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Pastor Tim
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Pastor Tim
We sense his presence here today. Amen. Feel like God just sense really that God is with us. We want to welcome you here to Times Square Church, right here at 51st and Broadway, right in the heart of New York City. We feel like as was started almost 40 years ago, next year will be 40 years that this lighthouse has been set here. Times Square Church. So thankful for the ministry of Pastor Carter Conlon. David Wilkerson. I'm going to talk about them at the end today. We do want to welcome not only you, our Jersey campus and those watching from the annex. What a blessing. I just been really. For those in our annex that are watching, that's our overflow. I. I just tell you, I was really praying for you yesterday. I'm just. There's. There's something that God wants to do in that annex. For those that don't get in this building. I want to believe for something. I don't. I just. I just thank God for you, that you didn't turn around and leave, but you stayed. And so I want to just believe for God to do something special in the annex today. We also welcome those watching from around the country and around the world. Let me just say to those nations that are with us live, we love you. We're praying for you. Believing that God just begins to allow what we're sensing here. I thank God that there is no limitation, there is no walls, that we, whether it's through a screen or whether you're right here, that you can sense the presence of God. Amen. We. So we want to say hello to those watching live from Kenya and South Africa. We welcome our friends that you just saw on the screen from Namibia and Ghana. We welcome Eswatini, Nigeria, Tunisia and Liberia. We say hello to Togo, Madagascar, Cameroon and Tanzania. Welcome Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Hong Kong, Guam, Singapore. We say hello to India, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and Australia. We say praise the Lord to United Kingdom, Austria, France, Ireland, Poland. We welcome the Netherlands, Romania, Finland, Hungary, Sweden, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Belgium. We also welcome Russia. We're praying for miracle in that nation right now in Jesus name. We're praying that God would stop this war and we're believing for it. We say hello to Canada, Mexico, Haiti, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Nicaragua, Angua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Grenada, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Would you welcome all those that are watching? Some 60 countries, 45 states. We welcome you. And then my favorite part I want to just continue to encourage all those universities we're believing for a revival, a revival on our university campus. What I've been praying for is not just water baptism. I'm praying for fire baptism on our university campuses. Water is the beginning. Fire is what changes those campuses. We also. I can't forget our First Nation. We welcome the Key First Nation, the Navajo First Nation. We say hello to you, and this is some of my favorite. I want you to listen to this. We say hello to the U.S. naval Academy. We're praying for our soldiers, and we're praying that God keep you. We welcome Carnegie Mellon University, Palm Beach, Atlantic University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Pace University, the National University, University of Delaware, Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University, University of South Florida, Calvin University, Columbia University, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, and the Hague University. Would you welcome all those that are watching from our universities. Let me challenge those around the country and around the world, and especially those in New York City. For New York City, please join us. I want to give you a daily challenge and a weekly challenge Wednesday. Join us for prayer. We're praying for an awakening in New York City. We don't put it online. We just simply have it for New York City because we're praying for an awakening in our city when people get upset with us. Why didn't you put that prayer meeting online? We tell them, pray for your city and that. Do it at noon every Wednesday and join with us. But come join us. There is a. An unusual presence of God here at noon. And then for those that want to get deeper in the word, join chapter by chapter. As we go through that, how many are doing chapter by chapter? Would you raise your hand? So join with us. Chapter by chapter we go. We're going through the Bible every day, seven minutes a day, seven days a week for the next four years. So join with us on that. Okay, So I want to. I feel like I know that God has put something on my heart from the very first song to what Geo Pray. Everything. Just. There's something that I know that God's wanting to do. Today. Someone asked me, a pastor asked me. He said, how are you doing? I said, here's what I. Here's the best way I can explain how I'm doing. It's from the life of Gideon when it says this. After a battle, they were very tired, but still chasing the enemy. How many feel like that? Very tired, but still chasing the enemy. Keep that verse up there for a second. Some of you need to take a picture of that. And that Needs to be what you tell, folks. How you doing? Very tired. Still chasing the enemy. Let me tell you why I. I'm. I'm in this chase because I hear a voice and I'm hoping today I want you to hear the voice that I hear that's ahead of me. Because I know there is. I know that there is so much, many different voices, but I hear a loud voice that's ahead of us, ahead for this church, ahead for your lives today. So I want to talk to you just for a few moments about who shouts loudest. Who shouts loudest. Let's pray. Father, in these next few moments, I know what you've put on my heart. I sense it being confirmed all service long. Now, in these next few moments, come Holy Spirit and work miracles here in. In Jesus name. And everybody said amen. God bless you. You may be seated. Thank you, worship team. Thank you, choir. God bless you. I had to laugh as I was reading about. In 1867, the American writer Mark Twain embarked on a journey through Europe that would later inspire a number of books that people still read today. And during that trip, because he wasn't seen in the United States, that they said that rumors of his death sent spread across America. And in classic fashion, as they were putting in newspapers and putting on all newscasts that Mark Twain has died from overseas, he just simply responded with this. And I just. It just made me laugh. He said, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. And