A Storm Is Coming to America — Tim Dilena

Time. Thank God. We do welcome you here. It's a very special day, not only of water baptism, but I think God is going to begin to speak some things very important to us. Um, we not only welcome you here live.

I know some of you are visiting with friends and family to see people get water baptized. I know, um, as of now, there's about 154 getting water baptized today. So that's exciting for us. There's 100, 145 in person, um, a nine online from around the U S Texas, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey.

We do welcome all those that are watching online. We do want to encourage you. We have, we do online baptism first. So we'll instruct you if you want to be water baptized, whether in person or online, online, I want you to hit that link that the hosts are putting up right now that will lead you to joining with us.

We baptize all those when the screen comes on and the annex, and we're going to invite all of you to be up there that want to come. The chairs will be up there. We'll be worshiping up there to baptism tanks.

And we go through it fast. You'll hear it because we've got to be back in here at one o 'clock. So it, and then we'll do it again after the one o 'clock service. But we want to welcome all those that are not only here, but watching around the U S and around the world.

We welcome those that are watching live with us from Venezuela and Costa Rica, Brazil and Mexico, Nicaragua, Canada. We say welcome to Jamaica and Puerto Rico, Honduras, Barbados, St. Lucia, Haiti, Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Panama.

We welcome South Africa and Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. We want to go over to Europe and say, welcome those that are watching live from Norway and Belgium, the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine.

God, we are believing a stop to this war in Jesus name, a stop to this war from Poland to Georgia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Singapore, and Australia.

And we are praying for the peace of Jerusalem. Amen. Believing for God just to come and do that. Just before we pray, this is one of the most important messages I think in the last three and a half years I've been here that I've given from this pulpit.

A Shepherd’s Warning to the Church

It will be a message of warning. Amos 714 says this, and I say this about myself. Amos answered as he was speaking to the crowds and to the people and to the cynics. He said, I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd.

I am not a prophet. I am a shepherd. That's all I am. But as a shepherd, there has sometimes the shepherd could see things that are coming and an enemy that may be coming to infiltrate. And some of you, I think after today, I'm just going to warn you.

So you will not offend us. Some of you after today, you will leave this church. You will just go, let's get to a better place. Let's get a nicer pastor and let's find something else by the end of this service.

But I think most of you will bear witness with your heart and soul. It's something I've carried with me for about four months, three or four months, and I'll explain to you what the Holy Spirit has spoken to me and has matured inside of me.

If you're new here today, don't turn me off just yet. I think God may be speaking, is going to speak to you. Some of you going like head for the doors and get your parking ticket out because, but, but bear with me.

I'll, I'll, I'll show you through scripture, what God is saying. I'll show you through the scripture because that's what you want. Let me just tell you this. If you're new to church, you want to find a place that preaches this, that preaches this.

That's the main thing. And I'll show you through scripture that everything I said is verified through this book. I'll show it to you. Let's pray. Father, I feel so inadequate to share what you have put on my heart and what you have been maturing and even, and even tweaking and, and, and getting to the spot that it's supposed to be.

And Lord, I know that this is the day, God, I try to get out of this with you. I've said, this is baptism Sunday. There'll be visitors. Let me, let me say something happy and rejoicing today, but God, you wouldn't let this go.

And father, I thank you that, that my heart, my heart just simply wants to say, thank you for speaking. Thank you for that. We serve a living God. Thank you that God is alive. Even though we may see problems across this world and issues father from the middle East to Europe and father things that could be happening in Asia right now, father, we, and even on our own borders, God, we have, we're facing situations that God, this world can change even before we get to the new year.

But God, we are a people that trust you. Even as David says, my heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart. So Lord, let this word, God, let it bring soberness, but God also let it bring a hope.

We will rejoice at the end. We will rejoice to know God is with us in Jesus name. And everybody said, amen. God bless you. You may be seated. 1995. I was reminded as I was just preparing an American airlines flight, 995, 965 crashed into a mountain, literally an entire airplane crashed into the mountains of Columbia, killing all 151 passengers and eight crew members.

The passengers were returning to Columbia for the Christmas holidays in December, and it was during a storm and the weather had hid the mountain from plain sight. But usually that is not a problem for those that would sit in the cockpit.

