Preparing for the Last Days - David Wilkerson

Lord give us your word now and speak clearly to our hearts Lord we need you you need to hear from heaven and we're trusting you now in Jesus name Amen first Peter fourth chapter first Peter the fourth chapter getting ready for the end of all things first Peter the fourth chapter only just a few verses starting verse 7 please 1st Peter 4 beginning of verse 7 but the end of all things is at hand now that's pretty blunt he gets up before his people and in his letter he writes the end has come he said then be therefore sober and watch unto prayer and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves for charity shall cover the multitude of sins thank you Jesus now in second Peter 1:14 he has just announced the Lord has shown me that I'm going to die Lord has shown me that my time has come and so he comes to the people now as a dying man he comes as if to say I'm soon going to be with my Heavenly Father I'm soon going to be with Christ so I'm going to give you my final word he said I want you to know the end of all things is at hand it's right at hand he said well that was written 2,000 years or so ago but folks if it were true then it's all the more true now at the end of the very last of the last days and he said I'm going to tell you what God expects and what he wants of you I'm going to tell you how to become secure I'm going to tell you how to prepare for the end times and you see he says nothing about the economy he says nothing about the loss of houses and lay he says nothing about where to put your money nothing about safe havens and he comes with this and I got a letter from somebody read one of my prophetic books about how God's going to keep his people in the coming depression and he said I wrote to you Pastor Dave in good faith then I believe that you're an honest righteous man and I asked you where I should put my money and some safe place to put my money because he said really if God's warning us he wouldn't be a very good God if he didn't tell us how to survive and he was trying to put me on the spot and he said I I want to know I don't want any theological cop-out he said that's what you preachers do you pop out and just say go pray because everybody told pray and get the mind of the Holy Ghost for yourself and he said I feel cheated he said I I wanted to hear certainly God would have a word he'd not warn us unless he gave us a way to survive and I get letters like that and already since I mentioned my topic how to prepare for the end of all things some of you it feel like well brother Dave this was an ounce of it well pastor day is going to give us some good advice on where to put our money and help us get fixed for the hard times that have already started that that's a good honest question we all ask those questions but folks this is not going to make sense to you until we get to the last half of the message and you'll see why Peter goes with this message as he says first of all be sober in other words don't panic that's his first advice no matter what happens and there's many Christians right now in panic who have who have believed and testified all their life time that the Lord was their keeper we sing Jehovah Jireh we sing all these wonderful songs about how good god is and I was going to keep us in the hard times there is a human nature in us that responds and we have to bring it under the word we have to bring it under the control of faith but he's saying be sober first of all be sober and the second he says go to prayer he said you you wonder why you're confused you wonder why you're in turmoil you wonder why you're in panic and you're not sober in these times and he's saying the worse it gets blacker the night the more you should be walking in soberness and the peace and the rest of the Holy Ghost that's what he says as hard as that sounds that is that's what I'm telling you God told me before he takes me home I'm telling the Church of Jesus Christ in my day and in the days to come they are going to be hard and difficult times and Peter describes those time mockers and scoffers are going to come they're going to be those preaching deception in our churches they're going to be preachers of publicist miss and materialism he goes on to describe all of those things that are coming in he says don't panic be a peace about it and then he says go to prayer and folks that they're ATS where I go every time fear tries to rise in my spirit every time there's another news report that seems to just be overwhelming I go to the Lord I go to my knees and that's the answer to all the stress problems I just saw in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that all over Wall Street now they have a whole hour and and many of the corporate leaders are are into yoga and into Chinese mantras and they're trying to calm their stress and it in some offices now it's mandatory that you go and take yoga so that you can calm yourself well folks we have a savior we have a promise and we are going to be a testimony that we know how to handle stress we've got a little room we go into it's called the secret closet tell that to the world here here's a world here's a world looking at crystals hoping beings will come out of those crystals and and they're people doing yoga and quoting Chinese mantras that they don't know what means that then you tell them you've got a secret closet where you go and you come out strong and they're gonna say you're crazy it's stupid what do you mean a secret closet well what do you know about yoga I've got somebody that takes all my stress away King of Kings I meet him right in that look you mean you meet God yes we meet God in the secret cause of the prayer and then he he goes on he said in verse 8 and above all things above all things above all preparations above everything you think about how to survive in the end times he said I'm going to give you word and this this is the issue and you have to deal with this and this is mind boggling at first he says above all things have fervent on fire mercy and love for your brothers and sisters he said what are you saying you know if you want to really know what survival is about if you know where God is taking his people you have to have this unconditional love for your