Rev.David Wilkerson - The Awful Consecuences Of Backsliding

art you knew who would be here tonight you know exactly what is needed and I pray Lord that your spirit come upon me now from the top of my head to the soles of my feet I take your authority over every evil spirit there is nothing from Hell there is nothing from the devil there's nothing from mankind that can hinder the Word of the Living God when God determines to work so touch me that the fire of God come down tonight thank you for your presence tonight Holy Spirit making Jesus known to us real to us now bring the word Oh God bring people back tonight those have been drifting those have been back slidden bring them back tonight we pray in Jesus name Amen you that love the Lord this message is not for you but we want you to pray there are many here tonight the need hear this word this is a good tape you'll be able to give to backsliders lady we're not trying to sell them and by the way the tape from this morning we decided to to make them anyhow so they'll be available to you when a week or so down the road the awful consequences of backsliding God said to the Prophet Hosea my people are bent in backsliding from me and what that means in Hebrew my people habitually they have a habit of drifting away from me turning their backs on me he said my people have always had that tendency that's a habit with my people that's the habit of all of Israel you read to history and the story of Israel one generation after another backsliding I heard a preacher say backsliding is not in the Bible then he didn't know his Bible it's all through the scripture the heart cry of Jeremiah was turned back Israel turned back to the Lord Oh backsliding Israel for the Lord is married to you I Israel and Judah habitually back slid from God and Jeremiah all through the Book of Jeremiah you hear him cry O Lord our iniquities testify against us our backslidings are so many we have sinned against the Oh God Jeremiah 5 6 Jerusalem's transgressions are many and their backslidings increasing the backslidings increasing you find this term all through the Bible backsliding turning back on God God's people mostly backslide in times of prosperity and blessing when God is blessing you you've got his favor that's the time to be where that's the time that backsliding usually comes to God's people listen to it how shall I pardon thee for this like children have forsaken me they sworn by those that are not gods when I fed them to the full then they committed adultery they have dealt very treacherously against me saith the Lord they've backslidden against me when I fed them to the fool i blessed them i favored them and then they turned their back on me Jeremiah describes perfectly who the backslider is the backslide whether it's a he or she is that child of God who has enjoyed the blessing in favor of the Lord someone who's walked with God devoted loved the Word of God loved to pray walked in holiness gentle kind perhaps someone who said I'm going to always serve him with all my heart but now something has drawn the heart away there's no more genuine love the heart has grown cold and love toward the Lord they no longer seek Him they no longer go to his word prayer is gone they become foolish they're without understanding their conversation changes they don't talk the way they used to talk there's a hard time getting them into the house of God they don't testify of the love of Jesus to their friends or their co-workers anymore they have shown cold and backslidden from the Lord and the Bible makes it clear and listen very closely Bible says it's a very evil and bitter thing to backslide against the Lord their own wickedness shall correct them their backsliding shall reprove them know therefore and see that it's an evil thing and a bitter thing that you have forsaken the Lord your God and that his fear is no longer in you said the Lord of Hosts he said I planted you as a noble vine I planted you holy as a right seed how then have you turned away from me and become a general plant of a strange vine unto me that says how could you walked away from me when I planted you and I tried to establish you and you've turned away from me now Jonah is the type of the backslider in the Word of God and I want you to go to the Book of Jonah and we're going to look at this backslider and I'll tell you what get the Book of Jonah and just leave it open on your lap please Book of Jonah and leave it open while I talk to you about the awful consequences of backsliding you know the story look this way for just a moment here's a prophet of God he's called of God he loves God he is walking close enough to God that God could speak to his heart and tell him to go to a wicked City and wake it up he said rise and go to Nineveh that wicked City and prophesy against it folks listen to me this is a man of God Jonah nobody gets that kind of a call unless he's walking close to Lord he had to be standing in the presence of God and God says him you go now and you preach repent or perish arise go to Nineveh now instead of a rising and going to Nineveh he arises and goes to Joppa about 35 miles north of Jerusalem a seaport town and he buys a ticket on a cargo ship headed for Tarsus you've heard of this in the Bible of the ships of tarshish Tarsus means prosperity success and power how many people do you know that have boarded a shift toward Tarsus that's the whole mindset now to get prosperity