Pastor David Wilkerson Sermons Ministries 2016 – The La… — Transcript

This message is one of the Times Square Church Pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing World Challenge, PO Box 260, Lindell, Texas 75771, or calling 903-963-8626. You are welcome to make additional cassettes of this message for free distribution to friends. However, for all other forms of reproduction or electronic transmission, existing copyright laws apply. Would you open your Bible? Would you turn to 1 Corinthians, the 15th chapter, please?

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1 Corinthians, the 15th chapter. I want to speak to you this morning about my subject, the last Adam. The last Adam. 15th chapter, begin to read at verse 45 if you will, please. This is 1 Corinthians 15th chapter, verse 45.

chapter verse 45 and so it is written the first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickening spirit the last Adam how be it that was not first which is spiritual but that

And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The last Adam, howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward came that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord from heaven. That's Christ. And as is the earthly, such are they also that are earthly, and so is the heavenly, such as they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

as they also that are Heavenly and as we have borne the image of the Earthly we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly now this I say Brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither does corruption

The last Adam, Heavenly Father, I pray this morning that you help me supernaturally. I need strength. I need your Holy Spirit, oh God, to come upon me and make this understandable, Lord, and open our hearts because here in lies the secret of living an overcoming life and living in victory of the cross of Jesus. Lord, quicken us. Give us ears to hear what the Spirit says, Lord. Now, Holy Ghost, simply come upon me and speak through me. Sanctify me. Let your word come forth clear, Lord. Make it understandable, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Secret of living an overcoming life and living in Victory of the cross of Jesus Lord Quicken us give us ears to hear what the spirit says Lord now holy ghost simply come upon me and speak through me sanctify me let your word come forth

Paul here speaks of two Adams, the first and the last, and Jesus is called here by Paul the Apostle as the second Adam, and he also refers to him as the last Adam. The first Adam was the natural physical man in Eden, who was born from a lump of clay, and God breathed into him and called his name Adam, man. And the second Adam, or the last Adam, is the very Son of God himself, Jesus Christ the Lord.

him as the last Adam the first Adam was the natural physical man in Eden who was born in from a lump of clay and God God breathed into him and called his name Adam man and the second Adam or the last Adam

You know that the first Adam sinned and rebelled against the commandments of God, and by rebelling against God, he brought sin. The nature that is in him was passed down to all of his posterity or his seed. His seed is called his posterity or his children. The scripture says, by the offense of one, that's the first Adam, judgment came upon all men to condemnation. The Bible says, wherefore, as by one man, or by this first Adam, sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. The Bible says, by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners. You and I were born with this nature of Adam that's prone to sin.

his posterity or his seed his seed is called his posterity or his children the scripture says by the offense of one that's the first adom judgment Came Upon all men to condemnation the Bible says wherefore as by one man or by this first

How old were your children when you first recognized that they had a temper? How long did it take you to discover the Adam nature that's been passed down to all mankind? How long do you still look at yourself and all the struggles you've had, and just when you think you're the holiest and the most righteous you could possibly be, something kicks you off and you suddenly see Adam rising up again? That nature is there. But you see, you've got to fix in your mind that the first Adam represents everything that's of the flesh, everything that's of striving, everything that is presented to God by human will. That's what he represents. He represents the old nature. He represents everything that is flesh, that is of self-effort and striving.

Adam that's prone to sin how how old were your children when you first recognized that they had a temper how how long did it take you to discover the Adam nature that's been passed down to all mankind how

Now, in Noah's time, the first Adamic race, you know, became very wicked and violent. So violent, in fact, that God said he repented of making this nature, making this race. He repented that he made Adam. And in fact, the flood came. God sent a flood and destroyed all but eight souls and wiped out that entire generation because of its iniquity. And out of Noah came these various nations. And it's not too many centuries later when you find out that this Adamic nature is still in control, and God once again has to send judgment, and Sodom and Gomorrah were brought to ashes in the despair of mankind, sinfulness, the pride of the flesh, and the lust of the flesh, the Adamic nature.

again that nature is there but you see you've got to fix in your mind that the first ad adom represents everything that's of the flesh everything that's of striving everything that is uh presented to God by human will

