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my message this morning the Lord will
fight for you the Lord will fight for
you it sounds like somebody needs some
help please go to Deuteronomy the first
chapter
Deuteronomy first chapter that started
verse 21 I’m going to read right through
to verse 35 behold the LORD thy God has
set the land before thee go up and
possess it as the Lord God of your
father’s has said unto you fear not
neither be discouraged you came near
unto me every one of you and said we
will send man before us they shall
search out the land and bring us word
again by what way we must go up and into
what cities were so come now that was an
act of unbelief God told him to go up
and they said well just wait a minute
we’ve got to go check it out and even
though Moses approved it there’s no
evidence that God ever asked Moses for
that permission and the saying pleased
me that’s Moses speaking pleased me well
I took 12 men of Yueh one of a tribe
they turned and went up into the
mountain and came to the valley vessel
and searched it out they took of the
fruit of the land in their hands brought
it down to us brought us word again and
said it’s a good land which the Lord our
God has given us nevertheless or
notwithstanding we would not go up you
would not go up but rebelled against the
commandment of the Lord your God and you
murmured in your tents and said because
the Lord hated us
he brought us out the land of Egypt to
delivers in the hand the Amorite to
destroy us whither should we go up our
brethren of the spirits of their heart
saying the people is greater and taller
than we the cities are great and walled
up to heaven moreover we have seen the
sons of anak comes there then I said
unto you dread not need to be afraid of
them the Lord your God was good before
you he shall fight for you according to
all that he did for you in Egypt because
before your eyes and in the wilderness
were thou seeing how the LORD thy God
bare thee as a man death bear his son in
all the way that he went and he came to
this
please yet in this thing you did not
believe the Lord your God who went in
the way before you to search you out a
place to pitch your tents in and fire by
night to show you by what way you should
go in a cloud by day and the Lord heard
the voice of your words it was Roth
insanely there shall not one of these
men of this evil generation see that
good land which your fathers were to
give under your father’s well father
this is the third or fourth message you
put on my heart regarding unbelief and
I’m asking Lord to speak so clearly
awaken our hearts to the of the
horribleness of this sin of unbelief and
help us to see this mighty God whose
promised to fight for us and let us rise
in faith this morning believing God for
the impossible God for those who need a
miracle for those facing a crises for
those of God going through the hardest
time of their life let faith arise O God
we asked you to forgive our unbelief nor
you won’t let me get away from this
subject you’re dealing with me deal with
all of us likewise in your marvelous
love I pray in Jesus name Amen
now the book of Deuteronomy is Moses
rehearsing with the children of Israel
in connection by Ania
about why God turned them back into the
wilderness now children of Israel after
11 months came to Kadesh Barnea and they
could look over the hills and they could
see Canaan land they see the Promised
Land they were that close and the LORD
commanded them to go in and of course
they disobeyed and this is what we just
read and so they were cast back into the
wilderness and they wondered for an
additional thirty eight and a half years
and Moses now is speaking to the
children there he’s speaking to the
children of the the fathers who died in
the wilderness and he’s reminding them
of why their parents were wasted in the
wilderness how they lost the vision of
people who were called in annoying
to a people who God so loved who was so
miraculously cared for and bore them up
in his arms and how time after time
unbelief and doubt and murmuring and
complaining entered their hearts and how
they grieve God and God’s patience came
to an end with it and he said no he saw
the committed unbelief they were
committed to unbelief
there was nothing God could do there was
no miracle he could perform that would
change their minds they were set in
unbelief like concrete and God said
that’s enough and he said go back into
the wilderness not one of you not one of
you are going to enter the promised land
and hundreds of thousands of men that
came out of out of Egypt died wasted
empty lives in the wilderness and he’s
trying to say to the children now you’re
going to go in but he said I want you to
remember what happened to your parents
what you remember happened to your
fathers they’re all dead they’re all
gone
you don’t have any of them now living to
be a hundred and Moses looked to be a
hundred and twenty air and 123 and and
Miriam much older than that
and they were not living they’re gone
every one of their fathers the elders
were all gone and did except Joshua and
Caleb and he’s also speaking not only to
the children of that generation be
speaking to us today upon whom the ends
of the world have come and the messages
beware lest any man fall after the same
example of unbelief beware lest you in
the last days fall he calls it a fall
into this unbelief the same kind of
unbelief that caused them to be driven
back into the wilderness and live such
empty wasted devastated lives said take
heed what manner of impossibility you
face he said be careful of the
impossibilities that come against you