wealth and success in an amazing that this man of God would buy a ticket and he goes into the down into the hold of the ship where the cargo is maybe way up in the stern of the boat and he crawls up in a blanket and he falls asleep now folks somewhere I don't know how long it took it doesn't say when the storm hit but there was a storm that God had arranged to come to that Mediterranean Sea and I want you to see we know this story and we know that Jonah sleeps through a storm because God Himself sent a mighty hurricane and wasn't sent from the devil God stirred up the whole storm to get to one man who's in disobedience one man who's backsliding I don't know how perhaps it was the first week this is probably a three to four which we trip in the Mediterranean those old sailboats they're there on a trade route there are other boats coming and going on this trade route to Tarsus these ships of Tarsus went back and forth that was in Spain that left from Joppa near Israel and from other Seaport towns from from Greece and Turkey and all of those seaports Macedonia and they would go to Tarsus and back Tarsus is where they smelted led they smelled it other coppers and so forth and they took these metals all over the Mediterranean and this storm hits out of nowhere and that boat begins to toss the rudder is useless the sails are ripped apart and the sailors are crying out to their gods I pictured these seasoned sailors they've never been in a storm like this they know it's something beyond they've never seen it's a hurricane beyond all hurricanes and that wooden boat is being tossed it shipped it's being tossed everywhere they go down in the hold of the boat and they get up out of the car they take all the cargo and throw it overboard to lighten it that that boat that ship is being tossed to and fro I can picture those sailors going into their duffle bags and pulling out their little little silver and gold God's some of them have ivory guards and they're standing there kissing their gods I've seen people like that in trouble kissing the crucifix holding the crucifix and kissing the little crucifix I've seen people they used to have these little things on the dashboard these little angels and before they take a trip to kiss the angel I can see these sages these sailors keep kissing everything that they think is divine I mean they are crying they are praying backslider I want to tell you something Jonah is in the belly of that ship sleeping through this Thor somehow he misses even all the racket of them going down into the cargo where he's at the cargo bay and they're removing all this and they're screaming and they're praying and somehow they miss him and he's down there fast asleep now I won't tell you that's not the sleep of unconcern that's not the sleep of a lazy man it's another kind of sleep it's the sleep of sorrow it's a man who knows he's running from God it's a man who knows that his top his conscience is troubled he knows that he has no future he has ruined his ministry everything is gone he's made the wrong move he is moving away from God he's in the midst of a ship absolutely running from God his conscience is pounding him he's probably had a week or two on that boat saying what am I doing here how could I have done this I've made a wrong decision but I've turned my back on the Lord I've turned my back on the call of God and this man has had probably a week or two battling in his conscience and he's weary and he's warned folks I'll tell you it's a terrible thing to have to fight a conscience that God has got to hold up it's a terrible thing to try to sleep at night when you know you're running from God and you remember being in the house of God you remember being meetings just like this you were on fire for God you loved the Lord and he called you put his hand on you and here you are now trying to go to bed at night because you have compromised and you've turned your back and you're running away from the Lord you saw I asleep brother Dave though my Bible says there's no rest to the wicked there's no rest oh you may sleep and I'll tell you what is the sleep of a condemned person condemned by your conscience saying do you remember his touch do you remember his arms around you do you remember his love do you remember that he has a city prepared for you do you remember all the promises he made to you do you remember what it was like to be so close to him all this man was sleeping bill was asleep of sorrow man wore him out his conscience and worn out he's worn out by shin he's won about we're not replaying it he's worn out knowing that that his reputation is gone everything he blew it oh there are a lot of people that have that deep sleep upon them they're just in some kind of a daze now do you think for a minute that God's going to stand by and let the devil take you away from him do you think for one minute that Lord just going to sit by well while the devil comes with with all kinds of temptations it tries to get you away from him he BOTS you with his own blood he's not about to sit by idly and let you go he'd go to store he going to send a storm into your life and get you back mm-hmm go what go sit back and let his man run he never sits back and lets his people run Oh folks I'm Taysom there are three awful consequences that you have to understand if you are running from God if you're backslidden or you the devil been trying to get you to backslide I want you