And you come right down through history. You come down through time to the very time of Christ, just before Christ was born, and you look at the world scene and the Adamic nature, what it, the destruction that it's wrought to humanity. The Roman Empire with all of its lust and its wickedness and its vices, and right in the middle of that violent society full of homosexuality and full of rape and incest, a debauched empire that God would eventually have to crush. But right in the middle of it, God's eternal purpose is in Israel. There is Jerusalem in the Holy Land, and there is Judah, and there is Israel.

said he repented of making this nature making this race he repented that he made Adam and in fact the flood came God set a flood and destroyed all but eight souls and wiped out that entire generation because of its

But even in God's eternal purpose, even in God's great interest in this people that have been so blessed and so honored by God, it's not just in the wilderness, the ten provocations. These provocations continue right up to the time prior to Christ. And here you see in Jerusalem and in Israel such sin, such pride, and such arrogance. You find the priests that were robbing widows, stealing from their own parents, despising the poor. Priests and lawyers putting on the people demands and heavy burdens, and they themselves would lift a finger to try to fulfill or obey. And this is the scene that is set.

to ashes and the despair of mankind sinfulness the pride of the Flesh and the lust of the flesh the damic nature and you you come right down through history you come down through time to the very time of Christ just

Now, folks, God wasn't blindsided by what happened to the Adam nature. He wasn't blindsided at any time by all the wickedness and all of the debauchery and filth of this Adam nature. He was not surprised. He was not blindsided by it. God had a plan all along. From eternity before the world was created, there was a covenant made between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. God.

Society full of homosexuality and full of uh uh rape and incest a debauched Empire that God would eventually have to crush but right in the middle of it God's Eternal purpose is in Israel there is Jerusalem in the

Why didn't Jesus come immediately after Adam sinned? Why didn't Christ come down and pay the price? Because you see, men had to learn. Mankind, the Adam nature, had to learn that it cannot, of its own strength and its own will, please God. It cannot conquer sin. Sin had to be an option to prove that man could choose to love God. If a man was created with only the propensity to love God, it wouldn't be a genuine love. Love had to be tested. It had to be proved. There had to be an option. There had to be a free will. And man was given this opportunity under the old covenant to choose. And God knew in his heart and his foreknowledge that man would choose the wrong way. But he had to be shown that by his own efforts, by his own righteousness, he cannot save himself. He cannot break the power of sin. He cannot break the power of Satan.

wilderness the 10 provocations these provocations continue right up to the time prior to Christ and here you see in Jerusalem and in Israel uh such sin such PR in such arrogance you find the priests that were robbing widows stealing from their own

And so God finally sends the law and shows him. He puts up these laws as a mirror before man so that he can look at it and see how he fails, how in his own strength he has nothing to offer God. Do you know, outside of Jesus Christ, you have no good thing to bring to God? There's not one good thing. I don't care how good you are. You never smoked, you never drank, you never cheated, you never had any sexual problem, you've been good, you've been kind, you've given to the poor, and the Bible says all your works are filthy rags in his sight. You have nothing to offer him.

wasn't blindsided by what happened to the Adam nature he wasn't blindsided at any time by all the wickedness and all of the debauchery and and filth of this Adam nature he was not surprised he was not blindsided by it God had a plan all

God was not blindsided. He knew this, but he had a plan all along, a rescue plan. There would come a time when God would put this plan into action, and it happened. It happened in Israel. It happened in Bethlehem of Judea when God said, it's time. I'm going to finish with this old Adam. I'm going to do away with him, and the only way I can do away with him is to bring on my own Son. He said, I'm going to bring forth a begotten, another begotten Adam. I'm going to produce another Adam. I'm going to take this old Adam and do away with him. I'm going to bury him, and I won't deal with him anymore. He has no place in me.

price because you see men had to learn mankind the Adam nature had to learn that it cannot of its own strength and its own will please God it cannot conquer Sin Sin had to be an option to prove that man could choose to love God

if if a Man was created with only the pro propensity to love God it wouldn't be a genuine love love had to be tested it had to be proved there had to be an option there had to be a free

will and man was given this opportunity under the old Covenant to choose and God knew in his heart and his for knowledge that that man would choose the wrong way but he had to be shown that by his own

efforts by his own righteousness he cannot save himself he cannot break the the power of sin he cannot break the power of Satan and so God finally sends the law and shows him he puts up these laws as a

mirror before man so that he can look at it and see how he fails how in his own strength he has nothing to offer God do you know outside of Jesus Christ you have no good thing to bring to God

there's not one good thing I don't care how good you are you never smoked you never drank you never cheated you never had any sexual problem you you you've been good you've been kind you've given to the poor and Bible says all your