beware that you understand that God will
lead you he led them into these crazy
situations
to enable them to trust him to see his
power and to to build he one of the
people who would be unshakable in their
faith tested and tried that a golden
faith would come forth as a testimony to
the whole world at that time and for
history in God uses some very strong
language when referring to the the
unbelief in these children of Israel
words like wrath this is God’s attitude
toward their unbelief
God was wrath Rock anger abhorrence he
said you’ve tempted me you’ve tempted me
with your unbelief Moses reminded Israel
you saw how the Lord your God bare thee
as a man that bear his son and all the
way that you went he went before you to
search out a place for you to pitch your
tents he gave you a fire by night to
show you the way he gave you a cloud by
day that you’re still not believed did
not believe the Lord your God the Lord
heard the voice of your words and he was
Roth saying I tell you not one of these
evil men or doubters shall see the good
of the land except Caleb
he said God led us to Kadesh Barnea and
he said there he tried us
he said you saw the land and God said go
in they should have moved instantly on
the Word of God the promise of God God
said I’m gonna fight for you I’m gonna
go before you I’m gonna send Hornets
before you and chase them I’m gonna
chase them like bees I’m just going to
chase them and you’re going to many of
these values that’s going to stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord
go Moses and the elders decided to send
spies into the land now folks here’s the
lesson and learn it well you see when we
don’t act immediately on God’s Word if
we don’t stand and act on God’s Word and
allowed that to chase the
some fears from our life and move on
that word this word is given God means
what he said he doesn’t want to have to
repeat it over and over again he gives
it and says I expect you to believe it
and stand on that word they should have
gone on they would have marched into the
promised land they would have victory
after victory and God would have would
have undertaken for every one of their
crisis he would have seen them through
he was determined to to bless them he
said go but you see when you don’t act
on God’s promises and when will you you
toy with and say did God really speak
did God really say that can i really
trust my life to that promise so they
send the spies and remember whether
they’re the enemy Satan himself
possessed inhabited ten of those men and
he brought them back as Liars as
instruments of lies from the devil
himself they came back to report their
giants that cities are walled up to
heaven now that’s the biggest lie you
ever heard walled up to heaven and now
they have opened themselves to the lies
of the enemy because they did not take
God at His Word they didn’t move when
God said move they did act on his
promises and now here they are weeping
about their children we think about
we’re going to be in poverty our
children are going to starve in this
wilderness God you brought us here
because you hate us you hate us how do
you get from this point where they’re
ready to go the armies are prepared they
have honed their skills they’re ready to
go into the Promised Land God’s about to
open everything he’s ever promised to
them after showing them so many miracles
and now because they won’t act on God’s
promise they truly don’t believe what
God said and now they’ve opened
themselves to lies and now they’re
weeping in their tents they’re murmuring
they’re complaining and they’re looking
up to the sky shaking a fist God you
hate me
you’ve left estará oh they’re doubting
their call they’re doubting their the
anointed people they doubt that they’re
special in the eyes of God and somehow
they say to one another is God with us
anymore
in other words God at what point did you
forsake us
we’ve done our best they hadn’t done
their best
they didn’t believe God’s Word they did
stand on the Word of God and here they
are now the camp is in total confusion
when did the devil start lying to you
how many of these lies Out of Hell have
come against you that you’re not going
to make it that you’re not good enough
with God is mad at you for your past
sins and really hasn’t forgiven you how
is it that you can stand by and you you
know that God has called you to a life
of peace and rest in the Holy Ghost he’s
made you promises I’ll never leave you
I’ll never forsake you he’s made you
promise that he’s merciful more willing
to forgive than you are to confess he
said I’ll never leave you I’ll never
forsake what happened when did you stop
believing the lies that God’s going to
fail you in your crisis when did did
that come to you because somewhere along
the line you did not take God at His
Word somewhere you did not act he said
to them fear not neither be discouraged
but you see they struggled they
staggered at God’s promises God had said
no enemy will be able to stand before
you but the Bible said they would not go
up but rebelled against the commandment
of the Lord
now Kadesh Barnea is the place God
brings all his children it’s the this is
the place of ultimate testing of faith
the root word means fugitive vagabond or
Wonder because you see if you make the
wrong choice I could eat one day you’re
going to be a future
they’re going to be running and
wandering through a wilderness the rest
of your life and how you react your
Kadesh Barnea is a test an ultimate test
you come up to many tests you can look
back over your life you can see so many
deliverances that God brought you
