A Reproach Among the Heathen — David Wilkerson

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God's Holy Name Profaned Among the Nations

Ezekiel 36 chapter please, Ezekiel 36, start to read verse 21,. Ezekiel 36 begin to read verse 21,. But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I do not do this for your O house of Israel, but for my own holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whither you went.

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Verse 33 again, I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified or honored in you before their eyes.

I reproach among the heathen. Daniel the prophet cried, O Lord, it's because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers that Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.

He said, we are your people, but we're a reproach. We're a reproach to your holy name, to all nations, to all heathen. The prophet Ezekiel prophesied this to Israel. He said, I will make you a desolation.

I'll make you a reproach among the nations which surround you in the sight of all who pass by, and you will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction, and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about you.

Now why would God allow his people to become a reproach and astonishment to everybody who passes by? Why would God give his people, his own people, over to reproach? The reason is almost unbelievable.

God looked down on his church, his people, and he found something out that was shocking. His people were sinning more than the heathen around about them. His people were doing things that the heathen nations never even thought of.

I'm reading in Ezekiel 5, 6, she, Israel, hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about them. They have twisted my laws, they have discounted my nature, they have done everything against my name that not even the heathen nations could think about.

Because you multiplied your sin more than the nations round about you, verse 7, you multiplied your sins in my house, in my, among my people, than all the heathen nations around you. Now, God sent terrifying judgments upon his people, devastating his own house.

God allowed his people to be invaded. You know this history. God sent a famine. Nature became a terror to them. In the famine, they began, it was prophesied, they began to eat their own children, eat their own babies.

They wound up being carried away in chains, as slaves. They were plodding along with their heads down, absolute powers and weak and frail. Turn to Ezekiel, look at verse 16, in Ezekiel 36,. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings.

Their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed or an impure woman. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land and for their idols were what they had polluted it.

I scattered them among the heathen. They were dispersed through the countries according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. And when they entered into the heathen, unto the heathen, while they went, they profaned my holy name when they said to them, these are the people of the Lord and are gone forth out of the land.

Look at verse 20 again. And when they entered into the heathen, whether they went, in other words, they were carried away captive. Now the multitudes of the heathen are watching God's people in chains being dragged into Babylon, whether they went, they profaned my holy name when they said to them, in other words, when all the people looked at them and said, look, these people in chains, those are the people of God and they're gone forth out of his land.

Now look at me, please. God looked down at this site and he said, this is profaning my holiness. You are making me look before the heathen as though I can't take care of my people. You are a reproach.

Look at you. People who were mighty and strong and no enemy could stand against you. Now because of your sin and your idolatry, you've lost the power of God. You've lost the presence of God. You've lost my presence.

You've lost everything. And now look how weak you are. Look how frail you are being carried away captive. And now all the heathen watch you being carried away. They look at your slavery. They look at your bondage and say, oh, this is the God who said he gave him a land and he couldn't keep them in the land.

Here's a God who made them promises and couldn't keep his promises. Look how you have reproached my reputation before the whole world. You have been a reproach to me. That's what this verse means. When you entered in among the heathen, you profaned my holy name because the crowd was saying these are the people of the Lord and they're gone forth out of the land.

You've brought shame to my name because of your bondage. The way you appear before the world is weak and helpless. That means you have made your God to appear weak and helpless before the world. Now folks, we live in a day when the church in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord is under great reproach.

Judgment Beginning at the House of God

You know that. The heathen in America now are scoffing at the church. They believe it's powerless, weak. The church has become the object of scorn and laughter. God saw the sad condition of his church in these last days and God did something knowing that it would affect his own name and his own reputation.

He sent judgment to his own house, just as was prophesied. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel?

And what God did, he looked at the television evangelist first because they're high profile. Millions of people were watching and they're giving the whole world an image of what God is supposed to be.

And here were men claiming to be healers. Here were men claiming to have faith. And they were begging for money and using unscrupulous methods that were a shame in the nostrils of God. And I'll tell you what God did in the way of judgment and why he did it.

