Cheating — David Wilkerson

Faithfulness to God After Receiving His Provision

This message is one of the Times Square pulpit series. It was recorded in the sanctuary of Times Square Church in Manhattan, New York City. Other tapes are available by writing to Royal Challenge, P .O. Box 260, Linville, Texas 75771 or calling 214 -963 -8626.

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A young couple came to this church a few months ago. And, uh, came to the altar. He was unemployed. And asked us to pray that God would give him a steady job with security. Well, God answered that prayer.

And he got his secure job. And he is here tonight, probably. The wife still comes from quite a distance. But he dropped out. In fact, he was out here the other day. I think it was last Sunday night waiting for his wife.

He was polishing the car while we were having services. And I thought, what a slap in God's face. What a, what a terrible thing to do to say, God, I've got my job. I don't need you anymore. And I, in fact, someone brought that to me and said, Do you know that one of your patrons out there polishing his car?

I said, I don't understand. That doesn't compute with me. You know, I see husbands that come to this church with their wives. And their wives are on fire for God. Their wives are adoring of the Lord. And, evidently, I see a lot of wives in this church have quite a bit of authority with their husbands.

And they said, I'm going to Times Square Church. So, he comes to Times Square Church. And I watch some of the husbands here. And I look past them. We've got cock-eyes. They may be looking here, but they're looking sideways, too.

Like, I see some, and I see, I see some husbands here. I know in my heart, you're just going along with your wives. Now, she keeps driving you here. You come early on Sunday morning because you feel somebody, you ought to go to church early on Sunday morning.

But, you wish your wife wouldn't be so fanatical about it. And, so, she makes you come Sunday night and maybe even Tuesday night. You miss the ball games. You miss everything. And, you just go along with it.

You don't want too much religion. You want enough to get saved and stay out of hell. But, you're really not on fire for God. And some of the wives are that way. Their husbands are on fire for God. But, I see those husbands.

And, you know, the mates. This man is not really evil. He's a good man. He treats your wife. He treats his wife better than anyone else. But, there's no real fire in his soul. His mind is on the ball game.

His mind is on his business. He's here in his body. But, his mind is somewhere else. And, another item. I was downstairs the other day. Downstairs here in the prayer room. And, I saw a teenager. And, I just stopped and put a hand on his shoulder.

I said, son, how are you doing with the Lord? You know, his answer was sharp. I said, well, I'm looking into it. He said, uh, I'm giving the Lord some thought. I kept on thinking, that boy's been coming to this church for months now.

And, he's sitting here all across the street. I'm thinking about it. I'm giving the Lord some thought. I see young professionals. From Wall Street. And, from Madison Avenue. Sitting in this church. And, most of the times they come here Sunday morning.

I hope some of you are here tonight to get this message. You see, they consider themselves born again. And, spirit filled. And, they're really lovely people. But, you see, coming to Times Square Church for them is like going to a Broadway show.

You get a ticket. And, you get a seat. And, there's a performer. And, the preachers are performing. The choirs are performers. They're performers. And, uh, they're at their home. And, they could keep the message.

And, they say, well, they don't say that was a good show. But, that is moving. I get a feeling sometimes they come here because everything else is so boring. But, you see, they don't get involved. They come Sunday morning because it's the thing to do.

They don't come Tuesday night. They don't come Friday night. They don't get involved in the church. They don't get too involved in the things of God. But, they do go to church. If you ask anybody that goes, I go to Times Square Church.

And, they're like a good commercial for Times Square Church. But, they're really not involved in the ministry. They're just loving spectators warming themselves by the fire here. We've got actors and actresses come to this church.

We have a number of show people from Broadway that come to this church. And, I want you to know every one of them are welcome. And, I know many of them have sat for weeks and even months under the ministry here of the Lord.

But, here's preaching about giving up the world. About separation. About full surrender to Christ. I see them clap their hands. And, they sing. And, they rejoice with us. But, you see, the message we preach really does not affect them.

It does not get hurt of them. In fact, it gets some of them angry. And, they say, you pastors just don't understand. That's my trade. That's what I do. That's how I make my living. And, I'm not here to put anybody down as far as you that consider yourself actors or actresses.

