When Jesus Shuts the Door — David Wilkerson

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Jesus Shuts the Door

This shuts the door. When Jesus shuts the door. It's a heavy word, but I know God put this on my heart. Many of you here tonight need to hear it, both Christians and sinners alike. If you have children, there's a full staff nursery.

You go to any one of the lobbies, upstairs or downstairs, and the ushers will show you where to go. Let's pray. Let's bind every spirit that's wondering. Let's get our minds on the word tonight, shall we?

Now, David, I need just a little bit more help. Okay, thank you. Lord, we thank you tonight for your spirit, your power, and we thank you for the living word. We heard anointed word this morning that quickened our hearts and challenged us.

We heard it Tuesday. We heard it Friday. We heard it Thursday. Now, Lord, we're never tiring of your precious word. We don't get tired of your word. And I pray that you would make this word a two-edged sword tonight.

Holy Spirit, I need you. I need that special unction anointing of the Holy Ghost. Lord, you're about to shut the door on many, many who've taken advantage of you, who have not valued your presence, who are not heeding your word.

You're going to rise up and you're going to shut the door. Oh, Jesus, send your Holy Ghost tonight with conviction. Put the knife to our hearts if you must. Cut it asunder. Lord, let there be a seriousness tonight.

Let there be a sobering by the Holy Spirit. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. I want you to go to Luke, the 13th chapter. Luke 13. And I want you to begin with me at verse 22. Luke 13, 22. I'm reading from King James.

And I want you to get the whole story here. I'm going to read right on through verse 30. That's Luke 13, beginning at verse 22. And he went through the cities and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that are going to be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the straight gate. For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence you are.

In other words, I don't know where you're coming from. I don't know who you belong to. Then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence you are.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. When you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourself thrust out.

They shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and the south and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

Would you go back to verse 23. Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? Are there few that be saved? My message tonight, when Jesus shuts the door. Look at me please. This question that was asked of Jesus.

The Few Who Find the Narrow Way

Are there going to be just a few people saved? I've asked that question all over the world where God's called me to preach. I remember asking it in Mexico City. I was in one of those arenas to preach where they have the fights, what do you call those?

Bullfights. In a bullfight arena. Mexico City has probably, I don't know the population, probably 20 million now. One of the large cities of the world. And you look at the masses of humanity. A city that sprawls for miles and miles.

And you ask the question, Lord, how many are going to be saved here out of all these millions? And then the answer always comes back, such a few. I remember asking it in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We're having great meetings there, but it was just a small, even though it was well attended, so small compared to the overall population.

Sao Paulo is one of the top ten cities in the world in population. Sao Paulo is a teeming city. Like during noon hour, they come out of those buildings and then at rush hour. New York is nothing compared to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Just like waves of humanity, masses. And you stand there, you have to get off the side. You can't even walk on the sidewalk and you say, Oh God, this is a city given to witchcraft. It's a city of all kinds of idolatries.

How many are going to be saved? And you hear that sad report in lieu of the population, or in view of the population, so very few. In Poland for crusades, in five of the major cities, flying into Poland, into the Iron Curtain countries, you feel the spirit of those nations behind the Iron Curtain.

You think not only of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, all those eastern bloc countries. You think of Russia, then you move to China, and you think of the multiplied hundreds of millions in China. And then you're talking not millions of lost souls, you're talking billions.

Billions, and you say, Oh Jesus, how many are going to be saved? And they're just a few. The same question this man asked. I've asked it. I've asked it in Times Square here. I've asked it for years, for 30 years here.

I asked it this past summer before we started this church. I would get on the ticket to Rhode Island. Have you ever been out there when the theaters let out? About 10, 20 to 11 o 'clock, and you watch that mass of humanity in taxis going everywhere, and you see a pleasure-mad crowd?

Have you never been out there and let tears roll down your face and say, Oh Jesus, look at this crowd going to hell? How many are going to be saved? Are there only a few going to be saved? And I tell you now, saints of God, if there was a revival in New York City, and I believe it's coming, and a million people were saved, and we couldn't hold them in any of our churches or not even in the open fields, like Central Park, there would still be just a small remnant of the multitudes.

How many of New York would be saved? Just a few compared to the mass of humanity here. Only a few. Now how can anybody know that there are going to be just a few saved? Jesus said, Enter you in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat.

But straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Who said that? Few there be that find it. Now where is this Broadway? I'm not talking about Times Square.

I'm not talking about Broadway going right down through it. I'm not talking about 42nd Street. That's not the Broadway to destruction. That's not the highway to destruction. The Broadway, the highway to destruction is right through the door of the church.

