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  Change Me, O Lord | David Wilkerson 20.09.2026 56dk

  David Wilkerson confronts a church culture obsessed with counseling everyone else's marriage while nobody prays the one prayer that actually works. Paul's teaching on the veil reveals that real change never comes from waiting for someone else to shift, but only from crying out, "Change me, O Lord," and letting the Holy Spirit do what no counselor alone ever could.Preached: August 15, 1999Main Points:• David Wilkerson confesses deep discouragement with modern Christian counseling, not because it's wrong but because so many troubled believers sit through months of biblical counsel and simply don't get it, treating God's commands as suggestions instead of commandments.• In every marriage feud he's mediated, both spouses say the same thing about the other: they're stubborn, they don't get it, why won't they change? Everybody is waiting for somebody else to change, which is precisely why nothing ever does.• Paul describes a veil over the heart that blinds people to Scripture even while they study it diligently. That same veil sits over sincere Christians today who read commands about forgiveness and reconciliation and still can't apply them to their own lives.• No amount of unforgiveness, however justified it feels, escapes the judgment seat of Christ. A thousand sympathetic counselors telling you that you have the right to leave your marriage means nothing if it contradicts Scripture. God hates divorce, not because he's harsh, but because he's already promised all the grace needed to make any marriage work.• The Greek word for "turn" means to change course entirely, not merely feel sorry. You cannot wait for your spouse to change first. God changes you, and then your circumstances stop having the same power over you because you've been changed above them.• Change requires an "open face," an honest, intense desire to reverse course and let the Holy Spirit expose everything hidden, even things you didn't know were there. Wilkerson admits the digging never really stops until the day Jesus returns.• When real change begins, God commends the changed person to everyone's conscience, meaning a spouse, boss, or child will know without a single word being said that something genuine has shifted. That quiet, undeniable witness is what Wilkerson calls the real power to change people.https://wcmin.us/SS260920c
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  Raised to Life - Ephesians 2:1-10 I Evan Wilkerson 16.09.2026 43dk

  Evan Wilkerson opens Ephesians 2 by tracing his own decade-long addiction, showing what it actually means to be dead in trespasses. Then walks through the drastic contrast Paul describes: not just forgiveness, but resurrection life, seated with Christ in the heavenly places, all by grace and not by works.Main Points:Evan grew up in a long line of pastors, then spent ten years as a drug addict, cycling through rehab and relapse with no way to get free on his own. One day, simply saying, "Lord, I'm sorry," he felt heaven open and God's love pour over him in a way he had never experienced.Before Christ, our spirit is genuinely dead, not merely damaged. That doesn't mean people without Jesus have no value or can't do good. Jonas Salk cured polio and never knew Christ, but no amount of good works can raise a spiritually dead person from the dead.Everyone marches by nature toward the wrath of God, not because of some external threat but because sin already produces spiritual death in every human being. This warning becomes, for the believer, not a threat but a precious reminder of exactly what they were rescued from.The contrast in Ephesians 2 is drastic: God didn't just forgive us; he made us alive together with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places. Our bodies remain on earth, but our spirit is already seated in glory, given the identity of royalty as a chosen race and royal priesthood.Salvation cannot be earned, illustrated by a construction worker being handed his paycheck: nobody calls a paycheck they worked for "a gift." Grace only remains grace if none of it is owed to us. Even our good works look like filthy rags compared to what actually saves us.Many believers know intellectually that salvation is by grace, yet still feel, after sinning, they must earn their way back into good standing with God. That's not the gospel. God's grace saved you, and God's grace sustains you; the correct response to failure is to run to his mercy, not to a new performance plan.Good works don't save anyone, but they inevitably follow genuine faith. If someone claims faith in Christ but shows no change over time, that raises a legitimate question about whether saving faith is actually present.https://wcmin.us/WS260916c
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  My People Know Not the Judgment of the Lord | David Wilkerson 13.09.2026 54dk