works as filthy rags in his sight you have nothing to offer him God was not blindsided he knew this but he had a plan all along a rescue plan there would come a time when God would put this plan into action and it

happened it happened in Israel it happened in Bethlehem of Judea when God said it's time I'm going to finish with this old Adam I'm going to do away with him and the only way I can do away with him is

to bring on my own son he said I'm going to be I'm going to bring forth a begotten another begotten Adam I'm going to produce another Adam I'm going to take this old Adam and do away with him I'm going to bury him

and I won't deal with him anymore he has no place in my sight and when Jesus was born the Bible said the first born of many he was born as the second Adam or the last Adam God says I can't deal with

this Adam anymore Jesus didn't come into this world to fixtion it he didn't come to renew anybody he didn't come to renew you sin because God looked at the old Adam and said he's irreparable there's nothing I can do I can't change him he's

Beyond hope the only way I can deal with him is to kill him because a dead man then is no longer responsible to obey the law because he's dead sin can't affect him because he's dead so Jesus came oh Hallelujah second Adam the last

Adam a righteous Heavenly man who took on the nature of the old Adam so that he could fulfill everything that Adam couldn't fulfill that our flesh couldn't fulfill that the seed of Adam could not fulfill Jesus came and fulfilled the law

to do away with it not the moral law but the 630 laws invented and created by the minds of a corrupt Adam nature glory be to God God wayed back in the garden gave a hint of what his rescue plan would be

for mankind in the last days after man had come to the end of himself her seed shall bruise the Serpent's head that that was the intimation that a son would be born through the seed of Adam and Bruise the Serpent's head

and years later to Abraham he gave even a clear ination I will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee for an Everlasting Covenant and to thy seed after thee God said Abraham there's a covenant

there's a covenant I'm going to make between your seed and me God the father said there's been a covenant made and that Covenant is between me and your seed now let me tell you who the seed is again to AB

Abraham now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to seeds in other words as if there were many seeds but only one and to thy seed which is Christ now think about this for a minute

Jesus said to God said to Abraham I'm going to make you the father of many nations you're going to have a seed and and all these to come out of that seed and then he said it's there's only one

seed Christ so how is he going to be the father of many nations if it all has to come through Christ and if you if you understand what Paul says in the Bible he said the natural seed that's not the seed the

seed of that which is by faith those that are in Christ Jesus who come through Jesus Christ that is the seed that's where the promises were made this is the promise of the Holy Spirit to come and possess us with the

spirit of Christ so that Christ could live on us and we would have all power and dominion over Satan and sin this is the Covenant now follow me please I want to try to make this as simple as possible

this is God telling the world a new race is going to be born born there's coming a second Adam and he's going to raise up a spiritual seed and multitudes around the world folks have known and understood and come

into this great Promise by faith in Jesus Christ the second Adam Christ was taken to the cross and his blood was shed and with that blood he sealed the Covenant in his own blood and he said these words it is

finished now what is finished certainly not his ministry not his calling not his power throughout all eternity what is finished the old man is finished the old nature is finished the old Adam is finished it is done God said the

Covenant Christ said the Covenant is filled is fulfilled and I want to tell you something when Jesus died he took the old nature into the grave Bible said the old man which is Adam is crucified with Christ he is now

dead then Jesus said the Apostle Paul said now you reckon reckon Yourself Dead to sin in Christ and let me tell you let me try to explain this as easy as I I possibly can and you have to ask God for

Revelation to see it please ask the Holy Spirit to see you no God said I'm finished now with the old Adam I won't deal with him anymore didn't mean that that he died literally because you know the old man is still

very much alive but he said in my eyes he's dead nobody can come to me now except through Christ I recognize only one man only one man can stand before me from now on there's no other access no Adam

nature nothing of the flesh can approach me anymore I do not hear the prayers I I don't answer except through Christ my own son only through the last Adam I recognize one man now and that one man was taken to

glory and Jesus or God told him I recognize you and your seed who are the seed of Christ everyone who by faith translated out of the kingdom of darkness out of Adam into Christ into the last Adam You and I by faith are

translated out of that man into the new man when you hear the old man in the Bible that's the old Adam nature when you hear the new man that's the last Adam that's Christ he said you put off

the old man and what he's simply saying you take my position you believe believe what I say about you not how you feel not how the devil Rises up in the old flesh you are in the new man and you take God's word about where

you are and who you are in Christ you reckon Yourself Dead you tell the devil he has no more power no more Authority you tell him that you are now been translated out of his kingdom and folks that is a step of faith that is a

step that you must take by faith and faith alone you have to be a part of it he see Jesus is the head there's a body called the body of Christ and God at at the cross Jesus said it's finished God's not going to do

with the old man anymore that that is finished that race is done in the eyes of God so if you you tell me now for example I was in one of the large prisons in New Jersey one of the largest