And there's an instrument there called the ground proximity warning system, the ground proximity warning system. And it warned the pilots that the terrain was coming. And it was these words that they would hear pull up, pull up terrain, terrain, pull up.

And 12 seconds later, the plane ran into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board. The warning system saw what the people did not. And when the rescue crews discovered all the wreckage of the flight, they found, as they always do, the flight recorder, they call it the black box.

And they wanted to see if there was a malfunction in the radars, if there was an instrument malfunction. And they realized that there wasn't, because this was the voice that they heard on the black box when it was warning, the GPW was warning, pull up, pull up.

And for some reason the pilot said, shut up, gringo, shut up. And 12 seconds later, it ran into the side of a mountain. They heard the warning, but failed to yield. They heard the words pull up. And the message today may be for many of you watching from around the country and around the world, this may be GPW for you.

This may be the warning system. And some of you will walk out, but I think some, I think most of you will pull up and go, God, we want to hear what you're saying to us today. Some years ago, I took a ride, a two and a half hour drive that I'll make this week with the founder of this ministry, David Wilkerson, as we were driving up to the Bible school summit, we'll be taking over the worldwide prayer meeting this Wednesday night.

Cyclical History, Sin, and National Judgment

And as David Wilkerson, who's not only founded this church but Teen Challenge, as we were driving up towards Hershey, Pennsylvania, I asked Brother Dave, as he was always known as, Brother Dave a question.

I said, Brother Dave, I said, when you've preached at times about things that you see coming and what you see possibly could be happening to America, I said, you seem to use prophetic books and Old Testament books that are speaking many times to that moment, to that time, but yet you associate it with what's happening here today.

And his answer to me was profound, and it was something that I held near and dear to my heart, and especially with what I've sensed today and what I want to show you through the scriptures from that meeting.

And this is what Brother Dave said to me. He said, history is cyclical. He said those prophecies can speak to a specific nation, but he said, but because history is cyclical, God will send similar blessing and judgment upon a society and a country when they either turn to God or turn from God.

God will always deal, he said, consistently with people and nations like he has had throughout history. Let me say it to you this way. This is the best way I could say it. History is cyclical because sin is predictable.

Men are sinners. We are sinners. And because of the sin that happens, it's easy to see what goes on. And what I want to share with you is it started in my spirit back in June of 2023 when I walked outside of our church to meet a New York City pastor and was struck by an eerie orange sky in New York City that looked like a bomb has fallen in New York City.

For those that don't remember this, it was the Canadian fires that swept over New York City. I'm going to remember what that looked like here. You walked out and I watched people like I walked out into a science fiction movie.

Do you talk about people were stunned and they left their home with clear skies and all of a sudden everything turned orange in the sky. I had people stopping me and asking me is this the end is what they were asking.

And at that moment, God began to move upon my heart and said basically this is what happens. I will suddenly come and stop people in their tracks for what I'm about to do. When you say the name Jonah, immediately we associate him with what?

A whale. A fish. But that was just a detour in his disobedient life. He really should be associated with one of the most incredible revivals in human history. His assignment was to preach, to go and preach, repent to one of the most, at this time, one of the most violent and barbaric groups of all time called the Assyrians.

Historians say that they were the ultimate barbarians and God was going to judge them. And really for a moment, Jonah was going to be the last straw before judgment, before their sky would turn that eerie orange.

But this is what happened when Jonah went to preach. Listen to this. The Bible says in Jonah chapter 3, it says that Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city.

It took three days to go through it. Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city proclaiming 40 more days and Nineveh will be overthrown. The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed and all of them, all of them, don't miss that word because we'll know what all means in just a few moments, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth, sat down in the dust and this is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh.

By the decree of the king and his nobles, do not let people or animals, herds or flocks taste anything. The animals were fasting is what this says. You know, we can't even get humans to fast. The animals were fasting.

Do not let them eat or drink, but let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction that he had threatened. Folks, this is an amazing revival. The revival of Nineveh doesn't get this talked about as much as really one of the most epic events of an entire city turning to God.