  David Wilkerson confronts the churches who worship with hands raised while secretly clinging to sin, revealing through Jeremiah 8 that God's people have lost all understanding of his judgment. Unconfessed sin doesn't just wait for eternity; it destroys marriages, ministries, and character right here on earth.Preached: December 29, 1996Main Points:• God's questions in Jeremiah 8 aren't aimed at the heathen but at his own beloved people. Why do you cling so stubbornly to secret sin? Why don't you blush anymore when you sin openly? Why won't you go to God for full deliverance?• People can weep, search the scriptures, and study the law with genuine devotion while still refusing to let go of their idols. That mixture of worship and hidden sin, not outright rebellion, is what sickens the heart of God.• The reason God's people race toward destruction like wild horses charging into battle is stated plainly in verse 7: my people know not my judgments. They've mistaken endless patience for the absence of consequence.• A pastor caught in slander waved off David Wilkerson's warning and said, "Then I face the judgment of God," not understanding what he was actually saying. A man leaving his wife said, "I guess I'll just have to face the consequences." Neither man had the slightest concept of what that judgment costs.• God names two present-day judgments directly from Jeremiah 8: I will give your wives to others (divorce, broken homes, generational fallout even into grandchildren) and I will give your fields to others (loss of ministry, career, everything built over a lifetime).• A third judgment: serpents that bite and cannot be charmed, meaning the poison of bitterness, rejection, and unforgiveness that seeps into unsurrendered sin until godly people, especially those who should be gentlest with age, become mean, hardened, and full of venom.• Judgment is never vindictive; it's redemptive. God has never once turned his back on someone who genuinely hates their sin and cries out for deliverance, even when they haven't yet found victory. The one thing he asks is that people stop making peace with what should be surrendered.https://wcmin.us/SS260913c
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  Looking Through Dark Glasses | David Wilkerson 06.09.2026 42dk

  David Wilkerson confesses he spent years as a self-described pessimist looking at life through dark glasses. He then reveals, through the story of the valley of dry bones, that God never resurrects his people just so they can keep talking as if they're still dead, but so that they can walk in the abounding hope that the Holy Ghost was always meant to produce.Preached: June 30, 1996Main Points:The eye is the light of the body, and a clouded eye fills the whole body with darkness. Many believers are living out every situation, marriage, job, and trial through spiritually dark glasses. They see nothing but hopelessness even though the light inside them was never meant to be clouded.A man told David Wilkerson he had given up on his marriage as hopeless until something shifted: he decided to change himself first, and God used that change to soften his wife's heart. The dark glasses came off, not because circumstances changed first, but because hope came.Isaiah 57 warns that when God's people say "it is hopeless," they stop revering the Lord, turn to the flesh for help, and step entirely outside his will. Hopelessness isn't innocent. Jeremiah calls it a horrible thing, because it leads people to abandon obedience and follow the stubbornness of their own hearts instead.In Ezekiel 37, God raises the dry bones, covers them with flesh, and breathes life into them, yet they still say "our bones are dried, our hope is lost, we are cut off." God never resurrects people to produce a testimony of ongoing death. That's no testimony for the world to see.Fifteen years earlier, David Wilkerson admits he only talked about collapse, ruin, and coming judgment among fellow preachers until a friend asked him plainly, "David, do you have any joy? Let's speak it." From that point on, he made it a rule never to close a hard message without also bringing hope.Believers have been given authority to trample on the power of the enemy according to Luke 10:19, yet many live subjectively, bowing to every circumstance rather than reigning in life as Romans 5:17 promises. That authority isn't hyperbole. It's meant to be walked in daily.God spoke to David Wilkerson in prayer: "If you will continue to seek me with all your heart, your best days are still ahead, and you can't conceive the good that I want to do for you." That promise belongs to every one of God's children, no matter how ordinary or stuck their life currently looks.https://wcmin.us/SS260906c
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  Eyes of Faith - Ephesians 1:15-23 I Evan Wilkerson 02.09.2026 42dk

  Evan Wilkerson closes out Ephesians 1 by tracing Paul's prayer for spiritual eyes, showing through a story of unexpected obedience in a parking lot how believers can know God not just intellectually but intimately, which enables us to grasp the hope, the inheritance, and the resurrection power that already belong to us.Main Points:In October 2017, Evan sensed the Holy Spirit directing him to a specific neighbor's car window. When a startled couple rolled it down, the wife broke into tears because their son had just been arrested for heroin possession. Faith lets us see beyond the natural into what the Spirit is already doing.Paul thanks God for the Ephesians' faith and love, not just saving faith but practical, everyday trust that God will provide, protect, and lead. He also praises their agape love for one another, the same love Jesus modeled by washing his disciples' feet before commanding them to do likewise.The word "knowledge" Paul uses is not mere information about God. As Martin Lloyd-Jones explains, it's an immediate, personal, relational knowing, the way a husband and wife know each other, not a theological fact sheet.Evan describes a night when his air conditioner broke in summer heat. His kids were cranky, and a fan he bought didn't even work, yet simply remembering God's loving presence kept him calm instead of losing his temper, showing how conscious awareness of God changes daily reactions.Paul prays believers would grasp three realities: the hope they've been called to (both a present reality and a future glory), the riches of God's inheritance in the saints (meaning believers themselves are God's treasured possession, not the other way around), and the immeasurable power available to those who believe.That power is demonstrated by nothing less than Christ's resurrection and his sitting at the Father's right hand above every rule and authority. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is the power now at work in and through every believer.The church is called "the fullness of him who fills all in all" because while Christ fills all creation, only the church fully acknowledges and submits to him. Believers are meant to reflect Christ's kingdom now, while awaiting his return to establish the new heavens and new earth.https://wcmin.us/WS260902c
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  Going Out on a Limb | Gary Wilkerson 30.08.2026 39dk

