False Apostles, False Prophets (Spanish) — David Wilkerson

We're delighted to be with you in your beautiful country.

Nos gozamos de estar con ustedes en este hermoso país. And we're here for one reason. Estamos aquí con un propósito.

I'm 75 years old now.

Tengo 75 años de edad. And all I want to see is the Holy Spirit es que el Espíritu Santo to change us. Que nos cambie. And to heal us. Que nos guie. And we have to invite him. Tenemos que invitarlo. He has to be invited.

Tiene que ser invitado. Before I speak to you, antes de comenzar a hablarles,.

I want to tell you what I feel in the Holy Spirit.

Quiero decirle lo que siento del Espíritu Santo.

Discernment Against False Prophets and Doctrines

The Lord is trying to put a wall around this nation.

El Señor quiere poner una pared alrededor de este lugar. To protect you. Para protegerlos. Protect your churches.

Proteger sus iglesias. And protect you. Y protegerlos a ustedes. From what Paul the Apostle prophesied. Paul the Apostle prophesied.

Por lo que el apóstol Pablo profetizó. Necesito monitores, por favor. He said in the last days, there will be false prophets. Vendrán falsos profetas. There will be false doctrines.

Falsas doctrinas. And you have to have the Holy Spirit.

Y tenemos, necesariamente, que tener el Espíritu Santo.

The discernment of the Holy Spirit.

El discernimiento del Espíritu Santo. So you will know what is God. Para saber. And what is flesh. Lo que es real y lo que no es. And I'm going to ask you.

Les voy a pedir. To join so many who are praying for you.

Que se una a alguien que ore por usted.

We have a network of pastors and churches all over the world.

Tenemos una red de pastores alrededor del mundo.

And we told them we were coming to here, to your nation.

Y le dijimos que veníamos para este país. And they are praying for you. Y están orando por ustedes.

Thousands in the United States are praying for you.

Miles de personas e iglesias están orando por ustedes. They are praying. Están orando. That this nation, that's been protected up to now,.

You've had good, solid foundation.

Ustedes han tenido fundación sólida.

You have solid preachers of the gospel.

Ustedes han discernido los predicadores del Evangelio. I want God. And if you're full of the Holy Spirit, si estás lleno del Espíritu Santo, you want the Lord to be a wall, a fire, around your country, around your churches, around your people.

I want you to stand once more and ask the Holy Spirit to build a wall, a wall of fire, around this nation.

And to break the powers of the devil,.

Allow nothing to hinder the true work of the Holy Spirit. La palabra de verdad del Espíritu Santo. Will you lift your hands and will you pray? Cuando ores, everyone, lift your voice, invite the Holy Spirit tonight, and ask the Holy Spirit to put a wall around your country.

Pida al Espíritu Santo que levante un muro. Comencemos a orar. Padre eterno, Dios de los cielos, declaramos que este lugar es santo. Declaramos que la República Dominicana te pertenece. Declaramos que este país está en tus manos, que los siervos y las siervas de Dios están en tus manos.

Espíritu Santo, te pedimos que comiences a construir un muro de palabra, de verdad, un muro de fuego alrededor de esta nación. Levanta un muro en contra de la mentira y del engaño de falsas doctrinas.

Levanta un muro alrededor de los ministros. Guárdalos, protégelos, cuida las familias. Levanta un muro alrededor del pueblo para gloria tuya, oh Dios de los cielos, Espíritu de Dios. Levanta un muro en esta hora, un muro de verdad, un muro del espíritu, un muro de discernimiento que proteja este pueblo.

Oh Dios de los cielos, en tus manos, Padre eterno, ponemos a esta nación en el nombre poderoso de Jesús. Hallelujah. Now give him thanks. Ahora dale gracias. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit.

You may be seated. Pueden sentarse. We will be here the next two days for conference.

Estaremos aquí los próximos dos días para conferencias.

I understand there are four services tomorrow.

Entiendo que mañana habrán cuatro reuniones, servicios.

And then all day on Saturday as well. Y también el sábado. I want to speak to you tonight just as a father.

I want to speak as a father. Les quiero hablar como padres.

At 75 years of age, I'm a father.

Con 75 años de edad que tengo, soy un padre.

I've been preaching for 50 years.

He predicado por los últimos 50 años.

And I just want to speak to you from my heart.

Y yo quiero hablarles de mi corazón. There are a few scriptures I want you to be referred to in Revelation 3, 7 to 11. You can read it. Revelación. Revelation. Yeah, Revelation. Revelación, capítulo 3.