I tell you, pastors are sending more people to hell than all the pimps and prostitutes and harlots out on those streets, and all the drug pushers included. And I say it with love, but I also say it feeling the wrath of God against a compromising church.

The Broadway to destruction, the Broadway to hell goes right through the door of our compromising modern church system. False doctrines, preaching false security, cheap grace, making lukewarm Christians feel like they're going to heaven when in fact they're going to hell.

They've never been warned or told that the gate is straight and the way is narrow. We've abandoned that. Do you know we've abandoned almost everything because we call it legalism? We abandoned keeping the Sabbath day.

We said we don't have to keep the Sabbath day. I was raised in Pentecost as a child to honor the Sabbath. And I still have that sense, whether you want to argue it from the Scripture or not, I believe that God, the seventh day, I believe there's a holy day for God.

Every day is holy. But there's something about just sanctifying that day and getting set in with God. Now, we've done away with fasting. We've done away with everything because we call it legalism. You know the answer to this man's question, will few be saved?

That's discovered in the very first word Jesus answered the man. Look at verse 24. Strive. I'm going to stop and preach on that word for a minute. Don't go any further. Don't get ahead of me. Strive. To enter in at the straight gate.

You know what that word strive means? To agonize. To wage war. To contend. To fight with fervency. You know what the word straight means? He said, I want you to agonize and contend and wage war. To enter in at the straight gate.

You know what that straight gate means? It means to take a stand. To take a stand. That's the root meaning of the word. It also means narrow. In other words, because there's obstructions on each side.

There's just a narrow path because of the obstructions. Because of the barriers trying to hinder. And there's just a narrow way between these obstructions. But the root meaning of the word straight is to abide and to take a stand.

Cheap Grace and the Compromising Church

Now, we as ministers of the gospel in these last days have been... When I say we, I'm talking about the church in general. In fact, I shouldn't use that word we because it's not done here. I can assure you it's not being done here at this church.

And it's not being done in a lot of Holy Ghost churches. But there are preachers today and teachers that are misleading the people. Absolutely misleading them. We are preaching such a cheap grace. We say, come to Jesus, he'll make you happy.

Come to Jesus, all your problems are solved. And you know what we're doing? We're selling Jesus like we sell toothpaste. We package him and we're trying to make him attractive to the world. And Jesus never did that.

He was always talking about denying yourself, taking up your cross and fighting and resisting. He wasn't trying to make it attractive. It was a bloody cross. But today, we like to go to church that makes us feel good about ourselves.

We like to go to church where you feel comfortable and you can still cheat on your wife. You can still lie. You can still do all these things and feel good about yourself when you walk out the door. I'm going to look up at the...

There's some people up there too, a lot of people up there. But you see, we've candy-coated the bait. We're packaging Jesus to make him attractive. Martin Luther stood up against the selling of indulgences where the priests were trying to sell indulgences.

In other words, you could buy your way out of hell or purgatory. And he took a stand against it. The Reformation came out of such a stand. Oh, but brother and sister, what we see in many churches today, far worse than anything in Luther's day.

Far worse than those indulgences being sold. You know what? I don't have television in my house. You ought to know that by now. One of these days, we're going to get it out of all the homes of Times Square church people.

One of these days, you're going to hear the Holy Ghost like you never heard him. He's going to blow it right out. When the Lord told me that about three years ago, our staff in Texas got all... I didn't ask him to.

We got $10 ,000 worth of TV sets and went out with shotguns and shot their heads off. I mean, we shot their... And we got a bulldozer and buried them. Somebody said, why didn't you sell them and give it to the poor?

We don't sell idols. And to me, it's an idol. And I'm going to go say another word or I'll start preaching on it. But you know, these television evangelists, send us $20. No, $200 now or $1 ,000 this morning.

Did you hear what he said? Our dear brother Tilton down in Dallas. No, no, no, no, no. It's not costing you $250. Your miracle is going to cost you $1 ,000. The same brother sends out a package of dirt in a plastic bag.

I saw it. I read it. Confess your sins over the dirt and send it back and He will wash the dirt. And it will wash your sins away. If that isn't false prophecy, if that's not a false prophet, I don't know one.

If you're sending any money there, God forgive you. God forgive you. What a travesty. That which was done in Luther's day was nothing compared to that. But you see, if you send us money, God will save your unsaved loved ones.

God will heal your husband, your wife, you can get healed of cancer. $200. The selling of Jesus. All the wrath of God that's stored up for that. You got to see where those men live. You got to see what they drive.

You got to see the lifestyle. Bible says there are strivers and there are seekers. There's a kind of seeker who will never enter in and his whole thing is to seek. His whole life is to seek. That's all.

