What is The True Church Of Jesus Christ by David Wilkerson

I want to talk to you this morning about his church I want to talk to you about the true Church of Jesus Christ what is the true Church of Jesus Christ we hope after today you'll have no questions on this matter I don't have all the answers but I have enough to convince you I think what I believe to be the living Church of Jesus Christ Heavenly Father I thank you this morning for the love of Jesus for your manifestation Lord in our presence in our midst Lord without you we have no church we have no meeting we have no gathering and our pray Lord that you open my understanding so that I can present to this people your heart and your mind on this matter Lord Jesus quick and make born you gave this to me in prayer I didn't get it from a book I got it Lord from your heart and I pray Lord that you minister life through what I speak this morning open our eyes to the meaning of your church let us examine our hearts this morning to see if we are really members of your body in Jesus name I pray amen now jesus said the gates of hell shall not prevail against my church he also said that no weapon formed against it should prosper but you look around now and you see that the gates of hell are prospering they're prospering against many churches the man church as I call them they are prevailing the weapons of the enemy are prevailing and the word prevail there means overpower to defeat and you see that in a church that is really not acknowledged by God as his own church the church by no means is a denomination now denominations were caused when certain groups of Christians gathered around a pet doctrine the Baptist's gathered around the Calvinistic doctrine of eternal security the Pentecostals gathered around the doctrine of an infant the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues the seventh-day adventists gathered around a doctrine about the seventh-day Sabbath or the Sabbath being Saturday you find the Wesleyan Methodist gathered around the doctor of entire sanctification and on and on and on until there were divisions because people gather round not the book not the person of Jesus Christ as much as the doctrine and they got gathered around those doctrines and then they began to split up and reform there's a reform movement after reform movement after reform movement having to do with people gathering around a doctrine and so you have 50 kinds of Baptists now you've got a hundred kinds of Pentecostals you've got all kinds of charismatic and non-denominational churches by the multiplied thousands and division everywhere you look this was never God's idea from the beginning entire denominations now have been overpowered by the weapons of Satan the gates of Hell prevailed against entire denominations where pastors no longer believed the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God they no longer believe in the virgin birth they don't believe in a heaven or hell they call evil good and good evil this is being old power what else can you call it but the gates of Hell prevailing when the seminaries of many of these denominations have teachers and professors there who do everything to demean the gospel everything to discredit the miracles of Jesus Christ to take away his Godhead and they'll hell bent professors that are hell-bent and destroying what little faith that our young people have left if that is not being overpowered by the enemy I don't know what is but you see God has discounted all of that man calls Church it's never been a part of his church really not been his it's been man's but it's never been his he doesn't acknowledge it in his eyes it doesn't even exist that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination to God absolutely God has never acknowledged it as his insurance but I also believe that many Christians are misinformed about the meaning of the church they really don't understand what the Church of Jesus Christ is and I say that because of the way we measure the success of the church today we have mega churches we've got super churches we've got fastest growing churches and we look at these beautiful multi-million dollar buildings we look at the wonderful 30 40 50 acre campuses and we see churches packed with thousands and we say God must be there that must be God's church look their finances they have money in the bank they have multitudes coming that must be a very successful Church Jesus must be at work in that church but folks I'm so glad to inform you that that is not God's measure of success you can have multiplied thousands in church you can have a burgeoning budget you can have all of these things and Jesus not be in the building Jesus not even acknowledge it that is his highly esteemed among men very successful popular accepted but abomination in the eyes of God a minister friend of mine recently told me he was filling out his application for every year you fill out a form to continue your ordination he was filling out his form and suddenly had hit him like a sword in his heart he said there's nothing on this application at all that has to do with a spiritual measurement the questions were like this how many are attending your Sunday School how many attend Sunday night how many do you have in your prayer meeting how many Boy Scouts do you have in your in your boys program how many women attend your women's auxilary and give us the percentage of increase in your numbers and in your finances what's the per capita giving for each person there was not one spiritual