Anti Christ Exposed - J. Glyn Owen — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

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This week we have David Wilkerson with his message, You Really Do Reap What You Sow. You really do reap what you sow. Amen.

The Parable of the Talents and the Principle of Reaping

Good and bad. You'd be surprised we're going to talk a lot about the good tonight as well as the bad. Why don't you go to Matthew the 25th chapter if you will please. Matthew 25. Matthew 25. Let's begin reading at the 14th verse.

Very familiar. Verse 14. Very familiar. Kingdom of heaven says a man traveling into a far country he called his servants and delivered unto them his goods. To when he gave five talents to another two another one to every man according to his several ability straightway took his journey.

When he received that he had received the five talents went traded the same made them another five talents. Likewise also he received two. He gained another two. The one who received the one of course remember what he did.

He digged into the earth. He had his lord's money. After a long time the lord those servants come cometh and reckoneth with him. He that received five talents came and brought another five talents saying lord thou deliverest unto me five.

Behold i've gained beside five more. His lord said well done good and faithful servant. You've been faithful a few things i'll make you ruler over many things. Enter the joy of the lord. He received two talents came and said lord you delivered me two.

I've gained two more. The lord said unto him well done good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'll make thee ruler over many. Enter into the joy of the lord. It's received.

The one talent came and said lord i knew thee thou art a hard man reaping where you've not sown together strawed. I was afraid i hid it in the earth. There thou hast that is thine. The lord said unto him you wicked slothful servant you knew that i reap where i sow not together where i've not strawed you should have.

Therefore i put my money to the exchanges and then at my coming i would receive mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him said ten. And of course he was cast into outer darkness.

Very familiar scripture that has to do with reaping and sowing. Heavenly father thank you tonight for jesus holy spirit. I need to be quickened. Holy ghost come and quicken my body. Let me speak as the oracle of god tonight lord.

Don't let anybody stay in this service tonight without being moved by the holy ghost changed by the word of the lord quicken us lord sanctify me. I take your authority jesus over every demon power every prince upon in power of darkness that nothing in this house can disturb or or hinder the word of the lord from going forth quickened by the holy spirit in jesus name.

Amen. Now this matter of sowing and reaping you know goes two ways. It's both good and bad. You know all my life and all your life. You christian life you've heard this whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap now.

That has a bad connotation but it also has a good connotation. In fact probably most of my message tonight will deal with the good connotation. The bible said in due season you shall reap if you faint not.

Sowing to the Flesh and America’s Moral Harvest

Now there is a sowing to the flesh. There's a sowing to the flesh that brings a terrible awful harvest. How many people do you know that sowed to the flesh. And you know you look at their life and they are reaping on all sides.

Have you ever seen a day where there's been such awful reaping such terrible reaping for sins that have been sown. Physical problems mental problems family problems. On all sides. People who have been sowing to the flesh and sowing to the flesh.

And now they are reaping what they have sown. It's an awful harvest. You can see the effects of the sowing to the flesh here in the united states. Let's talk about what america's reaping now. Let's talk about the nation first.

Not just individuals but corporately as a nation. Look what we are sowing for example in our public schools you know all through new york. Now the schools are in absolute chaos. We have teachers that are afraid to go into the classroom anymore.

Let me remind you that in 1940 that's just one generation. In 1940 all classes open with prayer and a pledge of allegiance. They would pray first and then pledge allegiance to the american flag. But there was prayer every morning in school.

That was one generation ago. God's blessing was asked upon the school. They prayed for the principal. They prayed for their teachers. And over the PA system there was public prayer. School was open with public prayer.

And they said one nation under god. And folks he honored that he honored our classrooms. This nation was number one in education. I don't even know where it is. Now many nations have passed us. Many of our kids can't even read or write anymore in 1940.

Just a generation ago the top seven disciplinary problems in our schools were as. The number one problem in school in 1940s right up to 1950 number one problem was talking in class. Number two was chewing gum.

Number three was making noises. Number four running in the halls. Number five cutting in line. Number six improper clothing. Number seven not taking out the garbage. Not disposing of the garbage proper leaving apples on the desk for example.

