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God states that his word is living and active, like a two-edged sword that divides the spirit from the soul. Believers must dedicate their entire lives to studying the Bible. It is critical for us in order to obey biblical commands but also to grow in spiritual maturity. David and Gary Wilkerson as well as other speakers share their knowledge of the Bible here and walk alongside you through the scriptures.

  1. 3H AGO

    Darker World, Brighter Church | Gary Wilkerson

    Gary Wilkerson delivers a sobering prophetic warning that the apparent cultural cleanup happening in America is not revival but a swept and empty house, and that seven spirits more evil than before are circling, waiting to return with a flood of filth that will dwarf everything the church has already seen. Preached: March 5, 2026 Main Points: • What looks like cultural progress in America right now—courts shifting, wokeism fading, schools pulling back—is not genuine revival. It's a swept and whitewashed house, empty on the inside, and Jesus warned that an empty house is exactly where seven more evil spirits return. • Gary watched the National Prayer Breakfast and heard key national leaders speaking not with Christian values but with hatred and division, a facade of Christian nationalism that mistakes making things look better for actually filling the house with God. • Romans 1 describes a three-stage progression: God gives a nation up to lust, then to dishonorable passions, then to a debased mind that can no longer tell good from evil. Gary believes we are right on the doorstep of that third and most terrifying stage. • The pornography his father David Wilkerson predicted in the 1970s, a little black box filtering filth into your home, is now in your pocket. Virtual reality will burn images into young minds in ways the current generation can barely imagine. • The answer is not just revival, which comes and goes. The answer is resistance: chest out, fist clenched, obstructing the enemy's advance, counteracting every evil force with a holy testimony that the world cannot explain away. • Gary's nine-year-old grandson had his heart broken on Valentine's Day, then at two in the morning saw the face of Jesus above his bed and has been reading his Bible in the park ever since. That is the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego generation God is raising up. • When the enemy brings seven spirits, God will answer with a sevenfold, even a seven-hundredfold, outpouring of the Holy Spirit on men and women who refuse to bow, who fight on their knees, in their preaching, in their marriages, and in how they raise their children. https://wcmin.us/SS260426c

    35 min

  2. APR 19

    A Brand Plucked from the Fire | Gary Wilkerson

    Gary Wilkerson delivers a jarring prophetic assignment, walking leaders and believers through the story of Samson to show how subtle seduction works one small compromise at a time until the anointing is gone, the eyes are out, and the only thing left to offer the crowd is entertainment. Preached: March 4, 2026 Main Points: • Gary didn't want to preach this message. He would have preferred pleasant prophecies, but his assignment was to peer through the hole in the wall like Ezekiel and name what he saw: headlines full of fallen pastors are just the visible tip of a far deeper iceberg of hidden compromise. • Samson's problem wasn't that Delilah was irresistible. It was that he was convinced he was too strong, too anointed, too godly to ever fall. That confidence is exactly what made him vulnerable to the game of then, then, then. •Seduction never announces itself. It doesn't show up as a prostitute at your door. It shows up as Instagram, as a little coldness toward your spouse, as tolerating jealousy, as managing a sin instead of repenting of it. • The most terrifying verse in the story is not when Samson's hair is cut. It's when he wakes up and says, "I will go out as other times," without knowing his strength had already left him. Pastors are preaching sermons, leading churches, administrating ministries, and not knowing the Lord has departed. • When all the anointing is ground away, what's left is entertainment. Somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of American churches have become entertainment centers, because clowns entertaining goats is all that remains when the Holy Spirit has left the building. • The difference between Samson and Joshua the high priest is not the severity of their sin. It's where they chose to stand. Samson kept standing before Delilah. Joshua kept standing before the Lord, filthy clothes and all, and got a clean garment put on. • Gary ends with the strangest altar call he'd ever given, sending people out a back door alone with Jesus for five minutes, because sometimes before there can be rejoicing, there has to be weeping and mourning and real business done with God. https://wcmin.us/SS260419c

