Being to Familar With Christ - Slovakia Conference 2003 (Slovakian/english) — David Wilkerson

I will go to Him. You have the words of eternal life. You gave me faith. I know that You are the Messiah. I will go to Him. Who is such a God as You are. In the womb of my mother You created me. I will go to Him.

You have the words of eternal life When I am with you in your womb A spring rain falls in my soul. I know that someone can come to you in life. You will give him eternal life. In the other waters live joy With everyone who walks with you.

I will go to Him. Who else can give you what you have. With your legs You have a safe shelter. I will go to Him. On the palm of your hand. You gave me faith. You know what I live for. You know where I can be.

I will go to Him. You have the words of eternal life When I am with you in your womb A spring rain falls in my soul. I know that someone can come to you in life. You will give him eternal life. In the other waters live joy With everyone who walks with you.

I will go to Him. Who else can give you what you have.

Jesus Christ as the Center of the Ministry

With everyone who walks with you. So we could see that there is not a glorified man here but Jesus Christ as the Savior and Lord. It is amazing when we can perceive that He is the center of all of this.

It is not David Wilkerson who started an amazing ministry almost 40 years ago but it is Jesus Christ who gave to His life something amazing for the lost people. God would give for Slovakia to live not only something divine but to live through the living Christ to live through something that can give life and hope to the lost that can give freedom to those who are bound that can give life to those who have no life.

God's Word says to us. The Lord says Welcome today you who are hungry for God. Welcome today you who want to hear the answer to the problems of your life because today in this place there is the Holy Spirit and through His servants He will speak to you today.

Open your heart. Prepare the water of your heart because what you will hear today will change your life forever. God will speak to each one of us today. Lord Jesus said one strange word If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and let him drink.

If anyone believes in Me, as the Bible says the rivers of life will flow from the inside. And the last word that is written this will be My Word which will come out of My mouth will not return empty to Me but will do what I like and will give him what I have sent him.

God will give so that the Word does not fall into a pit or into a stone pit but let My heart and your heart hear the message from God. We will still honor the Lord with songs. He will also prepare this praise of the water for our Lord for what will be spoken.

I would like to ask you a few organizational things. If you want to take a picture this evening of Brother David Wilkerson it is possible for the first 3 to 5 minutes then please do not go into this room do not disturb us so that there can be silence and we can focus on the Word of God.

Here are authorized people who record it is possible to order here at this table and you can also be invited to the conference that was here. We are very happy that God allowed one miraculous thing. We would not be able to do all these things today and these days.

God not only sent David Wilkerson to this place to bless us with His Word but He also secured through them finances to cover all costs. There was no need for the state to offer us money. There was no need to ask even a single crown from you because God took care of it through these people and we are grateful to God that He is faithful and that He does miracles.

Amen.

One thing I realize that we are gathered here as a family of Lord Jesus Christ regardless of which denominations and church families we come from we have a common Father and we have one Holy Spirit. Let us praise the Lord Jesus because He is worthy of praise.

He is worthy of praise that will say that our God is great glorious God who gives freedom. This is the day that the Lord gave us. Let us praise the Lord Jesus. This is the day that the Lord gave us. Let us praise the Lord Jesus because He is worthy of praise.

Let us praise the Lord Jesus because He is worthy of praise. This is the day that the Lord gave us. Let us praise the Lord Jesus because He is worthy of praise. This is the day that the Lord gave us. Let us praise the Lord Jesus because He is worthy of praise.

This is the day that the Lord gave us. He is good. He is present in this place. He is no one like God. He is the King over sin, the King over death, so good. God knows who He is, what He is and what will happen to us.

He will reveal Himself to us. He will reveal Himself to us. We know Him. We know Him. We know Him. God is with us. Holy Father, Holy God. Holy Father, Holy God. Let Your name be glorified and glorified forever.

You be exalted. We are drawn closer to You. Hallelujah. You are holy. You are mighty. Almighty. Great Lord. You are holy. You are mighty. Almighty. Great Lord. You are holy. You are mighty. Almighty. You are holy.