Los versos del 7 al 11. La palabra del Señor, se pueden poner de pie. La palabra del Señor dice así. Escribe al ángel de la iglesia en Filadelfia. Esto dice el santo, el verdadero, el que tiene la llave de David, el que abre y ninguno cierra, y cierra y ninguno abre.

Yo conozco tus obras. Y aquí he puesto delante de ti una puerta abierta, la cual nadie puede cerrar, porque aunque tiene pocas fuerzas, has guardado mi palabra y no has negado mi nombre. Y aquí yo entrego de la sinagoga de Satanás a los que se dicen ser judíos y no lo son, sino que mienten.

Y aquí yo haré que vengan y se postren a tus pies y reconozcan que yo te he amado. Por cuanto has guardado la palabra de mi paciencia, yo también te guardaré de la hora de la prueba que ha de venir sobre el mundo entero para probar a los que moran sobre la tierra.

Y aquí yo vengo pronto. Retén lo que tienes para que ninguno tome tu corona. Pueden sentarse. Esta es una conferencia para pastores. Algunos de ustedes quizás no están en el ministerio, pero quiero hablarle a los pastores y a las esposas de pastores y a todos los obreros cristianos que están aquí esta noche.

Estas palabras que fueron escritas en el Libro de Revelación.

Are addressed to angels, which interpreted means pastors.

Estas palabras fueron dirigidas a los ángeles de la iglesia, que son los pastores.

Seven letters written to seven pastors.

Siete cartas a siete pastores. And in this particular letter, written to the pastor of the Church of Philadelphia, escrita al ángel de la iglesia de Filadelfia,.

God Opens and Closes Ministry Doors

God is speaking about opening doors and closing doors.

Dios le está hablando de puertas abiertas y puertas cerradas. He said to this pastor,.

And I want you to listen, because these things were said and they were spoken for our teaching. That's what the Bible says, that you put your name in this. And Jesus said to this pastor, He said, I know your heart, you're a patient person, you love me, but you're weak.

And he said, I want you to know something, I'm the one who opens doors and closes doors. And this pastor was facing an issue. Evidently, he was facing doors that were closing on him. He would go this way, the door was closed.

He went another way, the door was closed. Everything he tried, everywhere he went, the door was closed. And he was in a dilemma. And the Lord was concerned about this man. Before I go any further, I ask you the question.

Tonight, are you facing a door that's closed on you?

You've prayed that God would answer. And nothing has happened. And you're here tonight,.

Facing a closed door. What is it that you prayed for? What have you been asking God to do? God says, I know your heart,.

I know your love for me, I'm not angry at you,.

But there's something you've got to know. You can't push the door open. No one else can open the door for you. You can't work it open. You can't connive it open.

I'm the only one that opens doors and closes doors.

I counseled with a pastor this past week. He was so discouraged. He said, everything I've asked God to do, I have believed God, I'm living right, I believe my heart is right,.

But the doors are shut. Everywhere I go, nothing opens.

He said, I've had it, it's enough. He said, I'm leaving the ministry. He said, God doesn't answer my prayers anymore. I think that's the reason a lot of people stopped praying.

Prayer as the Source of True Ministry

A great prophet told me, his name was Leonard Ravenhill. He wrote many books. He took me aside one day. He said, David, preachers don't pray. They start out praying,.

But then they just go on and do it on their own talent. Then finally the doors start closing. I never forgot that. I believe this. The only ministry that God approves is that which is born in the secret closet of prayer.

I was told by some people who were part of a great church thousands of people thousands of people they were talking about this wonderful pastor. He said, he is so talented. He could do this.

Without the Holy Spirit. He has that much talent. I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't care how big the church is.

I don't care how beautiful it is. If it's not born in prayer.

If it doesn't move in prayer God doesn't approve it. I don't care how many there are. If it's done in the flesh if it's built on talent one day it will shake.

And one day it will fall. 52 years ago I pastored a small church in a small town. I had about 75 people. One of my first churches. I was 21 years old and after about two years a revival came to that church.

It was filled you had to come early to get a seat and I was one of the first on television.

Oral Roberts was on television. I was on one station.

People came from miles and for two or three years a tremendous awakening but a lot of the people who were from a distance.

Organized their own groups and began to die out until I was back to 75 -100 people and I had a choice.

I could accept it and say this is what God has chosen for me. God loves these people.

And I will be satisfied to marry them and bury them.

Socialize with them and thank God for this congregation.