  Gary Wilkerson tells the story of Zacchaeus climbing the sycamore tree to show that holy dissatisfaction, the ache for more of God, even if you've faithfully followed him for years, is not a lack of gratitude but one of the greatest gifts God has ever placed in the human heart.Preached: August 16, 2026Main Points:John Muir, instead of hiding from a fierce Pacific storm, climbed a Douglas fir to ride it out at the top, becoming a standing rebuke against choosing creature comforts over the Creator's confrontations. Psalm 107 says the same of sailors who go into the deep waters to see the works of the Lord.Zacchaeus was rich, powerful, and politically connected, yet excommunicated from his own people as a traitor. All the wealth in Jericho, including a front-row seat at Herod's lavish winter palace, never touched the emptiness inside him.Zacchaeus didn't casually wander over out of curiosity. He fought through a crowd that shoved him back, then hiked up his robe and climbed a sycamore tree, refusing to let his dignity or his station in life stop his pursuit of Jesus.Gary once accidentally called a pastor for directions from inside a bar, and heard U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" playing over the sound system while watching lonely men nurse drinks. That restless anthem, he says, describes an entire generation, and secretly describes Zacchaeus too.After decades in ministry, Gary confesses he spent his first two or three decades trying to get rid of the ache in his own heart, feeling guilty for not being satisfied, until he realized that holy dissatisfaction is itself a gift from God, not evidence of ingratitude.Zacchaeus's transformation was instant and costly: half his wealth given to the poor, fourfold restitution to everyone he'd defrauded. Jesus never demanded repentance in the text. It simply exploded out of an encountered heart.Jesus is interruptible, disruptive, and subversive. He stopped on his way to his own crucifixion for one desperate man in a tree, and he still topples the towers we've built so something new and better can be planted in their place.https://wcmin.us/SS260830c
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  A Passion for Christ | David Wilkerson 23.08.2026 54dk

  David Wilkerson redefines passion for Christ as far more than tears, emotion, or private devotion. A genuine passion for Jesus can never remain a personal pursuit but must burn with the same intensity for the whole body of Christ. It is proven not by feeling but by humility and total dependence on God.Preached: November 25, 2001Main Points:• Under the Old Covenant, God raised up individuals like Abraham, Noah, and Enoch to pursue him personally because the body of Christ didn't yet exist. Under the New Covenant, a purely private passion is not enough, because we are members of one body, and what happens to one member happens to all.• Pursuing Christ only so your own family stays blessed, saying "I got mine" while the rest of the church compromises around you, is a trap. That's not biblical passion no matter how sincere it feels, because your sin and your pursuit both ripple through the whole body.• True passion has almost nothing to do with emotion or forceful preaching. It's impossible to have real passion for Jesus without a walk of obedience. Every tear shed in the secret closet of prayer cannot produce one iota of passion if you refuse to obey what's revealed.• Jesus rebukes the self-exalted religious leader in Matthew 23 who preaches holiness he doesn't practice himself. David Wilkerson confesses his own struggle with this, admitting his wife has had to catch him inflating numbers about his books and church attendance to impress people.• Humility is not meekness, self-deprecation, or a long face. It is total dependence on the Lord. Jesus himself modeled this: "I can do nothing of my own self" was not weakness but the very definition of passion, complete reliance on the Father for everything.• Just as one Christian's bitterness can defile many in the body according to Hebrews 12:15, one obedient, fully dependent Christian can bless and affect many in the body. Passion for Christ pursued rightly becomes contagious rather than isolating.• This sermon closes by describing what pursuing this kind of passion actually costs: your life becomes a laboratory where God lets you feel pains and burdens that have nothing to do with your own walk, because he's drawing you into ministry to the whole body, not just personal blessing.https://wcmin.us/SS260823c
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  God's Sovereignty and Our Salvation - Ephesians 1:11-14 I Evan Wilkerson 19.08.2026 40dk