5,000 prisoners two weeks ago and the gentleman I went to see he said brother Dave a third of the population here are Muslims a third of the population are Muslims and they they have strict rules and many of them come in there and

they've been cured of drugs they don't use drugs anymore they don't smoke they don't drink and through just share willpower they have they still have this adamation but they they claim that they they're healed and so forth let me tell you something

if you've been struggling with sin a habit and somehow by your power and by your will and by your sweating and by your striving you now can sit in this church and say I am clean I have conquered this I'm telling

you right now if you were uh in the S within the sound of my voice God doesn't recognize it you're still a sinner you're still a drug addict you're still an alcoholic because you did it in the flesh you didn't do it

in the power and the authority of the new Adam you did it in the power and the authority of the old man and God doesn't recognize the old man or anything that's done in the power of the old man he

doesn't recognize it I don't care how many times you cry and this is the trick of the enemy me and he he tries to play this on Christians that are having a struggle with sin you you you have struggled so

long and so hard and you say I tried so hard that young man last week H this all say I'm a I'm a gambler and I can't quit I'm just overwhelmed by it I love Jesus but I'm overwhelmed by my

sin I walk these streets and drug addicts that were once saved that you know that come and claim Christ alcoholics they meet me and they recognize me and they greet me on the streets and and I'll say what happened

to you they said pastor I just some of them remember we way back in the days of Teen Challenge 20 some 30 years ago and now they're they're older and I said well are you happy now and they said you

know better I'm in living hell I said well why don't you come back and all almost inevitably almost every one of them give you the same answer well I've Loved Jesus I'm not mad at God I was bound by pornography some will

say I was bound by alcohol and I prayed and I cried and I wept and I pleaded but Jesus never really made himself real to me never showed his power and I couldn't break this habit and I felt that Jesus failed

me folks this this past two weeks I've had I i' I've met people that are attending this church that are that are alcoholics and and on drugs and other problems and one man took me by the hand he said what I'm going to I've cried the

River of Tears and I hate my sin and i' I've been to teen challenged and back and I I've been in program after program and I can't break it what's the problem I I go home get my on my face and say God what's going on

here they claim to love you they claim to pray and seek your face and folks I pick up my Bible and I start reading the promises in this book that are made in the name of the second Adam the last

Adam that he will keep us from falling and present his faultless Before the Throne of God and I read all of these promises that if we begin to trust him he will justify us by faith he will sanctify Us by faith he will heal Us by

faith he will keep us by faith he will protect us by faith all by faith and then the light goes on the problem has been unbelief absolute unbelief they don't believe what God said about them when they came into this

new man they don't accept the promises of God and the devil would be delighted if you spent the rest of your life just on your knees weeping and crying and saring over your sin in the flesh rather than going to the victory

of the cross of Jesus Christ and say I am in the new man I am in the last Adam God has done away with that the enemy is trying to destroy me I'm going to stand by faith and believe that God will give

me power through the Holy [Applause] Ghost a lot of our weeping and a lot of our pleading has to do with our flesh it's an act of unbelief there is a Godly sorrow yes but that Godly sorrow is not always in tears

it's just God desor saying oh Jesus I am so sorry forgive me for not believing that you gave me the Holy Ghost when I asked for it and greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world and I

believe that and I stake my life on it when you trust your position in the new Adam you may fail at times but God says I see you I see you in Christ you're going to come out of this battle victory

in your heart without condemnation without guilt Hallelujah know it tells some of you that are struggling now with a habit please understand that he still loves you God loved the Adam nature he he he he loved Adam Eve he loved all the seed of Adam

he he loved Israel all through their rebellions he's loved us ever since Calvary because he say it's because God so loved the world that he sent his second Adam he sent the last Adam as an act of love and if you can just understand that

now the devil would like you to believe that in the struggle you're going through that God has given up on you that God looks on you as dirty and filthy you say well if if I'm I'm out of