And for a while I was satisfied but something stirred in my heart. I didn't want a bigger church. I wanted to see people saved and after a year nothing was happening. And when nothing is happening and I wasn't praying I meditated.

I went to the Bible to get a sermon on Saturdays scribble out a sermon.

And just get by but I was sick inside.

Because the same people.

Hearing my messages were not being moved. Were not praying. I couldn't move them. The reason I couldn't move them.

Because my own heart was not stirred.

They told me I preached good sermons. There is no fire no vision.

But a sickness in my soul. We say we are a Pentecostal church. Is this Pentecost? Nobody is getting saved. No weeping just come and talk in tongues and occasionally some singing and shouting. I said Lord if this is Pentecost.

I don't want it. I used to come home and watch television.

I liked cowboy movies. I'd spend hours I know you don't do that because you do it on a computer. Holy Spirit came on me. He said remember what your father taught you. My father was a powerful preacher.

He said David God always makes a way for a praying man. You may not afford an education but God will open doors and you will be saved.

If you become a man of prayer no door will close.

I will open doors for you. One day I went to my prayer room I said oh God.

I'm a dead man. I once prayed I once cried out to you. You sent a revival people were saved. What happened? And I looked in my heart. God said if you pray instead of watching that television I'm going to use you.

I'm going to change you. I got my Bible and for months I went out in the woods by myself.

And I read the Word. I devoured the Word. I wasn't looking for sermons. I said Jesus I want to know your heart.

I want a true Pentecost and I began to cry out to God.

At first it was a lot of discipline but after a while when you set your heart to seek God and he sees that the Holy Ghost comes and he begins to draw you.

And he pulls you and he melts you and now you're praying.

Not to ask for something but to get to know him until nothing else matters.

But the call of God wherever it may be and to know his heart.

I used to go out and prophesy I'm not a prophet but I've prophesied to the trees. I preached my heart out to the trees and while I was preaching to the trees I would fall in the Spirit. The Spirit came and one day I said Lord why are you stirring me up.

What's going on in me. I couldn't understand. I went to church one Sunday and I collapsed. The Spirit came on me. I had to be taken home.

I went into my prayer room. There was a magazine called Life Magazine and there was a picture of seven boys indicted for murder they had killed.

A polio victim and I began to cry.

And the Holy Spirit whispered this is what it's all about I'm going to open a door.

Go to New York City try to reach them go to the court and try to minister to them. I said Lord I have no money I'm a country preacher.

And I stood there and I said here I am and Lord said I open the doors.

And I closed the doors. Wait a young man comes up.

And another you're a preacher from the newspaper. They dragged you out of the court.

We don't love the police we don't like what they did to you. It was a gang leader that was the beginning of a ministry to gangs.

Ministry. Every open door comes out and birthed out of prayer. I prayed for months before coming here. Lord what's my message. I can show you in my office. Notebooks with 20 years of sermons.

I picked one out the other day. It was about in that one year about 30 sermons. I leafed through them and said no close it. I'm the only one that knows what's happening there and when you stand there I'll tell you what's happening.

I'll show you the need.

And this afternoon about 4 o 'clock the Holy Spirit came.

He said you're going to talk tonight how I open and close doors and the need of this country is to remember how God opens the doors.

If God's going to do something in this country.

It's not coming out of a committee. I don't care if you're Pentecostal.

Baptist, Methodist Episcopal have all the meetings and meetings are necessary. God does use planning.

But it has to be birthed out of a man out of the heart of a man.

Out of the heart of a woman who's been shut in with God. You know what's happening today. Pastors get discouraged. They see a church over here. Lots of people are coming. They have big screens big music programs.

And little by little everybody is sucked into that church. Some churches are having to close their doors and then the panic hits the heart rather than go to prayer until God changes our outlook until we get messages.

From the heart of God.

That touch and melt people.

We go to some big conference to learn how to learn the secrets and buy the books and buy all the tapes.

Empty your pockets because it costs a lot of money and nothing happens. There was a pastor and his wife came to me backstage in our church. He was from Europe. He had a church of about 600 and it was falling down in attendance and he got panicked came to the United States spent two months traveling to churches all over America trying to find a secret.

Some way to build his church back up.

He came backstage he was weeping. He was leaving to go home. The next day he said Pastor David and he told me the story. He said I've been to all these so called great movements and I've found nothing.

There was no true spirit. They were all human effort human entertainment. Left my soul dry. Holy Spirit came on me. I turned to the pastor and his wife. I said you built your church on prayer. You knew how to call on God.