  Evan Wilkerson closes out Ephesians 1, wrestling with how God can be sovereign over all things without causing evil. He shows through Joseph's story and a mechanic shop conversation that being sealed in Christ means true belonging. God's goodness holds even when life feels shattered.Main Points:God works all things according to the counsel of his will, but that doesn't mean he causes all things to happen. Joseph's brothers chose to sell him into slavery out of their own jealousy, yet God wove even their evil into a plan that saved many lives.Malcolm Muggeridge, a wealthy, famous, successful agnostic writer, said after coming to Christ that multiplying all his earthly triumphs by a million still amounted to nothing measured against one drink of the living water Jesus offers.We are called Christians three times in Scripture but described as "in Christ" over two hundred times. That's not a minor detail. It's the truest thing about our identity, more foundational than any label the world gives us.Being sealed with the Holy Spirit works like a king's signet ring pressed into wax: it marks the document as authentically his. God has pressed his own mark on every believer, meaning we belong to someone, radically and permanently, in a world constantly searching for exactly that.A conversation at an auto repair shop turned from rising oil prices to the manager saying "the world is ending," which opened the door for Evan to talk about the living hope only found in Christ.Sharing the gospel is rarely comfortable, but the goal isn't a perfect delivery; it's opening your mouth. Even a stumbled conversation that gets shut down is never wasted, because every attempt is practice for the next one, and God is watching for willing hearts.The Spirit inside every believer is a down payment, a guarantee of an inheritance too glorious to fully imagine yet. Whatever feels broken right now—relationships, finances, mental health—God is the God of shalom who restores what seems too far gone to fix.https://wcmin.us/WS260819c
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  Trusting God with All Your Tomorrows | David Wilkerson 16.08.2026 48dk

  David Wilkerson takes the call of Abraham, a man told to leave everything and go to a land he didn't know, and shows that God is asking every believer for the same total surrender of tomorrow. Through Paul's chains and his own granddaughter's death, he reveals that suffering isn't the question; our reaction to it is.Preached: April 2, 2006Main Points:• Abraham had no map, no timeline, no idea how he'd be financed, only a command to leave his country and kindred. God is asking the same total dependence of every believer today: give me your tomorrows, not just your past.• Two little words disturb us more than anything else: what if. What if the economy fails, what if I get sick, what if my insurance runs out? Jesus turns us from our anxiety with a simple redirection: your Father knows what you need.• Paul sat chained between two hardened Roman guards, watching his own protégés like Apollos and Timothy thrive in ministry while his own hands were tied. He had every reason to spiral into why me, but chose instead to ask a different question: How will I react?• An elderly woman told David Wilkerson her husband spent his final years bitter that his stroke had robbed him of his future, never once considering that she too had lost her future as his full-time caretaker. Suffering steals from everyone in the room, not just the one visibly afflicted.• Two weeks before his granddaughter Tiffany died of cancer, the Holy Spirit told David Wilkerson to put her in his hands and trust that nothing he does is contrary to his will. His wife and daughters still wear a small chain with her picture, and it opens gospel conversations in stores everywhere they go.• Paul wrote from prison that his chains had actually furthered the gospel, because the guards chained to him for hours at a time went home and told their families about this strange preacher who wouldn't stop praising God. Paul made his affliction a defense of Christ's faithfulness.• The real question every believer faces isn't, "Why did this happen to me?" but, "Is Christ being preached through my reaction?" Wilkerson pointed to an elder named Sam who has years of raging, sleepless pain yet quietly prays for the pastors backstage, never once preaching a sermon but preaching Christ with his life.https://wcmin.us/SS260816c
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  The Awesome Voice of God | David Wilkerson 09.08.2026 54dk

  David Wilkerson stands at the foot of Mount Sinai and asks why a people who just heard the audible voice of God begged to never hear it again, revealing that hidden idols cannot survive the presence of a holy God. That same voice is still speaking today through his Son, shaking everything that refuses to let go.Preached: August 8, 1999Main Points:• Fire consumed the mountain, thunder split the earth, and the audible voice of God spoke to Israel, yet within hours the elders begged Moses for a softer message delivered only through a man. David Wilkerson points out the strange logic: they said they knew hearing God's voice meant death, even though they had just heard it and lived.• The reason they couldn't handle God's presence wasn't awe; it was guilt. Many had just come from their tents where they secretly bowed to golden idols brought out of Egypt. It wasn't the fire they feared. It was what the voice commanded: no other gods, no graven images.• They had all the right religious vocabulary, spoke well, sounded humble, yet God said through Isaiah that they drew near with their lips while their hearts stayed far from him. David Wilkerson compares this to modern believers who know all the Christian lingo but keep a secret sin nobody else sees.• Anyone hiding secret sin does not want to sit under convicting preaching. They will find soft, flattering prophets instead. God answered Israel's request for a human mediator by promising a prophet like Moses, ultimately fulfilled in Jesus, a man of flesh and bone seated at the right hand of the Father who can still be touched, kissed, and embraced, in touch with the feelings of our weaknesses.• Hebrews 12 warns that the voice speaking from heaven now demands even greater accountability than the voice at Sinai, because this time God has promised one final shaking of nations, courts, economies, and especially his own church, so that only what cannot be shaken will remain.• David Wilkerson confesses his own conviction about murmuring and complaining despite God's abundant blessings, revealing that the same voice that shook Sinai is still speaking directly into individual hearts today, asking backsliders and those clinging to hidden sin: why have you not listened to my voice?https://wcmin.us/SS260809c
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  God's Redemption Plan - Ephesians 1:7-10 | Evan Wilkerson 05.08.2026 29dk

