This Generation Can Be Reached — David Wilkerson

Reaching This Generation Without Diluting the Gospel

My message tonight. This generation can be reached. This generation can be reached. Think of that subject for just a minute. This generation can be reached. Now this is a missionary kind of message tonight.

It may seem irrelevant to any past messages. I've preached or to the service tonight, but I think it's very relevant. Last week I had a few days off and I was reading the newspaper and perhaps you read it.

It's the story carried by United Press entitled recreation revival nets nine souls. The story concerned a Baptist Church in Florida that decided that young people could best be Attracted to the church by offering a week of special fun and games.

The story said 39 people were added to the church. Now the article didn't say whether they were 39 bowlers or basketball players or billiard ball experts. I didn't get that. Of course such publicity is set off a chain reaction and many Baptist friends have already thrown up their hands and cried What are we coming to next?

Of course, those are the old-fashioned Baptist. Others have stated well any way that you can win them. I'm for it. Just so it works any way to win souls is fine. And you can be sure that recreation revivals will spring up now all over the nation.

Can't you just see it in posters? Plastered all over. Orange County special series Cloverdale bowling alleys sponsored by Christian Center Church. Come one come all and everybody welcome. Bring your own ball.

We offer bowling tips to young people of all ages. Here are dynamic special speaker national bowling champ of u .s. Giving his inspiring talks and how to improve your score. Our motto is don't send your children to our bowling alley.

Bring them a Professional ball will be awarded to those bringing the most first. I thought it was rather funny. I Laughed about it. But I'm not laughing tonight. I Wonder if this little story tucked in the back pages of a city newspaper is not an admission by the church in general.

That this generation can no longer be reached by old gospel methods. As the church decided now that this hippie runaway generation thinks of the church is so stuffy and so out of date and so old-fashioned that it has to Revalue and revamp its whole program and try to Come around to the young people's way of thinking to win them now, there's no question about it.

Most church denominations today are out doing each other trying to win this rebellious generation. They're doing it by catering to the weaknesses of young people. Trying to be courteous to them trying to serve up a gospel that won't offend them.

Trying to fit Jesus in his gospel into this cockeyed framework of politics civil rights Philosophy and this habit way of life. The gospel never has fit into any kind of philosophical framework. The gospel has never Condescended to fit into any kind of a program.

The gospel stands alone. And so we have bearded preachers today writing books like are you running with me Jesus a pack of blasphemy? That makes my blood boil every time I look at the jacket or the newsstand.

You see a cigarette sucking priest. Are you running with me Jesus. And he claims that the only way to get through to contemporary youth is to talk Contemporary language in and bring the gospel down to the vulgar gutter level.

We have church Churches today inviting the hippie artists to take over the pulpit for self-expression through their vulgar plays. Offbeat music pop art and sacrilegious dialogue from the pulpit about sex and the Holy Scripture.

Newsweek and Time magazine almost every month now has the story in the picture of some priest or some minister. Who has come up with some new artistic pop art gospel scheme in many areas? The church has lost its identity altogether.

It is no longer a church. It's a theater. It's a cheap nightclub. The pulpit is no longer a sacred desk. It's a political platform and you know, I'm telling the truth. It's no longer the house of God.

It's a free-for-all forum for blasphemers sex deviates and agnostics. The man who runs this side show is no more a man of God than Norman Mailer or any other showman. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

He's running a hellish peep show in the name of Jesus Christ and bringing a shameful reproach on the gospel. Then I don't believe that any Christian has to sit by and take it. The scripture said who will rise up for me against the evildoers and I don't believe in in controversy for controversy's sake but I get so weary in In saying these men take over their headlines and talk about a contemporary gospel to me contemporary youth and trying to tell us that the Church is not reaching so they have to change.

The Church’s Accommodation to Secular Culture

Change gears change its color change its framework and try to adjust to this generation to reach it. The church has become so desperate to reach this generation. It is willing to try anything now. The cry today is for relevancy and Involvement.

The kids won't come to the church. They say so take the church to the kids. So what is the church really taken to the kids today? They've joined their protest. They've carried their banners they've integrated completely into their underground society by dressing like them talking like thing acting like them and adjusting to their low moral standards.

For example the easiest place to buy pot or heroin or other marijuana in Toronto up to last week was a church basement where hippies were being harbored and fed by Religious do-gooders trying to befriend them trying to be friends to him and the easiest place to sell it and buy it is in that Church basement in Toronto.