through look back now and try to count
the times that you thought that you were
going down and here you sit in this
auditorium today you look back with
mercy and grace of God that’s been
poured upon you you could say God has
never failed me it was hard at times I
thought I’d never make it but God
somehow someway he made a way
there were times my finances look so bad
there were times I thought I was I was
going to go bankrupt there were times I
thought our family would be broken up I
thought my children would never hear the
voice of God and looking back oh I look
back at all the hell that I experienced
in time looked back at so many times God
in His mercy reached down and picked me
up and I stand here now in the grace of
God if you were here by the grace of God
but there comes a altima testing time in
our lives when we face the faced with
the battle so intense so beyond anything
we’ve known in history and the Lord is
trying to break us through to a place
where we’ll never doubt him again he’s
trying to produce in us a kind of faith
that is pure gold what you see without
it you can’t please him he can’t please
him just by doing work you can’t please
him by
Bible reading can’t please him just by
intense prayer you can do all of that
and still not please him because you’ve
done it in unbelief you can pray and
still not believe in God answers them
but he says without faith you cannot
please him
when the Lord brings them Kadosh bonier
and they have to make a decision they
move on and live by faith they have to
absolutely put their hands in the hands
of God because yes there are enemies yes
there are walls yes there are giants
they’re things ahead of them that look
impossible yet God says folks I cannot
understand why God has objected his
miracle-working power to human faith I
will never be able to understand that
that God has limited his miracle-working
power in the hands of our faith because
you see it jesus said in his own
country’s own place he could do no
miracles there because of their unbelief
he said I can’t work unbelief paralyzes
God and if you’re facing a battle now
you’re facing a crisis in your life I
don’t care if its financial marital
on-the-job I don’t care if it’s about
your children I don’t care what it is
whatever the issue is not if you’re
harder in life if there’s unbelief God
is paralyzed in working it out for you
absolutely paralyzed it so I cannot do
any work because of your unbelief is God
still with us they said and what they’re
really saying to God you’re with us we
still wouldn’t be in this crisis this
one’s impossible this is a hopeless
situation that I’m in but folks if it’s
impossible my Bible said he’s the god of
the impossible he said nothing is
impossible with him you can’t name me
anything that is impossible with God I
don’t care what you’re up against I have
to stand up God’s word nothing that you
and I are going through it’s impossible
for God to work out don’t tell him how
to do it
let me put my finger on the root cause
of Israel’s unbelief to say a root cause
today God’s spoken word is already
revealed word was not enough for them
they heard it and then immediately
forgot it because it was not mixed with
faith and you see the word that we
received from this pulpit or any pulpit
where the true Word of God has gone
forth if you don’t immediately mix it
with faith and have the holy ghost
imprinted on your mind and say I will
not forget this I’m going to make this a
part of the fiber of my life and God
will speak but you see every word that
God has spoken they’re in a crisis now
it cannot smell any and they’re about to
go over but they have forgotten every
promise God made they have they have
removed from their mind all the miracles
and all the remembrances of that which
God had done in the past and here they
stand in their crisis and they had not
laid hold of a single promise I’m asking
you when you hear preaching from this
pulpit do you lay hold of it do you let
it take as a seed take root in your
heart so Oh God water this with your
spirit let it take roots so that when I
am in a crisis I have the word that I
need but you see was useless it was not
mixed with faith see they wanted a new
word they wanted a fresh revelation God
are you with us or not
in other words Lord I really have to
hear from you now
I have to have a word and folks the word
that came through the lips of Moses God
said tell him I am the Lord your God and
I will fight for you but that was not a
new revelation it was not a new word God
says I’m going to remind you I’ve
already gave you everything you need to
see you through I told you you it was in
Exodus 14 14 they were told
long before the Lord shall fight for you
you shall hold your peace in Egypt you
told I will go before you I will fight
for you I will dwell among you do to run
322 you shall not fear for the Lord your
God he shall fight for you over and
again he said I’m with you I’ll fight
for you out I want you totally hold of
this promise but here they are trembling
before their enemies and saying is God
with us or not
is that what you’re saying now are you
saying Lord I know that you said that
you’d not let us bear it anymore
you’ll not allow any difficulty or lives
more than we’re able to bear but Lord
I’ve reached the point where I cannot
bear I’ve passed that point and you’re
not there yet I don’t see any evidence
of you undertaking from my crises well
you said you wouldn’t allow me to bear
more than I’m able but this is more than
I’m able to bear I’m past the crisis
point right now I’m in a place where I
wonder if you hear my prayers I wonder