God exposed and God didn't bring any of these evangelists down because of some kind of sexual sin or immorality. That's not the real thing. The anger of God was against what all the prophets were railing against.

All the prophets screamed about. He said, you have robbed widows' houses. And the scripture makes it very clear, woe from Isaiah 10, 1 and 2, woe to those who deprived the needy, who robbed the poor, who spoiled the widows, who plundered the orphans, who used orphans to raise money.

And God looked down and he said, I will not let these men send these horrible appeals to the poor and to the widows. And these evangelists say, send me your hundred dollars. They made it sound like you could buy healing.

You could buy the blessings of Almighty God. And there have been widows all over the United States that gave their food money, gave their rent money to these men because they were under such a guilt trip by these men.

And God saw these men robbing widows and taking away the money from the child, the fathers. And God said, that's enough. That's when God moves in judgment. Because the whole world, and that's what came out in the trial of one man.

And that's what the whole world here in New York City was in the New York Times and every newspaper in New York. It was not the lifestyle these men were living. They didn't care whether they ran with prostitutes.

They didn't care anything about their lifestyle. It was because they said, hey, look at these men. Supposed to be men of God. They're robbing the widows. They're robbing the poor. And that was the testimony of the liberal bunch.

This was the testimony. This was the cry. You and cry of the heathen. How can they be men of God? How can God be a real God when he robs his own widows? And God said, enough. I sent some of my team to one well-known ministry.

I said, just go in and talk to them and see how they're answering their appeals from people. And my two men came back weeping and said, let's get out of here. They wanted to get right off the place. Out of that ministry.

I said, why? He said, well, they told us when the people, doesn't matter whether the widow, no matter who, as soon as they hit them up again, hit them up again. Those were the words. These were the leaders.

Hit them up again and after them. There was no concern whether they were widows. No concern whether they were poor. And God said, that's enough. And that's been a profanation. That's been a reproach on the name of Jesus Christ.

The Church's Reproach in Cultural Controversies

And folks are still going on. Thank God. They got that false prophet Tilton off television. Finally, what an abomination. What a reproach. Every ungodly heathen in America looked at that man and said, is this man a joke?

Is this what God is? Is this what the church is? Send me a thousand dollars and get your healing. Thank God he brought it down. The abortion crowd now is convinced that the church in America is dead. They boast in their private conferences that nothing can stop their agenda.

Now they're mocking and they're laughing and they're determined that every Christian is going to use their tax dollars, tax dollars to pay for health insurance, including abortion. They're determined to make every Christian pay through the nose, whether they like it or not, their tax money go for abortions through the new health plan.

250 ,000 gays marched up Fifth Avenue and gave the finger to St. Pat's Cathedral and the bishop, the cardinal gave him the finger. Do you hear about passing and giving the finger to St. Patrick's? And here are 250 ,000 gays in all of the United States.

And they are absolutely mocking the church. They say the church is dead. Evangelicals who preach against homosexuality are dead. And even during their parade, they send a delegation to two or three of the evangelical churches who still believe that homosexuality is a sin.

And they said, get out of here. You're finished. Get out. Threatened them. And so they think the church is weak. It's poor. Cannot stop the homosexual power. Cannot stop abortion. But you see, God's concern is not the homosexual crowd.

That God, you know, this church, we take a step. We love the individual. I don't care what he does. We love him as a sinner, but we can take a stand against the sin. Homosexuality is a sin in the sight of God, and it'll always be that nothing going to change it.

One pastor was trying to run a church down in the village, and he went to at least a dozen churches to try to rent the church to have gospel meetings. And they said, well, what's your stand on homosexuals?

Unless you're homosexual, open to homosexuality, you can't come into this church. These are evangelical churches. But you see, God's not concerned about the attitude of the homosexuals or the abortion crowd or any other heathen crowd.

God's not concerned about that's not what bothers God. That's not his concern. His concern is his church. He's concerned about his own people and how their personal life is bringing reproach on his name.

