The Moment of Truth Has Come — David Wilkerson

The Call to Confront Lust and Secret Sin

I'm going to preach tonight about lust and passion, adultery, fornication, and I argued and argued about this. I sought the Lord, I tell you, I sought the Lord for two solid weeks just on this word that I'm preaching tonight.

I said, Lord, people who come to this kind of a meeting would not come if they had this thing in their heart, if there was lust in their heart. I'm not even going to talk about VCRs and those rented movies, I'll talk about a lot of things.

I'm going to talk about strange children. In fact, my message is called The Moment of Truth Has Come. The Moment of Truth Has Come. And I argued with the Lord, people who come to a meeting like this, they know how I preach, they wouldn't come and expose themselves to this, and yet God wouldn't let me go.

And I just kept coming back to it and coming back and saying, well, Lord, let me preach it Wednesday night after they've learned to trust me, that I'm not just a hard man. See, I'm not a prophet, I'm a watchman, one of His many.

Just a watchman. I guess the reason I've never wanted people to call me a prophet, prophets die young, they kill prophets. Everybody thinks this. I've never had so many prophets in my life. Everywhere I go, people call themselves prophets.

I meet more people come to my office with more gibberish than I've ever heard in my life. And some people go to a meeting like this, or they get into some deeper life, and suddenly the pastor's back slid, and they go to the pastor and say, you're no good, and they start prophesying at him and want to leave the church and everything.

Well, sometimes the pastor's not there, but there's a better way to do it. Why don't you love him? Why don't you pray him in a conviction? Why don't you be patient with him? Who said we made you a prophet?

And yet there are true prophets, and we need to hear them. And you're going to hear some prophecies from this prophet. There'll be a lot of prophetic word come forth. There'll be a prophetic word come forth tonight.

But the Lord made it clear to me that he was going to break forth in his presence among us, that he was also going to bring conviction, and that conviction comes to heal and to strengthen and change our lives.

And I'm not going to put a figure at it, but the Lord gave me a figure. In fact, very clearly, how many needed this message here tonight. And I didn't even want to argue with the Lord about it, and I just passed it on.

But not only by those who are here tonight, but those who are going to hear this tape. I'm not preaching to the tape. I'm not preaching to the tape audience. But these messages are taped, and there's been a number of people around the country, around the world, hearing and receiving.

There'll be somebody driving down the road in an automobile, even now, while I'm speaking. There'll be people sitting in their home. There'll be people hearing it. And God will be speaking to them about secret sin and not something God's been dealing with about to put down.

And these are people who can sing and shout and talk in tongues. These are people who come to meetings just like this and raise their hands in worship and everything else, but they're not dealt with that besetting sin.

That thing is still there, and I want to show you the danger of it. I want to show you tonight, before I'm finished, the avenging power of holiness. There's a saving power of holiness, there's an avenging power of holiness, and we'll talk about that tonight also.

Prayer for Conviction, Healing, and Holiness

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I ask that those who have been delivered from all lust and passion and flesh, that they pray with me that God will deal with those who are still in battle. Their battle is still raging in this building tonight.

Lord, there are some that have come to this meeting by having been invited by someone else, or they're here out of curiosity. You've made it clear there are even some critics here of our ministry, but Lord, we love them just the same.

We ask you, Lord, in your mercy and your grace, to come with power and unction and anointing and demonstration of the Holy Ghost, that God would be glorified and that the Holy Spirit would come to do His work of convicting of sin and righteousness and judgment.

That is your ministry, Holy Spirit, to convict us of sin and righteousness and of becoming judgment. Put judgment on sin tonight in our hearts. Let no one say, I am not guilty. Lord, we don't have to plead, we don't have to invent something, but oh God, turn the searchlight on our hearts.

Help us, Lord, to lay down our idols. Lord, bring forth healing before this message is over. Oh God, I pray for the preached word from this pulpit, from this night and every session, that there will come forth an honesty, there will come forth a sword of the Lord, that let it be in the velvet hand of the Holy Ghost.

Hallelujah. That flesh will not try to accomplish the will of God, for flesh will not accomplish God's will. So we covet only the anointing. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Now, all the prophets, every one of the prophets in the Old Testament, foretold of a day when God would visit the Gentiles and take out of them a people for Himself.