I feel that this is something that is so important because the enemy, as I was reading Psalm 41, this is exactly what happened in Psalm 41 against David. They are hoping to report his enemies. And the people that dislike David the psalmist, are hoping to report on his premature death. They are starting to greatly like, for Twain, greatly exaggerate his death. They're hoping, in fact, that not only does he die, but he dies soon. Listen to Psalm 41 that I, as I read this to you. The Bible says, the Lord will protect him and keep him alive. And. And he shall be called blessed upon the earth. And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies, the desires of the enemies. The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed. In his illness, you will restore him to health. But as for me, I said, oh, Lord, be gracious to me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against you. Now listen to these next verses. Here's where the enemies start to speak. My enemies speak evil against me. When will he die? When will his name perish? When he comes to see me, he speaks Falsehood. His heart gathers wickedness to itself. When he goes outside, he tells it. All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt, saying a wicked thing is poured out upon him, that when he lies down we are hoping that he will not rise up again. Even my close friend in whom I have trusted, who I ate my bread with, has lifted up his heel against me. The enemy has come against him. And enemy would mean both friend and even those that are against David. Psalm 41 is a lament psalm written by David during a severe illness compounded by betrayal, slander, and especially betrayal by close friends. David is sick. David has failed. He talks about being having failed in sin. He talked about being sick. David is being betrayed and David is being talked about. The Lord will keep him alive, David says, and not give him over to the desire of his enemies. Though he is battling sickness and lies and people are planning his hurt, David hears them talking about him. He is seeing what people are saying, if we could even say it this way. He sees the social media posts about him and in Jerusalem, reading what people are saying. He says, my enemies speak evil, they speak falsehood, they whisper, they devise things against me. But. But there is one thing in the middle of the whispering, in the middle of the backbiting, in the middle of the slandering, in the middle of even the mind battles that we don't even know that are taking place. From this chapter, there is one thing that David doesn't hear, and that's the part I have to tell you that God began to speak to me. I want to encourage you with this. The one thing that he doesn't hear is a shout. He doesn't hear a shout because this is where it all came down to. It was verse 11. And I want to read this to you. Listen to this. This. I know that you are pleased with me because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me. He says one thing I know, for they may be whispering, but they won't shout in victory. They may be talking behind my back, but they're not going to shout that we beat him. They may be posting stuff about me, but they will not shout that they have the victory. I believe God has come today to tell you that though they're saying stuff, there's a shout that God is going to say. They will not shout, shout. Your enemies will not have the loudest voice in your life. Hallelujah. David was able to say with Mark Twain. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated because I don't Hear a shout from hell. He says, they're exaggerating what they're saying because I don't hear a shout. And it's proving. And David is saying this, make no mistake, I'm in the fight of my life, but there is no triumphant shout over my life. That means I'm still alive. And he says, I know God is pleased with me not by the removal of battles, but that there is no shout of triumph by my enemies over my life. He says, I know that I am pleasing to God not because he takes away the fight, but because the enemy can't win the fight. Hallelujah. When the enemy wants to crush you, there are two voices you will hear in the battle. There will be two shouts, two loud voices. You'll either hear the shout of the enemy or you'll hear the shout of the king. The shout of the enemy or the shout of the king. And you have to ask yourself today, which voice is the loudest? Israel was under assault and they didn't even realize it. They were on a journey towards the promised land. And you'll see this as we come to the Book of Numbers and chapter by chapter. And while they are camping, while they are minding their own business, they have no idea that there is a prophet on top of a mountain that has been bribed by the enemies of Israel, a man named Balaam, that you would think a talking donkey would stop him, but didn't even stop him. He still went to the top of the mountain to try to prophesy because of a bribe of the king of Moab. Balak, with ending with a K, was bribing Balaam, ending with an M. Balak, the king of the Moabites, was bribing a prophet to curse Israel for him. He said, if you can curse these people that have gotten out of Egypt, that have broken free from their chains, he says, I'll pay you, I'll give you prestige, I'll pay you anything you want. Israel was in a camp. There was a prophet that was that knees buckled to bribe on a mountain. And when Balaam would go up on top of that mountain trying to curse them, I want to read to you what happened. Israel has no idea that the enemy is at a mountain trying to curse him, that Moab is trying to come against him. And this is what was prophesied. When Balaam goes up to the top of the mountain, he couldn't even get his words out to curse. And these are the words that came out of his mouth. In Numbers 23:19, God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. Has he said and he. And will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? Behold, I've received a command to bless. And when he has blessed, I cannot revoke it. He has not observed misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord his God is with him. And then he says this. And there is a shout of a king among them. Okay, some of you just missed that. I know it's Sunday morning. You just missed that. You got the shout of the enemy, but you missed this other shout. He says, I can't curse what God has blessed. God. Whatever God says, he will not lie and revoke it. He says. What I've realized and I've observed is this. There is no trouble in Israel. The Lord his God is with him. And the shout of a king is among them. You understand? They don't have a king until first Samuel, chapter nine. So what king are they talking about? I can tell