brothers and sisters where race has no there's there's no barrier in race you know until this church has over a hundred nationalities of all colors and all nations and I want you to know this church is under attack for that very reason many times we'd not better attack if it were just all white or all black are all Hispanic there are churches like that and thank God for them but this is a special thing that God is doing here in New York City and has done a hundred or more nationalities loving one another without racial prejudice and this is what the Apostle says Peter says this is the issue now that there is a love there's a hut in the front it says Times Square Church the church that love is building it doesn't say the church that loves its building it says a church that love is building hallelujah he says the reason for this is because this kind of love covers a multitude of sins it covers a multitude of sins now here's the issue and I want you to listen very very closely Paul said if you want to be ready for what God is going to do because I'm going to show in just a minute that in the end times that I've already told you I gave away my secret before I started the breach there's coming a latter rain of the Holy Spirit we're going to we're going to go into that and this is where Paul this is where Peters going this is where he's going with this message what are you saying what God is about to do cannot happen it will be hindered unless these things are dealt with in the body of Jesus Christ anything of prejudice any member of the body of Christ now we can't forgive that those who sin against God we can't forgive those sins we can't cover those sins but but he said I can't move the Holy Spirit it is is going to come in a great rain upon this earth he said it can't happen in a church it can't happen among a people where there are those that are holding grudges when there are those who say they love one another but they can common they can worship they can they if they say I'm a part of the body of Jesus Christ here and and yet they come week after week week after week and they have not forgiven they've not forgiven somebody who hurt or wounded them they have not hurt they've they've not resolved this issue it just stays there day after day and week after week and in the Bible says we're not only to forgive but were to cover the sins of those who've sinned against us now it may have been a wife or husband a divorce situation it could have been a church a whole group that wounded you and hurt you it could be an individual or group of individuals it could be a husband a wife it could be family and there are those sitting in this church now and I say it with love and compassion I'm telling you this will hinder what God is going to do in the church it's going to hinder what he wants to do in your life and in your home this has to be dealt with is there anyone that you you have a difficult time forgiving you say well I've forgiven but I can't forget well then you haven't forgiven the Bible says and this love that God expects of us is so vast and so all-encompassing he said now you not only forgive but you do everything you can to cover the sin don't broadcast and this is what happened somebody grieves us someone wants us someone rejects us and we tell it everywhere we get on the phone I just have to get this off my heart you'll never know what they did to me and we name names and we we need places and we go we go down deep into this pit and then we say I'm only telling you this so you can pray with me I'm only telling you this because I'm concerned about them and they may lose the touch of God for what they did to me he should be more concerned about whether you lose the touch of God because you didn't cover the sin I can cover anyone who sins against me I have that authority I have in fact I'm commanded to do just that and that's what the Apostle Peter is saying this love you want to be ready for all things you'll be ready for the coming of Lord you want to be ready when the bottom drops out of everything you want to be ready make sure that you have nothing hindering the flow of the Holy Spirit there's something wonderful coming I don't want to be left out if you avoided me and I don't know about it if you talked about me behind my back and and you wounded me I I'm glad I don't know but I forgive you I don't I don't I can't name a grudge I have against anybody because I know what happens I know I lose the anointing of the Holy Spirit and I know that that I have I have roadblocks I've got stumbling blocks in my life you should be able to sit in this church today and go over in your memory of that thing that is in your heart and some of your visiting hear God speaking to you - who is it who is it that you have such a hard time getting that out of your system you see I just can't I talked to a pastor recently a group of ministers really hurt him and I was aware of the situation hurt him deeply and I talked to him he said you know brother Dave I I've been preaching for years but I just can't forgive them I can't do it and he said my wife will never forgive and she was in deep bitterness this this he said you want to be ready there's a context here in which people a wide context that Peters talking about he's seeing something coming and he wants the church to be ready now if all all you want is for God to give you food and shelter now as a father I want that for my children and grandchildren and and and I want him to provide all my physical needs he's promised to do that you see Peter didn't go there he didn't go there by advice on on physical preparations he didn't go there because you see he knew poverty he knew what it's like no not having a cent a shekel in his pocket because the only money had at times was came out of a fish's mouth that this man had once change of clothes he had one pair of sandals this this man had proven God's faithfulness so that wasn't an issue with him that that he can't even imagine Christians not believing that the Lord would provide I've been down that way he said this is the preparation I want you to talk about I want you to focus on there's an issue here I want you to look into your heart and I your to love even your enemies the scripture says you know Jesus didn't give