And beloved, that's exactly what God is doing right now. He's calling out a people for Himself. Remember when He called them out of Egypt? He said, I took you out of Egypt to Myself. He didn't take them to the promised land alone, He took them to His own bosom.

In that day, reading, you don't have to turn up and listen to Amos 9 .11, in that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that's fallen, and I'll close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old.

Israel's Rejection of Truth and Righteousness

Now Isaiah told us that David's tabernacle took a fall. It was because Israel refused to walk in truth and righteousness. They turned away from the truth, they began to walk in lies, they had no truth in the inner man, they lived a lie, they walked a lie, they had false prophets preaching lies.

The whole society of Israel, including prophets and priests and people, judges and princes, all became blinded by their sins, lost their discernment. In fact, in Isaiah 59, beginning verse 12, let's read and let's see what happened.

Isaiah is speaking about Israel. Isaiah 59, I'm reading from New American Standard, verse 12,. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and all sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities.

It's not that they didn't know, they knew that they were sinning against God. Transgressing and denying the Lord, and turning away from our God, seeking oppression and revolt, conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words, justice is turned back and righteousness stands far away.

For truth has stumbled in the street. Let me read King James, it says, Truth has fallen in the street, truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter, the holiness can't enter, the door of holiness was shut.

Yes, truth is lacking, and he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. In other words, he's the victim, the one who's really trying to serve God becomes a victim because there's no preaching of righteousness from the prophet.

Truth has fallen to the ground. That's what the prophet is saying. Yes, truth is lacking, and he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. Now the Lord saw, and it was displeasing in his sight, that there was no justice, and he saw that there was no man, and he was astonished that there was no one to intercede, that his own arm brought salvation to him, and his righteousness upheld him.

Listen to what Isaiah said, Truth has fallen in the street, the door of holiness and righteousness is being closed, and now there's a cheating in the house of God, there's a lying, frauds have come into the house of God, fraudulent prophets and priests, and those who really want to go on with God are the victims of it all.

The prophet's warning that sincere young believers are paying the highest price for the backsliding in our prophets. I was talking to a young sister, that's here at the conference, God's been using in repentance, and she's learned something that we're all learning, that the young people really want to hear the truth.

They really want to go on with God, in fact, I've had young men, young preachers, 25 years of age and under, who sit in my office and open up the Word of God with revelation like I've never seen or heard, seeking the Lord night and day, they're tired of the fraudulent thing in the house of God, they're tired of the treachery in the hearts of shepherds, they're tired of it, and just as our brother said now, I want to go on with God, I want to see the righteousness of Jesus.

And these are the victims. Now, I'm not talking about all young people, we're going to talk about the strange children that are being born as a result of this cheating from the pulpit. Those who depart from evil become the victims.

Look at verse 59 and verse 4 again. 59 verse 4. No one call it for righteousness, in fact, it says in the New York State, no one sues righteously, no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies.

They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. The King James says, none nor any of them plead for the truth. They're trusting in vanity. They're beginning to speak lies. They're conceiving mischief and bringing forth iniquity.

Ezekiel is even more emphatic. He said there's a conspiracy of the prophets in the midst of the house of God. A conspiracy of the prophets. Now, you don't have to turn there, but I'm reading to you from Ezekiel 22.

Verse 25. Like a roaring lion, they're tearing the prey. They're making victims. They have devoured lives. They've taken treasure and precious things. They've made widows in the house, in the midst of her.

Her priests have done violence to the law and have profaned my holy things. Because they make no distinction between the holy and the profane. And they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean.

And they hide their eyes from my sabbath. And I am profaned among them. The princes within them are like wolves tearing about the prey. They shed blood. They're destroying lives. And the prophets have smeared whitewash for them.

They see false visions. And they tell them lies. And they say, thus says the Lord when the Lord has not spoken. Does that have a familiar ring to it? Look me in the eye. Does that have a familiar ring to it?

They're telling them lies. It was C .S. Lewis who said the man who loves us is not the man who flatters our corporate sins. The man who loves us is the one who shows us our iniquities. He shows us our sins.