you what king they're talking about. There is no. There is. They don't get a king until Saul steps in and puts on a robe. And they say, we want to be like everybody else. This is not a man that he's talking about. This is not a shout from an individual. He says, there is a shout of a king in that camp that is indistinguishable. We can't even discern what it is. And because that king shout is in there, that what you're wanting to curse, it's impossible that God's hand is on them because there is a shout of a king among them. Hallelujah. The Lord his God is with them. And the shout of a king is among them. The shout of a king is in our midst. Is one God's people here? What does that mean? The shout of a king is in their midst. Think of those two words, the shout and the king. A voice of authority. That's the king. And a voice so loud that it drowns out all other voices. That's the shout that you start to hear. His voice louder than your enemy's voices. It's a king voice, which means he speaks with authority while they speak with literally an agenda, while others speak against you. There is a voice of a king that speaks truth and speaks words from heaven. And that word, when it comes, it comes like a shout. It drowns out every other word that comes against you. Every other thing that begins to come. I think about as I was talking to our general overseer yesterday, Pastor Carter, as God is opening up doors on the Ivy League schools, as he has preached at Yale, as he has preached at upennial, and Friday night, as he preached over at Cornell University, I believe every time he stands up there to preach on those campuses, that God is putting the shout of a king on those campuses, that God is saying, I'll bring authority and I'll make my voice and my word drown out every atheistic philosophy and worldview that. Folks, I am telling you what, once again, we need the shout of a king today. Hallelujah. Remember this. The enemy will attack you and me in sickness, like David said. The enemy will speak to me in my failure and even in my sin, like David says. The enemy will whisper to me in difficulty, like David says. But my enemy shall not triumph over me and have a shout over me. He will fight, but he won't shout. He will come against me, but he won't shout. He may afflict my body, but he won't shout. He may begin to set people against me, my own family against me, but that will not be a shout. That will come. I believe there is a shout of a king in this place. Hallelujah. I know that the enemy, as we've been praying, try to raise up a voice, even with our dear sister, that we've been praying for our elder, Jerry Hampton and his wife Glenda, that you've been praying for. And we are seeing miracles take place in her life. And I'm telling you that the enemy tried to come in and begin to become the loudest voice. But I'm telling you, in that hospital room, there is the shout of a king. There is a shout of a king that begins to have all authority. I walked, Cindy and I went into a hospital room on Friday. I told them that I would tell you the story. And I want to tell you what happened in that hospital room. Friday I spoke. I'm just going to say it to you this way. Friday I spoke to a dying man. I had to tell him this, that our beloved. I have to tell you this, that our beloved, one of our beloved staff members, needs a miracle. As Cindy and I visited him, we not only saw the pain on him, we heard the groan of pain as his body is battling a deadly disease. And I asked him, I said, larry, are you still singing? Because every time I see you, you're singing. I said, when you work around this church, you sing. You sing as you paint, you sing as you hammer nails. You're always singing. And he told me he Said, physically, it's hard, but spiritually, I haven't given up. And Larry is looking dead on at what 1st Corinthians 15 calls in verse 26, the last enemy. The last enemy is death. It's Satan's most most feared fight. People are sitting in this place, afraid, afraid in every capacity, trying to stay alive as long as we can, thinking that death is in the hands of cancer or a disease, that death is determined by a doctor's report, or death is determined by diabetes. Death is determined, folks, let's just be very clear. The keys of hell, death and the grave belong to God alone. He determines it. My life is in God's hands. It's the shout that I hear yesterday as I spoke, or Friday as I spoke to him, I got close to his ear before Cindy, and I began to pray over him. And I wanted him to know that the enemy will not be able to shout in victory over him. And I said to him, I said, that will not be the loudest shout. Whatever they say, this will not be the loudest shout. And I want to read to you what I read to him. I got up close to his ear. I knew the medication was strong, that he was. It was in his body. And I read these words to him from 1st Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal will put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about this saying that is written. I want you to hear these words. Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O Death, where is your victory? But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain. Hallelujah. I want you to hear what the apostle Paul says, because there's this moment in this passage that I wanted Larry to hear, when all of a sudden, he says, when this. When this mortal puts on immortality, he says these words, death is swallowed up in victory. And then he questions it. Oh, Death, where is your victory now? Death, where is your sting? Listen to me carefully. Resurrection power in this passage taunts death and silences its shout over us. Let me say that again. Don't miss this. Those that are battling sickness, this is your path. This is your passage. Resurrection power, according to this, taunts death. It's saying this. Where's your victory? Where's. Where haven't you've been swallowed up? There's no sting to this. Where is your victory? What's. What's speaking here? Resurrection power. Resurrection power. Resurrection power is saying, we're not afraid of death. Resurrection scoffs at death's power. We will celebrate that in two weeks. As death thought, it began to destroy the Son of God. And then in three days, death was sweet. Swallowed up in victory, our Jesus rose from the grave. Hallelujah. And resurrection taunts and says, death, you're swallowed up, makes the statement and then begins this question. Death, where is your sting? Where is your victory? Death doesn't shout over the king in a believer's life. Death doesn't have the final shout. We've got a king in our midst. We've got a shout of a king in our midst. Hallelujah. Folks, there's no better place in the Scriptures that we see the shout of a king in a person's