Update 3/18/2015: Another 100,000+ views of this article since the last update in 2014 by far surpassing any other article on this website.
Update 03/09/2014: This article has been up for almost six years, it has been up so long that it’s original source has deleted the web page where it was located. For the entire time that this article has been up except for the last week or so there was moderate viewing of the article. However in the last week this article alone has been viewed over 100,000 times. And that high viewership has not abated. I personally believe that God is trying to speak to people! And usually when God is revealing something to people in a very strong way, it means that something is on the way, and Christians need to be awake and prepared for it.
“People don’t like to hear this, but we’re headed for perilous times—just a few years away from a collapse like the world has never known. When that happens, all who preached prosperity are going to disappear because the people will say, “Your gospel has failed me.” When that time comes, I want to grasp onto Jesus, and I want everyone I’ve preached to to have faith in the keeping power of Jesus Christ. I want them to know Him in His fullness. I want to know that I’ve done it in love, in grace, that they would know the difference between the holy and the profane.”
The Dangers of The Gospel of Accommodation
A sermon given by David Wilkerson at an Assemblies of God headquarters chapel service.
I am not coming to you as a pastor but with a prophetic word. God so shook me recently with this message that I should bring it somewhere, sometime in Springfield. This morning the Lord, by His Spirit, spoke to my heart that this is the time. He has called me to be one of His watchmen, and I have wept over this and prayed that He will help me deliver the message in a spirit of love. This is not a chastisement but a warning for the Assemblies of God.
A New Gospel
Accommodate means to adapt, to make suitable and acceptable, to make convenient. A gospel of accommodation is creeping into the United States. It’s an American cultural invention to appease the lifestyle of luxury and pleasure. Primarily a Caucasian, suburban gospel, it’s also in our major cities and is sweeping the nation, influencing ministers of every denomination, and giving birth to megachurches with thousands who come to hear a nonconfronting message. It’s an adaptable gospel that is spoon-fed through humorous skits, drama, and short, nonabrasive sermonettes on how to cope—called a seeker-friendly or sinner-friendly gospel.
To begin with, those terms are unscriptural. The gospel of Jesus Christ has always been confronting—there is no such thing as a friendly gospel but a friendly grace.
This new gospel is being propagated by bright, young, talented ministers. They have come upon a formula which states you can go into any town or city; and if you have the right formula, within a short time you can raise a megachurch.
If you are a young man and have certain skills, you find those skills and a part of the city that would best suit you. You move into that area, poll it, and find out what the nonchurchgoers want:
“You don’t like choirs. Well, would you go to a church that didn’t have a choir?” Yes.
“You don’t like to wear suits. Would you go where it’s informal?” Yes.
Then you go to your computer and design a gospel that will not confront but will shoot out the desires and the needs of the people. After you have gathered a handful of people, you keep interviewing them to find out what they want; then you design your message to help people cope with their needs. The program you design is intended to make the church comfortable and friendly for all sinners who wish to attend.
This gospel is fast becoming the most prosperous and flourishing of all religious movements. Thousands attend these churches. The pastor is the CEO, and it becomes a business. They make no bones about it: They are following Madison Avenue tactics and can make a success of it. Their formula for quick church growth is cleverly packaged and is being sold especially to young ministers—those who want to be a part of the big boys and what’s happening on a fast track. They want it to happen quickly.
Paul’s Warning
Paul warned of the coming of another gospel and another Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:4). He warned the church that it’s really not another gospel but a perversion of the true gospel of Jesus Christ. If you hear any other gospel, he said, let that preacher be accursed. In other words, no matter how pleasant, how pious, or how sincere, if the message is not the death of sin through the cross of Jesus Christ, let it be accursed.
I tremble when I read in the Scriptures that in the last days Satan is going to come right into the church posing as an angel of light. He’s going to take ministers who, at one time, had the touch of God, and he’s going to transform them into angels of light to become his tool of deception. That’s frightening. It causes me to fall on my face before God for such false, deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. No marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it’s no great thing if ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works.
Paul said they are going to glory in the flesh, in their bigness, their numbers, their influence, and their contemporariness. They will boast they are contemporary, that there is a gospel that is out of style that doesn’t reach human need anymore. They will glory in the world’s acceptance. Jesus warned, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). The context of that warning was: “Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it” (verse 14).
His warning was to beware of the wolves who are going to say it’s really not that narrow and straight—they are going to come posing as submissive sheep. Jesus put His finger on the cause: ambition—ambitious ravening wolves. In the Greek it means “starved for recognition and quick gratification, quick growth.”
Jesus left no doubt about His meaning. For example, He was addressing a struggling pastor who has worked for years and hasn’t seen the kind of growth he wants to see. A young man with an accommodating gospel moves into town and and within a very short time has a megachurch. People are flocking there because there is entertainment; it’s a gospel of fun. I’ve been in some of them. It’s the gospel of entertainment that has no conviction whatsoever. There is very little in their gospel that speaks to sinners of repentance, brokenness, and cross-bearing. A Christ is preached, Jesus’ name is mentioned, but Paul said their’s is another gospel, another Jesus.
Paul warned that if you are caught in this trap, if you want that hook of entertainment, that hook of sudden growth, this is the hook: The enemy will put in your path a teaching.
I have two preacher sons. One of them confessed to me, “Dad, I was that close to being sucked in because I fasted and prayed and didn’t see the growth I wanted to see, and I saw these others grow. That hook was there, and I almost bought it.”
That is something this Movement and every movement is going to have to look at and deal with: It is possible, through unholy ambition, to be transformed from a man of God, who has been seeking God and getting a word from heaven, to an unholy ambition and a tool of Satan. Let every pastor heed this warning: The moment you begin to consider the “competition,” seeds of accommodation will be planted in your heart. Suddenly, Satan will put in your path a wolf in sheep’s clothing—a man who will try to seduce you into ungodly ambition and achieving church growth at any cost. Yet the truth is, it could cost you your soul.
The Right Formula
If you find the right formula, according to the accommodation gospel, you can succeed in any field of endeavor.
An editorial in the New York Times (March 1, 1998) was entitled, How To Manufacture a Best-Seller. It told the story of John Baldwin, a 53-year-old carpenter and a would-be writer, who had struggled for years to make a living from writing. He determined to become famous and rich overnight by writing a best-selling medical thriller. He studied five or six best thrillers. After 7 years’ research he found 10 steps to producing a best-selling medical novel. He honed it with some Hollywood writers and agents, and here is the 10-step formula he used:
- The hero is an expert.
- The villain is an expert.
- You must watch all the villain’s activities over his shoulder.
- The hero has a team of experts behind him, working in various fields.
- Two or more on the team must fall in love.
- Two or more on the team must die.
- The villain must turn his attention from his initial goal to the team.
- The villain and the hero must live to do battle again in the sequel.
- All deaths must proceed from the individual to the group.
- If the story bogs down, just kill somebody.
John Baldwin had the formula but no story, so he read of research by John Marr who was studying the epidemiological causes of the 10 plagues, hoping to explain their causes scientifically. The two men formed a partnership, and using Baldwin’s 10–step formula, together wrote a 640 page manuscript called The Eleventh Plague. Harper Collins bought it for almost $2 million.
Baldwin, who has no passion for writing, said, “If I get the formula, I’m going to be a multimillionaire and famous.” Well, he’s going to make another $3 million on the movie rights, and he’s laughing all the way to the bank. His philosophy: “If you have the right formula, you can be a success at anything.”
You see, this is the gospel of accommodation—the formula. You get the formula, you get what people want, and you can be a success. I am here to tell you that a formula-based, accommodating gospel is contrary to everything in the Scriptures.
God’s Method
Certain men of God met at Antioch to send out men to preach the gospel and establish churches (Acts 13). Here is God’s method:
1. They ministered to the Lord and fasted. This was their planning session—worshiping, fasting, waiting on the Lord, and calling for direction from the Holy Ghost. They did not move until the Holy Ghost spoke. There were no formulas, no surveys, no door-to-door asking people what they wanted and then serving it to them.
2. They prayed—no strategizing, no network, and not one step until the Holy Ghost spoke His mind. Then and only then did they lay hands upon them, anoint them, and send them out in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost.
Paul lived his whole religious life on religious formulas, and he said they didn’t work. He gave up on formulas and said, “I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). Paul boasted unashamedly, “We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:23). He was saying, “Gentlemen (he was talking to his peers), they want us to accommodate. The Jews are looking for signs in our gospel. The Greeks want the wisdom. They want to know how to cope, but I’m not compromising. There’s only one message. Our gospel has been and will be the Cross and its demands as well as its victories. As for me, I’m determined to preach nothing among you but Christ and Him crucified.”
What the Gospel of Accommodation Does (1)
I see three things in the gospel of accommodation:
1. It is the accommodation of man’s love for pleasure.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers…of pleasures more than lovers of God” (2 Timothy 3:1–4). The Greek for pleasure is “sensuous, lustful, voluptuous, exciting, gratifying, sensual pleasure.” If you move toward this gospel of accommodation, you are going to have to accommodate the people’s lust because they are not going to give up their love for excitement. They’ve made gods of sports, pleasure, and lust. Unless that is confronted by the gospel of Jesus Christ, unless there is a truth that comes forth, you have to accommodate this lust that is in the American lifestyle.
I was shocked by an article in the New York Times.1 Philip Wogaman, President Clinton’s pastor, said, “Sexual misconduct does not automatically render a leader immoral. Morality should also be judged by indicators like courage, concern for the poor, fostering world peace, running the economy responsibly, and furthering racial equality. Heterosexuality and homosexuality are merely cultural expressions.” In other words, Mr. Clinton has been told that he has enough good indicators to overrule another that would be immoral in his life.
God said that men who preach doctrines like these resist the truth; they are men of corrupt minds counterfeiting the faith.
In disbelief I watched a televised Sunday night service of a seeker-friendly church—seeker-friendly by its own admission. To a packed church where thousands attend, the pastor said, “This is fun night, a David Letterman night.” The youth pastor came out and did his monologue as David Letterman. Then they showed 10 of the most boring things teenagers do during preaching. Three of the 10 were throwing spitballs, yawning, and picking their noses. The crowd went crazy. After the service, the pastor brazenly announced, “We’re not here to offend people, but to make church comfortable for everyone.” I wept.
I ask you, how long do you think that audience would stay in church if the pastor was gripped by the Holy Ghost, convicted for “entertaining” people toward hell, and suddenly preached a message entitled, “Be sure your sins will find you out”? How long would people keep coming back if a gospel of holy living and separation from the world was preached? Two things would happen: (1) Those who are misguided, hungry, and didn’t know any better would weep and run to the altar. (2) Those who are judiciously blinded by their pleasures in madness would flee from the church and never come again. The church doors would close.
I keep this foremost in my mind and before my eyes, because every minister of the gospel one day has to face it when he stands before the Lord. He will say, “Son of man, I made thee a watchman. You were to hear the words of My mouth and give them warnings from Me. You were to tell the wicked, ‘Thou shalt surely die.’ And you gave them no warning nor spoke to warn the wicked to turn from their wicked ways to save their lives. These same wicked men died in their sins, but their blood I’ll require at your hands.”
What the Gospel of Accommodation Does (2)
2. This gospel of accommodation accommodates all man’s aversion to self-denial.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is one of self-denial. Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24). Self-denial is not something you give. It’s someone you give up—the giving up of yourself, giving up everything you are. It’s a living sacrifice to the Lord Jesus Christ to present your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. God has every right to say to His church, “If you expect to give Me your body, your resurrected body, all through eternity, I have every right—it’s only reasonable of Me and your reasonable service—to ask your body why you’re here on earth. I want every part of you. I want you to be spiritually minded. I want to possess you.”
The gospel we preach must bring people under the total possession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Otherwise, it’s a gospel of accommodation.
The seeker-friendly gospel accommodates the body. The human body belongs to Him. What we see in America is a neognosticism where you take your physical body on one side and do as you please as long as your spirit is right with God. This is coming even out of the White House, this dividing of personality. No, we are one personality, and it all belongs to Jesus Christ. This neognosticism is destroying the faith of many throughout the nation.
What the Gospel of Accommodation Does (3)
3. There is an accommodation of man’s offense to the gospel.
The Scriptures state, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense.” Paul spoke of the offense of the Cross. This is the heart of God’s anger. We’re not called to the Cross but to go through the Cross—to experience the same thing Jesus did, not only coming to the Cross but dying and going into the grave with Jesus Christ and then being raised from the dead to a newness of life.
It’s cruel, pastor, to lead sinners to the Cross, tell them they are forgiven by faith, and then allow them to go back to their habits and lusts of the flesh, unchanged and still in the devil’s shackles. If the preaching of grace doesn’t have as its goal the producing of a walk of righteousness, then it’s another gospel, another Jesus.
I listened in horror to a man, who attended one of the largest seeker-friendly churches, being interviewed by CBS. He said, “I come to this church because I’m comfortable. I’m never made to feel uneasy. I bring my Jewish friends and my business friends, and I know nothing will ever be said that will offend them. The best part of it is, the whole thing only lasts an hour.”
Take it from me: You can get your big church and be one of the big boys, but it’s going to cost you your soul if you preach with a focus only on earthly things, rather than on the things of God.
I’ve lived in New York City 35 years. We have 103 nationalities from all walks of life—from the poorest to the richest. Probably 300 or more from the United Nations live there. But I look over a congregation (so does my dear friend, Jim Cymbala, in Brooklyn) and see men who have just walked in from the porno shops and are wild animals. I see a businessman friend who was CEO of a multimillion–dollar company, but he started snorting coke, lost everything, and is now a bum on the street. He sits in the congregation. A little 14-year-old girl with AIDS is up on 8th Avenue performing lewd acts before dirty old men. She comes to church and keeps saying, “Pastor Dave, I’ve got to get out. I’ve got to get help.”
I’m not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on how to cope to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
People don’t like to hear this, but we’re headed for perilous times—just a few years away from a collapse like the world has never known. When that happens, all who preached prosperity are going to disappear because the people will say, “Your gospel has failed me.” When that time comes, I want to grasp onto Jesus, and I want everyone I’ve preached to to have faith in the keeping power of Jesus Christ. I want them to know Him in His fullness. I want to know that I’ve done it in love, in grace, that they would know the difference between the holy and the profane.
May God, in Jesus’ name, spare the Assemblies of God forever. If I have ever given a prophetic message in my lifetime that God intended for a purpose, it is now.
Many are being deceived. If they are not awakened, what I warn you about will happen.
I pray that God will keep the Assemblies of God in its original purposes. In New York City, He has proved that the people come to hear a straight gospel, and thousands will come where the Word of God is being preached without compromise and yet with grace. May the young men who are discouraged in the Movement not try for a shortcut but be broken and on their faces before the Lord.
May we get our eyes off growth and onto a new revelation of who Jesus is.
True Discernment 
Thanks…when and where was this sermon preached
I believe it was preached at an Assembly of God Chapel service in Springfield Missouri at AOG General Council Headquarters in 1996.
Correct, except it was presented on March 10, 1998. See the following link: http://www.agtv.ag.org/vp-dangers-of-gospel-of-accommodation
Praise God for David Wilkerson!
THANK YOU!!!!!! The church needs to wake up!! So many many are trying to make the KINGDOM OF GOD down here on earth and putting FALSE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES before the WORD OF GOD.
There are so many baby CHRISTIANS in the church that do not read GOD’S WORD and are carried away by FALSE SIGNS AND WONDERS….