I can take it in the church. I've been there. The best place to hear obscene and vulgar speeches peppered with four-letter words. The most agnostic vile. Contemptuous speeches not on the street corner, New York City where I preach.

Where do you hear the most vulgar speeches today by Timothy Leary and Rap Brown the most obnoxious? Christ hating speeches in the world you hear it from the pulpits of our top seminaries today. All in the name of freedom of speech.

Mm-hmm, and they tell me that and I've talked to some of the leaders in it. Just I guess I'm just still enough of a Christian and American that my blood gets a little hot about it all and I've talked To some of them about it.

They say well. These kids have eyes, but listen friends. I was on the University of Mexico the University of America's in Mexico City. That's right. Pastor Wilkson was telling you a little bit about their service when I said in the United States.

There's a group of people who want to legalize marijuana. One-third of that student body began to clap. And Every time Timothy Leary sets foot on our seminaries our seminary campuses and our Christian colleges.

These men are revered and respected and they walk around campus like a hero the name of religious freedom. But thank God There is a Holy Ghost. Ecumenical body of believers today who believe it's still possible to reach this generation to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Personal Involvement and the Holy Spirit in Evangelism

Just as surely as there's been a charismatic renewal personal experience. Where people are enjoying and testifying of a personal experience in the Holy Ghost. There must come a charismatic renewal of personal involvement and evangelism.

Did you hear me if you're going to testify to a personal baptism of the Holy Ghost? You must also give a coherent testimony. It must be relevant and coherent. It must be up-to-date a testimony a personal involvement in witnessing for Christ.

It must go hand-in-hand. The Holy Ghost is being poured out upon believers to prepare us to reach this generation just before Jesus comes. He's preparing workers. He's preparing a church with a relevant Message of involvement in LSD.

Just a superficial baptism an unholy ghost baptism of the devil trying to duplicate this great experience and The involvement of the church world in general has failed to reach this generation. There's no other way to reach them now.

Except through an ecumenical body of Holy Ghost filled believers. Now God is not silent about this generation and how to reach it not at all. But as always God's methods are so simple and so clear that we tend to miss them because we're always looking for that new revelation in that new method.

Peter and John’s Compassion for the Crippled Man

The third chapter of the book of Acts is a powerful simple story of how to reach a crippled generation. And I think some of us have missed what God is trying to say to us. The third chapter of the book of Acts.

Here's the story of a lame man Who is laid daily at the gate beautiful of the temple? The lame man in this chapter Represents this crippled generation. The Bible said a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried.

How more vividly could you describe a generation that has never been able to stand on its own two feet. A Generation carried by an adult generation a monkey on the back. So if you please carry it around knowing nothing about Responsibility.

Do you see a better example anywhere of a crippled generation? He knew nothing of personal responsibility. No doubt. He lived in confusion. Why was I born? Why am I a cripple? This man could not work.

He could only beg. After working as I have for ten years with young people in the heart of this generation. To me. I could not find anywhere in a Bible a more perfect example of this crippled generation in 1967 and 8.

He existed just outside the door of the church. Just outside the beautiful gate exposed daily to religion and to religious people. To him all it meant was a handout and Shockingly enough this powerful temple this powerful church could offer him nothing more than Silver or gold could offer him nothing more than a social gospel nothing else.

Something to alleviate him temporarily and he must have been making out or he wouldn't have kept coming back. He was carried back daily. He must have been making some kind of a living from it and it's commendable that the church is so outgoing.

It's so commendable to see the church doing good. We do that at teen challenge. We offer drug addicts a bed. We offer housing. Education and all their social benefits that go along with preaching a full gospel.

But friends that's not the main course served at teen challenge. You heard what I said a psychiatrist said. Well, what do they give you a teen challenge. God in the morning. Jesus in the afternoon. The Holy Ghost at night.

He said you're just using God as a crutch. He said then give me two of them go out in the street and say come to teen challenge. We've got Good food. We don't go out in the street. Say come to teen challenge and we'll clean you up and give you a suit of clothes and straighten you up.

Not at all. We go out in the street and we preach Jesus Christ. Then we do these things because it's all a part of the gospel. Just as sure as my name is David Wilkerson that crippled beggar just outside the gate represents this sippy runaway.

Generation that stands right outside the door of our church. Life magazine last week Has a feature story of the runaway generation. And it says that the majority of these young people are making a living by panhandling or begging.

