God's Hatchet — David Wilkerson

God's Hatchet — David Wilkerson

A man that has walked on water, healed the sick, raised the dead, and here to tell you about that man is Brother Dave Wilkerson.

I should have said you're going to learn to love repentance. We should learn to love repentance. You know, it's an amazing thing. By the way, I've learned to appreciate Pastor Benson. I see a strength in him that's very rare today.

A good, solid, quiet strength in God. He's assured me that he believes I'm here in God's divine order, and I believe that. And he told me to take my liberty, which I plan to do. But you know, I'm amazed, Pastor Benson, everywhere I go, I'm glad I don't know it before.

I don't like to sit down with pastors prior to meeting, or I'd be scared out of preaching what I want to preach. Not that the pastors would scare me out, but I always get this. I got it in Toronto. I get it everywhere I go.

Brother Dave, our church has come through such great turmoil, through such repentance, such refining. Up in Toronto, I was told later of all the foot-washing services were, and they usually don't do that, but the pastor hugged the naked feet of his men, and there was confession, and heart confession, and I was in one great church in the east recently.

And after three hard messages, because the word of God's a hammer, and it was hammering and hammering at sin, I said, Pastor, do you think your church has all repented out? He said, oh yes. He said, there's nothing left.

And I got up. I was almost sorry for the message I had to preach that night, and I started, I said, Lord, I've got to just back off tonight. I just want to, I'm going to bless everybody, Lord. And suddenly, God came on me, and I turned to the pastor, who's a dear friend of mine, and said, Pastor, we don't know what's in the hearts.

We don't know, and God does. There are many, many people who've gone through lip repentance, but the heart hasn't been touched yet. And God thundered lightning out of heaven that night, and a third of that audience came running down.

Both he and I were shocked, horrified at the fact that that could have been missed. You know, before I preach tonight, I want to show you something, and this is what God dealt with me about this afternoon in prayer.

Deuteronomy 5. I'm not preaching. By the way, you heard what I said, if you don't have your Bible, you're naked. And don't come. Boy, I tell you, by the third service, when I'm in a meeting, as soon as I get up, right, grab your Bibles.

I saw you doing it tonight. Grab them. Hold it there, and hold on to it, because we're going to go all through it again tonight. My message in a little while, I'm going to preach on hatchet gods. I'll get to that in just a moment.

So, Deuteronomy 5, 20. Let's start at verse 23. No, let's go down to verse 28. Deuteronomy 5, verse 28. I'm not preaching yet. I'm just setting you up for the preaching. And I'm not trying to be facetious.

I mean every word of it. And I'm reading from the New American Standard. New American Standard, but I checked the King English this afternoon, and it's very close. It's the same thing, just a clearer meaning, I think, in the New American Standard.

It's really brought to life. The Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, I've heard the voice of the words of this people, which they've spoken to me. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

Now, friends, do you realize they've been at Mount Sinai? They've seen the thunder. They've seen the lightning. They've heard the thunder. They've seen the holiness of God. And these people have had the fear of God implanted in their hearts.

And they have said the right words. They've done the right things. He said, I've heard what you said to me. You've done well in all that you've spoken. But look at the next verse. Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it may be well with them and with their sons forever.

Do you hear what the Holy Spirit is saying? Your words are right. You can come up here and give the right words. You can say the right words. You can weep the right tears. You can weep them. But he said, oh, that you had a heart.

Not just your lips, but your heart. Oh, that you would cast down your idols. And it's not enough to come to the house of God and repent and say, I'm sorry, Lord, and go to one another and repent until God has all our heart, until all the idols are cast down.

You can't come to church and weep and cry and confess your sins and go right back and sit in front of your idol. You can't, as young people, go out there and turn on your rock and roll records. I'm going to, I'm going to really, I've done something tonight I very seldom do, I'm bringing a magazine to the pulpit, never thought I'd do it.

I wrote a book, it's just been released, called Set the Trumpet to Your Mouth. And the one, no clapping please, the one chapter that's brought me more grief than anything is, is the music of devils in the house of God.