if you’re with me are you among us or
not if you’re – why aren’t you working
if you’re fighting for me where is the
evidence
and until you it happened in referendum
when they took God led them right into
the – the driest portion of the whole
wilderness the driest spot no water in
sight in it revered him that’s where the
children were crying and God brought
them to the point of agony absolute
agony yes they were thirsty they they
were at the point of total thirst
children crying in their their murmuring
and their complaining and everybody said
well we’re just human no but you see God
had a mate God had made them a promise
and God was waiting for them to stand on
the word and say well back here God met
me and remember at this point he met
this and over here let’s fall underneath
raise our hands to God and let’s cry out
to him he’ll answer
God will send water if it’s rain from
heaven and now their trembled before
their enemies and God had told them the
dread of you is going to fall upon all
the nations wherever you trod there
you’re going to be a feared people here
they are instead trembling before their
enemies do you tread did you dread and
tremble before your enemy when we had
that many speeding sin God has made you
so many promises that he will deliver
you I I like what David said I will fear
no evil I will fear no evil when I draw
thy staff and cover me you see the devil
wants you to tremble before him and this
is what God despised that he seized his
people trembling before his enemy he’s
our enemy and God had made them every
promise to sustain them that no enemy
could touch them and folks exactly what
God has said to you I’ll never leave you
I’ll never forsake you
I’m more willing forgiving you are to
confess and if you cannot lay hold of
those promises you dis tremble before
the enemy and the only way out is not by
trying to promise God to do better it’s
not gritting your teeth saying somehow
yes God does sanctify our will the Holy
Ghost comes and gives us the mind of
Christ he does empower us but he wants
more than anything else that you walk in
the faith of his promise the Covenant of
God all the covenants work only through
faith no other way to bring the Covenant
into full fruition in our hearts you
want to go
I believed in unbelief in the New
Testament is a greater sin than unbelief
in the Old Testament it’s a greater sin
and he did not many miracles there
because of their unbelief Matthew 13 57
now you think about that for a minute
this is the New Testament and this is
how dangerous it is he said because of
unbelief they I could not I would not I
could not do anything in their midst
the scripture says under the New
Testament that his own disciples
couldn’t cast the demons out of a little
child and the Lord said because of your
unbelief in fact in the New Testament
Jesus was absolutely shocked at the
unbelief of his own disciples the Bible
said he upbraided in other words in
plain English he disgraced them for
their unbelief in fact the Jews because
of the unbelief scripture says in the
New Testament broken-off of the vine
folks we have something that the Old
Testament Saints could only dream about
they could only dream about the
communion that is possible that we we
now experience you see in the in the Old
Testament the Holy Spirit occasionally
moved upon the you’ll read and the
Spirit of God moved here the Spirit of
God moved here but you see the Holy
Spirit had not been not poured yet and
we live now in the time of the outport
Holy Spirit you see when they worse if
they had to go to the temple but you see
today God has made us the temple this
body is the temple the Holy Ghost they
had to go to the temple now God comes
here to his temple the Holy Ghost
divides he has given us he has given us
his own son to bear our burdens to carry
us like a father does his child he is in
dudas with the Holy Ghost and we have
all of these privileges and promises
that the people could only look about in
the Old Testament only dream about and
we live in this glory and still we got
him they could only dream of what you
and I enjoy now you see
we have a Christ that’s available any
hour of the day or the night 24 hours a
day a whole lifetime you can call on the
name of the Lord and you can hear his
voice my sheep know my voice and they
hear when I call we have this privilege
and we walk stone deaf in spite of it
all in time of extreme testing we doubt
Jesus said shall God not avenge his own
elect which cried day and night to him
though he bear long with them I tell you
that he will avenge them speedily
nevertheless when the Son of man cometh
shall he find faith on the earth
I’m going to come back to that that the
close of my message and that has to do
with the experience I had last night on
42nd Street when I went back after 16
years where God called me to raise up
this church and went back last night to
have a timeout we’ll have some time with
God reminisce with God and heaven
speaking the word to my heart and I’ll
tell you it has to do with his when he
returns he says am I going to find any
faith let me tell you the consequences
of unbelief all that generation
Deuteronomy – 14 – 16 all that
generation wasted away the hand of the
Lord was against them to destroy them
and folks these are strong words these
are strong words the hand of God was
against them his his own people his hand
was against them and he said not one of
you not one of you going to enter in to
the promise that I made to the rest see
the promised land is the life of rest
and peace and trust in God and life
without fear you see
grace in the New Testament the Bible
