design: hybridstudios.com 46379_Hybrid_TSC_110601 CC PrivateMoment v7.indd 2 Senior Senior Pastor Carter Conlon Yours inChrist, will beforevergladthatIdid. just tosaythatIlovedhim. Wilkerson diedIcalledhim friend. ThedaybeforeDavid your grandchildren.Beagood with yourchildrenandplay enjoy thoseclosesttoyou.Talk I encourageyoutotaketime finish thisracewithoutregret. tend tomyownvineyardand knowledge now. Ifully planto I thankGodforhavingthis those closesttous. spiritual lifeintothelivesof that bringthefragranceoftrue laughter arejustafewthings encouragement, andshared acts ofkindness,words Little “thinkingofyou”cards, to sayordoforthoseweloved. be thingswewouldhavewanted this journey, I’msuretherewill When weallgettotheendof at hand. something veryimportantright some typeofministryyetmiss be engagedwholeheartedlyin In asimilarway, youandIcan some degreeneglectedherown. of others’vineyards,buthadto 1:6. Shehadbeenthekeeper the bride-to-beinSongofSolomon Today Iwasreadingthelamentof Dear Friend, “A GREAT MULTITUDE OF ALL NATIONS AND KINDREDS AND PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES” (REV. 7:9). moment, anyway, itwashis. myself todoit. Itwasnotmy him, butIjustcouldnotbring Jerusalem. Ifeltthatshould join the presenceofGodwasgoing into David dancedbehindtheArk as been whatitlookedlikewhen King first thoughtwasthatthismusthave to danceallovertheplatform.My he suddenlylefthisseatandstarted yet therewassuchagraceonhimas don’t evenknowwhatprovokedit, one time,quiteunexpectedly. I I sawhimdanceontheplatform dancing aroundthethroneofGod. from thethoughtofBrotherDave Personally, Igettremendouscomfort soul winnersintheirownright. on intoministryandbecamegreat only transformed,butmanywent by thepowerofAlmightyGod.Not people wereradicallytransformed Dave’s lifeandministryisthat One ofthehallmarksBrother 27th inamotorvehicleaccident. He passedawaysuddenlyonApril founding pastor, DavidWilkerson. celebrate thelifeofourbeloved It isourtimetomournand by Carter Conlon for A P something, he when hesaid man offew words, but rivate He wasa meant it.

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everyone was singing, he would be everyone was singing, hewouldbe move on.”Most ofthetimewhile leaves, let’s justclosethedoorsand meeting. IfGod’s HolySpiritever is worthlessandthereno point in the HolySpiritdoesn’tcome, church He toldmemanytimes,“Carter, if for thepresenceofHolySpirit. from myear, cryingoutconstantly worshiping Godaboutafootaway about him.BrotherDavewouldbe sixteen years,youreallylearnalot to amanandhearhimworshipfor However, whenyougettostandnext themselves tobesomethingorother. you things,andtheycandeclare You know, peoplecantrytoteach meant it. but whenhesaidsomething, was it.Heamanoffewwords, ready toleadthischurch.”Andthat for what?”Andhereplied,“You are middle ofsinging,soIasked,“Ready you areready.” We werestillinthe over tomeandsaid,“It’s timenow, again wewereworshiping.Heleaned the nextpastor. Itwasin2001,and that BrotherDavetoldmeIwouldbe I wasactuallyquitesurprisedtheday ever pastoringTimes SquareChurch. I hadabsolutelynoinclinationof the instruction,forinthosedays taught.” Ididnotfullyunderstand but theonethatyouaregoingtobe this churchinanyotherdirection going tolearnhere.Anddonotturn the rightofeverythingthatyouare “Do notturntothelefthandor platform ofTimes SquareChurch, told meseventeenyearsagoonthe I rememberwhentheHolySpirit VOL