I have young people, you know, they don't, they look over the first chapter, it says a holocaust has come, there's a meltdown. They forget all about the meltdown, they forget about the message of judgment because I touched their idol.

They, I touched their idol. I have kids line up, they follow me outside and they get so mad because I'm touching their idol. I don't believe there's anything, any such thing as Christian rock and roll.

There's no such thing. No clapping, no clapping, no clapping. This is not a show, there's life and death with me. But you know what, it's an amazing thing, even preachers have been fighting me on this.

Young preachers who've been raised in this and they're using it in their churches, somebody of God included. And look at the headlines of this week's People magazine, Has Rock Gone Too Far? And this is a frightening thing.

I just saw it here in your town and it's a frightening thing because three senators' wives now are so upset at this MTV, what do you call it, these videotapes and what's happening. They're starting a national campaign, isn't it amazing that the preachers are not doing it but these people have to do it?

Let me give you, young people, let me give you the definition. This is out of Rolling Stone. Here it is. I've underlined it. Get a magazine. Get a magazine. This is Dave Wilson. This is stronger than my book.

Here's the definition of rock and roll right out of Rolling Stone. It says, according to the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, the term rock and roll is a blues euphemism for sexual intercourse.

And then it says period. Period. Know the definition. Now you tell me there's Christian rock and roll. There's Christian intercourse? There's sexual intercourse outside of marriage? Read it and weep. I wish I'd have had that when I wrote the book.

I didn't need it though. I heard it from heaven. I heard it from God. I didn't want to get it out of a magazine. I heard the echo of the heart of God, hallelujah. And I'm not going to let the devil put that weapon in your hand.

I'm not going to smash your rock and roll. I'm not going to come against that. I'm going to give the Word of God. We're going to get right into it right now. We're going to get into the Word, Hatchet Gods.

Psalm 74 and the Hatchet Gods in the Sanctuary

Go with me to Psalms, please. Psalm 74 and just open the Bible on your lap. How many love the Word? Raise your hand, please. Wave it at me. You love the Word and you tremble at the Word. I'm going to give you a Bible tonight, not David Wilkerson or not my theology, nothing I got out of any other book but this Holy Bible right here.

Glory be to God. Now before we read it, we're going to pray. You get Psalm 74 and open it on your lap. Boy, if you didn't bring your Bible, I don't know, you better listen awful close. Every head bowed, please.

Heavenly Father, you're my covenant partner. And I've called heaven and earth to witness tonight that I walk in covenant with the Holy God. And Lord, there's thunder and lightning from this pulpit tonight, but it's in tender love.

It's in tender love because we grieve over the souls of our young people and we grieve over the souls of Christians who are being led astray by the doctrines of demons. Lord, I thank you for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh.

But Lord, we're in a spiritual warfare now and you've got to open the eyes of the church. My Lord, you're raising up holy standards now. You're crying out against the filth and the abomination that is in the land.

Give us, Lord, ears to hear the Word tonight. Pull down the stronghold of the enemy. Oh Lord Jesus, we know that you've defeated Satan, but the church is in compromise tonight. There is a harlot church, Lord, that's existing today among many denominations.

Lord, I see a holy bride rising out of that harlot church, a holy separated bride. Young people who will shake off the bonds of iniquity and say, I'll walk in holiness with clean hands and a pure heart.

Holy covenant God, manifest your holiness among us tonight. Manifest your holiness, Jesus, that we can sit here in your awesome presence. Be magnified, oh Lord. Let your righteousness be lifted up in our hearts.

We pull down in Jesus' name every lying spirit, every prince of power and power of darkness that would come to hide the Word and take it, Lord. Pastor, pray just before the service tonight with us. Lord, there are birds that would come to steal the Word.

Who are those birds but the lying spirits out of hell? Lord, we want to chase those lying spirits away tonight. We chase them away in Jesus' name. We bind them. You said, what shall I bind? An earth shall be bound in heaven.

So I obey you, Lord, and I bind. I bind in Jesus' name the powers of the devil, the prince of powers and powers of darkness. I bind them tonight. Let there be freedom. Don't let the Word be taken by these evil birds.