And I'm sure that begging cripple. Represents almost perfectly what I'm trying to explain to you tonight. The beggars that I speak of though of this generation are not all hippies. I met ten of the most pitiful beggars.

I've ever met Saturday night in Houston. They all are rather in Winnipeg Saturday night. Yes, this this is sunny last night after the counseling session behind the stage. Ten fine-looking young teenagers came up to me and the tallest fella Presumed upon himself to be the spokesman.

He said hey, mr. Wilkerson. I think you preach pretty good. But he said we go to st. John's Cathedral school here. That's a religious school, sir. And we're all mixed up. You didn't get through to us completely tonight.

But how do you explain all the phony people around us? How do you explain the fact that we're going to religious school? We don't know anything about God. We don't think about Jesus. And I looked at those boys and they wanted me to argue the gospel with them and I said now look boys I'll not argue with you.

I said I've preached my heart out tonight. I've told this congregation if you were listening I gave you enough gospel to save your soul and I'm not going to sell Jesus to you. I'm not going to offend God or the Holy Ghost to you fellas.

Here it is. Take it or leave it and they like that. They said can you come preach that to our school? Can you come and preach that to our school? But as I watch those young fellas leaving the auditorium that Saturday night last night, my heart was so heavy.

They look like poor little beggars, you know, you see these hippies down in Houston. You see 50 60. I saw 35 or 40 of them sitting in a little circle right in the main street. Sitting there out on the street with their hands full like little Indians.

Some of them 15 and 16 years old still wet behind ears ought to be a home with baby dolls or something. The mom and dad ought to have them there you could have knocked the Devil and rebellion out of the dead moment spanked him a little bit just a little younger and.

They're just poor little lost sheep little beggars walking the streets. I Turned to the man who was with me. I said look at it. There's little lost land just little sheep little beggars. Now let's examine God's method of getting through to the cripples.

Bible said who sing Peter and John about to go into the temple. He asked all. The same demands were made on Peter and John as were made on all the other religious leaders who passed that beggar. Help me out.

Give me something. The same demands were made. And friends, there's only one demand being made whether it's the ecumenical political church or the ecumenical Holy Ghost Church. There's only one demand being made on the church today help.

That's all it's that simple. Don't complicate it. The cry from the world is nothing more help. Give me. Now we approach the subject of getting through. First of all, let's stop the matter simply just going to church long enough to get personally involved.

Personal Witnessing Above Church Machinery

Peter and John were on their way to the temple to pray and Peter Fastened his eyes upon him with John. There are some ministers today. Even who do nothing more than go to church and preach sermons and tell other people how to witness.

And this is just what happened to me when I pastored. I had the most beautiful sermons on personal evangelism. You could ever see I Can get up in a youth rally and I could beg people to witness. I Threatened them into witnessing.

I did everything to get people out out out, but I wasn't doing it myself. I One day I ran out of church so to speak. God made me run out of church and go out in the street in New York. See I was in the temple to pray.

And you know friends the only way we're going to get through this to this generation is for every Christian that is spirit-filled to get personally involved in the life of those outside the door. A Personal commitment.

Everywhere I go here involvement involvement involvement. That means nothing more than going out and getting interested in the life of somebody out there. That's all just loving people. Peter and John were just going to church when they stopped and fastened their eyes on this cripple.

But that single act of love had repercussions that led to the salvation of 5 ,000 people. I was in Paris preaching last month and on Sunday mornings. They have closed communion. It's a believers meeting mind you just a believers meeting.

No sinners allowed. But in my meeting about 25 of them slipped in. They'd read my book in French. And so I didn't know it was closed to me. And I didn't know you weren't allowed to get saved Sunday morning in Paris.

In a Pentecostal church, nobody told me that. I Didn't have any better sense than to preach salvation and give an altar call and ten souls came up crying and I said pastor. He I said could I have some personal work?

He said I doubt you'll get and he said we're ready for communion brother Wilkerson. I Couldn't get anybody to pray with me. So I had to take him back and nobody seemed concerned about those ten souls because they had to have communion.

Hmm they had to worship that get the church business done. Mm-hmm. I would I have never been so I was gonna say mad righteously indignant. And a missionary in for me brother Wilkerson in the essence.

What are you saying Sunday mornings not the time for that? They did reaching this generation is the matter of stopping all the wills if necessary. Until there's a personal involvement. You know what a pastor told everywhere I go pastor come and say brother looks what can we do for our young people?

