guilt of my sin Selah David said blessed is the man whose sin is covered but before David could get his sin covered there was something that he had to do he had to uncover himself my friend if you want the blood of Jesus to cover you tonight if you want the righteousness of God to cover you tonight if you want that guilt in that shame and that sin to be covered and washed and forgiven there is something you need to do you need to make a choice just like David did and you have to say I'm not gonna cover the sin anymore I'm not gonna hide it anymore under my fig leaves I'm not gonna hide behind the bushes anymore tonight I'm gonna come out in the open before the Lord I'm gonna expose the sinfulness of my heart I'm gonna expose the nakedness of my soul and when you do that my friends God will reach down he will cover you with his righteousness and he will set you free when Adam and Eve heard the voice of God they were afraid but when they finally came out from behind the bush God was standing there not with a sword to strike them down but with brand new garments to wrap them in my friend Jesus Christ has not come to condemn the world but he has come that the world through him might be saved Jesus did not come to shame you he came to save you he came to cover you he came to set you free tonight it's time to be like that little boy that knelt by his bedside and prayed and said Lord I'm here to turn myself in my friends tonight we're going to turn ourselves in before the Lord and he's going to cover us in his righteousness right now I want everyone in this place to stand with every head bowed and every eye closed I want to ask you a question this is the most serious question any person will ever ask you so I want no one moving around at this time no one making any noise this is a solemn and holy moment before the Lord if you would say tonight brother Daniel I'm not sure about the state of my soul I'm not sure that if I were to die tonight I would make my home in heaven I'm not sure that that I've been set free from my sin and my addiction in my bondages and if you would say tonight I want to repent of my sin I want to open it up before the Lord I want to expose everything to him tonight and I want to repent of my sins and receive the blood of Jesus that covers me from all my sin if that's you tonight I want you just to lift your hand up right now all over this place praise the Lord all over this place up in the balcony thank you for those hands the Lord sees you he sees your heart praise the Lord praise the Lord I tell you there's gonna be great rejoicing in heaven tonight this is what I want you to do right now I'm not this is not to embarrass you but right now I want you to step out from wherever you're seated and come to the front of this auditorium right now everybody don't hesitate don't wait just come now come now in Jesus name amen [Applause] thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus every sing will be forgiven every bondage will be broken every impurity will be washed away tonight you a peace with God in Jesus name that is the message of the gospel thank you Jesus thank you Jesus continue to come I'm waiting for all of those that are coming from the balcony we'll wait for you there's time there's time we welcome you we welcome you tonight come to the foot of the cross Jesus is waiting here his arms are outstretched to you his mercy is extended to you hallelujah I want to do one more thing tonight as an evangelist type there are times when I feel that tugging in my heart I can feel that there is a war going on in people's hearts and in people's souls tonight I can feel that some of you are struggling inside can sense it in fact there's certain ones of you I could point my finger right at you and I could tell you you need to surrender you need to stop fighting this there are some of you that have that have sinned so often you've turned your back on God so often and tonight I sense the Lord saying this is your last chance this is your last chance he's given you time and time and time again to repent tonight is your last opportunity you know they say about a person drowning that he'll go underwater at one time and come up again he'll go under a second time and he'll come up again but if he goes down that third time you'll never see him again except as a corpse there are some of you you've gone under once and you come up you've gone under twice and the Lord has given you another chance but my friend if you do not receive the gospel tonight if you reject the free gift of God tonight you will not receive another chance you will not come up for air at another time this is it today is the day of salvation now is the accepted time tonight you need to respond to the gospel in Jesus name this is what I want you to do I want every person to turn to the person on their left and on the right and I want you to ask them there is simply just say do you need to be down at that altar and if they need to be there I want you to take them by the hand and bring them down ask right now left and right do you need to be down at that altar come on if they need to be here just take them by the hand and bring them the arms of Jesus are open wide you're welcome come on can we just put our hands together for these that are coming god bless you guys hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the mercies of God are flowing in this place tonight the mercies of God the mercies of God I want everyone just to lift your hands right now we're gonna pray I'm gonna pray a prayer and I want you to repeat it after me and I want everyone to pray this prayer with all of your heart especially those that are at the altar if you will pray with all that's in you if you will mean it with the sincerity of your heart the Bible says that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved tonight the hand of Jesus will reach to you he will rescue you he will clothe you in his righteousness he will change your life right now everybody say dear Lord Jesus I stand before you a sinner in need of salvation a sinner in need of mercy a sinner in need of your covering Lord tonight I repent of all of my sins I repent of my pride I repent of my self-righteousness I lay down every excuse and I bend my knee at the foot of the cross tonight Lord Jesus wash me in your precious blood forgive my sins remove my guilt and clothe me in your righteousness tonight I receive it I believe it and I confess it I am yours and you are mine in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody said and then amen amen 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Channel: Your Living Manna

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Keywords: Christian, Bible, Study, Sermon, Pentecostal, Jesus, Spiritual, Devotional, yourlivingmanna, livingmanna, religion, gospel, preaching, jesus christ, worship, praise, christianity, inspirational, speech, talk, spirituality, holy, spirit, pastor, lord, ministry, salvation, word, truth, grace, ministries, revival

Id: OxMoeK_L590

Length: 54min 5sec (3245 seconds)

Published: Wed May 25 2011