Not one of the Word be taken from their hearts tonight. Give us hearing ears and open hearts. I'm ready to preach, Lord. I'm ready to preach. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I tremble at His Word. I tremble at His Word.

Let's go, Psalm 74. Now remember, I'm reading out of the New American Standard. I recommend this Bible. Oh, I recommend it. There's a holiness in it. There's nothing else that's touched me like this. I've always been just King James, but when I fell on this, friends, it's so close to the original Hebrew, especially the Old Testament, and I just love it.

It's opened up so much. I've compared it with Helen Sparrow and all the other great Hebrew Bibles, and it's so precious to me now. I begin to read the first verse, 74. Are you ready? Just follow me, please.

What a prophecy. This blew me away when the Holy Ghost opened it to me. Oh, God, why hast thou rejected us forever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Do you see it? Why do you smoke in your anger against the sheep of thy pasture?

Not the wicked, not those outside of His pasture, but the sheep of His pasture. Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance, and Mount Zion where thou dwellest.

Turn thy footsteps toward the perpetual ruins. The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of the meeting place. Who do you think that adversary had come as a roaring what?

A roaring lion. Who is it that roars in the meeting place? Right here in the midst of the meeting place. The adversary that roared, where? In the midst of the meeting place. In the sanctuary. Where is he?

He's in the sanctuary of the holy church. Now, he is not in the sanctuary of those who have clean hands and pure heart. Get that. But he's in the meeting place. In the holy church. Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of the meeting place.

They have set up their own standards, their enzymes, their standards for signs. It seems, you see, they're not satisfied with just setting up their standards. They've got to tear down the old ones. It seems as if one lifted up his axe in a forest of trees, and now all its carved work they smash with hatchet and hammer.

They've burned thy sanctuary to the ground. They've defiled the dwelling place of thy name. They've said in their heart, let us completely subdue them. They've burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

We do not see our signs. We don't see our standards anymore, our enzymes. There is no longer any prophet, nor is there any among us who knows how long. How long, O Lord, will the adversary revile and the enemy spurn thy name forever?

That's as far as I'm going to read. Now, look this way, if you will, please. David is prophesying. Do you realize that all these prophecies in the Old Testament are dual prophecies? They spoke to a little Israel, and they spoke to a spiritual Israel, and they speak to us today.

I see this 74th Psalm as one of the most vivid prophecies of what's happening in the heart of church in America today and in the land. David, incredibly, is saying, God's anger is smoking against the sheep of His own pasture.

He's smoking against what is supposed to be a purchased people, a redeemed people, a people within whom He has dwelt. He said, in Mount Zion, His church, they're spreading a ruin. Look at it there. The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary, within the denominational ranks.

There is a ruin setting in. It's there, it's in black and white, it's in your Bible. He said, there's an enemy roaring in the midst of the meeting place. We know who that roaring lion is. It's all through the Word of God.

He said, they've set up their own standards for signs. They are the standards of the roaring enemy, the roaring lion. They're not the standards of the lion of Judah anymore. They're demonic standards.

They're devil-inspired standards. These standards are being set up in the house of God by lying spirits. And we're being told, especially our young people, this is the new wave of the Holy Ghost. This is the new standards of the Holy Ghost.

This is the way God is moving. That's why in the past two months I've had so-called Christian punk rock groups in my office, wide the way into my office. They look in my face. And I say, I've just been studying with God for five months.

I've heard the breath of God down my neck. I've heard the echo and the grief of God against the doctrines of demons and the standards of Satan being set up in the house of God. And I've heard these young men wave off angels, they've warped off prophets.

And they said to me, we don't care how much you pray. We don't care what you've heard. We don't care how loud you preach. We're the new rock and roll prophets of this age. We are the one that God's setting up and making popular.

We are the new standards of the church. I've been told that till I can't take it anymore. They're hats at God's. I'm going to show it to you very clearly tonight before we're over. They're saying, these are the new standards.

This is the way God is moving. He said these new adversaries have a hatchet in their hand. It's as if a man goes into a forest. Now, you understand, don't you, that the Bible makes men a type of trees.