question in the whole application he said you know I could have been a reprobate and filled out this question still keep my ordination because there's no measure of my spiritual there wasn't a question about how he's doing the Lord anything about my burden for the Lord nothing about my morals nothing about my family or my vision nothing at all and that's typical of almost every denomination he said there was nothing spiritual about it all he said I was I was suddenly shocked at how far we've gone from understanding the true Church of Jesus Christ it's an amazing thing now let me tell you what I believe constitutes his church this is what I believe constitutes his church and there are required features that distinguish his church from every other thing that is called church folks before you leave the service this morning I hope you understand what the Church of Jesus Christ is we have the pattern in the 20th chapter of John go to John the twentieth chapter if you will please quickly twentieth chapter of John I'm going to start reading at verse 18 this is the first gathering of the church that Jesus is going to build now folks remember that Moses built a house Moses had a church and the Bible said he was faithful in his house but the Bible the Lord goes on to say Jesus said I will build my house the Church of Jesus Christ did not exist until after his resurrection nice I will build my house the scriptures about Christ as a son over his own house he said I will build it and he's starting to build it right here you're going to see the first meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ you're going to see all the features that should be in what is called his church they're all in this first meeting remember these are living stones he's building a church so this is the foundation these are the foundation stones in this first meeting verse 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her then the same dead evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews okay Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them peace unto you we had so said he showed them his hands and his side then where the disciples glad when they saw the Lord then said Jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father sent me even so send I you when he said this he breathed on them and saith unto them receive ye the Holy Ghost who sue who's so ever since he remit their remitted unto them and whosoever sins you retain their retained now look this way if you will please he's building his church and all the features of the church from now to Jesus comes you'll find it right here and I want to go over it with you as simply as I know how in this first gathering you have the making and the birth of the true Church of Jesus Christ and first of all this church is comprised of individual believers who have a special love relationship with Jesus Christ every single one of these who are gathered here have their own special revelation of Christ he's revealed himself individually to them and every one of them are devoted they have given up careers he is not just first in their life he's everything in their life the Church of Jesus Christ is comprised of individuals who are wholly given to Christ he has become their life he's not a part of life he is their life he's the focus he's the center now that's where the church begins it's in comprised of individuals wholly given to him with their own revelation of who he is with their own hearts burning for the Word of God let's consider those that are gathered in this meeting one of the accounts by John it says there were eleven Luke's Luke implies that there were many many more in this first meeting no doubt Nicodemus no doubt the rich man just Joseph of Arimathea the Bible makes it clear that the two disciples of the mass were there remember they had their own revelation they were so devoted to him and they had a revelation because Jesus appeared to them and opened up the scriptures regarding himself Peter was there to whom the Lord had shown himself they had all had some kind of revelation of him they had seen the empty tomb there was a revelation of the resurrection power of Jesus Christ every one of them Mary of Bethany was probably Lazarus they're all the other and every one of these the thing that identifies them that individually they had their own experience with him they had their own revelation of Jesus they didn't get it from somebody else it was their own and Mary Magdalene comes knocking on the doors he says I've seen him and this gathering was not a pastor up there trying to reveal Christ to a congregation that's not the church the churches that every member that congregation came there with elation their own experience with Christ they saw him they talked to him they had the word burning in their hearts and so at this first meeting it is not Peter standing up admonishing them about what they had seen of Christ is first of all the woman who Jesus had cast Seven Devils out of probably a prostitute at one time and she is the one that's thing pastor I saw him I talked to him the two disciples unknown disciples I believe many of the 70 chosen disciples were there Jesus said it were also in the meeting and they were all excited everyone we're telling what they saw and heard of Jesus this was an excited group they came to church not to hear about Christ they had heard of Christ they brought Christ with them this is the Church of Jesus Christ individuals who have had their own experience their own revelation of the