And in fact, don't miss this. The next chapter in Jonah 4 .11 tells you the number of what the word all meant. 120 ,000 people turned to Christ that day. 120 ,000. A preaching came, repentance came, brokenness came from the leadership all the way down and a revival hit the city.

Nineveh’s Revival and Nahum’s Warning

But because history is cyclical and because sin is predictable, that's why today this has become such a burden upon my heart. And that's why the book of Nahum has great importance to us right now. And for us that I'm going to speak to, not only in this country, but for the countries that are watching from the UK and different countries that are watching from Africa and those that are watching over Europe and especially even down in Central and South America.

Jonah and the book of Nahum are not only connected, but they are current to us today. And I'm going to show you this. I'm going to show you why that conversation that I had with David Wilkerson really led me to this moment.

Jonah and Nahum are not only connected, but they are current. How can a nation that has known God's blessing, Jonah chapter three, come under God's judgment? How can a nation that has known God's blessing come under God's judgment?

And that's why I believe, and I'm just going to say this to you, I believe a storm is coming to our nation. A storm is coming to America. I dare say that very few people have ever heard a sermon from the little book of Nahum, but today will be your first.

The book of Nahum is a remarkable prophecy and it's one theme. Don't miss this because you have to hear this right now. The book of Nahum is one thing. Judgment is coming to Nineveh. That was it. I read you the revival that came to Nineveh and Nahum is speaking about a judgment that is coming to that nation.

The revival city, a city that experienced revival in God's blessing is now going to come under God's judgment. The prophecy of Nahum at that moment was really part of my question has already been fulfilled, but how can this book be meaningful to us?

Does Nahum even have a message for us today or is it just part for some of us here, part of a Bible reading program to get through the 66 books of the Bible? The remarkable thing about the word of God is that no matter where we turn in these saturated pages by the Holy spirit, there was always a message for us.

There's always something that God wants to speak to us and this is the way Nahum starts. It says the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkashite. Now the city of Elkash and it was in Assyria and just a few miles outside of Nineveh.

So in a sense, Nahum is a prophet in the city of Nineveh. Whether he rose up during the revival, whether God was using him during the years he was living there and it was 150 years after Jonah chapter three.

The Nineveh revival is remarkable because it was 100 of the entire city that turned to God. But the question is this, how did it work out? Did it last? Did this nation become a godly nation? And the answer is no, they didn't.

In time they went back to their paganism, their barbaric barbarianism, and in time they became as brutal and probably worse with summer thinking as they had ever been before. Some years ago, a United States senator has stated that the average life of a civilization is about 200 years and then he gave the startling the startling steps of the progress of those 200 years of a civilization.

I want to, I want to emphasize that this senator gave the progress of a civilization. This is what he says. A civilization will go, here it comes, from bondage to spiritual faith. Then from spiritual faith it'll move into courage and fighting the injustices.

Then from courage they'll see liberty take place. This is over that 200 year stretch. And from liberty they'll move into abundance. We've seen that in our country. But he says it's not done. He says then it will go from abundance to selfishness.

From selfishness to complacency. From complacency to apathy and then apathy back to judgment, back to bondage. Folks, let me be clear. Where are we as a nation? I have to tell you. We have known, we have known a revival of spiritual faith.

This nation has known abundance. This nation has known liberty. And now we're watching this slide into selfishness, apathy, and a nation that is now in bondage. You're watching this take place. Folks, you may be visiting with us today and going, I didn't know that churches were supposed to preach this way.

Well, if you're in a Bible teaching church, it'll warn you of things that may be coming your way. That's what it does. This is the, and just stay with me. New people, just stay with me. Just because I know that God is going to bear something with your heart.

This is the picture of Nineveh. That progress of a civilization is the picture of Nineveh. Nineveh is back in bondage. I have to tell you something I read this morning that just, I almost stepped away from it.

When in Matthew chapter 12, I didn't even put it on the screen because I just saw it this morning in the scriptures when I was reading this. Jesus said, he said, the men of Nineveh will stand up with you.

This is Jesus in Matthew 12, 41, that the men of Nineveh will stand up with you at the time of judgment will condemn you because they turned to God and changed their way when Moses spoke his message. And then right after that, I've never seen this before.