When man is healed, he said he saw men as trees walking. I can give you probably 25 references of men as trees. And here are those who have an axe in their hand. And they're not only setting up their own standards, but they have one purpose in mind.

And they've got an axe in their hand. They have a hatchet according to this prophecy. And they're going through this kind of church. They're going through the church chopping like a man with an axe in the forest.

Like one walking with an axe in a forest of trees. Now all the carved wood they smash with a hatchet and with a hammer. They smash them down. They come parading through our tales and their concerts. They come parading through our churches.

They come parading through their records and their magazines and their tapes. They come parading with their special messages incubated in hell. A message without holiness, a message without separation.

Not only setting up their own standards, but come with hatchets in their hands. He said they've made up their minds to tear down and burn and destroy all the old standards. The scripture says they have burned the sanctuary to the ground.

They defiled the dwelling place of thy name. They said in their heart, let us completely subdued them. Let us completely subdued them. Let's take control. And then this cry goes up, we don't see our signs anymore.

Our standards are beginning to evaporate. In other words, all the old standards of holiness and separation are disappearing. What was once black and white is all gray now. Stooges of the devil. These with hatchets in hand, setting up new evil standards and tearing down the holy standards.

Doctrines of Demons and Another Gospel

Who are these who damage everything in sight according to the 74th Psalm? These are the false prophets who've been deceived by Satan himself. They're possessed by a spirit of the hatchet gods. They don't even know what they're doing.

They don't even know they're tearing down. Because God says, when you don't walk with me in covenant, if you give yourself over to a lying spirit, I'll smear over your eyes. I'll take your discernment from your eyes.

And they don't even know what they're doing. They don't know they're preaching another Jesus and preaching another gospel. Go with me to 1 Timothy 4. 1 Timothy 4. 1 Timothy 4. Young people, please get your Bible, please look at it with me.

I want to point you to the Scripture. I want to point you to the Word of God. 1 Timothy 4. 1 and 2. Listen to it. Hear it. But the Spirit explicitly says that in latter times, some will fall away from the faith.

Paying attention to deceived spirits and doctrines of demons. Is that in your Bible? By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own consciences with a branding iron. Do you see that? Will you admit with me that in the last days, according to Timothy, there will come doctrines of demons and seducing spirits into the church?

How many see that in your Bible? Young people, do you see it? I can't go on with you until you acknowledge that that's in your Bible. That you see it in black and white. In case you don't have your Bible, I'll read it to you again.

But the Spirit explicitly says, in the latter times. Are we living in the last days? Some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own consciences with a branding iron.

Go with me, please, to 2 Corinthians. Go left, please, to 2 Corinthians. The 11th chapter. 2 Corinthians 11. I'm going to start reading at the 2nd verse. 2 Corinthians 11. Beginning to read the 2nd verse.

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I betrothed you to one husband, that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I'm afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your mind should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached. Or you receive a different spirit or another gospel, which you have not received. Of a different gospel, which you have not accepted.

And you bear this beautifully. Would you acknowledge with me, did you hear of this, that there's another Jesus? Did you hear that? Did it say there's another gospel? There are doctrines of demons. There are lying spirits in the house of God.

And look at this. They're going to come preaching. Preaching. Another Jesus. Another gospel. Is that fair or isn't it, saints? Alright, go with me to verse 13. Verse 13. 2nd Corinthians 11, verse 13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore, is it not surprising, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their deeds?

Now that puts a chill down my back. Doctrines of demons, lying spirits. And those who come, the devil himself coming as an angel of light. Preaching another Jesus, another gospel. Doesn't the Bible say, that on the judgment day many, many will come and say, Lord, we healed the sick, many were sick, we healed them.

We cast out devils. We did mighty works. What they're saying is, we lined up thousands of people and they were healed. We cast out devils and people were saved and healed. Devils were cast out. We had great results.

We did mighty works in your name. We had great concerts and the altars were filled. And the Lord said, get back from me, you wicked, I never knew you. You preached another gospel, another Jesus. It's not surprising, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.

Servants of righteousness? Come along and dust sweetly the name of Jesus. Come along and say, come with me, serve Jesus. The Jesus of the cross, full of holiness. Accept the spirit and discern it. Is it becoming clear that there are doctrines of demons?