reality or intimacy with Jesus Christ the Lord hallelujah now what a wonder that in the midst of apostasy rejection of Christ and every all offers of his grace that's right in the middle of Jerusalem in the middle of the darkness in the middle of the rejection of Christ the Lord had a body totally devoted to him and folks I'm telling you even now in this day of gross darkness in this day when Christ is being rejected when they're trying to throw him out of our sight and out of our courts they don't even want his name mentioned thank God around the world even in in the communist countries all over the world Jesus has a body he has a devoted people vinda vigils their own revelation of Christ the church is alive and well hallelujah now listen to me closely it is this devotion this personal individual devotion of Jesus Christ which is the bond of the body of Christ I travel and when I go to another country and I walk a street and I don't understand the language and somebody will would say hello and thinking or I must look like an American soul that give me a little bit of their American language instead they'll be speaking English said were you from us in New York New York yes and I'm a pastor oh you're Christian yes what church Tyler I've heard of that pray so I'm a charismatic just like you and you said well you met the body of Christ you met another no no no not necessarily because it only takes about 10 minutes before you find out where that man's heart is that man's heart he's talking about his exotic vacation he's talking about everything but Jesus the devotion is not there and suddenly you pull back and say I'm not one with this man you can go to Japan and you can walk around and you find a little prayer group and they're there they're praising the Lord and you walk in this I found the church I found the body these people love Jesus but then the pastor gets up and you know he's not been alone with God there's no devotion it's off less and sudden you know you thought you found it so it wasn't the church at all it wasn't there because the bond is not there folks you meet the church anywhere on earth where you find an individual that is totally voted to Jesus Christ if they are you'll note very quickly and shortly and the bond will be there we hear talk about the church being United let let unite the church let's everybody get together folks you don't have to it's already together it's all in Christ he's the head we're the body it has always been together it's never been divided never if you if Jesus could come in and take you on a flying carpet trip over the the America around the world you see Jesus some in the church and he would take you into the atmosphere so to speak and you'd look at that he takes you to hover over a great church of 5,000 people and say Lord show me your church and he said all right you see the woman over here and see this one over here and he'll pick up maybe 10 or 12 and it said that's my church these are my devoted ones but Lord what about those thousands there that are singing love songs to you he said my heart they don't have a heart from me that I am I am just a word to them it's just deed it's just word and it's not indeed they don't love the truth they don't spending time with me that are not my church they don't have the devoted heart I wonder how many of you we can point out this morning and say to his angel ik host see that sister see that brother see there's one over here this one over here look how hungry they are for me I've been teaching teaching them speaking them to the years and they're still hungry they give me precious time to give me quality time my heart I am NOT just something laying easy on the back roads of their mind I am the center of their life I am everything to them this is my church [Applause] hallelujah secondly his church is comprised of devoted individual believers whose greatest joy is to assemble with others who share that devotion it's called the body of Christ they don't have to be warned forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is because there is something of the Holy Spirit that draws every devoted believer to the body now let me say this clear and simply but right to the point listen to it please the church is not complete without the corporate expression because God reveals himself Christ reveals himself in the corporate body in ways he cannot reveal himself individually to you or to me for example the gifts how do you operate the gifts on yourself what about the love of God that said abroad not just on me but abroad what about the joint excitement of watching your brothers and sisters grow in the Lord and in their growth you get faith and hope there's a shared revelation in the assembly everyone that was gathered in this first meeting though they had their own private glorious revelation of who Jesus is they had seen him they talked him they've been with him three years but now they're gathered together and they're going to experience a special manifestation of Jesus that could not have come individually to them now keep in mind that just a few days before these disciples had fled from his presence at the first sign of danger they all forsook him and fled but now fearless Lee they meet in a clandestine fashion because they are taking literally now something the Holy Spirit has reminded them the jesus said to them jesus said where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst now folks they didn't take that as a promise but as a consequence now listen closely please God been