Right after that, Jesus says this, when an evil spirit goes out of a person and looks for a place of rest and can't find any, it will go back to the place that it left. And when it arrives, if it sees the house clean, swept, but unoccupied, we'll call that the presence of Jesus and glorifying God.

It says it will come back seven times worse. Folks, that's connected with the Nineveh message of Matthew. That's Jesus's words. They turned to God, served God for a period of time. And over the years, they were right back where they started before.

And not just right back, worse than they were before. The destruction of Nineveh, according to the details given in the prophecy, is astonishing. The book of Nahum, I believe, even after talking with Brother Dave those years ago, is so astonishing and astounding.

I saw it. I saw it like I never saw before. That a nation that can experience revival, that can experience outpouring, if we don't begin to hold on to God as a nation, or you, the UK, or you, South Africa, or you, Poland, or you, Germany, that experience the reformation, you will find the enemy coming right back in.

That's why you have to listen to this today. We, I speak as a nation here in America, has experienced what we call three great awakenings and a number of outpourings of God's Holy Spirit, where millions, not 120 ,000, millions have turned to Christ.

The first great awakening, God swept through the American colonies in the 30s and 40s of the 18th century, 1730s and 40s, through using the gift of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. It was God pouring out, bringing a spirit of repentance, but God was doing something because he was preparing this nation for freedom and that we would find our foundations in our founding documents to go back to who God is.

That's why when you look at the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, that has its foundation from the first great awakening of what God did. Then 100 years later, the second great awakening started with camp meetings in Canaan Ridge and Barton Stone and moved through the years with people like Charles Finney, with an emphasis of not only winning souls, but an emphasis of traveling and preaching, both men and women at that time.

And then the third great awakening, listen to this, happened right here in our city, right here in New York City, downtown in the Wall Street District. It was called the Layman's Revival, with a man named Joseph Lamphere, who decided to have a prayer meeting at noon every day down on Wall Street.

And as a result of that, they said at noon every day around the United States, a million people would stop and seek the face of God. I was reading of the revival, they said as boats were coming into dock into New York City, before it even got here, the presence of God would hit the boats and people would start repenting on the boats.

But that, with the three great awakenings, but there was also some significant revivals from Azusa Street to the Jesus Revolution and others. And the question is, do the revivals last and where are we as a nation as a result of these outpourings?

And where are we as a country as a result of three great awakenings and a number of outpourings and sprinklings in different places that we have seen throughout our history even recently? And here's what I want to say to you today.

The Church’s Responsibility to Warn

The reason why I have to ask this question is because Jonah and Nahum will not let us idly sit by. Listen to me pastors that are watching. Listen to me preachers that stand in a pulpit and preach. Listen to me every evangelist.

Jonah and Nahum cannot let you idly sit by and watch the sky turn red and then wonder what has happened to our country. You can't idly read this scripture in Jonah and then go 150 years later and then begin to read what happened to the city that experienced the blessing of God and to see what took place.

Make no mistake. Make no mistake, Times Square Church. God is patient, but God will not be mocked. God is patient, but God will not be mocked. He says that right from the beginning. He says it's a message for Nineveh.

And then in verse three he says, the Lord is slow to anger, but he's great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked. Acquit the wicked. The Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the cloud.

Speaking of his power and the clouds are the dust beneath his feet. And then here's the part I want to give to you. It is in Nahum three that I want to give you the bulk of this. This is the part that literally I saw the sky turning red.

This is where it began to bring a soberness to me. And just hold on. Just give me a few more minutes and I promise you we'll be shouting at the end. There'll be a rejoicing. So just stay with me before you walk out.

Give me just a few more minutes. Nahum three gives the reasons why he's going to judge this revival nation, this nation that experienced. Now folks, remember this history is cyclical because sin is predictable.

History is cyclical because the sin of man is predictable. Here's what he says, why he is going to judge. Listen to Nahum three. Here it is. Scramble to their feet and fall again. He's talking about a violence that has come back.

A violence that is allowed to come right back into Nineveh. And all this because Nineveh sold herself to the enemies of God. The beautiful and faithless city mistress of deadly charms enticed the nations with their beauty.

