David Wilkerson asks why believers are satisfied hearing what God does elsewhere, warning that unbelief turns any heart into Nazareth — the one place Jesus stood ready to work miracles but walked away marveling that he could do almost none because of their lack of faith.

Preached: June 17, 2007

Main Points:

•Jesus stood in Nazareth among sincere, Scripture-loving people who knew his reputation, had heard of his miracles, and still would not believe he was God. He marveled at their unbelief and could do almost nothing there. That is the tragedy of many churches today.

•There is no such thing as a dead place, only dead Christians who have stopped expecting God to move where they are. Uruguay sat right next door to Argentina while spiritual fire swept the continent, never catching the flame because nobody rose up and said why not here, why not us.

•Wilkerson slept in his car on the streets of New York with no money, no plan, and no evidence that drug addicts could be saved, just a simple word from God. That faith produced Nicky Cruz, Sonny Arganzoni, and 520 Teen Challenge centers around the world.

•The devil cannot read your mind, but he hears your voice, and the moment murmuring and complaining begin to flow out of your mouth, he moves in with his most venomous lies targeted specifically at those who have set their heart to trust God fully.

•The first lie is that you are too weak and too weary for spiritual warfare. Absalom's strategy against David was to attack him while he was tired, and the enemy uses the same tactic, magnifying your weariness until you hear the voice saying you cannot go on.

•The second lie is that you are not making spiritual progress, that others are passing you by, that after all the sermons and all the goodness of God, you are still not where you should be. God is not asking you to measure your spirituality against anyone else.

•At 76, David Wilkerson looked back over valleys of despair and heights of faith and said the one thing he could give God until his dying day was his confidence, the quiet, settled trust that he had believed and God had been faithful, and that nothing the devil whispered could take that away.

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