Ezekiel, God speaking, said I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the whole land. That I should not destroy it. But I found no one. Thank God I understand grace.

He's finding some. But Ezekiel said I couldn't find any. God said I couldn't find anybody. And Isaiah said he saw there was no man. He was astonished that there was no one to intercede. So his own arm had to bring forth salvation.

You don't ask what age is. That's God's arm at work. Don't tell me it's not a curse. You see when it rains, it rains on the just and the unjust. There are some that have to have blood and they get polluted blood and contact AIDS.

But these thousands who die, you go to the hospital in New York and you listen to them ranting and raving and cursing. And you look at what's happened to them as a result of their sin and tell me it's not a curse.

It's a curse right out of Deuteronomy. Jeremiah said my eyes are a fountain of tears. And why was Jeremiah weeping his eyes, fountains of tears? He said because the men of God are not valiant for the truth.

They will not preach the truth. Go with me to Jeremiah and look at it. Jeremiah 9. Just want to show it to you. Jeremiah 9 chapter. I think I'm going to have you start in verse 1. Let's follow Jeremiah.

How he clearly describes what's happening in the land today. Jeremiah 9 verse 1. Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. That I might weep. I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Oh that I had in the desert a wayfarer's lodging place. That I might leave my people and go from them. For all of them are adulterers in the assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongue like the bow.

Lies and not truth prevail in the land. In fact, King James says here they're not valiant for the truth. They're not valiant. They don't love the truth. They don't want to walk in the truth. They don't want to preach the truth.

For they proceed from evil to evil. And they do not know me declares the Lord. Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor and do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Verse 5. And everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit.

Through deceit they refuse to know me declares the Lord. Look at me now. Listen to what the prophet Jeremiah is saying. And this is the day we live in. This is the dual prophecy, I believe. He said there's not a...

They're not valiant for the truth. They're not willing to pay the price of preaching the truth. And I want to tell you something, brother, sister. If you're going to preach the truth and live the truth, it's going to cost you something.

The Cost of Preaching Truth and Holiness

The greatest innate of those who walk in holiness is the back-slidden Carl Turks. They're hired Turks. You look at Paul the Apostle stuck in a little jail and he says, all of Asia's turned against me.

What is there about that little Jew that causes all of Asia to turn against him? What is there about that man? I'll tell you what there is about that man. He looked at everything that was precious to them.

All of their prosperity. All of their success. And he said, I've given up. It's all done. And he committed the unpardonable sin as far as the back-slidden church is concerned. He looked at everything that they held dear.

He looked at everything that was precious to them. Everything that ministers of the gospel at that time in Asia were striving after because Alexander the coppersmith whose name means prosperity and deceit was going about saying, it can't be as bad as Paul says.

It can't be as narrow as Paul says. You don't have to listen to that doomsaying preacher. And the thing, the reason all of Asia turned against him three of the very churches he started they turned against him because they decided to go all the way with Jesus and know nothing and none other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

And when you step out of the crowd you harp against the hunger after righteousness and you begin to walk with Him your life becomes a reproach to those who walk in looseness and frivolity. Brother wrote to me two weeks ago he said, Brother Wilkerson I'm a young man and I don't understand it all my lifetime I've heard preachers say, go all the way with Jesus.

I've heard preachers say, sacrifice. I've heard preachers say, give all, give all. So I did it. And now that I've done it they don't want me in the church anymore. Because when I started doing what they told me to do I started seeing things I didn't see before.

I started hearing things I never heard before. And when I stood up and started to rebuke because I had the love of Jesus and I knew the will of God and I was receiving revelation of the Word of God they said I was a fanatic.

And they didn't want anything to do with me. A man's enemies will be there in his own household. Jesus said, I didn't come to bring peace I came to bring a sword. You know we have some people that want unity at any cost they don't want holiness, they want unity.

Yet there is no unity without holiness. There is no unity without the righteousness of Jesus Christ bringing us together as one. Well that's not my message I'd get off on that and brother I'm gone I'd be chasing rabbits all night.

So they're not valiant for the truth. I want you to go with me to Hosea. Hosea? Find Daniel and go right. You know Hosea said God has a controversy with his people because of this trampling of the truth to the ground.