Now today the most recent survey let me give you the top seven disciplinary problems in our american schools today since we took god out we took prayer out. We took the bible out. We want nothing to do with god.

We chased him out. We want nothing that resembles god in our schools. Now i say we were talking about the liberal mind. We're talking about the godless people who have pushed this upon our society. The number one problem in our schools today rape number two and this this documented robbery number three assault number four burglary number five arson number six bombing number seven murder.

That's one generation folks we are reaping. All of these are related to drug abuse. Every one of these problems have to do with young people that are on drugs. I don't know if you know that in brook up in the bronx in one of the schools just recently a seven-year-old boy in first grade came and laid on his desk a whole bag of marijuana.

He was going to pass it out to his classmates. Seven years old in first grade with a bag of marijuana. I don't even know where he got it. I don't know the whole story. But it all has to do with drug-related problems.

Well we wanted god out. We let the devil in it's payday. We are reaping in america in our schools what has been sold to less. They're calling now for free condom distribution in our schools even to seventh and eighth graders.

And now you know what. The latest latest thing is now condom vending machines in all of our schools supposedly to protect our young people from aids. But you know what that's saying to our young people.

We condone your sex. We know you're going to do it. So just protect yourself. What an awful awful harvest that we are paying right now. One half of all the births in our city now are illegitimate. Fifty percent of all the babies born to our young ladies now are illegitimate.

One half of all the children born this good. According to the latest report one-fourth of all pregnancies are now being aborted. Every one-fourth of all pregnancies are ending in abortion. Than 22 million abortions already.

And some believe it may be 25 million abortions. And many of them just girls going without their parents even knowing it. In just one generation we've come from chewing gum to machine guns. Now are you understanding how far we've gone.

And what kind of thing we have. In a bronx school a student brought an uzi machine gun to class hidden under his jacket loaded the reports of teachers now all over new york and in all of our schools even in country schools now have saying there's no uh respect for authority.

They curse the teachers. I don't know if you heard now that uh this past week two days ago i think it was the pope was in in uh germany in east berlin and hundreds of young people were cursing they stripping off their clothes and they were throwing paint bombs at his popemobile first time any kind of reception like that young people wild and absolutely uh.

And these were young people who admires of hitler right out of school out onto the streets. No respect for any authority. Then of course we they called uh 20 years ago almost 30 years ago for a sex revolution in the united states.

The liberal press and backslidden theologians called for a new day of sexual freedom. They said we don't want any more of your puritan moral standards. I said anything goes between two mutually consenting adults anything goes if you're adult and you consent anything goes.

And so now we have homosexuals that have come out of the closet who were in the closet for many many hundreds of years. Now out of the closet on the streets parading and now moving into the schools to teach their lifestyle and then taking to the streets.

And now it's become in your face perversion in your face like it or not they'll parade down the street with signs we'll get your kids like it or not. Some harvest. We've paid some payday now it's payday with aids.

Oh god help us. The new diseases now four million cases of chlamydia. Chlamydia shuts the womb. And it looks to me like god's going to have to shut one womb for every abortion with chlamydia. There there's there's a new papillion now a new cancer uh a sexual cancer that is horrible.

There are things that we just can't even understand so far beyond our comprehension. Payday syphilis is returning now to this to to the uh sexual generation. This revolution sexual revolution has brought back syphilis.

I have a christian doctor who's on our board. He was here last sunday sitting on the platform and dr rice he said pastor dave he said just 15 years ago i had to give six six hundred thousand units of penicillin.

Six hundred thousand units for syphilis he said. Today i have to give four million eight hundred thousand units and it still doesn't kill this virus. Think of it four million eight hundred thousand units.

And it doesn't touch it because it's. It's uh becoming absolutely uh immune to penicillin. And now with this papilloma it's called virus that's attacking many young women especially. And there's no end in sight almost every time you pick up the paper anymore.

There's some new disease sexually transmitted disease. Folks it's payday. We are reaping what we have sown to the flesh in our society now what does this word mean. You reap what you sow folks the the lord means that the bible means that.