My SPIRIT has been grieved over the way they have portrayed the HOLY SPIRIT…..as in barking like a dog, crowing like a rooster…putting gold teeth in peoples mouths…feathers falling from the ceiling…..there have been a few ladies that I know that have gone to the church in Redding, Calif…and are saying that they have gone to the THIRD HEAVEN ( as Todd Bentley said )….
JESUS CHRIST AND THE CROSS…..some where along the way people are looking for other things….there is only one way……JESUS CHRIST..and what HE did for us on the cross..
Myself…some services have been like ROCK CONCERTS…loud….not much WORSHIP….and have been told many times…..We need it for the young adults….
Thank you for being the Watchman…..as the LORD told me to do the same many years ago……
In CHRIST’S LOVE,
Carroll
Wow, this is incredible. Thank you for posting this. I am in the process of obtaining my AoG ministers license. I got sucked in and attended a “mega-church/satellite church” for 3 years. It was based in Oklahoma City and of the 3 yrs it went from 5 campuses to in one state to over 13 in atleast 6 different states. I dont think I ever heard them mention a “sin” and I know I dont recall any true conversions. During the time I went, several other “ministries” sprung up from this “church”. One of them was called Oasis, and it took place in a bar. They would meet in a bar on sunday nights, play lots of music, then have a 5-15 minute message. All of the “feel good, pat you on the back” variety. I went once, because I used to hang out with the guy who started it. I didn’t like it. I soon found out why. The male leaders would go out on “Drinking for Jesus” nights and get drunk on friday nights. Thursday nights the ladies would do “Drinking for Jesus”. There ended up being 5 divorces because people would get drunk, and cheat on their wife. Its rediculous.
Not only things like this, and people who think they are ok it saddens me. I feel the cross of Jesus needs to be preached (1 Cor. 1:18) and sin needs to be confronted. I also had a dream that these mega churches and this “prosperity gospel” garbage was a modern day “Tower of Babel”. I pray that the Lord rises up some spiritual leaders who will not compromise the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
God Bless ya’ll!
Amen.
amen!
another gospel is indeed another jesus and another jesus does not save… like with the health and wealth people… see: http://www.justinpeters.org and watch ‘demo.”
I’ve seen everything in my 64 years of being in church all my life. My first bad encounter was when I was around 25 and walked into the church library to find the pastor’s secretary sitting on his lap. Throughout the next 20 years, 3 Assembly of God pastors were in the same kind of trouble. I attended a mega church in the Seattle area that tickled people’s ears and that pastor went down for immorality as board members tried to hide the problem. Pastors are afraid to bring up the porn problem that is great in churches. My (deacon) ex-husband was addicted to porn the 26 years I was married to him and nobody seemed to care that it ruined my marriage. America is in the mess it’s in because we aren’t taking seriously the scripture that says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” God didn’t give that to the sinners, but to His church. Wake up churches of America and get back to the true gospel of the cross and strive to live in obedience to what Jesus has required of us if we are truly going to be his servants. Thank you, David, for being obedient to Christ and having the courage to stand up and give this message that Jesus gave you for our churches.
I have been a part of the Aessmblies of God for 35 years. We need to recognize that this is a multi denominational problem in Christians and churches all across the world. Pastors and ministers and strayed from preaching salvation and embraced the teachings of prosperity and health. What happened to the fired up pastors who put it straight out there, follow Christ or burn in hell. I hear so many people say that it is too harsh and it hurts people feelings. I don’t recall Jesus being concerned about whether or not he offended anyone with his teachings. Christians are going to have to decide if they want to follow God or the world. Anyone who actually studies the Bible (yes, study it not just read it) can spot the signs easily.
We are experiencing a great falling away from the truth of God’s word. Remember what the Bible said in
2 Thesselonians 2:1-3?
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The answer to all the stress, financial problems, marital problems etc is in the word. People sit back on their pews and wait to be told what to think and what to believe. We thumb our noses at the 10 commandments and change all of the commands God gave us. Rise up as true Christians and go forth into the harvest. You can’t take anything of this world with except your brothers and sisters in Christ. Lay aside all the promises of wealth and material things. They mean nothing but the grace of God is everything.
Mr. Powless,
Thank you for your comment, I visited your churches website.
Could you tell me why your church would have a link to the Knights of Columbus Website as one of its “Religious” Links?
The Kinights of Columbus are clearly a Catholic Organization.
What does your Church believe about the Roman Catholic Church? Does your church believe that Roman Catholicism teaches a valid Christian Faith?
Thanks,
John
America is Babylon of Revelation 18. What Pastor Wilkerson has been shown is Revelation 18. He is at ground zero.
“And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach” (Isaiah 4:1).
Where will these Laodicean “christians” go when G_D’s Judgment is revealed? They eat their own bread and wear their own apparel because they have embraced a false gospel of self sufficiency. They are depending upon their own goodness and righteousness. They do not need the Bread of Life because they have bread made with leaven. They do not need to be clothed in the righteousness of the LORD JESUS CHRIST because they have fashioned their own Garments to cover their sin as did their Father and Mother Adam and Eve. Who will be their Husband? Their Bride Groom? Not the LORD
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o.k. church ,you heard it,now lets do something with it.if the pastor doesnt take heed, than move on and may god show you where to fellowship at,because much deception is running deep in the church,stay with the word of god and you will be fine.also you must allow the holyone to lead you and guide you into all truth.remember that jesus did come in the flesh on this earth,the antichrist spirit cant and wont confess this.read 1jonh.love a brother in the lord.rick
No, it wasn’t an actual nuclear bomb on 9/11, however, it was the equivalent of a small one going off, ask a decent, knowledable engineer. Prophecies have to be interpreted and backed with scripture. Also, the four horseman of the apocalypse were released on that day coming through the two large mountains. See the end of the Old Testament and read, carefully and slowly. God has been speaking to me and it is in line with what I found today on the internet with other prophets. It is too late for our nation to repent as a nation, only individual repentance. Our sins have reached the heavens. It is incorrect to state that all other nations are more sinful. Our sin is greater than other nations and we have been exporting our perverted, money culture for too long now. Preachers in this country will not stop being sexist, racist, money grabbers (teaching false gospel of prosperity). The preachers are only politicians of country club churches where we go to feel better. America and its churches are in worse shape than we even realize. We are completely numb to sin, we respect nothing and no one, even God and God’s house and our Jewish roots. The Protestants have even gotten worse than some Catholics by this lack of respect. We do not have a “healthy” fear of God. We do not repent or confess nor feel the need to. We think ourselves to be somehow “perfect”, not in need of God’s mercy. How dare we say God bless America? We even tell God what to do. Shame on us! We tolerate every evil, imagineable sin and every evil religion that is a stench in God’s nostrils with mosques, hindu temples and budha temples going up everywhere! What did God think of this when Israel allowed this in the O.T.? If we do not kill our babies in the womb, we make them suffer later, ask any policeman or woman, babies are being killed, hit, kicked, raped, child porno on the net and we do not care. Domestic violence of all types is on the rise, we simply do not care, afterall, it does not affect us. We hate our neighbors, family, everyone, yet all we do is ask God to bless us, give us a job and save our homes. How dare we. We do not defend the weak in this country, but rather prey on them. We flaunt our sin and do not fear God and even dare the Lord to do something about by our actions and are hearts pointing a fist to Him. Woe to America! Woe to the US. Payday has come and it’s only begun.
Yea, these are the days. Blessed are those that will take heed. God bless you Dave, it was revealed to me in 2006, I couldn’t sleep at times. These very accommodating gospels trouble my spirit, it’s just nothing less than denial of our Lord Jesus Christ. May they repent from this deception.
Unfortunately, these gospels are creeping into some of the AOG churches and it’s kinda difficult to show point out these errors to The Elders, more especially when you’re young as I am but God will make a way. I’ve actually realised that one cannot hide behind a denomination, it’s time for us to declare the uncompromised and undiluted Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This has been on my heart for 15 years and no one but no one in the church is aware because they do not and I repeat do not spend time with Jesus in the quiet place. We have a famon in the church. This is no time to play church.We are headed for diaster and the church needs to get serious, the shepherds need to hear the warning of the watchman.
Barbara
I PREACHED A SERMON IN A CONVENTION IN INDIA ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND STRESSED “NO COMPROMISE TO THE GOSPEL” AND REJECTION OF THE NEW WAVES THAT KEEP COMING IN THE USA PARTICULARLY. THERE WERE ABOUT 60,000 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE AND THIS WAS A PENTECOSTAL CONCLAVE OF THE LARGEST PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT OF NORTH INDIA. I ALSO STRESSED THAT IT WAS CONJURING UP FAITH BUT LETTING JESUS INTO OUR LIVES IN SURRENDER TO HIM, AND THE EMPOWERING OF THE SPIRIT IN TAKING TIME WITH THE LORD AND LETTING HIM FILL US AFRESH. THE MESSAGE DIDN’T SET WELL WITH MANY OF THE PENETCOSTAL MALLYALLUMS AND I WAS CRTICIZED FOR NOT BEING EMOTIONAL ENOUGH, etc. I FEEL THE GREATEST NEED IS TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING TODAY, A CONTINUAL BURNING ON THE ALTAR OF INCENSE OF OUR INTERCESSIONS, TO REPENT, TO IMPLORE THE LORD FOR HIS HELP, TO SEEK EARNESTLY HIS GUDANCE IN EVERY DETAIL AS MUELLER AND OTHERS URGED. WE ARE NOW SEEING THE ULTIMATE PREPARATION BEING MADE FOR THE SATANIC APPEARING OF THE ANTICHRIST, AND I OFTEN WONDER HOW MANY PROFESSED BELIEVERS WILL BE DECEIVED. THE MESSAGE I HEAR ON CHRISTIAN T-V AND BY MOST POPULAR PREACHERS TODAY IS AS FAR REMOVED FROM THE APOSTOLIC MESSAGE, AND THE MESSAGE OF THE GREAT PREACHERS OF THE PAST (INCLUDING MCPHERSON, PRICE, WIGGLESWORTH, JOHN LAKE, MARIA WOODWORTH EDDER, AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS OF ALL BIBLE BASED DENOMINATONS) AS CAN POSSIBLY BE…ALL ABOUT “US” AND “ME” AND OUR COMFORTS AND PROSPERITY. WHAT A SAD TIME FOR THOSE WHO TUNE IN HOPING FOR A GLIMMER OF THE CHRIST-EXALTING, HEART-CLEANSING GOSPEL. -B G DRAKE
The sad truth, that we all see around us. There are so many ‘seeker’ feel good churches, so many that are more interested in how good the music is than showing ‘fear’ of the Lord, and so many that are quick to preach, but quicker to judge.
Most people base their ‘pick’ on what the worship music style is. While music can be used to worship, this is not the reason to pick a church.
Worship is an act of obedience… not a genre. God says redemption is true…but Satan has trapped Christian people into the judgement of others.
People teach their kids to be accepting of all lifestyles, and the church echos this….Basing their pick on who makes them feel good.
The Christian Church is being hit on all sides. Christian marriages are failing at a higher rate than secular. I would say this is a clear indication of the lack of discipleship, and accomidation in the modern church. Men are not taught to be men, and women are not taught to be women of God. This trickles down to our children and so on.
I will add one more thing.
I have had a dream many times over the last several years. Always a bit different, but always the same. The dream involved the destruction of ‘churches’ the buildings and all inside. Some are being burned, some torn down with machines…ect. The people stand and watch…some sobbing….they have just lost everything.
He says be still. This is not my church. You are my church. Be obedient unto me.
Sometimes I will go for months without this dream….but it always comes back.
We need to stay fast as Christians to speak the truth to those who are blind. To answer the call….He desires that none should perish.
We need to pray for our country, our leaders, and our brothers and sisters.
We need to fast for our pastors and church body…that the gospel would be preached from the pulpit, and the He would be honored in the words that are preached.
The time is upon us when many will and can be swayed.
We must encourage those baby Christians to stay in the word and measure what is said against the word.
He has given us His Spirit, we are strong in Him and we are called to make a difference.
Shame on us if we know what is happening and we keep our mouth shut.
One of the things the American Church desperately needs is a revelation of the “beauty of holiness.” Holiness is not merely the absence of sin, darkness and filth, but a true, tangible, glorious aspect of God.
“Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.” (Psalm 96:9)
How refreshing and encouraging to hear all of your comments. It is further proof that the true Word cannot be twisted for us if we will just keep spending time studying the Bible and fasting and on our faces before God, humbled and willing to be obedient to Him.
As my Pastor put it Sunday, the Church has fallen asleep. It is too late to point fingers at the Church as I have done, but point the fingers back at myself. I can only do what I can do – Fast, pray for my family and the body of Christ, and seeks the Lord’s peace again. I believe we can have a personal revival. It is the very nature of God to reward His children whom seek Him with His renewed fresh presence.
Some say there be a huge revival before the return of Jesus, others say a mass exodus or apostacy. I believe scripture may support both. I pray there will be a great awakening again so we can get it right for the Lord by His power.
Peace
Doug,
Actually the visible Church is a big part of the problem.
And yes the change does start in each of us as individuals.
But as long as people will accept the visible Church as it is structured today and refuse to ask for it to change to what Jesus intended for a church body to be or leave it then the visible church will continue to disintegrate into abject apostasy.
Churches today do not reflect how Christ intended the body to function, and its not just a minor issue. It is a serious one.
No where in Scripture does it say that there will be a huge revival of Christianity before Jesus comes back.
What it does say is that apostasy will increase. and that there will be a great falling away. But of those who remain faithful to Christ, within them there will be a “revival” of the power of the Holy Spirit to demonstrate who God is.
But again there will not be a mass movement where a large portion of the world turns to Christ.
Thank you;
I have been a part of the AG all 46 years of my life, I love the AG and they have impacted this world for Jesus Christ but if they do not heed this warning we will no longer exist as a denomination. I just got a letter from Springdale (AG headquarters) asking for money and said that it is the first time in the 100some odd years of our history that they have done this, because they say that the AG is losing members and 12 years after this warning was preached we still have not heeded the warning ,we must get back to preaching that Hell is a real place and repentance, and get back to the old fashion alter call like we use to. This is only happing in the US we just got back from Nicaragua on a MAPS trip and one thing they don’t do is compromise the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I am an AOG Elder and have been very troubled about the Rick Warren Programs that are intering into the AOG church. Small Groups, Celebrate Recovery, Target groups. trying to be like Rick. which is the Gospel of Accomadation.
It is all to grievous to comprehend. We who believed and preached the doctrines of The Assemblies of God in their purity and holiness have been run out in recent years by those who
invaded our churches with a “gospel birthed in hell”—described so perfectly by David Wilkerson in the above sermon.
The outcome of all this? JUDGMENT! Isn’t that where judgement begins? Yes, I am concerned about the wickedness that abounds in the world today, but for YEARS I have been far more concerned about the gospel preached in many A/G Churches today, for it has been TOTALLY ineffectual against the gates of Hell!
There was a time, and how I remember so well as a young child, when NO MATTER what your problem was–just confess it—no condemnation, no judgement—just put it out there—-Holy Ghost filled men and women of God would lay hands on you and the POWER of the Holy Spirit would utterly set you free and if you were willing to live in obedience and discipline of the scriptures and The Spirit of God, you could FOREVER
stay FREE.
We used to invite people from all walks of life who had tried everything to helps themselves to “come here”—-come where
The Spirit of The Living God can make you a new creature in Christ Jesus. That is no longer true of the A/G Churches. As I told my Pastor, “Take the sign down—the transactions of
heaven are no longer available here.”