How their own lives, they call themselves Christians, they call themselves by the name of Jesus. And God said, my people are bringing reproach on me. I read last week an article by a secular writer in the, it was in the Daily News, and he was saying, what's all this hue and cry by the church against abortion?

And he says he has statistics to prove that there are more evangelicals going for abortions than there are non-Christians. Did you hear me? More so-called Christians going for abortions than non-Christians.

More Christians are getting divorced than non-Christians. More Christians, he said, are into materialism and into sports and into entertainment and into all of this frivolity than all of the heathens.

I see the signs of that everywhere, especially in the south, in the central part of the United States, not so much in these liberal areas of the northeast, but all over the rest of the United States you find that.

Thousands of young girls who have Pentecostal, Baptist, and evangelical backgrounds going for abortions. He said, my people are bringing reproach on my name. In the 36th chapter of Ezekiel is a revelation of the heart of God.

God's Sovereign Work of Revival

You say, oh God, I want to know your heart. I want to know your heartbeat. The Lord tells me when I know his heart, I go into the Old Testament and I see the revelation of his acts and you get to know his ways.

And the 36th chapter of Ezekiel that I have you open to right now is a revelation of the heart of God and what he's going to do about it. Do you think God's just going to let this go? Do you think he's going to let the homosexuals gain power and mock the church endlessly until Jesus comes?

Do you think that the abortion agenda, is God going to wink at it? Do you think that all the gates of hell are going to come against our mighty God and God's just going to let truth fall into the dirt?

God's going to just let the church go weaker and weaker and sputter out until finally there's just a tiny little thing left when Jesus comes? That's not what the Bible says at all. Not one of the prophets bear that out.

The prophets say God is going to take matters into his own hands. God's going to do something sovereignly about it. It's not going to have anything to do with our prayers. Now that may shock you, but if God waited until we really got on our face before him, it'd never happen.

If he waited until we got holy and clean and pure, it'll never happen. If God waited for us to get the job done, it would never happen because he said, my people are stiff-necked. He said, I'm going to give you the promised land, not because of any goodness.

He said, ever since I've known you, you've been stiff-necked. And we are stiff-necked people. We are bent on backsliding. And with all the talk about prayer, there's very little prayer going up. The nation is not repenting.

We're not turning to God. We can quote our cute little scriptures about nations turning to God in prayer. God will heal their land. It's not happening anywhere. It's not happening. Those who started out have lost heart.

They get all excited to have a big prayer convention and a month later, they're back into apostasy. Now, if God waited for some prayer revival, it'll never happen. And even every revival that's been here, and they say it was prayer alone, it's the sovereign work of the Holy Ghost.

It's always been a sovereign work of God. Oh, yes, we're to pray. We're to seek God. In fact, when we see these things begin to happen, that's when we're to press in and pray. It was when Daniel knew he had a prophecy.

When God had spoken to Daniel that the 70 years were up and he knew that that was God's appointed time, that's when he set his face to seek God more than ever. Now, when we know the mind of God, and we're going to know it this morning, what is God going to do about the reproach against his name brought on by a backslidden church?

What's God going to do? Well, he said, well, he's going to send judgment. He did that to Pharaoh and Egypt. And he said, I'm going to plague Egypt that they may know that I'm the Lord. They're going to know that I'm God.

But folks, in this last day, even though I believe judgment's coming and judgment's at the door, judgment will not get the attention. The Bible says in Revelation, when God finally scorches men with heat, they'll just curse his name.

They'll curse his name. They'll not acknowledge him as God. They'll just curse him and turn against him. You think those who were under a terrible judgment of a plague, somebody dying, ready to face eternity, would turn to the Lord?

No. You go to almost any AIDS hospital there, you'll find those that are dying, who don't know Jesus, are cursing his name, going out in eternity cursing. The judgment will not wake up America. God says, no, I'm going to do something about my church.

I'm going to do something about my people. Hallelujah. God is going to rise up in fury and jealousy, and he's going to bring back glory to his name. He's going to make every heathen in America and the world know that he is God.