You spent hours on your face now both of you. Neither of you. I said I say this in love. You don't pray. You don't see God. They began to weep. They said that's it. We receive it. We're going home and if nobody wants to join us we're going to seek God once again.

The Need for Prayerful Revival Rather Than Human Success

20 years ago. Now I told you I'm 75. I've been preaching over 50 years. But 20 years ago I was walking the streets of New York and cocaine had just broken up most of the time. It was heroin but a horrible invasion of cocaine crack cocaine.

Hundreds were dying. I was walking down 42nd street in Times Square and the drug pushers were selling the drugs. And they were saying this hey I got the good stuff. I got the pure coke. I have the stuff that will kill you.

And that was the advertisement. Death the ultimate high. And for years I knew in my heart if death becomes the ultimate high we're lost. It'll be chaos. And this is what they're selling. This is the ultimate high.

Sniff this and die. I started weeping. I said oh God we're losing a whole generation. I began to cry out to God right in Times Square Broadway and 42nd street.

And I said God there's only one little church on a side street. Will you raise up a church right in Times Square and confront this. Raise up a testimony. If you do that find a young preacher. I'll support him I'll raise money for him I'll come and preach for him.

And Holy Spirit whisper to my heart no you do it. You love this city.

You do it. I backed away. I said Lord the only buildings are theaters they're not gonna let a church come into a theater. And the Lord said I opened doors and I closed doors. I went home. I said how do you do this.

I'm an evangelist.

I don't know how to pastor I pastored when I was young but now.

Where's millions and millions of dollars come from. Then I remembered how God opens doors. You don't just say. I take a word and I believe it and run with it. Faith comes by hearing by the word. You go to the word and you begin to pour over that word.

And the Lord told me that still small voice. You remember how I started. There are 500 480 or 500 drug centers around the world now and almost everyone were birthed out of individual prayers of young men that got division.

Somebody got stirred somebody began to pray. I spent months just praying. I walked the streets of New York and just weep and cry for souls. I wasn't looking for a big theater. I said Lord just give me a little theater.

Lord if you can anything. But I remember and I can tell you from my heart. It was those hours laying on my face said God this is impossible to human flesh. Now folks I had what they call success. I had an open door around the world but that doesn't mean anything that opens doors to people.

But that's not what moves God's heart. You see after the years I have experience. I know how to raise money. A lot of things I didn't know when I was a young man. But now I had some knowledge but I couldn't think my way through this.

No way neither do you when you face a door.

That's closed. You can stay up all night and try to figure out when financial doors close. When the doors all around you begin to close in on you there's nobody to go to. It's a problem. We're looking for somebody.

Some good man of God. Some prophet. Give me a word. Some mature man of God. Some mature woman of God. I'll tell him my problem and maybe I can get an answer now. Thank God for counselors. Thanks God for men and women of experience and maturity.

But I'm not going to embarrass my God anymore.

If I go to a man. If I go to somebody else.

It'll only be after I've been with him and anything a man tells me he's only going to confirm what God told me. Can I tell you that God is shutting doors.

Can I tell you that God is shutting doors.

Closed Churches and the Loss of the Gospel

I see God shutting doors of churches all over the world. You say here comes the negative preaching. No I see God working all over South America Latin America. God's moving in many places but at the same time church after church after church got the doors shut.

The Episcopalian church in America is split in two. In England the church of England shutting down huge churches.

Shutting the doors but he's also shutting down Pentecostal churches Baptist churches a lot of evangelical churches that are full. The people are there but God has shut the door he said Ichabod. This church is not mine.

When God says Ichabod doesn't matter what happens.

I don't care if people are lined a mile away if the man in the pulpit the man who heads this.

If he's not seeking God he may have failed God but he has a repentant heart.

He has a broken heart he has no ego he's not trying to keep up with somebody.

He's not competing with somebody.

He's willing to take the lowest seat in the house.

And what his real concern is.

To give the full gospel.

A complete gospel.

Including the message of heaven and hell.

And the preaching of the cross of Jesus Christ.

And if the cross of Christ.

With all of its sacrifice and all of its conviction for sin.

All of its merit.

And everything the cross represented if the cross the blood is not held before the people God shuts the door. Ichabod. And though God loves that people.

And God still loves that servant.

I'm telling you this I see more and more churches and pastors compromising. They don't want to offend anybody.

They want to preach a smooth soft gospel. They don't want to offend people that would leave the congregation. Let me bring this to a close. In a moment God answered prayer and he opened a door. He opened a door to the most beautiful theater in New York City.