Look at Hosea 4 verse 1. Start verse 1. Hosea 4 verse 1. Listen to the word of the Lord all sons of Israel for the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land. King James says God has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.

King James says because there is no truth or knowledge of God in the land there is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the land by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and adultery they employ violence so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Look at verse 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you rejected knowledge but in the original truth you rejected the truth. I will also reject you from being my priest that you've forgotten the law of your God I will also forget your children.

But notice God has a controversy. With who? Who is the controversy with? With his people. I've got a controversy with my own people he says. The committing of adultery. And I want you to look at verse 7.

It says the more God blessed his people the more sinful and corrupt they became. Sin became so rampant among them that the priest finally settled down just to appease their idols. They didn't want to upset anybody and like people, like priests, like prophets you'll see it here.

Look at Hosea 4, 7. Beginning of verse 7. The more they multiplied and in the original it's the more they were prospered the more they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. They feed on the sin of my people.

In other words, they feed the idolatry of the people. Do you know that there are some in America today even in Pentecostal and charismatic circles who are willing to feed your idol? If you've got idolatry in your heart you can find a preacher who's going to feed it.

Amen? They direct their desire toward their iniquities. And it will be, verse 9, and it will be like people like priests. So I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. And they will eat but not have enough.

They will play the harlot but not increase because they stopped giving heed to the Lord. Look at verse 11. Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding. My people consult their wooden idol.

I wonder what that could be. The New American Standard says they consult their wooden idol. It's probably a 21 inch. Well, give me a good eye a minute, you good ears. We're talking about walking with God all the way.

We're talking about walking before Him in truth. We won't trample the truth to the ground. We come here together saying, I really want the Lord to reveal Himself and His fullness in my life. I want to know what it is to be crucified, resurrected.

I want to know what it is to have the flesh mortified before the Lord. You tell me. And I say it in love. I don't want to beat anybody over the head with it because I know how patient the Lord was with me.

Idolatry, Television, and the Code Word “Balance”

And when God began to reveal this idolatry of television to my heart, I just went out too quick and probably bashed people over the head with it. I cannot conceive how anyone who wants to walk in righteousness before the Lord can keep this thing in his living room.

And don't tell me it's not an idol. Why is all the furniture facing it? How do you sit there and say, these things don't bother me. Dallas Dynasty. I mean, things that are incubated by demonic minds. Incubated right in hell.

Written by sodomites. Homosexuals. Many of them. How do you come to the house of God and raise your hands as I have clean hands, pure heart. My eyes are pure before the Lord because the scripture warns us not to even behold evil with our eyes.

My eyes will not behold evil. I'll set no wicked thing before my eyes. I can give you 200 scriptures here tonight. Honest. I can give you 200 scriptures that express the wrath of God against this idolatry in America.

And I went to Poland and I saw the same idolatry there even among the ministry. It cost four years wage in Poland to get a color TV set and I saw them in pastor's home. And I feel God's grief in my heart because we're not seeing it.

We're not understanding that God's saying, I'll bless you if you'll pulverize your idols. If you'll walk with me and lay down all your idols, I'll give you an open heaven. Remember? That's what he said to Nathan, the only disciple he said it to, the only apostle.

Behold an Israelite in whom there is no God. Behold you'll see an open heaven. The open heaven. The revelation comes to those who pulverize their idols. Don't tell me you have a revelation and then go back.

I did it for years. I've preached to thousands of people and have up to 2 ,000 theaters and go right home and turn on an R-rated movie. And lust in my heart. And explain it. Well, it has a knob and we need balance.

Balance is the code word for divided heart. We hide all of our idols behind that code word, balance. This is not a day for balance. This is a time for outright... I can't find a better word than hella gross fanaticism.

Pulverizing the idols. Look at verse 5. Go to chapter 5. Chapter 5, verse 6 and 7. You know, because we have such idolatry, we have trampled the truth to the ground. And as a result, we have created and brought to birth a generation of what the prophet calls strange children.

Strange Children and a Generation Foreign to Holiness

Strange children. Hosea 5, verse 6. They that go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, they will go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, but will not find Him. Because He's withdrawn from them.