speaking so clearly my heart this it was not just a promise that's a consequences he said if you will meet in my name and you at least meet in his name that everyone who names the name of Jesus depart from iniquity it means these have departed from iniquity they're not living in sin wholly devoted to Jesus Christ and their meaning in his name of the Lord said you meet under those conditions and there I am doesn't say I will come doesn't say that the fast or pray or beg or plead we till I come that is the consequence of you coming in divine order the consequence of it the result of it is I'm there and they thought well if he said that two or three but we better get together because we want him to appear we want to see him again so it was they assembled together they sent the door and it was just as they were told Jesus came and stood in their meets verse 19 Jesus came and stood in their midst folks there is no church it is not a church and as Jesus is standing in the midst of it unless there is a manifestation of his presence if in every service Jesus is not various not the church they're not meeting in his name properly you say well brother if can't we enjoy his presence alone as individuals why do I need the church I have a lot of people say well I just worship alone just me and Jesus well he does manifest his presence to those that are sudden with him the Scriptures he that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and I will love him and manifest myself to him as as an admit I'm a novice myself to you because you see sometimes there is an imposed isolation look at Paul and in prison he he has isolation imposed upon him and say with John and Isle of Patmos isolation is imposed upon him sometimes you're sick and by yourself it's imposed upon you that's a different thing because in those conditions when it's impo isolation is imposed upon you by conditions or forces outside your control then the Lord reveals himself in a very unique way that's where Paul got his revelation for the church and same with John and Isle of Patmos what a revelation of Jesus when John said I saw him standing among the candlesticks it was in an isolation along with the Lord that's only when it's imposed when it's beyond your power but folks when you just stand home watching TV there's no imposed isolation upon you you you you are drawing away from the very source of the glory of the Lord but you see there's a reason why Jesus manifest himself to us and once you listen to this please Jesus comes to manifest himself to us that we may have life his power his very life is energy it is power but life is given for a purpose and that's that we may be useful to him useful to the body the Bible said then the life was light you can have power without any knowledge of how to use it that's the light the life became the light in other words he doesn't give you power just just the spin and wasted let me give an example you take a two hundred what you two hundred amp diesel fired generator now you put diesel in it you start it up it's got two hundred amps of power it's got energy it's got life and it as long as you give it its individual source of energy if you keep pouring the diesel in it it'll it'll keep turning it'll keep putting out energy but it's no use it's not hooked up to any need it's just wasting its energy but then you look at the house and the house has no energy it has no light the lights aren't working the stove is not working there's no heat and you hook it up you hook the generator up and suddenly the lights go on now the generator is useful you say I'm alone with Jesus I'm getting revelation I'm getting power from the Lord on getting life but I'm telling you if you're not hooked up to the body of Christ if you're not a part of the body of Jesus Christ you're that generator that's wasting its energy you have to be connected pick up this week's Life magazine the November issue and you'll see an incredible sight there's a a man's arm and forearm laying disconnected on the operating table it's a 13-hour operation that was accomplished by a businessman named Clint in 1989 in an accident with a chainsaw he severed his arm and now after - after this time the doctors severed the arm of a brain-dead man and they're trans they're now hooking this arm to this man and it's a 13-hour operation now that arm is there it's still got blood in it and they've got a pump there and it's got probably a 13 to 16 hour life span but it's got to be hooked up the arm is there but the fingers are not moving there are no nerves it's an arm it's got blood in it but it's useless but they hooked him up for the this is the second operation of its kind and they connected the arm and yesterday I was listening to the radio and said that it's been successful that he feels the nurse and fingers are moving now the arm is what it's useful is if you're not connected to the body I don't care how much revelation you get I don't care much time you spend alone you are severed from the body and you're going to have to have your air can be hooked up to some artificial kind of life and you're of no use you're going to lay on that operating table that's a hand it's got blood in it it's got a form of life but it's no good to anybody it's useless folks that's what the body of Jesus Christ we are arm of his arm we are bone of his bone we are rest of his life we are connected to the head and you can only get that in a corporate experience of the Assembly reaching together worshiping together in him you're beginning to understand it