to hear me as you've never heard any preacher in your lifetime consequence number one of backsliding when you backslide you become one of the most dangerous persons on earth I don't want to be near you Jona the moment he stepped on that vote was the most dangerous man in the Mediterranean because God was after him every sailor who sailed with him is in danger I don't know how many votes got tossed on that trade route not only that boat but all the boats coming and going and there could have been hundreds of sailors weeping and crying because you see when you run from God when you backslide you can't say this is just my sin this is my problem I'm hurting nobody but myself I've heard that from drug addicts all my life alcoholics prostitutes it's my body I'm only hurting myself nobody else is my problem oh no it's not just your problem it's the problem of everybody that lives with you walks with you and knows you you're a dangerous person because God's after you not to hurt you but all your going to go through it the Lord sent a great wind the captain goes down I don't know why it probably going down to expect the beams of the boat to see if it still hold together to see how much water they're taking on the waves are coming over the boat the rudder is useless there's no sails left and he looks up way up there in astana there's a man rolled up in a ball snoring you know something God may have a controversy with one sinner one facts liar and affects so many people while he's dealing with him a lady wrote to me recently she said Pastor David my preacher dad back slid he resigned his church and he left mom his wife and my mother and picked up with some ungodly woman absolutely Baxley not only did he backslide but he caused all my brothers and sisters to backslide and she said brother Dave most me telling me I'm a phony and I need to stick with my family and my father's trying to get me to backslide she said thank God he hasn't touched me God's been keeping me you see when you backslide you don't only affect yourself you expect you affect the whole family here's a father and a husband who's been delivered from drugs for example and the Lord touches his life begins to restore him brings him back to his family the little children now are so excited daddy's home this is true case after case but I'm thinking one in particular three precious little children now he has a good job when he comes home from work and they crawl up in his lap and they laugh and they play and she is happy God has answered her prayer her husband is home daddy's home and God is blessing everything is favourable God is blessing in a marvelous way but one day the tempter comes he goes back into a back room with a bag of stuff and snorts and he's caught he goes home that day and his wife there's a terrible fear comes over her because she sees something on his face he hasn't seen in a year she's oh god don't let it be because she knows when he comes sniffing and his eyes are red she's been there she's seen it many times and within a week she knows he's hooked again because the next day and the next week he's there at noon he's there at 3 o'clock coming back getting drinking water and trying to drink coffee and trying to come out of a daze and she knows now that when he goes off at 8 o'clock in the morning he's not going to his job he lost his job and he's back on the street and now those three little children are bitter and they are mad they're mad at God they're mad at dad they're mad at mom they're mad at the whole world and that father who said it's my body it's my album no you're dangerous man you're destroying everything around you and now you destroy open the grandchildren that were in your room or in your loins you those wonderful John children that you could have had they're not going to be there because you're dangerous man because God sends storms he's going to come I don't know if you heard about it in the news this week here in New York City of Wall Street one of the top Wall Street brokers of all times I mean handling Multi multi millions of dollars for his corporation one of the Wall Street firms here he got hooked on heroin and heroin sweeping all through Wall Street now he would just before he had business deals he would snort heroin and the stuff that's on the streets now is almost 75 percent pure and it can kill you and he got hooked lost his job thank God his wife another Wall Street broker and in The New York Times on Saturday they told us their story and you know where they are now they're in a city shelter here in New York that lost millions of dollars the last their home lost their families lost everything the man's out of his mind no you don't hurt just yourself is not just your body nobody lives and dies to themselves when Davidson didn't numbering Israel who was it dangers mad why because God when he sent his judgment on David sent judgment on Israel and 70,000 innocent man died now I don't know how innocent they are because the Bible said they were into idolatry God made been dealing with them but I want you to know that one man sin cost the life of 70,000 men backslidin backslidden Christians are sending a lot of people hell on their jobs there was a time you went into the you went into your job you had a Bible on your desk you were a testimony there was something about your countenance made you different you went to church you tried to get everybody else on your job to go to your