So, what does that mean. Judgment. This isn’t hard to figure out! No angel has to appear with a message–it is a promise from Christ himself: remember Christ hand NOTHING GOOD to say to the Church at Laodicia. However, one must not be over zealous in “looking at the A/G–leave them to God in prayer—but rather themselves. I cannot change the A/G’s as much as I love what we truly stand for, but I can repent
for my own luke warm ways.
In closing, let me add, for what it may be worth to anyone reading this: Judgment in America will not be abated! It will now continue to our complete and total destruction. Like Paul the Apostle, the ship we are sailing on will be destroyed but we will make it safely to shore—that is to say Heaven.
We do well to press in and stay close to Jesus for truly we hear HIM say: “LOOK UP FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH.’
The mystery of Christ in you, the hope of glory, is not being explained so people will go on after being born again to have Christ formed in them so they will no longer be called little children.
There is a famine for the good word of God and God’s people are perishing for lack of knowledge and the shepherds are responsible and therefore God will remove them from being His Ministers soon. God said His ministers cause His people to err.
Stan Johnson
http://www.GladTidingsMinistry.org
God said His ministers cause His people to err therefore He would remove them from being His Shepherds. He also said He would feed them judgment.
Ministers need to get back to the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Stan Johnson
evangelist
Yes!
Amen and AMEN AGAIN! God have mercy upon us!
This message left me with a lot to think about. we all need this. We go on in life in a sort of trance and need to wake out of it. I WANT to know the truth
GOD BLESSED YOU,HI FROM MACEDONIA.
Such clear and Scripture grounded messages are desperately needed in this hour. Truth is what will set men free. I also heard through the Times Square Church site the sermon Mr. Wilkerson preached right after 9/11. Tough words from God All Mighty, but true. They resonated in my soul and heart.
May God richly bless you and may you continue with this very much needed work.
Thank You Brother Dave!!
For speaking the truth in love! The seeker movement is “the Golden calf” as far as I’m concerned. Jesus always confronted and forgave sin…he never condoned or told anyone to continue in it for their own comfort. I believe His words were something like… “Go and sin NO MORE” and “lest something worse come upon you.”
NOTE: Because of your own sin, not God teaching you a lesson.
However, to do with the “health and wealth” comments… we need to watch we don’t negate the word of God because of those who misuse it. It is God’s will to heal us and prosper us… just read your Bible! However, I am in no way saying he wants us all to be millionaires, He gives more to those who were trustworthy starting with less. If God hated his people having money he never would have made Solomon, Abraham, Jacob and Barnabbas rich. God hates…money having his people…there’s a grave difference. Money isn’t the ROOT OF EVIL…Loving it is!
“The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow to it.” Psalm 10:22 We can’t ignore scriptures like this (and they are many) just cause they don’t fit our personal theology. Theology needs to be formed by scripture, not scripture formed by theology.
Now… In scripture, Jesus NEVER told anyone that he was unwilling to heal them when they asked Him to. I challenge anyone…. really…. find me an instance where He turned someone away and said, “I am not willing.” And He never put sickness on anyone to teach them a lesson. And if anyone needed a lesson it was the Pharisees…yet Jesus made none of them sick…hmmmm. And by the way, don’t forget Jesus only did the will of His Father….GOD. It not God’s will to make people sick, or for them to be sick!!
I personally know 2 people who were diagnosed TERMINAL, but decided to stand on the scripture concerning healing and are alive, well, and baffling doctors to this day! Notice I said STAND on scripture, they never gave up!! Some people say there standing and then give up after praying once or twice and then declare it not to be God’s will cause nothing happened. I personally declared the word of God over myself for a serious and worsening dabilatating conditon no one seemed to be able to diagnose. I stood on God’s promise for a year until it manifested. But I’m walking pain free with full mobility to this day. Our God and Father is Jevovah Rapha… THE LORD GOD WHO HEALS ME!! he as David said, is “The one who brings healing to my flesh and my bones.”
Jesus said, “When you stand praying, believe that you will receive what you are asking for, and you shall.” He was also known for saying crazy things like, “All things (not some things) ARE POSSIBLE to those who believe.” Now he was either telling the truth or He wasn’t. And this headline just in …. GOD CANNOT LIE!
I know there’s alot of whacko’s out there perverting the true Gospel… but don’t lose sight of the character and nature of God revealed in scripture because of their own misguidings.
Anyways…Kingdom Blessings to You All!!
And Bless Dave Wilkerson…
a Fellow Preacher of Truth at Any Cost
Jason Silver
A Lover of God, a Husband, a Father, and a Pastor
I am repeating this reply, I had a glitch and do not know if the first one posted, plus added a line.
Thank you for putting this in perspective. At a time when I am asking God to search my heart to make sure I am not in deception myself because of the misuse of Gods word, I also do not want to go the other direction and throw away The Goodness of God either. I want to Honor God in what I believe about Him as well as in what I do.There is so much phoniness by so called Christians out there. I examine myself to be sure I am truly being Christlike.If someone can see the goodness of God in me and be drawn to Him, I want to be able to live it. No one that I have known has ever been truly won to God by beating them up with Scripture coming to God out of fear of Him, Coming to Him because His love for us is so grand. so precious toward us can make a big difference in how we serve Him and build our relationship with Him.
THE PROPHECY DAVID WILKERSON GAVE SEVERAL YEARS AGO ABOUT THE COMING WORLDWIDE COLLAPSE OF THE ECONOMIES OF THE NATIONS WAS IN LINE WITH WHAT IS NOW JUST BEGINNING TO HAPPEN. IT APPEARS THAT THIS WILL HERALD A CHANGE IN A FEW YEARS AT THE MOST, WHICH MAY USSHER IN THE WORLD GOVERNMENT, WHICH GEORGE H.W.BUSH, JIMMY CARTER, AL GORE, BILL CLINTON, AND THE ‘BORN AGAIN’ GEORGE W BUSH ANTICIPATE WILL AVERT GLOBAL WARMING, NUCLEAR WAR, WORLD WIDE STARVATION, AND IN SHORT ‘A NEW WORLD ORDER’ OF PEACE AND SAFETY. MAN TRYING TO BRING ABOUT A PARADISE IN THIS SINFUL WORLD AND AMONG UNREGENERATE WORLD LEADERS WILL END IN CHAOS, AND UNLESS JESUS CHRIST RETURNS TO EARTH AS HE PROMISED “NO FLESH SHALL BE SAVED” AS CHRIST HIMSELF FORETOLD. JESUS WILL COME JUST ABOUT THE TIME THE ‘NEW AGE’ BEAST AND HIS ROMAN COUNTERPART ARE ABOUT TO WIPE OUT EVERY JEW AND CHRISTIAN (OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD) FROM THE EARTH. CHRIST WILL FIR ST COME TO THE PLACE SPOKEN OF IN ISAIAH 16, AND RESCUE THE SMALL REMNANT OF JEWS WHO FLEE FROM WORLD RULER WHO CLAIMS TO BE GOD, BUT IS IN FACT THE DEVIL INCARNATE. THEY WILL SEE THE NAIL PRINTS IN JESUS’ HANDS AND FEET AND CRY TO HIM AND HE WILL LEAD THEM TO JERUSALEM IN A TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION ONCE AGAIN, AND THIS TIME HE WILL ‘REIGN WITH A ROD OF IRON’. JIMMY DEYOUNG SAID ON ANKERBERG’S T-V PROGRAM THAT CHRIST WILL THEN CONFRONT THE NATIONS THAT HAVE ARRAYED THEMSELVES AGAINST HIM AND HE WILL DECIMATE THEM WITH ONE WOR D (SWORD THAT JOHN THE REVELATOR SAW COMING OUT OF HIS MOUT) AND IT WILL TAKE SEVEN YEARS TO BURY ALL THE BONES OF 200,000,000 ARMED FOLLOWERS OF ANTICHRIST. THE GLORIFIED SONS OF GOD WHO HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOUR AND BRING FORTH THE FRUITS OF RIGHTOUSNESS (1 PETER 5, GALATIANS 5-6, REVELATION 2L:11, ETC.) WILL DESCEND UPON THE EARTH AND RULE AND REIGN FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, AND THEN AFTERWARD JUDGE THE DEAD WHO ARE RAISED IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION AND THE ENDLESS AGE OF AGES WILL BEGIN, WHEN THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE WILL KNOW NO END (ISAIAH 9:7; DANIEL 7, 11,12). IF WE ARE GOING TO BE READY FOR THE NEXT BIG EVENT, OUR GOING TO BE WITH THE LORD EITHER BY THE TRANSLATION OF THE CHURCH OR BY DEATH, WE NEED TO MAKE OUR CALLING AND ELECITON SURE, LIVE FOR GOD AND HAVE OUR LAMPS TRIMMED AND FILL WITH OIL THOSE WHO CHOOSE RATHER TO WORSHIP THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD EVEN IF THEY CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS ARE IN DANGER, AND THOSE WHO REJECT THE SON OF GOD AS THEIR SAVIOUR ARE LOST. GOD GRANT THAT WE WILL BE READY. (LUKE 21:32,36).
I MUCH APPRECIATE THIS SERMON. For almost four years since moving to Hollywood CA my husband and I have thirsted for a church that actually moved by the spirit and preached the gospel. Moving here we were christian who desired to grown and take part in the church after many years of sitting on the sidelines. We both work in fashion which I don’t need to tell you is a profession full of ungodliness… so we wanted a strong church family with which to fellowship, reprove us when needed and grow in faith. What we found in LA was hunger. We visited many churches.. stayed in some so long that we gave themm nicknames like “Chruch of the mind” (a church that was sincere, but left no room for the Holy Spirit.. it was all about the latest commentary or study), “In the presence of money” a church with a charismatic x-actor pastor….. who seemed to get his sermons from a box and focused on prosperity… we even went to a church in which we are almost certain the pastor is homosexual and the church itself only acted as a platform for community organizing. Some of these churches we drove far from home to attend. Each time hoping for the water we needed. We started listening to Times Square Church online sermons and even recieving councelling when needed from their prayer counsel.. from 3,000 miles away!!!!! it is a shame and ridiculous when two hungry young christian can’t find a christ centered church near their home. after some time with no church at ll we decided to seek God for a church, but by this time I believe we had both began falling into the lukewarmness of the congregations we had taken part in. Before I knew it partying and lasciviousness had started to creep into my life.. which is not something i ever did before. We made some older christian friends who were equally as lukewarm (always preaching grace and never repentance) That being said, the danger of churches that accomodate is that they accomodate our sinful natures…. Christians in these congreagations may start out right and slowly let sin creep in.. thus, sleeping when our bridegroom comes.
I a happy to say, after both of us, slipping into lukewarmness and sometimes almost returning to the vomit of a sinful lifestyle (God dealing with us the whole time), in a time of repentance we sought the Lord for a chruch and he has led us to a spirit filled one. Our pastor say the word you never hear in most LA area churches – REPENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REPENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To hear these words was a breath of frsh air. We have repented and are back on the right track, but I weep for so many who are fallling away now…. whi have not recieved the Holy Spirit and are sitting in these mega churches being led astray with the gospel of lukewarmness.
Upon my repentance the Lord shared with me (before the economic collapse) tough times were coming. There is a time coming so scary that we must learn to cling to the Lord and his true Gospel. A famine (an actual famine of food …. crop failure) is in our future. I don’t know when but the Lord told me to prepare “as in the days of Noah ” it will be. We prepare by drawing close to him and seeking his instruction. I urge everyone to shed lukewarmness… find fallen and falling Christians who desperately need your help.. find them before it’s too late that they might seek the Lord .. our strong tower and be saved.
Satan is a False Light, A False Holy Spirit re: tongues. The gifts of tongues is a Ministering gift so as to speak God’s Will, His Word in love ..in a foreigners own language. Speaking in Tongues is also very personally when a person does not know what to pray for. It is all about a Consious Contact with God ….so as to know we are not by ourselves….so to speak.
Praise God,
This is so wonderful to hear our lord speak to us this means that he loves us very much for loving father will not let his child to wrong when he knows.
The Father will always correct the son and warn him aginst anything bad. So AG members you are very hournerable to the Lord so now it is time for us as christians to respond to the voice of the Lord and repend as a church starting from the top Leaders to the local Brothers and Sisters.
“Thank you God father for your message.We glorify your name because you are Holy Lord. God of Abraham we Know we have gone against your will; Lord Our Saviour forgive us as a church. Cleanse us with the Blood of Jesus.
Lead us through the Narrow way, the only rightous way for our Lives. Let us do your will in everything we do in worship, evangelism and decipleship. Lord Let us do only your will. thank Lord in Jesus Name.”
Amen.
Brother H.K
Kenya
Thanks You David Wilkerson,
I’ve been Assembly of God all my life. My father who is in
Heaven now was Assembly of God minister almost from the
beginning of the denomination. I too have been greived to
see the decline in our churches. Seeker Friendly churches
are springing up all over with Assembly of God and not
really preaching the Word of God. They don’t call sin, sin or
really tell people what will happen if they do sin. It really
causes me to weep for our denomination.
Thank you for holding up for what is wright even if it is not
popular. We need more people like you and I trust that
our Assemblies of God will again have an awakening of
the Holy Spirit. Blessings to you and Thank you.
Nicky Cruz was at our church here in Tucson last week and
wow how powerful it was. We have a great church and I
thank God for it. It is one of the few Assembly of God churches that I know that is really moving forward.
I have been searching for a church for a long time. I know who I am in the Lord. I want to try The first assembly of God. I understand these comments, but I am now literally very leary of going to an Assembly of God church.
Thank you. Much food for thought and prayer…
Hi Aunt Jan!
Thank you David. We were in the AOG church for 33 years and have seen many changes. When we relocated to another city the Lord led us out of the AOG church. I believe many churches have largely lost the gospel message of repentance.(What is it? Why do we need to repent??)
Thank God for this message!!! It’s not just for the assemblies of God, but for all that fear God despite the denomination! It’s time we open our ears for the Spirit and give place to the Word in our hearts. It’s time for us to repent and get back to the roots of the true Gospel. Thanks David.
this message struck my heart with repentance and trembling.
thanks pastor david
The Persecuted Church once said to a worker from the Free Church, “You need our faith to know your own!” It is important for you to encounter the Persecuted Church. Get in touch with any ministry that serve the Persecuted Church. And encourage your friends too to encouter them too.
I’m of the belief that God created no church…nd he like no such. at the same time I believe that we ought to serve him as a collective. My point here is that…there’s no church that’s more important or spiritual. we are God’s sheep and belong from his own flock. lets worship Him then tirelesly.
God bless u
David Wilkerson, you are a man of God! We so need men like you in the times that we live in!
I am also an ex AOG member, I could no longer feel the Holy Spirit move, no worship etc!
It was like going to a “wordly concert!”
My advise to all, ask the Holy Spirit to guide you, if it’s wrong you’ll feel it!
Love in Jesus, keep up the great work!