the old Adam and I'm in the last Adam I'm into Christ by faith why am I struggling right now why am I going through that that's the flesh battling the spirit lusting against the spirit of God in you because the devil is trying

to deceive you with a lie trying to make you believe your habit your problem your sin is greater than the Holy Ghost that's in you and when he gets you afraid of your sin he gets you afraid that you're going to be lost and

damned you have to rise up by faith and say I have the Holy Ghost abiding in me because the Bible say you can't be saved without the Holy Ghost in you that's the work of the holy spirit that brought you

out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light take your place in Christ by faith say I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and king of my life and in this struggle he loves me in this struggle he's with me in this

struggle he sees the Christ at work in me glory be to God that's kept so many many people that's kept me over the years yes when you're in Christ he's promised to instill his fear into your heart but folks fear alone will not keep

you yes by fear the Bible said man flees from his sin but see the real fear of God comes down to this God has made me these promises that if I'm in Christ I I am Victor and the fear of God is this that

I I may come to him in my flesh I may come to him trying to say well Lord you see how hard I'm working at this you see how hard I'm trying God it's not in your trying folks

it's in your submission it's in submitting to him and say Jesus I can't fight this this battle is too big for me I and I'll tell you what that's when he that's when Jesus begins to reveal himself to you when he manifests himself

to you when he knows that you quit fighting in your own strength and in your own power and say Jesus you didn't die in vain you didn't come in vain if there isn't victory for every believer then this book is a lie if there isn't

Victory to faith alone in Jesus Christ then Jesus came and died in vain and I can't accept that I'm saying there's victory for everyone who chooses to walk and live by faith they that are in the flesh cannot

please God the scripture says cannot please God Lord says no more animal sacrifices now no more 630 ordinances and laws regulations no more trying to please God with promises you can't keep no more bringing him the works of the

flesh now under the last Adam the only thing God asked only believe only believe God said this he can you think of the tragedy of of God loving and dealing with Israel some 3 million people that he takes on his arms and and tries to

reveal he was the same God of love then that he is now how loving God was with Israel how many times he repented of of of even thinking of doing away with them can you imagine just a small

Remnant coming out and they all die in the Wilder all generation is lost gone and now in these last days God did something marvelous at the cross and we have got to enter into that victory of the cross of Jesus Christ the

B Paul said up to now you've had a Zeal for God but not according to knowledge you've been ignorant of God's righteousness so you're going about trying to establish your own righteousness you're still trying to work bring the old Adam nature to Christ

and it's hard work but you have not submitted to the righteousness of God and in colossian Paul said God has delivered us from the power of Darkness he's translated us into the kingdom of his own dear son and you that were

sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by your wicked Works yet now you have been reconciled in the body of the flesh through death to present you holy unblamable unre provable in his sight now folks that's an incredible

promise he God said I've given you the last Adam and I I recognize you in the last Adam to present you that when the Judgment comes that Christ the last Adam will present you to the father with no blame totally unreprovable not

one word of reproof not one finger of blame but pure and holy and righteous before God that's a covenant promise Until you realize you can't come into that yourself there's no way and you're struggling and you're striving and

you're weeping and you're crying you can come to that you have to Simply say God how do I come to that and receive his word by faith Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness and he said the same thing happens to us

when we believe that those promises that were made we receive the promise to be kept by the power of God by faith I want you to go to Romans the 6th chapter please turn left from Corinthians the sixth chapter

beginning at verse four therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life if we have been planted together

in the likeness of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection knowing this that our old man is what a crucified man folks now listen to me please crucified where in the eyes of God not on the face of the Earth the old

man the old nature there but God said as far as I'm concerned he is legally dead he has no more power he has no more Authority I don't recognize him and I I no one can come to me Jesus said no one

can come to the father except through me God doesn't recognize the flesh anymore I I won't deal with the flesh it's over it's crucified in my eyes that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not

serve sin for he that is dead is freed from sin now if we be dead with Christ We believe We Shall also live with him now follow me closely on this I want you to see this is not a complicated truth it says that

the body of sin might be destroyed I I've looked at that scripture so many times over the years he that's dead is freed from sin I said what's that mean I'm not free from the from Temptation I'm not free there

are times that the enemy comes in and have driven me to to sin where is that freedom now here's what I'm going to read it again knowing this that our old man is crucified with Christ why that the body of sin might be

destroyed now the body of sin represents the whole structure of sin that means everything that's involved with sin the Temptation the ensnarement the power the enticement the habituating power everything that has to do with sin how you are ens snared by it how you are