charts you are so excited about Jesus and now they know there's a change and then they see you they see you going down they see you back slit and they know something's wrong they can't figure out the spirituality of it but they know something's different about you now you're just like them and you were their last hope they looked at you and even though they may have mocked you listen well at least I know there's somebody I can go to and I'm in trouble there's somebody I know that may prove that there may be a God but now you rob them of that hope you become dangerous the second consequence of backsliding you're going to be rebuked by the world not just by the Holy Ghost the world's going to stand up and rebuke you this captain comes to Jonah fast asleep and he shakes him you know what he said what meanest thou o sleeper rise and call upon God knowing that something a heathen captain commanding a preacher to get on his face get down a pray preacher who are you what does this mean and suddenly Jonah shakes himself he wakes and he feels the boat tossing and suddenly hears a screaming of the sailors and he knows he looks at the water filling the hole of the boat and he saw oh oh no he cut me it's God it's God he crawls up on dick and he's a gentleman this is all about me I'm a backslider I'm running from God and all those sailors said how can you do this how can you run from your God how can you run from him why are you bringing all of this cuddle on us in other words did your God fail you did your God beat you did you God not love you well you saw afraid of him you had to run from him what kind of God do you serve Jonah you know Paul the Apostle he was on his boat that was tossed in a horrible hurricane but he went running from God and that man could stand before all the devil's of hell he could stand on that rocking boat and say don't worry gentlemen not one of you is going to be lost I heard from God last night my Lord told me we're all going to be saved there was a time some of you could say that you can stand up in any storm in any crisis say my God is able but now you're a coward just like Jonah Jonah had no power whatsoever he couldn't command the storm he couldn't bring hope he had no message he had nothing he was weak he was a coward and that's what sin does to you takes away your dignity it takes away your strength it takes away your power and makes you a coward before all mankind and you know what happens you present to the Lord a very unattractive salvation you make it seem to the sinner that is more profitable to be a sinner than to be a Christian because they come to you now and say why are you so irritable see you're backslidden now where's that smaller that was on your countenance at one time why is it people don't come and unburden our promise to you anymore why don't you ask me to your church anymore it's been ages since you asked me to go to Times Square Church that's what this Seder is saying how can you do this to your God how did it happen you're irritable now because you got problems you never had before you got fear you have guilt your condemnation and you know that God's coming that the Lord is not going to let you get by because you told him you gave him your heart you said you're going to serve him for life and he took you at your word and he put his blood on you Jesus sprinkled his blood on you that's my blood I die that's my shed blood I paid the price you're mine and I'm not gonna let you go I'll do anything I'll take I will take any drastic action I have to take to keep you I'll put you in a killer storm if I have to I'll put you in the belly of a whale if I have to but I'm not letting you go hmm there should listen to me there should be no area in life where we as Christians should make it seem more attractive to serve the devil than to serve the Lord in every area of life we ought to have the gentleness the smile the kindness the goodness the grace we should be a testimony to the whole world serve Jesus he satisfies he makes a way where there's no way he see you through any storm that should be the testimony but the backslider has lost that testimony has no testimony max why do you have no testimony tell anybody you want what it used to be like serving Jesus but that's not a testimony has no power doesn't mean a thing you've brought a bad report you brought a slander on the Christian walk you see when well let's go to consequence number three so I can get to this consequence number three God is going to take you down into the lowest pit known to man you've gone on a whale of a trip pardon the pun God's got a fish ready for you I want you to listen to me please if you're a backslider here tonight you've got to hear this no man no woman on earth has ever escaped what we are reading here no one has ever gotten away with it I want you to go to Jonah first chapter 11 beginning to read verse 11 then said they unto him what do we do unto thee that the sea may be calm unto us for the sea rotten was tempestuous tempestuous and he said unto them take me up cast me forth into the sea so shall the sea be calm unto you for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you nevertheless the men rode hard to bring it to the land but they could not for the sea rod was tempestuous against them folks look at me please first of all God sends a crisis to your life if you're running from the Lord if you're backslidden if you're not in a crisis mark it