says there remains arrest and some must
enter in you know when I read that this
week some must enter in to know God if
some are going to enter in by great I’m
going to be one of those that enter into
that rest some have to that’s a command
God says some are going to enter into
that rest they’re going to get the word
that they’re going to end that are in
you see unbelief defiles every area of
our life now we have faith in many areas
of our life we have faith that God is
truly God we believe that the Holy
Spirit is on earth and he’s at work he
that he’s a comforter we believe that
we’re saved by grace we believe it’s
possibly sanctified by the Holy Ghost we
believe so many things we believe
there’s a heaven we believe there’s the
hell we believe in so many Arizona would
tell you if you have if we have in one
area of our life we’re doubting him
seriously in one area of our life that
spills over it’s like a concert that
defiles every issue that pours out of
our heart all the issues of life right
of our heart and if there is one area in
our life you’re safe for example your
children are not serving God and and you
believe for every other air but in this
one your heart is sunken you’ve almost
given up on that that area can defile
every other source of faith in every
issue in our lives
God’s Reed have been dealing with me
that God says what you want to fate
you’re going to trust me everything in
your life your finances your job your
career your marriage your relationships
everything if you’re going to have rest
you’re gonna have to have it in every
area of your life you can’t rest in one
area and be agitated in another area you
can’t be mad at somebody you can’t hold
a grudge against somebody expect peace
here though you trust him in every other
area of your life you don’t trust him
for forgiveness and reconciliation
and he says to them as for you turn you
and take your journey back into the
wilderness
I’m not among you and you see the the
sin of unbelief leads to the sin of
presumption presumption is to act on
your own as if you know everything is
okay in other words it’s just arrogance
it says I know the same and so they come
to to Moses and they said oK we’ve
sinned they really didn’t repent if
they’ve repented they would have
received God’s Word to go back and learn
their lesson in the wilderness but they
said no no we have we’ve got this
figured out now and we should have gone
but we missed it now we’re going to go
and so they in their own skill own power
their own abilities they organized
captains and they organized a small army
and they head up the hill to the mobile
and Moses said you could go but you’re
not taking the ark the ark stays right
here in the camp God’s not going with
you you go you’re going alone you see
will give God time will say well Lord
it’s past the deadline now you you
didn’t answer so I’m going to do
something about this and so we take it
in our own hands it’s presumption it’s
arrogance and say well well I have to
get a hold of this or I’m going to
bankrupt I have to I have to do
something now all you have to do is pray
and believe that God hears you it open
your heart and your ears for his
direction and say trust live or die I’m
the Lord’s if I go into the furnace I go
into the furnace he can deliver me but
if not I’m going to die in the furnace
I’m going into lion’s den God can shut
their mouths but if I’m meat for the
Lions I’m going to be resurrected and
I’m going to be with God and glory we
have to come to the place we don’t even
fear death we don’t even fear the
spoiling of our goods we say God is in
control of our lives
[Applause]
they go up in the bow it said them all
by its takes them like bees chase them
like bees and you see Christians being
chased like bees all over the world
today because they’re doing it their way
they’re no longer trusting God
you see God didn’t meet them on their
schedule they said well this is getting
too too too serious I’m gonna make
something happen oh man have I gotten in
trouble over the years for making things
happen God where are you I can’t wait
any longer I love you God but I have to
do something now you’re going to end up
in a wilderness have you ever seen these
people that that have a measure of
religion a lot of believers who even
come to church and the sing the songs
and so forth but you see they have no
faith and what happens then they’re they
they go back into this wilderness and
all they do is murmur and complain all
their life I mean they murmur about
their kids and all they talk about are
their problems and troubles and their
real problems and real troubles because
there’s no faith and if you want to walk
that way folks it’s going to be it’s
going to be your lifetime the rest of
your life and what happens then you lose
your history what happens to these
children when they go into the Promised
Land
and the grandchildren of these who died
in the wilderness the parents children
say what about grandad what about
grandma where are they what happened you
see the Bible says we we live as a tale
that is told if you see there’s a book
being written here in the wilderness and
you know what the book is titled would
be they all died in unbelief and there’s
no history now they die and what what
what are you going to say what are the
parent whether the children going to say
well well for 38 years all I heard was
my granddad murmur and complain and
think that God wasn’t with him and and
he
didn’t accomplish anything there’s no
testimony there’s nothing there there’s
nothing I can show there’s no history
there’s nothing it’s all gone
that’s the dread of unbelief cut your