  Evan Wilkerson continues his Ephesians series by tracing what redemption actually costs, showing through John Bunyan's imprisonment, C.S. Lewis's Edmund, and a haunting World War II story, that Christ has already won the war against sin, death, and the devil. The only question left is whether we're proclaiming the news that the war over. Main Points:• Redemption means a price paid for someone's freedom, the way a kinsman could buy back a captured relative or a master could purchase a slave's liberty. Jesus didn't pay with gold or silver, which could never be enough, but with his own blood, because the wages of sin is death and life is in the blood. • Edmund in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" shows the trajectory of sin: it starts as teasing, grows through temptation, and ends in betrayal for a plate of Turkish delight. When the witch ties him up to kill him, Aslan takes his place, and Edmund walks away permanently changed, humble, wise, and grateful. • Grace is not given in careful portions. God didn't hold anything back. He lavishly poured out his grace. God's ultimate plan is not just personal salvation but cosmic reunification: everything in heaven and earth united under Christ. We don't see that fully yet, and that's not a contradiction; it's a gap between victory declared and victory fully realized. • A Japanese lieutenant kept fighting a war on a remote Pacific island for 29 years after Japan formally surrendered, refusing to believe the leaflets dropped from planes telling him the war was over. Christ defeated sin, death, and the devil at the cross. The war is over. Yet many refuse to submit to the rightful King. • Being a bond servant of Christ is not a part-time arrangement where you hand over Sunday mornings and 10% of your income while keeping the rest for yourself. It's handing over everything, not because everything has to look outwardly spiritual, but because nothing is held back as off-limits to him. • If you've accepted Jesus, live boldly as someone already free, and carry that same news to everyone still in rebellion, that Christ's gracious pardon is available, offering eternal life.https://wcmin.us/WS260805c
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  Call No Man Common or Unclean | David Wilkerson 02.08.2026 54dk

  David Wilkerson uses Peter's rooftop vision in Acts 10 to expose how even the godliest believers can unknowingly circumscribe Christ into a small circle, calling other denominations, other nations, and even their own unsaved children common or unclean, when God has already declared them cleansed and worthy of fellowship.Preached: December 15, 2002Main Points:• Peter had raised the dead, healed the sick with his shadow, and shaken prisons by his presence, yet in one area of his life he was misrepresenting Christ. Every believer is a definition of Christ to a world that reads us instead of the Bible.• On the rooftop, God let down a sheet filled with unclean animals three times and said, "Kill and eat," meaning have fellowship. Peter protested on solid scriptural ground, and God answered, "What God has cleansed you must not call common." The Greek word for common means unworthy of fellowship.• When Peter finally ate with Cornelius's household and the Holy Ghost fell on uncircumcised Gentiles, the circumcision party in Jerusalem contended with him because he went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them. Their theology said God couldn't work outside their circle. It happened anyway.• David Wilkerson watched a Pentecostal bishop walk out of his own conference calling a young charismatic worship team an abomination because they clapped and waved flags, even as the Holy Ghost was visibly moving in the room. The man's imprint of Christ was too small to contain what God was doing.• Celeste Horvath was the most notorious madam in New York City history, condemned by her own brother as beyond redemption, while she secretly played "Amazing Grace" on an organ between clients and cried out to God every night. Ten years of hidden work by the Holy Ghost preceded the moment she finally broke.• When God is doing his greatest work, you will often see the least evidence.• Letters were pouring in from Muslim countries reached by Times Square Church radio broadcasts, testifying that Islam gave them no peace but Christ did instantly. God is not looking to raise up another star evangelist. He is looking for ordinary believers willing to stop drawing circles and call no one common or unclean.https://wcmin.us/SS260802c
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  Lifting Up the Cup of Salvation | David Wilkerson 26.07.2026 58dk