How are we going to get our young people working? How are we going to get them witnessing and I I got to thinking John Benton my surgeon with me. I said John are they asking you that he said everywhere I go brother Wilson.

Do you have any books? Do you have any literature? You got something? Did you have a gloss or glossary of terms how to reach drug addicts and Prostitutes and and you got any special ideas on how to get them working.

I Said John, I remembered when I pastored I came to place finally where all my preaching wasn't doing it. They weren't going out. So I really gave up on my congregation. I knew my people weren't going to go out.

I just gave up on it. My young people wouldn't go out. So every Wednesday and Saturday I went out by myself. I went down to the pool room. I've never been in a pool room before and it was quite an experience and I got so excited about it.

I went out Saturdays then for two hours and then I get up in church and tell about my Experiences and I'd sit there watch the young people their eyes getting big and about the third week. They were calling my house and asking sister Wilkerson.

Where is he at tonight and my wife would give him a little bit of underground information. He's working on 3rd Street tonight at the pizza shop, and they just happen to be there. And I say hey you want to walk with me?

And I put some literature in her hand and I'd take him by the arm and I had two or three and finally had a dozen. And when we got that meat in their teeth, they wouldn't stop. We had a witnessing crusade on our hands.

And you know, there are churches that want to have youth revivals now, you know what I suggest now. In fact, I'm going to have a young fellowship of young advances. We've got about six of them lined up already and we're we're having a special kind of revival.

We get all the young people in at seven o 'clock and they have a half an hour of prayer. And then we dismiss the church and send them out in the street and say you work for two hours. Then we're going to come back and have a testimony meeting.

Mm-hmm. They're on the way to church to the temple to pray. You know if That cripple had been standing at or sitting outside some of our churches. He'd have been signing a prayer card hmm. Or someone would be quoting all the scriptures on healing to him inspire his faith and Then they'd say I want you to go home and think about it.

And when you're ready, I'll be here. Come back and see me. Hmm. I'll tell you why our church is not reaching this generate. There's too busy minding its machinery. Huh, they're busy polishing its programs.

I Can't go to jail service that we got WMC meeting. Huh? We got Boy Scouts tonight. Mm-hmm. You don't expect me to go out Witnessing tonight when we've got revival going on. I'm not talking about leaving the church.

I'm talking about Witnessing all day long so that by the time you get to church, you've got the business already in motion. It's underway. No time to visit in jails and walk the streets to do personal work.

The church that's no longer doing it conducts conferences on how to do it. Hmm in that right and The more we're not doing it the more conferences on how to do it. You know if if the average pastor just attended the conferences and the meetings that his Denomination sets up to prepare him to do the job.

He'd get nothing else done all night long. We go to conferences. Mm-hmm. I still have the anointing. Now let's go on the next step first of all. Let's stop the matter simply just going to church long enough to get personally involved.

That doesn't mean quit attending church. But let's put personal witnessing ahead of everything else until there is a touch of involvement in our lives. Secondly, let us speak with authority. Let us speak with authority.

Speaking With Authority From Scripture

Look on us. Just as blunt just as clear a voice as anyone can hear and believe me that cripple took notice. Bible said he paid heed in other words Peter said I've got the answer. You know everywhere. I go the experts and the size.

Sociologists say mr. Wilson. How can you brazenly write a book positive cure for drug addicts? You know, what's an addict always an addict? How can you write such statements? And I tell them on radio on television wherever it is because sir, I have the answer.

I have a positive lifetime cure for drug addicts. Mm-hmm. I Was in st. Louis a couple nights ago doing some radio television work on my new book about parents and as well as CBS program Telephone calls, you know for an hour or so.

And there was a lady called up and I was talking about a woodshed revival. And I said the trouble in st. Louis is is that we've turned all the woodsheds into garages. That's why we have juvenile delinquency.

We don't have any more woodshed and some and I'm talking about spanking the foolishness out of the children. I quoted the Bible verse and some lady called up. She said you kind of preachers make me sick.

Mr. Said you get on radio like this and she said you're giving great comfort all these child beaters and all these sadists. They're going to start beating their kids because you got a preacher. Tell them it's all right.

Shame on you shame on you. And she was mad. In fact, they had to cut her off the course. She just jammed up the telephone lines. It must been a thousand calls. They could even get the calls the board just lit up like a Christmas tree.

Because all the grandmas and grandpas all over st. Louis began to rise up, but I said 13 now. What do I do. Do do I act like a gentleman or do I stand up now? Not so much. Do I act like a gentleman. Do I have to just take this because I'm a a little preacher boy running around with a little simple message.