Great Lord. When God's people come together to worship God, in spirit and in truth, angels are added to this performance. And these angels are essential for us. They have one song and confession that they sing and that is Hallelujah.

Because God Almighty has power. This also applies to our country. God has power in Estonia.

This is our hope. Amen. Let us join together and honor God.

Because God Almighty has power. Because God Almighty has power.

We exalt Your name to Your people today in this place and we confess that You are Lord. Hallelujah. Glory be to You, Lord. Glory be to You because You have the answer to every need of man. Be exalted and glorified even in this moment.

Amen. Welcome, dear friends, dear brothers, sisters. Welcome to this last evening of our conference and evangelization gatherings. I believe that many of you have been transformed and touched by the Holy Spirit.

I would like to ask you, is it so? Can you raise your hands and say, God has touched you? Amen. We have experienced amazing things these days. And I am very grateful to God that we can hear the living prophetic word today in the situation of a very specific individual.

And this prophetic word is brought by one of God's men who is of humble heart, who gave his life to a young generation. And we are very grateful to Brother David Wilkerson, to Brother Gary Wilkerson, who even after these days handed over the embassy to us directly from the throne of God.

And it could change our lives. And I believe that this here service, adoration for God, has grown in our hearts and that we will go with courage and we will testify that so close to God it is possible to come today because His cross is reality.

I want to invite you today to open your hearts and to do something for your future. It can be changed by coming to God's nearness today. You will hear the message from Brother David Wilkerson and you will be able to be blessed.

I have read several of your testimonies. Amazing miracles. I have seen how homosexual people were freed and how people were not only saved and saved from sin, but how they gave their lives. How people who wanted to commit suicide were freed.

Jesus is reality. Let us open our hearts and let us hear today what God will say to each one of us. Let us welcome Brother David Wilkerson right now.

Thank you very much. We are delighted to see you here in the service tonight.

We are delighted to see you here. Brother David wanted to ask everyone and asked me to tell you not to come to this area and not to disturb this gathering by photographing. So thank you for respecting this.

Thank you. Tonight we have some special guests here. They are from Teen Challenge. I would like them to come up and introduce them here to you tonight. If you will come quickly, wherever you are.

Teen Challenge and the Transformation of Addicted Lives

40 years ago these were centers for drug addicts and alcoholics.

We have our centers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Siberia, and all over the world. Islamic countries invite us to come because they tell us that they cannot deal with addicts. So we receive a message that if you know how to cure addicts with a message about Jesus, come and do it.

And he does it in your country as well. I am glad that Rachel from Teen Challenge is here. We would like you to tell us what God is doing here in two minutes. And we would like you to tell us your life story.

In Slovakia.

It is a mercy of God that many people who were at the end of their lives passed away without hope and the Lord saved them. It is always amazing to see and hear what God can do to heal a person, to free him, and not only to free him, but to give him a whole new life.

He can give a blessing that will not only change his life, but even the whole family. And we believe that in this turbulent time in which we live, we believe that the Lord is powerful who has healing and liberation.

Let me tell you something briefly about Teen Challenge in Slovakia. It started in 1995. In 1996 we opened the first center. It was a divine commandment and out of nothing this service was created. And the Lord also called employees to this service.

I never thought that I would work and serve with drug addicts and alcoholics. It happened in a bus during a silence when I was traveling from Trnava to Bratislava. The Lord touched my heart and spoke to me very clearly because I was broken by the death of a young man.

He was 28 years old. He was a young doctor and no one could help him. He overdosed himself. It broke my heart because he wanted to be free. And since then I prayed, Lord, be merciful to this country. And the Lord spoke right in this place where I would never expect it.

And it can be said that out of nothing the Lord created the center. We are in a rental. We have one primary school and the rent of this school is one crown per year. It is the mercy of God. And the work of Team Challenge is always the work of faith and the trust of the living God.

But we can confess that He is mighty who can fulfill all needs. I thank you for your support and your prayers and for all the people who really think intensively about this service. I would like to introduce only two of these students.

It will be Laci and also one who graduated from the center. Laci is from the center 6th month, 7th month. So he will briefly say what the Lord did in his life. Peace of God. My name is Laci, I am 27 years old and I come from Nová Zámka.

