Losing the Love for Jesus Christ and Compromising With the World (Clip) — David Wilkerson

Say my mother's a hallelujah woman. I used to go to church. I'm Pentecostal background. I'm Baptist background. And I can hardly find any pusher. It hasn't been to church at least the Baptist or Pentecostal background.

Losing Love for Jesus as the Root of Backsliding

The pursuit of selfish desires. You see young person. It's not the drug pusher. It's not any seducer. It's not the spirit of this age. It's not your evil friends dragging you down. I used to preach that.

But I don't anymore. That's all happening after you leave him, but the real reason you broke away is that you lost your love for Jesus Christ. You couldn't do what you do now. If you had any love left for him, you'll understand Jesus said he that's not with me is against me.

And that means that you don't you didn't walk out of me just because you didn't love me alone. You turned on me. You didn't only quit loving me you turn to be my enemy. And it's more than you're just being for yourself.

It's more than you're just being for the devil. It's more than you're being for your friends. You're against me. And I heard that in my Spirits of mind the other day in prayer and it rang to my subconscious mind.

Oh God the terror of that not only not to love you walk away with my friends since I'm not hurting anybody. I'm doing this to myself. I may do it to my friends. But no he said you're doing it to me. You're against me because you know with me you're against me.

Wholehearted Love for God Produces Obedience

There's no neutral ground. That's why I believe the Lord commanded Thou so love the Lord thy God with all thy heart all thy soul and all thy might and strength. Because he knew if you would do that you would never leave him never.

Because that would produce obedience. Obedience is the byproduct of love. The Bible said if any man loved the world the love of the father's not in him. You show me any backslidden young person. Sitting here in this room or in any other place where I'm preaching hearing my voice right now.

Loving the World Diminishes Love for Jesus

You I can look you right in the eye. I Can say the reason is that you have no more love for Jesus in your heart. You've replaced your love for God with the love of the world. You may not admit it, but you don't care for Jesus anymore.

You've become his enemy. I can tell you that on the authority of God's Word and your love for the world and for the things of the world Will correspond directly free with your loss of love for Jesus. The more you begin to love the world and are attached to the things of the world it corresponds with your love for Jesus.

You love the world more your love for Jesus goes down until it's lost. Lust is not your problem. Love is the loss of it. Why all the divorcing and cheating and fornicating in the house of God. Well, this wagon the prophecy God's given me has to do with five.

Adultery, Idolatry, and Judgment in the Church

Trumpet sounds. I'm to make one is Wardom and adultery in the pulpit. The number one problem in America adultery in the pulpit. A spirit of adultery. The building of temples. The refusing to lay down idols.

Idols Hidden in Ordinary Possessions

I didn't know my television set was an idol. Till he told me. And I said Lord just one little one in the back room. That's what Micah said. Just a little idol in the back room. And almost cost Israel its life.

Pornography and the Sound of Judgment

Why all the divorcing in the house of God? Why so much love so many? Christians hooked on pornography. I Don't know brother swagger gets the confessions I get and mostly from the ministry of pornographic cassettes.

Trading with one another. I don't know what you hear, but I hear the sound of a trumpet. I hear judgment.