They have dealt treacherously against the Lord. For they have born illegitimate children. And in the Hebrew it's strange. And King James brings it up. They have brought forth strange children. Strange children.

Now look at me please. This word strange here in the Hebrew means to turn away from, to commit adultery, to become a fornicator, to turn aside, and to become a foreigner. Listen to what the prophet's saying.

Because the prophet is trampling the truth to the ground, and this softness against sin, it has brought forth a generation of strange children. Foreigners to holiness. Foreigners to righteousness. Those who've turned aside to a spirit of wardom, a spirit of adultery and fornication.

Now they're not strange in the way of being odd. They're strange to holiness. They're foreigners to holiness is what the scripture is saying. Never in all of history has there been a generation so set in their own ways.

Can you describe it? I've looked for a word to describe this generation in terms a little more moderate than Hosea, and I can't find anything that fits better than strange children. Strange children. Where have they come from?

Why suddenly are we looking at a whole generation of strange young people? Strangers to the righteousness of Christ. Strangers to reproof. Learning their truth, they say, I don't care. They'll wave off angels.

They'll wave off the Holy Ghost. They can sit through meetings where God is moving, and His Word is set for the two-edged sword, coming forth from broken hearts of men who weep over them. Men who love them.

And I tell you now, I love this generation. I've given my life for them. But I see something now I've never seen in my lifetime. I see a generation of young kids, young youth pastors. Even Pentecostal and Charismatic youth pastors.

They don't care what I preach. They don't care how many scriptures I quote. They don't care that I have a prophetic word from the Lord. I don't see it that way. I don't care what you say. This is my way, and I'm doing it.

I'll go my way. Beyond reproof. The Bible says they've corrupted themselves. God said, give them a miscarrying womb. I hear about all the convicts that are supposed to be render Christ through all of this filth that's coming out of the house.

They're coming forth from all of these things that are happening. They say, oh, but they're getting people saved. Listen to what the prophet says. Hosea 9. Look at Hosea 9. It's 15. All their evil is at Gilgal.

Indeed, I came to hate them there because of the wickedness of their deeds. I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels. Look at verse 14. Give them, O Lord.

What will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb. A miscarrying womb and dry breast. Carriages. Miscarriages. Because you cannot grow in the Holy Ghost unless you're blessed by the Holy Ghost. It's an evil seed.

Oh, there are some, thank God, in spite of it, there's a hunger in their heart and they look beyond all that and God sends them out. And it's not because they've been rendered Christ through that foolishness.

It's because God had already been given by a Spirit in His mercy. He saw something in their heart and He responded to it supernaturally. An appalling, horrible thing is happening in the land that prophets prophesy falsely and the priests rule on their own authority and my people love to have it so.

My people love to have it so. Look at me a minute. I don't have television, but when I did, I was watching some of the so-called Christian television. I would weep. I would cry. That's so God. Is this what we're showing the world about Jesus?

Is this supposed to represent, is this the best we can give the world? Don't you weep over that? Doesn't that break your heart? You know you can love these things. You know what the prayer of my heart is?

There's so much of it that is absolutely foolishness. It's such like this in my prayers. Oh God, bring everything down that's not preaching repentance and holiness and save those who are involved in it and bring them back in a purified form.

We can love the men involved, but we can hate what is being portrayed as Jesus Christ. Right? But you know, I used to see some of that and I see thousands of people applauding it. Where's the discernment?

Because when you're not walking in righteousness before the Lord and you allow an idol in your heart, the first thing you lose is your discernment. And the first thing you get back when you turn the Lord out of your heart is your discernment.

Hallelujah. You shall say to them, this is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God or accept correction and truth has perished and been cut off from their mouth. That's Jeremiah 7 .28.

They refused to accept correction. Truth has perished from them and has been cut off from their mouth. Now doesn't that pretty well explain it? You can mark that down. Jeremiah 7 .28. Now let me go on with you now.

The City of Truth and the End-Time People of God

Are you still with me? Is this too hard? The prophets have all foretold that Christ would come and we'd build a holy temple founded on truth. Founded on those who live in truth, walk in truth, and preach the truth.