And for 20 years Times Square Church has been blessed.

With people coming to the altars.

In nearly every service.

And God has answered the cry of my heart this is one thing I want to say before I close. I thank God for all of these drug centers around the world. I thank God for Times Square Church. But you see now I'm what they call an old man.

Persevering in Prayer and Returning to the Secret Closet

I've had young preachers ask me.

What's your greatest problem now. What's your greatest concern. After all these years of preaching. And from my heart I have to tell you it's this battle.

To stay on my knees the battle. Because I want to say to my father Lord one more time before I go home. Draw me.

Back to the closet don't let me drift away. I see your church drifting. I see so many people preaching just a happy gospel.

I hear nothing about the judgment that's coming I don't hear prophetic voices I see no people weeping and I don't want to go home. I don't want to face Jesus knowing in my heart while I'm still here. Oh yes this is what Jesus said to the Philadelphia pastor.

He said you have a reputation of being a man of God that you're right that you're holy.

But you're dead. Oh that hit me today and I'm not trying to work on your emotions.

I'm preaching to you from my heart and with this I close. What's your reputation.

People think you're a good man a good woman. I hear people say when I walk by or behind my back oh he's a praying man. God uses that man.

And in my heart I say oh God there are times I feel so dry and empty. If people only knew my true heart they would know the weakness.

They would know the doubts that sometimes flood my mind but oh God I can't pray just because I want to. I can't come back to the secret closet.

I can't get a fresh burden for souls unless you Holy Spirit of God unless you do it in my heart.

But more than anything in the world I thank God for my family I thank God for all he's done in my life. But now and pastor this should be what is in your heart.

And all the sisters that are here.

A Call for Renewal Among Pastors and Church Leaders

Oh God once again one more time in these wicked days.

Come on me make me a man make me a woman of prayer. I want it and I want to start it tonight. Please stand now. Come Holy Spirit with the love of God. Draw us. Forgive us for neglecting you.

For looking elsewhere. Forgive me forgive us forgive your church. Oh God in the next few days turn our hearts change us do something supernatural. That's the only hope for the church in Dominican Republic.

I have asked the Holy Spirit to make this a different kind of conference. We have nothing to sell. We didn't come to raise money first of all. This won't take long but I have to do this. This meeting is sponsored by a number of denominations.

We had lunch this afternoon with a group of leaders.

And as soon as I finished preaching tonight I felt a prompting of the Holy Spirit that we should pray tonight for the leaders. If you are here tonight may I tell you this. You may be the leader of a denomination or a fellowship or leader of a charismatic group.

Or whatever it may be.

And I know what the devil would like to do get you so busy and so burdened with the care of those you love. And the devil would love to draw you away from the power and the anointing that caused the Lord to put you in place.

I want the Lord by His Spirit to do for me because I submit myself tonight.

To the prayers of this congregation I'd like to have all the leaders come and stand here for prayer.

Bring your wives with you for the prayers of this people.

Alright may I just say this to you that have come we do this in honor of your call. Right now I have over 5 ,000 people praying for me that God will keep me on my knees that God will give me a fresh vision a new brokenness.

I want hundreds that are here tonight to pray for you.

And I want the Holy Spirit to do something no man can do. You didn't come here to have an American preacher chastise you and try to tell you what to do.

But I know you recognize the anointing congregation.

Will you lift your hands and would you pray for a fresh anointing and a renewed touch of the Holy Spirit.

Upon all these that are leaders come now Holy Spirit everybody lift your voice.

Call upon the Lord. This is the future of the church this is where God is leading. Let all of us call on the Lord.

Lord for every leader for everyone called to lead others touch us again.

Touch me again woo me and call me draw me back to your heart draw me closer. Lord you're coming soon. Now is the time to renew our hearts.

Not just everybody ask for a new touch of the Lord right now.

Lord touch me tonight. Come Holy Spirit touch everybody in this house because we ask you to come and touch us. Oh Lord heal our sisters heal their bodies heal their spirits.

Encourage their hearts tonight.

That God is still with them God still has his hand on them. Thank you Jesus thank you Holy Spirit thank you Jesus.

Thank you Lord glory honor and praise to your name almighty God. Hallelujah. Thank you for your presence Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit. Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah holy holy holy holy holy holy worthy of praise.

Worthy of honor. Let's praise him all. Praise you. We worship. We glorify your name. We glorify your name. You are worthy. You are worthy all honor and glory.

Honor and praise to your name glory.

Bless the Lord bless the Lord.