held by it the whole structure of sin God God says that there's only one way that I can bring down the devil's whole structure of sin that's the body of sin everything involved in sin the only way I can destroy it is to

kill the man who's enticed by it I I because he said he used the illustration if you're married and your wife husband died you can Remar and you're not committing adultery because your maid has died he said you were married to your

old man you're part of the old nature Adam nature and the only way I can kill the whole body of sin is to take you into the grave and kill you Paul said I die every day he said there's a dying in side and that's

the glory and the Victory of the Cross Jesus Took Adam into the grave Adam with all the devil's enticements and all of these things in to show that legally he has no more power he has no more Authority God says in my eyes it's

over it's dead it's gone and I can't have that freedom I can't enter into the power of that except by faith I have to believe and accept what Jesus said what God Said I crucified the flesh when Jesus Took Adam

into the grave that the body of sin might be destroyed folks the only thing that keeps us from Total victory in our lives doesn't mean we walk in Perfection doesn't mean that the flesh doesn't try to entice the Bible said it has no power if by

faith you return and take your position and you see yourself as I see you as in Christ as you maintain your faith and your walk with God you maintain your walk with God and you're going to come out

Victor every time God is going to bring you out by faith and folks it all comes down to this without faith it's impossible to please God they that can must believe that he is in these reward of those that diligently seek

Him the Lord made all of these promises to keep us from death or rather to keep us holy unblamable unreprovable in his sight but on this condition if you continue in the faith grounded and settled and I've learned now

when the enemy comes in like a flood when the old nature comes and lies to me and says I still have power and authority I have to come back to the word of God I come back to these

promises and I come back to what God said that I am and I say father in Jesus name I am in the last Adam I am in Christ and you promised me that he has no Authority he has no power over me in

your eyes he's dead and I don't deal with you that way anymore Lord I deal with you now by faith in Jesus Christ I come not in my merits I am weak I am frail but holy spirit you promised me

the power you promise me the authority and the Holy Ghost will come he will Empower he will Empower you as you submit to the righteousness which is by faith in Jesus Christ now I want to I want to close in just a moment

Jesus said as I am in the world so are you now let's talk about this matter of Faith it's something it's something just to make a statement just yes it's through faith that we have the Victory and let me tell you

something that is required in the Walk of faith faith is total dependence of the Lord Jesus Christ in everything now you're not going to understand this it's just going to go over your head unless you see this this is what faith is all about

it's not just giving a sent yeah I agree it's not just agreeing with what you see in the Bible it's much deeper than that it's much stronger than that it's total dependence Christ came and the new last Adam lived a life of total holy dep

total dependence on his father Jesus said I can of my own self do nothing as I hear I judge as I I seek not my own will but the will of My Father which has sent me he said the son can do nothing

of himself but what he sees the father do but whatever things he sees the father do he does these also the son doeth likewise he's saying whatever the father speaks to me I speak whatever Direction he gives me I follow I don't make a move I

don't speak a word I don't do anything without consulting my father and that's why you find him going off to the mountains and seaside and and escaping from the people and all nights in prayer and seeking his heavenly father he said

I can do nothing now does that mean that he didn't have the ability he had the ability he had the power he had the authority he had the he the love and compassion he had everything he needed to do Great and Mighty Works he could

have gone out and done that yes you you you can do some great things through your own power and your own strength I've seen I've seen man just quit alcohol like that I've seen them quit cigarettes just like that you

you you there is an authority that you have there is an ability yes but he didn't use that he surrendered everything in his life to his heavenly father to be a totally submissive obedient servant an obedient son and he

said as I am in the world so are ye he did nothing folks if if we walk this way if we don't make a move you walking down the street and the tempter comes that's the old Adam nature

and immediately you stop and you say I am submitted to the will of God I want no will of my own and I'm going to now submit my body my members to Jesus Christ and right there at the spot that

moment you stop and you consult with your heavenly father and you submit and say help me Father help me Jesus I'm not going to go on My Own Strength I can't fight this In My Own Strength I can't

fight this temptation In My Own Strength and you consult the father immediately he will show you the way Jesus said what I see what my father he will show you he'll put a picture in your mind he'll give you Direction and