down it's coming the crisis of your life the storm of your life you are going to be tossed and turned inside out upside down I mean you are going to go through if you if you thought you had it rough before just wait no one can escape this storm now some of you are already in it you're beginning to taste it you're beginning to go through that you don't understand just like these friends there'll be people who try to shield you from it they kept rowing trying we don't want this man to be thrown overseas they pictured him being eaten by sharks within a few hours and and these are ungodly men but they they were moral men evidently and said no we can't do that to you sir and so they're wrong trying to get it they're trying to shield him from the hand of God but see God's already made up his mind and you can roll all you want you can have all your friends try to shield you and it's not going to work because God has a purpose he's after you not to hurt you not to kill you but to deliver you and bring you back to his first love and so they're wrong they said we can't do it but God would let up wherefore they cried unto the Lord and said we beseech thee O Lord we beseech thee let us not perish for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood for Thou O Lord has done as it pleased thee so they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea and the sea ceased from her raging then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights folks after the storm comes the most critical dark moment of your life that's called the pit of despondency and despair Jonah in the belly of the well confessed he said I have gone down to the bottoms of the mountains the deepest recesses of the earth that whale went down do you know what it was like this total darkness in the belly of that whale there's no light down under the city there's just a little bit of oxygen now folks see pressure even in submarines they have to have it pressurize when they go down there they're trying to dig up through the remains of that 800 flight and they have these little submarine this little submarine rescue submarine it has to be pressurized folks I don't know how God did this but his his eardrums had to be pounding at the pressure and seaweed all over his head and all over his body and every fish that is this being in and that whale trying to digest that food can you imagine him in this stinking mass of darkness and everything else folks that's a picture backside of where you're headed I had a message I preached years ago called seaweed prophets I went down to the bottom of the mountains he said backslider there's going to come a night at darkness to you terrible darkness absolute despair and despondency this is what hit Jonah in the belly of the well that's why God swallowed him up and let him be down there because you see God's looking there's only two options that you have when you go down into the belly of this crisis that God brings to the backslider there's only two options one you give up to despondency you say to yourself oh god I have so Baxton I'm so far down I can't get back to God and you let despair rule your life you go down into the pits of depression you say I have so failed God I'm in such a mess there's no hope for me and I'm going to tell you something Jonah could have very easily given in to that spirit of despondency and he could have died in the belly of that whale and he could have been swallowed up by the well eaten by that well digested by that well and never be heard of again you so all of what God had a mission for him no God can find somebody else God can find somebody else because we have our own free will we have a free will and he had to make a choice when that came and some of you who've backslidden from the Lord some of you who were so close to Jesus and you're sitting here tonight you've already seen what it's like when you get away from his presence how empty and cold and dark and damp and wearisome and the despondency of the despair and the guilt and the condemnation and the fear your conscience running from God is the hardest thing in the world what a tragic thing it is but folks when you get down in the bottom of despair when when you are despondent and full of fear and anxiety just make a choice thank God Jonah made the right choice Jonah prayed unto the Lord is God out of the fish's belly is that I cried by reason of my affliction under the Lord and he heard me out of the belly of Hell cried I you heard my voice I haven't if I have a preacher friend he was a preacher loved him dearly number of years ago he was a sweetest gentlest man you'd ever meet sweet and gentle and I mean in a manly way but he was so kind he'd go anywhere do anything for anybody and I loved him because he was he was he was a simple trusting man it had some trouble in his marriage and I noticed each time I would see him he was just a little little cooler than he was before a little more despondent and I didn't know what was happening but one day I got a telephone call that he'd resigned the ministry it left his family and was running around with the lady drug addict and by the time I got to him the storm had hit and he was in the storm of his life because that woman who thought he thought was going to be answered all his needs couldn't satisfy him he was miserable not only that she had got him on pot and when I sat with him out the side of a building I had called them to come and