But, you see, there is a message that's going forth in this church. And, that message is separation from the world. It's separation from the world. And, I'm completely amazed at people that I know are sitting under the desk.

And, they know they're convicted. And, we know that they can't deny what the Lord says. But, if you align yourself with the world and associate with the world. Then, they're moving to God. And, they hear that.

And, yet, when it comes to the angel saying, here's the break. They take the break. And, even though often it's in law. And, they put Christ, the first one up and say. And, I want you to know. Saints of God, here comes the church.

God put us on Broadway. Not to pat Broadway on the back. But, to be astounded at the holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are here not to pat it on the back. But, to confront the sins of the city. The holy glory.

Diagnosing Lukewarmness and Divided Hearts

I've asked the Lord. And, why is it that we see so much lukewarmness? Why this boy who's considering thinking about the world. And, the husbands who just sit and go along with the program. And, their heart is leaning out into their bodies.

They hear that their hearts are not in it. And, those that are in church business. You can't seem to make them break. Even though they love this church. They love to hear the message. And, they even call us and say.

Oh, thank God for that preaching. But, it doesn't affect them. And, I said. Why this lukewarmness? Why the hypocrisy? And, they're going to do so fine. And, no further. I said. Man, what's the problem?

And, the Lord came to me this week. And, spoke. He broke my heart. And, I heard that He spoke. That broke my heart, David. They really don't love Jesus. They really. And, I heard the heartbreak of Christ.

I literally broke when I heard the heart of Jesus. He just broke my heart. David. These that you are talking about. They don't love me. They truly don't love me. They say they do. They use the words. But, they don't love me.

And, my Bible was open. I was sitting there. My children were speaking. And, my eyes just fell down. My Bible was open. The first Corinthians. Don't turn it. First Corinthians 16. 22. And, I looked down.

And, it leaked right out of me. At my face. If any man. Love not the Lord Jesus Christ. Let him be Anathema Maranatha. Now, those two Greek words mean. Cursed. At the coming of the Lord. Cursed. Right at the coming of the Lord.

I. My heart. Began to weep in me. And, I could feel the. The heartbreak of Jesus. Of those who. Claimed to love Him. But, by their actions. By their deeds. They are not loving Him. And, Paul the Apostle wrote these words.

To the Corinthians. He said. Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. Those who are called to be saints. It was written to those who are waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But, Paul uses some of the strongest words in the New Testament.

These are the strongest words Paul has ever used. Let him be Anathema Maranatha. Means right at the coming of the Lord. Even then. This letter is written for those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord.

Them who are supposed to be sanctified in Jesus. Called to be saints. And, if you ask them. Yes, I've been called by the Lord to be a saint. To walk with Jesus. Yes, I'm waiting for the coming of the Lord.

But, Paul says. If they do not love Jesus. Let them be cursed at the coming of the Lord. And, you hear. Paul just burst it up. This man will preach love. This man will preach grace. Love one another. You hear him burst this thing up.

Let him be cursed. If he's not going to love the Lord. Now, my Bible says. Very clearly. That Paul. In fact. You read Corinthians. And, Paul. Was deserted in this church of Corinth. If there were people who had a little love in the room here.

There was still some love in there. But, love was left in them. He said. No, you're not. You've got a little love in here. But, it's the whole room. Pray it's out there for the Lord to open. That you may be a new love.

Paul. Was absolutely shocked. At the worldly mixture in the Corinthian church. Paul loved the Corinthian church. God says. That's his favorite church. It's becoming my favorite church. Because, there's people full of problems.

This is a Holy Ghost hospital. I mean. There's people that were just burned down with all kinds of problems. But, he said. Don't you know. That you've got a little love. He's got a love in the whole room.

Pray it's out there for the Lord to open. That you may be a new love. And, Paul. Though he loved this people. He was shocked at the mixture. The thing in that country hindered the word that he was preaching.

The Body as the Temple of the Holy Ghost

And, Paul pleads. Listen to this. He says. What? He said. Don't you know. That your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Which is in you. Which you have with God. And, you're not your own. Till you've gotten to the price.

Therefore glorify God in your body. And, in your spirit with your gods. Paul says. And, he's saying to the Corinthians. Wait a minute. Don't you people understand. Can't you see what you're doing? You claim to love Jesus.