now let's go a step further it's not enough just to be quickened by the presence of Jesus there's not enough to be just doing things being useful you that usefulness has to be subject to his will if you know you can you can be hooked up to the arm but you still have to get your directions from the head and in this meeting I want you to notice this Jesus comes in and the first thing is peace and that's what you get first of all when the body of Jesus Christ when devoted people get together to worship the Lord is the body the first thing you get is the overflowing of the Peace of Christ the peace of God but I get that every time I walk into this church I sit down there peace absolute peace but folks he can give you peace and you not value it or not have an expression of it nuttin know it in its fullness and you don't get that until you see the fullness of the body I'll show it to you in just a minute how you not only are given the gift of peace from Christ but you have to have that peace flowing in and through you and I'll show you in a few minutes how that will happen but you see Jesus after he gives peace he said as I was sent to the world so send I you and this is the first instruction they get misses instruction you get in the corporate body of Jesus Christ Lord said you know that I escaped you saw me escaping to prayer I saw me leave you and go to the mountains you saw that I pray I was getting my instructions from the Heavenly Father he said I did not operate on human compassion remember the man that came to him and said master i mediate between me and my brother help caused him get my brother to share his inheritance rightly with me and Jesus said man who made me your divider or your lawyer and what he's saying I don't do anything except what my father tells me that was human need Jesus had compassion on to meet on the man but he never allowed his compassion to get him out of the parameters of the will of God and when you do that when the presence of Jesus is not in a church where people are not praying over everything he does in the direction from the Spirit of the Living God then you find men running around trying to change the world in their own energy they swept they get tired and everybody's worn out then then they wind up saying is this all there is to it Jesus didn't move in the realm of human compassion though he was moved with compassion everywhere he went he did not operate in the realm of human compassion and folks the Church of Jesus Christ that starts only picketing and demonstrating folks when the movie opened up or whether the play opened up here Corpus Christi on Tuesday night this church got a hold of God that is just six blocks from here and that's the play where Jesus is called a Houma Jesus is depicted as a homosexual and in the play he plants a kiss on Judas his lover and he has an affair with all his 12 disciples homosexual aver and folks we prayed in this church we sought God because our weapons in our carnal but mighty through God in the pulling down of strongholds then after the service I went over there and there were about two thousand demonstrators there were there were statues of virgin married there were all kinds of placards and and and people were there and and you know there was I said to a brother was with Miss and you know that 15 minutes of Prayer that times clerks accomplished more against this that all the demonstrating here tonight by the hundreds I'm not putting that down but the church does not move in human compassion it moves the direction of Jesus Christ himself and he said to these gathered in that first meeting as I was sent so send I you total dependence total dependence Alleluia the church does not operate independent it does not go out just to meet human need because it's there it operates in the parameters the guidance of the Holy Spirit hallelujah you can be useful but not subjected to the will of God has to be total subjection to his will hallelujah no thirdly in his church the Holy Spirit is always at work changing people's hearts conforming them convicting them and conforming them to the nature of the one they're devoted to in other words if Jesus is not there there's no work of the Holy Spirit in changing lives nobody is really changed without the manifest presence of Jesus in the midst Jesus came into the midst and he breathed on them and a very special work of the Holy Spirit with suddenly announced now folks I want you to cash in your seatbelts because I'm going to take you on a little trip here I'm going to show you the heart of the church Jesus stands in the midst and in the twentieth chapter in verse 22 when he said this he breathed on them and saith unto them receive ye the Holy Ghost how many see that receive ye the Holy Ghost folks look at me please he's now building his church he's laying the foundation there's got to be a special breathing of the Holy Spirit for them to copy something they can't accomplish in their flesh and what he's really saying look I'm going to be sending you out I'm going to be sending you out in the world and you are going to be mocked and you're going to be scoffed as my witnesses you're devoted to me you want to do my will yes but you're going to be persecuted misunderstood and beaten and stoned and you're going to be called all kinds of names as they are scouring of the world your flesh will want to retaliate you're going to want to fight back you want to defend yourself he said even your brothers and sisters those you're supposed to be religious those are supposed to