I Set up on my seat and something happened and I said lady It's people like you That make juvenile delinquents. And I said, I don't have to sit in this radio and take this anymore. You don't know your Bible.

The Bible said spare the rod and damn the child if you want to damn your children go ahead and Spare your rod, but don't try to tell me how to raise my children. Mm-hmm on us. We've got the answer. Even the Roman Catholic Church has lost its voice of authority today.

One people in sickly after another means nothing. This latest latest one by The Pope about peace in Vietnam had no effect on the world community at all. There is no longer a voice. The church has lost its voice.

There's no clear sound about morals today. No clear sound about sex or the smut. In fact in some cities if you're going to join a parents Commission to get the dirty literature off the newsstand you're going to have to fight the local ministerial association.

Because I've been city after city where parents have told me and there've been Jews and Catholics and Protestant dads and mothers. They say mr. Wilkerson the biggest problem We have in this city our ministers are crying freedom of the press and they don't they say that that's witch-hunting.

Mm-hmm. Because there is no clear voice left. No certain sound from the church and in this confusion Only one voice is going to be heard. This generation will only hear one voice and That's the dynamic voice of spirit anointed people who say thus sayeth the Lord thus saith the Lord.

I believe that this church and Many other churches are beginning to sense just as you have this past week and you will in weeks to come. We're going to have to stand more and more in our churches and on the streets only on the authority of God's Word.

Everything else is sinking sand now all Kierkegaard Gertie the philosophers and the poets it has failed our young people. There's only one certain sound left. Let's get a hold of it and stand on the street corner before this hippie generation in the whole crowd good mix as well.

Thus saith the Lord. Let us speak with authority when you stand against the sinner now speak with authority. Don't cast your pearls before swine. We need something. We need more people that kind of Holy Ghost wisdom.

I had a hippie. Jump up in one of my meetings the other night and try to disrupt and tell me how to preach. I told the ushers to to usher him out. They talked to him outside and I said let him come back in when he's ready to become a gentleman.

And I've never let in the past year let any hippie or any other young person disrupt the moving of the Holy Ghost. I've had to speak with authority and stand up and thus saith the Lord and we need people.

Spirit-filled people that can walk on the street not just little cowards. But those who stand as the Oracle of the Living God saying thus saith the Lord. There has to be a voice of authority on the streets.

The police are no longer their hamstrung. It cannot be the voice of authority anymore the church. Ecumenical church has lost its voice, but I believe the Holy Ghost is going to bring a dynamic voice of authority.

Hallelujah. We must speak as the oracles of God. We don't speak as insignificant unheard voices. God is in us beseeching the world. God give us. God give this pastor and give this church a voice of authority in Orange County in this whole area Southern California.

God give this church a voice of authority. Hallelujah. Thirdly. Don't get bound by methods. Don't get bound by methods. Silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I unto thee. You see Peter had developed his own method.

Depending on the Holy Spirit Rather Than Fixed Methods

He didn't send him to the pool of Bethesda. He had no prayer cards. No manning list. No magazine. Just a man with a simple desire to help and I'm not against these things at all too often. We have specialists in the church.

One specializes in baptisms one in healings. Others in leading people to Jesus Christ. Peter didn't have to call in a specialist. Peter didn't have to have a man who specialized in a healing ministry.

He didn't have to call it out. Now. God has given gifts to the church. I'm talking about out on the street when you as an individual are face-to-face with human need you stand against devils. No, the powers of hell.

You need not look to the right or to the left. There must be in you that Authority. There must be in you that inner strength not to look around. You don't have to get on a telephone and refer them to brother Wilkerson.

Or to one of the deacons or to somebody else a special ministry and leading people through to a deeper life. That has its place. But that initial contact that comes from you and I believe God wants this for every spiritual believer.

You know in teen challenge, we don't have any special methods. I've never taught a single class on how to win souls in New York City in ten years. I've told you already that the method I use my brother Don thinks.

Could never be used by anybody else at the Senate. I doubt it could and I couldn't use his method either. But you know, I think sometimes the only thing the world sees. It's almost like a bunch of little tightly wound robots that have been fed IBM cards.

There's little scripture verses and here they tip to all over the community believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and I'll be saved a man and run off a Bunch of little robots parroting the same thing over and over and over again.