Yet, you keep company with fornicators. You're in agreement with the children of Satan. You're associating with drunkards. And, the covetous. And, idolaters. And, extortionists. Where's the line? Paul said.

He said. What is this? Don't you know the first thing about love for Jesus? He said. If I minister to you. And, then. He said. What is this? I don't understand. Paul was incredulous. He said. Don't you see.

Don't you know. Paul said. The day is coming. That those who love Jesus. Are going to judge the very people you're associating with. God says. You're going to judge these people. How can you be one with them.

When you're trying to be a judge of them. Therefore. Put away from among you that wicked person. Paul said. Why do you allow yourself to be so deceived? Your body is a member of Christ. So, you take a member of Christ.

And, join it to a harlot. God forbid. He said. That's a harlot system out there. You're associating with a harlot system. How can you say you love Jesus? Don't you know. That whatever you join yourself with.

You become one first with it. In other words. You become exactly like the very thing that you join. And, then Paul says. Why aren't you fleeing from these fornicators? Instead of joining them. Why aren't you running from them?

Let follow the person. Like with darkness. Now, listen to it. All this talk about loving Jesus. Is absolutely of no value. Unless there's a knife. That goes behind it. And, let your actions prove what you say.

Little children. Let us not love in words. Neither in talk. But, in deed and in truth. And, Paul said. If you're not going to love him in deed. You don't love him at all. If your life doesn't back up what you testify about.

You're not loving him. And, he said. Then, let that man. Let that woman be cursed. And, then I'll tell you what. I'm going to make a statement. It's no verb. But, I believe it. And, it's going to be shown in the scripture.

Perseverance, Antichrist, and Abiding in Christ

In fact, I'd like you to just follow me very closely. And, let him be a curse. 1 John 2 .19. They went out from us. In fact, I want you to turn to 1 John. Show something about the Lord Christ. 1 John.

And, I want you to go to. 1 John 3. Go to the 2nd chapter. 1 John 2. And, I want us to start reading. Verse 18. Little children, it is the last time. How many believe that? I said, how many believe it's the last time?

And, as you have heard that antichrist shall come. Even now, there are many antichrists. Whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us. Now, where did the antichrist spirit come from?

Right out of the church. They went out from us. Look at verse 18. We know it's the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.

But, they went out. The antichrist comes out. And, that which was once. Listen closely. Here it is. That which should have been given to Christ. But, they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Now, look this way. I want to make a very bold, strong statement that I believe God put it in my heart. If you are not going to love Jesus, not just in word, but in deed. If your life does not justify to what you boast of.

Then, you are the mixture that is of the antichrist spirit. He said there are many antichrists in the world today. There is a spirit that's in the world today and it's in the church. Who was Lucifer in the first place?

Was he not an angel of light? Where did this antichrist Luciferian spirit come from? It comes out of the church system. A backslidden church system. A people of mixture. A people of mixture. What is this thing Paul said?

Let them be anathema. Anathema is a total curse. To be anathematized according to the Catholic church is to be ostracized from the church. That's communicating. But, in the kingdom of God, it's what a person, an individual does to themselves.

They went out from us. They were with us, but they went out. They were with us with their words, with their testimony. They said they were with us. They put on the same garment of praise. They said they were with us, but they went out from among us.

And, you cannot, these two go together. Even now, there are many antichrists. They ran out from us. Now, this thing to be an antichrist, no doubt epitomizes this. It is full of terror. Wouldn't it be a tragedy that that very man would come first in a religious garment.

Come right out of the church. I don't know who he would be, but I know that the scripture says that there are many antichrists right now. And, I'm telling you now that that spirit of the antichrist will come upon you.

That spirit of the antichrist, that mixture. That lying spirit that says, I love Jesus. And, Paul says, you don't love him because you're letting him only in word, but not in deed. Who is a liar? Verse 23, look at it.

Verse 22, look at it. Who is a liar? That he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ. He is what? He is antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. Now, look at me please. Here's the scenario that Paul describes this.

Here's anathema. Here's an individual that says, he that saith he liveth in him. And, look at verse 2, chapter 2, verse 6. He that saith he abideth in him, in Christ, of himself also saith to walk how?