He never intends to enter into anything. He's going to ever learn and never come into the knowledge of the truth. The scripture says, for many I say unto you, Jesus says, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Now that word seek means to inquire, to make an inquiry, to search. One who's looking into things. One who desires and hopes and wishes. Now he said, there are going to be seekers come and they're going to knock on the door and say, let us in.

That blows my mind that God would shut the door on seekers. Didn't he say, seek and ye shall find? Knock and it shall be open. But you see the seekers that are mentioned here in verse 24, for many I say to you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able to.

What Jesus is really saying, will there be few saved? And his answer really is, many seekers will come. They're going to be searching for me. They're going to ask many questions about me. They're going to look into it.

And they'll truly desire to enter in. And they'll appear to be sincere seekers after truth. But they will never, in their heart they really don't intend to enter in. Now the Bible says those who strive to enter in are those who agonize.

That's what the word means. They're agonizing over their sins. There's a grief in their heart. They hate their sins. They agonize over their self-centeredness. They've decided to count the cost. And that's what this word strive means.

You come to this door and you begin to agonize over your sin. You agonize over the cost. Whether or not you're willing to pay that price. And then you have to take a stand. And these are seekers who want to seek but don't want to take a stand.

And I see it in this church. I see it everywhere I go. People who are playing a game. They have it in their mind that they can go to heaven as long as they're seeking after truth. And they've been seeking.

I know people who have been seeking for 30 years. They are perpetual seekers. But they never ever... If you challenge them, When are you ever going to enter in? Well, I'm looking into it. I'm searching it out.

I'm trying to pick up all the pieces. I'm trying to get everything together. You can sit in your home and read for hours. You can play teats for hours. You can do all of these things. You can come to this church and hear the word over and over again.

But there's going to come a time God's going to call by the Holy Ghost for you to take a stand. You're going to have to take a stand on what you've heard. Jesus said to the Pharisees, You shall seek me and you won't find me.

Because he knew their heart was not in it. Because God said through David, Blessed are they that seek me with all their heart. You've got to seek him with the intention that you're going to enter in. Otherwise you're a hypocrite acting like a sincere seeker.

The seeker's game. It's a game. For many, many people it's just a game. It's a process. A lifelong process. And deep inside they're convinced. How could Jesus damn me? How could I go to hell? If all my life I'm seeking truth.

I'm telling you these are the very ones he shut the door on. Now, Jesus is merciful. Kind and long-suffering. But he will not be fooled. He won't be manipulated. And for many seekers the door's going to be shut.

Because they're seeking without ever intending to change anything. Alright, three things I want you to know. First of all, Jesus can rise up any day and shut the door at any time. He can rise up any time and shut the door.

When Jesus Shuts the Door in Time

Look at verse 25. When once the master of the house has risen up, and he shuts the door, and you begin to stand without and knock at the door saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us. And he shall say, answer and say unto them, I know you not whence you are.

Look at me please. Get the picture because it's awesome. It's very awesome. This picture that Jesus is painting. Remember this is the master speaking. Outside the door there are many, many seeking to get in.

But he rises up and shuts the door right in their face. Right in the face of these seekers. They seem so anxious to enter in. In fact, when the door is shut, they're banging on the door saying, Let us in, let us in.

Now why would Jesus shut the door on people who apparently act like they so badly want to enter in? Well, man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. Why would Jesus turn a deaf ear to seekers who are knocking on a door?

Why did he suddenly rise up? He rose up suddenly and shut the door as if to say, That's enough. That's it. You're outside the door. You will never enter in. I'm going to answer the question as to why he shut the door through the course of the message.

We're talking about the door being shut not in eternity, but the door being shut now. It can be shut tonight for some. We're not talking now about eternity. Yes, that's part of it. The door will be shut on the Judgment Day.

Israel’s Presumptuous Rebellion

It happened to Israel in their own time. I want you to go with me to Deuteronomy 5, please. Deuteronomy. You do have your Bibles, don't you? Yes, we do. I know you're from Times Square Church then. Deuteronomy 5.

I want to show you how God shuts doors in time, not eternity. This is going to blow some of your theology away, because some of you have been so deceived by a teaching of false grace and false mercy. You went to a church that's all they preached.

Didn't tell you the other side of the coin. I assure you that I'm on good scriptural grounds. Deuteronomy 5, beginning with the 25th verse. Let's go to the 40th verse. I'm sorry. No, no. I want Deuteronomy 5.