No personal feeling. No personal involvement with that individual, but just trying to ease their conscience. I've got a witness so I better get it over with. Not at all. You need no pattern you need no one to stand here and train you how to win souls.

All you need to know is that you have a love in your heart for the lost. You'll go out and share your personal experience. Go out and depend on the Holy Ghost to give you your own method. That's the unique thing about the Holy Ghost.

He's got a method for every believer. So diverse, you know. Sometimes I I've been in this back room and I've listened to brother Shannon and some of these others. Talking to people and leading them to Christ and I said boy if I did it that way I just I'd never get through and it's so unique and things that I'd never thought of or dreamed of.

And if you go out on the street interested in winning the lost. Forget all the things that you think have to happen. Forget all the things that others have told you just go out and get personally involved.

If you just love people and get interested in their lives hear the mouth. Let's just let them talk for a while and then you Vicariously enter into that experience with them and you begin to weave in the scripture and the spirit through compassion and love.

Begins to develop a story. Develop a spirit of conviction and then the whole plan falls in place. Now let's come to my last point. Demand an immediate response. I'm talking about reaching this generation of young people.

Demanding an Immediate Spiritual Response

Demand an immediate response on the spot. That's just what this young lady verified for me here tonight. Someone said well, maybe she will take off the brace and somebody by faith said tonight an Immediate response was demanded.

Rise up and walk. Rise up and walk. He gave him no time to think it over. You know friends. This is a cold turkey gospel. You've ever heard of cold turkey. That's instantaneous withdrawal with no medication and they break out in goose bumps and it's called kicking a habit their legs twitch.

They're withdrawing. We have no doctors no Psychologists no psychiatrists just one physician Jesus. And we go out in the street when a drug addict comes in and he may be he may be half-dead. He can hardly see and he sits there Scratching his nose and pulling his ear and I've had visiting ministers that get him to bed and wait till they wake up and then preach To him.

I said sir, that's not our pattern here. We preach Christ. And so whether he his eyes open and sometimes we've had to prop their eyes open and we sit there and tell him about Jesus and then we get our poison and lay hands on them and We say right now in the name of Jesus be thou made whole get up and walk out and we tell him now the door.

Swings both ways either you want to be cured and you want to be cured right now or don't waste another minute of our time. Jesus doesn't come in the back door right in the front door. Right in the front door.

It's a cold turkey gospel. Rise up and walk. I've decided friends that I'm going through all caution to the wind. And I'm going out to this generation. And I'm going to lay the claims of Jesus before them and I'm going to say if you're sick and tired of being a cripple.

You're sick and tired of the way. You've been living as a young person make up your mind tonight in this meeting tonight. God demands a decision multitudes in the valley of decision rise up and walk in Jesus name right now.

And friends this generation has gotten away without a crisis the spiritual crisis. And we've got to bring it to a spiritual crisis and you'll not win this generation. We'll not reach these young people on the street until we bring them to an immediate spiritual crisis.

They're able to think that they can think it over. They're able to think that and I hear people say all their hippies. They'll outgrow it when they're 21 so we sit around wait for our kids to outgrow their beards.

The tragic thing is someone said well only about 5 of men up as drug addicts and alcoholics. Would you want your child to be in that 5 It makes a difference then doesn't it I? Don't care what the percentage is.

We've got to bring our young people to a spiritual crisis where they have to make a decision. The Bible said this is the day of salvation. This is the day of salvation and that my friends is the only way to win this generation.

Bring it to a crisis every man. You speak to don't wait if that man needs healing pray for him on the spot. If there's confusion stretch out your hand in the name of Jesus Christ bind it for whichever you find in earth.

She'll be bound in heaven come against that bitterness and rebellion and rebuke it in the name of Jesus. Don't wait for tomorrow. Don't wait till they think it over say yes, or no young man. And I thought I I tell young people I'll stay here the rest of the night if you want me to pray for you.

I'll stay here on this campus, and I'll pray with you. I'll do anything if you're ready to accept my gospel that I preach. But if you just want me to argue, I'm walking off this campus. I don't have time.

I don't have to defend God or Jesus or the Holy Ghost. God can take care of himself. Here's the gospel friend. Clear-and-simple. Take it or leave it. Oh Yeah. Yeah. You said where is the room for compassion.

Friends that's the only compassionate message there is. You've got to force their back against the wall. You've got to make a decision now. Rise up and walk. I'm not concerned about Peter the significance of Peter reaching out his hand and lifting him up.