Look what we are reaping with our children now when we allowed child pornography it is allowed. Child pornography is allowed. It's it's it's rife all over the united states now and now. Listen to me folks in the past 10 years one of the number one problems in our society is incest.

And primarily parents molesting their own children. Now we don't like to hear these things. But folks that is the what has happened to our society. It's payday. You can't keep feeding this garbage into the minds of the american society without reaping in it what we what we are reaping right now.

We've become such a degenerate nation of and some parents that are like wild animals and they're like beasts. Folks i can't imagine a father or a mother raping their own child. It's a that has to be a beast.

Where does that come from. We are reaping what we have sown in what we call sexual freedom. And now folks we're about to reap another kind of harvest. And that's an economic crash. Because we have become a greedy nation.

Wall street right here is the the the bed the hotbed of all of this greed. Everybody trying to get their hands on one big last killing. And what's happened. Folks let me let me i quote you something i just read in a newspaper by the federal reserve officer.

He said don't worry about multi-billion takeovers now with their 10 to 1 debt load. He said there's too many other unknown forces out there. Now folks out there has become a term. Every politician understands it every economist understand.

Out there is a whole unknown thing about society about our economy. Nobody even knows where it's going. Nobody can explain what's happening one day and i've been warning about it for a long time. Now one day overnight and i've told you the vision i've had repeat at least five times.

I've seen i don't know who the president is. I just see his chair. He's turned his seat toward the window and he's got all of his cabinet and all of his counselors in the room. And he turns and he says how did it happen.

And every man in the room has his head down and everybody's shaking his head. Nobody in the room can explain what happened. And the president is saying what happened. How did it happen. Folks is going to happen and nobody going to be able to explain it.

Because it's payday. We have been reaping greed or sowing greed. And we're going to reap a harvest. God has warned us and he's given us many many opportunities to repent. But there's been no repenting.

The bible makes it very very clear that we are going to suffer economically. There's a good side to this now. That's the bad side i've just given to you. I hope you're ready for the good side. The bible said you reap what you sow.

Sowing to the Spirit and the Last-Days Harvest

But he said if you sow to the spirit you're going to reap a wonderful harvest. Hallelujah. This whole story in in matthew the story that we just read to you we went through it. I want to show you that the lord is going to have a great host of willing sowers in the last days.

How many believe that god is going to have a whole host. He's going to have an army of people that are going to go out and sow the good seed. And before jesus comes there's going to be a great harvest.

There's going to be a great harvest before jesus comes. Now this parable proves to me that god is going to have in the last day those who are bearing fruit. Now often we focus on this one servant who goes out and he wraps his his talent in a napkin.

He wraps it all up and buries it. And many people think the church is going to be like that that there's going to be so much sin. There's going to be so much wickedness. And all these things we've talked about.

The church is going to be downcast. Christians are going to be defeated and they're just going to take their talent and bury it out of fear. This man said he's afraid and he buried his talent. And people have the concept that the church of jesus christ is going to be so inundated with all kinds of problems that the cities are going to become so wicked and so violent.

That is true. But this parable if you see it in the spirit is saying no that there that the majority in god's house in the remnant. The holy remnant are going to be bearing great fruit. They're going to be coming with the arms full.

They're going to be joyful. They're going to serve the lord with gladness. The bible said these men said i have gained. I have gained. There's going to be gained. The closer we get to the coming of the lord the more fruitful times for a church ought to be and i believe will be as the days come.

The you know the lord is not affected. The kingdom of god is not affected by the economy. The kingdom of god is not affected by anything the devil does. The devil can do everything he wants to. He can do all the demons of hell out.

He can come down with great wrath. But that does not hinder in one eye odor the plan of god. God's plan is not going to be affected by it. Hallelujah. I was looking at this this afternoon in preparing for the service tonight.

Our our lord is the one who's the bible said who's traveling to a far country and after a long time he's going to return. And the talent here represents the measure of grace and revelation of jesus christ.

Some one man was given a great revelation of jesus. He was given five talents. Another was given to tell us not not as much revelation but it was the true revelation of the grace of god. And the other was given a measure of the grace and revelation of jesus.