That there are going to be angels of light come preaching a new Jesus, a new gospel. Coming as ministers of righteousness. They're going to appear holy. They're going to appear righteous. Their words are right.

But their hearts are not right with God because they're sin in their life. Just like the call I got this week from one of the top rock Christian groups. So called Christian rock groups. The number one.

And one of the members called, a friend of mine who called me and said, The band's a bit to break up because one of them's getting right with God. And he can't stand the others bringing prostitutes into their rooms.

Brother, sister, God's about to move in this thing. God's about to tear down some things. Elvis the king of it's dead. And God was saying something when he took John Lennon and Elvis Presley. God was making a statement and we didn't hear it.

Go to Romans 3. I'll tell you, I have a holy boulders because I got the word of God standing behind me. God walks in covenant with this word. Hallelujah. I'm not mad at you young people. And I'll tell you, I'm going to get to the parents in just a minute.

You better believe it. Romans 3, 8. I'm going to start reading Romans 3, chapter 8, verse. And why not say as we are Spanish reported and as some of them do we say, Let us do evil that good may come. Their condemnation is just.

Are we better than they? Not at all. For we've already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin. Now, here it is. As it is written, there is none righteous, not even one. There is none who understands.

There is none who seeks for God. Now, look at that. You know that God has a people in land, don't you? You know that you're seeking God, don't you? Well, how can you look at that and it says there's none seeking God when you know you're seeking God?

I'll tell you why. Because if you read this, he's talking about these who are ministers of the devil. He's talking about the false ministers. There's not one of them, he's saying. Not one of them. Now, I want you to listen to the description of these who preach another gospel to another Jesus.

Look at these. There's none of them that are righteous. Not even one. There's none who understands. Or there's none who seeks for God. All of them have turned aside. Altogether they've become useless.

There's none of them who does good. There's not even one. Their throat is an open grave. They're singing out of an open grave. You look down what they're singing and there's a man and you see a grave.

You see bones. They sound like they're singing of Jesus. And Jesus said, it's an open sepulcher. Their throats are graves. And their tongues, with their tongues they keep deceiving. Amy Grant, this summer while preaching to alcoholics on the street, her poster's everywhere.

Sponsored by Miller Beer. How you kids can buy those kind of records I don't understand. And I say right now I love Amy Grant with all my heart. But I'm saying it loud and clear. When Amy Grant said she's building a bridge between the secular and the spiritual, what does she intend to do?

Bring our young people across the bridge into the secular? No! Never! Their throat is an open grave and their tongues they keep deceiving. Oh, brother, sister, young people, if you love those singers, pray for them.

Love them and pray for them that God will not let them be deceived anymore by the enemy. Pray for them, love them and reach out. The poison of a serpent is under their lips. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their paths. And the path of peace have they not known? There is no fear of God before their eyes. That's what you have it. If there was a dread of the holiness of God, if they'd seen His righteousness, they could not dare do these things.

Do you have the jealousy of a jealous God in your heart? Come on now. Do you know that we serve a jealous and holy God? Do you share that jealousy for the honor of God? Does not your spiritual blood boil when you see His honor defamed?

Who's Paul describing here now? Who are we talking about in the 74th chapter of Psalms? Paul is also the adversaries of God with a hatchet tearing down God's holiest banners. Well, the Bible is always a commentary on itself.

The Bible explains itself. Don't turn, but I'm just going to quote to you James 4 .4. Just listen to it now. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy to God.

He that would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy to God. There's no enemy of God whose throat is anything other than an open supplicant. We're so afraid of judging sin. We're so afraid to cry out to the honor of God.

Lift up His holy name and cry out against the sins and abominations of this land. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Go with me to 2 Corinthians, please.

Go right. 2 Corinthians, 6th chapter. Let me ask you, how many love the word of God? Raise your hand. Do you love it? All right, now look this way before we read it. This is what the hatchet gods are after.

Do you know that the hatchet gods cannot succeed until they tear down the standard? This is the number one goal. Every time these Christian punkers come to me and I lay this down, they blink and they gulp and they say, well, that's not what it means.