life than the Apostle Paul, who is, in a sense, at his hospital bed, but it's in the form of a jail cell. He is being told he will be killed. He is being told in a Philippian jail that his life is going to be over. And the Apostle Paul says this. These words talk about a man that begins to hear the shout of a king. He says, for to me, living means opportunities for Christ. Dying, well, that's even better yet. But if living will give me more opportunities to win people to Christ, then I really don't know which is better, to live or to die. What kind of talk is that? We live in a society that's trying to keep you alive. Eat this. Put this oil upon you. Eat this. Don't do this. Go to the gym. Folks, here's the deal. Everyone is going to die. We all are. And for some of you, that's the loudest voice. I've been there before. I've been there as a believer. You get a scab on you that's not healing, so you Google it. You have a cough. There's something that's going on. Google Doc. What's going on? What's happening to me? What's happening here? And we're fighting to stay alive, and all we hear is the shout of the enemy, the last shout over some believer's life that we are so afraid to even think about death when all of a sudden we are told that we can have the shout of a king, the shout of resurrection that says, you won't have a sting over me, you won't have victory over me. Death has been swallowed up and now the Apostle Paul says, I don't know which one's better to live or die. Sometimes I want to live and at other times, times I don't. For I long to go and be with Christ. How much happier for me than being here. I feel that often. But the fact is that I can be more of help but to you by staying. I feel that too. Yes, I'm still needed down here. So I feel certain I'll be staying on earth a little bit longer for chapter by chapter to help you grow and become happy in your faith. My staying will make you glad and give you reason to glorify Christ Jesus for keeping me safe when I return to visit you again. But whatever happens to me, remember always to live as Christians should. We've got a shout of a king among us. Hallelujah. Praise God. We are going to have to learn as a church that when we face seasons of grief there is a shout of a king even in grief. We are going to have to learn that when we ex, when we see unexpected death or even, or even sad death that happens, we can still walk with a shout of a king among us because death doesn't win in the believer's life. There's a shout of a king. David says this. He says, I know this God, you're pleased with me. I don't hear the shout of the enemy. Balaam says this. He says, you can't touch these people. I'm trying to curse them for you, Balak. I'm trying to curse it so I can pocket the money. But I can. I can't curse what God has blessed. I can't take. I can't reverse what God has already put in place. He says, and what I know is there is no throne, there is no person with the title of a king, but there is a shout of a king that is among them. So here's how I want to conclude. I want to tell you a long conclusion story, but I do want to finish with this. The name Adoniram Judson is not a name that many people would know. He was great missionary. He's considered to be the father of American missions. What you see on this screen every single week are missionaries. And he was the first missionary sent from this country. Overseas, sent to Burma. He once said this about serving God in success. Get this down. Listen to these words. He says there is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice is because someone has suffered before you. And if you sacrifice without success, it's because someone will succeed after you. Okay, keep that on the screen for a second. Get your phones out. Take a picture of that already. Get good stuff on your pictures. There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone has suffered before you. And if you sacrifice without success, it's because someone will succeed after you. I've had some fights already, fought for me before I got here. I've had two generals fight fights in 35 years that I didn't have to fight when I. Before I came here. And these soldiers paid for it. They sacrificed on our behalf, and they've sacrificed on my behalf. And I'm so grateful for David Wilkerson and Carter Conlon. I'm so grateful for these two gentlemen. So let me tell you a story, and I felt it's so important to give you a little bit of the history. Many of you know the history of this church, but I have to tell you the story because the shout of a king is in this place. And it is. It is louder than the shout of the triumph of an enemy. On Thursday this week, Pastor Carter sent me two sermons he has preached in this pulpit. It just was random. It was out of nowhere. He said, tim, I just feel I'm supposed to send this to you. And he sent me the two sermons. He sent me the sermon, the first sermon he ever preached here. And these go together. And then he sent me another one, and I'll explain it to you. It was one of the first messages you preached. After he preached the first one as a guest speaker, and then he preached the second one when he came on full time as the associate pastor here with David Wilkerson. The name of those two messages, I would encourage everyone to go listen to them is called Chasing Darkness with a Stick. And the second message was called Wolves. Just Google it. Just. Just. I think it's on YouTube. I. The. The first one, it's a video of him from an. From an older stage. And the second one, you're gonna. I could just get the audio of it. Chasing Darkness with a Stick. The second one is Wolves. He preached them over 30 years ago. Here's the part I asked his permission to tell you this. He preached the message wolves and Chasing Darkness with a stick before a massive rebellion took place in this church. He Said it started with talking, whispering, falsehood and devising against the leaders. It was incredible. As I'm reading about David and reading about the whispering, the devising and the devising of hurt and all those things. And David said this, he says above it all, this is how I know you're pleased with me. I don't hear the shout of a triumph of the enemy over me. You have to understand how really incredible this is. In the two days that I got this, I listened to they're both one hour sermons. I listened to two one hour sermons that riveted and fed my soul. He said as I was preaching it, it would soon be after he said that I'm preaching a message on wolves. Now, there's a point to this. This is. Okay, let me tell you what the. What, what I want you to hear and why this is important. They fought a battle of rebellion in this place. Not. I'm not preaching this, saying this is happening