He buries his. But what happens god says in the last days. He's trying to tell us that in the last days he's going to have a people who trust him. He's going to have a people who are joyful in him. They know that he's not a hard task master.

If you think our god's a hard task master you're serving the wrong god. You have the wrong image. And that's why you bury your talent. That's why you have such a poor revelation of who jesus is. Because you have a perverted view.

You have never seen his grace and his mercy and his love for a lost humanity. Folks i'm telling you god is god is absolutely totally committed to saving a people. You understand. He's committed to saving and keeping you from the power of the devil.

He's committed to bringing you to his throne room. He's committed to presenting to you to the father without blame blameless before the father. He's committed himself to that. He's committed himself that there is going to be a harvest in the last days.

Hallelujah. You can look at what the homosexual uh community is doing and and say that doesn't concern the kingdom of god and his program. You can look at what is happening to our schools and you can grieve over it.

You can pray about it. But that's not going to hinder the program of god. And and i was i've been very concerned about our young generation. We pray for our teenagers and that. But i'm going to show you in just a minute what god prophesied going to happen.

He's not going to let this generation be lost. There are going to be thousands and thousands of christian young people in the last day coming to the lord. Let me ask you do you believe that before jesus comes there's going to be a clearer and clearer vision of who jesus is.

Do you really believe what the scripture says that uh though hell rages the gates of hell will not prevail against the church of jesus christ. That's the word of the lord. Hallelujah. The kingdom of god is not affected by demons or by the economy by communism by violence or any world conditions.

Hallelujah. This parable proves that god will have a last day army. Amen. I said a last day army prepared. I want to show you a prophecy now before i turn there. Remember jesus quoted this prophecy. Paul quoted it and it's quoted seven times in the new testament.

Psalm 110 and the Willing People of God

So clearly this is a last day prophecy of conditions in the church just before jesus comes now. This is good news. Go to psalm 110. Psalm 110. I'm going to show you a prophecy about our young people. If you're a teenager tonight.

Oh ask god to let this lay hold of you tonight. In fact if you're under 25 i'd say that's young. At my age. Anything is young. Martin luther said of this chapter a glorious prophecy concerning the kingdom of christ.

It ought to be one of the nearest dearest scriptures to everyone in the church. One of the dearest most precious chapters of prophecy in the bible. The lord said unto my lord sit down at my right hand until i make thy enemies thy footstool.

What's going to do with the enemies of jesus. They're going to be under his feet. That's the prophecy. The lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of zion who is the rod of his strength. That's jesus.

Hallelujah. In the midst of thine enemy to rule rule down the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning thou has to do of thy youth.

Now let me show you what this means. Follow me if you will. Please. Amen. There's a day of his power. Look this way please. The bible says there's going to be a day of his power. Now we know there's been a day of his power ever since jesus arrived ever since he was on this earth and ascended the floor.

It's been the day of his power. He's shown his power for the last two thousand years. But remember how god showed his power in israel in egypt. First of all he he shook the earth. And then he literally shook the heavens with thunder and with darkness.

And he kept increasing the day of his power and increasing it. And what did he do. A final rage of death to the firstborn. There was a burst of power. And do you know what the lord said he's going to do.

He's been shaking everything. But he said there's going to be one last shaking. He said i'm going to shake everything. There's going to be a day of his power. And we're living in that day of his power.

And he said in the day of his power when god comes down to start dealing with his enemies. And folks he is dealing with his enemies now. Oh yes even presidents of the united states they can hide and hide it.

But if if if if god says it's time he exposes it. That was watergate for example. And and and no matter who's in washington you can't hide from god. You can't hide. I don't care who it is republican democrat.

You can't hide from god. God god's going to have his way. You're some of you're too too young to remember khrushchev. He came to the united nations here and sat there and took off his shoes and banged it and said we're going to bury you.

He's he's he's in a grave and he's dust. Now all of these world leaders these these dictators god just snaps his finger blows on dust. He said that the nation the world a drop of dust in a bucket. He has all power and all authority.

And folks we're living the day of his power. When the holy ghost came that was the day of his power. And he's increasing his power because he's about to come. And he said in that time my people are going to be willing.