Then taught them all to worship her false gods. Bewitching people everywhere. No wonder I stand against you says the Lord Almighty. And now all the earth will see your nakedness and shame. I'll cover you with filth and show the world how really vile you are.

And all who see you will shrink back in horror. Nineveh lies in utter ruin, yet no one anywhere regrets your fate. Now watch verse 10. He says, and all her great men, the men that you were depending upon, they're bound in chains themselves.

You will be drunk. You'll be hidden. You will seek refuge from the enemy. All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs. If they are shaken, they fall to the mouth of the eater. What he was saying was, what you have trusted in is so fragile.

Just a little shake and it begins to come apart. Surely your people in your midst are women. The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates. Draw your water for the siege.

Fortify your strongholds. Go into the clay and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln. There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. I will eat. It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many like locusts.

Make yourself many like the swarming locusts. You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven, but the locust plunders and flies away. Your commanders are like swarming locusts. Your generals are like great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges on a cold day when the sun rises to flee in the place where there is not known.

He even speaks to the churches that may have raised up there. He says, your shepherds are slumbering, king of Assyria. Your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them.

Your injury has no healing. Your wound is severe. This is what he is saying, why judgment is coming and what took place. For us, we look at this and we're going, this is like an ancient letter, but folks, if you can just read and pause at certain sections, I saw as I'm reading through this, six occurrences in Nineveh that signaled judgment for the revival city.

That became, it was as if the sky was turning red for me. I'm going, God, I'm watching this take place in the country that I love. Thinking of the veterans that we're celebrating today. The men and women that have fought for freedom for this country.

The men and women that have served and have given, laid down years, and some of them had to lay down their lives. And I'm going, God, what is taking place in the nation that we love? And seeing what's happening.

And these six things that he says is happening in Nineveh, folks, it's happening here. He says, one, violence will fill the streets. Number two, he says, this city is turning to drunkenness and perversion.

He said, number three, no one has any more courage to stand anymore. Four, there comes a flood of filth, he says, through your gates, and you don't even stop it. Number five, he says, your true leaders are lost and went into hiding when they're needed most.

You can't even find them. And number six, he says, and the ministers are slumbering, leaving the population crippled, void, and bruised. Think of this for just a moment, church. Violence will fill the streets.

Folks, I have people that will call me all the time and go, we want to come to New York City. I have people going like, but can we wear jewelry when we walk the streets of New York? Or will they rip it off your neck?

Because that's what they're showing on the news. Folks, I'm just telling you that it is not just New York City, it's happening in every city. Every city. Violence is filling that you don't even know if you can go out at certain times.

Those who are turning, I'm just telling you this, I want to be very clear when I say this, and listen, let it fall and, you know, I don't care. So let me just say this. Those, those, those from higher education, those, even in government, those who are turning against Israel, listen to me carefully.

Something deeper is being stated. Something deeper. What they're saying is, is we hate what God loves. We hate our colleges are saying, our universities are saying that we hate what God has put his love upon.

And then all of a sudden you find that a city turns to drunkenness and perversion. I remember as a young man reading Isaiah chapter five and reading these words, I was, it had to be almost 30, 40 years ago.

I read these words in Isaiah five, and it said this, there's coming a day, it says that good will be called evil and evil good. And folks, I'm telling you, I read that. I remember where I was when I read that.

And I said, that's ridiculous. Folks, that's where we live today. That's where it is. Evil is good and good is evil. And then there's no courage to stand. In fact, ladies, I'm just reading what one version says.

This is not, this is, please don't take this any other way. It just says, your men will become as women. That's what one version says. Your men will become as women. One of the largest religions in the world has just said, we will baptize almost anybody now.

It doesn't matter. They just, they literally have no more courage to stand. There's coming a flood into your gates and nobody is stopping it. Does anybody, is anybody have any more courage to stand and go as, as supermarkets now, supermarkets now are, have a brand new thing called palm recognition.

You don't even have to pay right down the street here, right at Columbus circle. You don't pay with money anymore. You pay with your palm now and you put your hand upon it. Folks, you can say whatever you want.

