Living Under the Wrath of God — David Wilkerson

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The Gospel’s Simple Message and the Reality of God’s Wrath

I want you to go to John, the third chapter, please. John 3. My message today, Living under the wrath of God. Third chapter of John, I'm going to read one verse, verse 36, please. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.

In fact, if you have a King James, will you read this verse out loud with me, please, in the annex and wherever you are. When, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

I want you to know that I didn't invent that phrase. You heard it and read it from the Word. Heavenly Father, I don't know who came to this church today, moved on by your Holy Spirit, perhaps I hadn't planned to come.

I don't know who came, having been visited or invited by a friend. I don't know who just drifted in here, maybe a tourist or more. I don't know who is here, Lord. I didn't plan this service. You planned it.

You were in control of all things. You have divine authority. You're the one who brought this congregation together. You're the one who laid this message on my heart. You instructed me to go to this very verse and preach about it this morning.

So Lord, my job is simply to obey you. That's all I'm to do, to obey what you put on my heart. I ask you to give me mercy and grace, to preach this in mercy and grace, to preach it in the love that you've intended it to be preached.

And Lord, soften my heart as I minister a hard word. Lord, speak to those that are in this church this morning within the sound of my voice, who are not right with you, Jesus, who have turned their back on you, who have rejected you.

And I pray for those who have never ever fully surrendered their heart and come to the light. Oh God, open their eyes and their understanding. Holy Spirit, anoint me. Let the word go forth freely and let it flow abundantly from your heart.

In Jesus name. Amen. Folks, for months and months, I've stood in this pulpit and I've preached grace. I've preached mercy and I've preached primarily to the body of Christ, to build up the body of Christ.

When I was evangelist, I preached primarily to sinners. But the Holy Spirit has prompted me to preach perhaps a series to those who are lost, those who have not come to the light of Jesus Christ. You are not born again.

You are not a true believer. And here in the third chapter of John, Jesus is talking to ruler of the Jews called Nicodemus. He's trying, Nicodemus has come to him asking a question and Jesus has explained to him how to be born again.

And he explains it very clearly. You have to be born of water. In other words, you have to be born of a human mother through the, you know, the bag of water through which a child comes. And that's flesh, that which is flesh is flesh.

He said, but you have to be born again in the spirit also. And what is flesh is flesh and what is spirit is spirit. And this ruler, Nicodemus says, how can these things be? How can you go back into your mother's womb?

And Jesus answers, he said, you are a master or a teacher in Israel and you don't know these things. Jesus was dumbfounded by him. He's an intelligent man, a man who is taught in the law and the scriptures.

And he says, you can't understand this very simple thing. Folks, have you ever been bewildered when you try to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ in its simplicity to somebody, a friend or relative? You explain the plan of salvation.

You talk about the simple thing of Christ going to the cross, dying for sin, bearing your sins and loving you enough to take all your sins upon you and confess very simple gospel. And they look at you dumbfounded and say, I don't get it.

We have people that are here this morning, just like we have in service, every service will be people coming here from all over the world. And some of you walked into this morning. And there are people who have not come to the light of Jesus Christ or they've heard the gospel, they know, but they've never come to the light.

And others that walk in here, they may be Jewish, they may be people who have not even attended church and some who don't know really much about Christ. But they hear the singing, they hear the choir and they hear a simple message.

There's nothing complicated about what we preach here, especially when we preach as we were preaching this morning on salvation. Nothing complicated about it at all. But they walk out if you get to have a conversation with them to go something like this.

Well, look, I really enjoyed it. He said, all these people seem so happy. I love this thing. I love the choir and interesting preaching, but I don't get it. I just don't get it. I don't understand. How many of you have relatives like that?

I mean, you have explained this simple. The Bible said it's so simple that a child can understand it. There is nothing complicated about the gospel whatsoever. And I'm amazed as I hear backsliders even saying the Christian walk was just too difficult for me.

So many difficult teachings. I just didn't know how to make it work in my life. It's too complicated. Really, I didn't get it. I've heard every conceivable excuse there can be for not coming to the light traveling as an evangelist.