    41 min

  3. APR 12

    Every Ship Needs an Anchor | David Wilkerson

    David Wilkerson paints an unforgettable picture of every human soul as a ship on a stormy sea, revealing that while society loses hope and sailors vomit over the side in eight-foot swells, God reaches his arm beneath your vessel and anchors you to something that doesn't sink but rises. Preached: July 21, 1996 Main Points: • Society is a raging ocean, and every person is a ship on it. If you could see inside the hearts around you, you'd find nothing but storms: broken homes, addiction, men who rape and feel no guilt, a culture that has lost its moral compass entirely. • Paul's ship was exceedingly tossed, the sun gone dark, all hope of survival taken away. That description perfectly fits where our world stands right now, where even atheists are rising up and crying, "What has happened to us?" • When the anchor dropped in Paul's storm, the ship held through the night. God told him everyone would survive, and all 276 came safely to shore. The anchor didn't stop the storm. It just made sure the storm couldn't destroy the ship. • Your anchor doesn't go down into the ocean floor. It goes up through the veil into the Holy of Holies itself, where God reaches his arm beneath your hull and holds you above the water while the winds keep blowing. • God told Wilkerson his boat was puny and he didn't know where the rocks were, then put the Holy Ghost on board as captain. Now every morning he wakes up asking, "Lord, where are you taking me today?" and the bigger the wind, the faster they go. • Hope is not wishful thinking. It is taking God at his word on the good things he has promised, trusting that no enemy has a weapon that can bring you down before your time, and that God will see you through every hard place. • God's not mad at you. He's not waiting to punish you. He made an ironclad commitment, swearing by his own name because there was nothing greater to swear by, and all he asks is that you give him your whole heart and let him be the captain. https://wcmin.us/SS260412c

    43 min

  4. APR 5

    Witnesses to the Resurrection | David Wilkerson

    David Wilkerson reveals why God chose only 512 witnesses to the resurrection rather than displaying the risen Christ to all Jerusalem, showing that the proof of the resurrection was never meant to be a historical fact argued from a distance but a living reality experienced from the inside out. Preached: April 23, 2000 Main Points: • God could have sent the risen Jesus marching down the temple aisle to confront Caiaphas, appearing before Pilate through solid walls, standing in the middle of the soldiers still gambling over his robe. Wilkerson admits something in him wishes he had, but God had a better plan. • The religious leaders sat through an earthquake, total darkness, rocks splitting, and the temple veil tearing in two, and still didn't believe. More miracles would have changed nothing for hearts that hard. • Only 512 chosen witnesses saw the risen Christ because they were the only ones who could truly see him. They had already shared in his death, and now they shared in his resurrection life. • Paul never walked with Jesus during his ministry, yet declared, "He was seen of me also," because the resurrection wasn't just something that happened to Jesus. It happened in Paul, and it's happening in you. • If someone demands proof that Christ is alive, you don't need a history book. You look them in the eye and say, "You're looking at it." The resurrection is still happening, one dead soul raised to life at a time. • The person sitting next to you at church may have been an alcoholic, an adulterer, someone chained by a sin they hated and couldn't escape. That changed life is the only proof the world needs that Jesus came out of that tomb. • Wilkerson confessed feeling inadequate in fully describing Jesus, but said this: After all these years, he has put a love in my heart for him that keeps growing, and even eternity won't be enough to fathom the fullness of his glory. https://wcmin.us/ss260405c

    31 min

  5. MAR 29

    Mixing Mission with Ministry to the Lord | Gary Wilkerson

    Gary Wilkerson calls believers to stop playing just one note and start living in harmony, revealing that a life fully alive to God requires both the driven mission of an Elon Musk and the quiet intimacy of a monk, because without both, you'll either burn out or be counted out. Preached: February 1, 2026 Main Points: • Jesus modeled the rhythm perfectly: after hearing his cousin John had been beheaded, he withdrew to grieve alone, then turned and had compassion on the crowd, then withdrew again to pray. This is the pattern we're missing. • People are never a problem for Jesus. He never has to rearrange his agenda to fit them in because compassion flows naturally from his heart, so mission and ministry aren't in conflict. • Some of you are evangelical Elon Musks, driven and visionary and passionate, but you will burn out if you don't pull away. Others are monks at heart, peaceful and prayerful, but you'll be counted out if you never engage a mission beyond yourself. • Gary watched his father, David Wilkerson, build world-changing ministries and then spend entire days locked in his prayer room, telling his wife, "I'm in a meeting," even if the President called. That combination was the secret. • John on Patmos, surrounded by persecution, pressed into the Spirit on the Lord's day and saw not just seven churches to manage but one standing in the middle, and that one changed everything. • Harmony isn't playing C, then D, then back to C. It's playing them together as a chord, letting mission and solitude sound at the same time until your life becomes music instead of noise. • You're frustrated, unfulfilled, or burned out because you're playing one note. God is calling you today to restore your first love and never let anything separate you from both his presence and his purpose. https://wcmin.us/ss260329c