And if you don't like this preaching, there's 20 other churches in New York city. Go wherever you want folks. I'm, I'm just telling you, I, I see something coming, something come up. Trust me. I'm not buying groceries with my palm.

I'm going to tell you that right now. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to do it. It's just not going to happen. Come on folks. Something's happening. Something's taking place. And, and let me finish because let me just say this true leadership gets lost.

He says, and then he says this, the ministers were slumbering and leaving the population to be crippled. We're in a moral collapse and a spiritual landslide. And somehow the church has lost an urgency today.

The Christians most in danger. I don't believe as the persecuted Christian, it's the slumbering Christian. It's the comfortable Christian. And that's why the chief danger of the church today is not that it's is, is not instead of turning the world upside down, we're finding ourself trying to get on the same side.

And we have a, we have churches today that, that are putting all of our hope in. We got to get this person elected and this person elected and this per let me help you. You've already folks, all your hopes and dreams and elections are getting crushed every single election.

When do you wake up and say, it's not this way. We don't look to a city made with human hands. We have another city that we keep our eyes upon today where Christ is exalted and Christ is King folks. I'm telling you.

I think to myself today, we have people, the Republicans are letting you down. The Democrats are letting you down. God will never let you down. Listen to me preachers. Listen to me for just a moment. We have preachers that it's the, the, the sky's turning red and I, and I watch it happen and, and you see it, it's, it's happening.

You've got a war in the middle East. You've got a war in Ukraine. We were this close to being involved with the war, with the Philippines, with China, as the boats came close to each other. And they didn't even know that there was, there could have been a war that would, that would have taken place.

And on, on, on the, in that moment, and all of a sudden everybody is just on pins and folks, we, we, we don't know what's going to happen by the time we get to the new year. And we have, we have pulpits that are, instead of preaching this, they, they, they there's it's prophets of peace.

They're taking movies and preaching from movies, movies. They're going this week, we're preaching from Barbie and next week we're preaching from Oppenheimer. And the week after that mission, preach the Bible, preach the Bible.

Stop, stop with, see you at the movies. The church is, we're on a moral landslide and you're going to tell us about the Barbie movie and how that relates to Jesus. Stop it already. Be mad at me. Send all the emails you want, send the letters you want, withhold your ties from the church, but I'm going to warn you of what's coming and what's happening in this nation.

Prophetic Preaching and the Authority of Scripture

Say whatever you want today. Listen, Jeremiah 23 says this, it breaks my heart. It says, the Lord says, do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They're leading you into futility.

He says, they speak a vision, but it's from their own imagination. It's not from my mouth. They keep saying to you, they keep saying to those who despise me, the Lord has said, you'll have peace. And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart, he, this calamity will not come.

He, what he was saying was he'll let people sit in the church, living in sin and the stubbornness of the heart and never feeling conviction. But it was stood, look at the question, but who has stood in the counsel of the Lord that he should see and hear and give heed to his word and who has listened.

Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It's a swirl down the head of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not be turned back until he has performed and carried out the purposes of his heart.

And in the last days, you will clearly understand it. I did not send these prophets, but they ran. I didn't speak to them, but they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, they would have announced my words to the people and they would have turned them back from their evil ways, not figuring out how your evil ways work into this book.

They start to, then all of a sudden they start finding ways of beginning to take this book and editing things out so we can begin to have sin come in. And all of a sudden we start, let me just finish reading here because I'm getting upset here, but I'm not upset.

Listen to what he says. He says, the prophet who has a dream may relate this dream, but let him who has my word speak. This is what he said. He says, don't listen to the dreamers. Listen to the ones that preach the words.

That's what he says. He says, let him who has my word speak my word. And then he says this, what does straw have in common with grain? We need to be fed from the pulpits. He said, you don't want to put straw in your mouth and listen to this.

Then he says this, why is this important? He says, is not my word like fire and like a hammer which shatters rock? This word is a fire. It'll burn through the excuses. It will, those that are sitting in here today that are, the Bible, if the Bible is preached, it'll come like a hammer and begin to shatter all excuses.

And he says, therefore behold, I'm against these prophets declares the Lord who steal my words from each other. He says, they don't even get messages from me. They let me, let me embellish it. They listen online to what the next guy is preaching.