Bricks Without Straw | David Wilkerson
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David Wilkerson discusses the struggle of believers trying to achieve spiritual goals without divine assistance, using the story of Pharaoh as a metaphor for spiritual bondage.
David Wilkerson uses the story of Pharaoh's cruelest command as a mirror, showing every exhausted believer still trying to make bricks without straw that God is not Pharaoh. Jesus has already made full provision, and the only thing left to do is stop struggling and let the Holy Ghost do what flesh never could. Preached: December 11, 1994 Main Points: • Pharaoh is a type of Satan, and Egypt is a type of every bondage that holds God's people, whether smoking, drinking, pornography, temper, unbelief, or covetousness. His first device is always the same: get back to your works, more works, impossible works, and do it without any of the tools you need. • Just as the message of freedom swept through the camps of Israel and Pharaoh doubled the quota the very same day, the devil will hear you responding to a message of deliverance and immediately increase the pressure to make you believe it will never happen for you. • The law was never meant to set you free. It was a schoolmaster to bring you to Christ, a mirror held up to show you how wide the gap is between your wickedness and God's holiness, and how impossible it is to bridge that gap by anything your flesh can do. • The servant who…
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