history off immediately and then all you
have is that wasted life where the rest
of your life you murmur your complain
and you doubt there is no joy it’s all
gone and you wait to die I have a lot
more there but I want to just get it out
of my heart God’s been dealing with me
for a month on this issue because I’m
I’m finding if I go to preach the
preachers and and and I can talk to them
about brokenness and I can talk to
pastors about sin
and all of these things but folks if
there’s unbelief nothing else works this
issue has to be dealt with first am I
gonna trust God with my life I went down
to 42nd Street last night
Gwen’s down to Dallas visiting their
grandchildren for a week and be home
tomorrow but I was alone so I went down
last night to 42nd Street between 7:00
and 8:00 that’s when it’s most crowded
the shows all the show people are coming
in racing to their shows I went to the
spot where 16 years ago I stood weeping
where they were selling crack cocaine
and they were advertising death I got
the good stuff that’ll kill you and I
remember weeping there and God said
raise up a church right here in Times
Square I went back that spot Ford
theaters there now and there steps and
so I’m going up the steps and just sat
there and I watched the multitude now
it’s been estimated probably on 42nd
Street in in a rush time doing the show
time could be probably a quarter million
people go past there and I just set
there
look at these people running by and I
heard the Holy Spirit whispered they
have no God there are no believers but a
few in fact the few believers there saw
me and came up and said hi pastor what
are you doing here
I said I’m praying and I was praying and
weeping and you see they have no God
except sports they have the god of
pleasure success and money but they have
no God they have those false gods are on
all this mass going by and I’m thinking
they say there could be a quarter
million and and they’re not all here
some of them are all the way up Broadway
so I’m probably seeing 150 thousand
people here in in an hour
going by with no God except in name only
know so few submitted racing and there’s
no joy they look like they’re going to
the guillotine I mean they they look
like they’re going to a prison and just
racing and I thought no they’re me six
hundred thousand men that came out of
Israel and I said I’d have to stay here
half the night to see them pass by by
the thousands here’s maybe 150 thousand
passing by and it was such a mass you
have to walk out on the road the whole
place is filled in fact I had to fight
my way through to get to the Ford
theater from 42nd Street just to get to
the theater and I’m thinking I had I’d
have to wait here for hours before
600,000 men would pass me all going into
the desert all full of unbelief it has
struck me the Holy Spirit was teaching
me said you would have to see and he hid
in the Bible says oh they too
now can you imagine that multitude going
by him only two men get into the
Promised Land
Joshua Kaylin and over six hundred
thousand fighting men all died before
the time died in despair because of what
unbelief I believe I think of Jesus
I said no God how do you reach them is
there anything we have not done yet is
there some way the times where church
there’s some way I’ve been here 16 years
as part of the church and been here 40
years actually with Teen Challenge and
going back to the beginning of Teen
Challenge and look at the masses and
Jesus did you remember when I wept over
Jerusalem is that all Jerusalem Jews and
they’ve come from all of the world the
masses were in the streets and he went
out and he he had advantage points it’s
like I’m sitting there two vantage
points and he’s looking these we don’t
know if you’d only knew I wanted to
gather you as a mother hand under my
wings as the mother hen gathers her
chicks but you would not you would not
you see these people that are marching
by they have the gospel and Internet
they hear hear it on television they
hear it on all these different places
they they they have a testimony right
here they walk right by it
here on Broadway I say some people
passing out tracts and nobody wants them
I sold the Jews down there I said the
Jews passing out their literature nobody
wanted it and they’re all going here and
I began to see the value in God’s eyes
of a single believer the one who has
faith one man one woman who has absolute
faith in him I was I’d look across the
street and there there’s a great big
billboard and it’s it’s a new music
video network that’s being it’s called
fuse if USC is it’s good it’s an evil
music video outlet there’s a picture of
Tammy Bakker all dressed up and dragged
and it says I saw the light and it was a
TV with music videos and under it says
Tammy it’s number one for fuse Tammy’s
number three for drag queens
and I’m like it’s that’s way go down
you’re sitting up there way on top of
Broadway and to see what unbelief does
to see how far below and see a man can
go when a woman when there’s unbelief
when there’s no trust in God and I I
pictured sitting there the Lord saying
it’s near time he’s about to come and so
the searcher of all men’s hearts starts
searching for those that are trusting
him and he goes to the football stadiums
all over this country football state
hundreds of thousands every Sunday and
he can’t find anything and then I see
him going into Washington DC in to the
Congress and into all of the legislative
bodies all over the United States and he
can’t see any faith at all he sees or
those trying to push him out of this
society not even want to mention his