  David Wilkerson reveals that the godliest people, those who pray, fast, and pursue God with everything in them, can still be seized by sin they never chose and never wanted, and shows through Psalm 116 that the way out is not gritted-teeth willpower but lifting up the cup of every promise God has already sworn to keep.Preached: November 18, 2001Main Points:• A praying, fasting, God-seeking man cries out that the sorrows of death compassed him, that the snares of hell seized his heart without warning. This is not a description of a backslidden person. It is the honest confession of someone who never went looking for sin and got trapped anyway.• David Wilkerson names it directly: godly husbands, godly pastors, godly wives are being ensnared by pornography, by bitterness, by adultery they never intended, and it is happening all over the world, in mailbags from thousands of ministers who all say the same thing, "I don't know how this got hold of me."• The word translated "simple" in Psalm 116:6 comes from a Hebrew root meaning seducible. The man isn't claiming innocence of desire; he's confessing he was drawn away by his own lust or the enemy or both, and it brings him nothing but tears, yet God did not cast him away.• Multitudes in the church today are exactly here: not God-hating, not running to bars, just utterly unable to break free despite fasting, praying, pleading, and hearing tape after tape from one evangelist after another. Their real problem isn't lust. It's unbelief, a loss of confidence that God's Word actually works.• Old Covenant religion demands gritted teeth, willpower, and a list of do's and don'ts, and it cannot free anyone. When it fails, people conclude in their haste that all men are liars, that the gospel doesn't work for them specifically, when the real issue is that they were never taught the New Covenant secret in the first place.• The bronze serpent in Numbers 21 asked nothing of the dying Israelites but to look and believe. That serpent represented the sin and venom itself, and Jesus drank the same cup at Gethsemane, not fearing physical pain but absorbing the full wrath against every sin ever committed. That first drop of blood cleansed and refilled the cup with pure promise.• The godly man in Psalm 116 finds the secret: not one more day of trying harder, but lifting the cup of salvation and drinking every "I will" promise God has sworn—I will put my fear in your heart, I will take away your heart of stone, I will cause you to walk in my ways—until the sorrow breaks and he walks again in the land of the living.https://wcmin.us/SS260726c
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  Our Wealth in Christ - Ephesians 1:3-6 I Evan Wilkerson 22.07.2026 34dk

  Evan Wilkerson continues this Ephesians series by tracing the wealth every believer already owns in Christ, showing through Horatio Stafford's shipwreck, the prodigal son's return, and the picture of an orphan adopted into royalty that spiritual blessing runs so much deeper than anything money or circumstance could ever provide.Main Points:Horatio Stafford lost all four of his daughters in a shipwreck, and while sailing over the very spot where they drowned, he wrote It Is Well with My Soul. That kind of peace is only possible when Jesus Christ remains your greatest treasure even after every earthly treasure is gone.Blessing God means more than saying nice words about him. It means becoming a living embodiment of praise, worshiping him with your behavior because he is worth it, not because you're trying to earn something from him.God blesses everyone through common grace, sun and rain on the just and unjust alike, but the spiritual blessings found only in Christ are infinitely richer. A new heart is better than a new car. To feed on Christ is better than the best earthly food. These blessings can never perish.Being chosen in Christ means being set apart to become holy and blameless, not overnight, but the way a plant grows. You won't see change by staring at it today, but keep feeding on Jesus, and years from now, people will ask what's different about you.Adoption as sons in the first century meant receiving the firstborn's full rights, resources, and inheritance. Picture an orphan on a trash heap in India, suddenly brought into a wealthy father's home, loved, fed, listened to, celebrated. That is what it means to be adopted by God, not made rich in earthly terms but loved to the very core of your identity.In the prodigal son story, the father doesn't wait for an apology or make the son grovel. He sees him a long way off, runs to him, and lavishes him with the best robe, a ring, and a feast. That is God's heart for anyone still far from him right now.Grace is different from mercy. Mercy means not receiving the wrath sinners deserve. Grace means receiving the blessings sinners could never earn. This wealth cost the Son everything on the cross and cost the Father his most beloved possession, and because it was purchased with that blood, it can never be taken away.https://wcmin.us/WS260722c
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  The Joyful Jesus | Gary Wilkerson 19.07.2026 47dk

  Gary Wilkerson introduces a version of Jesus most believers have never met, the joyful Jesus, showing that the same God who is a man of sorrows is also the most joyous being who ever walked the earth, and that his full, unspeakable, unstealable joy has already been placed inside every believer, waiting to be uncovered.Preached: July 7, 2026Main Points:• Most Christians, if asked to list the top five attributes of Jesus, would never think to include joy. We picture him militant, sorrowful, or perpetually disappointed in us, like an eyebrow forever raised, but Hebrews says God anointed Jesus with joy and gladness above his companions.• Jesus created joy itself, along with laughter, humor, and delight. Picture him at 20-something with a group of rowdy young disciples, some still teenagers, swimming, racing, cooking fish together. Being a Christian was never meant to mean you're not allowed to have fun.• First Peter calls this joy unspeakable and full of glory, and the Hebrew and Greek words for glory mean thickness and weightiness. This isn't a thin, occasional joy. It's a thick cloud of glory resident inside every believer, whether or not they feel it in the moment.• Gary's own life proves the joy isn't circumstantial: 14 grandchildren, the most joyful season of his life, yet also traveling to war-torn countries that aren't safe. Joseph had joy in the pit and the prison. Abraham had joy while wandering into an unknown land and fighting battles on his nephew's behalf.• The secret to this joy isn't positive thinking or a good mental attitude. Jesus repeats one word throughout this passage: abide. As you abide in him, spending time with him, being his friend, his joy becomes yours, not manufactured but resident and full.• No person, no subway shove, no unfair ticket, no gossiping church member can take this joy away, because it was never dependent on circumstances to begin with. It was given, it's full, and it's permanent.• Gary invites all believers to become the most joyful people, so that a world drowning in anger, despair, and loneliness would look at us and wonder how we could have this much joy, and find their way to the joyful Jesus behind it.https://wcmin.us/SS260719c
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  Bricks Without Straw | David Wilkerson 12.07.2026 50dk