Go to Zechariah. Turn right. Bob said if you want to find where these books are, hold your Bible up and look for the white pages. The ones that aren't used very much. 8th chapter, verse 1. Then the word of the Lord of hosts came saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I am exceedingly jealous for Zion.

Yes, with great wrath I'm jealous for her. Look at verse 3. Thus says the Lord, I will return to Zion. I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the city of what? The city of truth.

And the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the holy mountain. How many know what the new Jerusalem is? It's a body of people that the Lord is raising up. Remember what the prophet Hosea said?

In fact, you find it also in the book of Acts. That Christ would return and rebuild the house of David that's fallen down. And this new city, this new Zion that He's going to rebuild is going to be called the city of truth.

There will be nothing in this city but those who live in truth and walk in truth and preach the truth. It's going to be a people of truth. Boy, how God's been burned down with me on this. About the matter of walking in truth before Him and righteousness.

Look at Zechariah 8 .16. Go on to verse 16. These are the things which you shall do. You shall speak the truth to one another. You will judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates. He's speaking about the new Jerusalem.

Speak the truth to one another. Judge with truth. Righteousness to His neighbor. Isaiah said, And in mercy shall the throne be established, and you shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David.

He will judge seeking judgment and He will hasten righteousness. Listen to Zechariah 12. Go to Zechariah 12. Zechariah 12, verse 7. The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first in order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.

Listen to this, verse 8. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.

Now look this way if you will please. Listen to what the prophets are saying. In the last days He will have a people. He's going to call it a holy city. It's going to be a holy city of truth. And He said this holy city of people, the people in this city are going to be like David.

That means they're going to have a heart like David. I got this first reading in my heart from hearing Brother Phillips preach. And God began to bear witness to it in my heart with this message. There's going to be a people in the last days that have a heart just like David's was.

Now David sinned, but he hated his sin and he turned from it. And I want to show you before I finish tonight something about the avenging power of holiness. How David was so tender at one time that he was convicted by just cutting off a piece of Saul's garment.

Remember how he cut off a piece? And he was so convicted by it? How tender his conscience was? And then he gets so hardened by his sin with Bathsheba that when the prophet comes and he talks about someone stealing one man's little lonely lamb, he can't even see himself in it.

He doesn't even blush. Something's happened to David, this great man of God. And it can happen to us. You can have a tender conscience that gets hardened before the Lord. But the Lord, and I'll tell you something folks, nothing's going to stop this.

Let hell or high water come, no matter what the judgments are upon the church or America or the world, no matter how dark the day gets, God has said He's going to have a city of truth. He's going to have ministers who walk in truth, who live the truth, who have no hidden part in their heart dark.

They're going to have everything open. They're going to live an open face before the Lord. They're going to stand before the people ministering truth. The people are going to see the truth lived in their pastors.

He's going to have a holy people. It's only going to be a remnant. But He said they're going to be like David. And I begin to think about David. They shall be as David. The house of David shall be as God.

They're going to be like the Lord. They're going to have the likeness of Jesus Christ. With no part dark, no hidden sin, no secret lust in them. David said, Behold, you desire truth in the inner parts.

What was David like? Listen to him. Oh God, I know one thing You want out of me more than anything else. Is that inside my heart, I'm not living a lie. I'm not standing before the church, God teaching holiness with lust in my heart.

This is a part of what he's doing. He's doing it in churches. He's doing it in your heart. You know that. Many of you sitting here right now, you say, David, that's true. I felt an awakening in my heart.

I felt God putting His finger on things that I didn't even know about in my life. He's dealing with me. You see, there's a dreadful wrath of God that's going to be poured out upon those who despise the truth and the conviction of the Holy Ghost against sin in their life.

Suppressing the Truth Through Unrighteousness

Remember what Paul wrote in Romans? I'll just read it. You don't have to tell me, but just listen. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in their unrighteousness.

And what it really means in Greek, they hold back the message of the truth. They corrupt the truth by the sin that's in their life. They preach a corrupted message. They're suppressing the truth. It doesn't go forth with life.

Look me in the eye when I tell you. You cannot produce life. Pastors, evangelists, you cannot produce life in people unless you walk in holiness before God. You produce death no matter how good it sounds.