Look at verse 23. Let's start verse 22. Let's start verse 21. But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel has profaned among the heathen, whether they went. Therefore, saying to the house of Israel, thus said the Lord God, I do not this for your sake, so house of Israel, but for my holy name sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whether you went.

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Now, folks, listen to me, please. God's focus in these last days. Hear me. God's focus in these last days, the honor of his own name, the honor of his own name. Now, follow me closely, please. Everything God's going to do in these last days has to do with sanctifying his name and getting glory to his name before the heathen.

He said America and the nations are going to know who I am. They're going to know. I hear of so-called revival meetings and outpourings of the Holy Spirit, various places around the country and people come.

There's one place in Canada that 70 ,000 people have come from all over the world in the past six months to see this great move of God. And what they see are bizarre, strange manifestations, kissing, laughing, roaring like lions, barking like dogs, strange, unusual manifestations.

And it's called the new move of God. And thousands of people flock to see and to hear because they have itching ears. And folks, let me tell you something. The Lord told me this in prayer last night. That's going to hit New York City like a fire.

And there's going to be some little churches around here. There's going to be some churches where these manifestations break out because a number of so-called well-known evangelists have said that God's put in their heart to sweep this all over the country.

I heard it from their own ears. I mean, from their own mouth. Now, let me tell you something, and I want you to listen closely. God is going to do a great new work. He's going to do something supernatural by his Holy Spirit.

But I will tell you what it's going to cost. I'm going to tell you what it takes. And it's all here in this prophecy of Ezekiel. And remember, Ezekiel 37 is about the valley of dry bones and the resurrection of the dry bones.

But here's what has to come first. And if you tell me that there's a move of God, it had better be focused on the honor of the name of the Lord. I'm telling you that no pastor, no evangelist, listen closely, is moving in the true spirit of the living God in these last days until everything he says, everything he preaches, everything he does, everything that happens in that church or in that movement has to be focused on bringing back honor to the name of the Lord.

It has to be his honor. It has to be his glory. If it's bringing attention to man, see what's happening now. People are going for these manifestations and going to the scripture, trying to justify it and how they stretch the scriptures, trying to justify it.

That's no way it's done. You go and find the scriptural pattern. You abide by the word of God. You do what God says and he will do what he said he would do. You go to the scripture first, you do, you get it in divine order and having finished and obeyed divine order, then God will come down with fire on the altar, removing the reproach on his name and bringing forth the people who do not have itching ears for some new experience, but whose lives, their very lives are praise and honor and glory to the Lord.

Discernment Against False Manifestations

Some of you here are going to run off and let me warn you now, folks, listen to me close. If Times Square church is your home, you're going to have people come and you say, hey, you got to come. You see, that's what every drug addict says when he's hooked.

He said, hey, just try it once. Just curiosity gets you hooked. You can offer yourself to such demonic influence that will blow your mind. I'm not trying to, we don't try to hold a crowd. We don't try to hold anybody.

We've got empty seats. If you look back, you see people standing everywhere. There are about four people to fill every seat. If anyone leaves, I don't want to see anybody leave, but I will not stand by as a pastor and let you be deceived.

I want you to get something in your heart today that will build you up and give you discernment so that you could go anywhere. Now, folks, don't go anywhere just to see and hear something. Don't go out of curiosity, because if you've got that in your nature, the devil sees it.

He wants to know why you were there. Why are you there? What are you looking for? You're not satisfied with Jesus. You're not satisfied with the words you hear. You want some new experience. Are you concerned about the glory of his name, the honor of his name?

Boy, it's coming, folks. And there are going to be people coming in here and try to bring forth their strange manifestations. And I'll tell you, the only thing that's going to overcome, that's the sweet presence of Jesus, the sweet presence of Jesus.

Hallelujah. Three things have to happen. And anywhere you go, I'm going to give you something now, and if you'll get a hold of this, you'll be protected the rest of your life. You'll never be deceived.

Here's what the prophet says God's going to do in the last days. Now, folks, the reason I believe this prophet is not to the Jew alone is because this has never yet been fulfilled, because this has nothing to do with Zerubbabel, Nehemiah and Ezra rebuilding the walls in the temple.