Belinda
We need to revisit the Protestant Reformation, because the traditions of men–post-1968 traditions, but traditions nonetheless–have once more overridden the Word of God. Having worked overseas and in the US with Muslims who believe that Christians bribe people into converting and encourage lewdness, I find it interesting that the “church” on my block–affiliated with a large nationwide evangelical group–proudly offers weekly cash prizes, cell phone giveaways, and dance contests. It also has its own brand of gang-inspired clothing for girls. The way people worship, and the way they promote their groups, often can tell us more about them than their statements of doctrine. “Cool” Christians may profess to be Bible-believing and fundamentally sound, but a great winnowing is coming, one that will reveal the trendy brand of evangelicalism for what it actually is: an extension of the rebellion of the ’60s using a traditional Christian vocabulary.
may God keep the young and up coming young pastors of A.O.G Movement to stand for truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ not be against the truth.May you also pray for me to stay and be rooted in God’ word and in Christ,thank you
It’s too late for the AG. If you can keep from “throwing up”, just attend a few “lectures” at the AG school of ministry and you’ll see for yourself. It’s all about scripture twisting, money, power and domination. They’re modern day Pharisees and money changers. Wolves are in charge and shaping converts to their new “culturally relevant” gospel. If you don’t drink their form of Jonestown koolaide- you’re pruned out. Here’s a warning, if you’re assouciated with the AG- get out, if not, stay out!
so good to know there are many christians like myself who are sick at heart over the decline of the AOG. i was saved in the church and went for 30 yrs. until the church brought in 30 minute “praise”[and dancing]. i have since attended other churches, not finding what i am looking for…….a god fearing,”sin is SIN against God, and punishable by God.
God bless you bro. dave for warning us and preaching the truth.
So true. We need to stop feeling we need more numbers, pats on the back, best bulitins, social programs, buildings, etc. Where are the sermons that convict. I don’t want to see adjusted lives or, “sorry they failed” lives. I want to see changed lives and righteous living.
[…] Accommodation Gospel by David Wilkerson […]
It’s so sad to see that Mr. Wilkerson has died. Unbelievable, really.
I, too, am saddened at the passing of this blessed man of God. He has ministered to me much over the last 40 years or more.
In 1986 I sat in a Conference where David preached prophetically to hundreds (and possibly 1000’s) of Christian leaders (about 5,000 people were in attendance). This dear man of God gave a clear call to repentance to us a Christian leaders and pastors – and a warning of God’s judgment should we not repent. There was very little response to the altar call he gave and I later heard upper level “Christian” leaders ridiculing his message of repentance and judgment. May God have mercy upon us!
I pray that God will raise up others to take his place as a watchman on the wall – a prophet who will proclaim the unadulterated Word of God and the pure word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I look forward to meeting you in Glory, Brother Dave.
Wayne
I made a mistake in the above reply – the conference was in August, 1982, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Pastor Wayne, was that this message?
https://www.worldchallenge.org/sermon/david-wilkerson/redeemer-coming-zion?utm_campaign=dwsermons&utm_medium=comment&utm_source=TrueDiscernment
Chris
World Challenge, Inc. Staff
[…] Also see his prophetic message: David Wilkerson’s Warning for The Assembly of God: Sadly unheeded! […]
These are many of the reasons I left the AG after being saved as a teen, attending their college in Lakeland, FL, and, being a minister for several years. Even though it was painful at the time, I’m thankful for God’s sovereign hand, his mercy and grace toward me in removing me from the AG.
What a man of God!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glory to God – Amen!!!! Jesus is alive!!!!
You are going to be sadly missed by me because you preached God’s living Word and not your version – you reward’s in heaven David – Thank you – Thank you – Thank you – Who is out there to walk in David Wilkerson’s footsteps? To continue his great work for the Lord?
I live in Springfield MO and have worked several years for the AG and attended a mega church also. I am no longer involved with the AG in any form! Enough said, great sermon! We need revival! Jesus come soon!
I am in an AG church and I see us leaning in the accommodation direction. The loud music is ruining our hearing. I cringe at the young people in their youth service on Wed. night being exposed to this loud music. I went to an AG women’s conference once, yes, just once. The music was so loud I had to wait in the lobby until the message started. I was not alone in that lobby. I have brought this issue up more than once and get slapped down in various ways. It also scares me to see people living in blatant sin, by choice, can serve in various ministries in our church. Without confession, repentance and restoration (go and sin no more) we are not living and growing in the message of Jesus.
I am also an ex AOG member! I stopped going not so much because of the loud music but because the music has taken the place of the “Holy Spirit” moving during the service! Just no more “time” for that! How sad!
Amen to Mary’s comments!
I thank God for this prophesy because it is the real picture of the modern gospel, designed to accommodate Satanic desires. They are devaluing the word of God and misleading people who are supposed to come to God. the word of God is now been replaced by our programmes and have little time for God’s word, especially money.
Just found on AGTV the recorded sermon. You can listen to it there. It states that David Wilkerson gave this message to them on March 10,1998
I am fearful of where the church is going! I only go to the AOG because its down the road from me and as I am disabled its easy access etc We have started changing in the UK. No one wears suits, it’s changing but at the moment I like the Pastor and the music and we have other churches joining us, which is great. The music is louder than usual when we all meet together but when it’s just us its still the same. I do NOT want to be DECEIVED I ask The Holy Spirit to guide me. I want the message of the cross and Jesus Christ crucified. No wonder Jesus said when I com back will I find faith on the earth!
God bless you pastor Wilkerson. I found this document today and is an answer to the many questions i had about our church. i also do not see the works of the Holy Spirit anymore and the worship also had become out of line. thanks
The modern day antics in church life, only confirms my decision to not attend any church 18 years ago. A right decision for health and wellness and advised by my GP. Fundamentalist approaches have I believed badly affected thousands over the years and not once have I seen apologies from Pentecostal Movements for the controlling approaches which I and others experienced in the 1960s and 70s. The last 18 yrs have been the best years for me and my lovely family without the trimmings of faith ( ie church life). I own these thoughts and realities of my life which many of my former friends would disagree with. But that doesnt matter – my family does which is my most important asset in life. And no I am not simply passing through this world. I was born to enjoy it. John Howell, Oxford UK delwin@btinternet.
John, your decision to forsake church attendance, in contradiction to The Word in Heb. 10:25, casts doubt on your commitment to the Lord. Obedience to the Lord is extremely important. While no church is perfect, we need fellowship, and a structured environment in which to learn and to be encouraged. I also doubt your spiritual health, since you’ve chosen your own path, rather than the one spelled out in scripture. If we’re real Born Again Christians, we have to follow instructions from a God who designed us, loves us, and knows how we must act, in order to please Him. Doing “your own thing,” as the world does, just won’t suffice.
I guess John Howell is merely doing what is soon to become a reality in any “spirit filled born again believer” amen!
Soon, obedient Christians will no longer be able to attend most churches due to the increase of evil hence we will once again go back to the “Book of Acts”, gathering in our homes praising our God ……
I read something extraordinary the other day …… food for thought!
IF YOU ARE BEFORE A JUDGE, ON TRIAL BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN. ….. WOULD THERE BE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YOU AND I???
I live by this “golden rule” in my life namely ……. what would Jesus do or say and allow the precious Holy Spirit to do the conviction in my life ……. amen!
[…] The rest of the message can be found at the following link. True Discernment […]
Even the Assembly of God has been affected and that is probably not a real surprise. As the older Ministers retire or what have you a new breed of Pastors are taking their places. My friend recently went to her AOG Pastor because she was upset that one of her friends in the church was getting into Yoga. She warned the girl but then began to feel ostracized by a few others. Hoping he would agree with her how destructive and how against Christ Yoga is,and perhaps teach on the subject sometime or address the issue somehow He instead told her, “it is a gray area.” She left the Church. Recently, I went back to an AOG I had attended for many years. The old Pastor retired and the new Pastor was the previous youth pastor . He constantly joked about things, telling us he was a cheater at games and the like. But he went to far the morning when He was administering Communion, when he announced to the congregation”to come up and get your stuff “, (referring to the Communion Elements). In addition to this, the Adult Bible Study was a Study by Emergent leader and teacher Tim Keller. The congregation seemed to love it all. If they were offended at any of it , it was not obvious. I wrote a letter expressing my concerns about the direction of the Church to the Bible study leader who is also on the Board of Elders and a prominent Lawyer in town. Of course, I never heard back and I did not return.
Unfortunately, the AOG has been in decline for many years. It is not just the new pastors but televangelists like Billy Graham, The Crouches, Pat Robertson, Jessie Duplantis, the list goes on and on – were all wolves in sheeps’ clothing from the start, they just subtly and slowly brought more and more evil in by twisting the Bible and spewing out false teachings. I believe the AOG has always been evil, the underbelly of it, hence there is not much chance of that changing unless true christians get together and chase out the evil and bring in preachers who, like David Wilkerson, follow the Holy Bible strictly and with grace, love, compassion and truth!
To suggest that all Evangelists are evil is not good, Yes, the current AOG has gone off center, but when we joined 40 years ago it was a vibrant denomination with a solid foundation. Church Growth doctrine crept into the AOG, and it has caused a lot of problems. Don’t throw the baby out with bathwater. Jesus will come soon, but before that the Lord will cleanse the Church.
I agree I don’t think churches preach about Satan and hell they are real and the pastors need to start making people aware of this.
Watch out for some key words: interfaith, emergent, purpose driven.
If you hear these words in reference to your church…run! That church is becoming, or is becoming seeker sensative. This needs to be preached more.
It’s too bad in the day that we live that the priorities of the a/g are listed in this order. 1. Keeping and maintaining their 501c3 2. Building and acquiring multi million complexes throughout the world. 3. Making sure we do not preach against or offend homosexuals. 4. Ministering to the lost. Which in fact, if I understand the word,pertaining to Matthew 28:19-20, we have all things backwards. Thank God for men such as David Wilkerson who defend the gospel. Respectfully submitted. Floyd J. Wray, ordained Assembly of God minister Point Blank, Texas
It is obvious that more “so called churches” have one foot in the world hence they have become “lukewarm” …..
The “falling away” of many Christians is imminent and as we draw closer to the “end times” we as born again christians should be “drawing closer to our God”!
When you are watching television etc ….. ask yourself “WOULD I BE WATCHING THIS PROGRAM WITH JESUS SITTING NEXT TO ME”?!
There is no more time to PLAY CHURCH ….. allow Jesus to transform your life and live for Him alone ….. amen
I believe this. We need not follow formulas.
A painful truth,needs to be heard loud and clear
I was saved 46 years ago in an AOG church in Colorado and have sadly watched the change that has taken place over the years. I long for the moving of the spirit with signs and wonders following!
Not all Assembly of God church’s are the way you say. I realize some may but please don’t judge all. In. God’s love.
J Chance, I would look a little deeper and make sure. Usually the body follows the head and it would be odd that they have not been touched by the deception unless they are teaching about it and warning the congregation about it. I find it almost impossible that a Pastor would be listening to the Holy
Spirit concerning these topics and not have a lot to say to his congregation about it. Since you did not elaborate, I wonder what you base your statement on. We are told that those who are mature have their senses trained to discern good and evil. That word discern and the principle there is often misunderstood as wrongly judging someone, but that is just not the case. We need to be able to discern for the sake of instructing others when another’s behavior does not line up with the Word of God, be it a person or an organization. Are you going to tell your child to not act like Johnny when Johnny does such and such? Are you going to fail to tell him that what he sees Johnny doing is not acceptable in the eyes of God or according to the Word of God. We can do that without condemning Johnny or belittling his character.It is when we condemn them to hell or belittle their character that we get into wrongly judging someone. There are times when we have to speak up to warn others that they must not follow certain people because of the things they believe or because of their words or actions.
David Wilkerson’s words from 1998 are still applicable today in 2014. It is not just the AoG churches who are affected. I think every Christian denomination has fallen prey to the gospel of Accomodation. People want to hear how they are meant to prosper, feel food, be healthy, etc. This is the work of Satan! If you read the scriptures, it tells us nothing about such things. Jesus warns us that to follow Him is to take up your cross daily, Living the true Christian life is not easy. The world constantly distracts us. There are too many TV “preachers” that tell us that God wants us to have it all and be happy. I don’t believe that it is too late for our country. I am still praying for the next “great awakening” . “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, but through me.” John 14:6
I have read this three times and praise God for it. I pray all that speak God’s Word, would have this truth in their hearts. That the Church family would have this in their heart. Let every Word be his truth.
In Christ
(There are heavy foot steps at our door) This is a word given to me for all the church. As fore me and those I love around me ,we will not hold back anything form God.
If there is not a sense of discomfort, if I do not fight tears because of His love and sacrifice during the preaching of the Word, I don’t feel like I am in church. Jonathan Edwards would not understand Christ’s church today. Lord, deliver us!
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It’s about the Gospel of Jesus not Dollar Bills
We are living in perilous times.
Fantastic piece-This isn’t just an AoG issue, but an issue for every Bible believing Christian. In our area north of Dallas, there are two major movers in the accommodation lie (Besides, sadly, a lot of Baptist churches)-the non denominational, “new revolution” contemporary churches, and a lot of the Rodeo themed “Cowboy Churches”. This article should be in every pastors study
Also the EMERGENT/RESURGENCE MOVEMENT is DESTROYING Lots of Churches in Alberta and CANADA with the SAME TEACHINGS of the Health/Wealth/Prosperity CULT GOSPEL !!!!!! and YES it was called at one time the Word of Faith,The Jesus People,Mars Hill and Now the NEW NAMES the EMERGENT “church”/RESURGENCE /Mars Hill and The NEW NAME in 10 Year’s ???
Great words by a great preacher of righteousness!
Thank you Jesus for revealing this message to David Wilkerson. Praise be to our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope this message is read by millions.
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Good warning for the church, especially since Jesus and His disciples repeatedly warned us of deception in the church. Here is a sermon I heard recently by Brian Long, a pastor from Oklahoma…he echos many things in David Wilkerson’s warning. http://followthelamb.net/24/SID24505.mp3
Well worth listening to.
anita and I still agree with Davids teaching
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I am an AG Pastor and I don’t do the seeker sensitive service, I never have been one for people pleasing. I like the message of ‘Repentance” it is a beautiful thing…..God gives man a chance to turn away from sin by the blood of Jesus Christ and He give us the power to do so through the Holy Spirit. What a beautiful message. Maybe this is why I don’t have a big mega church. 🙂
In His Service,
Donovan.
if you preach the truth you will not have a mega church or even what is considered a big one.
Made me think good advice.
There are two types of messages that need to be preached –
#1. Evangelistic messages to those who have not heard what God has done through Christ so that they can repent, have their sins forgiven, be born of the Spirit, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and become a new creature in Christ Jesus.
#2. Discipleship messages to believers so that they can grow up in their salvation now that they have tasted that the Lord is good.
Unfortunately, for the past 70 years or so, we have tried to do both in the context of the same meeting on a Sunday morning and/or Sunday evening in a building where most of the time we are “preaching to the choir”.
The answer to this is simple. The first type of message, the evangelistic message, needs to be shared by every born again child of God to their neighbors, co-workers, and friends in their homes, neighborhoods, coffee shops, or wherever, just not limited to a “church building” on a Sunday morning.
The second type of message, the discipleship message, is the message we need to be hearing on Sunday mornings as we bring newborn children of God, born of the Spirit, into our sanctuaries. People should be “getting saved” outside of the walls of the church. We should be bringing them to church to be taught how to live for God.
Jesus Christ is Lord. Those four words need to be unpacked by us as believers so that we understand their full meaning and implication, and then we need to be sharing the meaning of those words with everyone we have contact with. What God has done through Christ is a fact, and every one needs to hear it and make a choice regarding it.!”
When Peter preached the first sermon on the Day of Pentecost, he was speaking to a group of people who had experienced Jesus’ ministry and knew about His death by crucifixion. What they did not know was that God had raised Him from the dead, and exalted Him, placing Him on the throne of David. Peter’s convicting phrase was, “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!.