Well, I thought it was. Deuteronomy 1. There we are, verse 40. Deuteronomy 1, verse 40. Do you remember this story? They had grieved the Lord so many times. In fact, ten times they grieved the Lord. In fact, if you look at verse 33.

Who went in the way before you to search you out a place to put your tents in, and fire by night to show you by what way you should go. Verse 34. The Lord heard the voice of your words and was wroth, angry, and swear saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land which I swear to give unto your fathers.

Verse 40. But as for you, turn you, take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. You answered, this is Moses reminding them. You answered and said unto me, we've sinned against the Lord.

We will go up and fight. According to all the word of the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. And the Lord said unto me, say unto them, go not up, neither fight.

For, what's it say? For I am not among you. Is that the door shut? I'm not among you lest you be smitten before your enemies. So I spake unto you and you would not hear. But rebelled against the command of the Lord and went presumptuously up the hill.

The Amorites which dwelt in the mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do. And destroyed you and seared you into armor. And you returned and wept before the Lord. But the Lord would not hearken to your voice nor give ear unto you.

Is that what it says? God shut the door. God shut the door. Look at it. And you returned and wept before the Lord. But the Lord would not listen to your voice nor give ear. Look at me please. They had crossed the line.

I'm going to show you tonight where God does not draw the line. We draw the line. But there's a line that is drawn. And there's something happens when that line is drawn. That's the point where the door is shut.

You know, Israel spoke great pious words about wanting God. Just like we hear in this church and so many places. I really want Jesus. I don't want to hold on to my life. I don't want to be smoking these cigarettes.

I don't want to smoke pot. I don't want to use drugs. I don't want to live in lust. I want to live a life free from all these things. I hear that. Sounds good. But you hear it year after year after year after year.

And nothing changes. And something's wrong. Now go to Deuteronomy 5. I knew there was something there in the 5th chapter. Deuteronomy 5. Keep your finger on Luke 13 because we're going to go back there an awful lot.

Verse 23. Do you remember this is the story? They're standing at the mountain at the time. It's being reminded again. Moses is reminding them. God spoke that thundering voice out of the mountain. Verse 25.

Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore, then we shall die. They heard God's thundering voice that scared them. They didn't want to hear it anymore.

And who is there? Verse 26. And who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as ye have and lived? Go thou near and hear all that the Lord our God shall say.

And speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee. And we will hear it and do it. You don't look at me before going any further. Isn't that what we hear? Preach it to us. Some of you say I came out of something dead and I want life.

Or you say I didn't get the word of God. We don't preach the only word. There's a lot of good word going out all over this country and land. But I hear people say I want to hear it straight. I want to hear it as hard as it may be.

I'll receive it. That's what they were saying. You go to God. You hear what he says. You bring it to us. We'll obey God. Verse 28. And the Lord heard the voice of your words which you speak unto me. And the Lord said to me, I've heard the voice of the words of this people which they've spoken unto me.

They have well said all that they have spoken. Look at verse 29. All that there was such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always. And it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Go say to them, get you into your tents again. Oh, look at me, please. God said, all your words, they're all the right words. Yes, I'll obey you, God. I'll obey you, Lord. You speak the word and I hear it.

I want that word to take root in me. But you see, if it doesn't touch the heart, if the trembling of the Holy Ghost is not there, oh, what a dangerous thing to hear the word of God and not act on it. How dangerous to hear the word of God and not let it change your life.

Reprobate Minds and the Consequences of Resisting Truth

He said their hearts are not in it. And so today, we hear the same thing. Yes, you've well said all that you've spoken. We will hear it and we will do it. You know, in Romans, the first chapter, do you mind skipping over to Romans, the first chapter?

You know, God shut the door on the Romans and turned them over to reprobate mind, to homosexuality, to all kinds of sin and perversion. Romans, the first chapter, for our new converts, if you find Acts, just keep going to the right.

If you got to Corinthians, turn left. Romans, first chapter, 18th verse, 18th verse. Are you ready? For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against what? All ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

These are men and women. These are so-called Christians that they appear to love the truth. They say, I'm going to walk in the truth. But they're holding on to the sin. Holding on. They won't let it go.

They don't want to let go of the truth. But they don't want to let go of their sins and they're caught right here in the middle. Boy, do you know how dangerous that is? Look at the next verse. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God showed it unto them.

And not a person in this church that God hasn't shown his word to. He's shown his word really clearly to you and all, to all of us. We receive the clear word of the Lord. That not one person in this building can stand before the judgment seat on the last day.

And say, I didn't know, I didn't hear. You can't excuse your sin before the judgment seat of Christ. You can't excuse your sin saying, I didn't hear it clear enough. I didn't hear it with the fear of God in me.