Because after this, there were many reproaches. And the Lord is saying here, there's coming a time I'm going to remove the reproach. The reproach was never moved. Enemies still came in and reproached long after this prophecy.

It's a prophecy for these last days. It has in part something to do with the Jews, but it has to do with the church of Jesus Christ. And there are three things that God is going to do sovereignly. I want you to follow me closely now.

Cleansing by the Word and Repentance

Number one, go to verse 25. Then will I sprinkle what? Clean water upon you. You shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Will I cleanse you? Ephesians 5 .26 says that he might sanctify and cleanse it.

That's the church with the washing of the water by the word. Look at me. The word of God is the cleansing water, and God's not about to pour out his spirit on a dirty church. He's not about to bring manifestations to those who haven't been purified and cleansed by the living word of God.

And God's saying right now, the last days, I'm going to raise up young men. I'm going to raise up preachers that have clean lives, and they're going to preach a clean word. It's going to be a holy word.

It's going to be a piercing word, and it's going to get rid of the filthiness and uncleanness in my house. I'm going to have men sweep it out of the house. I'm going to purify my house. He's talking about a revival of holiness.

Folks, I have been given some tapes by some young evangelists that are thrilling. I have never heard such strong preaching about sin. I have never seen in any generation men with such power to expose uncleanness and filthiness in the house of God.

These are young Jeremiah's. They're young men of God. I believe Carter is one of these young men God has touched so marvelously. Unafraid to preach against sin. Coming forth mightily. God's doing that.

I've got two sons like that. There are a whole generation of young preachers coming up right now. And God's saying, hey, look, you're going to see. The devil knows that something's coming. He's trying to take the power away from and try to bring something in that's false before the real comes.

Getting people's eyes on themselves and on experiences and on manifestations rather than the cleansing of the house. God said, I'm going to sprinkle clean water on you first. I'm going to cleanse. I'm going to take away your filthiness.

We've had people going to the house of God for years. Going to the house of God, hearing sermon after sermon, and the world looks at them and says, well, they've not changed. They're just like I am. There's been no change.

No wonder the church appears so weak. People don't see a holy people. A holy man is a terror to a sinner. Jeremiah 33. Go to Jeremiah 33. Jeremiah 33. And I want to begin reading verse 8. Verse 8. And I will cleanse them from how much iniquity?

All their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me. And I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto thee.

And they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. Look at me, please. Why would the heathen tremble? What are they trembling about? Because God's cleansed his people.

Now standing before the world are people that are pure in heart. There are people that are godly. They say, I'm going to make the world tremble because I'm going to clean up my house. God said, I'm going to do it.

Supernaturally, God is doing that now. Thank God he's doing it in Times Square Church. We have been in a cleansing time. God's been cleansing out the filthiness of the flesh. Hallelujah. I'm going to believe he's doing that for you.

Glory be to God. What a wonderful thing he's doing. Tell me, well, there's a cleansing revival. You tell me, say, hey, over here in Iowa, over here in California, there's a church. There's people come from everywhere because there's a repentance revival.

People are getting up and confessing that they've been adulterers. Men are getting up and say, I was hooked on pornography. And they're burning their pornography books. They're burning their videotapes, the porno junk.

People are making restitution. Things are getting right. I wonder how many thousands of people flock to hear that kind of revival. But God said, that's what he's going to do first. If you tell me there's a move of God somewhere, tell me first where there was a cleansing.

Tell me first where there was repentance. Tell me first where sin was exposed. They're inviting people who are living ungodly lives. People still hooked on drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, everything. Invite them to come and get the blessing.

There's been no purging. They've not been to the well. They've not been to the labor. They've not been cleansed and coming into God's holy place, jumping over the labor. Impossible. There has to be a cleansing first.

How many people would attend a conference? Listen to me now. How many would attend a conference where the evangelist, all he did was get up and weep and wail over sin in the house? And that's exactly what Paul the apostle said to the Corinthians.

I'm reading 2 Corinthians 12, 20. For I fear that when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, unless when I do come, my God will humble me among you, that I shall be well. That means loudly weep.