name they want to absolutely take God
out I see him
searching in every college campus he
can’t find any faith here one here
another and I see him searching football
stadiums I see him in hockey arenas I
see him at basketball courts and all the
venues all over the United States he’s
looking he’s searching where are those
are going to believe me I I came to die
for you I came and gave my life where is
anybody that believes me
the trust in me give their life to me
and he can’t find them and I hear an
angel say go to your church it so he
goes to the modern church and he looks
everywhere and they don’t even believe
in his birth as God they’d believe don’t
believe in a virgin birth there is no
faith there’s nothing but death and he
searches these cathedrals and he
searches the city and he specially
searches New York and he goes the search
took men’s hearts he’ll have faith
to her faith do you believe he knows the
hearts but he’s looking searching and
then he comes to his own people and
remember the scripture said he came to
his own in his own accepted him not he
came to his own people and they did
believe in him and I began to feel the
grief of God’s heart because he comes
into his church he comes into his own
body to his own family to his own
children and he sees despair he sees
fear he sees so few that believe and
trust everything in their life to him
and the Lord spoke to my heart he said
I’m not grieved by this they’ve made
their choice they’re children of the
devil but I am grieved because I have so
few so few to trust me to him and the
search of men’s heart is here today and
I hear that ringing in my heart and I’m
sitting there it’s an old God surely up
a few blocks on 50th Street and Broadway
right next to the most wicked show and
Broadway right here and down here taboo
that’s Boy George it’s all drag it’s all
homosexual and you see him lying duck
trying to get in there you see families
lined up and you see people lined up to
see these shows and you say all that
must grieve the heart of God not nearly
as much as what he feels in his heart
when he comes to his own house he comes
to his shepherds he comes to me he comes
to all of us and he says do you trust me
when I come am I going to have am I
going to find any faith and faith will
not take matters in its own hands faith
will wait on God faith will stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord
we just and the Lord forgive my unbelief
forgive my unbelief Oh God how you hate
this sin oh Jesus you’re merciful you’re
so loving but there comes a time you’re
going to have to turn this over to some
wilderness experience
you still love us you will still provide
bit Lord there will not be intimacy
there’ll be that nearness of God and we
were murmuring we will complain Oh God
forgive us Lord let this be a church
that believes fully and completely in
your faithfulness in a time of need even
in the time of death Oh God in these
last days when men’s hearts you’re going
to be failing them for fear and even now
it’s happening folks like tell you
something look this way just a minute I
stood over the balcony the street
balcony of the Ford theater last night
there’s no God number of years ago I
stood here and you showed me a vision of
a thousand fires burning in this city
and you showed me 42nd Street all the
blaze horses these horses and gunshots
and young people running over the cars
and upsetting cars and setting things on
fire
Oh God have I been misled did is
something in me that just it was that
personal was that
flesh and all Spirit of God came on me
so strong no David every word he said
I’ve been patient and long-suffering
I’ve even tried to bring a government
that would have some sense some blitz of
righteousness because of my mercy but
the time is coming and I believe I’m
going to live to see I don’t want to
live to see that day but I believe I’m
in when all of this comes to pass these
things gonna happen folks you’re gonna
need to have faith you’re gonna have to
trust God
you just got he’ll see us through he
will not fail us God is faithful do you
believe that how is it that these that
the Apostle ministered to Nepal so could
see you took joyfully the spoiling of
your good you were chased and you were
harassed but God has never failed he
will not fail you he’s going to keep his
children in the hollow of his hand
you’re not going to starve your children
are not going to be given over to the
enemy God’s going to see you through I
know that I stopped this birth for one
reason because I believe that there are
a number hearing me now and and I base
this partly on the response I got when I
announced my subject the Lord will fight
for you that many of you are facing that
ultimate test God brought you to this
place you’re at Kadesh Barnea right now
the Lord has brought you to this place
everything that’s happening your life
God has had a hand in that he’s allowed
it he’s going to see how you react now
how do you react
will there be from this moment on after
what you heard still some murmuring and
complaining and saying God why did you
let it happen or why you letting this
happen and oh god what do I do now
folks you just rest in him you come into
his rest and die to self die to your own
will to say Lord everything I give and I
put it in your hands live or die I’m
Yours Oh God answer the cry of your
heart no I’m not asking you to answer
the cry of my heart I’m asking it to
answer the cry of your heart Lord
there’s grief in your heart when you see
your children so downcast when you hear
God said I heard your words you were in
your tent or you were in your house and