  David Wilkerson uses the story of Pharaoh's cruelest command as a mirror, showing every exhausted believer still trying to make bricks without straw that God is not Pharaoh. Jesus has already made full provision, and the only thing left to do is stop struggling and let the Holy Ghost do what flesh never could.Preached: December 11, 1994Main Points:• Pharaoh is a type of Satan, and Egypt is a type of every bondage that holds God's people, whether smoking, drinking, pornography, temper, unbelief, or covetousness. His first device is always the same: get back to your works, more works, impossible works, and do it without any of the tools you need.• Just as the message of freedom swept through the camps of Israel and Pharaoh doubled the quota the very same day, the devil will hear you responding to a message of deliverance and immediately increase the pressure to make you believe it will never happen for you.• The law was never meant to set you free. It was a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, a mirror held up to show you how wide the gap is between your wickedness and God's holiness, and how impossible it is to bridge that gap by anything your flesh can do.• The servant who buried his talent and said, "You reap where you have not sown," was looking at God as Pharaoh, accusing him of demanding results without providing tools. That is exactly how many Christians feel, and it is a lie from the same enemy who invented the bricks without straw command.• God has made no spiritual demand on you without making full provision for you to fulfill it through the Holy Ghost. He is not sitting up in heaven twiddling his thumbs while you struggle. He abides in you, he is greater than the one in the world, and when you call on him, he will exert his power.• Some people never get free because they want to be plucked out, but won't obey God's voice. The Holy Spirit warns lovingly, whispers "don't do it," and if you override him, he speaks louder and louder, because he is so faithful, he will do whatever it takes to get your attention.• God has made an ironclad "I will" promise seven times over: I will bring you out, I will rid you of bondage, I will redeem you, I will take you to me, I will be God to you, I will bring you into the land, I will give you a heritage. The only response left is to lift your hands and surrender what you could never carry yourself.https://wcmin.us/SS260712c
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  Saints in Christ - Ephesians 1:1-3 I Evan Wilkerson 08.07.2026 26dk

  Evan Wilkerson opens his Ephesians series by tracing the stories of John Newton, the apostle Paul, and the dark city of Ephesus to show that the word "saint" has nothing to do with moral achievement and everything to do with the grace that finds wretches, turns them around, and sets them on an entirely new trajectory.Main Points:John Newton called himself capable of anything, with not the least fear of God and no sensibility of conscience. It was in a violent storm at sea that he cried, "Lord, have mercy," for the first time in years, and out of that encounter eventually came the famous hymn Amazing Grace. This is the story of all who are in Christ.Paul was not a passive sinner. He was actively hunting Christians, arresting them, punishing them in synagogues, convinced he was doing God a favor. Then Jesus knocked him to the ground on the Damascus road, and everything, every single thing, was completely changed.Ephesus was among the largest cities of the ancient world, filled with idol worship, demon worship, and magic arts. Opposition and darkness are not signs that God is absent. Often, it is in the darkest places where Christ's light shines brightest, and the Ephesians proved it by burning their magic books in public.Paul calls these former witchcraft practitioners saints, not because of what they had done but because of what had been done for them. No man is a believer who is not also a saint, and no man is a saint who is not a believer. The title comes with faith, not with performance.Many of us get this backwards. We know intellectually that grace is a free gift, but we behave as though our works will make us righteous, stuck on a treadmill of performance. You became righteous the moment you put your faith in Jesus and his finished work. That is your position. Sanctification flows from it, not toward it.When you sin, don't hide from him. Running away from Jesus when you fail only makes the sin worse. Run to him. He is the only one who will ever be able to set you free entirely.Paul combined the Greek greeting and the Jewish greeting into one: grace and peace. Grace always comes first, and as it fills our lives through the Holy Spirit, it produces shalom, wholeness, restored relationships, reconciled work, and a peace even in the middle of suffering that the world cannot explain.https://wcmin.us/WS260708c
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  I Want No Blood on My Hands | David Wilkerson 05.07.2026 57dk