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praying with his hands in the air, “Oh, actually wrapped it up and delivered , come. Oh, Holy Spirit, it to the Wilkerson family. The New bless the people. Holy Spirit, give strength.” I learned more about the Dn Where o We Go From Here? Covenant is the heart of Pastor David in those moments Now having lost a great spiritual father key not only than at any other time. to so many of us, where do we, as the church of Christ, find ourselves to the church Having today? I believe that in the last chapter of Deuteronomy, the people of Israel of Jesus Christ lost a great who were led out of captivity by Moses standing but found themselves in very much the spiritual same place as we are in today. actually being father, where Moses had been used of to stand victorious in do we, as the against hell and call His people out of the last days. darkness. He didn’t come in strength, church of he came in weakness. Likewise, Pastor Moses led the people as a faithful Jesus Christ, David did not come to City shepherd, and he constantly opened in strength. As a matter of fact, Nicky to them the provision of God for their go from here? Cruz said he was so skinny it wasn’t hunger and their thirst. As they worth beating him up! He did not come walked through their own personal He often told me, “Carter, take the as an eloquent preacher, dazzling wilderness, they saw God’s miraculous lowest seat in the house.” As the people with his words. He came in the provision literally falling out of Scripture says, if somebody more demonstration of the Spirit and power heaven; daily water coming out honorable than you shows up, you will of God. He stood on the street corner of the toughest of places. not be embarrassed (see Luke 14:10). and began to preach to gangs. He went It is a good place to be, and that is into hovels and dens, reaching out to Similarly, Brother Dave would open exactly where Brother Dave would young people in the city. the and constantly lead people to be found. Once in a convention he Jesus Christ—to the cross, to the power introduced me as his pastor, and how He was a type in our generation of the Holy Spirit, to the faith that God humbling and terrifying it was to hear of someone who laid hold of God is always looking for in order to lift us those words come out of his mouth. and stood as Moses did before out of mediocrity and into all that He How it showed the character of the Pharaoh, saying, “Let the people intended for us. Brother Dave would man—a hundred times my superior, go!”—people who many would open the Word and bring my mind and yet willing to be under the authority deem as having no help, no hope, spirit into a dimension of God for which of somebody he had actually trained no future. Psychoanalysts who I am forever thankful. Through his in Christ. I remember the day he told examined Nicky Cruz declared him preaching of the New Covenant, me, “You are my pastor now; you are to be “unredeemable; too given to in particular, I was brought to a free to speak into my life. You are free violence; too twisted; too inwardly place of understanding that the to help me; to govern me; to help judge damaged to ever be a functioning whole Christian life is to be lived by and keep me safe.” Of course I would member of society.” accepting the sacrifice of God’s Son never abuse that position. for our atonement—accepting the Holy But stood before Spirit as the power of God to bring the He started to encourage me about him and said, “Jesus loves you.” It promises of God to reality in our lives. a year ago to sit in his seat during is as if those three words penetrated service. I told him, “Not on your life, down the corridors of all the abuse, the He would remind us that we are not because if you show up…” So we had witchcraft, and all that was keeping this accepted by our works, for God does this standing joke between us, and I young man in captivity. By the power not even deal with us, He deals only said, “I will sit in your seat two weeks of God, every door of darkness was with His Son. If Jesus is speaking our after your memorial service.” He once unlocked right to the core of his heart, name at the throne, it does not matter told me, “Oh, Carter, I am really afraid and Nicky Cruz went on to become what the devil throws at us. In order for I am going to outlive you.” I replied, one of the greatest evangelists of our the devil to condemn those in Christ, “Well, then you lose if you do! If I generation. Let the world say about he has to be able to condemn the Son get to heaven first, I win!” Well, I am you what it will—but the power of of God. Brother Dave brought us into not going to sit in his seat—we have God can set you free! this fullness of the understanding of the

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New Covenant. He told me many times, shrine to me ever be erected.” He knew and the testimony of God!” We must “Carter, the New Covenant is the key he was simply an ordinary man indwelt refuse to look at the giants before not only to the church of Jesus Christ by an extraordinary God, and that what us but rather stand and be a voice standing but actually being victorious he had become was within the reach for righteousness and truth. in the last days.” The New Covenant of all who choose to obey God. Moses is the key! died after seeing the vision of the “Every place that the sole of your Promised Land, and then there was a foot shall tread upon, that have n A Vision of the Promise season of weeping—so it is appropriate I given unto you, as I said unto At the end of his life, the Lord brought for us to mourn. But I thank God there Moses…unto this people shalt thou Moses up to Mount Nebo to see all has always been a Comforter with us. divide for an inheritance the land, of the Promised Land with his own Weeping may endure for a night, but which I sware unto their fathers to eyes—the places where the people joy comes in the morning. give them…Be strong and of a good would dwell, what kind of a victory courage; be not afraid, neither be thou they would have (see Deuteronomy dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with 34:1–3). What an amazing similarity We are going thee whithersoever thou goest. Then to the latter part of Brother Dave’s to go in and Joshua commanded the officers of the ministry when the Lord brought him people, saying, Pass through the host, to the New Covenant. I remember fight for those and command the people, saying, when he first told me back in 1994, Prepare you victuals; for within three “I have a promise of God that is yet who have not days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to be fulfilled,” and he showed me yet entered into to go in to possess the land, which Psalms 25:14: “The secret of the the Lord your God giveth you to Lord is with them that fear him; that rest. possess it” (Joshua 1:3–11). and he will show them his covenant.” He said God gave him that promise Cn Our ommission In other words, prepare to move! That as a young minister, but he did not So the question arises for us today as was the command that was given, and quite understand what it meant at the Church—where do we go from this is our commission today as well. the time. However, in the latter part here? I believe we are receiving the Get ready to go on a journey; prepare of his ministry, the New Covenant same commission that was given to the things that you are going to need. was unlocked, and what incredible Joshua (in the context of Joshua being We are going to go in to possess all that victory it has been for all of us. every pastor, every leader, every elder, the Lord has promised us—to begin to everybody in a leadership position, truly know the life of God. Prepare to everybody who is leading somebody). We are not move! That was “Now after the death of Moses the the command servant of the Lord it came to pass, going to quit that the Lord spake unto Joshua the until Pentecost that was given, son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore comes again in and this is our arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and commission all this people, unto the land which the fullness of I do give to them, even to the children its power in today as well. of Israel” (Joshua 1:1–2). The land is the place of covenant—of freedom our generation. “Moses the servant of the Lord died in Jesus Christ. It is the place of there in the land of Moab, according facing the giants, where those “Remember the word which Moses the to the word of the Lord…And the who are weak become strong. servant of the Lord commanded you, children of Israel wept for Moses in the saying, The Lord your God hath given plains of Moab thirty days: so the days The Lord is calling us to something you rest, and hath given you this land. of weeping and mourning for Moses much greater than we have ever known Your wives, your little ones, and your were ended” (Deuteronomy 34:5, 8). before—to put away unbelief and go cattle, shall remain in the land which in and possess our inheritance in Moses gave you on this side Jordan; Brother Dave once told me, “When I Jesus Christ. Our cry should be, but ye shall pass before your brethren die, don’t talk about me, just move on. “Lord, this city cannot go to hell armed, all the mighty men of valour, You have the Holy Spirit—don’t let a when there is still a body of believers and help them; until the Lord have