My old life was full of sin. And the sin embodied in my life were the paths with which I was bound, with which the devil deceived me. They were drugs, all kinds of drugs offered by the market. They were gambling, it was adultery, it was pornography.

They were things that gave me anxiety, that gave me stress, that gave me schizophrenia, that gave me paranoia, that broke my relationships in my family, that completely separated my friends from me. I was completely alone, at the end of my strength, I was no longer in control.

This was given to me by drugs and the unclean life I lived. I felt in one evening that I was in a place like you are now. I heard a word, a word that reached my heart, that penetrated me. And I felt a calling, a calling like when a honeybee calls.

I took the Lord Jesus into my heart, that when He is the Son of God, let Him change my life and give me a new life. And the Lord Jesus heard this calling of mine. He gave me freedom. He set me free from this path.

I am free. He gave me peace. He gave me joy. He changed my way of working. I was chained to the law. I didn't just eat chicken breasts, I even started eating beans, for example. He gave me brothers and sisters.

He gave me new mothers, new fathers. God is a living God. He also changed my family. As it is written in the Bible, the Lord Jesus says, Your whole house will be saved. Now my mother and father I am grateful to God.

Let Jesus be glorified. Hallelujah!

When I was a child, my parents divorced. A few years later, my father committed suicide. It was a difficult time in my life. I joined a group of young people who had similar problems as me. We were tired of everything that was happening around us.

We wanted to run away. We wanted to run away from reality. We wanted to forget. So we started experimenting with drugs and other things. At first, it looked very innocent, very attractive, very interesting.

But in a moment, it began to dominate me. It was stronger than me. It began to pull me down. I was no longer addicted to drugs. But the drug began to dictate me when I took it. And so it went on and on.

I started selling things around me. I started lying to people, hurting and hurting people. I got into prison. I went from treatment to treatment. They told me what to do, where to do, how to do it, who to contact, but it didn't work at all.

Before I came back, I was always addicted to drugs. It was getting worse and worse. I remember that when I was addicted to drugs for almost 10 years, there was no one to help me. People told me, in everything you did, you will die.

I told my doctor, I won't help you. Go and find another doctor. Go away, because there is no help for you. Your health is broken. You will either die from selling drugs or you will die from being completely destroyed.

Now I weigh more than 65 kg, I used to weigh less than 40 kg. I was addicted to it. This is not life anymore. This is survival from day to day. I don't even live anymore. I am dead. I grabbed a knife and said, this is all that should be in the future, what I have experienced in the last 10 years.

I grabbed the knife and wanted to stab it in the heart. But I was diagnosed with cancer, so I stabbed it in the stomach. I was stabbed by a centimeter. I got to the hospital. The doctors saved me. I got to the Streltsy Team Challenge in a strange way.

They didn't talk to me anymore. When I got there, the first thing they said to me was, go there, you can't go there, you can do this, you can't do that. But they told me, there is Jesus Christ, who can change your life, who can give you hope and you can be free.

And I saw it so many times in the movies, I heard about it so many times, but I didn't experience it, I didn't have that touch. And I said, God, if this path is real, please touch me, change my life. And suddenly it started to happen, that God started to set up such churches for me.

I saw all those things in the hospital, which I committed, those wounds, thefts, all the people I hurt. And it started to hurt me, and there was a pressure inside me, and I gave it away. I said, God, forgive me, please.

People said, you have no hope, but I will forgive you, I will give you a new life. I will lead you to everyone. And He did it. He forgave me my whole life, He gave me a new heart. I can meet Him every day, and He called me to serve Him.

Or I go to a Bible school, and when I come back, I want to serve in this country, because God is the one I can meet every day. And He gave me what I have never experienced before. I have been free for almost four years, and I thank the Lord for that, because people said, you will die, in everything you have committed.

But God says, I will forgive you, and you will live. Let His name be blessed.

Prayer for Teen Challenge Students and Their Ministry

I want to ask you all to stand up, and I want you to join me in prayer, that God will keep them, that they will grow in the knowledge of Christ, and that they will become useful for society, and that God will make their lives meaningful.

