Portions from David Wilkerson's latest sermon:
I stood there last night weeping and begging God for mercy. Mercy for the grieving
families who lost loved one. Mercy for those still digging in the ruins, retrieving bodies
and mostly body part. Mercy on the workers – the police, the fireman, the volunteers
who openly weep at the indescribable destruction.
Times Square Church was given a site at ground zero. Pastor Carter tells me that the
tents were put there – this church was the closest to ground zero and to the disaster.
Workers were working and are still working 24-hours around the clock and still working,
feeding and ministering and being there in this time of horror.
But you see, Times Square Church was warned a calamity was coming. We are now in
the seventh week of a visitation of the Holy Spirit and if you have been coming to this
church you know that even weeks before that the Holy Spirit moved on the pastoral staff
here to cancel everything.
We cancelled the Mission’s Conference, we cancelled the Youth Conventions, we
cancelled every speaker. We cancelled everything to come and call this body to prayer.
We started with two weeks of prayer and those weeks of meetings continue this week
again – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and stopping only when God says to
stop.
But something indescribable has been happening in this church in this past seven weeks.
Every service, as you witness today, a holy hush – a silence from the throne has come to
this auditorium. There was one night when we sat for one hour in total silence and
nobody could move. I remember putting my hands on my knees to stop them from
trembling because of the awesome presence of God.
I tell you now, Jesus has been weeping. God pity’s and He weeps but his justice and his
righteousness force Him to restrain his pity and carry out righteous judgments as a last
resort. His justice demands that He lay these sins on His son and that an innocent son of
God would die.
Oh yes, so many innocent people have died. Not that there was personal judgment on
them. Many righteous died. But God’s trying to save a nation.
Now what’s going to happen if this nation misses the message and we don’t turn back to
the Lord? The window of opportunity is very short now. What’s going to happen if
abortion continues and we end up killing born babies for research purposes?
If we continue rubbing the precious name of Jesus out of our American history? That’s
what they’re trying to do now. All of the school books are being re-written, the majority
of school books are being re-written to remove God’s name from American history.
Right now.
What happens if we re-build bigger and better only to enrich ourselves even more? And
all the talk I hear now is that somebody is going to build the towers bigger and better than
ever.
What’s going to happen if we don’t trust God now instead of trusting our armed might?
Let me answer that question, not out of my own heart, not out of speculation, but the
word of Isaiah clearly tells us what follows the rejection of His call to repentance and
turning to pride and boasting of greatness.
The Bible says there will be devouring fire mounting to the heavens, darkness over the
land, national disunity, a stricken economy, every man out for himself to survive.
Now listen to the scripture. “For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke. “Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.”
(Isaiah 9:18, 19)
It will be every man for himself.
Jeremiah 18 -- verses 5-10
“Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you
as this potter? Saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in
mine hand, O house of Israel. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it: If that nation,
against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil [What does
it say?] (repeat) I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what
instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant
it: If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good,
wherewith I said I would benefit them.”
You say, “Well can’t any of this be avoided?”
Absolutely yes. Yes!
If this President proves to be a Josiah, a man who sought the Lord with all his heart
according to God’s pattern or the tracks of the Holy Spirit we may be given a reprieve for
as long as we have a godly man who does not turn to the right or to the left but
completely trembles at the word of God.
Turn to II Kings and I’ll give you that hope if you will. If you want to know what to pray
about, folks, this is it. Pray that God will cause President Bush to tremble at the word of
God, that he will stay on his knees and not be turned aside by advisors.
God said, as long as you are in power, as long as you weep before me, as long as you
don’t turn to the right or to the left, as long as you tremble at my word, you will not see
what is coming. It will not come under your rule. It will not come in your time.
My prayer is that we would pray that desperately and event his morning before we close
this service, to call this church to pray that God give the spirit of Josiah in the White
House.
We can’t reach the world from this pulpit. But you see, yes, I pray that the nation
repents. But my most intense prayer is for my own heart.
Lord, let me be holy turned to you. Let me have a repentant heart. Let me judge my sins
that I may not be judged before the throne. I’m not looking at somebody else.
Folks, you can’t find anywhere in this particular thing where God blamed sinners. He
didn’t blame homosexuals, he didn’t blame those.
He said, it’s because of your pride and your cry of greatness. In your troubled times and
in your grief you didn’t turn to me with all your heart. You didn’t come against yours
sins but you turned to your own strength and you turned because you were wounded in
pride. Your pride rose up.
God says, if you will turn to me with all your heart I will repent of what I had planned for
you.
We can’t repent for the rest of New York but we can repent for ourselves and our
repentance this morning can rise to high heaven and touch the throne of God. We can
move the heart of God, I believe that with everything in us.
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