again. This is not what I'm saying. But I want you to hear the battle that these men fought. Pastor Carter wrote me and he said as I was preaching this, five leaders, five to seven leaders, pastors and leaders in this church were going to take almost 400 people out of this church and start another church a few blocks down from here. He said, on that one Sunday, he said on one weeknight, 2/3, 2/3 of the choir walked out. Just walked out, they said when the curtain opened up, almost the entire band was gone, except two people, I think he said. He said it was so incredible. He said it just, it was taking a toll on me and David Wilkerson as we were fighting this. He said the fight took a toll on us. Pastor Carter said that there would be physical challenges that they would have, because of carrying this weight, fought a fight in this place. And then this is what he told me. This is the part I want to get to. Pastor Carter said, following this massive rebellion of whispering devising, of leading people out, you have to remember this is what David said. David said, this is how I know you're pleased with me despite the whisperings, despite the gossip and the slander. This is how I know you're pleased with me, that I've not heard the shout of my enemies triumph over me. And how did Balaam, how could Balaam not curse Israel? Because there was a shout of a king that was louder than a renegade prophet and an enemy from Moab. There was a shout that was louder. This is what Pastor Carter told me. He said following this rebellion, he said it was as If God cleaned house and a shout came back to this place. He said the first Sunday he preached, he said, 150 people receive Christ at this altar for the very first time. He said, secondly, we baptized that year a thousand people for the first time in this place. He's. And these were his words that I want you to hear as the musicians come. He said. Then he said, tim, he said, I want you to understand this. He said, from that point on this altar and the worship here has been this open altar and an open heaven upon this place. He said, when those, when that. When you give an altar call here, people come. He said, why? He said, we fought a battle that literally took a toll on us physically. He said we fought a battle of whispering and devising and rebellion that seemed to come against everything that, that started on the stage, that moved musicians and choir and people would go and leave this place, all starting from, from falsehoods and, and whispering. It's, it's. It's a battle that was fought so this place can hear a different shout, a shout of a king inside of this place that this place would have an open altar. You are the recipient of men that have fought a battle before we even got here. Before I got it, they fought a battle. Why? Because the enemy was. Wasn't going to have the final shout in this house. It would be a shout from a king that would be in this place. A shout from heaven would come upon this place. People spoke, but they couldn't shout. People whispered, but they couldn't shout. People posted, but they couldn't shout. Because what rested over this house was the shout of a king. Hallelujah. I'm here to tell you there's gonna come. There's gonna come people from outside who is going to try to post things and say things. They're going to try to put things. Folks, when I first got. I'll say it, I wasn't even going to say this. I'm just going to say it. Listen, let me just say when I first got here, I got a phone call. Our office got a phone call from friends here that work at the New York Times. They said there's a group of people trying to take a full page ad against you at the New York Times. So I'm just giving you a warning. So I'm here, I'm going like, wow, what a shout out. They're gonna shout it to New York City. They're gonna just put stuff in there about me. So I called our general overseer, I called Pastor Carter, waiting for him to feel my pain. So I said, they want to put a full page article on me, the church, and they just want to just blast us and everything. And he starts laughing. I said, you're no help. I said, you're supposed to comfort me. This is what he said. He said, you're in the club. I said, what are you talking about? He says, they took out a full page ad against David Wilkerson. They pulled out a full page ad against me. Now you're in. You get the letter jacket now. He says, you get the jacket. He says, you're in the club. I was waiting for prayer. I was waiting for like, let me anoint you with oil. I was waiting for something to take place. Not like I get a letter jacket, like, because I've gone through it. You know what Pastor Carter was telling me? He was saying there's a shout of a king in that place. Doesn't matter if they stand up on a mountain like Balaam or post a full page ad in the New York Times. And folks, I'm telling you, there are people that are going to post things and say things and begin to whisper and poor po. Folks, you cannot out shout the king. You cannot out shout the king. You cannot outshout the king. And God took the sacrifice of those two men. And we here today have shouted in this house because they're. The king is here. We have shouted in this house and have seen people and we'll see people get saved. Chris, men fought that battle, that the shouts of the enemy have not triumphed over this place because the shout of the king is among us. Not just here, but in your lives. I learned something this week of what happens in pain. I was reading this that I was told that pearls, pearls are a product of pain. A product of pain. When the shell of an oyster is chipped or pierced by a worm or a boring parasite. They said usually a grain of sand of foreign substance gets into that, to that oyster. And the inside of an oyster shell is then made up of this lustrous substance called nacre. And when the grain of sand of this foreign substance get into the shell, the. This says that the naker cells get busy. They cover that foreign thing, whatever it is. Most of the times a grain of sand that comes to irritate and becomes to destroy and comes to take the life of that oyster. And then all of a sudden it says that those cells, the nacre cells go after that foreign substance and go layer after layer, covering it, covering it, covering it, covering it, it. And the result in covering that Thing begins to turn into this beautiful pearl. That what you start to realize is a pearl is a healed wound. A pearl is a healed wound. Something got in and tried to try to take over, and all of a sudden, something comes over that and covers it. I'm telling you, when the enemy bores through and goes, you're going to die, you're going to be sick. You're going to have this happen. You're going to fail, you're going to blow