I heard what you were saying I hear how
you talk to your husband how you talk to
your wife you talk as though I’ve
forsaken you talk as though there’s no
God you talk as though I’m beating you
down when I’m simply trying to get you
to love me and trust me God help us to
see how much we’re loved you love your
children you’re not mad at us you’re
trying to bring us to a place where we
are able to withstand the storms and the
trials that come our way because we have
a history with you that you have
answered prayer because we have believed
you and we’ve trusted you God can we
have parents that put their children in
your hands now can we have people Lord
in this house hearing me they can put
their career their job their business
everything in your hands their family
their marriage and their own health
their own health and not be afraid would
you raise your hands everyone in the
annex overflow room and this will raise
your hands and when you pray God forgive
my unbelief first that’s where they pray
it out loud in your own words Lord
forgive my unbelief God forgive my
unbelief folks pray it pray it from your
heart Lord I have doubted you
there’s area in my life that I’ve not
yet believed you in and I’m asking you
Lord to forgive me and pluck it out
pluck out the unbelief Oh God
I don’t want a desert I want to go into
the promised land
rest Lord you brought us out to take us
in you brought us out of sin to take us
into this rest some must enter in Lord
let us be that some God O God do it in
the annex right now ask him ask him to
forgive you and say God helped me to
trust you whatever it is put it in God’s
hand right now put it in God’s and more
I give it to you I put it in your hands
and I trust you Jesus now you can put
your hands down I’m going to give an
invitation about for just one segment
here you may be visiting us for the
first time here and in the annex
but I’m give you an invitation I’m not
going to give an INT a station for those
who knowledge unbelief everybody would
come but there’s some of you have walked
in here now you have to get to starting
point you’re not even at the starting
gate because you have slipped away from
the Lord
maybe you walked into you have never
really known Christ as Lord and Savior
in your life and he’s here the Holy
Spirit’s here now to change your life
it’d be a shame for you to walk out of
here without the capacity to believe and
you can’t have the capacity to believe
without the Holy Spirit and you have to
open your heart to the Holy Spirit the
Holy Spirit is hovering over everyone
hearing the sound of my voice and he’s
here right now to bring a miracle into
your life if the Holy Spirit’s been
talking to you now you may be bound
absolutely bound up especially I am
absolutely bound by fear and I’m just
about it could be a sin nobody needs to
know get out of your seat up in the
balcony go the stairs and steps on
either side and here may look just step
out of your seat and stand here in the
front we’ll pray with you buddy for a
miracle
marvelous thing about living in the New
Testament is that the Lord tore the veil
he’s given us access and we could come
at any time with our unbelief and lay it
in his feet we can come at any time
you’ll never turn this back you don’t
have to go into the wilderness you don’t
have to go the way the Israel in where
the true Israel were the Israel of the
Spirit the Israel of the New Jerusalem
and we are his children or how anxious
he is the moment he sees you take a move
toward him that move is not just walking
down the odds a move you take in your
heart it’s an attitude say Lord Jesus I
have to have help I’m asking the Holy
Ghost to come and instill faith in my
heart I’m not capable of it unless on my
own I have to have the Holy Spirit to
come and provide the very faith of Jesus
Christ himself and he does just that
that’s a wonderful prayer to pray and
it’s music to his ears that you want to
believe that you want his heart and you
don’t want to grieve him with the
unbelief you don’t want to tie his hands
God’s so faithful how many of you came
for believe God truly loves you he’s not
mad at you keep your hand right keep
your hand race and say it Lord Jesus I
know you love me you’re not mad at me
you’re not trying to chase me into
wilderness you’re trying to bring me to
your heart
Lord I don’t want to grieve you with
unbelief you said I can please you
through my faith I trust you to forgive
me and cleanse me of all my sins of all
my unbelief
I come to you as a child say Jesus I
need you I need you today
I need the Holy Spirit to comfort my
heart and to lead me and guide me I want
to be a person of faith that you’ll be
pleased with then you will smile when
you see my heart because you know like a
child trusting a father I trust you
because you are my father now let me
pray for your father I thank you for
your gracious love that’s being poured
out upon us right now we thank you for
this congregation Lord we’ve come this
far by faith but we’ve trusted you up to
this day
sometimes we faltered sometimes we
failed but you saw something in our
heart Lord that just held on tenaciously
and we say now Oh God
take us through this crisis take us
through Lord all the saints that are
here both men and women young people as
well that are going through a great
ultimate time of testing Lord let them
rest in the fact that you’re going to
bring them through to victory they’re
not going down they’re going to survive
but more than survived they will be
overcomers overcomers to give glory and
honor to Jesus hallelujah
thank you Jesus
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