Hallelujah he said whose voice then shook the earth. But now he hath promised yet once more i'll shake not on the earth but the heaven. My people shall be willing. Hallelujah. Now the scripture says it's this people this prophecy says that they're going to see the beauty of holiness.

The Beauty of Holiness and Grace-Filled Obedience

Now folks you've got to stop here and listen to me because god really spoke this to my heart. They're going to be people last time that don't heal that holiness is a burden that that you know this reproof and all of this.

Oh no i can't live like that. God says they're going to be a people so willing and have such a heart for him that holiness is going to become a beauty to them. It's going to be a joy a wonderful experience.

And they're going to thank god for reproof that provokes them to righteousness because they're going to say and really from their heart they see these are beautiful words because it produces a beautiful effect in my life.

It's producing righteousness my people he said i'm going to come in power and it's going to be my day of power. And in my day of power i'm going to have a people. God's not going to send angels down to do his work.

He's got us to do it. And he said i'm going to make you willing. Not. I'm going to make you willing to go out. And so the revelation i gave you of my heart and of my son. You're going to folks we're going to have people going around who know jesus in such an intimate personal way that everywhere they go that's the witness.

They're going to say i know you know jesus. They can see it on your countenance. Everything about you is the revelation of jesus. You're not going out with four little scriptures. You're not going out with some little thing that you have learned to quote.

You're not just mouthing scriptures. You are living testimony who jesus is. And the bible says you're going to have such a beauty about you. It's going to be the beauty of holiness that you fully accept.

You know we've got preachers in the pulpit screaming we don't live by law anymore. The law is dead. It's gone. It's all grace. Yes it is grace. But he said i'll put the law in your hearts. You will love to serve me.

You will love to fulfill my law because i'm going to give you the power to do it. Hallelujah folks that that that's a wonderful church. When people are serving the lord just because they love him because there's a beauty in just walking with him.

Hallelujah. That helps make you willing to obey him. Now it says in verse three thou has to do of thy youth. Now folks i'm not the only one that saw this. I was surprised that uh jonathan edwards calvin rogers and some of the great uh prophets of god and writers from way back for the last 300 years i i thought i had some new revelation.

You know when you go out in the morning and you see the dew on the grass. Now you'd have to go to central park in new york to see that anybody been in central park when the dew comes. Folks i was raised in the country.

And when you go out in the early morning and you look at the dew it's like millions and millions of diamonds those little drops of dew. And he says god says i'm going to have the dew of youth. I'm going to have a whole sea of diamonds.

I'm going to have the youth. And that's before he comes to go me too late after he comes this prophecy is being fulfilled. And these are very days they're going to be fulfilled. And i believe it with all my heart.

God is going to have the dew of the youth. These are his diamonds. And that's exactly exactly. And here's the meaning. These are young converts servants of the lord. They shall be like beads as numerous as drops of the morning dew.

That's the meaning as numerous as the drops of the morning dew. Folks you don't go out in a morning and the field when the dew comes and just see a drop here and a drop there. The fields are covered with these diamonds.

They sparkle in the sun when the sun comes like this sparkle. Has anybody seen that am i the only okay. I thought i was the only one who saw that hallelujah. There is absolutely nothing in heaven or earth that's going to stop this last day harvest.

Plowing in Hard Conditions for a Gospel Harvest

Now there's there's something unique and special about these last day servants. This this these young people especially that god is calling and these willing people. They're not going to be afraid to plow in the cold.

The scripture says the sluggard that's the lazy christian. He will not plow by reason of the cold. Therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing. You know who these people are that they're not going to have anything.

It's harvest time in the bible. There's going to be some. There's going to be churches just dead. There's going to be churches in this city while we are packed and our alders are filled and people getting saved your families and all over the dew is falling everywhere and the diamonds are shining.

And god's people willing in the day of power they're going to be people saying oh it's too cold out there. You know the the demon powers are out there the the the rapist. And and uh people don't want god.

You know when i came to new york city and talked to some pastors about my vision of coming here into times square church they said they don't want god here. I've been here 15 20 years nothing happens.