be devoted those who supposed to be brothers and sisters in me he said they're going to hurt you they're going to wound you you're going to have people trampled over you and he said I'm going to breathe on you now with an expression the Holy Ghost you're going to need because what I'm going to ask of you now you can't do it in human strength you're going to need the breathing of the Holy Spirit he says I'm going to ask you to do something that is absolutely impossible in folks this is the real heart this is the real manifestation of the Church of Jesus Christ this is what the witnesses this is you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you you know when I was a young preacher almost all my young preacher friends were just like me yeah Lord give me tygo in hospitals and raise a dead I want the power of the ugly hands on every sick person I'm going to go to hospital cleared out and all we've had evangelist advertised men of power and that power was zapping people that power was with all kinds of demonstrations that's supposed to be power no no no you shall be witnesses after that you've received the power of the Holy Ghost folks what is the witness Jesus makes it very clear there's a scripture here that most of us have just skipped over because we're afraid to face it we don't understand it's in verse 22 and I'll watch you notice verse 23 is verse 23 is hooked to 22 you go from 22 and that's a continuation of verse 22 receiving the Holy Ghost whosoever sins you remit their remitted unto them and whosoever sins you retained their retained do you see it are you ready to face it you want to know what that means you know of course only God can forgive sins you know there has to be repentance and faith so that's beyond your ability in mind now the Catholic Church has taken that literally is is to mean that the priests and the confession booth has the power to remit sins not so not so at all the remitting of the sin referred to is the sin against you it's the sin against me it's my brother my sister or any enemy who comes against me and defiles me or tries to tear me down mocks me ridicules me hurts me he said whosoever sins he's talking about forgiveness Jesus wants to be manifested he wants to be told by it he wants the whole world to know that there are witnesses to his loving forgiving power who is always ready to forgive folk you go out in the street corner and you can yell all the scripture you want you can call that fire you can call that the holy ghost call it anything you want you can stand in to have a healing line and thousands of people be touched but if you've got a grudge in your heart and you're not remitting somebody sinned against you you have no power this is God's call to release the sin of the brother or sister who sinned against you and the Lord is saying now they'll answer for their sin against me they'll answer for other sins against grace but on this one issue the sin against you you must release it you remit it folks Jesus set the example on the cross Father forgive them for they don't know what they do he's saying father no matter what they have to answer for for their own personal sins or sins against you or Grace on this one matter against me I release them and on the Judgment Day now one of those sinners that one of those soldiers not one of those priests will answer for that because the father said I'll remit it now there are times that you can't remit because when somebody sins and the churches said that is told commanded to take elders and speak to that individual and then if they won't listen bring it to the church and if those people are set on not being reconciled there is no repentance even though the love of Christ is so love the Scriptures given to them then the lives of you can't you can't release that remember Steven be stoned he said father lay not this to their charge he's saying I remit the sins of these all that are stoning me now what about those that are stoned you the Church of Jesus Christ is a house where there's no vengeance it's a house where there every devoted and of Jesus Christ has released from their heart from the book of life or rather from the book of sins in heaven they have asked God to release those sins folks when God began to deal with me on this last few weeks he's had me on my knees naming everybody that I felt has hurt me in my lifetime everyone has ever harmed me everyone who's trampled on me everyone said anything about me I've had to say Jesus I forgive them I remit their sins father in heaven not you clean it I released them and when I released them he released me and that's when you know the peace of God [Applause] the house of Jesus Christ is a house of people who have forgiven everybody there's no punch there's no sign of vengeance there's no heart left some of you here now have not released somebody whose hurts you somebody in your family a former husband of former wife somebody has hurt you and you're not releasing you're holding it you're full of it that's not the church that's not his body when the Holy Ghost is at work in a church he's doing just what he'll do just what he's doing now by his loving power he will show you the sin of unforgiveness if you're going to have the power of the Holy Ghost there's an advantage god bless his heart he has healing lines and rather well-known and Boyd boy does he preach but he writes me the vicious letters hateful letters I had to release him I love them and I pray for him I have nothing but love for that man but you see if I let that get in my