It was a proclamation of the identity of Jesus that cut them to the heart and caused them to say, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
right on point aletheia, the scripture even goes further to say that, “…they that believe not dared not join themselves with the company of believers…” (Acts 5:13), It is quite clear from the scriptures that evangelistic messages are better suited outside the walls of the Church If we follow God’s word, the pattern of the early apostles, and the direction of the Holy Spirit, the Church of God will fall into less errors like organizing “seeker sensitive services”, so called.
[…] churches. It’s also in some of the seeker friendly churches in North America. Take a look at David Wilkerson’s warning! […]
He said this: “just a few years away from a collapse like the world has never known” in 1998!! I believe in 1998 we were 17 years from the collapse ~ the collapse of the USA. Will happen this fall/winter, culminating with devastation of the nation, I think Dec 3 (your warning sign: this will be preceded by a single nuclear detonation in a coastal city). Many Americans will starve to death. will people repent if they know that otherwise they have 15 months to live?
Amen Amen and AMEN. Thank you Lord for leading me to this. This watchman on the wall is going to spread this word
Help us Lord. May we have wisdom and discernment. Open our eyes and hearts in JESUS name.
This is the Gospel truth! May it be sent and read by every A/G preacher & any other preacher.
Thank God for David Wilkerson…at a point in my life…the cross and the switchblade gave me a reason to keep on believing.
It is now Feb 2015 and the Church is flooded with the very things that Wilkerson warned about. And so few even speak about those things in person. One has to come to the internet to find people talking about it. The great majority of those who call themselves Christians are blinded to the Truth. And Pastors who know better hesitate rocking their boat. When I bring things up like this article, I get. “but God knows what He’s doing!” We are just around the corner from a great revival. You should have seen the teens last week!” I am so sick of hearing about a Great revival, because people are so proud they cannot even see straight. The whole thing is so disheartening. You wonder if people who we thought were such spiritual leaders even have a brain in their head, heaven help that they have no spiritual discernment. How can the body of Christ be so clueless. Truly, the way is narrow and few find it! My heart grieves for those who are missing it, who think there is going to be some great end time revival! Unfortunately, they will see what they think is a revival when they fall for the Beth Moores, Rick Warrens, Arnotts, Copelands, Osteens, who lead them into the false unity of the Faith with the Pope and the Catholic Church. I foresee masses of people joining this Movement, along with masses of so-called new converts! They will be sure they are right about an end time Revival, but it won’t be a revival, it will be Satan’s horrendous trick to sweep people into the arms of the Anti-christ and a One World Religion. They like big, they like numbers! They will see big and they will see numbers, but it won’t be close to what they think it is. Frightening!
thanks for this insight
An awesome read and I believe every word of it. I have felt something a miss in the church for quite a while, I believe in hell and heaven and i want the convicting power of the holy spirit preachd when I go to church I don’t care if its a big church or a little church as long as the word of god is preached and the anointing is present.
A.O.G. WHERE IS THE LOVE THAT CHRIST SHOWED.. WHERE IS THE INTEGRITY CHRIST DEMANDS?
Thank you Lord for a saint not ashamed of the one and only true gospel! Preach on Bro. Rev. Wilkerson! My grandparents (Rev. E.D. Singleton), my preachers now (Rev. Randy Roach and Rev. Warren Finney), and my old paster (Rev. Noel Morehead) still preach this gospel!
Thank you so much!
Well, I was wondering why God got me up at 4:30 on a Sunday morning..saw this article, read it. I have always respected David Wilkerson’s ministry. It was his book, “Cross And the Switch Blade” that God used to guide me through the steps of hearing God’s voice to open the Gospel Book Store 40 years ago. Please, Lord, let this message direct my life again. This message should be a wake up call to all of those that profess Jesus as Lord.
It was revealed to me a while back and I came out of there… The only people that will not hear and not head has been the “church”; but, then it was never God’s church if it does not listen to God was it? And if they will not listen to God, who then are they listening to and preaching? God is leading His people back to Himself and His ways if you have Eyes for Jesus and Ears for the Word of God. Seek a church that reflects God’s Word (Jesus Christ) and cling to it as a bride clings to her husband.
It’s not just in “seeker-friendly” churches, and it has nothing to do with style of music or style of dress. Even in good old-fashioned churches, people no longer confront each other in sin. Wolves (clear non-Christians who cause division in the church) go unconfronted and unrepentant, allowed to roam free by pastors and elders because no one wants to “offend” them or “cause a problem.” The men in the church will not stand up to clear sins, women dress indecently (skin tight pants, mini-skirts, very low cut shirts) even on the platform, even in leadership positions, and no one will confront them for fear of “offending”. The lack of trust in the work of the Holy Spirit to keep His church alive in HIS way is at the core. They fear people leaving the church and not having enough tithe-paying members, so they require NO holiness, NO Christlikeness and practice NO discipleship. This has infected even non- “seeker” churches, and it is even more insidious because few recognize it’s devastating affect of a lukewarm church that Christ wants to spew out!
Im afraid our church wants to go that way! Im so praying for the Lord to interceed!!
Speechless! Thanks for sharing, our church just got through praying and fasting the month of February and our numbers have dropped significantly . Thank you for the warning! Will share! God Bless you!!!!!
Loved this. It so confirmed my feelings of the church today. I was Assembly of God and still am A/G. the church has changed dramatically since my young childhood. How I wish we still had those kind of Preachers instead of the ones who just tickle the ears. I go to church I want the word of God, I want to see the movement of the Holy Spirit , worship the Lord, this contemporary loud music that is played so loud it hurts your ears and vibrates the chairs, the songs sang has no meaning and are more chants this is not worship not unto the Lord. I have been told this is what the young people want I say no preach and worship as unto God not the world . it isn’t bringing souls to God it is filling the offering plate and seats. When they leave the church they say I went to church, what was the sermon about? Duh I don’t know. this isn’t feeding the sheep. We need to wake up. If someone doesn’t understand what you are preaching then teach them. Don’t sweep it under the carpet and not preach it. I for one do not want to stand before God and have to explain I didn’t preach or teach it because I didn’t want to scare people off.
Matthew 7:13-14King James Version (KJV)
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The message in this post is so clear, work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling. Phillipians 2:12.
Lynn: yep, if you study those two verses in depth, Matt 7:13-14, few who make and find and Bible already written. 2 Thessalonians 2: all, as one friend said part of the judgment of not hearing and or seeing let along judging fruit. Amazing that people want to be entertained like “the frog in the boiling water over the cliff and into hell”. Miss Holy Men that preach with fear of the Lord and conviction. Leonard Ravenhill “Why Revival Tarries, America is Too Young to Die, Sodom Had No Bible wonderful reads for the straight and narrow. Also, Arthur Katz, Apostolic Foundations (“blows the hell out of the church”) and Prophetic Call Books Really appreciated David Wilkerson, his “Troublemakers in The Church Sermon” was excellent also along with posted in PDF file to read 6-2007 mailing news letter. He’s greatly missed.
Some Christians wants to be entertained ……. especially on Sunday mornings in church …… recently I visited a huge church in WI ……. dimed lights, music beyond loud with only three people standing to “try” and worship our Heavenly Father …… as for the few thousand (all sitting and listening to the music and artists) been entertained!
Here is my question:- When you claim to love God ….. believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord …… that the precious Holy Spirit is living inside of you ……. how can you tolerate this, sitting back and don’t have any desire to get up and worship Almighty God ……. that was my first and last visit to that specific church …….. had a similar experience in another state ……… I thank God for the Holy Spirit ……. warning me each and every time ……. when you are not sure what to do …… just asks God …….. He will never lead you astray …… amen!
God is LIGHT ……. why dim the lights? Food for thought!
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Please take the time to read this re-post and seek the Lord on your own. We do agree that there will be much turmoil to the ones who Adapt the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Very profound and so true…One day closer to the return of Jesus….
Im relatively new to this but I got into religion and spirituality after I got out of the hospital it was a major depression issue one of which I was afraid I was condemned to hell I want to avoid this. I ask you all what churches if any nowadays preach the true gospel of Jesus Christ and what should I do if I cant find one near me?
Hi Jeremy.
Well, this is a difficult request for anyone to really answer. I’ve been a follower of Christ for about 52 years, a pastor of 5 churches, and am on a journey in which our Lord has not allowed me to pastor since 2009. AND I’m having a difficult time trying to find a church in my region in which they love Christ above all, and love each other, and do all they can to follow the Scriptures.
I understand that there are different interpretations as to what the Scripture says at times. However, it is hard to ignore what the New Testament says about love (at least if someone wants to search it out).
I would say there are two other things that you should look for: (1) people who are humble- before God and before others; (2) those who fear the Lord Jehovah of the Bible. Far too many who claim to be Christians still live lives of sin because they want to. They will come up with all kinds of excuses (I’m just human; everyone makes mistakes; God’s grace covers all my sin; etc., etc.). While there is some truth in these, many abuse God’s grace so they can live in the flesh as they want to.
I urge you to find all the Scriptures which talk about the fear of the Lord. For example, Proverbs 8:13 states that those who fear the Lord will hate evil. If self-professed Christians love sin, then they do not fear the Lord.
Probably one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is that you seek the Lord and ask Him which group of believers He wants you to fellowship with. He knows the hearts and workings of all believers in your area. In conjunction with this, feed your soul upon the Word of God, asking the Holy Spirit to reveal His Truth to you. As you do what He reveals, He will lead you into all Truth. When you know the Truth, then when you encounter the false it will be evident. Follow Jesus Christ. Do not put any man on a pedestal. If you are taught something which appears to be in conflict with the Scriptures don’t be afraid to confront those teaching and preaching to you and ask them why there is a conflict.
Also, have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? The Scripture clearly teaches that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is to be experienced by all believers as a secondary experience. In all the instances in Acts where the experience is described, those baptized with the Holy Spirit had physical manifestations (speaking in tongues being the most common, but also prophesying). While a Spirit-filled believer praying for you or with you is helpful, it is not necessary. Jesus said that He and the Father are the ones who give/baptize one with the Holy Spirit. He stated that we are to ask Him for this gift and He would give it.
If there is anything else I can assist you with, feel free to email me at pastor@gatm.ca. I will be praying for our Lord to lead you to where you are to be. God bless.
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I’ve only been saved for 5 months now, and I’ve already discerned the apostasy everywhere. Almost every denomination has been deceived, which is sad because they need just open and study the Bible to clearly see the lies around them. Even people I know who say they are Christians and who have been “saved” for many years are deceived and not preparing themselves for the tribulation that is coming and is now here. Oh that God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ grant us grace and mercy to repent of lukewarmness, and to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in boldness, not fearing what man shall do or think. America the great has fallen and it will only get worse. The falling away has begun and it will grow larger and larger. Those that think there will be a huge end time revival are deceiving themselves. May we wake up by the grace of God and draw close to Jesus, in His word, prayer, fasting, and fellowship with true disciples of Christ! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
May God be with you,Jacob! I ! Praise HIM!!! YOU DESIRE TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE ! Continue as you are doing!! pray and fast, warn !! Do not become discouraged by what you are experiencing within the CHURCH! It appears that GOD IS USING YOU TO BE HIS WATCHMAN!!
I am praying for you and that you will continue to see HIS FINGERPRINTS UPON YOUR LIFE!! Seek HIM DAILY BY HIDING HIS WORD WITHIN !! Throw SCRIPTURE IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY!! We know this!! The word of GOD Is changeless ….powerful……it is our MAP! It spotlights !! It contains “all of GODS ANSWERS TO LIFE ON EARTH!
The AOG and most of the other charismatic churches is one of the largest offenders out in the world of churchianity that preaches the health and wealth prosperity gospel it saddens me that they not only use hocus pocus to try to generate an emotional response to the preachers message how is that any difference than the gospel of accomadation.
It not only AOG ….. they make them selves an easy target than others, the bride of God the church will never be perfect on this earth and I totally support what Pastor David preached it was refreshing to hear the gospel message of the the finished work of the cross that changes people not accomadation. I also heard grace which is friendly that was impressive at least Grace was not blamed which normally it is the target instead of the real genuine target which is accomadation = any gospel either legalist do this dont to that which conforms behavior apart from God in behavior modification this is a message that is often preached in AOG and the the other extreme the the Accomodation gospel or message that pastor David spoke so eloquently about why is it that young preachers are so attracted to that twisted message ? Or really the both extremes both are related to control really one controls behavior with rules and the other accommodates the flesh to make it comfortable in church and not conviced that they need all of God to have a life change but really his Grace.
Many it is attractive because they have high seminary bills and families to feed and you do not need to to ever change the gospel to feed your family but I wanted to provide real answers to the why it is attractive also they really do not practically show them how to start gospel preaching churches most do not learn crap in seminary honestly I graduated with two degrees and learned more in the field and under an experienced pastor than in seminary, many of these seminaries are full also year after year move move into the world of church trying to make a difference genuinely and under piles of debt that easily tempt them to go towards the gospel of Accomodation surrounded by others who plant churches and who are backed with a strategy of growth actully grow not all churches that grow are gospel of Accomodation churches. Yet many are preaching another Gosple not all but many are because they are using an attraction message not one of incarnation
it is definitely not spoken about in seminaries I listen to them online and listen to the conference and to the preacher church planting seminars and been to them and have heard the growth strategies of many I would not Go as far as Pastor David and say they all are angles of light in league with satan but maybe his message saved a few in that particular class at the seminary or listened to it later to this message it is a wonderful warning it also convicting and true it may have rubbed me also because I am no extreme but see the need for it.
I am an AG member of the local Portage Assembly. When our current Pastor came in 2008 the worship and the message was taken from the Bible. The Holy Spirit was very real in our services. It took just a few years for new leadership to be installed and some older membership to leave and the true nature of our Pastor brought fourth the loud music with mostly new songs with at least 5 vocalist leading with the keyboard, drums, and guitars all set at max volume. Of course they had to all have their ear-pieces so that they could hear themselves. Now most of the congregation is really silent at least you can not hear them sing anymore. It is all about the show up front and their worship. The people need to be able to worship, why did worship have to become a concert event! The sound tech is in a closed in 3 sided back area. They do not hear the real volume level. The sound tech’s preference is for everything to be loud. I have brought this issue up more than once and get slapped down in various ways. Like the Pastor’s wife saying, “that’s of the devil” because we can not stand the volume level. ie. it hurts our ears. Now sermons come from reading a book or you-tube, and not the inspiration of the Holy Spirit directly from His Living Word The Bible. It is great to have a missionary speaker come and share in a normal voice what God is doing in their lives as missionaries. The end is very near. Souls in America are falling away, and not coming to Salvation through repentance and conviction of the Holy Spirit from the Word.
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The Lord directed me to attend a church for a number of months. The second Sunday there, I and my wife wore hearing protection. I was assured by leadership that the problem was their sound equipment, which they were to replace in several months. The first two weeks were better, but soon reverted to the previous decibel level. I got a decibel meter and measured the so-called worship. At 2/3s of the way back in the congregation from the front, the decibel level was at a level that hearing damage could occur. At the front, it was close to the level of a jet plane if you were standing on the edge of the runway.
I finally asked the senior pastor, the music pastor and several elders why would any group of people, who claimed to “love” people, deliberately do something which was physically abusive and damaging to people. None of them could give me an answer – they just avoided it. Would you believe, one of the elders asked me to stop wearing hearing protection as it was intiminating to the so-called “worship team.”
Thankfully, the Lord took us out of there shortly after.
One of the ironic things, which occurred one of the last Sundays we were there, was that the senior pastor asked for prayer for his hearing, which was starting to deteriorate.