You can't have a church sunday night. It's too cold. You know people are not going to come out. People are not going. The the subways are so dangerous. The city is getting so wild. They're not going to come to it.

They might come sunday morning. And that's it. Everyone i got. You can't do it can't do it's too cold too cold. I don't mean you know the weather but that that's what it means. It's too hard too difficult can't help it.

I got so sick and tired of that. I got so sick and tired of that everywhere i went. If i listened to what i heard from my minister friends god bless them. I'd have never come to new york but tried to scare me to death.

One pastor hasn't seen a soul saved in 10 years at least. That's the impression. I got death everywhere. It's too cold to plow. God says you go out in the cold and you plow. Doesn't matter what the weather is doesn't matter what people say.

You go and plow and you sow your seed. I'm going to give you a harvest. Hallelujah i said you when i first came here drug addicts can't be changed. Nobody can say drug addicts. When i first came to new york there were there were no ministries on drugs in the united states.

We were the first to prove to the world that jesus could save a drug addict. It up to that time it was hopeless because at that time in 1958 there was no heroin. Very little most of it was pot. Then 19 after we were here about a year all the the drug addict all the gang leaders are working with.

I was preaching to gangs first because there wasn't. There were no drug addicts on the street. Just musicians smoking pot a few things 1958 1960 heroin hit. And all these gang members that i was working with were on the streets.

Now they weren't fighting. They were just trying to get money to support their habit. And i noticed kids out in in the cold of night. Uh you know it was zero out and they had no jackets on. They didn't feel the cold.

And i was figuring out man these kids don't even feel the weather. I went up to one so it's only he said i'm high i'm high. He couldn't feel the weather. And and and i began to suddenly see these kids vomiting and laying all over.

And suddenly i didn't know anything about drugs. But nobody nobody believed then. Not even the church believed that a drug addict could be saved. Too cold to plow. God said i'll save them. And folks thousands and thousands have been saved now all over the world.

Courage Against Fear, Crime, and Spiritual Retreat

Hallelujah. I'll tell you something else. These willing servants are not going to be afraid of the lion out there roaring. The scripture says the slothful or lazy christian saith there's a lion without i shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 22 13. Proverbs 26 13. The slothful man says there's a lion out there in the way a lion is laying and waiting in the street. Devil's too powerful. They say he's got the whole world in his hands.

You know that song. He's got the whole world in his hands. They're talking about the devil. I believe god has the whole world in his hands. You know what the lord said. Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city.

Bring in here to the poor the main and the halt and the blind. Bring them in. He said don't be afraid of the lion. Some of you remember uh about two years ago there was so much talk about crime in the subways and everything.

I got to thinking boy one of these days it might affect our people won't come on sunday nights and tuesday night. They only come sunday morning because of the crime. And so on a tuesday night or friday night i opened up the microphone and i i said if the lord's delivered you from uh you know somebody tried to attack you and everything.

Come up and tell us about it. I'll tell you what i i heard one after another. We were here for about an hour. Remember hearing testimony after testimony of people who've been delivered. One lady she said i carry my i don't know if she's here tonight or not.

I carry my bible in the subway. Anybody come around to hit me. She i'll use this. My club this is my club. And i i had i had sisters all over the church said brother don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. I was the only one afraid.

Nobody else. How many are not afraid of the lion out in the street. Come on now. I'm not afraid of the lion. Out in the street he said go out into the streets and lanes of the city. He didn't say go out in the lanes of the except new york city in 1995.

They go out quickly in the streets and bring in the hit of the poor in the main and the halt the blind. But you know there's a growing number of christians and i'm going to preach about five more minutes.

There's a number of christians now that are heading for the hills. They're hiding. In fact i get letters now from people on my mailing list that brother dave and they say i'm prophesying to you. I heard from the lord you have to get out of new york city quickly.

You've got about six months left. It's going to be bombed. I've got others saying brother wilkerson god's telling everybody to flee to the hills go to montana go to wyoming go somewhere and get a farm.

There's a book just been written and it's it's by a christian who's a member of the coalition on revival and let me let me read to you what he says christians have to do now. They have to go out in the country and get at least five acres.