I heard them by the multiplied thousands in 14 years here now, pastoring in Times Square Church. I'm not ready. Sometime I'll come. I'll know when it's time. Oh, you better believe you will know when it's time.

Probably in a second when your life can be snuffed out. You said there was going to be time and it's snuffed out of you. It's happening every moment, every second that I speak. It's happening all over the world.

I have my own religion. You ever heard that? I'm not indulging in any gross sin. I'm not hurting anybody. In fact, I'm a pretty good person. I'm not perfect, but I'm better than most of the people around me.

Oh, I've been hurt by Christians. I've been hurt by a church. Oh, I hear that a lot. In fact, I see so many phony Christians. Mm-hmm. Excuses. Jesus got right to the point. He said to Nicodemus and to those around him, you just don't want to give up your sins.

He said, it's that simple. There is no excuse that will stand before the Heavenly Father. He said, you will not come to the light for one reason. Let me read it to you in John 3, 20 here. For everyone that doeth evil hates the light.

Neither will come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed, reproved. Mm-hmm. Sit here as you will. Think what you will of my preaching or the singing or what you hear now. What the gospel says, what the gospel of Jesus Christ, what Jesus said from his own lips.

He said, you will never understand until you're willing to deal with your sins. And if you love your sins, you will never see the light. You will never come to light. In fact, you will hate it because it has a tendency.

The light exposes all the dark things that are in your life. This is why I understand now a lot of people don't want to come to this church because the light and other churches like ours, where the gospel be preaching simple, pure and straight, exposing sin.

They don't want to come here because they're very comfortable in their sins and they love their sins, Jesus said. Jesus said, men love darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil. Verse 19, read it, check it out.

It's not from me, that's from the heart and lips of Jesus. Jesus is trying to get through to Nicodemus by explaining, first of all, that God loved him and that there's evidence of that, that God would take his own son, put him on a cross and heap the sins of the whole world on him as evidence of that love.

For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And the simple message to Nicodemus and to every sinner that's ever been born, God, first of all, has offered you love.

You cannot say that God didn't love you. You can't say that God didn't try to express that love to you. God said, he didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, he said, I sent him not to condemn the world.

Jesus said, I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save man from their sins that they could have eternal life. You can't say that Jesus is here this morning to condemn you. He said, I am not going to condemn you.

Really, when you're condemned, I'm going to show you condemn yourself. Jesus doesn't condemn you. We condemn ourselves by turning away from the light that he offers. The light exposes every evil deed done in all the darkness.

Sin is rebellion against God's sin, hates God's sin, will not endure it. But in his love, he sends the light to expose it that you may see it, the exceeding sinfulness of it, the death of it, the awfulness and ugliness of it in your life and how it destroys you and your family and everything around you.

He shows you the destructive of it out of an act of love, divine love. God's solution to the sin problem has been the cross of Jesus Christ that you have heard about many, many times. Let me tell you something.

If you don't know Jesus, you could go to an isolated island, no TV, no VCRs, no dirty movies, no half nude or nude women pictures or anything else. Nothing to seduce you. Nothing but blue sky and green surf.

You had plenty to eat and you had a shelter. And maybe some books to read, some good healthy books. And you could be there for years and not be doing what people think are sinful. You're not indulging here, you're not indulging there, but you're still going to die in your sins.

If you don't know Jesus Christ, even though you don't touch anything that is of this world, because the Bible said, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. The heart of man is abundantly wicked and who could know it but God.

Until your heart is changed, your circumstances can change and nothing changes as far as your eternal security is concerned. So, just trying to get rid of your sin or trying not to do what you do, doing your best, humanly possible to bite the bullet and say, I'll not do that terrible thing again.

That's not going to save you. Your good deeds will not save you. Yes, God is love, but he's also holy and just. He offered one way out of sin, one solution. He said, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life.

You confess, you believe Him, you trust Him. He that believeth in Him is not condemned. But, if you love your sin, will not allow the Holy Spirit to show you the death in it, the Scripture says you've condemned yourself.