Great Sermon!!! We’re dealing with a generation that wants the gospel to submit to them
[…] PS: A more fancy and official word for teddifying the gospel is the gospel of accommodation. David Wilkerson does a great job in pointing out more specific faults in the gospel of accommodation in this post. […]
We were told by one of our Pastors that they wanted us to be Care Group leaders, but they saw from our tithing/ giving record that we weren’t paying a full tithe. So that made us disqualified. My wife and I are in our fifties. We give according to our ability. We live in an old neighborhood, because that’s what our income allows. We served as greeters, helped with church outreach and were assistant Care Group leaders. The people with money and position in this church are valued. We have left this AG church in search of one that is not money and numbers oriented. We were taught that if we didn’t give every time we had extra money, that meant we had a “spirit of poverty.” David Wilkerson’s ministry helped deliver us from the Word of Faith movement many years ago. Now it has crept into the AOG in a more subtle way. Thank you for continuing to post David’s messages. They have been s life line!
Dale Jones, we need to judge fruit! Pagan Christianity (green Cover) by Frank Viola shows where Pastor’s lied about it all. Majority of Pastor’s their god is money and numbers. Trust you exited.
I believe David Wilkerson was used as a Watchman on the wall for Jesus Christ. His word was exceptional and will stand the test of time. I was baptized and joined the AG in 1981. I finally woke up and left about 14 years ago. While traveling, I called an AG church and talked to the pastor, which he was pleasant, but then I asked a question and his tone turned dramatically. I explained that I was older, looking for an AG that had worship music and a moving of the Holy spirit. I asked, “Does your music border on ‘Rock music”? he immediately got defiant and said in a mean voice, “I am not going to define music to YOU”. I explained that I was only asking. He further stated, “you will not enjoy this Sunday service, because we are using secular music to “drive home a point”. I said , well probably not.
I then ask him if he was using any of Rick Warren’s books in the church ministries, He told me in a gruff voice, I have all books in my library as I was going to say, I was only concerned about the service and worship, he cut me off and said, “Why don’t you find another church and hung up on me”. Wow. I just sat there for a few minutes and thought about that conversation. You see, I am sick and tired of attending churches that the “rock group” is singing Christian rock (if there is such a thing) and sick of motivational speeches, feel good sermons, exact 15 minute sermons and the lack of reverence for God’s House.
Lois Johnson you perfectly described the AOG. They used to be a loose affiliation of independent churches, now they are more of a very tight denomination and with the “recursion clause” all that independence is gone!
And you are right, when you try to talk to them about things they get very defensive and close ranks!
I think the pastors in the AOG for the most part are more interested in their AOG pension plan and aligning with overall AOG denominational goals than they are of holding to Biblical Truth!
And Rick Warren atheist origin teachings are rife among the AOG, and they refuse to recognize that. I mean how could they actually believe that you can find your Spiritual gift by taking an Atheist Briggs Myers test?!?!?!
THIS IS AWESOME,THIS MAKES MY HEART TO TREMBLE, THIS IS REALY FROM THE THRONE OF GOD WE HELP US,WE CHRISTIAN,ESPECIALLY ASSEMBLIES OF GOD NIGERIA AND WORLD WIDE,WERE I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP FED WITH THE WORD OF GOD, I REALLY PRAY THAT GOD WILL HELP US TO MAKE IT TO THE FEET OF CHRIST JESUS IN ETERNITY,AMEN, THIS IS THE PROPHESY OF ITS TIME. (2TIMOTHY 3:16-7, 2 TIMOTHY 2:15-16).
David this is so true a few years back my husband and I went to Des Moines Iowa for Christmas with his brother and family. We went to Christmas Eve service in the biggest church ever I know well over a thousand people were there they were at the giant doors to welcome you in with star bucks coffee and cookies. Inside was a big stage and they had an act and the two preachers spoke back and forth like a skit, they passed out candles to all lit them and down went the lights people roared like crazy. As for me well I couldn’t get out of there fast enough the entire process was terrifying it was so fake so weird to leave a church more empty than when you walked in so reading your post was a reinactment of that night God bless you and maybe more will see the truth love debi
I absolutely agree with this message. I’ve heard alot of the “fee good” sermons and I get nothing from them. I have always come away empty. No nourishment to my soul. They are empty.
Kim, you’ve hit the nail on the head. These false doctrines and gospels have nothing REAL to offer. They promise much, but deliver nothing.
Here is what the Old Testament has to say about this in Jeremiah 2:11-13 (NASB): 11 “Has a nation changed gods When they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory For that which does not profit.
12 “Be appalled, O heavens, at this, And shudder, be very desolate,” declares the LORD.
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.
The New Testament puts it this way in 2 Peter 2:15-21 (NASB):
15 forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.
18 For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.
I was an ordained minister with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC – the Canadian equivalent of the A of G) for 20 years. I was present at their General Conference in 1982 when David Wilkerson called the pastors and leaders of the denomination to repentance. I wept as few responded and was horrified to hear many scoff at God’s call through Brother David. In the ensuing years, I watched as the PAOC went on in haughtiness to embrace the seeker-friendly movement and turn from their Pentecostal roots.
The Lord has now called me to confront the leadership of the local PAOC church, the leadership of which have forbidden me to step foot on their property where 7 of my 10 grandchildren attend. Why? Because I had the audacity to be chosen by the Holy Spirit to give a prophetic message at the end of a service. Actually, the truth is that there are those in leadership, who are servants of Satan, living in darkness and hating the light. Sadly, the senior “pastor” is a fellow Bible College classmate of mine.
I was born into Pentecost, saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit under their ministry, trained in their college, and pastored 3 of their churches. I can hardly believe how far they have fallen and how deeply they are entrenched in rebellion against the Lord God of the Bible.
They now serve “Christ” but it is a Christ of their own creation – a false Christ and not the Christ of the Bible. I pray constantly for my family to be delivered from this godless, religious institution.
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If you go to this site, you can read his letters, pulpit series, that he put out for years. I grew leaps and bounds by reading these every two weeks and I believe his books and his letters were instrumental in helping me see and keeping me from all the error and deception that is now so apparent in these last days. His church was much like mine, but mine got off into the error that is leading many astray. He, through his messages and his insight , kept me from that error by teaching me discernment and truth.
Recently I visited an Assembly of God church in okc. As the pastor was preaching he moved from the message topic and began to share that when God first called him to ministry that he was very strong in the deliverance ministry, but later believed it would be unacceptable to the overseers of the AG; therefore he stopped praying for those afflicted by demonic powers. He said from that point on his ministry became so easy and his church began to grow. He stopped, hung his head, and wept. Then he said…oh that I could cast the devil out again. Then he went right back to preaching a dead lifeless feel good sermon. The anointing had lifted from this man. I couldn’t get out of that church quick enough.
Amen. Enlightened to say the least. Right on target for me at this juncture of my life. Thank you.
When God saved me in 1983 He took me to a conservative Pentecostal/Charismatic church where I was wonderfully blessed. However, I listened to many sermons preached by Bro. Wilkerson, and I read many books by the old, powerful ministries (John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Peter Cartwright, D.L. Moody) and saw the vast discrepancy, even before realizing I was living during the Laodicean church. Desiring to belong to a more separated body of believers, I turned to Independent Pentecostal Holiness fellowships which have, over the years, generally refused the mega church influences. However, such churches are few, very few young people attend, and there seems little will or strength to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the local communities and thereby grow the flocks. Due to, I believe, a lack of a spirit of prayer (my house shall be called a house of prayer), sincere people who see the situation accomplish little for the Lord, and many fear for the survival of their churches. I do believe there is a move of God to help believers who hunger for more toward home meetings, as in the early church as described in Acts. God is able, if people cry out persistently in prayer, to bring believers together to worship as did our great-grandparents. Such fellowships may begin as small groups, but as we know, God only requires two who are in agreement if they meet according to God’s conditions and order. Such believers who PRAY (Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill), study His Word, worship in spirit and truth, God will bless. Of course such a decision must be made according to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit, and people must believe God has called them to this. But such fellowships ARE scriptural. I for one am hungering for people who desire to pray so God can accomplish His Will in these last days–for the glory of His soon-coming Son Jesus. There is so much at stake. May God by His grace through His Son redeem the time, for surely our Bridegroom is even at the door. God help us all pray–take heart–he will hear us!
I had fifteen years of experiences within the AG denomination. By the grace of God, He pulled my family out. It took 3-5 years before I could shake the residue of outlandish emotional meetings, people constantly saying they were speaking for God, and the use of guilt practices to build income for ever-increasingly failed church programs. There were too many young men being given authority that lacked bible scripture knowledge and many damaged people from unbiblical teaching. It wasn’t until i placed myself under the teachings of John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in California that I was challenged to read the bible and to study it deeply. His decades of knowledge and teachings helped me to release me from a form of the gospel that I had been taught. I found the Word of God is more than sufficient for all things and when we are constantly searching for signs and wonders in lieu of studying scripture, we are being led down a very dangerous path. We do not need any more proof that God is real than His wholly and complete work of the scriptures. I believe it is heretical when we demand more.
This is what we are seeing in the present gospel world. May the Almighty God help us to be His true ministers preaching the true gospel of Jesus Christ. May God bless you for publication.
AOG is not alone in this apostate condition. It is close to impossible to find a God fearing pastor and congregation. I feel like a nomad, a wanderer. When I find a church and attend for a while, the true condition of said church an pastor shows forth in greater clarity, and I’m backing to looking for a church.
Yes, June, the apostate condition of most evangelical/charismatic/Pentecostal churches is widespread in North America and rapidly spreading to the rest of the world.
You have hit one of the key elements of being a disciple of Jesus Christ – fearing God. I’m in the middle of looking up every Scripture which speaks of “fearing God” and have been amazed that it is a pervasive theme there. I’ve concluded that a person who does not fear God does not know the Christ of the Bible. Many have created a “god” or a “christ,” which are not the ones of Scripture. This “god” they don’t have to fear because he is their buddy and their cosmic Santa Claus, granting them their every wish – except he doesn’t because he is false. They get enough “miracles” to hang onto their “genie-in-a-Bible” (to quote Chuck Schwidoll).
There are many ingredients which must be present in one’s life to even come to the true Jehovah God of the Bible: (1) fearing God; (2) humbling oneself before God – and others; (3) allowing the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to work in one’s life to bring them to “Godly sorrow” for one’s sinful condition, which leads to TRUE repentance and a genuine faith (trust, submission, total dependence) in Jesus Christ – in other words, being born again – a new creation, where one turns his back on himself and sin, takes up his cross, denying himself, and following Christ and His Lordship.
Being “saved” is not saying a prayer and believing a bunch of Scriptural facts with one’s mind. It is being brought into a living relationship with the living Christ, growing in that relationship, and persevering to the end in following Him.
I am a pastor who has been literally shoved out of churches because the occupants hated the truth and light of Scripture. For 12 years I have tried to find a group of true disciples of Christ and have finally found two, which come close to fitting the design Christ has for His Church. We are in the process of settling into one.
I would encourage you to find other TRUE believers in your area – even if it is only one or two – and to begin fellowshipping with one another on a regular basis. Christ said that where two or three are gathered together in His Name that he would be in their midst.
The best fellowship I currently have is with a men’s group which meets weekly, early in the morning. It started as a small group of 4 or 5 and has grown to about 25 – 30. We are from all denominations and some from no church affiliation. We meet to study the Bible and pray.
So, seek for others of likemindedness in Christ and begin fellowshipping, praying, studying the Word, ministering to one another, and growing in Christ together.
God bless.
It is very hard when you younger & you find out your church hosted a Pokémon Go event at our Church.
Trying to speak to leadership about it being demonic & I was brushed aside.
Churches across America are using demonic games to bring in people ..ahhh
Lord help us!
We need some discernment!
Leadership must be born again of the Word and Spirit of God in order to be able to have any true spiritual discernment.
The most oft-repeated sign of the end times in the New Testament is “spiritual deception.”
I’m glad that you have some and encourage you to find another fellowship of believers, who fear God rather than man; who are God-pleasers, rather than man-pleasers; who walk in the culture of God’s Kingdom, rather than the world’s culture.
Yes, it is frustrating, but also predictable as God predicted it would happen in these times.
Stay true to Christ, keep your relationship with Him vibrant and growing. He will lead you to a fellowship (maybe just in someone’s home) where they admonish and minister to one another in Christ.
God bless.
Encouragement in this, well written. . I agree with Wayne, Be encouraged . The Holy Spirit will lead you. If something seems “out of place and troubling to you….. leave ! Small groups can become your precious family for a season!! Heaven is closer to those who look to JESUS and are listening to the Third person in the Trinity!! Jesus is up there interceding and countering every lie from our Enemy, Satan! How very reassuring to know!
Oh my !! This is so very tragic ….I am so very sorry …..THOSE who know TRUTH are praying for OUR YOUNGER generation!! I firmly believe we are “HELD TO A HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE GOD ALMIGHTY TO DO SO!! You are precious and deserve better!
Good day ;
I think that this is a wonderful idea because nowadays, we are seeing many funny things in Churches. But the will of our Lord is to reveal His word to those who really seek Him.
” I love them that love me; and those that seek
me early shall find me”. Proverbs 8:17
Thank you so very much for this message of truth, I pray that the multitudes wake up that are seated in these churches that are compromising salvation of so many … At this time I am not in a church because Of the lax a daisy preaching of pastors in this hour …. The greatest teacher we have is the Holy Spirit I would pray that we seek the Lord while he can be found …read your Bible from cover to cover over and over again
Greetings, Mary. We should be praying that the Lord will move amongst those, who are His, to bring a spiritual awakening to His Church. I believe that He will (and is in the midst of) reforming His Church.
As with others, who have written here, I encourage you to seek out other true believers to fellowship with.
It is true that the Holy Spirit is the ultimate spiritual Teacher.
However, it is equally true that the Holy Spirit works, not only individually, but also through the gifts Christ has given to His Church – pastors, teachers, evangelists, prophets, and apostles (Ephesians 4:11-14).
As imperfect human beings, there is a natural tendency to not grow spiritually, to be sucked into false doctrine, and become stagnant in our relationship and work with our Lord. These five ministry gifts God has given to His Church for them to counter these tendencies. They are clearly given that we might not be swayed by false doctrine, that we might grow in Christ, and that we might do the work of ministry God has designed for us to do.
Christ’s design for His disciples/believers/followers is for them to be an active part of a local body of believers. When we do not have this fellowship and interaction, we are in contradiction to His design for His Church.
Sadly, most “churches” have strayed from Christ’s design and have become abominable, man-made institutions, which operate contrary to His will and design. Many are the source of false doctrine and work contrary to the individual believer becoming the mature ministers God intended for them to become.
However, that is not an excuse for us to “forsake the assembling together” (Hebrews 10:23-25). I encourage you to pray and ask the Lord to lead you to a fellowship of believers in your area. It may be that He wants you to start such a fellowship – even if it is with only one or two others.
God bless.
Please read &: take this seriously. We are in dangerous and deceptive times.
This in true. We have rick warren to thank for this. Do your home work and find out how true this is. The church in conforming to the world, when the world should conform to the church. God help us. Churchless in Tampa
All these prosperity preachers wil be exposed one day, whether now or in eternity. I go to a church that is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, and yet it may get to the point that I may have to leave and find another church because I have seen some red flags in it. It seems the Lord will call His own out of that denomination very soon too because of what has happened.
I am third generation Assemblies of God . My parents met in church . I was in a pastors family for over 35 years. I agree wholeheartedly with Ronald and others.