Even as he walked. You say you love Jesus? Then you're going to walk as Jesus walked. You're going to walk separated from this world. Yes, you can be a friend of sinners, but only to witness to them. You're not to partake of their deeds.

You're not to be a part of their income. You're not to be a part of their world, the scripture says. He that saith he abideth in him, and also saith to walk as he walked. Look at verse 15. Lord, not the world.

Neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, that is a child. The love of the Father is not in him. You say you love me? He said, if you're aligned with the world, the love of the Father is not in you.

You're not loving Jesus. You do not have the love of Christ in you. Look at verse 16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

It's of the world. This one who comes alive in these last days, Mary the Jesus, is coming. He's a Christian, refusing to do the will of God. Refusing to line up to the scripture. Refusing to allow Jesus to be the Lord of all.

And who is in awe of Christ, but he who will not let Jesus be Lord, it says. He will not let Jesus be the Lord of his own, for how long? He will not let God be God of his life. He's in awe of Christ. It's in awe of Christ.

Did I invent that, or did you say that in your Bible? So they seek out the anointed. They won't flee from Santa Cruz. They won't resist the evil. They go out from the body of Christ. And they put Christ in their concern, and they crucify him all over again.

And Paul said, let that person be anathema at the coming of the Lord. Let that person be cursed at the coming of the Lord. I can't get away from that. Can't soften that. Now, there are many of Christ who are with us, but they went out to be exposed for what was really in their heart.

And it's a spirit of deception. 1 Corinthians 10, 21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the devil. You cannot be partaken of the Lord's table and the table of goblets. You say, well, I'll never go out.

I'll never meet Jesus. I'm not an antichrist. But I'm telling you now, I'm saying to you, it's absolutely inevitable. If you associate with the world, if you're not genuinely converted to Jesus, if you're not genuinely loving and backing up your love with your life, stop.

The Bible said, we will go out from among us. You will go out, you say, I can't stand that truth. It's too nasty a state I can't handle. That's not the way it's supposed to be. I'll tell you what, God's really been shaking up my theology lately.

Christ as the Total Resource and Israel's Warning

God's just been shaking me from head to toe. When this last week, he shook me up. Because you see, I had started working on a message for tonight entitled, Christ, our total resource. I got to thinking, maybe the reason that man could go out there and ask this call, because he doesn't know all the resources they have in Jesus.

He doesn't know Christ can be anything to him, so he's looking elsewhere. The young man, I thought, maybe he doesn't know the resources, the goodness of God. And maybe the husbands would come here to show people, and they're sort of still mixed with the world.

Maybe they're not seeing Jesus now in his glory. So I began to work on a message on the glory of his resources, and the life that begins to flow. And I thought, maybe some of these people are falling away, going out from among us and turning back to the Lord, because they've never known how to draw on your Jesus.

They've never known the power that they have available to them. They've never known how to appropriate. Oh, but God blew that right away. I want to show it to you, what the Lord showed me. First Corinthians.

Go to First Corinthians, the 10th chapter. The way God showed me that I was dead wrong. There are resources in Jesus. But I'll tell you something. These people, they're walking out. These people have gone to the Lord.

It's not a matter of not knowing who Jesus is. It's not a matter of not having drawn on the resources. They know the resources. They've drawn on them, and they've still walked out. It's not a matter of ignorance.

I want you to look at First Corinthians, the 10th chapter. I'm going to start reading verse 1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all of our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

They were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They would all eat the same spiritual meat. They would all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overfilled in an eagerness. Now these things are examples to the intent. We should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as with some of them, as it is written, that people sat down to eat and drink, and it was up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three hundred and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and we destroyed the serpents.

Neither murder ye, as some of them murdered, we mistreated and destroyed. All these things happen unto them, for examples. They are working for our admonition, and for our sake, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

What they learn, they think if we stand and take heed, lest we fall. Now look this way, please, and follow me. Take a good look, Paul said, at our fathers. Our children of God. These were children of God, but children of Israel.

Our fathers. Paul says, they were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and the sea. That's a type of being baptized into Jesus. That's a type of being brought out of the Lord, out of Egypt. The cloud represents clear divine guidance.

It represents the presence of the Lord Jesus. It represents detailed, perfect guidance. In fact, these nine people that Paul's talking about, Moses once said to them, that every people heard the voice of God speaking out in the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived.