Heavenly Father, I ask you in Jesus' name, I ask you to surround them with your great protection. I ask you to let them understand who you are. I ask you to let them understand who you are. I ask you to save their families, to do a miracle in their lives, I ask you to let none of them return to secular life.

I ask you to give them faith that you will save them, that Christ, who saved them, has the power to save them. Lord, please, make their lives meaningful. Please, in a way that many people will come to Christ.

Bless this ministry, provide for their needs,.

And please, that powerful testimonies will be spread in the Holy Power of the Gospel of Jesus.

In Christ's name. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.

Jesus Reveals Himself in the Synagogue

I'm going to read to you about how to get to know Christ very well. I'm going to read from Luke chapter 4. You don't have to open it, of course, you can if you want to.

I'm going to read from verse 16. He went into the synagogue on a Saturday and stood up to read.

There was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah, and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord was upon me, and so he helped me to deliver the poor man's gospel, he sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim to the captives forgiveness, and I will seal the return of the devil, to send the broken to freedom, and to proclaim to the Lord a pleasant year.

And they gave the book of Isaiah to him who was there, and he sat down. And the eyes of all the synagogues were on him. And he began to say unto them, This has been fulfilled in your ears. And they all believed him, and they were amazed at the loving words that came out of his mouth, and they said, Is this not the Son of Joseph?

And he said to them, You will tell me the truth of this likeness. The doctor has healed himself. That which we have heard, that he went to Capernaum, I teach you also here in Israel. And he said, Amen, I tell you that some prophets are not blessed in Israel.

Let us pray. Lord Jesus, I need you. We need you. We need the words of heaven. Not the voice of a man. Not just a sermon. Oh God, fall upon this congregation. Give us the mind of Christ. And let us see your power.

The power of your word. Please go deep into our hearts. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Lord Jesus enters the synagogue. And the Bible tells us that it was normal, that it was his habit. He did this since he was a child.

I am convinced that it was his father who took him there. Lord Jesus was a normal child. He felt all the feelings that we experience. Despite the fact that he was a God, he was also a man. He was also a child.

And he went to the synagogue that day. Who walked with Christ. Many of them asked him. He was still talking about his heavenly power. And I am convinced that they did not understand what he was talking about.

His father was a carpenter. And Lord Jesus was also a carpenter. His father repaired furniture, he worked with wood. People brought all the broken things to repair. And he made things. He repaired things.

He was a normal child. And now he is in the synagogue. And God is ready to reveal who he is to the world. And the book of Isaiah was given to him. He opens the book. And this is what he says. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.

He sent me to heal the brokenhearted. To bring deliverance to the captives. And to cover the sight of the blind. And to set the limited and the bruised free. He sits back. And is silent. They did not understand a word of what he was saying.

Because they did not know what he was talking about. They were not people with broken hearts. Most of them were prominent Pharisees. They did not understand at all. But Lord Jesus sat down. And he said, this day, this very prophecy that I have read to you, has been fulfilled.

I am the man that Isaiah prophesied about. Can you imagine what noise there was? Looking at one another. This is Joseph's son. We know his father. We've played with him. He's just a fiction man. They knew everything about him.

They knew where he was born, when he was born. And they knew what he was saying, what he was thinking. They knew everything about his heavenly father. They knew everything about his history, about his background.

But they did not know that he was God. And friends, this has always been the issue. Is Jesus really God? When the events of September 11th took place in New York, there was a whole city prayer meeting at Yankee Stadium, where 70 ,000 people gathered.

And people from various other religions came together. And the agreement was this. You can talk about Jesus, the man, the teacher, the prophet, but you cannot talk about him as God. Anyone can accept Jesus as a man.

But Jesus is exclusive. And no other name in this world is given to save only Jesus Christ. We serve an exclusive Christ. We serve an exclusive Jesus. I very rarely talk about Jesus in New York. When I talk about Jesus, I talk about Jesus, Christ, the Lord.