I will loudly weep. I will be well many which have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornications and sensuality which they have committed. And Paul says, I'm afraid that when I come to visit you, all I'm going to do is stand there and weep and wail over your sins.

Sometimes I wonder what people are laughing about. I really wonder. There's a place for laughter. That's after repentance. Folks, I know what that's like. I was in a meeting preaching to a number of thousands of people.

And right in the middle of my message, I broke down. I just started to wail and cry in an unknown tongue. And after the message, I'll recall, I went down to get in the car. The driver was waiting. And I kept walking out into the darkness of the field.

It was a stadium. I fell on my knees, uncontrollable weeping and wailing. I was just wailing and crying out because the Lord was giving me a revelation of the sins of the pastors and the evangelists that were listening to me.

And he showed me the vile things that were going on. He showed me all this. And I just, it just overwhelmed me. And I fell and wept. I couldn't get a hold of myself the rest of that evening hardly. It was just absolutely overwhelming.

The wailing. I would wail. Where is that wailing against the sin and corruption in the house of God? All the divorcing, all of the abortion in the house of God, all of the cheating, all of the things that are inside the house of God.

And yet we want to go and get a blessing until there's been a cleansing. There will not be the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You want to see a manifestation of the Holy Ghost? You'll see a real manifestation when you see God's people beginning to weep between the ports and the altar.

When pastors and evangelists do exactly what Joel said. Said, I call you to weep and wail between the ports and the altar. That's the manifestation that will precede the real work of God. Secondly, the second thing God's going to do in restoring the power and glory of his name, verse 26.

A New Heart and a Contrite Spirit

I got to get back there to Ezekiel 36, verse 26. A new heart also will I give you. And a new spirit will I put within you. And I'll take away the stony heart out of your flesh. I'll give your heart a flesh.

I'm going to give you a new heart and a new spirit. Hallelujah. Do you know what this new heart is? It's a broken heart. The new spirit's a contrite spirit. Folks, this is, there's no pride in what God's going to do.

There's no man that's going to shine. It's the spirit of God. It's the work of the Holy Ghost. God sovereignly saying, I have got to have a people who are going to send terror and trembling into the hearts of the heathen.

My people are going to be such a testimony. They're going to have new hearts. They're going to have the heart of God. They're going to have a heart after me. Folks, I don't see that in America. I don't see it in many churches.

I don't see a people with a heart for God. I see it here. I see it in a number of churches. But in general, I don't see it in the church of Jesus Christ. Men and women whose hearts yearn after Him. Spirits that are broken before Him.

People who are not sitting in front of television feeding their spirits with idolatry, feeding their spirits with the filth and sensuality of this world. God said, no, I'm going to have a people of pure heart.

I'm going to have a people with broken spirits. That are open to the moving of the Holy Spirit. Don't want anything for themselves. They want nothing more than to bring honor and glory to my name. Folks, that's what I desire more than anything else this morning.

That we be a church that brings honor and glory. Jeremiah 24 7i says, I will give them a heart to know me. That I am the Lord. They shall be my people. I'll be their God. They will return unto me with all their hearts.

Folks, if we don't accomplish anything else here in Times Square, from this pulpit and in what God's doing among us, is that everybody that hears that you attend this church would be able to say of you, there goes a man, there goes a woman with a heart after God.

There goes someone whose spirit's been touched by heaven. There's someone who's not materialistic. There's someone doesn't talk about their own lives. They talk about Jesus. Don't go around them. They'll just talk about Jesus.

They're Jesus crazy. Yes, yes, Jesus crazy. Hallelujah. Jesus cried out, this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth. They honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain do they worship me.

All the vanity of so much worship in the church today, it's absolute vanity. It's worthless. Didn't get above the ceiling. Because the people who sit there don't have their heart in it. They don't have a heart for God.

They come to church with their mind polluted with everything, all their battles and their problems. And they don't come with their mind cleansed. They've not been to the labor. And they come into the house of God burdened down and many times polluted with the things of this world.