He said, there's never been a people on earth like you, that has so clearly heard the voice of God, and lived. You've heard the actual, living, dynamic voice of Almighty God. Some of these people are not in darkness, know that.

They were not orphans. They were not spirits of orphans, just abandoned in the wilderness. Note, the scripture Paul said, they did all eat the same spiritual meat. They drank the same spiritual drink.

They all drank the spiritual rock, which was Christ. They were appropriating Jesus Christ. They were India's resources. God opened the snow houses in heaven, and poured out a blessing on these people.

Off in the wilderness, their clothes never wore out. That living water followed them through the wilderness. Their clothes never wore out, their shoes seemed to go with their feet. They were never a day that they were hungry, or they weren't satisfied.

They were hungry, they satisfied their thirst. He led them, he guided them. The Bible says, God said to them, you lack nothing. You are so all the great works of the Lord. But here are people that are daily drawing on his snow house.

They've got every need met. They're fully convinced that God's able to supply every need and do everything to them. And he's proven it. We've got people who say, well, I have to do this because that's the only way I can make a living.

I've got to make money. There's somebody in this church that is feeling that something may be possible. He says, I have to do it. God hasn't sent me on my own. No, that's not true. That's not true at all.

There's not a person here that's been attending this church that can honestly say that God ever let you down. God has been a perfect supplier. He said, brother, that he said, I don't want you to be, I don't want you to miss the point.

He said, our fathers had the blessing of God. Our fathers in the wilderness had the resources. He said, we don't need a message about resources. You've already tasted it. You've been in this snow house.

You've had it. You've tasted and seen that the Lord is good. That his mercy endures forever. You've been in the forgiving fire of his blood. You've been anointed in the Holy Ghost. You've touched the fire of heaven.

I've heard the compromisers saying, I'm forced to do what I have to do. I've got to pay my bills. You know, I went to the Lord this week and I said, maybe, could that be true that we've got people that are just kind of being leaned away from the thing.

Should we be just a little more patient? Should we just maybe kind of overlook it? God came back to me and says, no, David, they have not lacked anything. They've not lacked anything. I've proven myself to them.

You see, it's not such a lack of resources as much as it is a lack of fun. You see, God was great and powerful and all sufficient, but he wasn't much fun. He wasn't much fun. There wasn't much pleasure to it.

The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to pray. There was a lust in them. And this lust in them, look past the resources of Christ. And you know what you have to do to get out from among us?

You've got to walk past the heads that he has erected. You've got to force your way through the wall of fire. And you have the liberty to have to walk away from the presence of Jesus, who is the glory therein.

It's not easy to go to hell. You've got to fight every inch to get there. He throws up roadblocks after roadblocks after roadblocks. You have to run hard off of that to do it. And yet these people wanted it.

They said, this is too straight, this is too strict. And I know there are preachers right in this city that tell you, you can live as you please, as long as you have grace the Lord's been given you. Well, go ahead and go to that church, buddy.

You ought to go to hell. Because that's right where you're headed if you believe that kind of gospel. And we have people who come to this church saying, it's too hard, it's too hard. Man, Jesus said, my yoke is easy, my burden is light.

You stay inside the wall of fire. You stay inside the heads that he's built. There's nothing but glory. Hallelujah. The commandments, Jesus said, he that loveth me keepeth my commandments. Don't let any preacher tell you they're not commandments.

The Bible's full of commandments. But David said, they're the joy of my heart. He said to me, commandments unite my soul. I never let God tell me, David, you can't do that, but I'm going to give you the power not to do it.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Remember, a skin and fur female drug addict. Right now, I try to remember her name, but I don't know what it is. Anita? Anita. She was very, very skin and fur when she came. This was years ago when she came to Charlotte.

She looked like wound over death. And her teeth were rotted. And there's still a bone from heroin addiction. She had a very heavy mainline problem. She took co-operative care. And the next three months, God blessed her.

Some people gave us money. We got her set of false teeth. The color came back to her face. And it seemed to her hair. And that prostitute, who not even drug addicts would look at. She was just like an animal.