it, you're going to deny Christ. I'm telling you, when that enemy bores through, folks, there is something from a king that comes over that thing and begins to say, I'm greater than the whisperers. I'm greater than the thoughts. I'm greater than the shouts of an enemy. I'm the shout of a king. I speak with authority. Hallelujah. The shout of a king, stand with me. The shout of a king refers to a battle cry. And you know what it signifies? It signifies victory before the battle. It's victory before the battle. When they shouted at Jericho, you know what the shout, I think is, or it's made up of whether they just went, yeah, whatever it is, you know, I believe they were saying, God keeps his promises. God keeps his promises. I believe, whatever, whatever. If they just screamed, if they whistled, whatever they did around Jericho, I believe what was encompassed with that was this promise. Listen to it. Joshua 6, 2. The Lord said to Joshua, I have given Jericho into your hand. Before they marched and before they shouted, their shout was God. The king spoke to us. We got a word of a thought. Can you imagine walking around for seven days? Days? And the Jericho people going like, are you out of your mind? You don't even have a weapon. You keep walking around and they're taunting them, and they're not allowed to say a word. And they're waiting because they're thinking that their words are going to bore a hole right through their minds to say, what are we doing? What are we doing? But something inside of them goes, God keeps us promises. God keeps his promises. God keeps his promises. See, when God speaks a word to us, it is a word. When it comes from heaven, the world won't understand it. They won't understand. I was. I was thinking about all that we're faced with. New York City and around the world. When Jesus says these words now, when these things begin to happen, look up, lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing nigh. You know what I think? When Jesus spoke these words, he was turning history upside down. I mean, think about that chapter, what he's talking about, these things. He says it's this devastating catalog of crisis. As Jesus says this, he says, you're going to. You're going to see nation rising against nation, earthquakes, famines, pestilence, signs from the heavens, persecution, hatred, a whole world that has gone mad. Men's hearts are failing looking at what's happening around them. All of that is in that chapter. And when you see it, he said, lift up your heads, look up, because your redemption is drawing. And I would like to very carefully add one more thing to it. Because when that catalog of crisis begins to come, look up your redemption. Draw. I also begin to go. Maybe I hear something in the distance. There's something. There's a shout. There's one more shout of a king in the distance. One more shout that comes. I don't know if this brings joy to you. I live with a shout of a king among us. The shout of a king. Here's what we're told. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again. Even so, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven. Hallelujah. The Lord himself will descend from heaven. There's one more shout from a king that's going to come one day. It's a shout to say, I'm in charge. This place belongs to me. It doesn't belong to the government. Let me just be clear. It doesn't belong to Democrats and Republicans. It doesn't belong to Biden, Harris, Obama or Trump. I know some of you are upset with all those names. You ready? Look at me.
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Worship Leader
Good,
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Pastor Tim
because that doesn't belong to them. There's not a Supreme Court justice. I believe in the shout of a king. The shout of a king is among us. Hallelujah. When I hear his shout. Listen, folks, I'm telling you, I am ready. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? You've been swallowed up. Resurrection, Resurrection, Resurrection. The shout of a king is among us. When I hear his shout, it makes me want to shout. I'm just telling you. Did you ever go to a sporting event, you hear people shouting and you didn't even pay attention? And all of a sudden you're talking to someone, they're shouting. You. You don't even know what you're shouting about. I'm telling you, when I hear his shout, it makes me want to shout. When I hear the king shout, I start shouting. The problem is thinking it's your shouting. Your shouting is just yelling. But when you hear the king shout, then you're shouting the right way. We don't just shout. We're shouting because we hear a king shout. My king. My shout is a response to the shout of the king. It goes like this. It goes like this. When I think about the Lord, How he changed me. How he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he changed me to the uttermost. And then it says this. It makes me want to.
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Worship Leader
Hallelujah.
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Pastor Tim
Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
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Worship Leader
Lord, you're worthy.
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Pastor Tim
All of the glory, all of the honor. It makes me want to shout.
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Worship Leader
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, come on. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, jesus. Sing it again. Sing it one more time. Hallelujah. Thank you, jesus. And all the honor and all the grave makes me wanna shine. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Pastor Tim
I want to help some of you because some of you, some of you have been saved a long time and you've gotten a little bit too sophisticated. You know, I'm not saying we're going to sing this, but even when we get to that song, I remember people that used to just scream in this place when we used to sing that song all around, all around. And it used to say, let the nations rejoice. Let the nations sing. Let the people shout. And they used to just go, ah, but we've got a church today that has taken the shout away and has just put it in your hands. This is more sophisticated because when you shout, it gets ugly. There you go. Thank you. Balcony. Once in a while, you just need to go, God, let it come from deep within my soul. Let. Can we just give him a shout today?
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Worship Leader
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Pastor Tim
Oh, open your mouth and just praise him.
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Worship Leader
Praise him. Praise him. Praise Him.