advice on how to repair physically other than in Jerusalem he said when you see the armies coming free from Jerusalem you don't find him that he says don't give any thought about tomorrow because it's going to take care of itself and I'm going to take care of you don't worry about what you're going to eat what you're going to drink or what how you going to be clothed don't give it any thought you won't find Jesus going there you won't find Peter going there you know the Apostle Paul doesn't go there they had proven God hey you have proven God already you have proven God faithful up to this hour he's never failed you yet he's brought you out of every situation he's taking care of you financially you are not in poverty you have a roof over your head you have food on your table and he's going to see you through [Applause] [Music] all right I want to go into this matter of the spirit coming down and this is this this is the context in which Peter is speaking now he said there's a great rain coming you'll find that all through this New Testament you find it in the prophets especially but there's a prophecy in the Old Testament that there's coming there's been a formal rain of there's Lateran the Bible talks about two rains and and Moses told Israel he said there can be no harvest unless there's an electrolyte of rain the first rain the early rain came in the spring and it watered the sea and the blade and the grass or the forming of it but he said that comes before the harvest before the full grain of corn there has to be another rain it's called the latter rain now years ago there was a Pentecostal movement called themselves the latter rain you know some say they got in I don't know all the circumstances or the the history of that movement and they said it went into error but they they they had a truth they had something from the heart of God and I believe he's going to restore this truth to the Church of Jesus Christ Moses said there's an early rain but there can be no harvest until there's a latter rain here's here's the scripture he will give you the rain in your land in due season the first and the latter rain so you may gather in the corn the wine of the oil he said you'll have you're going to have a rain that ripens the harvest and beloved the early rain came at Pentecost in the Upper Room that was the rain that watered the seed of the word that watered the message of Jesus Christ and it began to grow and spread but now folks in the last days when the world is trembling and gross darkness covers the world there is no way Jesus would come without know he can come at any moment but he promises there will be a latter rain and he says ask rain in the time of the latter rain we're to ask rain the Prophet said you to believe God and ask him and believe that this latter rain is promised in the scripture and that is to come the Prophet Zachariah saw the outpouring of the Spirit and last days he said ask II the Lord rained in the time of the latter rain and the Lord shall make bright clouds and he will give you showers of rain and everyone shall have grass in their field everyone shall have grass there's gonna be a harvest he said there the field is going to be ripe Jesus said they're white unto harvest now Satan knows this he knows what is written in the scripture he knows that there's a tremendous incredible outpouring of the Holy Spirit before the harvest and he's going to come against the Church of Jesus Christ knowing what is coming he saw what happened in the early rain he saw the growth of the church around the world every kindred and every tongue and every nation and he saw the power of the Holy Spirit he saw what happens when the Holy Spirit comes down and so in the latter rain Satan knows what is about to happen folks there's there's no way that the Lord is going to take his church out of this world limping and broken and fearful and just broken in spirit and mind and soul no no no no he's not coming and allow Islam to take over the harvest you're not gonna let anybody the harvest this is the harvest the Bible said is the end of the world and we've come to the end of things we've come the beginning of the end now I don't know how many years I know I'm not going to go to the Prophet prophetic times I don't know that much about what happens after Jesus comes not been a scholar in that at all but I know from what I'm reading in the scriptures and more I read the more my faith rises there is a coming out pouring of the Holy Spirit beyond Pentecost beyond what happened in the Upper Room but you see Peter knew what had to happen that in the early day Pentecost they had what they call waiting on the Lord they in the upper room they waited on the Lord now they weren't waiting just for a calendar date Pentecost was fully come but God was doing something he's doing just what Peter's talking about there had to be forgiveness Peter had to be forgiven because he wounded the body of Christ he wounded every one of them and there had to be an outflow of love in that Upper Room and God's dealing with things Peter could not stand up there and be anointed of the Holy Ghost he can't stand there if people later some of the Apostles and there's James and John who had boasted they were better than the other disciples and had this pride and they're sitting there they have to be cleansed they have to be forgiven by the body of Jesus Christ and their sins have to be covered they have to be able those men have to be able to look at Peter later when the Holy Spirit gives him the authority and he preaches what the Pentecost is all about and there can't be something in their heart whether who made you the leader who made you the pastor who made you who gave you this special anointing no they set back they didn't care who got the honor they knew the Holy Ghost was there and they were covering nobody dare speak against Peter because Peter is safe now in the house of God he's among people who don't blab what Peter did nobody's talking about it in this upper room they're talking about the Holy Ghost and they're getting free because they're loving they're forgiving and they're covering do you understand where Peters going he said there's an outpouring the Holy Spirit and he comes only to those who are prepared they were prepared