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given your brethren rest, as he hath will be glorified, and we are going to CARTER CONLON given you, and they also have possessed see God do wonders in this generation. Carter Conlon is senior pastor of the land which the Lord your God giveth Times Square Church, where he them…” (Joshua 1:13–15). “And they answered Joshua, saying, has been on the pastoral staff All that thou commandest us we will since 1994. In other words, there are many of us do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, who have found the truth of the New we will go…Whosoever he be that doth Covenant already. But we are going to rebel against thy commandment, and go in and fight for those who have not will not hearken unto thy words in all TIMES SQUARE CHURCH yet entered into that rest. We are not that thou commandest him, he shall Times Square Church was founded going to settle in in our own personal be put to death: only be strong and in 1987 by Pastor David Wilkerson, victory and say, “Well, this is good of a good courage” (Joshua 1:16, 18). author of “The Cross and the enough, I am enjoying where I am So the question about where to go Switchblade.” It is an interdenomina- dwelling. Let everyone else find for from here is answered in Joshua tional church located in the heart of themselves what I have found.” No, chapter 1—we go into the promises . that is not the attitude of the church. of God. The wonderful thing about We are going to fight for each other the church of Jesus Christ is that in the Body of Christ first, until every it is never over. It is always just person has found his inheritance— beginning. It is a kingdom where Founding Pastor supernatural life in Jesus Christ. morning by morning new mercies David Wilkerson we see. Thanks be to God. We are not going to quit until Pentecost Senior Pastor comes again in the fullness of its power I am glad I got to talk with Brother Carter Conlon in our generation. Brother Dave died Dave on the Monday before he passed believing that in the last days there away. I told him I loved him. I told would be an outpouring of the Holy him I respected him. I told him that Tel: Spirit greater than the outpouring on whether I was an annoyance or not, 212-541-6300 the day of Pentecost—poured out on I was coming down on Wednesday to our sons and daughters, young and sit with him all afternoon. I told him, old. There would be an ability to see; “You can talk to me if you want to, or Fax: supernatural strength and power. you don’t have to talk to me if you don’t 212-541-6415 want to. But I am coming, and I am He told me that only the Holy Spirit going to sit with you, and we are going will be able to get the church of Jesus to spend the afternoon together.” And Church Location: Christ through to victory in these he said, “Okay, that would be nice.” 237 West last days. You and I are going to Between Broadway & 8th Avenue face unprecedented darkness in our I am going to miss my friend. But I generation, but we have the power am certain it would fill his heart with of the One who created the universe joy to know that until the day that we Mailing Address: resident and willing to give us the meet again, we are going to proclaim 1657 Broadway, 4th Floor strength we need—not only to possess Jesus Christ. New York, NY 10019 an inheritance for ourselves but to see many more brought into freedom. We are going to pray and fast—trusting e-mail: [email protected] God for the supernatural; pressing hybridstudios.com design: through until the Holy Spirit touches Carter Conlon us in full measure. There are wonderful ©2011 Times Square Church days ahead of us. I believe the Lord WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Sunday 10:00AM 3:00PM 6:00PM

This newsletter is an edited version of “A Private Moment for Times Square Church” a sermon given on May 1, 2011 in Tuesday 7:00PM Church Service the sanctuary of Times Square Church in New York City. Other sermons are available by visiting our website at tscnyc.org. You are welcome to make additional copies of this sermon for free distribution to friends. However, for all other forms of Thursday 7:00PM Prayer Meeting reproduction or electronic transmission existing copyright laws apply. This sermon cannot be posted on any website or webpage without permission from Times Square Church. Unless otherwise noted, all scripture references are from the King James Version. Friday 7:00PM Church Service

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