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Pastor Tim
Praise Him. Praise. The name of Jesus. Makes me want to shout. Oh, glory to God, the enemy. That shout of the enemy, this is how you know God is. You're pleased. God is pleased with you. You won't hear the shout of triumph of that enemy, but you'll hear the shout of a king in your midst. Somehow there's a king that has a shout. Thirty years ago, David Wilkerson and Carter Conlon heard the shout of a king that said, I'm going to put a lighthouse here, and regardless of what comes in against it, I'm going to raise up a lighthouse here. And here we are when that thing took place. Here we are some 31 years later, and God still has a shout in this place. And it's the shout of a king. We're responding to him. That's why I tell you today I begin to declare, even for Glenda Hampton. Let the shout of the king be in that hospital room. Would you lift your hands for Larry right now, God. Send the shout of a king into that hospital room. I know what the reports are. Send the shout of a king. We declare today. Send a miracle or take him home, God. Either way, death doesn't win. Death doesn't win. Resurrection wins. Resurrection wins. We believe for healing. We believe for your. Your power right now. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. I have to ask this. Some of you have just allowed the shouts of the enemy to get louder than shouts of the king. You've allowed that to happen today in this place. There's going to come a reversal. There's going to come a new shout from you that says, God, I'm shouting because I hear the shout of a king. I'm responding to what I hear. And some of you have responded to whispers. You've responded to everything else. But you've lost the shout of a king. You've lost it. And today, I don't know any other way to say it but to say, God, I want to see you. I want to hear you more than. More than anything else. The first verse that I read to you about Gideon when he says, I'm tired, but I'm still chasing the enemy. You know why I still chase the. Because I hear the shout. That's why I chase the enemy. So. So weariness, tiredness, I'm going, there's a shout. I feel it's worth it that God, you have men fight on my behalf. People fought on your behalf that we could sit here today and hear a sound in this place. We are responding. It's not our shout. We are responding, responding to the shout of the king. And so today, for just a moment, the shout of the enemy has entered into your soul. And the shout of the enemy is trying to dictate that it will triumph. And I'm here to tell you today it is the invitation going, I want the shout of the king back. I want the shout of the king back. And you're listening to Every other voice. Every other voice. But today is a day. Today is a day that we're going to say the loudest voice of my life is going to be this word. My throne, my king. That's going to be the loudest words in my life. In my life. And people will whisper. People will say stuff. Look at that elder Vicki jumping around up there. I looked at Cindy today. I said she had to wear sneakers today because of what God was going to do today in this place. Don't listen to the whispers. Don't listen to the whispers. Don't listen to the whispers. Don't listen. Don't listen to the whispers. Don't listen to the whispers. And anybody whispers, you say, I got the shout of a king. I don't need a whisper. I got the shout of a king amongst me. I've got the shout of a king in this place. How many are here? And say I've let other voices get louder and I need that king's voice back. If that's you, hold your hand up high. Hold your hand up high. Here's what I want you to do. Balcony, main floor. Just as we sing this chorus again, I want you to get out. I want to pray for you. Quickly, just get out of your seat. We're going to sing this. Get out. We're going to believe that today is going to be a day that that headspace that has believed the voices, the whispers is now going to change. Come on, let's sing. Come on. Balcony. We're going to wait for you.
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Worship Leader
Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, you're worthy of all the glory and all the honor. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, you're worthy. All the glory and all the honor. Me. Thank you, jesus.
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Pastor Tim
Sing it one more time. Come on.
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Worship Leader
You come.
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Pastor Tim
You come.
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Worship Leader
Makes me want to shout hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, you're worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the glory. One last time. Oh, makes me want to shout hallelujah.
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Pastor Tim
Listen. Listen for just a moment. Because the whispering could even be physically have come from people or could even just come from the enemy itself. And it just goes like this. This marriage is never going to work. Get a divorce. It's never going to work. Get a divorce. You'll never be called again. You fail too much. Think. Think what day that chapter 41. Go back and read it. Because every hurdle you can imagine is in there. I'm sick. I sinned. I failed. People are saying stuff again, like everything. Everything's there. It's all there. And so what happens is now you've done this. You've done this. There's pastors that are both here, leaders, maybe even ex pastors that are here maybe visiting, maybe you're still in the pulpit or those that are watching and saying, no, no, you failed. You failed. This is. This is your second church, will never be used again. This is your third church. And you keep messing up. The church never grows. It gets where. And all of a sudden you have the whispering come. You're not even called. You're not even called. You're not even called. And the whispers come. And both. It comes first internal, it comes from internally and then outward. People are going like, look, look what's happening to this place. And I just want to encourage you, let the shout of the king come upon you. I just feel so strongly to speak to leaders just for a moment. I just feel so strongly that there are people that are in ministry, whether you're visiting with us or watching online, God's not done with you. Can I ask this today? I just feel so strongly to say this. If you're here today and maybe you're just visiting or maybe whatever, but you've been in ministry or presently in ministry and have felt those voices come, if that's you today, I just feel stronger than ask this. If that's you, would you just raise your hand? Just look at this. Look at this friend. Okay? Whether you're here or not, lift those hands. Especially the ministers, lift your hands. I'm gonna pray if. Okay, put your hands back down. I gotta do this because I have to. If you're. If you were one of those that raise your hands for ministry, there's a reason why I'm doing this. Lift your hands for me. The ministry people. If someone around you has their hands up, put a hand on her shoulder right now, come on. I want them to feel that they're not alone. And would you just begin to pray for them? God, let there be a shout of a king. Pray for them right now. God, let there be a shout of a king for them. A shout of a king. Where those voices started to come. Those voices said, you failed, you sinned, you blew it. You'll never be able to do this. You're too sickly. You're too sickly to do this. You have not enough strength. You've been diagnosed with this. So how in the world can you do this or that, that those voices that would begin to come and say, there is no calling, there's no calling upon your life. You have not Been able to be used by God and you doesn't not able to see any success or anything. I want to pray today, God, send the shout of a king over them right now. Send the shout of a king over them. Send the shout of a king that says, you're not done, you're not finished, you're not dried up, washed up. That even the voice of the king that begins to say, just because it seems like it's darkest, just because it seems like it's over, God, I pray that they would begin to feel these words from Psalm 41 that, that you are pleased with them because the enemy will not shout over them in triumph. Do not God, them being at this altar is proof that that shout of the enemy is not going to work. It's not going to work. For those that are watching online, I pray, send the shout of a king. Send the shout of a king. Lord God, send the shout of a king today. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And now for a moment, for those that are battling sickness, that are hearing it, I'm looking at my precious friends over here. Lift those hands up and just say, God, I'm trusting the shout of a king right now. I've heard all the other voices. I've heard all the other voices. And God, right now I'm just need healing, I need healing. I need healing. I need healing. I need healing right now. So, God, you're going to come and heal. You're going to come and heal. And we declare resurrection taunts. Resurrection taunts death and says, where is your victory? It's been swallowed up. Where is your stink? That last enemy has been defeated by resurrection power. And so, God, today we choose Paul's words. We choose the man that spoke to death and says, I don't know whether I want to live or die. It's okay if I live. It's better for you. I get to minister. And if I die, I get to go be with Jesus. So, Father, today we declare. We declare. Death doesn't win. Resurrection wins. Resurrection wins. Resurrection wins today. Hallelujah. And I'll say this quick, in the next two to three minutes, some of you are sitting here listening and watching online. And that voice outside, a voice of atheism, a voice of agnosticism, a voice of reason, voice of even the. The from professors from your past disputing that even God exists. And you're going, how can he not exist? I. I'm sensing. I feel something. I know something is real. Everything else is falling apart in my life. Everything else. And I want I want, I want what I see. I want what I'm experiencing. It's not a, it's not a church, it's not a denomination. It's the Holy Spirit. It's Jesus himself. You need Christ in your life. And so some of you are battling, some of you are here today battling those voices that said that says God, there is no God, battling atheism. And if you're here today, I, I, I'm, I'm going to ask very specifically and then we're going to close. We'll close with this song today. And I just feel strongly to ask this if your balcony, main floor, and the voices around you are saying God doesn't exist, the voice of atheism. I don't, I don't know if this God thing and you're going, I want the voice of the king. But I'm battling these voices that there is no such thing as God. Folks, I'm going to make it as, I'm going to make it as specific as I can. You're here today and say, I'm battling these atheistic thoughts, but I need the voice of a king, because that's what's happening. The battle has come. You're starting to hear the shout of a king. That's why you're in, that's, that's why you're in a battle right now. You're hearing the shout of a king that's going over whatever you've read by Nietzsche and whatever you heard from a professor and whatever you began to study and whatever your friend or roommate said. You're hearing the shout of a king that's now beginning to butt up against that and say, God is real. God loves you. God has a plan for your life. And I'm just going to ask this today, if you're here today and say, I've been struggling with the existence of God, but I, I want that shout of a king. I want, I, I, I'm, I see it, I feel it, I know it's real. Pray for me. And you're battling, you've been battling those atheistic and agnostic. If that's you, raise your hand and say, I just need a, I need a miracle. Hold them up high. Hold them up high. Yes, thank you. Keep them up. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Keep them up. I want to make sure, I just feel strongly to say that in the balcony. I just want to make sure. Yes, God.
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Worship Leader
You.
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Pastor Tim
Anybody else? Yes. All the way in the back. Yes. All the way back there. Yes. Thank you. Come on. I Want to pray for you right now. Keep those hands up, Father. I'm going to believe that you're going to bring a breakthrough. They're hearing the shout of a king that's getting louder than anything else in their life. And I feel so strongly that this is a day of salvation. God, those that are at this altar that have been struggling with this, God, let them know God is real, God loves them, them and God wants to change their lives. Let this be the light. Let this be the day of salvation. Let this be the day that they go. God, I hear you. I hear you. I hear you. So God now work a miracle in these lives today online, around the world, around the country. Our pastor friends, our leader friends that are here and all those that are watching. And just for a moment as we begin, just to sing this one last time. And then Elder Vicki will just close us in prayer. Come on, lift those hands one more time. Let's start with the verse. When I think about the Lord. Come on, just lift your hands and sing this. And then we're going to close.
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Worship Leader
How he healed me to the heart of most. When I think about the Lord how he picked me up and turn me around how he placed my feet.
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Pastor Tim
Come on, lift those hands and sing it.
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Worship Leader
When I think about. When I think about the Lord how he sat. Fill me, fill me with the Holy Ghost how he healed me to the uttermost When I think about the Lord how he picked me up and turned me around how he praised my knees
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Pastor Tim
Come on, let's begin Just to declare Lift those hands and sing it Makes
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Worship Leader
me wanna, Makes me wanna shout high I Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus Lord, you're worthy of all the glory and all the honor.
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Pastor Tim
Sing it one more time. Makes me want to shout.
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Worship Leader
Makes me want to shout Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus Lord, you're worthy. And all the honor good. All the pray.
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Pastor Tim
Now, Father, over every life, mind and heart here we pray for the shout of a king to be among them. Today. That, Father, I pray that's the loudest voice over your leaders, over your servants, over your people that are here, from right here in New York City to around the world. God, that's going to going to be the loudest voice. Thank you for the people that have gone before us and have fought that battle for us. You've opened the heavens upon Times Square Church. David Wilkerson and Carter Conlon knew there's a shout in this place. And God, after. After almost 40 years, it's still here. There's a shout of a king in this house. So Father, would you let your Holy Spirit now leave? Walk with these, lead these out. Whether they get on a Sunday subway, in a car, a cab, or walk back to their apartment, let them hear the shout of a king. In Jesus name. Point at somebody and say you're going to hear the shout of a king today. Thanks so much for listening. We hope you've enjoyed this message and be sure to subscribe so you can receive new messages each week. Visit TSC NYC for all the latest answers info on how you can stay connected. Also, don't forget that you can follow us on social media on all major platforms at timesquarechurch. Thanks for tuning in today. Have a great week.