spirit I lose the peace that Jesus gave me said he brief peace on me and I can't enjoy it because I got this in my heart folks if you can have peace all over you given by God and then gifted by the Holy Ghost not to draw a bit of it because of what's in your heart the Church of Jesus Christ is a church that has remitted the sins I don't care if on the job your boss has cursed you I don't care what happens on your job and all those around you you are to forgive them those who despitefully use you you're to love them and not only forgive them pray for them and the only way you can love your enemies is to be praying for them now give you a did you see how important it is to have the presence of Jesus in the house let me let me wrap this up for you why would you ever stay in a place where Jesus wasn't there why would you go to a house where he doesn't show up where there's no breathing of the Holy Spirit Paul tells us that the church of man not the Church of Jesus Christ but the Church of man the church where there's no manifestation in the presence of Jesus is a house of vain babblings those meaningless worship empty words and he said old Timothy avoid profane and vain babblings stay away from it Paul the scripture says that when you put leaven and look at leavens the whole lump if there is leaven whether there's not the presence of what there is leaven and you say I'm going to go there I know it's not I'm not getting fed and I know the president the Lord is really not there but I've got to go to church be careful you're not leavened in that lump furthermore Paul goes a step further he said about these vain babblings they lead to an increase in ungodliness you'll find that in second Timothy 2:16 because if you sit under a ministry that is not saturated with the presence of Jesus not according to the mind of God you're going to have error and that is going to lead you to ungodliness you're going to allow things in your life you never thought you would allow because you don't know but it's being dripped into your spirit that's changing you now folks I'm not trying this not a commercial with Time Square Church because we don't have any seats left folks it's more serious than that Paul said very clearly if a man therefore purge himself from these he shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified useful to the master and prepared for every good work that word purged right there the only time it's used as it is is to remove yourself remove yourself from this spirit remove yourself from that kind of thing remove yourself folks I have hundreds of thousands on my mailing list as I've told you and probably the number one complaint of all the Christians are write to us they say pastor I can't find a church where I feel the presence of the Lord my church is dead what am I going to do you might be in a place where you use I can't find a church that's that's really right folks if you're going to a church they're spiritually dead and you know Jesus is not there the Spirit of the Lord is not at work there's no beathing of his life get out of it get out of it leave it it's that simple Paul makes it clear I'm on good scripture ground he said purge yourself of this so that you can be useful sanctified vessel meat for the Masters use he said isolate yourself from that foolishness but then you say well where am I going to find it let me let me give you some the Holy Spirit gave me just last night the same spirit that's moving on you making you disgusted with the death that you see the same spirit that's awakened you saying I want more I need more I'm hungry I'm thirsty I want to grow in the Lord I want to be in an atmosphere where the presence of the Lord is real the same spirit that's doing that in you he never does it in an isolated form he does that wherever he's working on one he's got to work on two or three more in the same spirit that's working on you the Lord told me is working on people around you and if you will just seek him with all your heart and pray diligently about this same or leave me to that two or three that are feeling like I doing being moved on the spirit like I am Lord Jesus leave me to them and he will let you be brought miraculously to that body because if you're devoted to him he's going to bring you to the others who are devoted to him you're going to find the body he'll bring the body to you and you to the body and thought maybe only two or three get together get some of our tapes if you want for the preaching you can worship and pray you don't need a preacher I'm not against having pastors or I wouldn't be one but what are you going to be do when you're stuck up someplace in Alaska and little village so Jesus surely there somebody in God may send one maybe two wonderful fellowship in prayer is talking about Jesus somebody told me recently that they were sitting around a dining room table and suddenly everybody just started talking about Jesus and it was such they said it was church it was Church Jesus came right to the table because they were they were talking about him and they were there for an hour just talking about Jesus and suddenly they realized one person told me I was in church that is the church hallelujah I hope you understand a little better the meaning of the Church of Jesus Christ will you stand please

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Keywords: David, Wilkerson, Revival, Repent, God, Sermons, Jesus, SermonIndex

Id: N0UyTS22gpU

Length: 48min 33sec (2913 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 24 2009