  David Wilkerson stands before his congregation, physically trembling over Ezekiel 3, warning every pastor, teacher, and believer that they will one day stand before God and answer for every soul they failed to warn, then reveals that the only way to fulfill that terrifying responsibility is not human zeal but the secret place alone with God.Preached: September 29, 1996Main Points:• David Wilkerson said this scripture caused him to tremble physically, spiritually, and emotionally every time he read it. God told Ezekiel plainly: if you don't warn the wicked and they die in their sin, their blood is on your hands. That warning does not expire in the day of grace.• Peter, after Pentecost, pointed his finger at the crowd and said, "You crucified both the Lord and the Christ." Stephen called the religious leaders stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, knowing it would cost him his life. Paul confronted incest in the Corinthian church publicly. None of them were willing to stand before God with blood on their hands.• How many pastors will answer on judgment day for the Laodicean condition in their churches, for telling people they're alive when they're dead, for feeding congregations on pop psychology and flattery instead of warning them about sin? Better to run out of church angry and convicted than to be flattered gently into hell.• God's answer to the weight of this responsibility was not to send Ezekiel immediately into the streets. He took him aside first, showed him his glory, and struck him speechless, because a man who goes out in his own human zeal will do more damage than good.• Every word that comes from a true pulpit must first come from the secret closet of prayer. David Wilkerson went to prayer like a disciple with an empty basket, saying, "Lord, I have nothing," and Jesus breaks the bread and fills it. If you haven't been shut in with God weeping over the lost, you're babbling.• The greatest wickedness in the congregation that day was not drugs or alcohol or sexual sin. It was Christians who had heard warning after warning and still held grudges, still carried bitterness, still hardened their hearts. They were almost beyond help.• David Wilkerson called the whole church to a 30-day round-the-clock prayer chain, not to be busy or religious, but because God will only give the right word at the right time to those who have first been alone with him long enough to fall on their face.https://wcmin.us/SS260705c
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  In and Out | Gary Wilkerson 28.06.2026 29dk

  Gary Wilkerson takes us through Romans 8, showing that the exhausting in-and-out, up-and-down Christian life is not what God intended, revealing that the moment Christ came in, he changed not just our behavior but our entire operating system, and the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is the same power now living in us.Preached: May 21, 2026Main Points:• The word condemnation is "con" plus "damnation," and before you met Jesus, that was exactly your destination.• There are two laws at war, and the law of the Spirit of life is to the law of sin and death what the First Amendment is to a university policy. One simply outweighs the other, and no policy Satan tries to enforce can stand against the higher law.• The flesh cannot keep the law, and the law actually makes sin worse because telling someone not to touch the cookie jar is practically an invitation. God is not asking you to try harder in your own strength because he already declared in Romans 8:3 that it cannot be done.• Prayer groups, Bible reading, fasting, and accountability partners are good for growth, but they are not what sets you free. Trying to do in your flesh what only the Spirit can do is the shortest road to burning out and failing again.• The most important word in Romans 8 may be "however" in verse 9. After all the in-and-out battle of chapter 7, God steps in and says: You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit. That is not a goal to reach. It is a declaration of what is already true.• Jesus changes your operating system. A PC does PC things, and a Mac does Mac things, not because of effort but because of what's built into the software. When Christ came in, he didn't just change your behavior; he changed your cravings. Now you crave righteousness, holiness, and the presence of God.• The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you. The solution to up-and-down living is not found in self-effort but in understanding and resting in that reality until the life he promises flows naturally from the inside out.https://wcmin.us/SS260629c
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  Irreversibly Reversed | Gary Wilkerson 21.06.2026 40dk

  Gary Wilkerson opens with Samuel Rutherford's breathtaking attempt to describe Jesus as fairer than sun, moon, stars, and roses, then pulls back and says even that comparison wrongs him, before turning to Romans 5 to show that what Adam unleashed on the whole world, one perfect man has irreversibly reversed in them.Preached: May 20, 2026Main Points:• Samuel Rutherford tried to honor Christ by saying he is fairer than the sun, the moon, the stars, and the roses, then stopped himself and said he had wronged Christ by the comparison. Nothing fair exists beside him. Everything else goes dark.• One man in a garden unleashed condemnation, judgment, wrath, and death on every human being born since. You are not a sinner because of what you did. You were made a sinner by what Adam did, the same way an eight-year-old gets pulled over not for breaking the law but for being too young to drive.• Jesus did not just forgive the sins you committed. He absorbed into himself every shameful thing you would be embarrassed to name, drank the full cup of wrath in the garden, and then on the cross made the exchange permanent.• What Adam did can be reversed. What Jesus did cannot. You did not just get saved; you got grafted into a righteousness that neither the Son nor the Father will allow anyone to snatch away.• Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. The more that went into the cup, the greater the sufficiency of what Christ drank. There is no sin so heavy that grace does not outweigh it.• Stop calling what God has made clean unclean. When you read scripture, you are the David, not the Goliath. You are Peter, not Judas. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and it is time to start talking and living like it.https://wcmin.us/SS260621c