Here's what the Scripture says, verse 18. Look at it in John 3. He that believeth in Him is not condemned. But, he that believeth not is condemned already. Folks, don't worry about, if you're a sinner, don't even think about what it's going to be like when you stand on the judgment day.

Don't think about that day when you're going to stand with nobody there to answer for you and your sins are piled high to the heavens. You have no excuse and everything has been written down in the book and you're going to answer for every deed, every thought, every motive.

So, don't even think about that day because the Lord says that he, believe it or not, is already condemned. You are already condemned. And that's a very strong word in Greek. It means tried. Already, you've been to trial and you have condemned yourself.

You are punished and you are damned. The word means damned. He that believeth not is damned already. It's already condemned. He's condemned himself. For years, I've rejoiced in seeing people come to Christ in crusades all over the world and then here at Times Square Church.

It's been a wonderful experience. And everyone that comes to Christ, I keep telling them, God's not mad at you. God loves you. God's not angry at you. I've told that to the whole world. But I told that to seekers.

I told that to people coming to the light. I told people that were honest enough to admit that they were living in sin that was going to destroy them. I can't honestly tell you, sinner, that if you reject the light of Jesus Christ time and time again, I can't tell you that God isn't mad at you.

That's not what the Scripture says. A young man stopped me on Broadway this past week and he was really upset and he grabbed my arm in both arms and he said, Pastor, he said, I'm worried. I feel terribly.

He said, I sit in church and I still have lust in me and I'm trying so hard and I love the Lord, but I have a fear and people tell me if I don't get rid of this right away, I'm going to go to hell and I'm scared.

And I looked at him and I said, I'm going to tell you something. Never in the history of the world has God ever cast away a man or a woman seeking Him, no matter what their problem and what their sin was.

If there was a heart reaching out and crying out to Him, God will never turn you down. God will never cast you aside, ever. That didn't excuse his sin. He said, well, brother, that makes me feel like I want to go on seeking the Lord for victory.

Yes, God loves sinners. He sent his own son because God so loved the world. But when you reject his son and the only solution he's offered for sin, there remains no more sacrifice for sin, the Scripture says.

You refuse the love and you condemn yourself. He said, you're already condemned. It's another thing. You see, it's one thing to have a heart that says, I really want to change. I really want Christ in my life.

I'm still fighting a battle and I keep losing the battle, but there's something deep in my heart. There's a cry. That's one thing. But it's quite another thing entirely when you turn away from Jesus and you reject the call of love and mercy.

You continue in your sins because you love it. The Scripture says the light shined in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. And that word comprehends means preferred. Preferred it not. Preferred sin above the light.

Totally rejected the light of the gospel. What you're hearing now is not preaching, you're hearing light. Trying to shine into your darkness, to pierce that wall that you set up so that the Lord can show you how dangerous your condition is.

And he does that out of love. This helps me understand also why many people continue in doctrines and cults that they innately know are anti-Scripture. It's been difficult over the years for me to understand how intelligent people can so get involved and so give themselves over to false doctrines of covetousness, where they can continue in their sins.

They can commit adultery and fornication and still be elders in the church and all kinds of filth in their lives and go to filthy movies and do the most impossible things and get drunk and use drugs and come to the house of God and have no preaching against it, have no feeling against it.

They go to church because they're comfortable, because if they go to the light, they're going to be exposed. If they go to a church where the light is being preached and the light is piercing from the pulpit, they know that they're going to come under conviction.

They know God, the Holy Ghost, is going to put his finger on that sin. I understand now why people prefer these teachers. They have itching ears, the Scripture says. The Bible said many of these women who meet with them are laden down with their sins.

They're laden down with their sins, they love their sins, so they're going to find teachers who will appease it and hide it and cover it. And the reason many people stay in these false doctrines is because they don't want to deal with covetousness.

They don't want to have anybody talk about their sins. They want to hide it and they're comfortable, they're hiding in the house of God. The Holy Ghost loves you so much, He'll not let you hide. He wouldn't let you hide this morning because He loves you.