Because everyone I talk to knows that he is Jesus and they accept him as a man. These people looked at him, but basically what they were thinking, and maybe what they were whispering to each other, was that it was one thing that this man was repairing an apartment, and now he was talking about repairing or changing the mind, the soul, and that in order for him to do that, he had to be God.

And this is exactly what Jesus said. I am God. I am a man. But at the same time, I am God. In flesh. Jesus did not say that God sent him so that we could have a society, or just a society. I did not come just so that we could get to know each other.

I did not come just so that we could be friends. I do not know anyone who talks about an intimate relationship more than I do. I often say that every evangelization, every service to God, has to come from a close society.

But you can get to know Jesus so well, the historical Jesus. We had young people come to the church, and they got to know Jesus so well, or they knew so much about Jesus. They had flannels, lessons, illustrations.

Some of you are here tonight. You heard a lot about Jesus. A lot about how the whole of China was saved. You know everything about Jesus. You learned, you heard about the historical Jesus. He was born in Bethlehem.

He was born in Asia. You know about the wise men.

You know about his 33 years. You know about his greatest cross. But you don't know his heart. So from living with Jesus,.

He's become just another man. Now folks, it's one thing to be intimate with Christ.

It's one thing to spend time with Jesus. To spend hours and days with Christ.

I know in part what that's about. Commune with Christ. Commune with Jesus. And love him.

Give him your heart. He didn't come to make good people even better people. He came to give us his heart. He came not only to save us from sin. For the bad.

Knowing Christ Through His Heart for the Broken

I am going to express God's heart. When you look at me, you're going to see the Father.

When you look at me, you're going to see the Father. You're going to see what God is like. I'm going to do only what he tells me to do. I'm going to have close communion with him. You're going to see me go away and pray.

I'll be there. I'll be there.

And let me tell you why the Father sent me. To heal the broken hearts. To preach the deliverance to the captives. To open the eyes of the blind. And to set free all those who suffer and who are crushed.

Is your church has become too familiar with Jesus the man? Do you gather just to commune and have fellowship? And do you have this thought in your mind, the reason we are saved is that we may have fellowship with Christ and one another?

We're saved to build up one another? And do you meet week after week and month after month? And you talk about this man? And you preach about this man? And you find a thousand different ways to express this man, Jesus?

And the Christ? And when I ask you, are you expressing to your community that if Jesus is God, my job, my calling, is to do more than pray, more than commune, then that's where you end? All your job? 40 years ago,.

A young man, in communion with Christ, who left the church, and a pastor, and I went to New York. Jesus, I want to know for myself.

Who you are and why I'm here and what this is all about. If the Holy Ghost is just sitting in the church and just talking in tongues and praying for one another.

And the whole world.

Broken heart blind and in need I said, I don't want that. Lord, please open my eyes to the world that needs me. And Lord Jesus began to open his heart to me. Because if we truly have fellowship with him, if it's true fellowship, if it's true communion, he's going to reveal his mind to you, he's going to give you his eyes, he's going to give you his heart.

And you're going to see human need. God saw this human cry, God saw this need of man. And I began to preach to the gangs on the streets. The book of Deca-Cruz describes the conversion of Nicky Cruz. The first time he saw me, he fired me and said, go to hell.

The second time he said, I can take a knife and cut you into pieces. And I said, every piece, every cut piece will still speak of God's love in your eyes. There was such a great love in my heart. I couldn't have it just like that, humanly.

This was born of several months of prayer, of fellowship with the Lord. But if I didn't go where there is human need, if I didn't stay there for another five years, if I didn't have fellowship with God, if I didn't become a great man of prayer, if I didn't have the heart of Jesus, if the Spirit of the Lord wasn't above me, if I didn't preach to the poor, if I didn't go out and heal the brokenhearted, if I didn't go out where the blind are, I have to go where they are blind.

Nicky Cruz was saved.

The members of the individual gangs began to be saved. That was in 1958. Two years later, after walking the streets and preaching to the gangs and handing out literature, we walked the streets a lot, we were among the gangs.

In 1960, a heroine came and literally flooded New York. I didn't know what it was. Nobody knew what it was. First, Mary Juana fought, but those were just professionals. But in the 1960s, the heroine literally broke into the streets.