    32 min

  6. MAR 22

    Strange Comfort | Gary Wilkerson

    Gary Wilkerson exposes the false prosperity gospel that promises only comfort without suffering, revealing how God gives "strange comfort" in the middle of pain while calling believers to choose Christ over worldly comfort. Preached: March 1, 2026 Main Points: • Jesus doesn't compare your pain to others' suffering but shows the same compassion for your depression as he does for children in war zones because your struggles matter just as much to him. • False prosperity preachers like Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland promise comfort without suffering, but Paul says we share abundantly in Christ's suffering and abundantly in comfort too. • Some discomfort is self-inflicted because we're engaged in things God won't comfort, like toying with sin, thinking we can control "just a little pornography," or greed like Samson thought he could control Delilah. • The backslidden spirit creates tossing like the sea, where people go back and forth between church and sin, but God says "there is no peace for the wicked" no matter how many sermons you hear. • Fear of the devil more than faith in God causes self-inflicted sorrow. • Money becomes the root of evil when we pierce ourselves with many sorrows, seeking comfort from worldly wealth instead of finding our security in Christ alone. • The strange comfort is choosing Christ over all other comforts, going to your knees to confess the things that defeat you, and trusting that weeping lasts for a night but joy comes in the morning. https://wcmin.us/ss260322c

    53 min

  7. MAR 15

    The Laodicean Deception | David Wilkerson

    David Wilkerson exposes the Laodicean deception where Christians become blind to their true spiritual condition, boasting, "We are rich and have need of nothing," while God sees them as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. Preached: October 6, 1996 Main Points: • One of the hardest things is to see ourselves as we really are and as God sees us. • The Laodiceans sat under Paul's anointed teaching and heard Colossians read in their church, yet remained blind to their condition while boasting about being rich, increased with goods, and needing nothing. • A tent evangelist performed healings and cast out demons with a sign saying, "No man could do these miracles except God be with him," yet he was an alcoholic who died drunk in a San Francisco motel. • It's possible to attend church for years, hearing anointed preaching that should be life-changing, yet grow hard-hearted because you don't apply the Word to your life and say, "That's me, not someone else." • After years of messages against gossip and racial prejudice, if these sins aren't cleansed from your heart, there's a dangerous hardness that even God's judgment fire cannot penetrate. • Many will stand before God saying, "Lord, we prophesied and cast out devils in your name," only to hear, "I never knew you, depart from me," because they worked iniquity while claiming to serve him. • The Holy Spirit will honestly show you your spiritual condition if you go to him with an open heart, but you'll be shocked at what God reveals about the pride, criticism, and blindness in your life. https://wcmin.us/ss260315c

    52 min

  8. MAR 8

    God Is Faithful Even If You’re Not | David Wilkerson

    David Wilkerson exposes how Abraham, the father of faith, twice put his wife in pagan harems to save his own skin. Yet, God remained faithful to his eternal purpose, proving that while we are faithless, God cannot deny himself or his nature. Preached: December 24, 1995 Main Points: • Abraham, the man of faith who received God's promises of protection, twice told half-lies about Sarah being his sister and watched her taken into pagan harems while he collected dowries and wealth from his cowardice. • For nine months, Abraham slept knowing his wife was in Pharaoh's hands, yet God plagued the house so severely that no man could touch her because the promised seed had to come through an unpolluted lineage. • Abraham repeated the same sin with Abimelech, proving that even godly people keep making the same stupid mistakes they thought they'd learned from decades ago. • God told Abimelech, "I restrained you from touching her," revealing God's restraining power that has kept us from the most horrible mistakes when we were halfway to destroying our lives and ministries. • Peter cursed and denied Christ with a stream of profanity, David pretended to be insane with spit running down his beard, yet God's eternal purpose was not thwarted because he saw their broken hearts. • The only thing that can abort God's plan for your life is stubborn pride that justifies sin instead of running to the mountain to weep as David did after his failures. • Wilkerson confessed feeling inadequate to be God's voice in the last days until the Lord said, "While you're lying on this bed fretting, I'm at work being faithful to my eternal purpose in your life." • God takes weak, faithless men and puts them in pulpits to pastor multitudes because he cannot deny his faithful nature, even when we've wallowed in unbelief and grieved him deeply. https://wcmin.us/ss260308c

    43 min
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God states that his word is living and active, like a two-edged sword that divides the spirit from the soul. Believers must dedicate their entire lives to studying the Bible. It is critical for us in order to obey biblical commands but also to grow in spiritual maturity. David and Gary Wilkerson as well as other speakers share their knowledge of the Bible here and walk alongside you through the scriptures.

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