Jesus said they hate the light, they don't want the truth. He that doeth or loveth the truth comes to the light that his deeds may be manifest or exposed that they are right in God. In fact, the Greek word there is opened up to his own eyes.

He wants his sins, his evil deeds to be opened up and he comes to church and, oh God, speak to me today. See if there'd been a hidden thing in my life. That's my prayer every day, every waking hour. Oh God, search me, try me, see if there'd be any wicked thing in my heart.

And every time I have a preacher stand in this pulpit and I sit there and listen to whoever I am in the face of the earth, I say, God, speak to me. There may be something in my heart that I don't know.

Throw the light on, turn it on. Is that your attitude? You come to the house of God saying, Lord, I want to be purged of all my sin. If there's a sin in my heart that has a hold on me, I want to know from the scripture how to get rid of it.

I want the power of the Holy Ghost to give me the authority over it. He comes to the light. Please turn with me to Isaiah, the 49th chapter, please. Isaiah 49. The 49th chapter of Isaiah, verses 8 through 10.

Thus saith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee. In a day of salvation have I helped thee. This is God speaking. And I will preserve thee and give thee, speaking of his own son, for a covenant to the people to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritage.

And here's the work of Jesus Christ, that thou mayest say to the prisoners, go forth. To them that are in darkness, show yourselves. I'm going to come back to those two words, show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways and their pastor shall be in all high places.

They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he that has mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them. Show yourself. He's saying to the prisoners now, show yourselves.

He's talking about a people delivered by the power of Jesus Christ from their sins. And it's a call. It's a call first, everybody that's hiding sin. He said, come out in the open, come out of the closet now.

Show yourselves. Because the Redeemer is here. The one who releases prisoners has come. You come to the light now. Come and show yourself. Stand before the word of the Lord. Stand before God. Stand before the light of the Holy Ghost.

Come, show yourself and he'll deliver you. Show yourselves. He's speaking now also to those who are his own children, on the job, wherever it's at. He says, come, you were a prisoner and I delivered you.

I set you free. Now, show yourselves. Come, show yourselves. Be an open book before the whole world. Before your people on the job and everyone else. Come, don't be afraid to show yourself. Show yourself against every demonic power.

Stand up and show yourself strong in the name of the Lord, because there's nothing the devil has in you. Wicked one, come and have nothing in me. He can't touch me. Show yourself unafraid. Come out. He says, come out and show yourself.

Powerful verse. It's a call to every Christian hiding secret sin. Come forth now. Get into the light. Don't partake of the sins of this world. But fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking.

Let it not even be named among you. Be you not partakers with them. For you were sometimes darkness, but now you're light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.

Prophetic Darkness and the Coming Light

Isaiah prophesied of a darkness coming. Go to chapter 60. A gross darkness is going to cover the earth. Beloved, I believe that we have arrived at this prophecy. This prophecy of Isaiah in the 60th chapter.

We are at this very point right now. This very month, this very week, this very day and hour. Verse three verses. Rise, shine for thy light is come. The glory of the Lord has risen upon thee. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people.

But the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee. The Gentiles shall come to thy light and the kings to the brightness of thy rising. A gross darkness coming. And that word gross darkness is deep gloom, despair, confusion.

Confusion. Name a better word. A strong. What more? What a bet. What better word could describe what's going on in our country, in our nation, in the world, in the Mideast and all over the world today than confusion, gloom and despair.

A gross darkness, he said, is going to cover the whole earth. I hear people everywhere I go now saying, we've never seen it like this before. What's happening? This is all new. New territory. Things we don't understand.

Everything seems to be spinning out of control. Daniel cried these words and see if these don't apply to our time. He said, we have sinned. We've committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. We have rebelled.

We've departed from the law of God and from his judgments. We've not listened to his prophets. Oh, Lord, to us belongs confusion now. Confusion of face. Confusion to our kings. Confusion to our princes.

Confusion to our fathers. Because we've sinned against the Lord. We have transgressed our law. Therefore, the curse is poured upon us because we've sinned against the Lord. Confusion. There's nobody in our government knows what to do about what is happening in our nation now.