I didn't hear it with thunder. You heard it with thunder. You heard it with lightning. You heard it with anointing. Verse 21, because that when they knew God, glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, became vain in their imagination, their foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Verse 24, wherefore God also gave them up. Is that shutting the door? God also gave them up to uncleanness. Uncleanness. To filth. The filth of their flesh. Through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between them.

You read on and you find lesbian and homosexual acts being committed. But it goes on, verse 28, even if they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, in other words, they went up to where did God change them?

God gave them over to a, what? A reprobate mind. That's the line. God just turned them over to what they wanted. He turned them over to the sin. He said, you want your sin? He released them to their sin and that's when the line is drawn.

And mankind draws that line. God turned them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness. They didn't want to walk in righteousness, so God just turned them over to their unrighteousness.

Now, some would say, now look at me please. Some would say, David, what you're preaching tonight is not lining up with my concept of the mercy of Jesus Christ, his grace and his long suffering. He says that doesn't measure up.

That's not the love of Jesus. How wrong you are. How wrong you are if you're thinking that. The most merciful thing Jesus has done in this New Testament is to stand up before a whole system, a religious system.

He's warning them. If that's not mercy, I don't know what is. If the bridge is up and a cop is there and he flags me down and he knocks on the window and says, run it down. And he says, if you go any further, you're going down a ravine.

I don't call that judgment preaching. I don't call it doomsday. I call that mercy. And he's a cop. The most merciful Jesus can do then to warn us what will happen if we continue in our sins. That's mercy.

That's grace. I want you to turn to Numbers 14. I want to show you how God can break his promises. Some would say, well, God can't break his promises. You want to see God break his promise? You want to try God and see what happens?

You say, all the promises of God are mine. Yes, they're yea and amen to all who believe. And that word believe there means keep on believing. And that implies obedience, yes. Very clearly. Numbers 14, verse 18.

The Lord is what? And he's of what? Great mercy. And he's what? Forgiving iniquity and transgressions and by no means clearing the guilty. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations.

He's praying, pardon I beseech the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy. As thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. And the Lord said, I pardon according to thy word.

But as truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Because all these men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and the wilderness. Have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice.

Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers. Neither shall any of them that provoked me see it. He shut the door to the promised land. Right in their face. Now look at verse 34. After the number of the days in which he searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year.

Shall you bear your iniquities even forty years. And ye shall know my, what? You will know my breach of promise. And you'll find that other places in the word of God also. Now look at me. You know what that word breach of promise means?

In Hebrew the absolute translation is to break and make void. Otherwise God says you continue your sins and you are going to know my breach of promise. You're going to know that I have to make it void.

Christ's mercy endures forever. Jesus will always be going out chasing after the lost sheep. That one lost sheep that's gone. The mercy of God has never changed. God, Jesus will be long suffering to the last trumpet sound.

He will hear the cry of the broken and the repentant. He will always be there with mercy and love. His character doesn't change. But it is not mercy. It is not grace. It is not love to overlook the deeds of those who cry Lord, Lord and will not lay down their iniquities.

The Lord said many will come in the last days saying Lord, Lord. We've cast out devils. We've healed the sick. We did many wonderful works in your name. And you'll say depart from me you work of iniquity.

I didn't even know you. The door is shut. He shut the door on the five foolish virgins. Didn't he? He went out calling the people to come. One said I can't come to the marriage supper because I married me a wife.

Another made excuses. Three parties made excuses. He shut the door on them. Said go out in the highways and hedges and compel them to come in. Over and over you find the door being shut. The door being shut.

The door being shut. Not in eternity but right here in time. I say to you that Jesus secondly will run up and shut the door on those who take his presence for granted and who refuse to obey his word. If you're going to take the presence of Jesus for granted, look at verse 26 and you'll see it.

Then shall you begin to say we have eaten and drunk in thy presence and thou has taught in our streets. Now look this way. The Lord had just said to them I don't even know you. I don't know you. Wait a minute.

Doesn't he know everything? Didn't he number every hair on our head? Didn't he say he numbered our parts when they were still in the womb? Before we were born he knew all about us. He knew our character.

He knew every cell in our body. How is he says I don't know you? He knows everything, doesn't he? Sounds like a contradiction but it's not. It's not a contradiction at all. He said I don't know whence you're from.

I don't know where you're coming from. See you've not made a stand. You tell me you're here knocking saying you don't belong to the devil. But you don't belong to me because you've never forsaken your sins.

You say you belong to me but you're a stranger. I don't know you. I don't know where you're coming from. You've never taken a stand. You've never, never faced it as you should. You've never counted the cost.