The gangs were breaking up. Each of the members of the gangs had to try to steal some money to get the money for the dose. I was walking the streets, and there were two drug addicts who had just gotten their heroin dose.

I asked them, where are you going with it? They said, we're going up on the roof. Five-story walk-up. Five-roof-top. The roof. I went up on the roof. They pulled out a needle, a little bottle cap, like a Coca-Cola bottle, and water.

One of them poured the needle into the cold water. I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm disinfecting the needle. He said, that's dirty water. He stuck that in his throat.

He stuck the heroin into his arm, and he was killed. A killer disease.

His eyeballs were yellow. He takes the dirty needle, and some of the blood from the previous guy is still on the needle. He puts the heroin into his throat. I didn't know what to think. I fell off. When I got up, they looked at me.

They asked, what's wrong? I said, nothing. I said, he's sick. He's going to die. You're going to get sick, just like him. He said, I know. But it doesn't matter.

That was my introduction. They took me to other places. To the farmhouse. I saw all those things. From the ranch.

Those who have broken hearts. Those who are bruised. Those who are poor. I said, Lord Jesus, I can't just preach the gospel to them.

Look at Brooklyn.

I'll give you a house. And you bring those boys in. And I'll show you miracles. We found an old house full of garbage. We cleaned it up. And Nicky Cruz came to help me. Because I taught him. He didn't save you just to stop using drugs.

He didn't save you just to make you a better person. He didn't save you just to be free from what was going to kill you. He saved you just to make your life useful. And that's what the gospel is about.

He didn't save me just to go to heaven. He saved me just to make my life useful. He saved me just to make my life useful. Regardless of whether you are a housewife. Regardless of whether you drive a truck.

Regardless of what your job is. Regardless of whether you are married, divorced, or free. The Lord speaks to each of us. There is God's purpose in your life. He wants to give you His heart. You won't become a sinner.

He needs you for those who have a broken heart and for those who are crippled. And if the only things around you are your own problems. If other people don't interest you. Then you don't know anything about Jesus' heart.

Thank God for that day. Nicky Cruz started bringing drug addicts in. I was walking down the streets of Brooklyn. And I started talking to a young man who was waiting for a dealer. I started talking to him.

And he said to me, aren't you an agent?

Using the Bible just as a cover-up.

But he knew that if I was just an agent. I wouldn't quote the Bible as I quoted it. And he said, you are just like my mother. My mother is a Hallelujah woman. She prayed for me all the time. And she sent you to me.

And I said, I don't know your mother. And he said, I just got out of prison. And I'm waiting for my pusher. And he's watching. And he thinks you're a drug addict agent. So would you please go a little bit to the side.

And I said, I'm going to tell you something. Your mother prayed for you. And you're not going to get away from it. Because you're doomed to be saved. You're doomed to be saved. You can't get away from your mother's prayers.

And I said, when you go, here's my card. Here's my address. I have a house for drug addicts. His name was Sunny. Two weeks later, he had gotten desperate. He comes in. And the first one he meets is Nicky Cruz.

He said, what are you doing here? You're a gang leader. He said, no, I'm not. I'm a preacher now. Doing the chapel. And after the preaching, Sunny said to him, who told you all about me? He said, Jesus did.

Sunny gave his heart to Jesus. Sunny Argenzony is now Bishop of the 50th drug center in the world. I was in his crusade in California. 15 ,000 converted drug addicts from all over the world.

Faith in Christ Rather Than Demanding a Sign

But you see, Jesus couldn't do anything in the midst of these people. Because Jesus only responds.

To need and faith.

He's talking about bruised people. He's talking about wounded. He said, these are God's Pharisees. They don't relate to what he said.

What you've done is something supernatural for us. Show us a miracle. Do something supernatural. They wanted him to prove that he was God. Now I want to get personal with young people. If you're a theologian.

And you've been very well educated in the seminary and you're trying to figure out.

The homiletics of my preaching and maybe you have questions about my exegesis you don't know where I'm going. Frankly, neither do I. But I'm moving in the Holy Spirit. And you'll see what God does by his Holy Spirit and not by some preaching.