visit me and we were sitting outside I remember three chairs and I'll never forget the look on his face he's smoking pot now not only that he was selling it and I looked at him and he wouldn't even look at my he couldn't even lift up his eyes they were to the most miserable people because you see she wants to the Lord she back slid to and now on drugs and now she's sitting there thinking not only am i on drugs but I brought a man of God down and I caused the preacher of the gospel of Jesus to go to drugs do you imagine her despair she was in the belly of the well she was totally despondent and I said I still love you sir I said the Lord loves you and I'm here to tell you I'm your friend and I want you to let me take you by the hand and bring you back to the Savior the Lord will restore everything the cankerworm is eaten he said brother David I'm too far gone I've sinned too much against Jesus and no way he could forgive me for what I have done to him and the reproach I've brought on his name there's no way folks i sat there for two hours trying to persuade him using scriptures did everything I couldn't bring him out of that pit of despair and despondent I couldn't get him out in fact the next three years I kept trying telephone calls and every time I'd go into his city I would get a hold of him and I found he was deeper and deeper just one time there was a glimmer of hope but I couldn't reach him you know what he did he had two options he could either in the belly of the whale when he's down and despairing and feeling that God has given up on him there's no hope he can't get back if all he had done is out of the belly of that hell cried to God sin all God I've sinned against you deliver me the Lord would have been there immediately Lord would have delivered him I don't know what's happened to him I've lost touch last I heard he was far gone and what about you tonight sitting here and you say brother Dave you don't know what I've done you know how far down i've gone i have ministers that that that come even to this church they'll come and visit from all over the country and they'll meet me backstage and occasionally i'll know their names because they had a measure of notoriety or they were familiar they were quite famous in their time I remember one who when I was a boy he was on on television and radio one of the best known men and he came to one of my meetings and when I you've heard me tell about it he came up and he told me his name and I was aghast his wife was leading him he had eyes but she's leading like a blind man I went to shake hands with him and it was that he handed this to me a dead fish I didn't know what to do with it this man was by the time he met me he'd been in that condition for twenty years twenty years when the most fiery powerful preachers in America was a dead fish why because in his despair that man got so despondent for a whole year he'd hardly come out of his house he said there's no way I I brought more reproach than any man probably in history about repros and he couldn't get away from the reproach he couldn't get away from all of that and he wallet and that despair and it destroyed him and I'm telling you consider tonight and if you don't get a hold of this now and say I have two options and I'm going to take the right one I'm telling you can die in your despair you can die in despondency you can now yourself to wallow in that fear and wallow in that guilt and condemnation and fear and you can die in it and go to hell or you can say no I've heard a message tonight a message of hope a message of strength and power in Jesus I can come home I can come back Oh hallelujah when Jonah began to pray in the belly of the well I believe God started drying up a nice spot somewhere up there not belly and he said just sit there now and worship me and I believe he had a revival meeting there and I'll tell you what God moved on that well and swooshed him across the Mediterranean got him up into the high places and took him out landed that whale near the shore and made him vomit part out he came I came a man of God free set free anointed back on schedule with you anointing of the Holy Ghost God restored everything that was destroyed and eaten God restored it God wants to restore everything the devil has taken from you he wants to give everything back to you in good measure well yeah I got it Jeremiah I found it Jeremiah 3 and I'm real close I knew there was something yet I thought it was finished but to just this scripture here Jeremiah three oh here's a good part go to verse 20 Jeremiah three verse 20 through 22 surely as a wife treacherously departed from her husband so have you dealt treacherously with me o house of israel says the Lord in other words you back slid on me a voice was heard upon the high places weeping and supplication the children of Israel for their perverted their way and they forgotten the God the Lord their God return he backsliding children and I what will heal your backslidings behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God I'll tell you what go to Jeremiah 15 please I'm sorry one more Jeremiah 15 will you stand while we read this backslider listen to it therefore thus verse 19 Jeremiah 15 therefore thus saith the Lord if thou return then will I bring the again and thou shalt stand before me and if they'll take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be my mouth let them return unto thee but return not