Is anyone in this building hearing me? Anyone hearing me at the sound of my voice that can deny that this nation is in total confusion? Does anyone in this world, any world leader know what to do with the problem in Israel right now?

You know, Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia. The whole world is laughing right now. Calling us a banana republic. That's what Castro called us yesterday. Putin offered to send people to count our votes.

Tongue in cheek. From France. All over the world. In England, it's the joke of the nation. The strongest nation in the world that's boasted in all of its great technology can't even count its votes. Confusion.

Gloom. Darkness. Gross darkness covering the earth, the scripture says. But did you hear that great big word, but? In the midst of gross darkness. When men are in total despair. When men don't know where to turn.

But the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And they shall come to the light. They shall come to the light. Folks, things are going to get so topsy-turvy in this nation, in the world.

Things are going to get so confusing. People don't know which way to turn. And there are going to be multitudes turning to the light. I believe just as Pastor Carter has prophesied. I believe that even in this church, in Brooklyn Tabernacle, in every church here in New York that's preaching the gospel.

We live here where Wall Street is. We live here where the great harlot city, modern Babylon, modern Sodom. We live in this city with the United Nations and everything. And one day when men are so confused that they know the hand of God is at work.

Many in their confusion, the prophet Isaiah prophesies will come to the light. They'll come to the brightness of the Lord. And even the kings to the brightness of the rising sun. That's a prophecy. Tragically, great numbers are going to prefer darkness.

You know that. Listen to what John the Baptist said. He that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life. We read it. It was my text. But he that believeth not the sun shall not see life. But the wrath of God abides on him.

And what John is saying. If you reject the light finally. You say I want nothing to do with the light. He said you're going to face God who will come at you with a violent passion. You're going to face his anger, his indignation, his vengeance and his punishments.

The wrath abideth on him. In other words, there's not a moment of the day, not a moment of the night that he is not living under the wrath of God. The anger. It is the anger of God. Folks, we have very few churches even mention the anger or the wrath of God.

We have stripped God of everything but his love. Very few preachers. In fact, there are some preachers and even some denominations now that say there is no wrath in God. Well, they don't know their Bibles.

Let me read you just a few things. For the wrath of God is revealed. Now, not Old Testament, but New Testament. Romans 1, 8. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

Romans 2, 8. He speaks of those who obey not the truth, but obey righteousness. There will be indignation and wrath. Yes, God is slow to wrath. But when the light of Christ is fully rejected, he said, I'll smoke against you in my wrath.

This is the end of side one. You may now turn the tape over to side two.

Living Under God’s Wrath

3, 6. Paul lists all the evils of darkness. And then he says, for which things sake the wrath of God will come upon the children of disobedience. Now, what does it mean to live under the wrath of God?

I have to say it as lovingly. And I'm going to try not to raise my voice, lest you think I'm angry. Pray for me. It's difficult not to lift my voice. What does it mean to live under the wrath of God? Isaiah warned what happens to those who under the wrath of God in this darkness sets in.

He said, there will be a trembling heart, failing of eyes, sorrow in your mind. In the morning, you're going to say, would to God it were evening. In the evening, you will say, would to God it were morning.

For the fear of your heart, wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes, and the things that you shall see. He said, you're going to get up in the morning, and you're going to have a cloud hanging over you.

You're going to say, God, if I could only make it through this day. And then at night, you try to sleep. And you just hope and pray for the morning. He said, that's the way it is. And folks, that's where multitudes in this world are right now without Christ.

They go to sleep with pills. They wake up with energizers. And they do everything to try to calm this. But you see, they are living under the wrath of God because there's no Holy Ghost in them to resist sin.

So, the devil comes in and takes total dominion and become absolutely harassed and directed by demonic powers. That is living under the wrath of God. Living under the wrath of God. Never having a moment truly of peace except a false peace that I'm going to talk to you about now.

Because you see, it leads to hardening of heart. And when you harden your heart, there's a total judicial blindness so that you can't, you just can't see. Because God has, the Bible talks about turning people over to their sins.