The Holy Ghost will come upon you and say turn around go to the left or go to the right the holy spirit will not fail to do what God promised he would do oh folks the only time I get in hot

water is when I do something without going to the father I've had I tell you what I've avoided a whole lot of trouble learning and my last years I well recently I told somebody yeah that's a good idea in fact I have to call my secretary

tomorrow she's here I have to call her tomorrow Barb you know I I someone said they wanted to reprint one of my old books it's 20 years old and I said that's sounds like a good idea and I I went home and the Holy

Spirit said you didn't you didn't ask me you didn't ask me you just mouthed off you do it lord said you're not going to do it I said why he said because in the first chapter I didn't know this first

chapter he said you plagiarized something and it was a lie and I'm not going to have you touch anymore because you're not the same man and he said if you produce it you're in trouble I love you but you to bring

trouble on yourself and you see a lot of times all all of this falling back into sin because you don't stop and you don't consult him you don't go into the secret closet and pray you don't ask him for strength and power and

authority you're out there wuning around walking through Adam's Temptation filled and not clothing yourself and submission to the will of God and the heavenly father I don't get any I don't I ask the Lord not to let me

preach sermons I'll get something and spend 3 or 4 days on on it and I'll look at it and I'll read it say Lord that's just the sermon I still haven't heard from you close it or tear it up and wait and

sometimes I have to wait till Saturday the last day until God just says here it is David because now you're submitted you're willing to hear and he speaks to his people every one of us God has a voice God has the power and he has the

authority if we would do as Jesus said I do nothing I say nothing except what I see and here of my heavenly father and that's the walk that's walking in the spirit that's that's simple walking in the spirit is nothing more than giving

God your ear and saying I'll obey what I hear and I'm going to wait on you till I get the word and I won't act until I do folks then God is you have obligated the Holy Ghost to walk with you you have

chained God to his promise and he can't get out of it did you hear what I said you have changed God to his word you have so changed him to the word that you could stand on the Judgment Day

and say Lord I submitted this is what I heard I obeyed you I am free and I challenge you a word God said bring forth your strong reasons you you can bring forth your strong reason because you're standing on

the word of God I told you last week get a hold of a master promise get a hold of a promise and stand on it and then get three more so that you can build four walls foundation and build a super

structure of faith on those promises of God folks there's a reason God is saying all this to us it's the reason he keeps pressing this week after week after week get rid of your unbelief get into Faith now because of what is coming

and then you will not be tossed by winds and ways of Doctrine you will not be tossed by world events you're not going to be tossed if there's a collapse of the market you'll not be moved by anything the devil brings into your life

you say God's will be done I'm in my father's hand glory be to God where you stand [Applause] thank God for the last adom thank God for a new race folks we are not of this world you are not Puerto

Rican you are not Nigerian you are not an American not in the spirit no you may be in the atom but in the new atom We Are One new man in Christ We Are One nature a Heavenly nature

he said now fix your mind on Heavenly things not on the things of this Earth but look up and rejoice We Are One in Christ glory be to God we have over a hundred denominations in this church look around you you'll

see most of them they're all around you you have no idea what surround you Christians Believers all one blood All In Christ not Jew Gentile male or female we are one in the last Adam glory be to God we are the body of

Christ and we are more than what coner through Jesus Christ Our Lord more than conquer not just the conquer but more than conquerors folks he's trying to get you to trust him that's all you can trust your way out of every habit you can

trust yourself out of every sin that holds you you can trust your way out of that right into the kingdom of God Heavenly Father please make this known and understood by those who hear me Lord help us to realize that we have

two choices the old adom or the last Adam we have a choice to be translated out of the old into the new Lord I Thank you that we're One race One race we're still human but we're also spiritual Lord we're not going to die we

are not going to die we are Eternal because we're in Christ we're going to be raised from the dead by the same spirit that raised you Jesus from the dead and is going to go into our grave and raise us but our spirit our

spiritual man Never Dies our spiritual man Never Dies glory be to God we're already in heaven our spiritual man is already in heaven glory to God seated with Christ we are in Christ and God sees us in Christ he rejoices in us

through Christ and he says you're mine because you're his glory be to God glory be to God if you're here this morning and you're struggling you're really struggling you may not have I may not have been able to make this as clear as

as it should be but it'll come clear in the days ahead and because this is the direction the Lord's been leading me into speaking more of the victory of his cross and his resurrection but right now if you're you're

struggling here you know it's a terrible thing to be in a house of God surrounded by Believers to be carrying such a heavy burden sin carrying a heavy burden of unforgiveness or bitterness folks I see this all over the