There have been a number of “cover ups”at high levels within the A of G denomination in recent years. Sadly, what happens at the top will “trickle on down. Those in Leadership will be held RESPONSABLE for allowing the false teachers to have the positions of responsibility they hold.CONFUSION IS NOT OF GOD! Church has become like the world and it is “Big Business”!
May JESUS reveal himself to those of us who have not “forsaken our first love”! We can be certain the FATHER …..SON …..AND HOLY SPIRIT have not forsaken us. I have not a “doubt” , for those who are His Sheep HE WILL KEEP US CLOSE BY HIS VERY SIDE , as we pray and seek HIS DIVINE DIRECTION ! We have not been forsaken, my precious Sisters and Brothers!
I see in our area,, Waukesha and Milwaukee,, that Assembly of God churches changing their names,, to just an average “word”,.. now the words are nice,, but I also see regular business with the same name,, like ,, The Bridge,,, there are bars in the area with that name,, and then they have no cross outside the church,, so far the preaching is still good,, but ,, all this name changing is marketing,, how to “sell” people to buying into their church,, why,, oh why,, get rid of the word “God” in the name of your church,, ????????????/ I know it may sound silly,, but it is a first step to conform ,,
It is far from the “first ” step! The Assembly of God has taken many, many steps into the New Age and into Apostasy for quite a while now. They embrace false teachers like Tim Keller.They embrace false teaching,like contemplative prayer and on and on it goes! They used to take the Word of God very seriously,but these days ,like so many others, they like to be tickled so much they seek out false teachers who will preach messages that will make them laugh so hard before you know it they will be rolling around on the floor,howeling like packs of wolves ,while they all pretend to be sweet docile sheep when they leave the building!!!But there is a remnant….who have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking.They know His voice and they follow it!!! Denomination is not important to them. They are coming out from among them!As the deer pants for the water so their soul longest after Him!!!
So many churches,,no cross,,don’t want to offend anyone,,,,,entertainment,, that’s what church is becoming,,
It’s very troubling what has become of the Assemblies of God. I’m fourth generation. My great grandmother was the first one to receive the Holy Ghost in the area we live. She started 4 churches and 3 of them are still having church. A lot has changed since I was a child. My husband and I raised our kids in one of those churches. I no longer attend an A/G church. I attend an independent Pentecostal church and I feel like I am stronger in the Lord than I’ve ever been. I want to live my life to bring glory to my Savior and King! No Compromise!
This awesome to hear that is to the point biblical truth n prophetic. Thank you for sharing may the Lord touch the core of everyone hearts who read this n be convicted. Lord Jesus continue to annoint you with his Holy Spirit to speak out the truth so we may turn back to the cross n repent. Open our eyes that we are not be spiritually blinded. Praise God.
I completely agree with this , how sad churches feel the need to become the Tonight show in order to attract more people but if that’s the case it’s just symbolism over substance.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! Hell is hot, and heaven is sweet. We are to come out, not join in!!!!
David Wilkerson was a true man of God. He was always hungry for more of God. The Assemblies of God have not heeded his prophetic words. There are many mega pathe tic, feel good churches where there is only controlled prayer, stage dancing in the name of worship, and mockery of communion. I travel a lot, it is also in the small churches. The secret is the A/G in the US is failing but the headquarters uses numbers that include churches worldwide so it falsifies US church goer numbers. Meanwhile, the world wide church is healthy and still full of the Holy Ghost. Sad, but true.
Holy Father, have Mercy on the Assemblies of God.
Amen! Let us PRAY for one another. lest we be tempted and “give in” to that which has been described within HOLY SCRIPTURES !
Right on, Pastor David Wilkerson. I will continue to pray for you and follow your ministry.
Hi Kathy. Brother Wilkerson died a few years back. However, his works still follow him and much of what he taught and preached and prophesied can be found online. His son and the pastoral team of the church he pastored can be found at: https://worldchallenge.org/
God bless.
God Bless you
Our church was cleansed 4 or 5 years ago, and the more than half the congregation split and went to another church. Jesus has been working miracles since to keep us open. Its hard to find a church that preaches the true gospel of Jesus Christ. I am young person, and it was extremely scarring but God saw it for the best. The truth prevailed, and those that were holding back the church are now gone. We are slowly starting to see people trickle in.
Twenty years ago, my pastor went to general counsel, and spoke up regarding the direction of the AOG was heading. The holy spirit wasn’t leading them in the direction that they wanted to take, the counsel ostracized him and his friend. He tried to desperately attempted to fight against the changes, but to no avail So he took steps to formally leave the AOG. And thankfully he did it before the new contract came in for all the churches. We did not sign, and we set aside enough to pay for his retirement.
Seeing now that Rick Warren has now infiltrated with his Program marketing tactic, I am glad we left AOG behind. They compromised on such a scale its insulting. He preaches a watered down gospel without remorse and without repentance. Shai Linne’s music has never been more relevant than NOW to listen to about false preachers.
Totally agree. Being brought up in an AOG church I can fully subscribe to the comments made. We have now a totally unelected body running our local church who decree how the church should be run. If the volume of the music is meant to bring down the spirit of God on the services we should be the holiest church in the area. We, as a movement have decided to advise the almighty on the best way forward for the kingdom and set aside the ways which undoubtably brought great blessings in the past.
May the Lord Jesus continue open ears and eyes, and soften hearts to receive this message.
I ache for the Truth to be preached.
Thank you.
I’m saddened and in disbelief at what has become of the A/G. The line up for the 2017 general council to name a few, Mark Batterson, Rick Warren, Jeremy Johnson lead pastor of fearless LA. I’m praying for the Assemblies that their leaderships eyes will be opened.
God help us. When is the church going to turn from it’s wicked ways?
I am so grieved that it appears to me that Christians included, as a Nation, we are destroying ourselves from within. Where in the world are the voices speaking out against this violence that is labeled free speech. It is destroying us. David Wilkerson, in his book, America’s Last Call, said before Jesus comes back we will see race rioting in New York City. (that was back in the 80’s he predicted.) We are there! People’s minds are so deluded they rationalize it is their right. He went into great detail what happens within a Nation before God lifts His hand of protection off that Nation. Again, I fear with all that is going on, we are there. I say, to those with ears to hear, “Get ready, for your King is coming!”
This is just as appropriate for today as it was the day Pastor Dave preached this..
Dear Jesus forgive us..
SADLY SO!!!!!!
I’m so very concerned for the legacy WE as the “older generation” are providing our ” precious youth”! This …”feel good…. don’t speak and offend anyone….make them feel warm and fuzzy , with our “dog and pony shows” coffee and donuts” attitude !!!!!
Doesn’t our A OF G TOP LEADERSHIP realize …… Kids can get this ANYWHERE!!! In our innocent efforts to become more”user friendly to our lost world out there” we have lost the prescense of what our dear brother Wilkerson prophetically warned was coming!! HE IS NO LONGER WELCOME HERE !
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I’ve never read anything so heartfelt in true in my entire life and I’ve been feeling it all along and I’ve even quit going to church over it thank you thank you thank you I honestly thought it was just being in my stupid way of thinking I’m 60 years old and fairly new to God but I knew something was wrong
This prophetic message is right on . In the Assembly of God which I was a part of for many years back in the 1960-1975 era wow we had a move of God. The blood was preached on a regular basis . Salvation , Altar Calls every service, The baptism of the Holy Spirit and seeking for it every service. Praying at the altar until God filled you up and then more . Might around 9:30-10:00pm. That’s all changed might have an altar call maybe once a month . But when people come you never know if they get save believe there healing not sure what’s going on . I never hear any salvation message any more , never preach on the Holy Ghost , no body seeking the Holy Ghost any more this preacher at the church I go to was raised in a Pentecost church all of his young life he’s 34 . I’m just afraid we are heading to the prosperity message . Unless you give up above your tithes to this church you can’t be healed of sickness . I’ve even heard as much as unless you give your tax refund to this church God will not meet your need. That’s Not scripture at all . God Bless thank you for this true word.
Oh heaven help us! I came into the Assembly of God Church in 1973! My belief has never changed and I am so concerned about the way things are changing all in the name of God!
When I attended the Georgia School of Ministry several years ago one of our teachers told us that to ‘Grow’ his church he conducted a poll, found out what the neighborhood wanted and gave it to them. His church grew but at what price? I have been with the AOG for 45 years and am sad at what I see happening to it. If this is what we have to do then I will turn in my license and be done with the AOG. My loyalty is with Jesus Christ and no one else.
No where in the Bible are we told to grow churches. We to be a witness and win as many souls as we can in order to save them from a fiery hell and to save them for growth and service to Jesus. What good is it to make someone feel good for awhile and cosign them to an eternity in hell? God have mercy on any pastor who would do this!
Have we diligently hearkened to… and obeyed the Word? The price is the same as Jesus gave, though ours is a living sacrifice: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1&2
I have read the prophecy of David Wilkerson wrote years ago and I shudder as I see the prophecy coming true all in the name of God! This even brings us to the fact that Jesus is coming & coming soon! Those who have been raised in the full gospel churches may the see the writing in the wall & warn those who are lost & those who have been led astray!
it seems people go to church to be entertained,,, instead of the message,,, once they step outside,, life as normal,,, no change ,, and so many people become groupies ,,, love the minister,, because,, regardless if the message is good or bad,, but he or she is so charismatic,, they are so loved,, I know ministers who have a great message,,, but they are kind of ho-hum with their delivery,,, but what they have to say is directly from the HOly Spirit,,
What we have to remember as well, the New Testament church did not resemble anything that we have today. It was never intended that there be a single “Shepherd” or minister for a church, someone who is equivalent to a Priest in Roman Catholicism. Slowly and gradually the visible church drifted from what the New Testament church was until now you have a “Priest” who presides over a congregation that has to be “sheared” or constantly steered in the right direction because the congregation thinks that is how it is supposed to be. And to a certain extent the Church hierarchy in most denominations would not have it any other way as it allows them to control a church or a denomination for their own ends, not God’s ends!
And you wind up with personality cults, people who are loyal to a person and not God’s word!
WE the church must come back to our first LOVE… the church has lost it’s first LOVE… The church needs to hear about sin the church is gone off path we need to hear Jesus Christ.the only way Repent. come back to your first LOVE Preach the cross.what can wash away my sin nothing but the Blood of Jesus..Give a message of Hope eternal… are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb..we have a hard time finding a true church there is a lot of new age and occult in the church today the world is in the church you need to know your bible read the word stay near the cross… Jesus is our redeemer their is no one else no other way.. I was in a church after the church was over I went up to the pastor I was in tears I said I have sinned as I talked with him he respond to me that I was to hard on myself.. NO I wasn’t it was sin call sin sin when it is sin .. .. That was a way out for him not to help me… yes he prayed for me and that was that…….People want real truth those who know truth from error… not a fake feel good puffed up man made message.. ..I know there is no perfect church… but I do know the false from the real…. know your bible test the spirits…..don’t be deceive to many Rick warren’s Beth MORE Olsteen TBN.. and many others. all leading people into one world religon …Lift up your head your
redemption drawth neigh . Keep anchor in Jesus Christ ..
I always thought the Assembly of God churches were the best. David Wilkerson has done so much good for our country . He started Team Challenge and helped thousands of young men. I really enjoyed this article. He will never be forgotten. Thank you for keeping this article .
I have replied before,,, in favor of what Pastor Wilkerson,,,, so this is an additional comment,,,,it seems that church is becoming entertainment,,, one church tries to “up” the next church,,, more singers,, louder,, lights,, whatever,,, now ,, that is okay in a Christian concert,, but church service,, you go to worship,, worship the Lord,, not what we get out but what we give,, Praise and thanksgiving time,,, all these mega churches,,, I know of so many people go to those kind of churches for networking,, what they can get out of people.. sad but true,,, I also see some churches with no crosses,, one Assembly of God church in our area use to have a cross on their church,, but it is down now,, and it looks like just a building,,, almost afraid to offend anyone,, little by little things are chipped away at the church,, so not to offend anyone,, they act as if “they” are the ones that bring people to church,, it is the Lord and the Holy Spirit that do the work,, I could go on and on,, make church a church not a concert hall. Thank you Lord for allowing me to thank you for the greatest gift of all,, eternal life,,
Yes I do agree with you about Fales teachers who are creaping into Churches I go to a church in Abergavenny Assembly of GOD church we all need to pray that GOD would Exspose things with in the Church’s
Thank you for sharing this word of the Lord received by David Wilkerson. I moved a lot in my lifetime and have attended several Assembly of God churches over the years. I am alarmed at the changes I have seen. I no longer attend an Assembly of God and am trying to find a church that is preaching the real gospel. The Assembly Of God church that I most recently attended is now using bible studies written by of one of the most famous mega church pastors . They are also changing the name of that church. In my opinion I think it’s because they want to draw people who might not attend if they are labeled “Assembly of God”. From what I’ve heard that seems to be a trend with other Assemblies of God. Perhaps to be more “user friendly”? The Church should not be changing to please the World. I am tired of the feel good gospel that is being preached in so many of the churches today. God help us!!
Yes, Sheila, it is sad. I grew up in the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (which is the Canadian equivalent to the Assemblies of God), went to their Bible College for 3 years, and pastored 3 of their churches over 16 years. I have wept and grieved as I’ve watched Pentecostal Church turn away from their distinctives and the Truth of Scripture in order that they might be more accepted by the world and the false church. I could tell stories and examples of this but won’t take the time or space here.
However, be encouraged. Jesus Christ has promised to build HIS Church and He is doing a new reformation in His Church. Primarily, He pulling those, who are His, from these compromising, dead churches, and leading the to gathering together with each other and being the Body of Christ.
I have been attending a group of born-again men for the last few years. This group is more a true Church than all the others in our region (and I’ve visited at least 50 in the last 15 years). For the last year-and-a-half we’ve been studying Matthew to see how we are to be true disciples. At the end of Matthew 28, Jesus said that we are to “preach the Gospel, making disciples . . . teaching them to do all I’ve commanded you to do. We’ve already had several groups break off to start their own discipling group.
Anyway, seek the Lord to bring into the group of disciples He wants you to be part of. He’ll do so.
I am just about to start pastoring a Church of God. The Church of God group can be almost as diverse as the different Baptists churches. There are definitely Churches of God who hold to the truth of Scripture and are accepting of the Baptism and Gifts of the Spirit.
Respond to Wayne I also went to a good 10 or so churches in my area. churches that use to teach the gospel truth. now these churches are in to the occult and new age . I find that the christians who are to be so called spirit filled speaking in tongues . are also in deception. they mix in the occult and new age. churches that started out good. now are after an other Jesus. we are to test the spirits. there is compromising gone on as well. I am not looking for a perfect church no, I am looking for a true church. I am gone to check out to see if the church of God is in my area. I really need the body of Christ.I been searching for almost a year now. I pray God leads me to a true bible believing church soon.
God bless you in your pastorate position, brother Wayne . You have been faithful to seek TRUTH and given compassionate WISDOM to many on this site. The SPIRIT OF TRUTH will always reveal darkness and spiritual DEATH thru those who fear a Holy God more than any denomination . To whom much is given much will be required! Luke 12:48
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So true…much-needed reminder! I think of the Children of Israel who grew impatient when Moses went up on the mountain to receive the 10 commandments and did not return in a “comfortable” amount of time. Instead of trusting God and waiting patiently they opted to worship an instant God (just add bronze) for temporary comforts and pleasures. When Moses returned with the 10 commandments, those who turned to false gods and fleshly pleasures were swallowed up in the earth and taken to death. Those who remained faithful remained on earth – alive. Praise God for His faithful servants, who will “take up their cross daily and follow Him.” This message of truth has to get out. “You shall know the truth, and the TRUTH shall set you free”.