Turning people over to a reprobate mind so that they believe a lie to be the truth. They call white black and black white. They call light dark and dark light. He said everything is turned upside down.

You see through perverted eyes because you see through the sin pattern now that's so possessed and ruled your life. There's no depth. Now, deception is added to deception. Sin is added to sin, the scripture says.

For those, I've seen those that are totally given to homosexuality. The majority become alcoholics eventually. Or they drink to quiet down that conscience that screams. Those that are in adultery, they add lying spirit to that because they have to protect their backside.

They're looking everywhere and they're having to lie to protect themselves because sin is being added to sin. Until finally there's no end to your depravity. You're on a slide racing to hell and there's no end to what you will do.

The scripture says even murder. Hatred. Bitterness. Rebellion. All of these things, sin added to sin. In Deuteronomy 29 .19, don't turn there, but here's what finally happens. This is the end result. It will come to pass.

And I'm reading from Deuteronomy 29 .19. When he hears the words of this curse. You've heard what God said already. You hear the words of God's curse. Living under the wrath of God. He said very clearly.

The wrath of God abides on him who believes not the son. Will not come to the light. Jesus said and John the Baptist said. The wrath of God abides on you. It lives on you. It's there. It's a part of your life and you can't shake it.

You're living under that. I don't care how you feel in the morning. Because you can concoct a false peace. That puts you to the very gate of hell. Where you could actually. If you putting it literally.

So that you could see the sparks and smell the smoke. At the very gate of hell. And think you were at the gate of heaven. Here's the scripture. I will. It will come to pass. When he hears the words of this curse.

That he will bless himself in his heart. Saying I have peace. Though I walk in the imagination of my own heart. And I had to add drunkenness to thirst. In other words. In the Hebrew to add drunkenness to thirst.

It said and to be grateful for those who are in this with me. Add drunkenness to thirst. I've got this thirst. But there are those around drunken. I will not just taste the wine. I'll go with those who are drunk.

And I'll give myself over to it. And when I'm in the midst of my sin. No matter how depraved I may be. I can say I have peace. All is well between me and God. I'm raising my voice. You see. I've asked God to let me.

Say these things in his great love and mercy. You better believe God will lecture you. If you're living in sin. You better believe he'll come and warn you. You better believe it because he loves you. Here's a man who knows he's living in gross sin.

Now he can sit under any kind of preaching. He can hear warnings. But he's so blinded. So hardened by a sin. He literally congratulates himself. I'm not like anybody else. And I'm pretty good. A false peace.

With a hard heart. Never again to feel conviction. You know what God's reply was? I'll not spare you. This is the very next verse. I'll not spare you. My anger and jealousy shall smoke against you. And all the curses written in the book shall lie upon you.

And the Lord shall blot out your name from under heaven. Awesome words. A few years ago. I'm going to close shortly. But a few years ago. I went to the gay march. Half a million gays on 5th Avenue. I just wanted to see what was happening.

I went with love in my heart. You see. We say it and it sounds like a cliche. But it's not a cliche. We love gays. We hate their sin. There's no other way to put it. But I watched. And I saw things I'd never seen in my life.

I heard cursing like I've never heard. And I saw hardness. There was a spirit let loose on 5th Avenue that I'd never seen in my life. Traveling all over the world. And there were a little group. I suppose they'd be Christians.

They had signs. Just three or four signs. A beautiful small group of young people said. God loves gays. But he hates your sin. That's all it said. And I saw a group jump off of one of the floats. And others that were dressed in leather.

Half nude. And with belts and buckles. And I saw them come in anger and rip the signs. And start pushing the people. And these young people were saying. Hey, look, look, look. We're not mad at you. We love you.

We love Christ. We're just here to tell you God hates your sin. And we're here. But we're not angry at you. We love you. And they wouldn't listen. There was an absolute heartache. Nothing to do with it.

There was no way. Nothing. If an angel came down. If Christ himself stood there. They would have mocked and pushed him. Try to crucify him. How hard can a sinner become? Revelation 16. I read of a time when God said.