Church of Jesus Christ people who won't forgive people who have bitterness and they can't seem to get rid of it it's worse than alcohol or drugs terrible thing that so many Christians are not living in Victory and if you're here and you don't

have that complete victory in Christ you're living in condemnation and fear and you're going through a struggle a terrible struggle in your life I want you to come just get out of your seat and walk down here and pray with you and

even in the annex we're going to open The Altar for you to come down here I'm asking only for those who are going through a struggle and I'm ask for those who have been backsliding and I'm asking for those who' have never really given

their heart fully to Christ I want you to come and join these that are coming now I suppose I met one of you and I found out that you had a great financial need and just out of a heart of love and

mercy and and this this represents a check say for $10,000 and I I said here there's a brother stand I said here please take this and use it to pay off your bills and uh he doesn't reach reach out

his hands and I'm standing there asking him just to reach out by faith and take it and he keeps he keeps crying he said but but I'm in such need and tears rolling down his cheeks and he just

crying please but I'm in such I said well here's a check this will solve your problem and he falls on his knees and he said I've got to get help somewhere please I said here please and he keeps begging and he

keeps pleading he said what am I going to do I've tried everything I've called all my friends I've done everything and I said here and faith is simply taking what God Said is yours taking faith and believing with

all your heart this is [Applause] mine and I tell you it's a disgrace in the eyes of God when he comes to you with his promis and says here and you keep begging and pleading and crying and saying when God where and how the Lord

said right here take it it's in my book it's your promise lay hold of it now claim it reach out and take it into your heart and claim it now why don't you do that this morning just a simple Act of

Faith oh how God is pleased with that more than anything else he's not looking for you to fight your way through this so that you can come to church and get down on your knees and say God you know I had a drinking

problem and now i' three months clean and I think I made it it just makes him weep it's not what he wants he he wants to get a hold of the root of the thing because you see when you do it

on your own all you do is chop down everything that's seen doesn't get to any of the roots only gets to the top only that's which is visible but God's trying to get which is invisible underneath the very roots of sin and

everything unlike him and he wants to do that now will you pray this prayer with me Lord Jesus Lord Jesus forgive me forgive me for trying to please you for trying to please you and get Freedom get freedom in my life In My Life by my own

struggles by my own struggles and my own promises my own promis Lord I don't trust my flesh I don't trust my flesh my flesh is always going to fail myh is always going to fail but Jesus Jesus you

promised me you promise me that if I give you my heart if I give you my heart and I trust in your power I TR and claim your promise claim your promise you would keep me you will me

from the wicked one from the wicked one and you deliver me from the power and Dominion of sin you me from the andion of that's your promise that's your promise and now by faith Now by Fai I take it I take it I claim it I claim it

I am free I am free I am free of the power I free and the Dominion of sin and the of in Jesus name in Jesus name help me help me Heavenly Father heavenly father to come to you come to you with

with everything everything in everything in everything and talk to you talk to you and get your mind your and your direction and your peace your peace and your power your power now let me pray for you heavenly father if we if we

didn't hear anything but this that in faith we come to you to be saved in faith we come to you be justified in your sight by faith we are healed it is all all all all by faith and Lord if if

we're going to continue to walk in faith and walk in the spirit that simply means that we're going to take time through the day every moment if it if it's a thousand times a day we're going to stop

and and just stop in our tracks and mentally pray and mentally consult you right now father what do I do Lord what do I say and holy spirit you will be there and Lord most of the time you'll

say run just run turn around and flee flee the very appearance of evil God you will give the direction oh God give us an ear to hear what the spirit has to say give us an ear to hear Hallelujah

and then Lord it doesn't become complicated this this second Adam race I I am part of a new race a Heavenly race because I believe what God Said I am I'm a new man I'm a new woman I am in

Christ and because I'm in Christ I'm accepted by the father and my father loves me in my struggle and he's going to bring me through amen now raise your hands and give him thanks right now just say thank

you Jesus give you [Applause] thanks would you uh would you tell the Lord right now repeat this to me dear Lord dear Lord I know I know you love me in my struggle in my strg dear Lord dear Lord I'm not a man

of Filth or a woman of Filth I'm not a man ofth I'm not a wicked man I'm not a wicked woman because I'm in Christ I am in Christ and God sees me in Christ Hallelujah thank you Jesus

give you praise give you [Applause] honor this is the conclusion of the message