in the upper room all folks I still believe while waiting on the Lord yes the Holy Ghost was given but there's something about waiting in the presence of the Lord where he's allowed to deal with these issues in our heart and so we can have this forgiveness and we can have this strength and power takes power to forgive it takes even more power and grace to cover somebody's sin after they've wounded or rejected or hurt you I think God wants to pour out his Spirit in this church as we have never known a scene he wants to save multitudes and he's going to do that but first he's coming to purge his body he's coming to cleanse and he's not doing it with a rod or a whip in his hand he's doing it through brokenness and a humble word a compassionate call don't let anything hinder the glory of the Lord that's coming don't let anything hinder the moving of the Holy Spirit in your family don't let anything don't don't be a hindrance to the work of God and what he wants to do well if you belong if you worship here at Times Square Church and you feel this is your church home god help us all help me help every pastor help everyone and acquire an orchestra and everybody in this body to be able to walk through these doors and sit here and raise your hands and worship Him and you know there's nothing there between you and the Lord there's no hindrance that your heart is open and if you if you've been sinning if you failed God you come to the blood of Jesus Christ folks the blood has never lost its power and I have to believe that he will give us through the power of his body it the is not in vain it's not been in vain if there's not a outpouring of the Holy Spirit in these last days while I was there an early Pentecost why was there an early rain look at all these all of these many years since the first outpouring the early rain do you mean to tell me that the Lord when we need the Holy Ghost the most when we need the Holy Ghost to survive daily when we need the power of the Holy Ghost to be his witness but when everything is shaking in the darkness is here we have got to have an anchor the Holy Spirit comes to reveal Christ he comes to dig deep into our spirits to make us vessels made worthy through the righteousness of Jesus Christ hallelujah and what is echo a sin is wake up Church the Holy Spirit and the glory is going to fall upon Nations so many people feel helpless but folks this this can't be worked up this is a prophetic word and you have to allow and ask the Holy Spirit to increase your faith to believe and stand on his word Hagi i stands before a discouraged people they're there remembering the glory of the old temple the old tabernacle is gone and now God is doing a new work and they're building a temple now that seems so insignificant to what God did in the past and they're standing there weeping and the Prophet Haggai I think is in a chapter he says I see you looking at what God is doing here now he said some of you lived then who is 60 to 70 years apart and some of them is still living and when they were young they saw the glory of that first work of God what a great work God did back then you hear that a lot about the revivals of the past what God did back then all the glory we had and all the wonderful meetings we had and people got saved and we carried half the night and and that's wonderful thank God thank God I have those wonderful memories hidden in my heart and the Prophet looked at these people downcast and looking at that and in in he says who's left among you that saw the house in its first glory and how do you see it now is it not in your eyes in comparison as if it's nothing do you understand what this is saying some of us who welcome God for years we remember the Moving's of the holy s--t remember the great things God did but the Prophet Haggai says now look at that you're discouraged and you you you think that this is nothing and that that we are you we're just waning and zeal that there's no glory left and and we've been overwhelmed overwhelmed with the darkness we've been so overwhelmed with what is happening we get overwhelmed at the theory of the devil we get overwhelmed of the homosexual militancy and and our courts making laws that we don't agree with and never asked for never voted for and we get overwhelmed with the fury of Satan among us we get overwhelmed with the darkness overwhelmed with the thought we've sinned away our day of grace overwhelmed with fears and doubts and that's what happened they're saying in their minds are single this is nothing we have nothing to rejoice about God's not doing anything this is so insignificant no Hagee I says fear not when God said this and had got to five my spirit remains among you my spirit is still at work and then he turns to the people says I'm telling you the glory of this house is going to be greater than the first house the rain that's coming is greater than the early rain there's a latter rain so take away that frown lift up holy hands because the rain is coming and God's Spirit is moving and I'm not gonna let the devil and let me be downcast I don't want my eyes on on what God is doing is say it's so insignificant America has not sinned away it's day of grace the world has not sinned away it's day of grace the revival is just begun the rain is beginning to fall hallelujah I got so excited last night because I was reading in the book of Revelation he said first the blade then the ear and then the full corn of the ear see everything's ripening now the scripture says in Revelation 14 15 thrust in the sickle and begin to reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe and then I went on and I read this in Revelation 14 14 the verse prior to what I've just read to you and I got so excited I I went into the bedroom went and was retiring I'd been in my study last night and I said when I'm I am shouting inside and I walked back and forth in our apartment down a street behold he comes in a cloud a crown on his head and a sickle in his hand what's a sickle that long harvesting think that big sharp blade on it where you just mow down the harvest and the Bible says of our Christ ooh yeah he's not there just hoping the Saints he'll hold on he's not there surprised at the darkness behold he comes in a white cloud say it with