Many are so blind to the fact the Freemasons have been equipped to infiltrate the church with the sole purpose of destroying it.
There are many who have been fooled as to the true satanic source of the demise of the true Christ Centered Gospel of Acts. Dig deep you will find a Freemason at the root of every false teaching aimed to destroy the truth
Oh my, I am so, so, so glad I stopped to read this article. Not only was it spot on, but sad to say, that we too are now churchless. My husband and I just recently stepped out of an AOG church because there were so many things wrong. But I must confess that we have gone to, and have been members of 3 AOG churches now, each about 9-10 years; and I now conclude by saying, I am so tired of seeing Pastor’s and their wives mis-behave so badly.!! Why have I been so deep in denial trying to make excuses for them? I realize that there is no such thing as a “perfect church” nor were we expecting that ever. But it seems to me that for a church so proud of it’s growth, and so proud of its programs, and so proud of its missionary work…..what difference does it make “if you have not love” ??? I have been so disappointed in how I see AOG pastors wives behave and treat other people (especially other women) I’m so disgusted! I grew tired of pretending and just looking the other way. There are some pretty awful pastor/leaderships as well. I have been in personal situations with them and the way they act and carry themselves, is not different than the friends I used to carry on with before I became a Christian. I SEE NO DIFFERENCE!! I’m done.
People need to wake up with in the Churches it’s true about what David Wilkerson said I do attend a church in Abergavenny Assembly of GOD
Thank you so much for your courage to preach the true gospel. I have backslide many times , but during these times I always wanted the true gospel , not the Joel Osteen (positive) feel good message. Recently I was away from God living with my girlfriend in Lewisville Texas I was praying for God to restore me. I prayed every day for three weeks, I was looking for an Assembly of God church. I found one , there was no alter , I desperately need an alter. No one came forward during the invitation, they had no evening service. A following service I found 3 other Assembly of God churches none with evening services. I called home to my preacher friend Joe a leader in Faith Assembly of God Texarkana to ask advice. He said come home God does not want you living with someone your not married to. I said that I had no place to live in Texarkana. He said we would worry about that when I came home. If I stayed another day my soul could be in jeopardy. I through my cloths in my car , left all furniture and belongings, texted my Pastor Brian McDonald to say I was coming home. I came home heart broken. My church loved on me and prayed for me. God restored my soul. That Wednesday night the Pastor preached to seek God before making major descisions and not to make your own descisions and then asking God to bless it. That hit home. Thank God my church preached the true gospel. Thank you for doing the same.
we belong to a church that believes EVERY word in the bible comes from the breath of God,,so many churches use the bible as a guide line only,,, I find that even Assembly of God churches are becoming an entertainment place,, have to have loud and poplar music,, different skits to keep people,, even count the alter calls,, as if the pastor just won something, that is why we left,, , a person either believes ALL the words in the bible,, not pick and choose,, not a concert to go to on sunday,, I go to church to worship and thank the good Lord , and get renewed for the following week,, ,, churches beware,, the devil is busy….
OH !! John!
My very HEART is warmed and I am so thankful that you took time to write about your recent testimony of GODS NEVER ENDING LOVE FOR YOU!
For those of us whom Jesus has called upon to INTERCEED ( pray ) for those such as yourself, “ your amazing testimony is much like” pouring fuel into our gas tanks” ! WE ALL ARE CALLED TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS ….. this means you , too , Son ! This is “ Your STORY and you can be certain of this …GOD WILL USE IT and YOU ! and your humble, loving, faithful pastor!
BLESSINGS!
This was an extremely powerful reminder of being a true believer vs a lazy churchgoer. Its frightening how far we, as believers of Christ, have fallen. And it is a personal reminder that we each need to work out our own salvation with fear an trembling. Lord open our eyes to truth that we might not be deceived. Amen
there are church surveys now,, I do believe that Pastors should listen to their congregations, but,,,,,, do not bend to their every need,, it seems people want to go to church to be entertained,, in a guise of a sermon and hearing the Word.. it is becoming like going to a sport event,, they get all wrapped up with songs and AMENS’s and that is it, not that music isn’t an important part of the service,, but you will see, if the church they go to change their music, but still have a great sermon,, they will go someplace else, churches are running on emotion, excitement ,, entertainment,, ,,, and often the sermon goes on the side of the road,, it is sad
So true. My eyes have been open to this more and more. This generation has been entertained most of their lives so it is no wonder how easy this can seep in. Some of it is so obvious and then some is deceiving. I know God doesn’t mind us having fun but it is imperative that we hear truth and grow, not stay baby Christians. I’ve just moved and am looking for a church. I pray God leads me into truth. Thank you for your comment.
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I came upon this blog post quite by accident but feel it is definitely worth blogging. The Christian church should take note of the warnings, as should we individually. God bless.
Praying The HOLY SPIRIT guide you to your new church home, bee hopper…..
I have known of David Wilkerson since shortly after he left a PA pastorate and went to New York City to offer spiritual help to young men who were street game members, drugies, and law breakers. Out of this effort came Teen Challenge, a ministry that has spanned the country. Dave always preached a hard hitting Gospel. He died an untimely death by auto accident. His last book, THE VISiON was released in the 70s. It told in graphic detail what was ahead for America if she did not repent. It was panned by many in the so-called Christian market. Today we are reaping what he prophsied. Thanks so much for making his message available on FB.
I left my AOG church today…no fanfare just a sit down with the pastor…it was presented to me that it was my fault, etc. etc. The pastor is passive aggressive…I could tell he was angry…I left it as we could still be friends, he just looked right through me.
I left because he acts like he never heard any of this accommodation gospel…also discussed a lack of community…people mistake a greeting for a conversation. He said I was so opinionated that it was hard to have a conversation with me (which is probably true).
Over the last year, several young people gave their testimonies at church…they were emotionally and physically abused during their childhood…guess what their parents were AOG pastors. When I brought this up…he went cold. I am kind of churched out. But, tomorrow is another day.
We belonged to an AG church years ago,, really liked it,, until new pastors came in,, so judgemental,, so we left it,, but now,, our daughter and son in law go to an AG church now,, BUT,, not judgemental,, but a little too “free”,,sermons are about how to live a good life,, almost like a prosperity message,, nothing about sin,, and repenting,, so many don’t realize that is how we have salvation,, and if you drove past that church,, which for years I did,, never realizing it was a church,, thought an office building of some sort,, no cross,, they don’t want to offend anyone,, and they changed their name,, don’t want that word “God” in their name,, I could go on and on,, but becoming a feel good place,, social place,, not that some of that isn’t good,, but what about God?
Sorry for your negative experiences! My wife and I were saved 43 years ago (this next March). God led us to a local AOG, and we learned so much, got a good foundation, taught classes, gave to.Missions, and it was all great for many years. But things changed, and Bro Wilkerson (who was a great example) tried to warn the Denomination. Unfortunately, they didn’t listen (well enough)! Don’t lose faith, God is still working!
Dear Brother IN CHRIST….Your words Brother are Good sound advice .
The day is coming ! God have Mercy upon us ! Give us strength ! You are our only true HOPE! May we LOVE WITH YOUR KIND OF LOVE AND NOT OF OURSELVES!
Kathy,
What you are speaking of is basically how the AOG progressed from a Bible preaching, salvation message church to a “self-affirmation” humanistic feel good about yourself mess! I grew up in the AOG and saw it’s progression, it all started when the AOG churches followed the line of the Lead Pastor being the CEO, and autocratic ruler over the church, instead of a group of mature Christian Elders guiding the church. And those who the Lead Pastor felt close to he promoted into positions of influence within the church, and those people were allowed to teach and preach what they liked. And that group included the Lead Pastor and other pastors placing their children into lead roles, because those pastors had some crazy idea that being a pastor and being in leadership was hereditary! And those immature spoiled children spiritually abused many many Christians. In my church they called it: “you plow your field and I will plow mine how I see fit, and we will let each other be” Not long after that, teaching and preaching went all over the place, even violating the core beliefs that the AOG stated it believed as a denomination. however the AOG would not reign in any of it. Their goal was based on modern corporate cultural ideology: Just ensure that everyone is getting along, that is the most important thing! So if you were in a minority that stood on truth, you were out because the majority was unified in their apostasy, and the AOG wants unity! They are not so concerned about Truth. They will talk the talk, but they will not walk the walk, if it impacts their denominational “influence” and growth!
Thank you for your response,, it is spot on,,, so many churches are just a social club,, networking if you have a business,, it is getting sad,, Have a Blessed Christmas season,, the birth of our Lord,, Salvation for you and me,,
Kathy,
And a Blessed Christmas to you and yours as well! And as I just recently told another who commented on this post:
“Do not let what happened destroy your faith! God’s church is not contained within an AOG building or any other church building for that matter! The denominations and buildings that we see today are nothing more than a reflection of flawed men! And as time goes on those denominations and people become more flawed! However our faith remains in God!
What is even sadder, David Wilkerson’s church, Time Square Church, turned into the church he prophesied. A money-making making mega church with over 10,000 attending for live entertainment including rap shows, women in leadership, mysticism, Beth Moore and Priiscella Shirer teachings, ecumenical and exorbitant salaries.
Amen
Loved this article it is so true. I am also concerned for our nation
The Epistles of Paul God speaks very clearly a two fold teaching I have noticed: 1.) The amazing work of God our Father through Jesus Christ for us, 2.) Strong connecting that amazing grace and empowerment to live a holy life, many warnings not to mix with the worlds ways that are contrary to God’s clear teachings of behavior. As Jesus said, bless are those who do the word of God. The love, grace, empowerment, gifts of the Spirit are to be aiming to be walking in every thought holy before God in all we do, anything else taught is not the gospel. FYI, there is nothing wrong with having money, as long as you have surrendered it to God as with everything else. We are not our own, we are bought by Christ and our life belongs to Him totally, because of His wonderful grace.
This is Maureen N. From England…….The Methodist denomination here has just sanctioned gay marriage in church! Our present female minister and the female minister before her, were both remarried after divorce. I found this to be a great stumbling block for me. I had a nasty accident in January and have not attended church for a while. The acceptance of gay marriage ( taking place in church although there is an opt out clause for ministers) is the final straw for me and I won’t be returning. I’m horrified by the New York ruling on abortion, I can hardly believe it. What are American Christians planning to do about this terrible abomination? God bless you all. Maureen
Yes …The Way, The Truth and Life is Offered Here. The Few get It!
May God bring conviction upon the church Repent
This is right on. Wake up AOG
Amen and AMEN ! So very frightening to view the deception taking place. The “elect” are being deceived…… if we are deceived just WHO THEN WILL BE LEFT HERE TO TELL THE “GOOD NEWS”!!!! God have mercy….upon the CHURCH and those who close their “ears to hear” the pleading for repentance!
so many churches don’t preach repenting,, we belong to a Lutheran Missouri synod church, and they preach repenting,,
What is happening with some Assembly of Gods talking more about following your DREAM in place of God has a PLAN and Purpose for your life follow His Leading. Why are some trying to push follow your dream. In that case I don’t have any dreams so far that have gotten me where I am today except by scripture prayer and His Leading. What’s up with Dream preaching. Getting off course here. Yikes
Amen!
Because the AofG have abandoned submission to God, His Word, and His Spirit, they must substitute with other things and doctrines. I grew up in the Canadian sister denomintation (Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada) in the ’50’s, 60’s and 70’s and pastor their churches in the ’70’s – 90’s. I’ve had nothing to do with them since 2004 but occassionally attend a service in various ones. I am appalled and extremely saddened that they have left their roots and the Jehovah God of the Bible to follow after other gods, jesuses,and false doctrines. As I personally heard Brother Wilkerson speak to a group of PAOC ministers in 1984 – they refused to repent, so God has removed the candlestick from their midst. Just like rebellious Israel in the Old Testament they have forsaken the One, True God for others of the world, doctrines of demons, and other strange fire. Just like OT Israel, they will come under His judgement – unless they repent (which is highly unlikely since most have chosen to live in blindness).
and not just AOG. churches,, so many other denominations also,, they just talk about love,, which we all know, so important,, but what about repenting? but then , it would one to examine their lives, their conscience ,, and to many,, that is scary to them,, because so any would have to change their lives … the whole world is waiting for our Lord to return again,, none too soon.
Sadly, so very true!! Pray pray pray… LOOKING UPWARD!! We are HIS and HE KNOWS HIS PRECIOUS SHEEP!!
So true & prophetic!! We’re seeing it like never before in churches ⛪️ across America!
DEAR ONES IN CHRIST JESUS……can we agree this year to pray EVEN GREATER PROTECTION OVER THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OUR PRECIOUS YOUTH ?
For those of us who are “well seasoned”, I feel a tug of HEART ( This generation of our youth cannot possibly understand just why we feel so strongly . In many cases they have NEVER experienced true REVIVAL. They have nothing to base even a thought of “ a falling away “ upon .
THE PROPHETIC is unfolding before our very eyes!! PRAISE HIS NAME WE ARE SAFE IN CHRIST!
Wow, it is so true. the church definitely needs to stand up for the truth. I used to silenced people from discriminating pastors who are living luxurious lives and preaching prosperity. I just thought they are doing service unto God and are blessed but then there are some that makes me feel uneasy for just the way they live. May God help us…
so many people are going to church to be entertained. the louder the music the better,, I guess God is hard of hearing,, so sad how so many churches are in the entertainment business..
Since I followed David Wilkerson’s career I have this message on my computer and occasionally reread as it becomes more and more timely. I would love to give a shout out to my Assembly of God church, Cedar Park Church in Bothell, Washington, for being faithful and true to God’s Word. Today our pastor preached a message on the Rapture that was reasoned and scriptural and uncompromising. Be prepared, church.
TRUTH!
Years ago there was a song released by the late Ernest Tubb called, “Saturday Sinner, Sunday Saint”. Your message reminded me of the song’s lyrics.
We are indeed living in the final days before our Lord’s return. It behooves us as Christians to trust and obey…just like the words to that old hymn.
Years ago at our annual candle New Years Eve service, our pastor opened in prayer thanking God for all who were in attendance ‘this night.’ to usher in another year to serve the Lord.
Mid way into his sermon he made a statement that forever sticks in my mind. He was comparing those attending the candle light service who were worshipping the Lord, to those out in the World doing their celebrating and how their reservations at the nightclubs had to be made far in advance.. “Praise the Lord, we as Christians have our reservations in heaven…but sadly those out in the World tonight, celebrating and doing Satan’s will, are making their Reservations for Hell.” What a profound sermon !
Dear ones….. “CONTINUE TO PRAY A HEDGE OF TOAL PROTECTION” around every beloved PASTOR and those “closest to his/her HEART”!!! DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE WAYS OF our TROUBLED WORLD…. the “goats are being REMOVED from my loyal sheep! I am not WILLING for any to perish!,
Awesome word.
This is truly needed, a gospel of grace with the convicting power of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you.
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The year 2021 and all David Wilkerson taught has come true. These are perilous times, we’re good has become evil and evil good. I believe we are living in the end times. It’s become to obvious. The most important thing now, which has always been the most important is seeking the face of Jesus. God will deliver the real church, we mustn’t lose faith, but rejoice that what many have waited patiently for is very close. It’s not the time to lose faith in Gods Power, but seek His Holy Spirit whim is still here and available to any true believer. Telling others ( with a humble spirit) and listening to His Spirit how and when to approach people is most important . Our redemption draws near, look upwards….