unto them other words if you'll just walk away from your old crowd walk away from what you've been doing turn to me i and i will make thee unto this people offense brazen wall they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against the in other words they are going to try keep your way the Lord says they're not going to be able to prevail against you for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the Lord and I will deliver the out of the hand of the wicked and will redeem the out of the hand of the terrible I will pull you out of the belly's well and I'll set you free Oh God Oh God speak tonight to those who have been running from you those who are cold and indifferent they've taken a step toward away from you Lord Oh God bring them back tonight bring them back tonight could we sing just as I am just as I am without one plea to be an evangelist and I've been his evangelist tonight and I love to preach evangelism because I know I know the faithfulness of God up in the balcony I want every backslider now that takes a great confession great honest every backslider downstairs you get out of your seat now and get up here and say Lord I'm in the belly of the whale I want deliverance I want to deliver it I want it tonight I want it now get out of your seat and run down and get down here quick and say oh God Oh God I don't want the devil to claim my soul I don't want to go this way anymore I'm sick and tired of this Lord I'm coming home come on get up you stay up in the balcony go to the stairs on either side and come on down move in close please would be a lot of people coming another step step back turn around and come home turn it all the way around and say no devil I'm not going your way no I'm not going to that temptation no I'm not going to turn away if you made even one step turn around and come on back join these that are coming right now look this way please the Holy Spirit just whispered something my heart Holy Spirit told me to ask you a question it has to do with a question from the heart of Jesus listen to it now Jesus is asking are you ready to walk all the way with me now are you ready to lay down everything in this world are you willing to walk away from everything that has your heart and come and give me everything that's the question are you ready to walk away from everything in this world say Jesus I want to get free and I want to give you everything but you're going to have to help me if you'll make that commitment yes I'm ready to walk with Jesus I'm ready to give him my life and my heart I don't want anything in this world to stand between me and Jesus now how many can say that with a raised hand raise your hand if you can say that and leave it there while you pray this prayer with me right now pray it from the innermost part of your being dear Jesus let me hear it dear Jesus from my heart I confess my sins sprinkle your blood on my heart cleanse me and forgive me Lord Jesus I don't want to walk toward the world I don't want to leave you Jesus draw me back right to your spirit into your heart come Lord Jesus be everything to me the best I know how in simple faith I give you my heart I give you my life and I'm returning to your love fill me with your love send the Holy Spirit and give me power to live for you Jesus and to resist the devil and to get victory over every lust in my life now let me pray for you Heavenly Father I thank you for bringing so many backsliders back home Lord I know that some of these that are standing here going through a terrible time they've had a battle Lord with their conscience they've had a battle with fear condemnation many of them Lord came to this church tonight deep in the pits of despair and depression Lord there's something now that you've said to them you've said I'm still there I'm still waiting and I've I allowed all this pain in your life just to make you sick and tired of the world I've allowed all this pain and all this suffering and guilt and fear and despair to drive you back into my own arms so yield to me now the Lord says just yield to me and open your heart and I'll come and I'll restore my joy into your life hallelujah talk to him right now just talk to him in your own words and say Lord I'm coming this time I come with all my heart I'm returning to you I surrender to you Jesus I'm surrending hallelujah Holy Spirit come now now I want you to thank him in your own words just give Jesus thanks Lord thank you for loving me tonight thank you for shaking me up thank you for stirring me thank you for drawing me thank you Jesus I give you praise I give Thanks give thanks to the Lord just give him thanks some of you will say well brother Dave does this mean that before I go out of church the this this problem I'm going to be vomited out of this and I'm going to be suddenly free no he was in there for three days and three nights you still may have some difficulty when you got out of here but if you'll hold on to the Lord keep praying and seeking God like Jonah did I'm telling you God's going to get you out God's going to bring you out of that whale he'd bring you out glory be to Jesus hallelujah

Channel: Arthur Haro

Views: 181,914

Rating: 4.8653369 out of 5

Keywords: sermon, David, Wilkerson, Christ, pastor, Gospel, Holy, Spirit, Jesus, Lord, Salvation, Word, Truth, Preaching, Prophet, Things

Id: LIgLJazSu0Q

Length: 48min 24sec (2904 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2011