me a crown on his head and his sickle in his hand that makes me want to jump a crown on his head say it a crown on his head and a sickle in his hand folks it's harvest time on Wall Street in the Bowery uptown downtime New Jersey and all over this nation and around the world don't worry to God harvest time it's beginning to rain do you believe it will you stand do you see what Peter's saying now folks remove everything that hinders because the glory is coming like you've never seen or no experience the glory of the Lord you know what that glory is the manifest presence of Jesus Christ we will know his presence as we've never known it we will know him as we've been ever known him and people are going to be open to the gospel he's going to Mel hard hearts and many others he's going to bring through calamity where they have no place to turn but to God we will be ready where the message of hope and not despair now and prayer I asked the Holy Spirit how I was to close this service and it's simply this Holy Spirit made known to me I don't know how many but in the overflow balcony here in the main auditorium there's some of you here that have a hindrance this thing has become has a stranglehold on you it's a root of bitterness a root and that root has to come out and it's dug in and you you don't want it anymore you want to be free of this you've carried it long enough and I believe God hears when we pray if we agree together two or three agree together concerning anything on earth it shall be done of the Father in heaven and I want to pray with you I want God to remove that hindrance but you have to want it you have to humble yourself that's right humble yourself not caring what anybody says or thinking there has to be something rise up you said I want to walk out of this church today free I want to walk out of this church not this chain on me without this burden you you have felt and seen the agony and if you don't forgive it's going to come around whatever you did comes back in like manner in another way and you face it again and again face it now and that the Holy Spirit brings you to a place of victory and free you and you'll know a freedom and a joy like you haven't experienced in a long time great minister to us for a moment song and I want you to step out if you don't know Christ you could come now and he'll come and reveal himself to your heart and change your life if you've been drifting away from Christ if it back slid into your heart follow these that are coming and the balcony up there gifts go down the stairs on either side and come down these aisles and main don't come just humble yourself and say Pastor Dave I want you to pray for me I want freedom I don't want to carry this burden any long I know that takes a lot of grace but it's that important it's life and death [Music] that's it just follow these that are coming help me to know that you're near do you know that he's near you right now do you know he said my spirit is with you the only spirit hasn't left you Holy Spirit brought you down to the aisle to the front of this church for prayer that's the work of the Holy Spirit he would begin there thanking the Lord for that thank you Lord for your Holy Spirit thank you for loving me and dealing with my heart and look this way for just a minute you took a humble step and boldly to step out and acknowledge your need now you're among friends you're safe in this house nobody's wondering what your problem is or who you've have a struggle with nobody's thinking that they're just anxious for you to come through to victory come through to peace with God will you pray this prayer with me before I pray with you Lord Jesus I do humble myself and come to you for forgiveness Lord I have a problem I have this root in me I'm asking you to pluck it out I'm ask you to forgive me and help me to forgive and cover the sins of all those who have hurt me Lord Jesus I want to be free I want to be free right now so I cast this in your feet I give it to you cleanse me in Jesus name I receive healing of every heart and every root to be plucked out now let me pray for you Lord I know you hear when we pray I know you hear when we cry out to you in our need and I pray Lord that you do that by your spirit right now just move in and among us he said I'm among you i I am with you he said don't be afraid don't be afraid and when we come fear listen you know we come boldly to the throne of grace we ask you Lord to help us to face this and say I don't want it anymore I don't want anything unlike Christ in me I want to be free I want the glory of Christ in my life I want the outpouring of the Holy Spirit I needed new baptism of the Holy Spirit and I need this from you now to Jesus we need to hear from you cleanse and sanctify change us God by your spirit Holy Spirit you have come down and you are breathing on this church and your breathing throughout the land hallelujah hallelujah now just raise a hand or both hands to the Lord and say I believe I believe Lord right from your heart I believe you Lord for cleansing and healing nothing between my soul and my Savior nothing between hallelujah now you can be free right now if you received by faith the word of the Lord you can be free [Applause] [Music] beloved we are for this I close we are delivered we're set free by the word of the Lord accepted and believe by faith if this is your church and if this not if you're visiting from another country if you're visiting from another Church just go to your pastor and say pastor I believe rains coming I believe there's a great harvest and I want to be one of the first to start praying and believe in that direction spread the word hallelujah folks God's about to shut down every so called revival this features of the flesh it's all coming down they're not going to be able to afford it anymore the money's going dry up it's gonna be genuine not going to have any stars no kind of feature any preachers or evangelist gonna be ordinary people just like you definitely just be ordinary people it's going to be people and passes it step out of the way then at the Holy Spirit do his work hallelujah wonderful

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Length: 42min 37sec (2557 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 21 2020