And they try to tear it down. But you can't get away from this standard, young people. This is the rock on which you're going to build your faith. This is the holy standard of God. And this is what the hatchet gods have to turn down.

They've got to knock this standard down. Read it with me here, please. 2 Corinthians 6, verse 14, we begin to read. 14th verse, right down through to 18. Don't get ahead of me, just follow me. Do not be bound together with unbelievers.

For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? For what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols?

For we are the temple of the living God. Just as God said, I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord.

And do not touch what is unclean and I will welcome you. Then I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters. Says the Lord God Almighty. Says the Lord God Almighty. That seals it. What's it say, young people?

What fellowship do you have with the world? What fellowship with those idols? What do you have to do with that idolatry? You shall not do it. You shall come out from among them. You shall be separate and clean.

Then I receive you as my sons and daughters. And that is what the hatchet gods do. I'm trying to tear it down. They're after that. They're going through the house of God with their hatchets. And you know what they say?

Well, Jesus mixed with sinners. Jesus, this is the number one flaw. This is the greatest deception among this whole crowd. They say, I like Jesus. Jesus said he came to minister to the sinners. In the first place, I'm going to give you a scripture that's going to knock that once and for all.

Jesus, in the time of Christ, a Gentile was called a sinner. He was filthy. He was unclean. If a Levite, even his robe, even squished and touched the skin, he had to go and wash it. Because he was polluted by a sinner, a Gentile.

What it's saying is Jesus ministered to Gentiles. He went to their homes. Not once did he go into a pit of iniquity. Not one time. You don't dare blame my Savior for that. He came to seek and save the sinners.

But he was... This is talking primarily about those who were Gentiles. Those who were called sinners among the people. But they had a heart for God. Every one of those he's talking about were reaching out to him.

While the Jews were forsaking him, these sinners were accepting. They were reaching out. They were mocking him. They were reaching out to him. Alright, go with me to Hebrews 7. I want to end this controversy once and for all.

Go to Hebrews. Thank God for the Word. We don't have to guess. We've got the Word to stand on, young people. I want you to go to Romans 7 .26. Romans 7 .26. Hear the Word of the Lord. Saints. Romans. Or Hebrews.

Hebrews. Did I say Romans? I want Hebrews. I'll give you a little extra time there. Oh, I love the rustling of the leaves. Sounds like music. Hallelujah. Romans 7. I'm sorry, Hebrews 7. I've got Romans 7.

I better find out what Romans 7 means there. I was just wondering, the Lord is trying to say something here. You go to Hebrews. Hebrews 7 .26. There isn't a Romans 7 .26. Stop at 25. That means he's nailed down Hebrews.

Read it, folks. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest. Holy. Innocent. Undefiled. And what? I can't hear you. It was a wall of separation. Separated from sinners. Holy, undefiled, separated from sinners.

Oh, glory be to God. All right, who are these people that have a hat sitting in their hand? I say, well, I'm going to get to the parents right away. Oh, boy. I love it when parents see me preaching to the kids.

I can just see them clap and say, give it to them, brother. Just give it to them. And then when I get down on them, they just sit there and almost dare me. I'm going to tell you something. Dad, Mom, don't you dare.

Don't you dare put your foot down on your kid's rock and roll when you're sitting in front of your own idol. And don't you dare talk about their rock and roll when you listen to that filthy garbage called country western with all the cheating and all the incest.

The most ungodly lyrics in the world are not rock and roll. They're country western. A few weak amens from some parents under conviction. Ministered in the house of God, but they were phonies. And this father knew they were phonies.

He saw them laying with women at the temple door. He saw them reach into the seething pot and take out the filling in the yarn. He saw their cheating. He saw what was happening. And the scripture says, God sent a prophet to this man Eli.

And he said, in that day I will carry out against Eli all that I've spoken concerning his house from beginning to end. For I have told him that I'm about to judge his house forever. For the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

His sons reproached on themselves and he did not rebuke them. And you'll find this all through the scripture. You'll find the most devout parents, holy parents, refusing to cross their children. Would you turn to 1 Kings with me please?