They began to nod to her in the halls. Because she had high heels now. She had stockings. She had teeth. And the color came back. And she was not a skinny girl anymore. She gained about 10 -15 pounds.

And the color came back to her face. And I was so proud of what God was doing in her heart. And she'd sit in chapel. The first three months, it was wonderful. She was lovely. No one told anybody about it.

She'd get up in a few churches and tell the story. Anybody would teach her. I was very proud of her. I noticed about three-four months later, in chapel one day. She had her head down and had that bird look.

Oh, I get scared when I see that bird look. I get scared. You should not be bird in the house of God. You should never be bird in the presence of the Lord. If you're bird, you're halfway to the door. Well, one day, I came into the center.

And one of the associates came and said, Leah's packing her bags. She's leaving. I called in the office and said, What's happening? I said, God's changed you. Look at you. You're not the woman that came in here.

She said, Mr. Wilkerson, I can't live like this. All this hallelujah stuff. Morning and night. And Bible, Bible, Bible. All you get is preaching. She said, I'll tell you the truth. I miss the parties.

I miss the fun. Fun, she was half dead. They had to help carry her in. That's how the devil lies. You're missing the fun. What fun? On the way to the funeral. She walked out. They brought her to Spanish Harlem.

Three months later, got her a telephone call. Asked if T. Jones could spare a few hundred dollars to help bury her. She was on a rooftop, eight floors up. She was prostituting. Got five dollars for a trick.

She was coming down the stairs. The junkie found out she had the five dollars. Chased her back up. He was one of the friends of the fellow on the roof. Fighting for the five dollars. He pushed her off the roof.

She fell, cracked her skull and was killed. She had one of my cards in her. And a person. Buried her down on the east side. In a one room funeral palace. And her aunt was the only one at the funeral. We had provided just a box and a couple folding chairs in that place.

It was a pitiful moment. In fact, the aunt that was there had 27 stitches down her face. She'd been slashed on her face. Somebody had slashed her and was killed. And she said, Pastor, she went crazy when she left the cellar.

She just went wild. I'll never forget that funeral as long as I live. She wanted fun. This lusting inside. Like I'm missing something. This is too strict. This is too straight. It's in some of you listening to me right now.

You're saying there's this many tents. You're tired of the spiritual warfare. You're tired of the body. You don't want a body. You want a party. You want to eat and drink and come to teeth in front of me because you're out eating with your friends.

See, it's an outright rebellion against this resignation from the spiritual warfare. I feel like I'm being strangled, they say. I don't want to be under this kind of... I want a little bit of freedom.

I want laughter. I want fun. I want pleasure. You guys have been raised up to play. Now, this is not vacation time. This is not dad playing with his kids. This is not sports. This is a spirit of rebellion.

It's based on lust. I'm rebelling against simple lust. There's many of us that cries out, you can save Jesus and stay around a little bit. You don't have to be so moral, so down, not so legal. Ease up.

Give me a little fun. I cringe when I hear preachers screaming against legalism. Anything they don't like, they call it legalism. And I'll tell you, those who rise up to eat and drink and those who rise up to play, it all ends in disaster.

God was not well pleased with them. They were overflowing in the wilderness and they were destroyed by the serpent. The Bible says they tempted Christ. Now, how could you tempt Christ when He's not even born yet?

Our fathers tempted Him in the wilderness. Here's how it happens. Jesus had been their meat and their drink. He had fully satisfied them. There was a time they could honestly say, I'm satisfied with Jesus.

But then they worried of Him. They worried of the goodness of God. And they deliberately, with no legitimate reason whatsoever, they turned to the world. And here's the trick. Here's the trick. Oh, the devil is sly.

Cheating on God Through Excuses and Worldly Desires

They murmured. They had no reason to murmur because they had all the resources in heaven and almighty God. But they murmured because it's a cover-up. Let me tell you how it works. I had a man last Sunday meet me backstage.

And when I hear a man take me aside and start whispering, I know something's coming. He said, baby, I've got to tell you about a problem in my home about my wife. And when I hear a man complaining about his wife and woman, I'm looking for her.

He said, this wife of mine, she doesn't love me. I don't love her anymore. There's no spiritual life. And I said, you're having an affair, aren't you? And his head went down and he said, yes, sir. He said, but the woman, my wife doesn't know about it.